graduate conferences

The body functions as an active agent in generating knowledge, memory, and stories. This year's conference places the relationship between memory and the body at its core, emphasizing how the latter serves as a site of cultural, political, and historical negotiation. The body exerts significant influence on the creation and retrieval of memory, compelling us to critically examine the individual and collective memories produced and transmitted through the embodied experiences of culture, politics, trauma, and (post)nation.

European Network for Psychological Anthropology Biennial Conference:

 Anthropologies and Psychologies in (Inter)Action - Engaging Interdisciplinary Perspectives

11 - 13 June 2025, University of Münster, Germany

Conference information: https://enpanthro.net/enpa-2025-conference/

CFP for an in-person panel:

Anthropology, Psychology, and Self-Understanding: Exploring Educative Contexts and Possibilities

Call for Papers

In the postmillennial era, South Asian graphic narratives have emerged as powerful mediums for exploring traditional notions of gender and sexuality. This panel examines the ways in which these contemporary visual storytelling forms address and subvert the cultural constructs surrounding gender and sexual identities in South Asia.

Panel description:

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[DEADLINE EXTENDED] Call for Submissions! The Lamp is seeking submissions for its 2025 issue (Volume 15)! 

The Lamp is an international literary journal dedicated to showcasing the creative writing of graduate and professional students. If you write poetry, short fiction, scripts, creative nonfiction, or any other form of textual art, please submit your work to The Lamp at thelampeditor@gmail.com. The deadline is 24 January 2025. Please follow our submission guidelines below. 

Submission Guidelines:

CFP: The 27th Annual University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group/MRG Conference

 DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 17, 2025

“Rethinking Institutions”

The Critical Theory Reading Group/MRG, University of Florida

March 27-29, Gainesville, FL 

Keynote speakers: Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks

Nicole LaRose Alumni keynote speaker: Wesley Beal  

The 2025 Marxist Reading Group Conference invites submissions for “Rethinking Institutions” to explore the manifold issues endured by global institutions and reimagine the former for the present and future. 

“It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually, time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively. ... We must come to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability.”

— Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail."

The University of Maryland’s Graduate English Organization (GEO) invites proposals relating to the theme of “Forward Moving / Moving Forward” for our 18th annual graduate student conference, to be held in person on Friday, March 7, 2025.

The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) of the University of California at Santa Barbara, the George Washington University Cold War Group (GWCW), and the LSE Cold War Studies Project (CWSP) of the London School of Economics and Political Science are pleased to announce their 2025 International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, to take place at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from May 8 to May 10, 2025. 

Cornell EGSO Conference 2025: Sound—Systems

Deadline for Submissions: January 15th

Conference: March 14-15, 2025

Call for Academic and Creative Proposals

The (post)memory working group provides a platform to the scholars of memory studies to engage with the thematic and theoretical interventions in (post)memory studies. It also offers an opportunity to the scholars to embrace the complexity of (post)memory; navigate the intersections of identity; and explore the nuances of belonging in a world marked by division. The group invites the scholars to examine the ways (post)memory reflects the analogical nature of memory in postmodern world that triangulates the dominant forms including prosthetic, polyphonic and transcultural memories by revisiting the reconstruction of violence, identity, and cultural displacement.

Call for Papers for WLA’s guaranteed panel at the 2025 American Literature Association Meeting (Boston, May 21-24) This year’s general call seeks proposals related to any aspect of the study of Western literature, regardless of period.  Papers on single texts or single authors are welcome, though comparative, transnational, and/or multiethnic approaches are especially encouraged. Graduate students are encouraged to apply. For consideration, please submit an abstract (250-400 words) to Travis Franks (travis.franks@usu.edu) by DECEMBER 31, 2024.

Early Modern Temporalities
Graduate Early Modern Student Society Eighth Annual Symposium
Friday, April 25, 2025
TBD, UW-Madison & Hybrid over Zoom

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jessica Keating (Associate Professor of Art History, Art and Art History, Carleton College)

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The Nineteenth-Century section of Jagiellonian University’s Comparative Literature Student Society cordially invites students and PhD researchers to the international conference entitled ‘Nineteenth-Century Minor Literatures’. We seek to create a space to explore texts existing outside the mainstream of the long nineteenth century.

We welcome papers related to the following research areas:

Transpoetic Dialogues with Daniela Catrileo University ofSouthern California

April 15, 2025 CallforPapers

The UC Davis English Department is hosting its third annual student-led Connections conference under the wide-ranging theme of “Landscapes.” Organized by the English Graduate Student Association (EGSA), the Connections 2025 in-person conference examines the concept of landscape in its broadest sense—not only as a physical terrain but also as a cultural, social, political, and literary construct.