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Call for Papers
Sport and Popular Culture Area
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2025 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 26-28, 2025
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 25, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2025
Note: this conference has a hybrid format (both virtual and in-person sessions). This session will be virtual.
In partnership with UK’s Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies Department, “Leveling Up the Classroom” is continuing with a central focus on the integration of digital technologies and media into classroom settings. The last few years has given education a great insight into its own practices. Between online classrooms during the pandemic and the rapid emergence of more powerful technologies, we educators have seen a growing need to reevaluate our classrooms, as well as work with new tech to enhance these learning environments.
Call for Papers: Stories and Sacredness: Reimagining Myth and Folklore Across Indian Cultures
(Proposed as Part of Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions)
Editors:
Dr. Rajkumar Bera, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Midnapore City College, West Bengal
Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash, Fellow of Social Science Research Council, USA
In Blue Ecocriticism, Sydney I. Dobrin provocatively calls for viewing “oceanic deficit” as form of “disciplinary critique” (9) in order to open up the epistemic realm of ecocriticism which primarily deals with the representation of ecological substance in literary and cultural works.
Seeking chapters about African films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents, including chapters devoted to films from Cape Verde, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda. We welcome the following high-priority chapters on African films for the handbook's Part II (National Overviews of Trans Cinema):
MLA 2026 Convention (Toronto), non-guaranteed roundtable
Bloomsbury has shown interest in publishing this project.
Editors:
Dr. Shubhanku Kochar shubhankukochar@outlook.com
Dr. Tanupriya tanupriya.2493@gmail.com
Call for Papers
An Archipelagic Turn and the “Other Asias”: Planetary Care in Literature, Politics, Culture
August 4-6, 2025
Jeju National University
South Korea
Keynote: Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University, US
The Critical Island Studies Consortium announces a conference that aims to fundamentally challenge and reconceptualize our understanding of “Asia” by privileging an archipelagic perspective
Existence and Coexistence in the Age of Crises
The American Studies Association of Korea (ASAK)
October 17-18, 2025
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Mel Y. Chen, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Jasbir Puar, University of British Columbia, Canada
Ok Yeon Yi, Seoul National University, Korea
“Confinement and Freedom”
Call for Papers
2025 Arkansas Philological Association Conference
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, October 3-4, 2025
“A Day”: 2nd Annual Goth Music and Subculture Conference
Deadline: May 22, 2025
Conference Date: August 16, 2025
Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific)
Abstract: 150 words + 100 word biographical statement + Time Zone
Submit to: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University @ noahrgallego@gmail.com
Contact: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com
One Short Day: An Online Symposium Celebrating Wicked
Deadline: May 30, 2025
Conference Date: June 27, 2025
Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific Time)
Abstract: 150 words + 50 word biographical statement + Time Zone
Submit to: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com
Organizers: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona & Layal Dahi, California State Polytechnic University
30 Years of Saturn: 2nd Annual W. G. Sebald Symposium
Deadline: April 4, 2025
Symposium Date: May 11, 2025
Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific Time)
Abstract: 150 words + short biographical statement + time zone
Submit to: Noah Gallego @ noahrgallego@gmail.com
Contact: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona @noahrgallego@gmail.com
In her artist statement for Along the River of Spacetime (2020), a virtual reality “activation” of Anishinaabe star knowledge, scholar, artist, and video game designer Elizabeth LaPensée (Irish, Métis, Anishinaabe) described the ways in which Anishinaabe cosmologies anticipated a series of experiments carried out by CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the world's most advanced particle accelerator.
In keeping with this year’s MMLA conference theme, “The Humanities is Where Hope Lives,” this permanent session is seeking proposals, which discuss how we “make our case” for Early Modern English. How do we explain to our audiences – both in our classrooms and in public settings – on what interests us and motivates our scholarly activities? How do we demonstrate impact and encourage further participation? Where does the study of Early Modern English align with other organizations and initiatives designed to promote the humanities in public life? What has worked for us? What hasn’t?
Call for Papers: Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales
In honor of the 650th year of Giovanni Boccaccio’s passing, the Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales project is accepting papers on individual tales of The Decameron. We welcome papers and proposals from students!
About the project
2025 Emily Dickinson International Society Graduate Student Fellowship
A "melange" is a term denoting works of art and literature that combine multiple forms, genres, and/or media.
The new Princeton publication Melange: A Journal of Prose Poetry and the Arts accepts creative melanges, melanges in translation, and critical essays about melanges. Anyone may submit to Melange - professors, students, and independent scholars alike.
In Spring 2025, we are publishing both a regular issue and a special issue. For the regular issue, we are looking for prose poetry, essays, visual art, translations, and combinations of the above. For the Special Issue Fantasy Dictionary, we are publishing entries from the Fantasy Dictionary Contest.
We invite submissions for our panel “Reimagining Asian Diasporas With/in the Francophone World” to be held at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Annual Conference in San Francisco, November 20-23, 2025. Please see call below:
Reimagining Asian Diasporas With/in the Francophone World
Call for Papers
In some ways, war does not change. In others, it is constantly in flux. Contemporary warfare is aided, disrupted, and mediated by ever-developing digital technologies, semi-autonomous and autonomous weapons and equipment, deepfake AI propaganda, mediation through social media, and much more. These shifts suggest that contemporary warfare is in some sense a ‘new’ modality of conflict, or at least that it has new and distinctive characteristics that are in urgent need of analysis and critique. What is clear is that we must scrutinize the utility of the central binaries that structure our knowledge of war—wartime and peacetime, battlefield and safe zone, innocence and complicity—in order to understand the state of contemporary armed conflict.
In a 2022 article, one of a number of related works, and drawing on the work of Didier Deleule and François Guéry (2014)– the late art theorist Marina Vishmidt critiqued the manner in which an analysis of ‘bodies’ seemed to be overly focused on the register of vulnerability, or the post-structuralist, discursive, or psychoanalytic dimensions, thus relegating bodies excessively to the realm of the abstract, to the exclusion of the concrete. Anatomy, with regards to both its aesthetic and scientific purposes, also has abstract and concrete dimensions – as innovative recent works analyzing anatomy within its broader social and historical contexts demonstrate.
Deadline for Abstract Submission: May 15, 2025
Final Chapter Submission: December 30, 2025
Editors: Aswathi Velayathikode Anand (Visiting Assistant Professor, IIM Indore, India) & Swathi Krishna S. (Assistant Professor, IIT Bhubaneswar, India)
Contact Emails: aswathiv@iimidr.ac.in, swathi@iitbbs.ac.in
Stories of Strength and Survival: Resilient Women in Indian Fiction(Edited Collection) (With a strong publishing interest from Bloomsbury Publishing, USA)
MMLA 2025 American Literature II: Lit after 1870 Permanent Section CFP
Spanish----
“The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?”
CFP: PAMLA 2025
Seriality, Repetition, and Adaptation in 21st-Century Storytelling
Special Session for Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
Location: San Francisco, California at the InterContinental San Francisco Hotel
Conference: Thursday, November 20 through Sunday, November 23, 2025.
Abstract Submission Deadline: May 15, 2025
Presiding officer:
Mavis Tseng,
Associate Professor, Director of the Language Center
Taipei Medical University
Abstract
CONCEPT NOTE:
The Department of English, Aliah University, Kolkata, in collaboration with Peter Lang, seeks to organise a conference entitled “Paradigms in Flux: Contemporary Discourses and Trajectories in the Humanities” from 9 to 10 September 2025.
We at Ceræ are pleased to announce that the theme for Volume 12 of the journal is Dreams, Visions, and Utopias, and we invite submissions that contemplate what is the arguably most ubiquitous and diverse literary genre of the medieval and early modern centuries.
Dreams and visions could be personal or communal. They could be of the past, present, or future. Some touched on real events or people, while others were entirely imaginary, and most were somewhere in between. They can encompass the horrors of nightmares to the bliss of salvation, or calls for political freedom and mobilisation as much as an afternoon daydreaming in the sunshine.
June 26-28, 2024
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 25, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2025