international conferences

International T. S. Eliot Society Annual Meeting

Registration for the Society’s 2025 meeting is now open! We invite you to join us at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, on July 2–5 for the 46th annual gathering of the International T. S. Eliot Society.

The MLA Drama and Performance Forum is currently accepting proposals for the two panels it is sponsoring for the 2026 conference in Toronto: https://www.mla.org/Events/2026-MLA-Convention.

Crowd Work: Audiences in Drama and Performance

How do drama and performance engage audiences as spectators and participants? What work does the audience do and how is it negotiated across local, transnational, economic, generic, or mediatized performance and reception contexts?

Please submit brief bios and 200-word proposals.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 21 March 2025

When

May 17, 2025

Where

University of California, Los Angeles

Submission Deadline

Mar 21, 2025

Southern California Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (SCULC), hosted by the UCLA Linguistics Department and the Bruin Linguists Society, will take place on May 17, 2025. SCULC was founded in 2010 to foster a collaborative, student-run conference for the undergraduate linguistics community.

Deadline Extended to 3/14

Fermentation and Literature 

Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus

April 24th-25th with optional visit to winery or brewery on Saturday the 26th

The 1516 German Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot) limited the ingredients of beer to barley, hops, and water. Yet, this restriction overlooks the invisible and essential agent behind fermentation: yeast. Only centuries later was yeast recognized as the microorganism that drives fermentation. Prior to its discovery, fermentation was often attributed to divine or spontaneous forces, with no understanding of the microbiological agents at play.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, March 14, 2025

•  The symposium offers the flexibility of both in-person and virtual participation.
• In our commitment to accessibility and inclusivity, we are pleased to offer free registration for all accepted presenters.
• For any questions or concerns, please contact the symposium organizers at kurulsekreterya@diyanet.gov.tr

 URL: https://etkinlik.diyanet.gov.tr/

Important Dates:

Abstract Submissions Due

March 14, 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.

Call for Papers - IEEE AI Test 2025

"6th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Testing"

July 21-24, 2025 | Tucson, Arizona, United States

As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies continue to evolve and integrate into various applications, ensuring their reliability, robustness, and security is critical. The 6th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Testing (AI TEST 2025) serves as a premier venue for researchers, practitioners, and industry leaders to exchange insights, methodologies, and innovations in AI testing and validation.

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.

This is a special panel proposed for MLA Conference 2026 in Toronto, Canada (Scheduled from January 8 – 11). This panel focuses on the entangled legacies of colonialism, environmental degradation, and forced migration in contemporary literature and cinema. It interrogates how literary texts reimagine the relationship between ecological crises and human displacement, foregrounding the uneven impacts of climate change, resource extraction, and border regimes on postcolonial subjects.

Abstract should focus on the following areas (not limited to):

Postcolonial ecologies

Postcolonial disasters and indigenous knowledge

Postcolonial borders and geopolitics

Decolonialization and resistance

Call for Papers – IEEE AI Standard 2025

"Advancing AI Standardization & Quality Assurance"

Exciting News! Submissions are now open for IEEE AI-Standard 2025 - The IEEE Conference on AI Standardization and Quality Assurance. The conference serves as a global platform for AI researchers, industry leaders, policymakers, and technology developers to discuss and shape the future of AI standardization, governance, and quality assurance.

Nabokov’s defense of personal freedom is well documented, but little has been written about his social commitments. Papers are invited on Nabokov’s works demonstrating concern for others: family, community, hospitality, mutual aid, solidarity, etc. Please send 250-word proposals by March 21.

Call for Papers: The Atomic Age in 1950s Literature and Culture

International Network of Nineteen-Fifties Culture (INNC) 3rd Annual Symposium

Call for Papers: The Atomic Age in 1950s Literature and Culture

Date: 19 September 2025

Location: Online

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr Gabrielle Decamous, Kyushu University, Japan, author of Invisible Colors: The Arts of the Atomic Age (2019)

We are excited to announce the upcoming International Conference on Regional Language, Literature, and Culture: A Vision of Developed Bharat-Shining Bharat, which will be held on 3rd-4th April 2025 at Galgotias University, Greater Noida. This prestigious event is proudly sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) and aims to celebrate and showcase the rich diversity of India’s regional languages, literatures, and cultures, while contributing to the vision of a culturally vibrant and cohesive Bharat.

"I put a lot more value on the animal than I do my name" - The (Un)Importance of Inheritance in Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove

Of all the turbulent family relationships found within Larry McMurtry's novels, Lonesome Dove (1985) contains perhaps their bleakest depiction. From dead mothers, distant fathers and misunderstood inheritences, fractured families abound throughout the Lonesome Dove tetralogy and its adaptations, bringing a level of irony to the miniseries' status as a family classic.