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PCA/ACA 2026 Joint Panel - Neurodivergence and Fandom FINAL DEADLINE

updated: 
Thursday, December 4, 2025 - 1:41pm
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 5, 2025

Neurodivergence and Fandom

The Neurodivergent Studies area and the Fandom Studies area are excited to announce a joint panel on Neurodivergence in Fandom! Neurodivergence can have a big impact on the ways that people interact with popular culture, and this can be seen in the ways that neurodivergent folks approach fandom. This panel seeks to understand different approaches or experiences when it comes to neurodivergence in/and fandom!

Some possible topics include:

Writing the Midwest: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers, 5/28 - 5/29/2026, East Lansing, MI

updated: 
Thursday, October 30, 2025 - 3:23pm
The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

WRITING THE MIDWEST: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers

The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)

May 28-29, 2026. Kellogg Hotel and Convention Center, East Lansing, Michigan

 

About SSML and The Writing the Midwest Symposium: The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML), founded in 1971, exists to support the study and dissemination of work in Midwestern literature, art, film, and scholarly study. 

NEW DIRECTIONS IN NARRATOLOGY

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 2:19am
Kewin Anten Raj / PG Department of English, St. Joseph’s College of Arts & Science (Autonomous)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

MIRROR 2025

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

NEW DIRECTIONS IN NARRATOLOGY

Organised by
PG Department of English, St. Joseph’s College of Arts & Science (Autonomous), Manjakuppam, Cuddalore.

Date    : 12th December 2025, Friday
Time    : 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
Venue  : St. Joseph’s College of Arts & Science (Autonomous), Cuddalore.

Mode   : Offline and Online presentations are accepted.

Key Note Speakers:

Dr. S. Samuel Rufus, PhD
Associate Professor of English
& Dean, International Programmes
Madras Christian College (Autonomous), Chennai, India.

Call for chapters and coeditors: Shakespeare's Creature-Characters

updated: 
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 2:59pm
Shakespearemagic/Sattam Ben Abdulaziz University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 4, 2026

Shakespeare is one of the inventors of the category of the human as many modern and contemporary cultures know it. Even his most monstrous and otherworldly creations have a detectable human side. The critical tradition of Shakespeare has already established that these characters are to be read as reflections of certain psychological aspects and repressed characteristics of the main characters of his plays, as allegorical representations of emotions, principles or beliefs, as codification of ethnic and sexual differences, etc. Thanks to this tradition, focusing on the human side of these characters has become the norm. It happens almost intuitively as soon as a critic or scholar starts their analysis of these characters.

What Was Contemporary Literature? or, The End of Periodization as We Know It

updated: 
Thursday, October 30, 2025 - 3:23pm
Post45
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

What happens when the present becomes historical to itself and the contemporary turns into a categorizable literary-historical formation? Is that even possible, that is: can the contemporary ever become historical (to) itself? This special issue seeks to examine the conditions that would allow us to understand the contemporary as a distinct literary period which began in the 1990s—with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the rise of neoliberalism, and the growing sense that postmodern irony had outlived itself—and has now arguably come to an end. Not coincidentally, this was a period of almost uncontested, unipolar US political hegemony on a global scale.