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The Fourth International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA)
MSIA 2025 – Modernism and Language
June 26-27, 2025
Ewha Womans University
Keynote Speakers
Call for Papers
This roundtable invites proposals that explore the intersection of visual, aural, and verbal frontiers. Although ekphrasis and musical form mirror words, they directly affect the emotions at a primordial level not available to verbal articulation. Ekphrasis translates words into visual images, whereas musical form translates them into sounds and rhythms. What are the differences between these modes of expression and how they affect their audiences?
This roundtable is part of NeMLA's 56th annual convention, to be held in Philadelphia, PA, March 3-6, 2025. To submit propoosals, follow these steps.
Navigate to nemla.org
Navigate to Convention>Call for Proposals>Ekphrasis and the Music of Literature
5th Singapore Literature Conference August 2, 2025
Poetry Festival Singapore (PFS) and the Singapore Literature Conference (SLC) are commemorating Singapore's 60th anniversary of independence with the theme "Verse Nation."
Literary forms like the poems, novels, and short stories are often understood to be stand-ins for political resistance in critical theoretical debates especially since the dominance of post-al theories within literature departments. For literary forms emerging in the peripheries of the literary world system yoked by the global literary marketplace, the signification of resistance acts as a marker of value. This is superimposed on the idea of literary forms emerging from the peripheral locales of the literary world system that are read as derivative and mimetic of literary forms emerging from the core of the same system.
Steve Tomasula: The Art of Representation
June 12 and 13 2025, The University of Chicago in Paris, in the presence of the author
Keynote speakers: David Banash (Western Illinois University), Mary K. Holland (State University of New York, New Paltz)
Organized jointly by several institutions (Université Paris Cité, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, Sorbonne Université, Université de Rennes, Université de Rouen, Université de Strasbourg), this is the first international conference devoted to the work of Steve Tomasula.
Conference online: 17-18 October 2024
Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Dr. Ricardo Rato Rodrigues – Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland
CFP:
HENRY MILLER'S PLACE IN THE 21ST CENTURY
From 16-19 October of 2025, Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal and the
Henry Miller MemorialLibrary will host aconference at Asilomar in Pacific Grove,
California, with an excursion to the Henry MillerMemorial Library in Big Sur. We will
examine Miller in light of contemporary thinking, asking the question: Is Henry
Miller relevant today?
Although presentations on any aspect of Miller's writing, artwork, and life are
welcomed, the conference organizers particularlyencourage consideration of the
theme of Miller's place in the 21st Century.
Topics for presentations might include, but are not limited to:
In the last few years, increasing recourse to ever more efficient technologies and artificial intelligence has radically changed the interpreting and translating professions, triggering an evolution process whose outcomes are currently difficult to predict, but what is certain is that translators and interpreters have to do their best to respond to the changing requirements of a highly diversified market.
NB! Abstracts have to be submitted through the ACLA webpage. Go to https://www.acla.org/aesthetic-experience-reading-practices-and-literary... and click the link at the top pf the CfP
In 1931, Antonin Artaud envisioned a radically innovative form of theatre after witnessing a performance by a Balinese troupe at the Colonial Exposition in Paris. While this event is widely acknowledged among arts and humanities scholars, its specific details – such as the precise content of the performance and the identities of the performers – are overlooked, thus exemplifying the ambivalent nature of the circulation of performing arts from colonized and/ or marginalized regions. Throughout history, how have conflicting global power structures and unequal socio-political conditions shaped the flow, interpretation, and reception of works, artists, aesthetics and practices from the so-called peripheries in Europe and the United States?
We are officially extending the Due Date for CFP to OCTOBER 31, 2024!
The American Academy of Religion, Western Region (AAR-WR), is delighted to announce its annual Call for Papers (CFP) for its 2025 Conference, which will be held at Arizona State University. It will be an in-person conference with some hybrid capabilities.
Call for Papers: American Academy of Religion, Western Region 2025 Annual Conference - "Performing Religions, Faith, and Spirituality"
Dates: March 14-16, 2025
Location: Arizona State University
Abstract Submission Deadline: October 31st, 2024
David Damrosch (2003) describes world literature as “a mode of circulation and of reading” (5) and “writing that gains in translation” (281). This perspective has long dominated the discourse on world literature and has been widely expanded upon by scholars. Building on this foundation, Tong King Lee (2024) proposes that in today’s globalized context, circulating literature necessitates not only a mode of reading but also a mode of doing. In this view, a literary work becomes a Barthian Text—an interconnected network of “texts” that manifest in various forms (multilingual, multimodal, or multimedial), shaped by users rather than just readers.
In an ideal situation, learning leads to knowledge and knowledge raises awareness. Set within the context of the past, this simple statement leads us to consider a range of different questions. How did medieval and early modern people learn and what did they learn? How did they teach and what did they teach? Who was taught and who was not? Who decided what was to be taught? Such questions, among others, help us understand the process of how learning and knowledge was acquired in the premodern world. But it also helps us better appreciate what we know about the premodern world and what people were trying to achieve when they set out to gain knowledge about their world and the society they lived in.
UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND
2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference
Theme: Language, disciplinarity and knowledge production in Africa
Hosted by the Department of English, UNIZULU
Conference Dates: 29 May - 01 June 2025
This session seeks to examine how Dostoevsky's portrayal of love and death reflects his broader philosophical concerns and how these themes interact within his narrative structures. Although this session primarily aims to explore the themes of love and death in the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, papers on other Russian authors will also be considered.
Dear colleagues,
Please find below the links to the call for papers of the international conference "Political Speeches in Film" which will take place at the Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France on March 17, 18, 2025:
https://idea.univ-lorraine.fr/sites/default/files/2024-04/CFP%20-%20Political%20Speeches%20in%20Film%20-%20EN-1_0.pdf (English version)
New Metal Worlds. Building Bridges and Mending Broken Backs
The International Society for Metal Music Studies (ISMMS) and Metal Music Studies-Spain, in collaboration with the University of Seville, the Complutense University of Madrid, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the University of Granada, the University of Córdoba, the University of Jaén, the University of Oviedo, and the University of La Laguna, invites applications in response to the Call for Proposals 2025 for ISMMS’ 7th Biennial International Research Conference. The event will be held in Seville, Spain, 3-6 June, 2025 (and virtually) under the theme:
NEW METAL WORLDS
BUILDING BRIDGES AND MENDING BROKEN BACKS
47th Comparative Drama Conference
July 9-11, 2025
London, England
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the Comparative Drama Conference 2025 will be hosted by the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and will be held in Europe for the first time in its near 50-year history.
Chronotopic revisions, embodiment, and adaptation in Shakespeare-inspired dance pieces.
ESRA conference, Porto, July 9-12, 2025
Call for Papers
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
Annual Conference
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024
“Odd Temporalities”
ACLA 2025, to be held virtually from May 29 to June 1, 2025
Call for Papers:
The International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML) will be hosted outside of Europe for the first time since its inception in Glasgow in 1980. Universidad Externado de Colombia is the proud host of this opportunity to bring together expertise from more than two continents, to share experiences and research regarding minority/minoritized languages. The ample linguistic diversity of the American/Abya Yala continent provides challenges, but also great examples of intercultural dialogue and multilingual cohabitation. ICML will be a great opportunity for knowledges to be exchanged, academic and practitioner experiences shared, and dialogues fostered.
Concept Note:
Contemporary translation theory reflects the breakdown in the traditional dichotomy “author” versus “translator,” since it views the translator no longer as a subordinate figure to the author, but as an equal co-creator of the literary work, who rewrites the original text in another language and thus actively participates in the creative process. How does attention to this changing relationship between the author and the translator help with understanding of the creation and interpretation of meaning and the subsequent longevity of the translated work in a new environment?
47th Annual Comparative Drama Conference
Conference Dates: July 9-11, 2025
Location: London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art - London, England
Deadline for Abstract Submission: January 15, 2025
Disability Studies in Dramatic Texts and Performance
The Hulu adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale has enjoyed unprecedented academic and popular international success, with the first season winning eight out of thirteen Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Elizabeth Moss. Therefore, there will be a variety of papers presented, from the fields of literature, language, film studies, and fashion, by postgraduate students and academics at various stages in their career. The Symposium is supported by research funding by Northumbria University and represents two research groups, ‘Gendered Subjects’ and ‘Modern and Contemporary Writings’. It is also endorsed by The Margaret Atwood Society.
Pleasure and / in Historical Fictions
One-Day Online Workshop of the Historical Fictions Research Network
30 November 2024 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)
15 min talks
The Historical Fictions Research Network, an interdisciplinary and international network of scholars examining historical fictions, i.e. narratives of the past in a variety of popular media, is happy to organise its second one-day workshop on the topic of “Pleasure and / in Historical Fictions”.
Call for Papers – Medical and Health Humanities: Global Perspectives 2025
Doha, State of Qatar
7-8 February, 2025
The 3rd international conference on Medical and Health Humanities: Global Perspectives 2025 in Doha, Qatar on February 7-8, 2025 invites abstracts for oral presentations and posters on the topics of: narrative medicine, medical sociology, philosophy of medicine, medical ethics and narrative ethics, literature and medicine, arts therapies and arts-in-health, healthcare communication, the history of medicine and other humanistic initiatives in health and medicine.
Panel for the 2025 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) annual meeting (online, May 29 - June 1, 2025).
Organizers: Ragini Chakraborty (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and Sofía Forchieri (Radboud University)
Deadline for proposing a paper: October 14, 2024
To propose a paper, please visit the ACLA website: https://www.acla.org/annual-meeting (the portal for submitting an abstract will open on September 13)