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Ruling the Waves? Germans, Power, and the Pacific Imaginary (PAMLA, Seattle, Nov 12-15

updated: 
Friday, June 12, 2026 - 7:30pm
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

This panel examines how Germans have claimed, imagined, and narrated the Pacific from the nineteenth century to the present. From the colonial administration of Samoa, New Guinea, and Micronesia to missionary encounters, ethnographic expeditions, settler migration along the Pacific coast, and contemporary literary reckonings with colonial pasts, German engagements with the Pacific raise questions about imperial ambition, cultural fantasy, and the politics of memory.

Superheroes of the Squared Circle - Chapter Contributors

updated: 
Friday, June 12, 2026 - 7:22pm
Forrest C. Helvie / CT State Community College
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Superheroes of the Squared Circle:

The Intersection of Comics and Professional Wrestling

An Edited Academic Collection for McFarland & Co. Publishing

Editor: Forrest C. Helvie, Ph.D.

Connecticut State Community College

About the Project

CFP: Teen Entertainment History Symposium

updated: 
Friday, June 12, 2026 - 10:47am
Mary Celeste Kearney / University of Notre Dame
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 16, 2026

April 2-3, 2027

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, Indiana USA

 

Call for Papers

 

Literary Reception and Human Creativity in the Age of AI

updated: 
Friday, June 12, 2026 - 10:23am
Asya Sigelman/Bryn Mawr College
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 1, 2026

Call for Papers: Literary Reception and Human Creativity in the Age of AI
Bryn Mawr College, April 16–17, 2027

Co-organizers: Asya Sigelman (Classics) and Margaret Strair (German Studies)

Keynote speaker: Barbara Graziosi (Princeton University)

 

The rapid integration of generative AI in everyday life brings renewed urgency to fundamental questions about human creativity: what constitutes the human act of writing, and how does human literary production differ from that of large language models (LLMs) — algorithms trained on vast textual corpora to predict and generate language?

 

NeMLA CFP: 'Hieroglyphics of the flesh:' Embodied Archives in French and Francophone Contexts (Panel)

updated: 
Friday, June 12, 2026 - 8:23am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

This panel explores archives beyond the traditional frame and instead as embodied spaces of cultural memory and histories inscribed on skin. Building upon Hortense Spillers’ important essay Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe (1987), we seek papers from humanities scholars in the French and Francophone worlds that reframe the body not as a passive victim but as a living text, a site of memory, and an alternative space that rescripts official records. By retracing histories through the reading of the body, we can activate affect, unleash unexpected memories, and create generative spaces for art that centres on cultural knowledge to empower communities.

Friendship in Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Film and Television

updated: 
Friday, June 12, 2026 - 11:11am
Jade Dillon-Craig, NTNU
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 17, 2026

Friendship occupies a central place in children’s and young adult literature, film, and television. It functions as a key site through which processes of Bildung, selfhood, community, and belonging are imagined and negotiated. However, despite its centrality to narratives for young audiences, friendship has received comparatively limited sustained attention as a distinct object of study within children's literature and media scholarship.