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Between Text and Paratext: The Prefatory Poem in the Early Printed Book (RSA 2026)

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Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:36pm
Hayley Cotter, University of Massachusetts Amherst
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

This panel seeks papers for the Renaissance Society of America’s annual meeting (February 19–21, 2026, San Franscico, California). It explores an overlooked poetic genre: the prefatory poem of the early printed book for the It considers such appendages as simultaneously occupying the niches of text and paratext: discrete units which both conform to the structural and aesthetic constraints of poetry and adorn a corresponding, substantive text. These poems are at once ubiquitous and neglected, appearing in books of nearly all genres: from the luxury atlas to the sailing manual; from the personal devotional to the folio Bible; from the illustrated epic poem to the clinical legal handbook.

Thomas Nashe and Voice

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Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 7:42am
St John’s College, Cambridge and Faculty of English, Cambridge
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

CFP: Thomas Nashe and Voice

St John’s College, Cambridge and Faculty of English, Cambridge

January 9-January 10, 2026

Disability and the Archives: Access, Absences and Action

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Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - 7:40am
Shakespeare's Globe
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

 Shakespeare’s Globe is inviting proposals for an interdisciplinary conference bringing together literary and performance scholars, historians, archivists, and disability scholars and activists around the theme ‘Disability and the Archives’. This two-day hybrid event will be held in London on 23 - 24 January 2026 and will explore how disabled lives have been­—and continue to be—recorded, erased or obscured.

Bible and Literature

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Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:05pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Bible and Literature (Panel / In-Person)Presiding Officer: Kathryn Vulic (Western Washington University)

This session welcomes papers about the Bible and Literature that will ideally but not necessarily connect to the conference theme of “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” and touch on:

— Jewish biblical or post-biblical works

— Canonical or non-canonical Christian scriptures

— Post-biblical literary works that borrow from, adapt, translate, comment on, satirize, or allude to biblical stories, verses, characters, themes, or tropes

Toleration and Cosmopolitanism II: English and European Literature in Global Contexts (RSA Paper Panel)

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Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:56pm
Rhema Hokama and Tom Clayton / Renaissance Society of America sponsored session for English Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Organizers: Rhema Hokama (University of Washington) and Tom Clayton (Colgate University)

This is a call for submissions for a guaranteed session in English Literature sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America for the 2026 RSA conference in San Francisco (February 19–21, 2026).

Toleration and Cosmopolitanism I: English and Transnational European Literature (RSA Paper Panel)

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Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:56pm
Rhema Hokama and Jonathan Koch / Renaissance Society of America sponsored session for English Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Organizers: Rhema Hokama (Univerisity of Washington) and Jonathan Koch (Pepperdine University)

This is a call for submissions for a guaranteed session in English Literature sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America for the 2026 RSA conference in San Francisco (February 19–21, 2026).

This panel invites papers that explore the themes of toleration and cosmopolitanism in early modern English literature and its transnational connections. Tolerationist and cosmopolitan ideals, while often aspirational, also reveal tensions between universal humanism and local or national allegiances.

East and Southeast Asia in Global Literary Studies (RSA Roundtable)

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Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:56pm
Rhema Hokama and Mihoko Suzuki / Renaissance Society of America sponsored session for English Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Organizers: Rhema Hokama (University of Washington) and Mihoko Suzuki (University of Miami)

This is a call for submissions for a guaranteed session in English Literature sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America for the 2026 RSA conference in San Francisco (February 19–21, 2026).

The Asia-Pacific World in English and Global Literary History (RSA Panel Session)

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Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:56pm
Rhema Hokama / Renaissance Society of America sponsored session for English Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Organizer: Rhema Hokama (University of Washington) and Yangyou Fang (Princeton)

This is a call for submissions for a guaranteed session in English Literature sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America for the 2026 RSA conference in San Francisco (February 19–21, 2026).

Follow the Money: Economic Concerns in Early Modern English Texts

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Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:41pm
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries markets expanded globally, transactions increased, and the circulation of capital accelerated. This new situation, that created an unprecedented concern with the nature of money (in different forms: bullion, coins, bills of payment, and promissory notes) and with economic concepts (inflation, interest, usury), made its way into all sorts of literary texts and cultural artefacts: plays, poems, pamphlets, or emblems, among others. People started to suspect that money, commercial exchanges, and economic transactions at large were becoming mysteriously free from bedrock referents (fixed value, fair prices) in order to be subjected to uncertain and fluctuating social rituals and conventions.

Power in Urbanscapes: Rethinking Spatiality and Sociality

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Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 1:48am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025

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.

The Sea and the World (Nov 6-7, 2026) --Abstract due on July 1, 2025

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Monday, May 5, 2025 - 9:43pm
Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The 19th International Conference of Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS)November 6-7, 2026National Central UniversityTaoyuan City, Taiwan---- 

Edited Collection The Arden Handbook to Shakespeare’s Worlds

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Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:51pm
Lisa Hopkins and Katherine Walker
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

Editors Lisa Hopkins and Katherine Walker seek contributions from scholars at any stage of their careers to contribute to an edited collection titled The Arden Handbook to Shakespeare’s Worlds (for more on The Arden Shakespeare handbooks, see this link). 

Queer(Ing) Early Modern Art

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Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:32pm
Iraboty Kazi, Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Conference 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Conference 2025 October 16–18, 2025 - York University, Toronto, ON Queer(Ing) Early Modern Art [Panel Session]This session seeks to bring together scholars interested in the representations of trans and queer desires, bodies, identities, performances, cultures, and resistances in early modern visual works and texts. The aim is to investigate: 1. the intersections of gender and sexuality with race, class, religion, and ability in early modern art and how these intersections complicate our understanding of trans and queerness. 2.

Call For Papers for The Renaissance Conference of Southern California 67th Annual Conference

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Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:05pm
THE RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA67th Annual ConferenceSaturday, 01 November 2025We are pleased to announce a call for papers for our 67th Annual Conference, to be held at Chapman University, in conjunction with the Ferrucci Institute for Italian Experience and Research, and the Bernardino Telesio Professorship in Italian Studies CALL FOR PAPERS:RENAISSANCE ADAPTATIONS The RCSC, a regional affiliate of the Renaissance Society of America, welcomes proposals for both papers and complete panels on the full range of Renaissance disciplines (including Art, Architecture, History, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Theater, Language and L

CFP: Spanish I (Peninsular Literature before 1700) -- MMLA 2025 (Milwaukee, WI)

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Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:25pm
Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 4, 2025

The Spanish I (Peninsular Literature before 1700) permanent section of the Midwest Modern Language Association seeks proposals for the upcoming MMLA Conference in Milwaukee (November 14-16, 2025). Though proposals on any topic related to Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature are welcome, we also seek proposals that specifically engage with the 2025 MMLA theme of “Health in/of the Humanities.” Please submit a 250-word abstract and a brief bio (or brief CV) to John McCaw at rjmccaw@uwm.edu by April 25, 2025.

Shakespeare Session at RMMLA 2025 Conference

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Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:25pm
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Call for Papers to be prestented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) 2025 in Spokane, WA!

Description of Session: The session is currently accepting submissions for papers on all topics related to Shakespeare. Submissions from Ph.D. candidates and early career scholars are especially encouraged.

NOTE: This call is for papers to be presented at the conference.

Please direct your brief abstract (less than 250 words) and/or any questions to Jennifer Topale at Jennifer.topale@du.edu. Abstracts are due by 30 April 2025.

Milton Session at RMMLA 2025 Conference

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Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:25pm
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Call for Papers to be prestented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) 2025 in Spokane, WA!

Palimpsests of the English Interregnum

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Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:03pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Palimpsests of the English Interregnum (Panel / In-Person)

Submit Abstract

Session Type: Special Session
Primary Area / Secondary Area: Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion / British and Anglophone
Presiding Officer(s): Shataparni Bhattacharya (Indiana University - Bloomington)
shabhat@iu.edu

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Now is the Winter of Our Discontent: Shakespeare, Marlowe and Contemporary Politics An interdisciplinary conference on literary relevance and political thought

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 3:44pm
The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Cross-border Faculty, “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, Romania
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Conference dates: 6–8 November 2025

Conference venues:

  • Multimedia Hall, “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, Rectorate Building, 47 Domneasca St., Galati, Romania/
  • “Dunarea de Jos” Cultural Centre
  • Library of “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati.
  • Online sessions on Zoom

Submission deadline: 30 June 2025

On Rhyme

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Monday, March 31, 2025 - 2:31pm
Courtney Weiss Smith
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

A Call for Papers

For a panel at the second SMU Symposium on Poetic Form

To be held at SMU in Dallas on February 23 and 24, 2026

On Rhyme

UVA Wise Medieval/Renaissance, Sept. 18-20, 2025 (Undergrad) (proposals by June 23, 2025)

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Monday, March 31, 2025 - 2:25pm
University of Virginia's College at Wise
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 23, 2025

UVA Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXVIII

Undergraduate Sessions

The University of Virginia’s College at Wise

September 18-20, 2025

 

Keynote Address:  

“Cervantes’ Architectures: Windows, Holes, Corners, and Fissures”

Frederick de Armas, University of Chicago

 

Making Our Case For Early Modern English

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Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:27am
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

In keeping with this year’s MMLA conference theme, “The Humanities is Where Hope Lives,” this permanent session is seeking proposals, which discuss how we “make our case” for Early Modern English. How do we explain to our audiences – both in our classrooms and in public settings – on what interests us and motivates our scholarly activities? How do we demonstrate impact and encourage further participation? Where does the study of Early Modern English align with other organizations and initiatives designed to promote the humanities in public life?  What has worked for us? What hasn’t? 

Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, volume 12: Dreams, Visions, and Utopias

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Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:23am
Ceræ - An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

We at Ceræ are pleased to announce that the theme for Volume 12 of the journal is Dreams, Visions, and Utopias, and we invite submissions that contemplate what is the arguably most ubiquitous and diverse literary genre of the medieval and early modern centuries.

Dreams and visions could be personal or communal. They could be of the past, present, or future. Some touched on real events or people, while others were entirely imaginary, and most were somewhere in between. They can encompass the horrors of nightmares to the bliss of salvation, or calls for political freedom and mobilisation as much as an afternoon daydreaming in the sunshine.

CFP for 2025 SCSC Portland, OR Oct 30-Nov 1 Innovation in Early Modern Comic Imagery

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Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:20am
Sandra Cheng
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Call for Papers, Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Portland, OR, Oct 30-Nov 1 2025

Crafters of Laughter: Innovation in Early Modern Comic Imagery

Session Organizers: Sandra Cheng (NYC College of Technology) and Kimberlee A. Cloutier-Blazzard (Independent Scholar)

MLA 2026: Ecocriticism in an Age of Emergency

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:32pm
MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Eco-criticism in an Age of Emergency.” Eco-critical approaches to early modern literature have flourished since the turn of the twenty-first century. As the climate crisis continually becomes more urgent, however, the need for us as scholars to re-assess our history and culture through an ecological lens also steadily increases. Where is seventeenth-century ecocriticism now, and where is it going?

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