The PAMLA 2025 Conference (https://www.pamla.org/pamla2025/) will be held at the elegant InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference will begin on Thursday, November 20, and continue through November 23, 2025.

The 2025 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person at the InterContinental. There will be no virtual or hybrid sessions or papers–the entire conference is being held in-person.

Many PAMLA sessions are still seeking strong proposals and have been added to our Last Call/First-Come-First-Served. These sessions will remain open until they fill, so don’t delay! Visit our CFP page: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/CFP

Some sessions that are in need of abstracts include:

Rhetorical Theory

Spain, Portugal, and Latin America: Jewish Culture and Literature in Trans-Iberia

African American Literature and Culture 

Bible and Literature

Bong Joon Ho: Cinematic Memories Shattered into Shadows

Jane Austen Studies

Ursula K. Le Guin

Edith Wharton: A Backward Glance (co-sponsored by the Edith Wharton Society)

Anime and Manga

Asian Literature and Cultures

Classics (Greek)

Classics (Latin)

Classics (Chinese)

Continental Romanticism

Digital Studies

Disability Studies

Food Representation in the Spanish-Speaking World

German Studies

Italian Cinema

Italian Ecocriticism

Jewish Literature, Culture and Creative Writing

Latinx Literature and Culture

New Italians

Oceanic Literature and Cultures

and many more!

PAMLA, founded as the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast in 1899, and the western affiliate of the Modern Language Association, is dedicated to the creation, advancement, and diffusion of the aesthetic practices and knowledge of ancient and modern languages, literatures, cultures, and the arts.

Please email Craig Svonkin if you have any questions about PAMLA or the PAMLA conference: director@pamla.org.