Profanity: Redefining the Limits.

The F-word across Linguistics, Translation and the Arts

The conference is still welcoming proposals in film, lit. and cultural studies focusing on the use of profanity, transgression and "bad language" in general.

LOCATION: Université d’Artois (Arras, France), 24-26 September 2025

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Ambivalent Solidarities: South Asian Women’s Intellectual, Affective and Activist Networks

Editors:

Hiya Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Swarnamoyee Jogendranath Mahavidyalaya, Vidyasagar University

Sreejata Paul, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Shiv Nadar University Delhi-NCR

European Network for Psychological Anthropology Biennial Conference:

 Anthropologies and Psychologies in (Inter)Action - Engaging Interdisciplinary Perspectives

11 - 13 June 2025, University of Münster, Germany

Conference information: https://enpanthro.net/enpa-2025-conference/

CFP for an in-person panel:

Anthropology, Psychology, and Self-Understanding: Exploring Educative Contexts and Possibilities

NJCEA 47th Annual Conference

 "TEACHING LITERATURE AND WRITING STUDIES IN A POLARIZED SOCIETY" 

March 22, 2025 Seton Hall University

The challenges of teaching humanities in today’s increasingly polarized political climate are profound. Educators find themselves at the intersection of diverse ideologies, cultural tensions, and barriers students may face in their access to education. How do we teach literature and writing in ways that foster civility, empathy, and meaningful dialogue amid stark political divides? For the 2025 NJCEA annual conference, we ask you to consider ideas and pedagogical strategies that help navigate these tensions without losing the richness and relevance of literature and writing.

Call for Papers: Edited Volume on “Writing under Duress in Anglophone Arab Literature in the Diaspora: The Articulation of a Coerced Imagination”

Editors: Dr. Hamida Riahi, Prof. Mounir Triki, and Dr. Saud Enazi
Publisher: This volume is being prepared for submission to Palgrave Macmillan for consideration.

Overview

Marina Warner’s latest work, Sanctuary: The Shelter of Stories (working title), the publication of which will coincide with our conference, opens with a scene from a film, where a man being chased finds refuge in a cathedral. Marina Warner describes how, as he lifts the giant door knocker, it becomes a hinge between danger and safety, enveloping the suppliant in a protective halo and becoming a portal to the Church’s ancient rite of, and right to, sanctuary. Enchanting Wor(l)ds will examine the myriad ways in which Marina Warner has dedicated her career to analysing how objects, spaces, temporalities, people, worlds and words can become enchanted: how they might be imbued with power, aura, mystery or dread.

Migrant Sensoria–special issue of The Senses and Society

What are the sensory experiences of migration? How do migrants negotiate their movement not only between spaces and cultures, but between different configurations of sensory environments, habits, and values? How do traumatic contexts of migration register—or fail to register—in sensory experience, and in sensorially entangled memories? How do different sensory arrangements and pedagogies contribute to the erosion, maintenance, or resurgence of collective memories across individual and trans-generational time? How might sensory experiences and interventions contribute to migrant performance, stories, and media—and to articulating “migrant futures” (Bahng)?

Forum: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty is a peer-reviewed journal published by NCTE and CCCC to address working conditions, professional life, activism, and perspectives of non-tenure-track faculty.

This special issue—“AI Labor and Contingency: Issues Surrounding the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Student Work and Considerations for Part-Time and Contingent Faculty”—will be published in the fall of 2025. The submission deadline is March 15.

Call for Papers

In the postmillennial era, South Asian graphic narratives have emerged as powerful mediums for exploring traditional notions of gender and sexuality. This panel examines the ways in which these contemporary visual storytelling forms address and subvert the cultural constructs surrounding gender and sexual identities in South Asia.

Panel description:

Panel 69 - 

The emergence of modern documentary poetics is often attributed to twentieth-century writers who were interested in redefining the purpose and limits of artistic expression, a redefinition that occurred in the context of labor exploitation, racial violence, and ethnic cleansing. This panel asks participants to consider the nineteenth-century precursors of modern documentary literature. How and to what ends do documents and literature intersect throughout the long nineteenth century? What constitutes a document and how might this definition enable new ways of interrogating issues of race, gender, class, indigeneity, and ethnicity? What formal features and aesthetic innovations emerge during the nineteenth century?

 Physical landscapes and human-environment interactions have long been portrayed in literature and the arts. The modern environmentalist movement, which first appeared in the late nineteenth century and which gained traction in the 1960s, has resulted in a wide variety of fictional and nonfiction works addressing the evolving interaction between humans and the natural world. However, it was only in the early 1990s that “ecocriticism” emerged as a self-conscious critical practice, one that has gone through a variety of designations: environmental criticism, literary-environmental studies, literary ecology, literary environmentalism, green cultural studies or, more recently, environmental humanities.

Call for Papers: LEARNING FROM FEAR

The University of Memphis English Department will host a graduate student conference, Learning From Fear, on April 25th-26th, 2025, in Memphis, Tennessee. This conference aims to appeal to a variety of disciplines and interests, including rhetoric, communication, film and media studies, creative writing, linguistics, African American literature, museum studies, philosophy, graphic design, pop culture studies, psychology, educational studies, and web development. 

Key Research Questions

Democracy has a strange quality, that it is systematically ambiguous. Recently, the ambiguity has led to contestations that has questioned the very foundations of democratic values and principles. The erosion of faith and conflicts around the globe is evidenced through collapse of democratic regimes or call to reform democratic practices to be replaced by more rigid or powerful structures. Many believe the rise in inequality, drastic climate changes, migration, religious fundamentalism and lack of basic facilities and growing social, political and economic insecurities has been some of the factors, that led many to question the legitimacy of democratic institutions and practices.

The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association seeks papers exploring English Romanticism (1798 - 1837). The conference will be held at the Centennial by Davenport Hotel in Spokane, WA, from 16 October to 18 October 2025. Please submit abstracts of 250 words and a 60-word bio to JT Rucker at william.rucker10@okstate.edu by 1 April 2025.