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From Experiences to Storytelling of Postmigration. Reinventing the Narratives of the Self and the World in Pluralistic European Societies

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:46pm
NarraMuse
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Developed and promoted by the German-speaking academic community, frequently mobilized by Anglophone and Scandinavian scholars, yet less used in Francophone and Italophone research, the concept of postmigration marks a significant shift in migration discourses. By dissolving the binary opposition between migrants and non-migrants, it allows immigration to be regarded as an intrinsic component of European societies. The conference “From Experiences to Storytelling of Postmigration” aligns with this ongoing epistemological and analytical transformation. It aims to explore how postmigration thinking is reshaping the narratives that can be written, spoken, or reconstructed from migration-related experiences.

A Duel Between Memories: Israel and Palestine

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:46pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

A Duel Between Memories: (Special Session) at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference 2025

Jewish Israelis and Palestinian Arabs have, through literature, songs, poetry, film, and other media, constructed two very different understandings of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict's history. This session invites papers that address any aspect of the role that literature and/or other media have played in creating, maintaining, and disseminating two distinct narratives. Proposals related to the conference theme of "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion" are preferred but not required.

Potential topics include:

NCS 2026: Languages Beyond Borders: Multilingual Contact Zones (Session 10)

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:09pm
Daniel Davies, Philip Knox, and Elizaveta Strakhov
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 27, 2025

This panel explores the movement and circulation of texts within multilingual contact zones, spaces that, through cultural exchange, commerce, and conflict, are defined by the presence of multiple languages. Multilingualism is often heralded as a feature of cosmopolitanism, defined against nationalist monolingualism, yet it can also be the product of forces including incipient capitalist mercantilism, imperialist conquest and colonization, and exile.

CFP – “CARIBBEAN METAMORPHOSIS”

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:47pm
liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

CFP – “CARIBBEAN METAMORPHOSIS”

liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 10, no. 2, Fall 2026 Guest edited by Christina León, C.C. McKee, Judith Rodriguez

Submissions due September 15, 2025

CFP Soapbox Journal for Cultural Analysis: Between Bodies and Homes

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:41pm
Soapbox: Journal for Cultural Analysis
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Soapbox 7.0: call for papers

Between Bodies and Homes

— peer reviewed; open to critical and artistic work; submission deadline: April 30; extended proposals —

 

CFP: CCNY Graduate English Conference: Through the Dark

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:37pm
The City College of New York
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 21, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

Annual City College of New York Graduate English Conference

 

Through the Dark

 

Conference Date: May 9th, 2025

Abstract Submission Deadline: April 18th, 2025

 

Palimpsests of the English Interregnum

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:03pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Palimpsests of the English Interregnum (Panel / In-Person)

Submit Abstract

Session Type: Special Session
Primary Area / Secondary Area: Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion / British and Anglophone
Presiding Officer(s): Shataparni Bhattacharya (Indiana University - Bloomington)
shabhat@iu.edu

Abstract

[Deadline Extended] Call for Papers: Edited Volume on Zadie Smith

updated: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 11:59am
Ataberk Çetinkaya / Middle East Technical University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

 

 

We are seeking chapter abstracts on Zadie Smith’s short stories, non-fictional prose, The Embassy of Cambodia and The Fraud to be added to the confirmed chapters of a collection of essays on Zadie Smith to be published by an international publisher. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words.

 

Contact mail: ataberkc@metu.edu.tr

(CFP: PAMLA 2025) Diaspora, Transnationalism, Transculturalism, and the Layered Self

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 2:30pm
Monique Attrux / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

The PAMLA 2025 Conference (its 122th one) will be held at the InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference runs from Thursday, November 20 until November 23, 2025. 

As part of PAMLA's 2025 theme “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” our special session entitled "Diaspora, Transnationalism, Transculturalism, and the Layered Self" invites scholars from diverse disciplines to consider the palimpsest as a symbolic metaphor for diasporic, transnational, and/or transcultural subjects. In light of troubling nationalisms, what might it mean to be a diasporic, transnational, and/or transcultural subject? What might it also mean to study texts and subjects that defy borders and neat categorizations?

ROUTLEDGE BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus

updated: 
Saturday, March 29, 2025 - 12:25am
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

MMLA-African American Literature Permanent Section

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:04am
Midwestern Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 24, 2025

The African American Literature Permanent Section of the Midwestern Modern Language Association (MMLA) is requesting abstracts from potential panelists for this year’s in-person conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Informed by this year’s conference theme, “The Humanities is Where Hope Lives,” this section is calling for scholarly work that ties literature written by Black Americans to concepts of hope and its relationship to artistic production. Potential questions to address include, but are in no way limited to: How have representations of hope in Black American literature shifted across the centuries? What do depictions of hope look like when it has been disrupted or challenged?

Do Animals Hope?

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:54am
Midwestern Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 14, 2025

MMLA 2025 Animal Studies Panel

“Do Animals Hope?” 

 

Although many books have been written on hope for non-human animals, their collective or individual survival, this session invites proposals on hope by non-human animals, or representations of such hope. Many different approaches are welcome—literary critical, ethnographic (human or animal), environmental studies, affect studies, thought experiments. Please submit a 1-2 page abstract to Lucinda Cole (lcol@illinois.edu) by April 14, 2025.

 

 

Virtual session

Reimagining Asian Diasporas With/in the Francophone World (PAMLA 2025 Special Session)

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:24am
Alan Yeh
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

 

We invite submissions for our panel “Reimagining Asian Diasporas With/in the Francophone World” to be held at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Annual Conference in San Francisco, November 20-23, 2025. Please see call below:

Reimagining Asian Diasporas With/in the Francophone World

The Boundaries of US Identity and the African American Experience

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:25am
REDEN journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Special thematic dossier 7.1 | The Boundaries of US Identity and the African American Experience

Editor: Beatriz Hermida Ramos (Universidad de Salamanca)

 

Culinary Expeditions – Media, Food, and Halal Tourism in the Global South

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:24am
Dr Tamilselvi Natarajan / Bayan College
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Culinary Expeditions: Media, Food, and Halal Tourism in the Global South, to be published by Peter Lang International Academic Publisher as part of the book series Food and Cultures from the Global South.

This book will explore the intersection of media, halal tourism, and gastronomy in the Global South, examining how food storytelling, digital media, and travel narratives influence Muslim tourist experiences and cultural representation.

Them Among Us: No Nation for the Less Equals

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Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:24am
Debajyoti Biswas
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Space and Culture, India (Q2 ranked Journal)

Guest Editors: Dr. Debajyoti Biswas and Professor Om Prakash Dwivedi

 

The Spectral Haunting of Empire: Afterlives in the Colonial Present

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Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:22am
2025 National Women's Studies Annual Conference: An Honour Song: Feminist Struggles, Feminist Victories
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Keywords: Colonialism, Hauntings, Postcolonial, Memory, Imperial, Afterlives, Bodies, Narratives 

Empire's ghosts persist beyond colonial rule, manifesting as hauntings that collapse the distance between past and present. These specters transform the immaterial into tangible forces that infiltrate daily life. The colonial past is never truly gone; it lingers, erupting through material and psychic traces.

[CFP] 2025 Situations International Conference: Precarity and Injustice

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:21am
Yonsei University BK21 Project, Situations
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

2025 Situations International Conference

Precarity and Injustice: A Global Reckoning of Our Time

 

October 23-24, 2025

Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica,

Taipei, Taiwan

 

Postcolonial and Decolonial studies permanent section MMLA 2025

updated: 
Monday, March 17, 2025 - 8:43pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

MMLA 2025 Milwaukee, WI

Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies permanent section

Deadline for submission: April 10th

The Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies Permanent Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) seeks abstracts in line with this year’s conference’s theme: "The Humanities is Where Hope Lives." This will be an in-person panel.

We are looking for papers that respond to the conference's theme from the perspective of postcolonial and/or decolonial studies. 

From the conference’s website,

Death and Health in Literary & Cultural Studies - Conference Panel

updated: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025 - 6:37pm
SAMLA - South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

The SAMLA conference is taking place in Atlanta, GA on Thursday, November, 6 – Saturday, November, 8, 2025 at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center. The proposed panel dovetails directly with this year’s conference theme “Knowledge.” Even as the past few years have highlighted death and the value of health, there still remains a lack of knowledge and studies concerning the reality of these experiences for some people, especially marginalized groups. This panel is open to all perspectives and seeks to explore death, health, and/or their intersections in the humanities and beyond.

MLA 2026 Convention Panel Session - American Narratives of Death, Grief, and Health Matters

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Saturday, March 15, 2025 - 6:35pm
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

The 2026 Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention will be held from January 8 to January 11 in Toronto. The past few years have highlighted death and the value of health, but there still remains a lack of knowledge and studies concerning the reality of these experiences for some people, especially marginalized groups. This panel session is open to all perspectives and seeks to explore death, health, and/or their intersections in the humanities and beyond. It also draws attention to health humanities. Some questions the panel addresses include: what are some ways literary and cultural texts broaden our understanding of health, mortality, grief, and wellness or living life well?

Disrupting Forms

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:39pm
Ampersand: An American Studies Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Ampersand: An American Studies Journal

Volume III, No. 2 (Summer 2025)

Disrupting Forms  

Young/Adult: Literatures, Cultures, and Media

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:37pm
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

We invite papers that explore aspects of Young/Adult literature and/or culture, broadly construed. We welcome proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related. Paper proposals that engage the following questions are welcome: How have notions of age and development impacted and/or been encoded in literary and cultural materials, including media? How has the story of "young adult" or "adolescent" literature been written over, rewritten, or written out, and with what occlusions?

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