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A Conference on South Asian Capitalism(s)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:54am
Institute for South Asia Studies | University of California, Berkeley
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

This conference is the second in a sequence of events co-organized by three public universities: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, University of California Berkeley, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst on the theme of the political economy of South Asia. Titled South Asian Capitalism(s), this Fall 2025 conference aims to investigate how capitalist accumulation is socially structured across South Asia.

CELJ 2024 Virtual Conference: Open Dialogues April 4–5, 2025, from 2-6pm ET (Live)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:40am
Council of Editors of Learned Journals
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The Council of Editors of Learned Journals is pleased to host its inaugural conference to expand the knowledge sharing CELJ provides through its listserv, mentoring workshops, and Modern Language Association convention sessions. The online format offers a space where more of our members, and potential new members, can be included. The conference will be virtual and recorded for CELJ members who are not able to attend. 

Call For Papers 

The conference theme is Open Dialogues, and the organizers encourage submissions of roundtable-based discussions specific to editorial and publishing topics of conversation including, but not limited to: 

Asian Feminisms and Contemporary Cultural Production

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:03am
Korean Association for Feminist Studies in English Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 10, 2025

The Korean Association for Feminist Studies in English Literature (KAFSEL, fsel.org) will host a one-day international conference on “Asian Feminisms and Contemporary Cultural Production” on May 10, 2025. The bi-lingual (Korean and English) conference will be held at Seoul National University. We hope to promote a wide-ranging and inclusive discussion on contemporary women writers and artists in and around Asia, the varieties of feminist and queer interventions in Asian contexts, and new challenges in contemporary feminist theory. We welcome proposals for 15-20 minute papers related to the topics above. Graduate students are also welcome to submit proposals. Keynote speakers TBA shortly.

 

Popular Arts Conference (PAC) 18th Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, August 28 – September 1, 2025

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 3:44pm
Popular Arts Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The Popular Arts Conference (PAC) invites submissions for our 18th Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, August 28 – September 1, 2025.

PAC is an annual academic conference for the studies of comics and the popular arts, including science/speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and other media; comic books; manga; graphic novels; anime; gaming; etc., presented to a mixed audience of scholars and fans. The mission of PAC is to promote scholarship on popular culture and to encourage the engagement between scholars and fans in order to deepen our understanding of the popular arts. PAC presentations are peer reviewed, based on scholarly research.

CFP: Lit-Treat: Edition V, a National Conference on “Language, Literature, and Beyond: Exploring New Frontiers in English Studies”

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:38pm
Department of Languages & Literature - English, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Andhra Pradesh, India
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Call for Paper Presentations – Lit-Treat: Edition V

The Department of Languages and Literature – English at SSSIHL invites research scholars and postgraduate students to submit unpublished papers for Lit-Treat: Edition V, a National Conference on “Language, Literature, and Beyond: Exploring New Frontiers in English Studies” to be held on 14 & 15 March 2025 at the Prasanthi Nilayam Campus, Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh. The event will feature plenary talks by eminent academicians & writers and a panel discussion.

ASALH Conference Panel - Death and Grief Among Black Communities

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:37pm
Robin Brooks
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 7, 2025

The proposed panel dovetails with this year’s conference theme for ASALH "African American labor." While it is true that “Black labor has been central to political, economic, social, cultural, and technological transformations,” the hardships of that labor and the intricacies of Black lived experiences have also led to all types of death. As people of African descent continue to be accosted on multiple fronts, examining both our historical and present-day experiences around the subject of death is an undertaking worth engaging. In recent years, conversations about the uncomfortable subject of death were facilitated by the pandemic, and several studies have documented the disproportionate mortality rate from COVID-19 for Black people in the United States.

[HCIS_CFP] Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (special issues - Quantum Applications)

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:36pm
Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

HCIS Journal (2025 Edition)

(Call for Papers & Published Papers)

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Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS)

ISSN: 2192-1962, Editor-in-Chief: Jong Hyuk Park

Impact Factor: 3.9

http://hcisj.com/

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CFP: Feminist Visions and Struggles for a Gradeless University

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 11:08am
Feminist Formations
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

We are inviting submissions for a special issue of *Feminist Formations* onthe topic of "Feminist Visions and Struggles for a Gradeless University."

Abstracts are due March 31, 2025.

Doors and Gates to the Ottoman Lands

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:24am
2026 MLA Convetion
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

 

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

 

Special Session Title: Doors and Gates to the Ottoman Lands 

 

This session explores the multifaceted experiences, perceptions, and narratives of travelers who journeyed to the Ottoman Empire and documented their encounters through travel writing.

Email a 300-word abstract with a 75-word bionote to bakirtassennur@gmail.com 

 

Deadline for submission: 20 March 2025

 

Wallace Johnson First Book Mentorship Program

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:38am
Andrew Rabin
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Dear colleagues,

 

Thanks to the generous support of Wallace Johnson and the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, I am delighted to announce the Call for Proposals for the sixth year of the Wallace Johnson First Book Mentoring Program. The program provides support and mentorship to early career scholars working towards the publication of their first book on the law and legal culture of the early Middle Ages. In conversation with peers and with the advice of senior scholars, participants will develop and revise book proposals and sample chapters, and they will meet with guest editors to learn about approaching and working with publishers.

 

Returning to Form: Genre, Style, and Structure in Literary Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:38am
Seton Hall University English Department
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 7, 2025

Returning to Form: Genre, Style, and Structure in Literary Studies
The Annual Undergraduate English Literature Conference at Seton Hall University
Friday, April 25th, 2025
Keynote Address by Anna Kornbluh (University of Illinois Chicago)

Endnotes 2025: Solidarity and Spaces

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 7:23pm
University of British Columbia - Vancouver
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 14, 2025

Endnotes is the annual graduate conference of the Department of English Language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, which is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam First Nation. The English Graduate Caucus invites proposal submissions for presentations, panels, and creative or multidisciplinary works on the theme of Solidarity and Spaces.

Modern Language Review

updated: 
Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 3:13am
Modern Humanities Research Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

The English Editor of Modern Language Review (https://www.mhra.org.uk/series/MLR), the flagship journal of the Modern Humanities Research Association (https://www.mhra.org.uk), and one of the oldest in its field, invites original and compelling contributions from emerging and established scholars on any aspect or period of Anglophone literature. 

Contributions can take two forms:

Marlowe X Theory - EXTENDED DEADLINE

updated: 
Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 3:12am
Northumbria University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 2, 2025

Chapter submissions are invited for an edited collection, Marlowe X Theory.  

FINAL CALL: Joy to You and Me: Making Space for Joy in the Writing Classroom

updated: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025 - 11:58am
Committee for the Conference on the Teaching of Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

We invite conference proposals for the University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program’s Conference on the Teaching of Writing, taking place in Storrs on Thursday, April 24th and Friday, April 25th, 2025. Proposal submissions are due on Saturday, February 1st, 2025, and can be submitted through this form.

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

updated: 
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.

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

 

Call for Papers: Latin American Fandoms

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:13pm
Transformative Works and Cultures
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 1, 2026

Latin American fandom is a topic that rarely appears in peer-reviewed articles in English and irregularly in Spanish. Phenomena such as fan fiction (fanfic), cosplay, and online communities allow us to explore the representation (Aranda et al., 2013) and appropriation (Yucra-Quispe et al., 2022) of national content (telenovelas and narcocorridos) as well as content from other countries, whether it be movies or streaming platforms.    

International Conference on Global Best Practices in Education

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:11pm
CHRIST (DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY) DELHI NCR
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 10, 2025

Education systems worldwide are undergoing significant transformations driven by globalization, technological advancements, and evolving societal needs. Exploring global best practices in education offers valuable insights into strategies that enhance teaching effectiveness, student engagement, and institutional excellence. This international conference aims to bring together educators, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to share and learn from exemplary educational practices that have proven successful in diverse cultural and institutional contexts.

Objectives

  1. To identify and analyze global best practices in education that enhance learning outcomes.

MLA 2026 call for paper:Quantum Narratives: AI and Multiverse in Asian American Literature and Film

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:11pm
Claire Rodan/ University of Maryland
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Panel Title: Quantum Narratives: AI and Multiverse in Asian American Literature and Film E-mail Address: claire.yijiec@gmail.com Description & Requirements: This panel explores how speculative discourses around AI, quantum physics, or the multiverse influence representations of identity and consciousness in Asian American literature and film. Submit abstracts to Erin Suzuki: esuzuki@ucsd.edu ; Claire Rodan: cchen200@umd.edu Submission Deadline: Saturday, 15 March 2025 

Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions (book series)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - 2:02pm
Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures an Religions
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025

Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions Series

Series Editor: Heather Ostman

 

The Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religion Series invites book proposals for essay collections or monographs that align with the Series’s intention:

 

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

updated: 
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.

CFP: Victorians Institute Journal, Vol 52

updated: 
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 8:16am
Victorians Institute Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

The Victorians Institute Journal is still accepting submissions for Volume 52, which will be published later this year. We accept manuscripts between 7k-9k words on any aspect of Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and culture.

For complete submission instructions and to upload your manuscript for consideration, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/vij and follow the steps given by the online system.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at victoriansinstitutejournal@gmail.com

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

updated: 
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.

Symposium at ABRALIC 2025: The Forms of Academic Work

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:30am
Tim Lanzendörfer
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

We are looking for submissions to a symposium as part of the 2025 Brazilian Association for Comparative Literature Conference "Redes, Margens et Rios," held June 23-28 in Manaus, Brazil. The symposium format is designed to allow for a several day working period over the course of the conference's days (depending on number of submissions). We are looking for 250 words abstracts for 20 minute presentations on the below topic. We expect to combine presentations, working periods, and discussion elements over the course of two to three days.

Migration Histories to Finland: Global Movements, Local Impacts

updated: 
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

Penny Pether Law & Language Scholarship Award

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:29am
University of Nevada Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law, Penny Pether Law & Language Scholarship Award Committee
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Call for Nominations: The Penny Pether Law & Language Scholarship Award 2024

A passionate advocate for interdisciplinary scholarship in law, literature, and language, Penelope J. Pether (1957-2013) was Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law and former Professor of Law and Director of Legal Rhetoric at the American University Washington College of Law. Her own scholarship focused not only on law, literature, and language, but also on constitutional and comparative constitutional law; legal theory, including constitutional theory; common law legal institutions, judging practices, and professional subject formation.

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