The 2026 NeMLA convention will be March 5-8 in Pittsburgh, PA at Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown.

The NeMLA 2026 convention organizing committee is thrilled to announce the opening plenary and keynote speakers: novelist Simon Han (Nights When Nothing Happened) and feminist luminary Cherríe Moraga (Heroes and Saints, Native Country of the Heart, co-editor with Gloria Anzaldúa of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color).

Please consider submitting an abstract for NeMLA 2026—The Italian South and Southern (Re)generation 

Please consider submitting an abstract for NeMLA 2026--Italian Food as (Re) Generation

The conference will take place in Pittsburg, PA, from March 5-March 8, 2026. The deadline for abstracts is September 30th, 2025.

Continuing last year’s conversation, this panel proposes to focus on representations of food in Italian and Italian American Cinema, Literature and Media. Taking this year’s theme, Re-Generation, into consideration it seems only fitting to discuss food. The idea of food or foodway as the locus of creation and re-creation invites us to consider the transformation of culinary history, identity, production, and consumption within or between the Italian, Italian American, and/or wider contexts of the Italian Diaspora.

CFP for SPECIAL ISSUE

Translating Silence—Gender, Trauma, and the Untranslatable in Postcolonial Asian Literature

Journal:                      Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific
Publisher:                   The Australian National University
Guest-editors:             Dr. Moussa Pourya Asl & Dr. Roya Monsefi
Abstract deadline:        15 May 2025

Call for Papers: Edited Collection on Sai Paranjpye

ReFocus: the Films of Sai Paranjpye 

Contact Email: Tanushree Ghosh 

Deadline for Abstracts: June 30th, 2025     

Middle Cinema, Realism, and Everyday Life: Rethinking the Cinema of Sai Paranjpye

The 1st International Symposium on Archipelagic Studies ‘The Island and the Archipelagic Dimension’, to be held at the University of Madeira from the 23rd to 24th of October 2025, aims to reflect on issues of insularity and archipelagos in the conception of today's world, marked by environmental crises, new trends in human development and reinterpretations of place and its dynamics.

Deadline extended to June 9

Overview

Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (UVC) announces a call for assignments at the intersection of race and dis/ability. Anyone with relevant professional interests is encouraged to apply, but the organizers are especially interested in submissions from early-career scholars and those with backgrounds that are underrepresented in Victorian Studies.

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La historia del continente latinoamericano ha estado marcada por numerosas manifestaciones de violencia, guerras, dictaduras, revoluciones y exilios. Estos fenómenos han dejado una honda marca en las narrativas producidas en el continente, en especial a lo largo de los siglos XX y XXI. Una de las formas más visibles de estas huellas es la del miedo que deja impreso en el panorama afectivo de los individuos y ciudadanos. Este miedo que aparece de maneras tan diversas como frecuentes en la literatura del continente, no obstante, no ha recibido la suficiente atención por parte de la crítica.

Established in recent decades as a research area in its own right, the study of ecology in the Renaissance has diversified into several distinct but related fields. The conference aims at taking stock of the broad range of meanings, creating conversations between the existing areas and inquiring into possible directions onward. We suggest a range of both literal and more metaphorical conceptions of ‘ecology’ in which nature, broadly defined, may be considered both an object of study and an agent of change or stasis.

Veterans Studies is a growing field of research that addresses the significant impact of military personnel transitioning from active duty to civilian life with an emphasis on the veteran experience. This session invites papers that explore the many facets of military life exhibited in literature, theater, film, and poetry written about or by military veterans as well as scholarly explorations of the veteran experience. We welcome proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related.

The 53rd annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 (LCLC) invites submissions of critical, creative, and hybrid work exploring 20th- and 21st-century literature and culture. We welcome submissions in English, Spanish, French, and, occasionally, other languages. We encourage group proposals that cross institutional, disciplinary, and/or experiential boundaries.

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.

We encourage panel proposals as well as individual submissions.

Papers are generally 15–20 minutes in length. We also encourage works in progress, and informal presentations. 

This area considers the intersection of politics, civic life, and popular culture. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

• Political actions that involve pop culture, including banning or attacking elements of pop culture

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This session at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA 2025) annual conference explores the relationship between queer and trans cultural productions and the politics of censorship and obscenity.

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DEADLINE: PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT BY JULY 15, 2025.

Demeter collection on Trans Parenting edited by Charlotte Beyer, Liana Cusmano, and Allie Robbins

We have had a couple of spaces open up in our collection on trans parenting. As such, we are seeking contributors who are keen to engage critically and/or creatively with this topic and invite further chapter proposals.