international conferences

This is a call for proposals to participate in a proposed panel at MLA in Toronto in January 2026.

Higher education had three socially pertinent effects in previous eras of capitalist development. It: offered graduates a pathway to upward mobility; conferred a “stake” in normative society such that graduates could “buy into” the dominant economic systems from which they stood to benefit; and was an incubator for mass social and political movements such as the 1960s student movement.

But much recent fiction evinces a change in attitudes to university – a weakening of the assumption that higher education is a pathway to social mobility for the individual and social justice/progress for the collective.

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 15 2025

IAAS Annual Conference
Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin

24-26 April 2025

Conference Theme: “We the People”

CALL FOR PAPERS

“It is certain in Theory, that the only moral Foundation of Government is the Consent of the People. But to what an Extent Shall We carry this Principle?”—John Adams, 1776

What does the future hold for us, as the inhabitants of a planet much burdened by a burgeoning population, whose demands for time-saving technologies and physical comfort are endless? Will there be wars over potable water? Will we give up gold and gems and treasure oxygen instead? Or will existence end with either bang or whimper?

Utopian visions carry hope and contrarily, but more importantly, dystopian ones are much-needed warnings of what is likely to happen. This latter view made us feel that cli-fi needs to urgently present unflattering futuristic scenarios of our continued apathy towards nature and climate.

Invitation for proposals for a special session panel - entitled, "Forms of Mutual Aid in American Literature" - at the 2026 MLA Convention being held in Toronto, Canada from 8 to 11 January 2026. Seeking papers (15 minutes in length) that explore how mutual aid has been represented in American literature (during any historical period). Particularly interested - with the conference theme of "Family Resemblances" in mind - in whether such communal forms do or do not resemble the family form. Send 250-word abstracts and a bio to amangat@niagara.edu. Proposals due by March 17.

In June 2025, Royal Holloway, University of London, in collaboration with the British Association of Victorian Studies and the British Association of Romantic Studies, will host an in-person research day on Tuesday 3rd June examining realisms across literary, artistic, theatrical, and critical forms, and considering the continuing influence of nineteenth-century thought on our current moment.

Presentations will be held during the morning in which delegates present 15-minute papers attending to nineteenth-century realisms (broadly conceived), followed by an afternoon discussion-based roundtable, structured around the topic: “Managing Difficult Legacies”. 

CFP: Nineteenth-Century Legacies

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.

Layers: Physical and Cultural Constructions of Space in the English-Speaking World

International conference organised by SEARCH (Savoirs dans l’Espace Anglophone: Représentations, Culture, Histoire)

University of Strasbourg, 16-17 October 2025

Keynote speaker: Jeremy Davies (University of Leeds)

Call for papers

The 17th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association

Heights, Depths, and Extremes

The Birmingham & Midland Institute, Birmingham UK

14th-16th July 2025

The Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) is delighted to announce its 17th annual conference for 2025, inviting scholars, researchers, and enthusiasts of Victorian literature to explore this year’s theme, Heights, Depths, and Extremes. This theme encourages an examination of the limits, boundaries, and expanses of Victorian popular fiction, encompassing everything from physical and metaphorical heights to the extremities of human emotion, imagination, and social structures.

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.

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.

The Indo-Dutch research Centre on Climate Change Law Research and Education is thrilled to announce its international workshop on Interdisciplinary Approach to Climate Change Education, set to take place from 27th to 28th February 2025 at Government Law College, Ernakulam.

2025 ICLA Congress-Seoul Call for Individual Proposals:

Dear Comparative Literature scholars/students,

Now the 2025 ICLA Congress (https://icla2025-seoul.kr/en) call for individual proposal submission is out.

For New Deadline and How to Submit Your Abstract, Click NOTICE 18:
https://icla2025-seoul.kr/en/notice/press-and-reviews/01JG9QCYG7XM2H36DE...

Martineau Society Conference 2025 in Tynemouth, England    06/22/2025-06/25/2025; deadline 04/30/2025

The conference will take place from October 22 to 24, 2025, at Université Jean Monnet, in Saint-Étienne (France). The junior laboratory GRAPHÉ (Research Group on Philological and Human Action through an Epistemological Prism) was founded at Université Jean Monnet in Saint-Étienne in 2024. It aims at conducting an incipient, interdisciplinary study of the ways in which languages influence and are influenced by human actions. After an initial symposium in October 2024 dedicated to the interpenetration of language and politics, we now wish to organize a conference focusing on language in all its newest forms, by confronting it with the latest analytical prisms and methods of study.