‘Theory Today’ working group [USC] is organizing a two-day theory workshop with one of the preeminent and prolific theorists of our time, Prof. Todd McGowan1.  The workshop will take place on March 12-13, 2026, at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), and will have the following schedule:

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Day 1 : March 12, 2026

Session 1 | McGowan: Foundations of Thinking [10 am to 1 pm]

-          Workshop session focused on reading and discussing primary texts, including Hegel, Kant, Marx, and Lacan.

The Literature and Popular Culture area for the 2025 Northeast Popular Culture Association conference is accepting paper and panel proposals from faculty and graduate students. NEPCA’s 2025 virtual annual conference will be held from Thursday, October 9-Saturday, October 11, 2025. Sessions will take place on Zoom through Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. More information on the conference can be found here: https://www.northeastpca.org/conference.

250-word abstracts are due by July 15, 2025.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue

Vernacular City-Narratives from Postcolonial South Asia

We are inviting short abstracts (100 words) of papers on “Vernacular City-Narratives from Postcolonial South Asia”, to be published in a special issue for a Scopus-indexed journal (Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Taylor and Francis, Q1). The deadline for the abstract submission is June 14, 2025. 

Special thematic dossier 7.2 | Native American Visibility and Representations in Contemporary USA: Between Cultural Belonging and Activism

Editor: María Elena Serrano Moya (Universidad de Alcalá)

The Historical Fictions Research Network invites you to its international, interdisciplinary online summer workshop on historical fiction. We invite scholars from all over the world to come and join us for this international conversation. We have yet to find a time zone we cannot accommodate, so do join us in June!

2025 Online Summer Workshop: Transnational and Postnational Historical Fictions

13 June 2025 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)

15 min talks

Transnational and Postnational Historical Fictions

Organizers: Rhema Hokama (University of Washington) and Tom Clayton (Colgate University)

This is a call for submissions for a guaranteed session in English Literature sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America for the 2026 RSA conference in San Francisco (February 19–21, 2026).

Organizers: Rhema Hokama (University of Washington) and Mihoko Suzuki (University of Miami)

This is a call for submissions for a guaranteed session in English Literature sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America for the 2026 RSA conference in San Francisco (February 19–21, 2026).

Collection Editor: Wendy Whelan-Stewart, McNeese State University

Contact Email: wwhelanstewart@mcneese.edu

Book Proposal: Edited Collection

Abstracts are invited for chapter proposals for an edited collection titled Motherhood and Its Cultural Artifacts in American Literature.

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Electricdreams - Between fiction and society IV 

VISIONS OF CONTROL: POWER AND TECHNOLOGY IN SPECULATIVE FICTION 

Call for papers for an international in-person conference on speculative fiction, organized and hosted by IULM University of Milan (Italy) in collaboration with Complutense University of Madrid and the HISTOPIA research group, taking place from October 15 to 17, 2025. 

Areas of interest: literature, cinema, television, comics, games/videogames, new media, performative arts, cultural studies. 

July 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. This central moment in American history has shaped our national self-perception for 250 years even as writers and scholars have debated the origins and meaning of the events of 1776 from the time they occurred until today. Inspired by these discussions and the national commemoration of independence, the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society is convening a conference in June 2026. What beliefs turned a diffuse movement protesting imperial policy into a radical republican revolution in 1776? How did the events of 1776 play out in the communities that experienced them? How did independence change American society?

Seeking Participants for 2026 CCCC Roundtable on Research Writing in FYW

Dear colleagues,

The 2026 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) invites scholars to contribute what “matters to you most” through conversation and collaboration. In that spirit, we would like to facilitate a roundtable discussion on developing and/or expanding the horizons of how we teach established research genres in the first-year composition classrooms.

CFP on Philosophy and Theatre

Verona, November 20-21, 2025

Organized by S. Bigliazzi, A. Stavru, E. Stelzer, G. Ugolini

The SKENÈ Research Centre organizes a conference on Philosophy and Theatre to be held next November in Verona (20-21 Nov). We invite papers by scholars who in the past years have been publishing and/or organizing events on topics related to the intersection of philosophy and theatre.

This session invites proposals on topics that will (as a session as a whole) embrace the plurality of Feminisms, enlivening current critical practice across languages, literatures, time periods, and genres. In particular, we welcome proposals that approach Feminisms through a transhistorical and/or global lens. We welcome proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related.In their 2022 book Public Feminism in Times of Crisis: From Sappho’s Fragments to Viral Hashtags, Leila Easa and Jennifer Stager “examine the public practice of feminism in the age of social media and analyze the deep histories threaded through this new(er) enactment” (2).

Call for papers

PORNOGRAPHY IN BABEL

Translation, sexuality, obscenity

International bilingual conference

23–24 October 2025

University of Antwerp, Belgium