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(Un)welcome Imaginaries: (Non-)Fiction Literature on Fundamental Rights

updated: 
Friday, January 10, 2025 - 3:36pm
Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Un)welcome Imaginaries: (Non-)Fiction Literature on Fundamental Rights

 

International Interdisciplinary Conference (online)

 

12-13th December 2025

 

Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland)

 

Call for papers

Latina/o/x Literature and Culture Society, ALA, Boston, MA, May 21-24, 2025

updated: 
Friday, January 10, 2025 - 7:44am
Latina/o/x Literature and Culture Society / American Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025

This year the Latina/o/x Literature & Culture Society welcomes submissions focusing on diverse topics including literary genre, single authors, children’s literature, speculative fiction, comparative analyses, as well as cultural studies approaches. The society also encourages a variety of theoretical and interdisciplinary prisms, and a variety of panel types, including traditional paper sessions, roundtable discussions, and sessions dedicated to the teaching of Latina/o/x literature and culture.

Special Issue of Open Screens - Teaching Video Games in the Humanities: New Media, New Pedagogies

updated: 
Friday, January 10, 2025 - 7:41am
Dr Iris Kleinecke-Bates (University of Hull) and Dr Marta F Suarez (Manchester Metropolitan University), UK
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

CFP: Special Issue of Open Screens - Teaching Video Games in the Humanities: New Media, New Pedagogies

 

Link: https://www.openscreensjournal.com/news/761/ 

 

Timeline:

  • CFP - Abstract deadline: 14th January 2025 
  • Deadline for reviews: 31st Jan 2025
  • Article deadline: 30th September 2025
  • Issue release: early 2026

 

[redacted] for ASA 2025

updated: 
Friday, January 10, 2025 - 7:39am
Roundtable for American Studies Assoc. Conference 11/2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 20, 2025

This roundtable responds to and anticipates the tactics of banning, censure, prohibition, and redaction deployed by conservative institutions of late. From the erasure of gender neutral pronouns by Argentine fascists to the elimination of "Latinx" by state officials in Arkansas, from the outlaw of DEI offices by the incoming Trump regime to Rodrigo Duterte’s genocidal “war on drugs” in the Philippines, it is clear that the right-wing believes deleting a signifier also deletes its referent.

Revisioning Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Casebook on David Lowery's The Green Knight.

updated: 
Friday, January 10, 2025 - 7:38am
Melissa Crofton/Florida Tech
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

For close to nine hundred years, Gawain has been a favorite hero in Arthurian myth, especially when it comes to his appearance in the late fourteenth-century chivalric romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. While scholarship on the poem continues to expand in many fascinating ways, David Lowery’s 2021 adaptation, The Green Knight, has changed the way scholars can approach and teach the medieval poem. The editors of this book proposal seek essays that explore some of the compelling changes Lowery makes to the base text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and what we can learn about the importance—or dangers—of retelling popular stories in new and inventive ways.

 

Life Writing and Social Transformation

updated: 
Friday, January 10, 2025 - 7:37am
International Auto/Biography Associate--Europe
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Call for Papers
 
IABA European Conference
Life Writing, and Social Transformation 
July 23 to 26, 2025
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra
 
Call for papers until 15 January 2025
 
We are pleased to announce that the next IABA Europe Conference will be held at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra in partnership with the Centre for Social Studies, 23-26 July 2025. We invite proposals for individual papers or panels of 3-4 papers as well as round-table suggestions on the theme of the Conference: “Life Writing and Social Transformation”.
 

ROUTLEDGE BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus

updated: 
Thursday, January 9, 2025 - 2:57am
ROUTLEDGE, Taylor & Francis, Informa, Informa UK Limited
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 31, 2026

BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus (Routledge, Global Edition) 

Series Editors: Goutam Karmakar, Puspa Damai, Payel Pal, and Deimantas Valančiūnas

The Problem of Social Justice: Global Perspectives and Personal Narratives

updated: 
Tuesday, January 7, 2025 - 11:24pm
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Social justice is the virtue which guides us in creating those organized human interactions we call institutions. In turn, social institutions, when justly organized, provide us with access to what is good for the person, both individually and in our associations with others. Social justice also imposes on each of us a personal responsibility to work with others to design and continually perfect our institutions as tools for personal and social development.

–             The Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ), Washington, D.C., USA

Homonationalism, Imperial “Harm-Reduction,” and Pinkwashing Zionism

updated: 
Monday, January 6, 2025 - 3:12pm
American Studies Association 2025 Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 20, 2025

American Studies Association 2025

November 20-23, 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Session Proposal Call for Participants

 

Homonationalism, Imperial “Harm-Reduction,” and Pinkwashing Zionism

 

Recasting American Literature through the Federal Writers’ Project

updated: 
Monday, January 6, 2025 - 3:12pm
JJ Butts and Sara Rutkowski
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 17, 2025

CFP: 

We are seeking participants for a roundtable for the American Literature Association’s 2025 Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, May 21-24, 2025. This roundtable aims to further our understanding of the Federal Writers’ Project’s (FWP) literary legacy. 

 

Recasting American Literature through the Federal Writers’ Project

updated: 
Monday, January 6, 2025 - 3:12pm
JJ Butts and Sara Rutkowski
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 17, 2025

CFP: 

We are seeking participants for a roundtable for the American Literature Association’s 2025 Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, May 21-24, 2025. This roundtable aims to further our understanding of the Federal Writers’ Project’s (FWP) literary legacy. 

 

American Experimental Fiction

updated: 
Friday, January 3, 2025 - 2:16pm
Jonathan Bayliss Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025

The Jonathan Bayliss Society invites proposals for a roundtable on American experimental fiction. Beginning at least as early as Moby-Dick, American experimental fiction flourishes in the work of Stein, Burroughs, Pynchon, Gass, and Bayliss, and continues today with such writers as Giannina Braschi, Karen Russell, Colson Whitehead, Lance Olsen, and Mark Danielewski. Such writers disrupt conventions of genre, style, syntax, diction, propriety, narrative form, page layout, and much more. We are interested in papers devoted to particular works or authors as well as more wide-ranging or theoretical approaches to the topic.

CFP: "Celebrating Indigenous Resilience" (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, April 5, 2025)

updated: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 8:54pm
Humanities Center at Texas Tech
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 14, 2025

The Humanities Center at Texas Tech Annual Conference 2025:

“Celebrating Indigenous Resilience”

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

April 5, 2025

 

Keynote Speaker:

David Treuer,

National Book Award Finalist,

Author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee:

Native America from 1890 to the Present

Professor of English, University of Southern California

Readers Needed for "Author Meets Readers" Roundtable

updated: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 8:51pm
American Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Readers Needed for “Author Meets Readers” Roundtable

 

American Studies Association Conference

November 20th-23rd

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 

Email me if you’re interested in discussing my forthcoming book, That Book is Dangerous!: How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing. It will be published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press and distributed by Penguin Random House on August 12th, 2025. I will send you an advance reader copy in March. 

 

Please email me by January 31st  if you’re interested.

INIRE 2025: “Abrahamic Religions and Religious Others”

updated: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 8:47pm
International Network for Interreligious Research and Education
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 20, 2025

“Abrahamic Religions and Religious Others”  - Call for Papers

International Network for Interreligious Research and Education |
Date:  July 21–25, 2024
Location: Katholische Akademie Berlin

Latinx Fandoms: Seeking Submissions

updated: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 8:38pm
Frederick Luis Aldama / UT Austin
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

Latinx Fandoms

Editor: Frederick Luis Aldama

Despite the recent boom in fan studies scholarship—a field that has traditionally provided space for those deemed academically undisciplined—significant gaps remain in our understanding of the cultural impact of Latinx fan communities and scenes. With Latinx Fandoms I hope to address this by bringing together the work of extraordinary scholars to highlight Latinx practices, knowledges, and cultural innovations as fans, fandoms, and collective shapers of scenes.

Call for additional contributions to volume Interdisciplinary Approaches to British Chinese Cultures: History, Representation, Diversity

updated: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 8:35pm
TU Dresden
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Call for additional contributions to volume

Interdisciplinary Approaches to British Chinese Cultures: 

History, Representation, Diversity 

(under contract with Palgrave Macmillan)

 

Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2025

First drafts: 31 March 2025

Submission of manuscript: 1 July 2025

 

National Cinemas of Agriculture (Panel at ASLE 2025)

updated: 
Monday, December 23, 2024 - 10:36pm
Stacey Baran / University of California, Davis
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 3, 2025

ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025

University of Maryland, College Park

Panel: National Cinemas of Agriculture

This proposed panel at ASLE 2025 seeks proposals that explore the ideal of national cinema in the global landscape, with specific emphasis on the cinematic representations of agriculture, rural life, and their connections to (post)colonial and Indigenous foodways.

International Seminar on Indigenous Studies

updated: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024 - 4:27pm
Dr. Amitayu Chakraborty, Durgapur Women's College
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 2, 2025

Call for Papers
International Seminar on Indigenous Studies: Envisioning Janjatiya Gaurav
Theme: The Legacy of Birsa Munda and the Decolonisation of ‘Global’ Indigenous Studies
Date: March 26-27, 2025 (tentative)
Venue: Durgapur Women’s College, Durgapur, West Bengal, India

Event URL: https://durgapurwomenscollege.ac.in/seminars/

Papers can be presented online/in-person

Expression of Interest to Present Paper/Participate:

Sharks in the Korean Wave: Race and Inequality in South Korea's Pop Culture

updated: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024 - 4:22pm
Chinyere Osuji
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Papers for an edited volume on how Korean dramas and other forms of Korean popular culture reflect, reproduce, and challenge social inequities. We are particularly interested in South Korea’s use of ethnic and racial others in its media with a particular focus on Blackness, Islam, and immigration as well as class/capitalism, gender, and sexualities. Intersectional approaches appreciated.

"Existence Precedes Essence": (Post)Colonial Reconciliations

updated: 
Friday, December 6, 2024 - 2:50pm
International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) - In-person, Seoul, Korea, 28th July 2025 - 1st August 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

In the Humanities, notions of coloniality and postcoloniality are usually entangled with nation states that are, by nature, multilingual and multicultural. The societies of each of these nations are further stratified based on hierarchies of economic and social-political classifications. In other words, motivated and maintained by and through power and notions of telos, differences of race, sexuality, caste, and religion exist in differing ways. Literatures of these differences then occupy their space(s) under the larger category of ‘postcolonial literature(s)’.

Mosaic Outlooks: New Directions in Studies of Scottish Literature, Culture, and Society

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 9:40pm
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

 

Ex-position Feature Topic Call for Papers

Mosaic Outlooks: New Directions in Studies of Scottish Literature, Culture, and Society

Guest Editors: Kang-yen Chiu, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Shu-fang Lai, National Sun Yat-sen University

 

Publication Date: June 2026 (Issue No. 55)

Submission Deadline: October 31, 2025

 

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CFPs for Pauline Hopkins sessions at ALA 2025 Conference

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:17pm
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society will host two sessions at the upcoming ALA Conference in Boston, May 21-24, 2025. The PEHS is collaborating with the Research Society of American Periodicals (RSAP) on one of these two sessions. You can find the two CFPs below. Please consider submitting a proposal. The deadline is January 15, 2025. 

PEHS CFP One:

Call for Papers: The Identity Factor in Contemporary Wars and Violent Conflicts

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:03pm
International Center for Ethno-Religious Mediation (ICERMediation)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Conference Overview

The International Center for Ethno-Religious Mediation (ICERMediation) is pleased to announce the 10th Annual International Conference on Ethnic and Religious Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding. The 10th conference will explore the crucial role of identity in contemporary conflicts, emphasizing the importance of historical context, collective memory, and transformative learning in understanding and addressing these issues.

MLA 2026 (Toronto, Canada) Special Session: "Food Representation in the Hispanic World"

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Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:03pm
Jose Eduardo Villalobos Graillet, Idaho State University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Food transcends its role as sustenance, serving as a powerful lens through which to examine identity, memory, and power dynamics. From hunger-driven narratives to the celebratory and symbolic depictions of meals in contemporary cinema and television, food occupies a central place in Hispanic cultural productions. It can represent tradition and identity, critique societal norms, or even subvert power structures.

CFP: 2025 SSAWW Conference "Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW"

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:02pm
Society for the Study of American Women Writers
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

CFP: 2025 SSAWW Conference“Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW”November 6-9, 2025 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Marriott Old City

For the 2025 SSAWW Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, we invite proposals on the theme “Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures” as we commemorate twenty-five years of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers.

Haunted Modernities

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:02pm
Falmouth University, 16-18 July 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 17, 2025

This conference explores haunted modernities and spectral futures of all sorts. Looking back to the past as a haunted space and forward to the ‘spectres’ of the future, we want ‘Haunted Modernities’ to be indicative of wide open spaces and fruitful intersections in scholarship and practice. Whether work is hyper-local, global, or interstellar we welcome imaginative, creative, ethical, and diverse discussions from all disciplines and subject areas. As well as traditional papers, creative practice work is also invited in whatever form - written, film, audio, performance, exhibitions etc. 

 

Rhetoric Review Symposium on Emergency Archives: Investigating Rhetorical (Im)Possibility, Action, and the Impact of Precarious “Preservation” Under Crisis

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 11:58am
Kathryn Manis,Bibhushana Poudyal, Sumaiya Sarker Sharmin, and Patty Wilde
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 13, 2025

The ongoing—and now significantly escalated—genocide of Palestinian peoples by the Israeli government has been uniquely, painfully, and steadfastly documented and shared for far-flung viewers to instantaneously bear witness to atrocities that might otherwise remain unfathomable to the international community. Palestinian peoples have been recording their own intensified annihilation in a brave, painstaking, persistent, and not-always-intentional manner.

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