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By 2026, all nine volumes of The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins will be published, including the much-anticipated final volume in the series, Poetry. The 2026 international Hopkins conference will focus on the new research possibilities and provocations afforded by the texts. Hopkins 2026 will be held in historic Salem, Massachusetts (USA), at Salem State University, and will feature a Hopkins display and reception at the Burns Library, Boston College.
Topics could include:
• How to reassess Hopkins’ texts because of newly available materials.
• Hopkins the collector (of inscapes; of sensations; the writings of others).
• How to rethink Hopkins’s position in the “collectivity” of Victorian writers.

For a volume in the Genre Fiction and Film Companion series published by Peter Lang Oxford, we solicit papers on the topic of Neo-Victorian Gothic literature and film adaptation in the twenty-first century.

This is a special panel proposed for MLA Conference 2026 in Toronto, Canada (Scheduled from January 8 – 11). This panel focuses on the entangled legacies of colonialism, environmental degradation, and forced migration in contemporary literature and cinema. It interrogates how literary texts reimagine the relationship between ecological crises and human displacement, foregrounding the uneven impacts of climate change, resource extraction, and border regimes on postcolonial subjects.

Abstract should focus on the following areas (not limited to):

Postcolonial ecologies

Postcolonial disasters and indigenous knowledge

Postcolonial borders and geopolitics

Decolonialization and resistance

Titlle: Storied Seas, Blue Humanities and the Mediterranean Imagination

This special session invites proposals that explore the field of blue humanities through a Mediterranean lens. Proposals investigating the multifaceted dimensions of water and waterscapes  in literary texts, films, television series, comics, theatrical performances are welcome.

A 250-word abstract along with a 100-word bio.

Kierkegaard and Incarceration

American Academy of Religion

 In-person Annual Meeting, November 22-25 in Boston, MA

Following the 2025 American Academy of Religion Presidential Theme focused on “Freedom,” the Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Unit invites papers on the topic of “Kierkegaard and Incarceration.” 

SAMLA 97: Knowledge -- Atlanta, GA -- November 6th - 8th, 2025 -- Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center

To submit a call, please use this link https://samla.ballastacademic.com/ to first make an account and then submit your CFP. (You do not have to be a member to submit a Call for Proposals). The final deadline for submissions is June 28.

Please also make sure to visit our new website at southatlanticmla.org!

Postcolonial Interventions invites scholarly articles for an OPEN ISSUE to be published in June 2025. As this call is being circulated, older territorial imperial aggression is threatening to bare its fangs across the world, right-wing forces of xenophobia, discrimination and intolerance continue to gather momentum across the world, inequality and ecological crisis continue to escalate and new forms of precarity are being constantly negotiated. The next issue of Postcolonial Interventions seeks to explore such issues and more based on postcolonial experiences across the world.

Submission Guidelines:

Money Talks: Futures for the Economic Humanities

University of Edinburgh, 28–29 May 2025

Keynote Speakers:

Dr Devin Singh (Dartmouth College)

Dr Rachel O’Dwyer (National College of Art and Design, Dublin)

Over the past decade, growing numbers of researchers in the arts and humanities have turned their attention to questions of money, finance, and the economy. At the same time, social scientists have increasingly drawn on humanities-based methodologies in their analyses of economic phenomena. “Money Talks: Futures for the Economic Humanities” is a landmark conference dedicated to mapping this emerging interdisciplinary space and charting its multiple potential futures.

Literature and Taxonomy

Taxonomy is a fraught word in literary studies. As a regime of classification descended from the Euro-American scientific tradition, taxonomy encourages the organization of biological life on earth based on hard distinctions or similarities between groups. This practice appears to endorse essentialist and deterministic paradigms that scholars in literary and cultural studies typically eschew—and for good reason. Taxonomic modes of thinking are allied with racial, medical, and sexual ideologies that have fueled historical and contemporary efforts to police the categories of race, gender, ability, and desire.

This is a call for a Special Topics Panel to be held at the Modern Language Association Conference in Toronto, January 8-11, 2026.

Agnotology, the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt, has emerged as a critical lens through which to examine the production, dissemination, and contestation of knowledge within various spheres of human expression. This interdisciplinary panel seeks to investigate the intersections of agnotology with literature, culture, and the arts, and to explore how these fields both reflect and contribute to the construction of ignorance and uncertainty.

We welcome proposals for papers that engage with the following topics (but are not limited to):

Call for Papers: Engaging the Local Public Humanities in St. Louis Colloquium & Workshop
Colloquium Date: April 18, 2025
Location: Washington University in St. Louis
Deadline for Submissions: March 18, 2025

Kente: Cape Coast Journal of Literature and the Arts invites scholars, researchers, and literary critics to contribute to a Special Issue focusing on the representation of climate and environmental issues in African literature. As climate change poses significant challenges worldwide, African communities face unique environmental impacts, including desertification, flooding, and resource conflicts. These experiences are increasingly reflected in African literary works, offering nuanced perspectives on ecological crises, cultural adaptations, and social resilience.

Sponsored by the Adaptation Studies Forum, this guaranteed panel in the upcoming 2026 Modern Language Association conference will explore the intersection of race and adaptation, focusing particularly on film. The panel will engage in dialogue about how filmic adaptations convey, obscure, and transform racial meanings. They will also connect this conversation about racial representations in filmic adaptations to the theoretical question of how race, racism, and antiracism adapt to changing conditions, manifesting in new forms in new social contexts. We will pay particular attention to the dynamic of racial representation in film, a medium that critics such as Richard Dyer have shown to be influential in creating racial imaginaries. 

We are excited to announce the upcoming International Conference on Regional Language, Literature, and Culture: A Vision of Developed Bharat-Shining Bharat, which will be held on 3rd-4th April 2025 at Galgotias University, Greater Noida. This prestigious event is proudly sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) and aims to celebrate and showcase the rich diversity of India’s regional languages, literatures, and cultures, while contributing to the vision of a culturally vibrant and cohesive Bharat.