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Shakespeare: New Voices

updated: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025 - 8:57am
Dr Ian McCormick
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Following the success of WOKE SHAKESPEARE: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era ...

This * new * edited volume aims to explore some of the most recent conversations about teaching and performing Shakespeare in the age of woke cultural politics, culture wars, and social justice debates.

In the context of media hostility and panic, what are the challenges faced by new scholars, audiences and learners?

How should Shakespeare be positioned in the twenty-first century cultural landscape?

Contributors are invited to consider:

Graduate Conference at JHU: Unraveling the Archive

updated: 
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - 11:48am
Johns Hopkins University Spanish & Portuguese Graduate Students
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 10, 2025

Archives are valuable sites of memory and knowledge, as well as sites of violence and power. In a hyper-saturated world of post-truth and fake news, archives provide a powerful tool to understand the past, interpret the present and imagine better futures. Following Walter Benjamin’s saying, scholars have a responsibility to “brush history against the grain” when delving into archival documents, to find what is absent or hidden and make it speak again. This conference presents scholars with the opportunity to explore various questions that arise when facing archives as dynamic sites of memory: How do we challenge and deal with archives as sites of power? How can queer and marginal subjects be found or salvaged in archives that erase their presence?

ASA 2025 Educators' Alliance Caucus Panels

updated: 
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 8:16am
ASA Educators' Alliance Caucus
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025

The Educators' Alliance Caucus is sponsoring two guaranteed panels for the upcoming American Studies Association Annual Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 20-22, 2025. 

  1. Roundtable: Recent Research on Social Justice Pedagogy and Teaching

WiG 2025 CFP: Cinderella’s Crocs and Birkenstocks: Adaptation as a Queer Feminist Practice

updated: 
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 8:16am
Women in German
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

 Women in German ConferenceNovember 6-9, 2025University of Massachusetts Amherst – Amherst, MA As part of the 50th anniversary of Women in German, this panel is interested in how the material of the past can be transformed into an unexpected, whimsical, and radical future(s) by feminist intervention. It is about past things created anew with revolutionary consequences. We are interested in papers discussing literary adaptations from, between, and into film, television, theater, and other ‘modern’ media which provide a feminist or queer lens to the source text. Feminist and queer adaptations can both enrich an existing text while rejecting to utilize heteronormative, patriarchal, colonial languages that uphold oppressive institutions.

Contemporary Women's Writing Association Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 8:15am
Contemporary Women's Writing Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The Contemporary Women’s Writing Association’s 2025 conference will be an interdisciplinary and global exploration of the role and impact of women’s writing. This conference is dedicated to the discussion of a broad range of women’s writing, includingthe popular and the literary;bestsellers and genres; poetry and prose; screen and script; writing for gamesand digital spaces;creative non-fiction;life-writing, biography, and memoir;and journalism and other forms of cultural production. 

Happy 50th Birthday, Medusa! Celebrating Women’s Writing

updated: 
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 8:15am
MAI Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Fifty years ago Hélène Cixous inspired women to be courageous, expressive, and vocal. Since the publication of her groundbreaking article, ‘The Laugh of Medusa,’ we have undoubtedly made great strides in encouraging women from around the globe to tell their stories in literature, art, academia, film, television, and via a great many of new media. Women’s writing has blossomed, challenged, rebelled, and gained much more visibility as a form of expression, a creative force, and a field of research, giving us many reasons to celebrate this moment in history, even if the current political climate sometimes limits our feelings of hope. 

Tenth International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference, 10/17-18, 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 8:15am
University of Central Oklahoma
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 18, 2025

The International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference is presented by the Women’s Research Center and the BGLTQ+ Student Center at the University of Central Oklahoma with assistance from the UCO chapter of the National Organization for Women. In tandem, these organizations promote engagement with Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies issues.

Book Series in British Romanticism

updated: 
Sunday, January 26, 2025 - 5:38pm
Ben P. Robertson / Troy University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Book proposals are invited for a series called Gender and Culture in the Romantic Era, published by Anthem Press (http://www.anthempress.com/). Gender and Culture in the Romantic Era is a series of scholarly monographs and edited collections devoted to the topics of gender and culture in British poetry, fiction, and drama from roughly 1780 to 1830. In terms of gender, the series encompasses scholarship related to the lives and works of women writers but also includes studies that address broader constructions of gender identity and sexuality.

Representation of Repression in Contemporary Francophone Women Writings.

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:32am
Patience Odeh/ University of Connecticut
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention 2025 (RMMLA)

Women in French

Call for Papers

Representation of Repression in Contemporary Francophone Women Writings.

MLA Special Session Women and Physical Objects

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:32am
2026 MLA Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

2026 MLA Convention in Toronto, Canada, January 8-11, 2026

Special Session Title: Women and Physical Objects

We invite proposals exploring women’s encounters and interactions with physical objects in all literary and cultural products across history and regions. Comparative, interdisciplinary, and transnational approaches are welcome.

Email your 250-word proposal and a 150-word cv to Haihong Yang, hyang@udel.edu and Wanming Wang, wanming.wang@mail.mcgill.ca, by 3/15.

Deadline for submission: March 15, 2025.

[MLA 2026] Comparative Comfort Women Studies

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:32am
Modern Language Association 2026 - Toronto, Canada
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

The scholarly research on Comfort Women studies has grown significantly over the past three decades, focusing on the experiences of women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. Early works primarily centered on the historical and legal aspects, analyzing the testimonies of survivors and the geopolitical ramifications of Japan's wartime actions. Studies such as Yoshimi Yoshiaki's Comfort Women (1995) and the testimonies collected by organizations like the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery highlighted the widespread nature of the system and the ongoing struggles for justice.

Waters: Fluidity and Crossing in Shakespeare and Early Modern Texts

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:31am
IASEMS Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 24, 2025

The Fifteenth IASEMS Conference

University of Salento (Lecce), 16-17 May 2025
Convenors: Maria Luisa De Rinaldis, Maria Renata Dolce and the IASEMS Executive Board

The Fifteenth IASEMS Conference in Lecce, University of Salento, 16-17 May 2025, will investigate the imaginary of waters in Shakespeare and early modern texts, aiming at the exploration of notions of fluidity and crossing. The conference wishes to investigate what meanings, both personal and collective, circulated around ‘water’ in early modern culture, but also to discuss the water-related relevance and value of the ideas of shapelessness and transformation, mutability and sea change as opposed to fixity, solidity, and normativity.

Radical Retellings: New Perspectives on Greek Myth in Contemporary Writing

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:31am
Isabelle Berrow, Zoe Enstone, and Anne-Marie Evans
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 7, 2025

Are Greek myths, as Charlotte Higgins argued for The Guardian in 2021, ‘relevant for all time’? This question relates to the widespread influence of ancient Greek myth in contemporary culture, especially in areas such as literature. The classical stories of Homer and Sophocles, amongst others, are frequently being revised to offer a modern entry point to ancient myth. In recent years, publishing has seen a sharp rise in re-imaginings of Greek myth, and works by Pat Barker, Margaret Atwood, Madeline Miller, Natalie Haynes, Jennifer Saint, Bea Fitzgerald, and Jessie Burton, have all appeared on bestseller lists. 

Call for Chapters | Contemporary Women’s Issues Reflected in Indian Regional Literature

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:25am
Dr. Munish Kumar Thakur / Department of English, IEC University, Baddi, (HP) India
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The edited volume aims to explore the portrayal of contemporary women’s issues as depicted in Indian regional literature. The focus of the volume is to explore how cultural, social, economic, and political issues affecting women are reflected and represented across various Indian languages and regions. This book seeks to bridge the gap between literary studies and gender discourse, emphasizing how literature acts as a mirror to societal transformations and the challenges women face today. The volume will cover diverse genres, including fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiographies, while also addressing regional variations in themes and representations.

The thematic objectives of this edited volume are as follows:

Cultural Texts and Contexts in the English-Speaking World (IX) 2025 Theme: “History Claims Everybody” Online Conference – March 28th, 2025

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:25am
Faculty of Letters, University of Oradea, Romania
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

 

Cultural Texts and Contexts in the English-Speaking World (IX)

2025 Theme: “History Claims Everybody”

Online Conference – March 28th, 2025

Hosted by the English Department of the Faculty of Letters, University of Oradea

 

 

Conference Scope

Trans/Pater

updated: 
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 - 10:24am
The International Walter Pater Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 7, 2025

Call for Papers

  

The Conference of the International Walter Pater Society:

 

 Trans/Pater 

 

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

 

September  5-7, 2025

 

Keynote Speaker:  Hilary Fraser, Birkbeck College, London

 

 

 

[EXTENDED DEADLINE] Humorous Perspectives on Perpetrators--special issue

updated: 
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 - 6:21am
American Studies Program, University of Bucharest
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 20, 2025

This is a Call for Papers for a special issue of the online open-access double-blind peer-reviewed journal [Inter]sections, titled Laughing in the Face of Evil: Humorous Perspectives on Perpetrators in Contemporary American Literature and Popular Culture. We invite papers that ask what humor can contribute to our understanding of perpetrators by examining a selection of works from contemporary American literature and popular culture. Does humor help demythologize certain perpetrators whose international fame turned them into quasi-mythical figures? Can the ownership of humorous content about a traumatic situation or process endured by a specific marginalized community be transferred to other communities?

FORUM Postgraduate Journal: Family, Issue 36

updated: 
Monday, January 20, 2025 - 10:01am
FORUM Postgraduate Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 6, 2025

Call for Papers (Issue 36): Family

The family as an ostensibly biological group has been naturalised as the fundamental unit of collective organisation. Yet, as feminist and queer theorists have endeavoured to show, the family is neither an innocent nor an immutable category. Protecting certain familial structures has long provided justification for the ongoing legal regulation of sex, marriage, and reproduction, making the family a contentious site for feminist, queer, and racially-marked subjects.

Late-Stage American Medicine

updated: 
Monday, January 20, 2025 - 9:59am
American Studies Association (ASA) 2025, San Juan PR
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

This panel will examine the ongoing catastrophe and accelerating devolution of medicine and its attendant practices in contemporary America. How late-stage America undermines health humanities keywords such as empathy, care, healing and the like are appreciated. What ways of "doing otherwise" are becoming evident in terms of medicine and health systems? What does this moment reveal in larger discussions of medicine, national affiliation, individual survival, and neoliberal, anti-democratic empire?

[redacted] for ASA 2025 : extended

updated: 
Sunday, January 19, 2025 - 3:46pm
Roundtable for American Studies Assoc. Conference 11/2025
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025

This roundtable responds to and anticipates the tactics of banning, censure, prohibition, and redaction deployed by conservative institutions of late. From the erasure of gender neutral pronouns by Argentine fascists to the elimination of "Latinx" by state officials in Arkansas, from the outlaw of DEI offices by the incoming Trump regime to Rodrigo Duterte’s genocidal “war on drugs” in the Philippines, it is clear that the right-wing believes deleting a signifier also deletes its referent.

Activating LGBT+: An Online Symposium for LGBT+ History Month

updated: 
Saturday, January 18, 2025 - 10:10am
Canterbury Christ Church University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

A popular t-shirt claims the first Pride was a riot.

During a police raid on the Stonewall Inn on 28 June 1969, some customers fought back. Resistance continued for several nights. Whilst this may have inspired the first Pride march, it was not the first LGBT+ protest.

 

Mapping Memory:Embodied Testimonies of Trauma and Resistance

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 3:12pm
The Literature, Media, and Culture Program & Graduate Literature Organization at Florida State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The body functions as an active agent in generating knowledge, memory, and stories. This year's conference places the relationship between memory and the body at its core, emphasizing how the latter serves as a site of cultural, political, and historical negotiation. The body exerts significant influence on the creation and retrieval of memory, compelling us to critically examine the individual and collective memories produced and transmitted through the embodied experiences of culture, politics, trauma, and (post)nation.

Theorizing the Black Box - ASAP/16, Oct. 2025

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 11:09am
ASAP - The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

CFP for ASAP/16, convening in Houston, TX, 22-25 October 2025

https://www.artsofthepresent.org/conference/asap-16-worldmaking-worldbre...

 

A black box is an abstraction. In systems theory, it names a model for complex exchanges in which mysterious, secret, or unknowable processes alter input stimuli and produce output reactions. The black box’s inner workings cannot be observed directly, only inferred through hypotheses about causes and effects.

PJSA2025: Leveraging Legacies of Peacebuilding in a Precarious Time

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 11:09am
the Peace and Justice Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Leveraging Legacies of Peacebuildingin a Precarious Time

The annual conference of The Peace and Justice Studies Association 

Hosted by the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, Swarthmore College

OCTOBER 9-12, 2025 | Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA


Proposal Submission Deadline: May 1, 2025

Early Bird Registration: May 15 – June 15, 2025

Draft Schedule Released: June 1, 2025

Queerness and Games Conference - Call for Presentations

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 11:07am
Queerness and Games Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 13, 2025

The Queerness and Games Conference (QGCon) is now accepting submissions for presentations at its sixth conference, which will be held on September 26-28, 2025, in Montreal, Quebec. Proposals for talks, pre-constituted panels, workshops, roundtables, and post-mortems are due on April 13th, 2025.
Submit your proposal using this form. Do not use our contact email for submissions.

DEADLINE EXTENDED - Profanity: Redefining the Limits. The F-word across Linguistics, Translation and the Arts

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 11:07am
Artois University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Profanity: Redefining the Limits.

The F-word across Linguistics, Translation and the Arts

The conference is still welcoming proposals in film, lit. and cultural studies focusing on the use of profanity, transgression and "bad language" in general.

LOCATION: Université d’Artois (Arras, France), 24-26 September 2025

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Ambivalent Solidarities: South Asian Women’s Intellectual, Affective and Activist Networks

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 11:05am
Hiya Chatterjee; Sreejata Paul
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 10, 2025

Ambivalent Solidarities: South Asian Women’s Intellectual, Affective and Activist Networks

 

Editors:

Hiya Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Swarnamoyee Jogendranath Mahavidyalaya, Vidyasagar University

Sreejata Paul, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Shiv Nadar University Delhi-NCR

 

 

 

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