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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.

Food fests, feasts, and gatherings address the role of food in events, gatherings, celebrations, and ceremonies. Exploring how people incorporate ideas about food into festival culture, including history, heritage, tradition, creativity, and social and political factors. 

In addition, it examines festivals in which food is not the main focus, yet contributes significantly to the atmosphere, memory, and tradition. It also looks at people's fascination with taste. In addition to examining these notions, we will also examine trends in the consumption and production of food.

“Whatever his personal beliefs, Shakespeare is in the most important sense of the word a religious writer: not a proponent of any particular religion, but a writer who is aware, and makes his spectators aware, of the mystery of things.”

-Stanley Wells, Shakespeare: For All Time 

Philosophy, Spirituality & the Meaning of Life Conference

De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines

1-3 December 2025

Religion and the Arts is issuing a call for papers on the theme “Buddhism and Literary Nonfiction” for a special issue to be published in March, 2026. We are looking articles on the topic of Buddhism and literary nonfiction: including memoir, biography, the essay,  literary and art criticism, the diary, the handbook, and the sermon or dharma talk. Articles should be roughly 5,000-10,000 words long. Color and black and white Images are also welcome, and should be 300 dpi for the size they are to be reproduced for photography/ 600 for linework.

Articles are due 1 September 2025.  For inquiries, please contact James Najarian, editor, at relarts@bc.edu

For this guaranteed session of the January 2026 MLA convention, the Transdiscipinary Connections Religion and Literature forum invites proposals that focus on literatures of Palestine and the Palestinian diaspora, especially in their engagements with religion, interfaith encounters, justice, and liberation movements. As members of the MLA debate institutional responses to the Gaza genocide, we seek to amplify scholarship in our transdisciplinary field that bears witness to the struggle for just peace and Palestinian liberation. 

Please submit 250-word proposal and CV by Mary 15, 2025 to Cynthia Wallace, forum chair: cwallace [at] stmcollege.ca.

Call For Papers
Religion & Theatre Focus Group – Emerging Scholars Panel
Association for Theater in Higher Education (ATHE) 2025 Conference
This years conference is virtual
July 28 – Aug. 1, 2025 General Conference
The ATHE Religion and Theatre Focus group invites current graduate students and/or independent scholars who have not presented at a major national conference to submit papers for the 2025 Emerging Scholars Panel.
The 2025 Conference Theme:
The Real
The binary opposition between “real” and “virtual” is ever more outdated and unnecessary. Theatre and performance has always been both real and representation. ATHE 2025: The Real invites us to consider the real effects of a virtual conference.

Call for Book Chapters

Title: Becoming A Human-Animal: Interpretations of the Therianthropes in the Folk Arts of India

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Editor: Thakurdas Jana, Department of English, Bhatter College, Dantan, India

About the Book

Please Post and Share CALL FOR PAPERS W.D. FARD: MAN, MYTH, AND MYSTERY Edited by Dr. John Andrew Morrow Academics, scholars, professors, and researchers are invited to submit studies on the following and related topics for consideration for publication in a new work delving into the identity and ideology of W.D. Fard, the founder of the Nation of Islam. We are looking for anything and everything related to W.D. Fard. - W.D. Fard and the First Nations / The Native American connection- Previously unpublished letters, family stories, and photographs of W.D.

Following the inaugural Henri Nouwen Lectureship, the Henri Nouwen Society, in partnership with the Oblate School of Theology, is pleased to announce an Academic Symposium dedicated to the life, work, and enduring influence of Henri Nouwen, a profound thinker and writer whose contributions to theology, spirituality, and pastoral care have inspired countless individuals and communities. This symposium aims to bring together scholars and practitioners to explore and critically engage with Nouwen’s rich body of work.

Submissions are being accepted on an ongoing basis for upcoming issues of Catholic Library World. 

Catholic Library World is the official journal of the Catholic Library Association. Established in 1929, CLW is a peer-reviewed association journal. CLW publishes articles focusing on all aspects of librarianship, especially as it relates to Catholic Studies and Catholicism. CLW articles are intended for an audience that is interested in the broad role and impact of various types of libraries, including, but not limited to academic, public, theological, parish and church libraries, and school libraries. 

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Retelling and Representation in the Ramakatha Tradition: Critical Perspectives
[ISBN: 978-81-952119-4-4]

Editor: Dr. Pallavi Mishra, Assistant Professor of English, SDM Govt PG College, Doiwala, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Manuscripts in MS Word (4,000–8,000 words) adhering to MLA 9th edition formatting guidelines should be sent to pallavi.engdhe@gmail.com by 31 December 2024.

The history of the Black Atlantic is rife with narratives of leaving and returns that can prove destabilizing factors, regarding identity and culture. Yet, it is in these stories, that a more complete image of the complexities of the lives of the people who traverse(d) the Black Atlantic becomes clearer. The literature of the men and women whose texts engage the 500-year history of the Black Atlantic narrative work to form a more nuanced image of Black life in the US, Caribbean, and Europe. In doing so, many of these works demonstrate the influence of African culture on members of the Diaspora through the inclusion of African spirituality in the texts.

Call for Papers:  “Religion on the Plate: Food and Religion in Critical Perspective” Conference 

Columbia University, Department of Religion 

Conference Date: April 2025 (date TBD)

Submission Deadline: 20th January, 2025  

Across religious traditions, food constantly emerges as an act, agent, practice, process, symbol, object, site, and mechanism through which religious selves, boundaries and communities are made and unmade.