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Call for Papers
Join us in Los Angeles for the 39th annual MELUS conference!
April 3-6, 2025
Hosted by Cal State LA
Conference Theme: MELUS Outside
Deadline for Abstracts: December 6, 2024
The theme of the 2025 MVSA conference is "Genealogies." The conference dates are April 3-6, 2025, and the location is Fort Wayne, IN. Please see the conference page here.
MVSA Conference Seminars are small, with eight to ten participants each. Participants exchange work to read ahead of the 2025 conference and meet in a closed, collaborative session to discuss overlaps in their papers, refine their ideas, and think about how to move their work forward.
Inspired by Fort Wayne’s proximity to the Allen County Library, with its large genealogical center, MVSA 2025 takes the theme of “Genealogies.” We encourage participants to think about origins and descent broadly speaking and across disciplines. Genealogies were powerful scientific tools or narrative red herrings, and they were also sources of anxiety for Victorians. Of course, people have genealogies, but so do ideas, artistic forms, and texts, including scholarly concepts and methods themselves. MVSA invites proposals for papers that present, interrogate, explore, celebrate, and puncture material and textual genealogies.
Papers Might Take up Issues Including, but not Limited to:
The world’s steady sloping toward 21st century fascism took an even more precipitous slide with the US electoral victory of Donald Trump in this fall’s election. There is no way to fully capture where different folks are at in their (dis)orientation to this unfolding fascism—physio-psycho- socio-affectio-logically—but feeling grief, rage, numbness, disgust, despair, flattened, scattered, scared, and intermixtures of all these (and many more) are surely in the running as immediate but inadequate visceral descriptors for this moment.
Florida Atlantic Univeristy - Comparative Studies Student Association
CSSA’s 2025 Intellectual Resistance Conference
Call for Papers
College English Association - Mid-Atlantic Group
67th Annual Conference – 14 March 2025 – Call for Papers
Conference Location:The University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC
The literature of early medieval England, both Old English and Anglo-Latin, is often characterized either by a derivative devotion to an authoritative past, or by unorthodox innovation. While this dichotomy between tradition and innovation has much merit, many textual examples defy this categorization. In some cases, innovative texts and authors actually conform closely to their discursive models, while other texts that seem to adhere to tradition in fact create significant developments and variations. Untangling the complex relationships between texts and their sources reveals much about composition, genre, form, and language – the very foundations of textual practice.
Call for papers - Doctoral conference
Pescara (Italy), 29-30 May 2025
Doctoral Course in Languages, Literatures, Cultures in Contact - Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
TV Matters is a new series of short monographs (40,000 to 50,000 words) on television series,
analysing their production history, cultural context, main themes, as well as fandom and
audience reception. (All three of these aspects need to be touched upon!) The focus is on shows that both have critical acclaim (as reflected by awards, media reviews), but more importantly, are genuinely “popular”. That means they have
had a robust viewership and ideally an active fandom (watercooler discussions on- and offline,
as well as fan production such as fic, art, vids etc), and/or an unusual reception history (cases
of bans, censorship or similar).
Care can be understood as a situation-based variable with multitudes of meanings. With its initial theoretical footing in western feminist thought, care pervades defined epistemic boundaries; it is fundamentally relational, philosophical, and practical at the same time. We care for things, we care for people, we care for the tangible and intangible. It can be a necessity, a commodity, or even an imposition and yet the limited understanding of care relegates it as a form of dependency. This leads us to a series of structuring questions: Do we care about care itself? Is ethics of care different from caring itself? If yes, why are we not talking about it? More importantly, who decides what and how much to care about something?
I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by January 20, 2025. Chapters will be due by July 15, 2025.
All topics about dragons will be considered.
Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu
I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by January 20, 2025. Chapters will be due by July 15, 2025.
All topics about dragons will be considered.
Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu
Trickster. Traitor. Villain. Variant.
Hero?
Popular Culture Association: British Popular Culture
Call for Papers
The British Popular Culture area of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) is now accepting submissions for the 2025 national conference to be held April 16-19, 2025, in New Orleans, LA!
Academics at all stages in their careers, as well as independent scholars, are encouraged to apply. We particularly encourage submissions by graduate students.
International Conference – ERC AGRELITA
June 5th & 6th, 2025 at the University of Caen Normandy
Call for communication
ERC Advanced Grant AGRELITA • The Reception of Ancient Greece in Premodern French Literature and Illustrations of Manuscripts and Printed Books (1320-1550): how invented memories shaped the identity of European communities[1].
For more information about the ERC AGRELITA, please see: https://agrelita.hypotheses.org/
AIRBORNE GOTHIC
ASLE 2025 Panel Organized by the Society for the Study of American Gothic
July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park
Call for Papers: Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine Issue on the History of Medicine (September 2025)
Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025
Publication Date: September 2025
Subject: Call for Papers: Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine Issue on the History of Medicine (September 2025)
Call for Papers: 8th APEEN Conference Energy Flexibility for a Just Transition
Website: https://apeen25.gapeer.ubi.pt
The University of Beira Interior welcomes the 8th Annual APEEN Conference on Energy Flexibility for a Just Transition to be held on the 10th and 11th of April 2025. The conference will take place on the Campus of the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of the University of Beira Interior in the city of Covilhã – Portugal. The conference is organized by the Management and Economics Department, and GAPEER in association with the APEEN.
Call for Papers
Methodological Approaches to Digital Spaces (MADS)
MADS (Methodological Approaches to Digital Spaces) is a FREE interdisciplinary symposium launched under the guidance and funding of NWCDTP to promote methodological and ontological advancements in the studies of digital spaces. MADS aims to explore diverse academic approaches to increasingly complex digital spaces, specifically focused on:
new methods for exploring and preserving digital archives
novel approaches to the collection and analysis of digital data
The Kurt Vonnegut Society invites proposals for presentations at the 36th annual American Literature Association conference in Boston, MA, 21 May 2025 - 24 May 2025. You can learn more about the conference from the ALA's general call for papers: Call for Papers.
Apologies for crossposting.
Call for Proposals: TV Matters
Editor: Sabrina Mittermeier
View the full call here>>
Journal of Franco-Irish Studies (JOFIS) ISSN: 2009-7395
In honour of the 250th anniversary of the publication of La Physiologie du Goût (The Physiology of Taste), the editorial team of JOFIS is pleased to announce its next call for papers for the spring 2025 issue dedicated to the legacy and influence of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, one of the most renowned figures in the history of food writing and gastronomy.
Status Quo and Besides
The State of South African Literary and Cultural Studies
8 to 9 May 2025
26 Degrees South, Muldersdrift, Gauteng, South Africa
The Literature Association of South Africa (LASA) invites literary scholars and postgraduate students to submit abstracts for its 2025 conference, to be hosted at 26 Degrees South, Muldersdrift, Gauteng, South Africa, from 8 to 9 May 2025.
Mission Shakti
Thoughts on Women Empowerment
Sub Themes :
Here are some sub-themes for the call for papers on the book titled Mission Shakti: Thoughts on Women Empowerment. These are just indicative points . The book is not limited to these themes only . The authors can select any appropriate theme in commensurate with the main topic.
1. Education and Empowerment: Exploring the role of education in empowering women and promoting gender equality.
2. Breaking Gender Stereotypes: Challenging traditional gender norms and stereotypes that hinder women's empowerment.
CLASS CON 2025Call for Papers/Voices/Participation
March 14th and 15h,Bowling Green State University, Jerome Library
Deadline to Submit Extended to January 1st, 2025
As class studies are often niche, invisible, or non-existent withinmany cultural studies programs, we hope to draw attention to the discipline and the broader need for class consciousness. By understanding and breaking down the structures and systems that uphold our modern class structure, this conference aims to make meaningful change both in and outside of the academic ivory tower.
** Call for Proposals **
Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference
Saturday July 12 – Sunday July 13, 2025
University College London
This is the 28th Annual Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference.
Closing Date for Submissions: Sunday January 19, 2025*
Send proposals to: conference@greatwriting.org.uk
The conference will be held in person.
For the 2025 Symposium on Music of the Sea, we are seeking proposals for papers in Music, Ethnomusicology, History, Literature, Folklore, or other appropriate disciplines that address any aspect of music or verse of the sea, rivers, or inland waters from the Age of Sail until the present.
CFP FOR EDITED COLLECTION (2025)
Call for abstracts for papers for edited collection on the effects of ageing populations and generational disparities in Asian societies as represented in literature, film, and other forms of media
Working Title for Proposed Volume:
Ageing Asia: multimedia representations of ageing and older adults in Asian societies
Editors:
Dr. Bernard Wilson
Department of English Language and Culture,
Department of International Social Sciences,
Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan
Announcing
The 2025 First Book Institute
June 1-7, 2025
Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University
Co-Directors
Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature
John Marsh, Professor of English and Director of the Center for American Literary Studies
Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders (STAB) 2025
Graduate Conference of the Dept. of English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Binghamton University, New York
Conference theme: (Re)Placement
Date: March 29, 2025
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Naima Mohammadi (University of Pittsburgh)
In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political
I must listen to the birds
and in order to hear the birds
the warplanes must be silent.
– Marwan Makhoul, Palestinian Poet