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Bengal in Translation: An Add-on Course On Translating To And From Bengali (Lectures can be attended online)

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:36pm
MANIKCHAK COLLEGE, MALDA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

About the Course:

 

Keeping in mind the increasing popularity and academic importance of literature(s) in translation that are either translated to or from Bengali, we, the organizers are introducing an add-on course focusing on both kinds of translation. Besides offering theoretical discussions on such translations (primarily through the lens of Translation Studies), this course will give the participants an opportunity to interact with renowned translators and academicians who have kindly agreed to share their expertise on the aesthetics, politics, challenges, and opportunities of translating to and from Bengali, using a “case-study based approach”.


 

Reminder CfP:14th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies - Language, Literature, and Empathy

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:00pm
Faculty of Foreign Languages Alfa BK University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Faculty of Foreign Languages is pleased to announce that its 14th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies will be held on 30 and 31 May 2025. The topic for this edition of our annual conference is

 

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND EMPATHY

CFP: Postcolonial Ecology (PAMLA, San Francisco, 11/20-23)

updated: 
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 12:40pm
Sarah Lincoln
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 8, 2025

In the past two decades, scholars of environmental literature have begun expanding the Euro-American canons and contexts that have long dominated ecocriticism and publication, teaching, and reading practices in the West. The perspectives on humans’ relationship with the nonhuman world that emerge from alternate global sites often complicate and even challenge the values and priorities of Western environmental scholarship and activism.

Existence and Coexistence in the Age of Crises

updated: 
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 9:07am
The American Studies Association of Korea (ASAK)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Existence and Coexistence in the Age of Crises

The American Studies Association of Korea (ASAK)

October 17-18, 2025

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Mel Y. Chen, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Jasbir Puar, University of British Columbia, Canada

Ok Yeon Yi, Seoul National University, Korea 

EXPLORING SUSTAINABILITY, LITERARY ENVIRONMENTALISM, AND ECOLOGICAL ETHICS IN INDIAN SUBCONTINENTAL STUDIES /ICSSR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 2:32pm
Deshbandhu College , University of Delhi
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 4, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

 

EXPLORING SUSTAINABILITY, LITERARY ENVIRONMENTALISM, AND ECOLOGICAL ETHICS IN

INDIANSUBCONTINENTALSTUDIES

8-9 April 2025

                  (SPONSORED BY ICSSR)

 

PAPERS ARE INVITED IN ENGLISH & BENGALI

(Across Disciplines Of English, Bengali, Anthropology, Sociology, Public Policy, Env. Studies, Law & Other Allied Disciplines)

 

 

ORGANIZEDBY

SAMLA 97: CFP for “Transdisciplinary Knowledge Making in Community-Engaged Pedagogy”

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 3:45pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 2, 2025

Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center, Atlanta, GA

The South Atlantic Modern Language Association invites proposals that explore any aspect of the general theme for the 2025 conference: “Knowledge.” Please find a general description of this theme here: https://southatlanticmla.org/conference-theme-and-cfp/.

Eliot Society: MMLA 2025

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 3:45pm
Edward Upton/International T.S. Eliot Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

The International T.S. Eliot Society is accepting proposals for a panel at the 2025 Midwest MLA conference at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI to be held November 14-16, 2025. Any proposal on a subject reasonably related to Eliot studies will be considered. Papers on Eliot and religion, or those drawing from the Hale correspondence, The Complete Prose, or Letters would be especially welcome. If you are interested in participating, please send abstract proposals (250-300 words) to Professor Edward Upton (edward.upton@valpo.edu). Submissions must be received no later than April 15, 2025.

Gothic Literature: Creative Activity, Research, and Pedagogy

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 2:30pm
Interdisciplinary Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

Call for Papers

Interdisciplinary Humanities

Special Double Issue

Gothic Literature: Creative Activity, Research, and Pedagogy

 

Journal of Dracula Studies

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 2:25pm
Journal of Dracula Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 16, 2025

The Journal of Dracula studies is open for submissions for its upcoming 2025 issue. We invite manuscripts of scholarly articles (4000-6000 words) on any of the following: Bram Stoker, the novel Dracula, the historical Dracula, the vampire in literature including folklore, fiction, film, popular culture, and related topics. For our 2025 issue we are especially interested in work looking at F.W. Murnau's 1922 film Nosferatu and its remakes/adaptations, as well as its influence on the legacy of Stoker's work and vampire literature more broadly.Submissions should be sent electronically (as an e-mail attachment in .docx). Please indicate the title of your submission in the subject line of your e-mail.

Conference of the Georgia Philological Association

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 2:25pm
Georgia Philological Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 5, 2025

The twentieth annual meeting of the Georgia Philological Association (GPA) will be held virtually on May 16-17, 2025. We invite proposals for session topics, panel discussions, and scholarly papers in English on any subjects relating to literature, language, composition, history, philosophy, translation, the general humanities, interdisciplinary studies, and pedagogy. Reading times for individual paper presentations are limited to 15 minutes. Presenters may submit longer or more complex versions (8,000 words maximum) to be considered for publication in the Journal of the Georgia Philological Association.

CFP: Humanities Bulletin 8.2, November 2025 Special Issue: Reading to Know, Learning to Hear, Engaging in Respect and Love within an Intercultural Frame

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 2:24pm
London Academic Publishing
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 20, 2025

 

CFP: Humanities Bulletin 8.2November 2025

Special Issue: Reading to Know, Learning to Hear, Engaging in Respect and Love within an Intercultural Frame

 

Editors:  Prof. Dr. Carla Locatelli and Dr. Victor Pricopi

 

Humanities Bulletin, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal in the field of Arts and Humanities, invites submissions of paper proposals for its Special Issue scheduled for November 2025.

Brontë Studies Early Career Research Essay Prize 2025

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 2:16pm
Brontë Studies/Brontë Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Brontë Studies is pleased to invite submissions for the 2025 iteration of the Brontë Studies Early Career Research Essay Prize. The prize aims to encourage new scholarship in the field of Brontë studies, recognise and reward outstanding achievement by new researchers, and support the professional development of the next generation of Brontë scholars.

CFP: 122nd Annual PAMLA Conference (San Francisco, CA) – November 20-23, 2025

updated: 
Sunday, March 30, 2025 - 4:35am
Craig Svonkin / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

The PAMLA 2025 Conference (https://www.pamla.org/pamla2025/) will be held at the elegant InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference will begin on Thursday, November 20, and continue through November 23, 2025.

The 2025 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person at the InterContinental. There will be no virtual or hybrid sessions or papers–the entire conference is being held in-person.

Introducing the Privileged Logics Blog: A New Hub for Crucial Conversations

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:04am
Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

In February 2024, the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University hosted the Privileged Logics 2024 Conference that examined how privilege shapes STEM research, research ethics, and the very definitions of research quality and research access. The National Science Foundation-funded conference sparked enriching exchanges and fresh perspectives — conversations we want to continue. 

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?

(De)Constructions of the Future

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:04am
Word and Text
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Call for Articles:

Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, XVI (2026)

Edited by Stefan Herbrechter and Ivan Callus

(De)Constructions of the Future

 

CONSTRUCTIONS OF IDENTITY 12 – LITERARY FUTURES: CONFLICTS OF TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE, AND GLOBALIZATION

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:54am
Department of English Language and Literature; Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Conference dates: 16-18 October 2025
Conference venue: Faculty of Letters, 31 Horea St., Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Conference website: https://consid.conference.ubbcluj.ro 

LITERARY FUTURES: CONFLICTS OF TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE, AND GLOBALIZATION

Optimism Against All Odds in American/English Modernism

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:54am
The Midest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 24, 2025

MMLA 2025 Call for Papers for their Permanent Section: "English III: Literature after 1900" under the theme Optimism Against All Odds in American/English Modernism


 

Deadline: April 24th, 2025

For consideration: please send a brief abstract (250 words), tentative title, and bio to Sophie Nunberg at snunberg@uwm.edu by April 24th, 2025.


 

 

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PAMLA Undergraduate Forum

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:51am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

PAMLA Undergraduate Forum

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference

Thursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23

San Francisco, California  |  InterContinental Hotel San Francisco

Abstracts due May 15, 2025

Student Conference: Perspectives on the Media in American Culture and Society

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:50am
American Studies Program, University of Bucharest
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 26, 2025

The American Studies Program at the University of Bucharest

invites proposals for its annual student conference on the topic

Perspectives on the Media in American Culture and Society

to be held in person and online

 on May 17, 2025.

In-person panels will be held in Martin Luther King Hall

1st floor, 7-13 Pitar Moș St., Sector 1, Bucharest.

Detecting New Paradigms: The Detective Genre in Contemporary Chinese Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 3:59am
Panel Proposal for the American Association for Chinese Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Call for panelists for a paper at the American Association for Chinese Studies (AACS)

67nd Annual Conference, hosted by Adelphi University, Garden City, New York on October 24-26, 2025. According to the AACS conference description: the theme of the conference is “Charting New Paradigms: China and the Chinese Diaspora in a Changing World Order” in multiple aspects of culture, diplomacy, economy, education, health, history, literature, politics, and society.

Detecting New Paradigms: The Detective Genre in Contemporary Chinese Culture

Call for Essays and Creative Writing: Mixing Genre, Form, Media

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:24am
Melange: A Journal of Prose Poetry and the Arts
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

A "melange" is a term denoting works of art and literature that combine multiple forms, genres, and/or media. 

The new Princeton publication Melange: A Journal of Prose Poetry and the Arts accepts creative melanges, melanges in translation, and critical essays about melanges. Anyone may submit to Melange - professors, students, and independent scholars alike. 

In Spring 2025, we are publishing both a regular issue and a special issue. For the regular issue, we are looking for prose poetry, essays, visual art, translations, and combinations of the above. For the Special Issue Fantasy Dictionary, we are publishing entries from the Fantasy Dictionary Contest. 

Extension 4.0: Disruption and Transformation in Agri-Food and Rural Development

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:17am
Guelph University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

The first Canadian conference on agri-food and rural advisory, extension, and education (CAREE) will be held at the University of Guelph, 29-31 October 2025. The conference theme is extension 4.0: disruption and transformation in agri-food and rural development. It highlights the growing recognition of the Canadian approach to agri-food development. The conference addresses an overarching scholarly and policy discussion, both globally and regionally, that has long been captivated by a compelling question: Does Canada have an effective agri-food and rural extension and advisory service?

Literature and Social Justice

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:03am
Lehigh English Graduate Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

Conference: March 20, 2026

Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA

 

Contact email: slb322@lehigh.edu

 

Dialogues and Dissonances: The Environmental Humanities from North-South Perspectives

updated: 
Friday, March 21, 2025 - 2:32pm
NOVA University of Lisbon - School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH) | Campolide Campus - Colégio Almada Negreiros
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Dialogues and Dissonances: The Environmental Humanities from North-South Perspectives 

NOVA University of Lisbon - School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH) |

Campolide Campus - Colégio Almada Negreiros (25-27 September, 2025)

Concept Note

 

In recent decades, the term Global South has come to signify the distinctions between the industrialised nations of the “North” and the comparatively less developed nations of the “South.” The Global North-South designation, however, is not strictly geographical but instead reflects various geopolitical, economic, and ecological commonalities between countries.

MLA Special Session: Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish Writers from the Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey (Online Session)

updated: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 10:51am
2026 MLA Convetion
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 21, 2025

Special Session Title: Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish Writers from the Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey (Online Session)

This panel explores Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish writers through various theoretical frameworks, spanning all historical periods. We welcome interdisciplinary perspectives and comparative works that examine authors who have produced literature, memoirs, travelogues, journalistic writings, or any other form of textual production in English.

Papers focusing on lesser-known writers and works are particularly encouraged.

PAMLA 2025 Special Session CFP

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 12:18pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

PAMLA 2025 San Francisco: “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion”

The 122nd annual PAMLA Conference will be held between November 20-23, 2025 at the InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California.

PAMLA welcomes special session proposals for the 2025 PAMLA conference in San Francisco, California on topics of scholarly interest that are not too close to the topics of our general (standing) sessions (see below to find a list of PAMLA’s general/standing sessions).

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