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Horror Studies Now (29-30 May 2025, Northumbria University, UK)

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Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:15pm
Horror Studies Research Group, Northumbria University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

Horror Studies Now: A Two-Day Conference (29-30 May 2025, Northumbria University, UK)

Researchers working in the broad field of “Horror Studies”, are invited to submit abstracts about their research for an in-person conference, hosted by the Horror Studies Research Group at Northumbria University (https://research.northumbria.ac.uk/horrorstudies), on 29-30 May 2025.

Neo-Victorian Criminalities, Detection, and Punishment

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Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:15pm
University of Wolverhampton
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

CFP Neo-Victorian Criminalities, Detection, and Punishment

University of Wolverhampton, 23rd-24th June 2025

Keynote speakers: Professor Claire Nally, Lee Jackson, and Nat Reeve

Organisers: Dr Helen Davies, University of Wolverhampton, and Dr Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz, University of Malaga

ATHE - Religion and Theater

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:14pm
Association for Theater in Higher Education
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 11, 2025

Call For Papers
Religion & Theatre Focus Group – Emerging Scholars Panel
Association for Theater in Higher Education (ATHE) 2025 Conference
This years conference is virtual
July 28 – Aug. 1, 2025 General Conference
The ATHE Religion and Theatre Focus group invites current graduate students and/or independent scholars who have not presented at a major national conference to submit papers for the 2025 Emerging Scholars Panel.
The 2025 Conference Theme:
The Real
The binary opposition between “real” and “virtual” is ever more outdated and unnecessary. Theatre and performance has always been both real and representation. ATHE 2025: The Real invites us to consider the real effects of a virtual conference.

L.M. Montgomery and Change

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:14pm
L.M. Montgomery Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

The L.M. Montgomery Institute’s 17th Biennial International Conference
University of Prince Edward Island,
24-28 June 2026

“It seemed to open such dizzying possibilities of change.” — L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“All she really wanted, or seemed to want, was to…see that as few changes as possible came into existence there.”— L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“Is it really the same world I saw then that I see now? It seems so very different.” — L.M. Montgomery, Selected Journals vol. I

“The only constant in life is change.” —Heraclitus

 

Crises of the Self, Selves in Crisis: Personal, Collective, and Planetary Narratives across Forms

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Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:13pm
Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 21, 2025

The intersection between crises and selves has long been a fertile ground across literary and artistic explorations. This CFP invites papers that examine how individual and collective crises—ranging from pandemics, ecological disasters, and political upheavals to personal and generational trauma—have shaped the articulation of selfhood across literature, film, visual art, and other media. Through this topic, we urge scholars to explore how various identity positions and orientations interact with crises to produce unique modes of writing the self. 

Books That Teach Us About Character - Free Literary Conference

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Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:11pm
LitFest in the Dena 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

What can books teach us about character? The people in literary works face moral dilemmas—choosing between personal gain and doing the right thing, whatever the consequences. Fictional heroes often explore the boundaries of character, asking us which traits we deem noble. The same choices and internal struggles appear in nonfiction works such as biographies or histories, deepened by the impact of character on the real world. Looking at character in books helps us stay true to our values, even in the most threatening of circumstances. By immersing ourselves in the stories of others—be they true or imagined—we develop a stronger moral compass and a deeper understanding of how to live with character.

African and African Americans and Labor

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Thursday, January 30, 2025 - 9:36pm
Morgan State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

In commemoration of the centennial of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids (1925-2025), led by labor organizer and civil rights activist A. Phillip Randolph, Morgan State University, the Benjamin A. Quarles Humanities and Social Science Institute, the Department of English and Language Arts, The James H. Gilliam, Jr. College of Liberal Arts, and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGST) Program proudly announce the second one-day WGST Graduate Symposium (WGST-GS). This symposium will take place at The National Treasure, Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 3, 2025, from 8 a.m. – 7 p.m.

"Postmemory and the Contemporary World" 6th International Interdisciplinary Conference

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Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - 12:55pm
InMind Support
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 7, 2025

Conference online: 27-28 February 2025

​CFP: 

Coined by Marianne Hirsch in the 1990s, the term postmemory by now entered various disciplines who search to understand how memory form our identity and how we position, articulate or just make sense of our place in the society and our relations with it. The term postmemory problematizes the concept of memory by bringing attention to the memories that are not exactly personal but that keep on shaping one’s life and one’s  way of seeing the world.

Graduate Conference at JHU: Unraveling the Archive

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Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - 11:48am
Johns Hopkins University Spanish & Portuguese Graduate Students
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 10, 2025

Archives are valuable sites of memory and knowledge, as well as sites of violence and power. In a hyper-saturated world of post-truth and fake news, archives provide a powerful tool to understand the past, interpret the present and imagine better futures. Following Walter Benjamin’s saying, scholars have a responsibility to “brush history against the grain” when delving into archival documents, to find what is absent or hidden and make it speak again. This conference presents scholars with the opportunity to explore various questions that arise when facing archives as dynamic sites of memory: How do we challenge and deal with archives as sites of power? How can queer and marginal subjects be found or salvaged in archives that erase their presence?

33rd Annual Sachsman Symposium on the 19th Century Press

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Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 3:46pm
Society of 19th Century Historians
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 25, 2025

Call for Papers: 33rd Annual Sachsman Symposium on the 19th Century Press

November 13-15, 2025 • Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia

The Society of Nineteenth Century Historians, in partnership with the Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Augusta University, presents the 33rd Annual Sachsman Symposium on the 19th Century Press, formerly known as the Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression.

American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) Annual Conference 14-18 May, Honolulu, Hawai`i

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Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 3:46pm
American Association of Australasian Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 22, 2025

The American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) invites paper proposals for its 2025 Annual Conference, to be held in Honolulu, Hawai`i from 14–18 May 2025. We invite papers addressing any aspect of literature, film, and other cultural narratives of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.

In light of this year’s conference location, we are also inviting papers on literature, film, and cultural narratives of the Pacific Islands. We are especially interested in papers examining transnational or oceanic intersections of literatures and cultures, as well as papers on Aboriginal, Māori, or other Indigenous topics.

CFP: A special issue of Shakespeare on the theme “Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton”

updated: 
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 8:17am
William David Green, University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

In a book chapter published in 2015, Professor Emma Smith reflected that while “only the writing partnership with John Fletcher at the end of Shakespeare’s career is known to have lasted beyond a single play ... [Thomas] Middleton may yet emerge as a more significant collaborator. In addition, Middleton’s own plays show him to be a creative and responsive early reader and reviser of the older playwright’s work” (297).

Tenth International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference, 10/17-18, 2025

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Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 8:15am
University of Central Oklahoma
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 18, 2025

The International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference is presented by the Women’s Research Center and the BGLTQ+ Student Center at the University of Central Oklahoma with assistance from the UCO chapter of the National Organization for Women. In tandem, these organizations promote engagement with Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies issues.

Journal of Languages, Texts and Society

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Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 8:15am
Journal of Languages, Texts and Society (University of Nottingham)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

The Journal of Languages, Texts and Society welcomes, on an ongoing basis, proposals for:

PHILOSOPHY AND ITS FORM -- Graduate Student Conference--DEADLINE EXTENDED

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Monday, January 27, 2025 - 1:03pm
Duquesne University Graduate Students in Philosophy
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

Philosophy and its Form

Throughout its history, philosophy has appeared in myriad forms: Plato’s dialogues; Montaigne’s Essais; Nietzsche’s aphorisms; Rosa Luxemburg’s Public Lectures; Simone de Beauvoir’s journalism, travelogs, and novels; Aimé Césaire’s dramas; and Fred Moten’s poetry collections. This is before we recognize the variety of styles employed by philosophers within more traditional essay forms: Benjamin’s critical biographies of Baudelaire, Deleuze’s Plateaus, and W. E. B. DuBois’ interpolation of musical passages in The Souls of Black Folk.

Book Series in British Romanticism

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Sunday, January 26, 2025 - 5:38pm
Ben P. Robertson / Troy University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Book proposals are invited for a series called Gender and Culture in the Romantic Era, published by Anthem Press (http://www.anthempress.com/). Gender and Culture in the Romantic Era is a series of scholarly monographs and edited collections devoted to the topics of gender and culture in British poetry, fiction, and drama from roughly 1780 to 1830. In terms of gender, the series encompasses scholarship related to the lives and works of women writers but also includes studies that address broader constructions of gender identity and sexuality.

Women’s Scientific Literatures: The Poetry and Poetics of Early Modern Natural Philosophy

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Sunday, January 26, 2025 - 5:37pm
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 3, 2025

26–27th June 2025, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

The international AHRC/DFG research consortium, Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (https://scientificpoetry.org/: Anglia Ruskin University; University of Bayreuth; University of Marburg; University of York), invite proposals for their second conference.

Plenary speakers
• Danielle Clarke (University College Dublin)
• Helena Taylor (University of Exeter)

MLA Special Session Women and Physical Objects

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Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:32am
2026 MLA Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

2026 MLA Convention in Toronto, Canada, January 8-11, 2026

Special Session Title: Women and Physical Objects

We invite proposals exploring women’s encounters and interactions with physical objects in all literary and cultural products across history and regions. Comparative, interdisciplinary, and transnational approaches are welcome.

Email your 250-word proposal and a 150-word cv to Haihong Yang, hyang@udel.edu and Wanming Wang, wanming.wang@mail.mcgill.ca, by 3/15.

Deadline for submission: March 15, 2025.

Science and Society in the Age of Revolutions

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:32am
American Philosophical Society - Science History Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 3, 2025

As the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence drives increased interest in the founding of the United States, this conference, co-hosted by the American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum and the Science History Institute aims to widen the scope of such conversations. Inspired in part by the APS’s 2025 exhibition, Philadelphia: The Revolutionary City and “America’s Scientific Revolutionaries,” a multiyear project funded by the Lounsbery Foundation we invite proposals from scholars from all disciplines whose research illuminates the intersections of science and society in the Atlantic World between 1764 and 1804. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

Symphonies of Imagination - Issue #4 - Education - Print

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:31am
Symphonies of Imagination
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 6, 2025

The issue’s topic revolves around Education and will challenge our anthropogenic philosophies.

It will be an exploration into what education actually means and what alternative philosophies could replace the current, education is for getting a good job and becoming a productive worker, expanding the economy, to something more holistic, more socially beneficial and more forward thinking.

All of this can be answered with fictional stories, philosophical papers, poems or personal essays.

The Anthropocene has a deficit of philosophy that looks at the world from a different point of view, instead of the one prescribed, centralised, accepted narrative.

Call For Papers - CFP

Migration Histories to Finland: Global Movements, Local Impacts

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Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:30am
Faravid – Journal for Historical and Archaeological Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Call For Papers

Special issue:        Faravid – Journal for Historical and Archaeological Studies

Publication date:    Spring 2026

Guest editors:        Moussa Pourya Asl, Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, and Johanna Leinonen

Language:              Finnish, English, German or Swedish

 

Migration Histories to Finland: Global Movements, Local Impacts

Shakespeare in Spirit

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:30am
Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

We are very pleased to announce that the 2025 Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association Conference will take place in person from Wednesday, 2 July to Friday, 4 July, hosted by the University of Queensland in its Queen Street campus in the Brisbane CBD (https://about.uq.edu.au/campuses-facilities/brisbane-city), conveniently located close to local hotels, cafes, and restaurants.

Keynote speakers will be Dennis Britton of the University of British Columbia, and Brandon Chua of the University of Hong Kong.

Reinventing the Western Literary Canon

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:30am
Postcolonial Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Reinventing the Western Literary Canon

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