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4th Annual Billy Joe Turner Symposium
Title: Soul & Syntax: The Evolution of Expression through Art, Dance, and Literature
Dates: April 15–17, 2026
Location: Texas Southern University – Houston, TX
Format: In-Person Conference
Please consider submitting an abstract for NeMLA 2026—The Italian South and Southern (Re)generation
Middle Cinema, Realism, and Everyday Life: Rethinking the Cinema of Sai Paranjpye
Please consider submitting an abstract for NeMLA 2026--Italian Food as (Re) Generation
The conference will take place in Pittsburg, PA, from March 5-March 8, 2026. The deadline for abstracts is September 30th, 2025.
Continuing last year’s conversation, this panel proposes to focus on representations of food in Italian and Italian American Cinema, Literature and Media. Taking this year’s theme, Re-Generation, into consideration it seems only fitting to discuss food. The idea of food or foodway as the locus of creation and re-creation invites us to consider the transformation of culinary history, identity, production, and consumption within or between the Italian, Italian American, and/or wider contexts of the Italian Diaspora.
Please consider submitting an abstract for PAMLA 2025--Italian and Italian American Foodways.
The conference will take place in San Francisco, CA, from Nov 20-Nov 23, 2025. The extended deadline for abstracts is June 30th, 2025.
Food inside and outside of Italy has long served as a locus for the construction of identity, either in the way it can represent belonging to or exclusion from a particular group. It is also a strong evocative trigger, forcing the individual or community to remember a distant memory or to recall a painful one.
In this vein, we invite presentations exploring PAMLA's 2025 theme of "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion" as represented through food in Italian and Italian American media and literature.
The 1st International Symposium on Archipelagic Studies ‘The Island and the Archipelagic Dimension’, to be held at the University of Madeira from the 23rd to 24th of October 2025, aims to reflect on issues of insularity and archipelagos in the conception of today's world, marked by environmental crises, new trends in human development and reinterpretations of place and its dynamics.
Abstracts due: 30 July 2025
Completed Manuscript due: 15 December 2025
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787)
Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/6L757WY6UC
Call For Papers
Call for papers: Essays for an edited collection about the Mad Max franchise
Sarah Gawronski, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Name / Organization (or Independent Scholar)
Contact info: sarahmgawronski@gmail.com
Deadline extended to June 9
Overview
Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (UVC) announces a call for assignments at the intersection of race and dis/ability. Anyone with relevant professional interests is encouraged to apply, but the organizers are especially interested in submissions from early-career scholars and those with backgrounds that are underrepresented in Victorian Studies.
Full Solicitation
La historia del continente latinoamericano ha estado marcada por numerosas manifestaciones de violencia, guerras, dictaduras, revoluciones y exilios. Estos fenómenos han dejado una honda marca en las narrativas producidas en el continente, en especial a lo largo de los siglos XX y XXI. Una de las formas más visibles de estas huellas es la del miedo que deja impreso en el panorama afectivo de los individuos y ciudadanos. Este miedo que aparece de maneras tan diversas como frecuentes en la literatura del continente, no obstante, no ha recibido la suficiente atención por parte de la crítica.
Call for Chapters
Teaching Writing in English at the Decolonial Turn in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia
an edited collection with The International Exchanges on the Study of Writing Book Series
from The WAC Clearinghouse
Proposal Deadline: August 15, 2025
Contact: decolonialwritingbook@gmail.com
Established in recent decades as a research area in its own right, the study of ecology in the Renaissance has diversified into several distinct but related fields. The conference aims at taking stock of the broad range of meanings, creating conversations between the existing areas and inquiring into possible directions onward. We suggest a range of both literal and more metaphorical conceptions of ‘ecology’ in which nature, broadly defined, may be considered both an object of study and an agent of change or stasis.