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Call for Submissions: Qutub Minar Review July 2025 Issue

updated: 
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 - 1:54am
Qutub Minar Review
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 20, 2025

                                                                         CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Website: https://qutubminarreview.wordpress.com/about/

Submission Email: editorqutubminarreview@gmail.com

Submission Deadline: June 20th, 2025

Qutub Minar Review is inviting poetry, short stories (maximum 500 words for each story), one minute plays, interviews, book reviews, memoires and travelogues for July 2025 issue. Submission guidelines are as follows:

General guidelines:

Rethinking Borders (Revisiting Perspectives) (Deadline Extended)

updated: 
Monday, March 10, 2025 - 8:11am
Department of Political Science, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur.
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Greetings from the Political Science Department of Rkm Narendrapur! VoxPopuli is back and this time it is better than ever, with newer and more events. This is the official information for the 'Analysis and Augmentation' event (Paper Presentation). Students, Research Scholars and faculty members all over are encouraged to put forward their valuable research and analysis, in order to present it before all of us on the 11th of April. Your contributions matter to us and we hope to publish a few, in order to broadcast your efforts before the world. The above date is regarding the submission of abstracts, after which we would publish a confirmation mail. The abstract is to be of 300 words, with keywords and a short bionote in the third person.

When I Knew: Coming Out as a Form of Self-Knowledge

updated: 
Monday, March 10, 2025 - 3:29am
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference - Atlanta, GA - November 6-8, 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

The process of coming out is often framed as a moment of self-realization, a turning point where individuals gain profound insight into their sexual orientation or gender identity. This panel seeks to explore how literature, film, television, and video games depict the mental, psychological, and emotional processes that LGBT individuals undergo as they recognize and articulate their identities. 

CFP: “Provocations” Essays for American Gothic Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - 2:58pm
American Gothic Studies/Society for the Study of the American Gothic
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

CFP: “Provocations” for American Gothic Studies

 

American Gothic Studies is seeking short essays for its “Provocations” section. These pieces (2,000 words) are meant to question conventional wisdom, tackle compelling issues, or advance new theses about the American Gothic as an academic field or pedagogical subject. Please note that they are not traditional essays.

 

Among other things, authors might:

MLA 2026

updated: 
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - 10:03am
Joseph Conrad Society of America (JCSA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 16, 2025

CONRAD: Modern Language Association Conference / JAN 2026 / Toronto CAN

 

The Joseph Conrad Society of America is currently celebrating its half-centenary 1975-2025.

 

 

GUARANTEED MLA PANEL:

 

Joseph Conrad: False Truth & the Absurd

 

Panel on Conrad’s critique of false or misleading “truths” in a world without set meanings.  Papers considered on national/imperial truisms, or the “absurd” as a mode of actuality or critique.  Short bio, 250wd proposals.

 

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 16 March 2025

MLA 2026

updated: 
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - 10:03am
Joseph Conrad Society of America (JCSA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 16, 2025

CONRAD: Modern Language Association Conference / JAN 2026 / Toronto CAN

 

The Joseph Conrad Society of America is currently celebrating its half-centenary 1975-2025.

 

 

GUARANTEED MLA PANEL:

 

Joseph Conrad: False Truth & the Absurd

 

Panel on Conrad’s critique of false or misleading “truths” in a world without set meanings.  Papers considered on national/imperial truisms, or the “absurd” as a mode of actuality or critique.  Short bio, 250wd proposals.

 

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 16 March 2025

Gender Mainstreaming- ‘Feminist Foreign Policy’ approaches in the Context of South Asia

updated: 
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - 10:02am
Women's Empowerment Cell, Kristu Jayanti College, Autonomous, Bengaluru
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 3, 2025

This conference titled Gender Mainstreaming – ‘Feminist Foreign Policy’ Approaches in the Context of South Asia is an attempt to explore burgeoning conversations around Feminist Foreign Policy in South Asia with tangential focus on India. The ‘Global North’ has been focusing its attention on foreign policy agendas that are transformative and unique beginning with Sweden taking the initiative in 2014 focusing on rights, representation and resources that impact women. This responsive approach was followed by Canada, France, Luxemburg and Mexico drawing out the ‘Feminist International Assistance’ policy in intersection with focusing on areas namely inclusive governance, security, cross border trade and human rights.

"Ageing and Society" International Interdisciplinary Conference

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Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - 9:23am
InMind Support
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 9, 2025

Conference online (via Zoom): 27-28 March 2025

ABOUT CONFERENCE:

CFP: In 2050, according to scientists’ expectations, 17% of world population will be people aged 65 and over. There will be twice as many elderly people as today. In the light of these predictions, it is obvious that we have to change radically our viewpoint on many aspects of life. We have to re-think our attitudes toward cultural, social, political, economic, medical, and many other dimensions of the world’s near future.

MLA 2026: Early Modern Women's Violence

updated: 
Monday, March 3, 2025 - 11:03pm
Cynthia Nazarian / CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

The Renaissance and Early Modern Forum executive committee invites proposals for a guaranteed *virtual* panel at MLA 2026 titled “Early Modern Women’s Violence.” This panel will explore representations of women’s violence across early modern literature and culture. How do early modern texts gender violence? How do they figure women’s force, resistance, criminality, self-harm, vengeance, etc.? How do cultural forces shape and respond to these portrayals? Please email a short CV and 200-word abstract to nazarian@northwestern.edu by March 15, 2025. 

RE-CFP: ReFocus: The International Directors Series: David Cronenberg

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Monday, March 3, 2025 - 1:23pm
Edinburgh University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 20, 2025

RE-CFP: ReFocus: The International Directors Series: David Cronenberg

Edinburgh University Press

Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg is widely regarded as one of the finest proprietors of the body-horror genre. Cronenberg’s filmography traverses the realm of the corporeal beyond its bare form, testing the limits of what a body can do. His films explore the intricate relations between the market, science, and desire. Cronenberg also examines disease and illness, situating their grotesque ramifications in the soma and the psyche, while many other later film narratives diverge from Cronenberg’s earlier focus on body horror to exhibit a wide spectrum of directorial capabilities.

Displaced Families: Memory, Trauma, and the Limits of Kinship in Diasporic Writing

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Sunday, March 2, 2025 - 1:24pm
MLA 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 20, 2026

Diasporic literature is often deeply engaged with the tensions between displacement and belonging, rupture and continuity, loss and recovery. In narratives of migration, exile, and forced displacement, family becomes both a site of longing and a contested space where histories of trauma and survival play out. Diasporic texts frequently challenge normative understandings of kinship, moving beyond biological ties to reimagine family through memory, affect, and political solidarities.

Translating Silence—Gender, Trauma, and the Untranslatable in Postcolonial Asian Literature

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Sunday, March 2, 2025 - 1:23pm
Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025


CFP for SPECIAL ISSUE

Translating Silence—Gender, Trauma, and the Untranslatable in Postcolonial Asian Literature

Journal:                      Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific
Publisher:                   The Australian National University
Guest-editors:             Dr. Moussa Pourya Asl & Dr. Roya Monsefi
Abstract deadline:        15 May 2025

Breaking the Narrative: Creating Inclusive Space in Adaptations

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Sunday, March 2, 2025 - 1:21pm
Texas A&M University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

Organization: ASAP/16 (The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present)

 

Deadline for Papers: March 14, 2025

 

We invite papers for a proposed panel “Breaking the Narrative: Creating Inclusive Space in Adaptations”, in ASAP/16: Worldmaking/Worldbreaking for its 16th annual conference to be held at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University in Houston, Texas on Wednesday, October 22 - Saturday, October 25, 2025.

 

Affect Aliens

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Sunday, March 2, 2025 - 1:21pm
ASAP/16 conference panel
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 21, 2025

“Not to be made happy is to refuse the promise of this conversion. Not to cheer is to withdraw from the situation. Not being in the mood for happiness becomes a political action. And you know what: I am not in the mood.” – Sara Ahmed, “Too Much and Not in the Mood” 

“I laughed a little. I didn’t mean to, but unsure of what kind of face I should be making, I started laughing, in an odd way that betrayed the fact that I was used to living my life in a daze, without giving anything much thought.” Meiko Kawakami All the Lovers in the Night

 

Lost Girls & New Women: Woolf, Conrad, & the Regendering of Empire

updated: 
Sunday, March 2, 2025 - 1:20pm
Joseph Conrad Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Lost Girls & New Women: Woolf, Conrad, & the Regendering of Empire

 Comparative panel considering Conrad’s and Woolf’s female characters as challenging imperial gender norms.  Papers might range from Conrad’s often biracial colonial feminine roles to Woolf on threatening sexualities or “New Women.”  Short bio, 300wd proposals.

 Deadline for submissions: Saturday, 15 March 2025

Ben Leubner, Montana State University < leubnerb@montana.edu >

Mark Deggan, Simon Fraser University < mark_deggan@sfu.ca >

What Remains of Character?

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Sunday, March 2, 2025 - 1:17pm
Modern Language Association Convention 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 16, 2025

We invite abstracts for a Special Session (non-guaranteed) at the MLA Convention to be held in Toronto, Canada, from January 8-11, 2026.

 

Nineteenth-Century Gothic Spiritualisms: Looking Under the Table

updated: 
Sunday, March 2, 2025 - 1:17pm
Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

In 1892, the satirical magazine Moonshine published “The Commission on Ghosts,” a mock-article recounting the “first sitting” of the Society for General Psychology’s Royal Commission on spirits. Those present are “The Chairman, the Editor of Light, Mrs. Annie Besant, Miss Florence Marryat, Mr. W. Eglinton, Mr. Dawson Rogers, Mr. C. N. Williamson, and Mr. W. T. Stead” (315). Each member was a public supporter/purveyor of spiritualist belief at the fin de siècle.

Discovery of India: A Journey through Autobiographies

updated: 
Sunday, March 2, 2025 - 1:16pm
edited book by Arpita Dutta and Dr T. Marx
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 30, 2025

In our daily lives, we frequently encounter terms like "culture," "cultured," "high-cultured," "low-cultured," and "uncultured." We often hastily label individuals based on their appearance or social status; for instance, a shabbily dressed person or a homeless individual might be instantly deemed "uncultured." Certain activities, such as traditional children's games like using a gulti (slingshot) to collect mangoes, playing hopscotch, or spinning tops, are sometimes dismissively categorized as pastimes of the chotolok or lower classes.

Cultures of Transcendence: Transitions, Transformations, and Transgressions

updated: 
Sunday, March 2, 2025 - 1:16pm
Ramjas College, University of Delhi
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 27, 2025

“The desire for transcendence is the longing for something that breaks this cycle of means and ends and enables us to escape the everydayness of the everyday.”

— John Lachs, “Transcendence in Philosophy and in Everyday Life” (1997) 

 

MLA 2026 Special Session: Literature and Taxonomy

updated: 
Sunday, March 2, 2025 - 1:13pm
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 23, 2025

Literature and Taxonomy

Taxonomy is a fraught word in literary studies. As a regime of classification descended from the Euro-American scientific tradition, taxonomy encourages the organization of biological life on earth based on hard distinctions or similarities between groups. This practice appears to endorse essentialist and deterministic paradigms that scholars in literary and cultural studies typically eschew—and for good reason. Taxonomic modes of thinking are allied with racial, medical, and sexual ideologies that have fueled historical and contemporary efforts to police the categories of race, gender, ability, and desire.

Call for book chapters

updated: 
Friday, February 28, 2025 - 6:54am
The Northern Border University, Saudi Arabia & the unviersity of Sfax, Tunisia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Call for Papers: Edited Volume on “Writing under Duress in Anglophone Arab Literature in the Diaspora: The Articulation of a Coerced Imagination”

 

Editors: Dr. Hamida Riahi, Prof. Mounir Triki, and Dr. Saud Enazi
Publisher: This volume is being prepared for submission to Palgrave Macmillan for consideration.

Overview

“Underground” The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Biennial Conference March 12-14, 2026 Cincinnati, Ohio

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2025 - 5:48am
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 5, 2025

C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists seeks submissions for its eighth biennial conference, which will take place March 12-14, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency in Cincinnati, Ohio. We invite individual papers and group proposals on literature and culture in the United States, the Americas and beyond during the long nineteenth century.
 

MLA 2026 CFP: Reconstructing AIDS at the “end of AIDS”

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2025 - 5:47am
MLA 2026 - Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Inviting papers on 21st century reconstructions of the HIV/AIDS crisis. What is created/erased in these productions? Possible topics: teaching the HIV/AIDS crisis to a post-covid generation; reading race in the HIV/AIDS archive; recent literature/film/tv productions. 250-word abstracts.

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