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East and Southeast Asia in Global Literary Studies (RSA Roundtable)

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:56pm
Rhema Hokama and Mihoko Suzuki / Renaissance Society of America sponsored session for English Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

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).

The Asia-Pacific World in English and Global Literary History (RSA Panel Session)

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:56pm
Rhema Hokama / Renaissance Society of America sponsored session for English Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Organizer: Rhema Hokama (University of Washington) and Yangyou Fang (Princeton)

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).

Intersectionality, Immigration, and the Humanities in Contemporary Discourses and Narratives

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:56pm
CERSHO, Mohammed I University, Oujda
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 10, 2025

In these turbulent times of global conflict and wars, and with the world witnessing human rights violations, scholars and individuals alike are grappling with the evolving definitions of fundamental issues such as human rights, international law, justice, and community peaceful coexistence. The crises challenge long-held assumptions on the so- called post-colonialist discourses, neocolonialism, systemic oppression, and cultural conflict, especially in transnational and diasporic encounters. Images of destruction and the continuous lurking waves of international sociopolitical plights inflicting the world raise urgent ethical questions that call upon the humanities to critically engage with these contemporary struggles of the human experience.

Nineteenth-Century Gothic Spiritualisms: Looking Under the Table

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:56pm
Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 30, 2025

In 1892, the satirical magazine Moonshine published “The Commission on Ghosts,” a mock-article recounting the “first sitting” of the Society for General Psychology’s Royal Commission on spirits. Those present are “The Chairman, the Editor of Light, Mrs. Annie Besant, Miss Florence Marryat, Mr. W. Eglinton, Mr. Dawson Rogers, Mr. C. N. Williamson, and Mr. W. T. Stead” (315). Each member was a public supporter/purveyor of spiritualist belief at the fin de siècle.

Electricdreams - Between Fiction and Society IV - VISIONS OF CONTROL: POWER AND TECHNOLOGY IN SPECULATIVE FICTION

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:56pm
IULM
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

 

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. 

Poetry and Poetry Studies at MAPACA

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:49pm
Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Poetry & Poetry Studies at MAPACA 2025

 

November 6-8, 2025

Philadelphia, PA

 

The Poetry and Poetry Studies area at the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) seeks creative and critical proposals for this year’s annual conference.

 

Follow the Money: Economic Concerns in Early Modern English Texts

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:41pm
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries markets expanded globally, transactions increased, and the circulation of capital accelerated. This new situation, that created an unprecedented concern with the nature of money (in different forms: bullion, coins, bills of payment, and promissory notes) and with economic concepts (inflation, interest, usury), made its way into all sorts of literary texts and cultural artefacts: plays, poems, pamphlets, or emblems, among others. People started to suspect that money, commercial exchanges, and economic transactions at large were becoming mysteriously free from bedrock referents (fixed value, fair prices) in order to be subjected to uncertain and fluctuating social rituals and conventions.

Feminisms Panel at PAMLA 2025 in San Francisco

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:41pm
Sarita Cannon/Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

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).

MORE PRIDE, LESS PREJUDICE: JANE AUSTEN AT 250

updated: 
Monday, May 12, 2025 - 9:11am
CETAPS / University of Porto
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 16, 2025

 

MORE PRIDE, LESS PREJUDICE: JANE AUSTEN AT 250

Faculty of Arts and Humanities I University of Porto

2-3 October 2025

 

Keynote Speakers

Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford) 

John Mullan (University College London)

 

Marginal Voices on Stage: Documenting Dalit and Tribal Performance Traditions in South Asia

updated: 
Sunday, May 11, 2025 - 1:56pm
Dr. Shubhendu Shekhar Naskar & Dr. Auritra Munshi
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025

Call For Book Chapters

Marginal Voices on Stage: Documenting Dalit and Tribal Performance Traditions in South Asia

Editors:

 Dr. Shubhendu Shekhar Naskar, Assistant Professor, Department of English Literature, Language and Cultural Studies, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal

Dr. Auritra Munshi, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Raiganj University, West Bengal

Concept Note:

Call for Papers: Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre *Deadline: 31 July 2025*

updated: 
Sunday, May 11, 2025 - 12:49am
Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

We invite submissions for the sixth issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in September. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography, ERIH Plus, DOAJ, and Gale Cengage.

* Deadline is the end of July but we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.

* Original works, not published elsewhere or related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication.

* Please note that all manuscripts will be closely examined through Turnitin once they are received by the journal.

(CFP: PAMLA 2025) Animal Studies

updated: 
Saturday, May 10, 2025 - 9:07pm
Toshiaki Komura / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

The 122nd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA 2025) will be held at InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference will begin on Thursday, November 20, and continue through November 23, 2025.

Call for chapters (Art volume in the series Oceans, Seas and Shorelines)

updated: 
Friday, May 9, 2025 - 3:12pm
Amin Heidari
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Please note that this call has expired! Thank you! 

 

This is a limited and urgent call for chapters in the Art Volume (part of the Routledge series Oceans, Seas, and Shorelines: Cultural, Environmental, and Natural Histories). Since some of the previous contributors were unable to complete their manuscripts, I am reaching out to those of you who have a fitting concept for a chapter within the already themed structure of the book and are able to complete the chapter by June 30. The volume is currently under contract with Routledge.

In the words of the series editors:

Mapping Body Space Continuum in Urbanscapes

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Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 1:49am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Space is not defined objectively, but in relation to bodies, as it is a manifestation of their needs, intentions, and desires. It is not a container in which objects exist but is intertwined with the body’s orientation in the world and its movements within the space. Human body, therefore, is at the centre of all spaces, which are more than a geometrical concept in abstraction. Individual bodies apprehend and appropriate space differently and give meaning to embedded systems and institutions through established and evolving associations. Any assumption of personalised space, whether private or public, is embedded with historical, cultural, and social meanings which help curate embodied experiences.

Lectures from the Underground: Rethinking “Education” in the Long C19

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Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:58pm
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

Drawing on the theme “Underground,” this proposed panel considers the hidden, unearthed role of nineteenth-century forms of education. We think of education broadly here, including textbooks, expositions, World’s Fairs, newspapers, public history, and other print and material culture with didactic purpose. The panel will consider how these forms of education challenge or uphold prevailing nineteenth-century historiographies, as well as how they engage with counternarratives, reveal buried histories, reshape public memory, or critically construct belonging.

 

Medieval Times in Early Modern Texts

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:57pm
SAS Institute of History and the Scientiae
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Medieval Times in Early Modern Texts

Tuesday, April 8, 2025  

 

The Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the international research group Scientiae are pleased to invite you to participate in the conference:

Medieval Times in Early Modern Texts

that will take place on 3–5 December 2025 in Bratislava, Slovakia.

THE CULTURE OF ATTRACTIONS: PAST AND PRESENT International Scholarly Conference 10–12 September 2025

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:57pm
Nicolaus Copernicus Univeristy in Torun
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 4, 2025

THE CULTURE OF ATTRACTIONS: PAST AND PRESENT

International Scholarly Conference

10–12 September 2025

Faculty of Humanities, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń,

Collegium Maius, Fosa Staromiejska 3, Toruń, Poland

We cordially invite scholars specializing in various disciplines such as cultural studies, cultural

anthropology, theatre and performance studies, film and media studies, and related disciplines, to

participate in an international, transdisciplinary research conference. This conference, organized by the

Research Group on Performance Studies and Drama Translation at Nicolaus Copernicus University

Art, Architecture, and Culture of Odisha: Bridging Traditions and Global Narratives

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:57pm
S.C.S. (A) COLLEGE
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

 

National Seminar

on
"Art, Architecture, and Culture of Odisha: Bridging Traditions and Global Narratives"

18th and 19th September, 2025

Organised By 

POST GRADUATE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, 

S.C.S. AUTONOMOUS COLLEGE, PURI, ODISHA, INDIA

(Call For Book Chapters) In Living Color: Exploring the Complexities of Colorism in the Twenty-First Century

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:57pm
Amir Gilmore
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

In Living Color:

 Exploring the Complexities of Colorism in the Twenty-First Century

Under Contract with Bloomsbury Publishing

 

Edited by

Amir A. Gilmore, Washington State University

Vikki Carpenter, Heritage University

 

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, the question as to how far differences of race-which show themselves chiefly in the color of the skin and the texture of the hair

Virtual Crime and Detection

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:56pm
Virtual Crime and Detection, a special issue of Crime Fiction Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

CFP: Virtual Crime and Detection

Multi-Ethnic Queer Literature & Culture

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:56pm
PAMLA 2025 - San Francisco
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

122nd PAMLA ConferenceThursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23, 2025San Francisco, California  |  InterContinental Hotel San Francisco

 

Call for Book Chapters: “Matrilineal Family Saga Beyond Western Modernity”

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:55pm
Dr. Amany Alseify ; Dr. Yesmina Khedhir
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Call for Book Chapters: “Matrilineal Family Saga Beyond Western Modernity”

We are excited to invite researchers, writers, and practitioners to contribute a chapter to an upcoming book entitled Matrilineal Family Saga Beyond Western Modernity. This interdisciplinary collection aims to explore diverse perspectives on matrilineal family structures across cultures, examining how they challenge and expand beyond the frameworks of secular Western modernity.

Focus and Themes

Accessibility and Difficulty in Feminist Modernist Studies

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:51pm
Karen Weingarten
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

We invite proposals for short articles to complete a cluster on “Accessibility in Feminist Modernist Studies.” The papers in this cluster will consider how feminist methods and considerations of structural access help us understand and re-examine the concept of “modernist difficulty.”

Call for Papers: Research in Contemporary World Literature

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:51pm
University of Tehran
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Call for Papers

Journal of Research in Contemporary World Literature

(Indexed in Scopus, ISC, and SJR | Published by the University of Tehran)

 

Scope: Cutting-Edge Research in World Literature (Post-1945)

Publication Date: autumn-winter 2025-2026

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025

 

The Journal of Research in Contemporary World Literature invites scholarly contributions for its forthcoming autumn-winter 2025-2026 issue, devoted to pioneering research on global literary production after 1945. As of autumn 2025, the journal now accepts submissions in both Persian and English, reflecting its commitment to multilingual and cross-cultural engagement.

Hitchcock's America; PAMLA (November 20-23, 2025)

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:50pm
Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

The 122nd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in San Francisco at the InterContinental Hotel San Francisco, from Thursday, November 20, to Sunday, November 23, 2025. 

 

Hitchcock's America 

 

Exploring The Murderbot Diaries; PAMLA (Nov. 20-23, 2025)

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:50pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

The 122nd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) will be held from Thursday, November 20, to Sunday, November 23, 2025, at the InterContinental Hotel, San Francisco, California.

Exploring The Murderbot Diaries:

Since the publication of All Systems Red in 2017, Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series has come to include seven books, three related short stories, and an upcoming Apple TV+ adaptation starring Alexander Skarsgard. The series has won four Hugo Awards, two Nebulas, and four Locus Awards, with Wells often turning down subsequent award nominations.

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