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Studies in Memory of Donald C. Baker (1928-2019)

updated: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 4:00am
Mohsen HAMLI
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Call for Essays

Studies in Memory of Donald C. Baker (1928-2019)

 

Call for essays for a book on the late medievalist Donald C. Baker who left us in 2019.

Donald C. Baker taught English Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder, for twenty years then pursued teaching opportunities in Finland, England, Tunisia, Jordan, and Macau. 

Donald C. Baker published or co-published a variety of books and articles (in PMLA, Studia Neophilologica, Speculum, Studies in Philology, Philological Quarterly, The Literary)  on Geoffrey Chaucer and Beowulf in particular.

All forms of liteary studies (around 6,000 words using APA style) are welcome.

General Call for Papers

updated: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 12:13am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished, interdisciplinary, research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.

Medusa: Essay on Modern Drama

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 1:46am
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

This call for papers seeks one specific chapter on Medusa for a volume intended for the series, Villains and Creatures.

Each chapter of the volume is intended to be an overview of depictions of Medusa in specific kinds of media; nevertheless, the arguments/theses of each chapter should still be original, using past works and research to develop a current (new) perspective on Medusa.

The chapter needed involves Modern Drama.

Chapters will be due in August 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 6,500 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Gladiator 2 Edited Collection

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 1:46am
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

The twentieth anniversary of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000) was an important moment in film history, for it not only marked a great film and work of art, but it also reminded audiences how peplum and historical epics still mattered. The edited collection “A Hero Will Endure”: Essays at the Twentieth Anniversary of ‘Gladiator’ (2023) provided insights on the film two decades after its release.

Yet now there is a sequel. This CFP therefore serves to build on the work done in the 2023 essays and provide a further avenue of exploration for connections between the two films as well as innovative readings of Gladiator 2 on its own.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

CfP: Ecocritical Perspectives on Literature and Other Media (Lexington Books, U.K.)

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:38am
Habib Tekin / Istanbul and Marmara Universities
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

This call for papers seeks contributions examining the relationship between narratives and ecological issues, focusing on the ways storytelling addresses ecological challenges. Narratives – whether literary, cinematic, or multimodal – have the potential to critique environmental exploitation, envision sustainable futures, and explore human and non-human interconnections. The intersection of ecocriticism and storytelling offers fertile ground for discussions about the role of culture in shaping ecological consciousness and practices.

Wallace Johnson First Book Mentorship Program

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:38am
Andrew Rabin
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Dear colleagues,

 

Thanks to the generous support of Wallace Johnson and the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, I am delighted to announce the Call for Proposals for the sixth year of the Wallace Johnson First Book Mentoring Program. The program provides support and mentorship to early career scholars working towards the publication of their first book on the law and legal culture of the early Middle Ages. In conversation with peers and with the advice of senior scholars, participants will develop and revise book proposals and sample chapters, and they will meet with guest editors to learn about approaching and working with publishers.

 

Samuel Beckett and the Tragic

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:19am
Samuel Beckett Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS / APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONS

Please note that the French version of the CFP is available after the English one.
Veuillez noter que la version française de l’appel à contributions est disponible après celle en anglais.

Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui (SBT/A) Special issue

The Samuel Beckett Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), in collaboration with the refereed bilingual journal, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui (SBT/A), invites abstract submissions for a special issue on Samuel Beckett and the Tragic.

“Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond” International Conference

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:15pm
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

“Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond”

International Conference

Sibiu, Romania | 1-3.07. 2025

                                    

Lucian Blaga University is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the upcoming international conference, “Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond,” to be held between July 1-3 in Sibiu, Romania. The conference aims to explore tragedy as it is reflected in literature, theater, and other cultural forms from antiquity to the present day, with a focus on European (semi)peripheries and non-European cultural spaces. 

Conference: Epistolography, knowledge, and the Ancient World

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:28am
University of Bucharest - Dept. of Ancient History
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Epistolography, knowledge, and the Ancient World

Conference, University of Bucharest, October 3-4, 2025 (hybrid) 

CFP deadline: February 28, 2025

 

“Transcultural Linguistic, Literary & Cultural Aspects of the Indian Knowledge System (IKS)”

updated: 
Friday, January 24, 2025 - 2:50am
Centre for Foreign Languages, Bankura University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Two-Day International Conclave (in Blended Mode)
                                 on

 “Transcultural Linguistic, Literary & Cultural Aspects of the Indian Knowledge System (IKS)” [15-16 February, 2025]

 Organized by Centre for Foreign Languages, Bankura University

ReStaging 25

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 11:05am
The Northern School of Art, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 21, 2025

CFP: “If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once having felt crushingly depressed, then you probably haven’t been paying attention” – The Representation of Mental Health in Theatre & Performance

Keynote: Robert Icke

The organizers invite proposals for 15-minute papers to be presented at the first Re-Staging conference. Hosted by staff aligned to the Stage & Screen Faculty of The Northern School of Art, this event will take place in person on Friday 11th April 2025. The theme for this year’s conference will explore the representation of mental health in theatre & performance.

The CFP will broadly look at three key strands:

Taylor Evermore: A Swift Symposium

updated: 
Thursday, January 16, 2025 - 12:52pm
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 2, 2025

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEB. 2, 2025

Proposals for conference papers are now being accepted for "Taylor Evermore: A Swift Symposium," held in person at Indiana University of Pennsylvania on April 25-26, 2025. 

The Function of Beauty: A Transdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Saturday, January 11, 2025 - 4:46am
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

The Function of Beauty: A Transdisciplinary Conference

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”

— Khalil Gibran

Conference Dates: April 24-25, 2025
Location:

Day 1-Pembroke Lodge (Richmond Park, London) / Online (Hybrid Format)

Day 2- Online only
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 1, 2025
Cost: 180 GBP (in person)
100 GBP (Online)

 

Hopkins as Classicist: A Special Issue of The Hopkins Quarterly

updated: 
Friday, January 10, 2025 - 7:45am
Hopkins Quarterly
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 14, 2025

Call for Papers: Hopkins as Classicist 

A Special Issue of The Hopkins Quarterly 

The ‘difficulties’ of the old Greek philosophers, Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote, ‘cannot be pooh-poohed: some perhaps are really resolved, but generally they exist still’.

This special issue of the Hopkins Quarterly seeks to understand the invigorating influence of classical thought on Hopkins’ intellectual life. 

The Feminine and the Folkloresque

updated: 
Monday, January 6, 2025 - 5:56pm
Caitlyn Harris and Dr. Christopher Flavin
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

In a significant portion of feminist criticism in its populist interpretation, there is an ongoing sense of wanting to shape feminine characters from legends, folklore, and history into models for a kind of feminism and perceived empowerment more closely associated with twenty-first-century understandings of the feminine than those directly connected to social, historical, or cultural sources. This backcasting and interpretation changes these characters into ones that would better suit a modern set of beliefs through syncretism and the creation not of folkloric or cultural beliefs but of a folkloresque sense of the subject.

The Sea and the World

updated: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 8:52pm
Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 9, 2025

The Sea and the World

 

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS - Retelling and Representation in the Ramakatha Tradition: Critical Perspectives [ISBN: 978-81-952119-4-4]

updated: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 8:48pm
Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Retelling and Representation in the Ramakatha Tradition: Critical Perspectives
[ISBN: 978-81-952119-4-4]

Editor: Dr. Pallavi Mishra, Assistant Professor of English, SDM Govt PG College, Doiwala, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Manuscripts in MS Word (4,000–8,000 words) adhering to MLA 9th edition formatting guidelines should be sent to pallavi.engdhe@gmail.com by 31 December 2024.

Stoicism in U.S. Literature and Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:21am
American Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

CFP for Special Session Panel

American Literature Association Conference

May 21-24, 2025

Boston, Massachusetts

 

Interest in the philosophical ideas of the Greek and Roman Stoics has burgeoned over the

past three decades, and Stoicism is experiencing a fascinating resurgence into various

facets of U.S. literature and culture. Although this popularity across diverse groups of

readers seems new, Stoicism has had a long if changeable history in the U.S.—from the

Puritan colonial settlers (who brought Stoic texts with them across the Atlantic) and

The reception of Greek myths about nature and the living world Texts and images (14th-16th centuries)

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:16am
University of Caen Normandy
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025

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/

Athletes Breaking Bad Too

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 3:48am
Book chapter
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Call for Chapter ProposalsAthletes Breaking Bad Tooan edited collection of scholarly analyses In sports, the action on the field is only part of the story. Beyond scores and stats, we find powerful narratives that make athletes into icons, rebels, or even villains. Every era sees certain athletes defy social norms, ruffle feathers, and challenge the status quo—figures often branded as "bad boys/girls." This label is more than just a headline; it’s a reflection of shifting cultural values as it speaks to what a sport and society deem acceptable—or unforgivable.

Mythology In Contemporary Culture

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 11:17pm
Popular Culture Assocation
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Mythology in Contemporary Culture 

at the 

Annual Conference of the 

 Popular Culture Association

 New Orleans Marriott April 1-19, 2024 

Call for Papers

 

Reading Nothing Across Literatures: A Handbook

updated: 
Monday, October 14, 2024 - 4:49pm
Vernon Press (Tentative)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

READING NOTHING ACROSS LITERATURES: A HANDBOOK

“No friend is He who to his friend and comrade who comes imploring food, will offer nothing.” (Rig Veda CXVII)

“Did you rise to the crisis? Not a word, you and your birds, your gods – nothing.” (Oedipus the King)

Nothing will come of Nothing. Speak again.” (King Lear 1.1)

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE -- Art and Imagination: Philosophical Issues

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 6:44am
Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (JCLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Call for Papers

Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics

SPECIAL ISSUE – Art and Imagination: Philosophical Issues

Though some have dismissed the imagination as “the junkyard of the mind,” just about all artists will vouch for the fact that the imagination is not just essential but also central to the arts. This is true not only of the creation or production of artworks, it is the case also when it comes to the reception or experience of art.

Classical Queers Here and Now: Mythmaking in the 21st Century

updated: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 12:22pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Literary works, video games, comics, TV shows, films, and podcasts that adapt or retell Classical mythology remain popular. Yet, recent attention on these contemporary stories has focused largely on women and women’s perspectives, while Classical queer identities have been decidedly underexplored or even excluded from feminist scholarship. Works such as Xena: Warrior Princess, BBC/Netflix’s Troy: Fall of a City, Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles, Steven Sherrill’s The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, and Supergiant Games’ Hades and Hades II demonstrate a sustained interest in centering queer bodies and voices within the Classical tradition.

INSAP 2025: Celestial Connections Across Time and Space

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:34am
The Conferences on The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Call for Papers: INSAP XIII: Celestial Connections Across Time and Space(Queen’s University Belfast, 8-13 June 2025)

 

We are delighted to announce a call for papers for the INSAP XIII conference Celestial Connections Across Time and Space. This conference aims to bring together scholars, artists, and scientists from various disciplines to explore the multifaceted relationships between the skies - be it the stars, planets, or other celestial phenomena - and their influence across cultures, histories, and fields of study. INSAP’s purpose from its inception has been to foster a dialogue that bridges the gap between the sciences and the arts, encouraging a holistic understanding of the universe.

 

Literary Druid - Regular Issue October 2024

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:34am
Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.

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