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Call for Papers: Short Fiction Theory and Practice
Special Issue: ‘Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives’
Guest edited by Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka, University of Debrecen, Hungary
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https://www.intellectbooks.com/short-fiction-in-theory-practice
Please submit a 300-word abstract for an edited collection, tentatively titled, Entanglements: Place-Based Literatures for Ecological Liberation.
Please read the CFP below for details about the collection. We are expanding our search to include diverse geographies including South America, African countries, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Pacific Islands, and South East Asian countries. In addition to a “place” framework, we welcome diverse theoretical approaches and lenses including ones that apply Marxism, feminism, postcolonialism, New Materialism, indigeneity, critical race, nonhumanism, among others.
Submit a 300 word abstract for the panel below only through the portal at https://www.nemla.org/ by Sep 30, 2025. Please refer to the NeMLA website for conference details and schedule (forthcoming).
In her 1981 study of surrealist poetry, The Metapoetics of the Passage, Mary Ann Caws considers the capacity of poetic language to simultaneously arrest itself and enable forward movement: "The word is situated, as Jacques Garelli reminds us, between two deaths, so that each cluster of sounds located within this regenerating rhythm is able to resume its impetus, thus refreshed, as if it were starting again." It is the practice of architextural reading, Caws argues, that reveals the sustained surface tension at work in written texts, a tension often concealed beneath plot, message, the presence of characters, or particularly potent visual images.
Are proms, homecoming parades, lunch lines, hall passes, detentions, and study halls part of your past work life?
Or maybe show and tell, milk break, and recess duty?
And are you now awash in committee work, grant writing, abstract proposals, and syllabus templates?
If so, we want to hear your stories!
This roundtable seeks narrative presentations from academics who have previously taught in elementary, middle school, or high school settings. We will discuss the challenges of transitioning from a PK-12 environment to higher education, the benefits that our backgrounds bring to the higher ed table, and the lived experiences of professors who once taught in the elementary, middle, or secondary classrooms.
Many fictional works tackle ethical challenges regarding human relationships with emergent technologies. Specifically, fiction presents issues about generation (invention and use of technologies), regeneration (cloning, simulated people and realities), and degeneration (collapsing of virtual worlds, discarding of clones and simulations).
In his essay “The Uncanny” (1919), Freud theorized the psychological implications of those aesthetic effects which disturb us without us quite knowing why. While, according to Freud, the uncanny or das unheimlich evokes a peculiar form of affect within “the field of the frightening” (123), it is a type of fear distinct from that produced by horror and terror. The uncanny, he argues, registers the traumatic return of “what was once known and had long been familiar” (124), but which had been repressed. Explorations of the uncanny have linked the affect to repetition and the death drive (Royle 84), surrealism (97), uncertainty (Jentsch 7), and “a certainty that goes beyond any certainty that science can provide” (Dolar 22).
Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, a peer-reviewed international journal published by Çankaya University in Ankara, is currently accepting submissions of articles and book reviews for its forthcoming issues. Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences is listed or indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, the MLA Directory of Periodicals, Index Copernicus Master List, ERIH Plus, and TR Index.
The Plantationocene: On Histories and Narratives of the Plantation
Special issue for Interdisciplinary Literary Studies
Special issue editors:
Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India
Somasree Sarkar, Ghoshpukur College, University of North Bengal, India
CALL FOR PAPERS: Harry Potter Academic Conference (HPAC) at Chestnut Hill College (virtual conference)
2025 Harry Potter Academic Conference (HPAC) at Chestnut Hill College
Friday and Saturday, October 17–18, 2025 (Eastern Time)
Virtual conference (digiHPAC)
Deadline for proposals (academics & community members): September 1, 2025
Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, a peer-reviewed international journal published by Çankaya University in Ankara, is currently accepting submissions of articles and book reviews for its forthcoming issues. Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences is listed or indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, the MLA Directory of Periodicals, Index Copernicus Master List, ERIH Plus, and TR Index.
PAMLA Undergraduate Forum
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference
Thursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23
San Francisco, California | InterContinental Hotel San Francisco
EXTENDED DEADLINE - JUNE 30
Diverse Francophonie
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference
Thursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23
San Francisco, California | InterContinental Hotel San Francisco
EXTENDED DEADLINE - JUNE 30
Pinehurst, NC - February 19-21, 2026
The South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCSECS) looks forward to welcoming all to its 2026 meeting in Pinehurst, which is slated for February 19-21, 2026. The incomparable 2026 SCSECS meeting will present a fabulous opportunity to engage in lively intellectual conversation centered on 18th-century topics while luxuriating in all the amenities of a vibrant resort, set in the heart of the Village of Pinehurst, a National Historic Landmark, designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and Warren Manning. Pinehurst offers a spa, history, golf, shopping, landscape, birding, croquet, watering holes, and more! You will not want to miss out on this opportunity.
The South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference 2025.
SAMLA97, KNOWLEDGE: CALL FOR PAPERS (In-person), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Conference Date: November 6-8, 2025
Special Session/Panel on "Breath, Borders, and Belonging: Pandemic Literature and the Postcolonial Imagination"
Volcanic matter really matters. During a one hundred year span from the 1780s to 1880s, a series of volcanic eruptions occurred that altered the atmosphere, disrupted weather conditions, and caused unprecedented loss due to famine and widespread disease: Laki Iceland (1783-1784); Vesuvius, Italy (1794); Pico Viejo, Canary Islands (1798); Tambora, Indonesia (1815); Ferdinandea, Sicily (1831); Hekla, Iceland (1840, 1845); and Krakatoa, Indonesia (1883). Various critics have written about the systemic effects geologically, meteorologically, and ecologically such as Richard Altick, David Higgins, Monique Morgan, Marilynn Olsen, Nicholas Robbins, Jesse Oak Taylor, and Gillen D’Arcy Wood.
The last decade has seen a surge in scholarly interdisciplinarity, exploring the nonhuman in a broad range of critical perspectives. Whether through Glenworth et al (2024)’s conservationist prism which contextualises ‘Rewilding’ as a way of restoring ‘non-human autonomy’; or perhaps, through Bram Büscher (2021)’s capitalist reflections on nature’s alienation and entanglement, both of which are recent approaches that seek to champion the cause of ‘decentering the human in favor of a concern for the nonhuman’ (Grusin, 2015: 1), we see a growing pace of intersectionality within which nature and literature are brazenly intertwined.
Conference: 4-5 December 2025
Gdańsk (Poland) and online
Dear Colleagues,"Interface" calls for papers for a conference on the topic: “Embodied Experience, Emotions, and Creativity”Conference Date: September 17-19, 2025Conference Place: Doğuş University, Istanbul, TurkeyAbstract Submission Deadline: July 30, 2025 "Interface" would like to thank Trier University (Centre for Advanced Studies "Poetry in Transition”), Kobe University (Graduate School of Humanities), and Seoul National University (Institute of Classical Studies) for their kind support and co-operation in organizing this conference.
An online panel on the art of protest and political dissent. This includes artists who engage in socio-political protest through their work, or protestors who use art to disseminate their message.
“Decolonization, which sets out to change the order of the world, is, obviously, a programmeof complete disorder” (27)
—Frantz Fanon, The Wretched OfThe Earth
Great Britain has a rich and varied history when it comes to true crime. This statement applies as much to the crimes themselves as it does to media producers’ coverage of them. While a global canon of true crime is forming, there has to date still been an emphasis placed on Western narratives according to American culture, with crimes from this region dominating media attention. However, Britain itself has a long history of true crime that warrants further critical attention, to include some of the most prolific serial killers within the genre: Fred and Rose West; Harold Shipman; John Christie; Dennis Nilsen; and, more recently, and controversially, Lucy Letby.
Please consider submitting an abstract for NeMLA 2026 - (Re)generating Postcolonial Ecologies: Resistance, Restoration, and Relationality
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia
Food is never just about sustenance. It is a charged cultural text, a site of memory and mourning, a marker of identity, a terrain of negotiation, and often, a weapon of exclusion or resistance. In South Asia—a region defined by deep pluralities, histories of colonialism, persistent socio-economic inequalities, and enduring spiritual traditions—food emerges not merely as a necessity, but as a powerful index of social structure, affective life, and ideological formation.
The second Issue of Volume 7 of LLIDS examines how structures of power constitute and shape urban spaces. It proposes to explore their influence in determining social values wherein varied social groups—marked by religion, class, race, gender, etc.—negotiate the power dynamics that constitute life in urban spaces. The modern, bustling city carries within itself a continuous sense of becoming. The urban dwellers, inhabiting segregated parts of the city, shape the lived experience of these spaces through their socio-cultural interactions and relationships.
New Perspectives on Bob Dylan (NeMLA 2026)
Deadline for abstract submission: September 30 2025
Comparative Woman Journal – Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Comparative Woman is an online journal affiliated with LSU’s Department of Comparative Literature that explores topics related to comparative literature and women/gender studies through art and academic essays.Comparative Woman Journal is inviting papers for Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025) on Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement.
THEME
Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement
SUB-THEMES (including but not limited to):
CFP: Extended Deadline, October 1, 2025
Edited Collection of Critical Essays
“Fearful Performances: Stardom, Skill, and Style of Acting in the Horror Film”
Conference dates: March 5-8, 2026 in Pittsburgh, PA
Deadline for abstracts: September 30, 2025
Contact panel chair for inquiries: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com
PULSE – the Journal of Science and Culture
ISSN 2416-111X
VOL 13 (2026) CALL FOR PAPERS
Zines and STS: The Remix