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Now What? What Now?: The 'Writing' Classroom after 2025

updated: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 7:22am
SUNY Council on Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Seismic developments in technology, politics, and cognition are radically transforming the traditional writing classroom, which has been a site of contradiction (and at times controversy) since its formation after the GI Bill and the “democratization” of the university. Whether one starts with Raymond Williams or the New Critics through the Sputnik era, the cultural interventions of the late ’60s and the process movement, or the cultural turn of the ’80s, the “field” on which “the writing classroom” is founded has been a contested zone all along.

MMLA Permanent Section - Short Story **deadline extended**

updated: 
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - 2:16pm
The Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

Presentation Format: In-Person Only

 

Taking inspiration from the convention theme, this year’s short story panel asks presenters to consider how the unique properties of the form contribute to its ability to offer hope, particularly the hope of human connection in an inhuman time.

 

Panelists might explore how formal considerations inform the short story’s relationship with hope:

 

Blue Humanities and Indian Ocean: South Asian Literary and Cultural Representations

updated: 
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - 2:49am
Dr. Abhisek Ghosal, Dr. Ritam Sarkar
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

In Blue Ecocriticism, Sydney I. Dobrin provocatively calls for viewing “oceanic deficit” as form of “disciplinary critique” (9) in order to open up the epistemic realm of ecocriticism which primarily deals with the representation of ecological substance in literary and cultural works.

RABINDRANATH, GANDHI, AND THE ECOLOGY OF CHANGE

updated: 
Sunday, April 13, 2025 - 12:18am
Intersections: A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 20, 2025

RABINDRANATH, GANDHI, AND THE ECOLOGY OF CHANGE

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Workshop: The Companies We Keep – Figurations, Narratives, and Practices of Co-Living in Common Spaces in 21st-Century British and Anglophone Literatures”

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:46pm
Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

CFP: “The Companies We Keep – Figurations, Narratives, and Practices of Co-Living in Common Spaces in 21st-Century British and Anglophone Literatures”

 

Workshop, 31. October – 1. November 2025, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

 

Confirmed Keynote speaker: Ben Highmore (University of Sussex)

 

IVC: Open Call for Submissions

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:32pm
InVisible Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Open Call for Current Topics in Visual & Cultural Studies

Submissions requested by May 15. Rolling submissions accepted until June 15.

InVisible Culture is accepting essays (4,000-10,000 words) and artworks addressing issues in visual and culture studies for an upcoming general issue. The journal welcomes authors from the disciplines of film and media studies, art history, anthropology, and visual studies to submit work on any topic. Academics and artists at all stages in their careers, as well as independent scholars, are encouraged to apply. We particularly encourage submissions by graduate students.

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Call for Abstracts - Posthumanism and Citizenship

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:32pm
The Posthuman Lab
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

I invite you to submit an abstract for consideration in a special issue proposal of Citizenship Studies, tentatively titled “Posthumanism and Citizenship.” ​

​The abstract proposal for the issue can be found below.

​If you are interested, I kindly ask you to submit a 400-word abstract of your paper and a 200-word biography by April 25, 2025, to cdedeoglu@yorkvilleu.ca.

SYNAPSIS – European School of Comparative Literature - Call for Applications

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:28pm
Massimo Fusillo, Anna Chiara Corradino, Simona Micali, Mattia Petricola
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

SYNAPSIS – EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Date: September 22–26, 2025
Location: San Miniato, PI (Italy)
Synapsis 2025 Theme: Knots, Bonds
Application Deadline: June 30, 2025
 

The Politics of Pessimism

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:27pm
Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

 

“Decolonization, which sets out to change the order of the world, is, obviously, a programmeof complete disorder” (27) 
 
—Frantz Fanon, The Wretched OfThe Earth 

 

PAMLA 2025: Care and Cure: Critical Approaches to Medical Humanities in the Modern World

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:09pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

In all medical practices, two goals stand out: to cure and to care. In a vernacular context, care is discursive, relational, and mutual, while cure is linear, utilitarian, and quantifiable. In his book Care and Cure: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Medicine, Jacob Stegenga iterates on two sides of the care-cure conundrum: “[...] when an intervention mitigates harm then it provides some care, and when an intervention mitigates abnormal biological functioning
then it goes some way toward cure.”

CFP Soapbox Journal for Cultural Analysis: Between Bodies and Homes

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:41pm
Soapbox: Journal for Cultural Analysis
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Soapbox 7.0: call for papers

Between Bodies and Homes

— peer reviewed; open to critical and artistic work; submission deadline: April 30; extended proposals —

 

Posthuman Studies: Emergence and Relation (PAMLA)

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:41pm
Akim Golubev/UNLV/PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

The Posthuman Studies panel is interested in papers that investigate the ongoing transformation of a human subject in social, political, and transhistorical contexts. Since the introduction of Cartesian duality, as opposed to the British Empirical monism, the field of literary studies has investigated the role of language and cognition. This panel is looking for papers that deal with literary theory, early modern philosophy, and English literature by analyzing what it means to be human and posthuman.

Special Issue: Feminist Resistance to Fascism, Past and Present

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:40pm
Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal

Special Issue: Feminist Resistance to Fascism, Past and Present

 

Submission Deadline: May 25, 2025 

Estimated Publication Date: February 2026

 

Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 3:45pm
LMU Munich
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 3, 2025

Publish your work on single, unmarried, widowed, asexual, queer or otherwise celibate Irish actvists, authors, characters, or collaborative networks, in an open-access journal with NO charge to the author!

MMLA Literary Criticism Permanent Section CFP / In person panel

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 2:30pm
"The Humanities is Where Hope Lives” / Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

MMLA 2025 Literary Criticism Permanent Section CFP / In person.

Chair:  Timothy Erwin

Conference: Nov 14-16, 2025
Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI

When Emily Dickinson writes that “Hope is the thing with feathers – / That perches in the Soul –” she links the emotion to lyric indomitability. For Czeslaw Milosz hope is “with you when you believe / The earth is not a dream but living flesh,” that is, when dreams surprisingly come true.  

CFP: Humanities Bulletin 8.2, November 2025 Special Issue: Reading to Know, Learning to Hear, Engaging in Respect and Love within an Intercultural Frame

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 2:24pm
London Academic Publishing
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 20, 2025

 

CFP: Humanities Bulletin 8.2November 2025

Special Issue: Reading to Know, Learning to Hear, Engaging in Respect and Love within an Intercultural Frame

 

Editors:  Prof. Dr. Carla Locatelli and Dr. Victor Pricopi

 

Humanities Bulletin, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal in the field of Arts and Humanities, invites submissions of paper proposals for its Special Issue scheduled for November 2025.

An Archipelagic Turn and the “Other Asias”: Planetary Care in Literature, Politics, Culture

updated: 
Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 6:10am
The Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Call for Papers

 

 

An Archipelagic Turn and the “Other Asias”: Planetary Care in Literature, Politics, Culture

 

August 4-6, 2025

Jeju National University

South Korea

 

 

Keynote: Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University, US

 

 

 

The Critical Island Studies Consortium announces a conference that aims to fundamentally challenge and reconceptualize our understanding of “Asia” by privileging an archipelagic perspective

Hope in African Literatures

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:02am
African Literature Permanent Section/ Midwest MLA (MMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

The African Literature Permanent Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) requests abstracts for this year’s convention which will be held in person in Milwaukee, WI.

Comics and Graphic Novels Permanent Section [MMLA 25]

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:02am
Midwest Modern Language Association [MMLA]
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

CFP Comics and Graphic Novels Permanent Section
Chair: Keegan Lannon, University of Illinois – Chicago.

Conference: Nov 14-16, 2025
Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI

What Does Hope Look Like?

If it is true, as the CFP for this conference notes, that “hope can be found in the Humanities,” then comics and graphic novels offer a unique glimpse into that hope by drawing on the media affordances of prose and the visual arts. Comics let us “see” hope and optimism is ways other media are unable to.

Optimism Against All Odds in American/English Modernism

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:54am
The Midest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 24, 2025

MMLA 2025 Call for Papers for their Permanent Section: "English III: Literature after 1900" under the theme Optimism Against All Odds in American/English Modernism


 

Deadline: April 24th, 2025

For consideration: please send a brief abstract (250 words), tentative title, and bio to Sophie Nunberg at snunberg@uwm.edu by April 24th, 2025.


 

 

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Here and There: Reflections on Place-Based Photography

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:54am
University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

 

All photography takes place somewhere, but only some photography makes that place the focal point. From its conception, photographers have used the medium to document places, ranging from specific sites to regional and national landscapes, with the aim to educate, archive, preserve, and critique. Photographs of home and the local allow for reflections on belonging, community, and personal identity, whereas images taken elsewhere, perhaps in foreign lands, suggest an anthropological drive to capture (the essence of) the unfamiliar.

 

CFP: Imaginative Reading: Walking Into the Wardrobe

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:21am
Southeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Imaginative Reading: Walking Into the Wardrobe

Southeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature

Anderson University

Anderson, SC

October 23-25, 2025

 

 

13th Mediterranean Interdisciplinary Forum on Social Sciences and Humanities

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:16am
University of Catania
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Held previously in renowned locations like Beirut, Almeria, Barcelona, and Tenerife, MIFS is now set to take place at the University of Catania, Italy. The conference fosters academic networking and critical thinking through the presentation of research articles across various social sciences and humanities disciplines. Over the years, hundreds of papers have been presented and published in open-access format after undergoing a rigorous peer-review process.

MIFS welcomes scholars from a wide range of fields to participate in this vibrant intellectual exchange. Join us at the upcoming conference and contribute to the ongoing discourse in the social sciences and humanities!

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CFP:International Young Researchers' Conference on Planet, Text and Context: Perspectives on Ecology

updated: 
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 2:38pm
Surya Sen Mahavidyalaya
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

International Multidisciplinary Young Researcher’s Seminar (Hybrid Mode)

on

Planet, Text and Context: Perspectives on Ecology

Organised by

PG Department of English & Research and Development Cell

In collaboration with

IQAC

Surya Sen Mahavidyalaya, Siliguri, India

5th April, 2025

 

 

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