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Call for Papers: Symposium at Utrecht University, 10 April 2026
Literature, Care, and the Ethics of Living in Southwest Asia and North Africa
Concept Note
Mediterranean Crossings: A Studia Mediterranea Conference
Location: The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Split, Croatia
Dates: September 19-20, 2025
Abstract submission date: June 25, 2025
Keynote speaker (virtual): Anna Kornbluh (University of Illinois at Chicago)
*note: this is a hybrid conference, but there will be no recording and the conference is only open to registered participants
This seminar uses fiction across media to host a dialogue between critical space theory and contemporary frameworks of political relationality. We look for the crossroads of intersectional politics, the empty lots where to construct "a people," the putrid, fertile soils of post-human entanglements. Demolishers against all future: you are also welcome.
We produce the space of sociality, and, in return, space shapes social reproduction (Henri Lefebvre). This dialectic is traversed by the blueprint of form as "the precondition of possible space" (Anna Kornbluh). Narrative fiction -literary, filmic, graphic- objectifies those forms and configures new ones, reworking the very entanglement of space and society.
Ann Arbor, Michigan / Zoom (Hybrid)
Deadline for abstracts: June 30th (up to 250 words)
Submission Form: https://forms.gle/9zENxMYi9i1Wotu67
Free and open to the public
CFP: The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture – NEPCA Virtual Fall Conference 2025
Deadline for submissions: July 15, 2025 5pm EST
Contact email:
Hannah Sophie Schiffner, h.schiffner@zeppelin-university.net
Protichi Chatterjee, protichichatterjee@gmail.com.
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online October 9 – 11, 2025.
IATIS Yearbook 2025
Type: Edited volume from Routledge UK (contract signed)
Title:
Exploring ‘Geo’ in Translation:
Redefining Territoriality of Translational Landscape in South Asia
1. Rationale:
Book Proposal for the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)
Type: Edited volume
Title (provisional)
Craft Culture of Odisha:
A Study of Handicraft Heritage and Changing Dynamics of Craft-making
Rationale:
First Anglistics International
Conference on Continuing Education
in Philological and Related Studies in
the English Language (ONLINE)
September 25-26, 2025
Deadline for proposals: September 15, 2025
The First International Conference on Continuing Education in Philological
and Related Studies in the English Language invites academics, researchers,
educators, and postgraduate students to come together to explore English
philology in all its dimensions. This event will be held entirely online and aims
to foster dialogue and intellectual exchange on the dynamic linguistic,
literary, and cultural landscapes of the English language. The conference,
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (T&F)
Special issue on
Gendered Violence
Guest Editors: Debajyoti Biswas (Bodoland University) & Parvin Sultana (Pramathesh Barua College)
Shakespeare’s Globe is inviting proposals for an interdisciplinary conference bringing together literary and performance scholars, historians, archivists, and disability scholars and activists around the theme ‘Disability and the Archives’. This two-day hybrid event will be held in London on 23 - 24 January 2026 and will explore how disabled lives have been—and continue to be—recorded, erased or obscured.
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2025 Annual Conference, November 6-8, 2025 in Philadelphia, PA
This two-day conference, sponsored by the Faculty of English and St John’s College, Cambridge, invites proposals for papers on Thomas Nashe and voice. Papers might consider orality and performance; typographic representation of dialogue; gesture and non-verbal speech; heteroglossia and genre hybridity; point of view, narrative perspective, and focalization; style, parody, and mimicry; and Nashe’s use of multiple authorial personae and narratorial surrogates.
Call for Papers
(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media (In-Person)
Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Annual Conference
Sonesta Hotel Philadelphia (1800 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19103)
6-8 November 2025
The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture invites proposals for an in-person panel on the theme of "(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media" for the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Annual Conference, which will run from Thursday, 6 November, to Saturday, 8 November 2025.
In accordance with the conference theme, “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” the work of French philosopher Henri Bergson is more than relevant. Bergson’s Matter and Memory published in 1896 explores not only how memory functions in human activity, but the levels of memory and its importance to our lives.
2027 will be the 50th anniversary of Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison’s third novel and one of the author’s more popular books alongside The Bluest Eye and Beloved.
This forthcoming volume of essays will provide new readings of the novel for high school and undergraduate readers just in time for Song of Solomon’s 50th anniversary.
It seeks to advance Morrison studies and foster critical appreciation of the novel, especially in light of new directions in literary criticism since 2010.
Second Call For Papers
CFP: Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Société canadienne d’études du dix-huitième siècle
2025 Conference: Trans/Formations: Crossing Borders, Blurring Boundaries
Location: Atlas Hotel, Regina/Oskana, Saskatchewan
15-18 October, 2025
Deadline for Submissions: 31 May 2025
Please send submissions to the Organising Committee: CSECS2025@uregina.ca
Conference Details
International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHASS/Home.html
*** May Issue***
Scope
CALL FOR PAPERS
Minding the Present: Bodies, Places, Matter in and between Australia and Europe
17-19 September 2025
Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies, University of Padova
(Via Vendramini, 13, Padova, Italy)
CFP From the European South, 19, Fall 2026
Special Issue: Dark Tourism in Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Contexts: Topographies of Suffering, Narrative Constructions and the Consumption of Place(s)
Guest Editors: Eleonora Federici (University of Ferrara) and Marilena Parlati (University of Padova)
Submission Guidelines:
Update: Keynote Speakers Announced - See details here:
https://www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-events/conferences/reconfigurations-2025...
CFP:
International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology (IJCSIT)
ISSN: 0975-3826(online); 0975-4660 (Print)
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJCST/Home.html
*** May Issue***
Scope & Topics
SAMLA 97 – Knowledge – Atlanta, GA | November 6th - 8th, 2025, https://samla.ballastacademic.com
This panel intends to examine the works of Muslim American poets, novelists, playwrights, musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists. Papers are invited that explore the diverse compositions of Muslim American identities in cultural texts as they challenge and engage with the canonical codes and sociopolitical norms of national, theoretical, literary, and aesthetic spaces.
The King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS), through its UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures, and with support from the Literature, Publishing and Translation Commission, offers Early Scholars Publication Grants. These grants support the publication of outstanding PhD dissertations that critically examine contemporary debates related to the UNESCO Chair's two themes and adopt a global perspective that moves beyond Eurocentrism. Early Scholars Publication Grants will be awarded for this year's two themes:
1) Translating Cultures in the Digital Age
PAMLA 2025 RHETORICAL THEORY PANEL
CALL FOR PAPERS
“Rhetorical Theory” (Standing Session)
San Francisco, CA, Nov. 20-23
Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack (USC)
Email: leack@usc.edu
Abstract
This panel will explore recent movements in rhetorical theory writ large, either in connection with or apart from composition theory and practice. Special attention will be given to proposals that engage with the conference's theme.
Description
In these turbulent times of global conflict and wars, and with the world witnessing human rights violations, scholars and individuals alike are grappling with the evolving definitions of fundamental issues such as human rights, international law, justice, and community peaceful coexistence. The crises challenge long-held assumptions on the so- called post-colonialist discourses, neocolonialism, systemic oppression, and cultural conflict, especially in transnational and diasporic encounters. Images of destruction and the continuous lurking waves of international sociopolitical plights inflicting the world raise urgent ethical questions that call upon the humanities to critically engage with these contemporary struggles of the human experience.
This accepted PAMLA special session panel explores memory and oblivion as they relate to queer culture and literature of the modern Hispanic world. Focusing on Latin America, Spain, and the global Hispanophone in the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, the panel explores practices of remembrance, commemoration, censorship, and forgetting both in queer culture (i.e., as practiced by queer individuals and groups) and of queer culture (in a broader cultural ecosystem). How have queer people sought to memorialize their predecessors and bequeath their legacy to future generations? How have these practices interacted with more expansive societal forces that alternately commemorate, silence or marginalize queer culture?
Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo is considered a staple in American cinematic history. For decades, Vertigo has been the subject of study by many film scholars, peeling back the intricate layers of the technicolor thriller. This panel invites all papers on Vertigo whether it is about the film's placement in Hitchcock's auteurism, the film's relation to the city of San Francisco, or an entirely new layer that has yet to be fully discussed.
Sir Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes are associated with the phrase, “Knowledge is power,” articulated by both writers about four centuries ago.