twentieth century and beyond

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 15 2025

IAAS Annual Conference
Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin

24-26 April 2025

Conference Theme: “We the People”

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“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

 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF DELEUZE(NESS)

International symposium

18-19 September 2025

National Gallery of Art, Konstitucijos pr. 22, Vilnius

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MLA 2026 (Guaranteed Session)

Toronto, January 8-11, 2026

Generous Modernisms

The Edward Albee Society is proud of the launch of The Routledge Studies in Edward Albee and American Theatre and sends out this call for proposals for new projects.

The new book series aims to examine mid-to-late 20th Century American theatre; its most influential and important playwright, Edward Albee; and his contemporaries.

Currently, two books are in production:

--David A. Crespy and Les Gray, eds. Emergence of Difference and Diversity in US and World Theatres, 1950s-1970s: Albee and his Contemporaries, forthcoming 2025.

--John P. Bray, Jack Gelber: Consider This, forthcoming 2025.

In keeping with this year’s conference theme, this panel will focus on texts that function as infrastructures or sties of negotiated meaning and which also take as their subject matter real sites of infrastructure around which collective or communal identities or meanings are disrupted, negotiated and crystallized.  Obvious examples include Williams's Paterson and Crane's The Bridge, but proposals on novels and plays as well as on film and painting are also welcome.  Please send abstracts to Charles.Sumner@usm.edu no later than 3/21/25.

Dear all,
We invite potential contributors for a Government of India-sponsored SPARC project
titled "Translations in Colonial India, 1800-1947: Paradigms, Networks, and
Practices." The overall goals of the project are as follows:
 
1. To trace the networks of translations between modern Indian languages in the
period under consideration;
2. To trace the impact of European languages such as French, German,
Russian, Italian, and Spanish, on modern Indian languages and literatures,
either in the original or mediated through English translations; and
3. To trace how translational activities helped the establishment of modern

This CFP is for a guaranteed session organized by the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) for the 2026 Modern Language Association convention in Toronto (8-11 January 2026).

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ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies invites submissions for the New issue of the journal - a general issue on literature, theatre and culture studies.

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MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION

TORONTO
JANUARY 8-11, 2026

The Ernest Hemingway Society will sponsor a panel at the upcoming MLA Conference:

The Sun Also Rises at 100

CFP - Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature , vol. 6/2025

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature is an international multidisciplinary periodical that welcomes for review any innovative and challenging research article encroaching upon the fields of literature, linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies.

The editorial board encourages researchers and young scholars to submit their article proposals that  comprise with the profile of the journal. The proposals can be sent in English, German, French, Spanish, Catalan and Polish. The manuscript submitted for publication is to be original and unpublished. It should not have been simultaneously submitted for review in any other journal.

This panel seeks papers that explore all aspects of English literature since 1900. Proposals may explore Trans-Atlantic artists, or artists whose works were influenced by their English territory residency, as well as those artists of the British literary canon. Please submit a proposal no longer than 250-300 words to Dr. Krista Rascoe at krista.rascoe@tccd.edu by April 1st. 

‘With the tremendous acceleration of life, mind and eye have become accustomed to seeing and judging partially or inaccurately, and everyone is like the traveller who gets to know a land and its people from a railway carriage.’ (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878)

We are inviting proposals for a multidisciplinary conference on the aesthetics of the railway. Taking place on two trains from Vienna to Bucharest and from Bucharest to Istanbul, the conference will itself be a mobile experience.

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.

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...