theory

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:

RABINDRANATH, GANDHI, AND THE ECOLOGY OF CHANGE

Concept Note

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.

Articles

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
 

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.”

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.

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 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.  

Deadline Extended to 30 April 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.

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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MSA 2025 Proposed Panel: Infrastructures of Hidden Labor

Imaginative Reading: Walking Into the Wardrobe

Southeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature

Anderson University

Anderson, SC

October 23-25, 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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