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Howells Society CFPs for ALA 2025 (Boston)
The W.D. Howells Society will host two panels at the American Literature Association’s 36th annual conference, which will meet at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, May 21-24, 2025 (Wednesday through Saturday of Memorial Day weekend).
PANEL 1: HOWELLS & OTHERS
To mark the conclusion of a biennial research carried out by four Italian Universities (Siena, Turin, Florence, and Naples “L’Orientale”), the scientific committee of the PRIN 2022 Project Monsters, Sorcerers, and Witches of Northwestern Europe: The Medieval and Early Modern Construction of Otherness in Literature for Popular Audiences invites abstract submissions for a three-day international conference, to be hosted at the University of Siena on 9-11 July 2025.
Conference online: 13-14 February 2025
CFP:
Ege University 20th Cultural Studies Symposium
AI & Cultural Production
6-8 May 2026
Call for Papers
IABA European Conference
Life Writing, and Social Transformation
July 23 to 26, 2025
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra
Call for papers until 15 January 2025
We are pleased to announce that the next IABA Europe Conference will be held at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra in partnership with the Centre for Social Studies, 23-26 July 2025. We invite proposals for individual papers or panels of 3-4 papers as well as round-table suggestions on the theme of the Conference: “Life Writing and Social Transformation”.
Conference online (via Zoom): 13-14 February 2025
Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
ABOUT CONFERENCE:
EXTENDED DEADLINE (JANUARY 31)
2-4 July 2025
Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació.
Av. de Blasco Ibáñez, 32, València
Universitat de València (Spain)
The International T. S.
For a long time, historians showed limited interest in studying the history of the extreme right after 1945. In recent years, however, there has been a significant upsurge in the research on this topic. The rise of extreme-right movements and political parties has spurred numerous research projects, especially in Germany. These projects explore not only the aftermath of National Socialism, but also the emergence of a so-called New Right within the framework of democratic societies. Similar research initiatives have also gained momentum in countries such as France, Italy, Austria, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, reflecting the growing influence of the extreme right across Europe.
Digital platforms have never been a gender-neutral space, not only in the sense that they bring different experiences to people of different gender identities, but also because it has been structured in gendered ways—no matter it’s the gender imbalance existing in technology design teams, the gender-specific target audience segmentation, or third-parties’ involvement in reinforcing gender norms. Its gendered structures have also been further complicated by users’ actions. Instead of accepting gendered platforms as a default design, we encourage presentations to think of platforms as a cultural form that embodies larger social and political structures.
29th Meeting of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy
“Justice Centering Marginal Voices”
May 22–24, 2025 in person at Denison University
(with hybrid online access by Zoom)
Theorizing Zombiism IV: Fast Zombie/SLO Zombie
DEADLINE EXTENSION
California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly)
Department of English
San Luis Obispo (SLO)
California
Provisional Date: 18-19 July, 2025
Making Visible: Disability Representations in Popular Culture
Department of Englishi n collaboration with IQAC
Gargi College, University of Delhi
21-22 February, 2025
Conference in Hybrid Mode for participants residing outside Delhi
Registration link for Abstracts/ Fees for Successful Applicants/ Participants:
Concept Note
We are pleased to announce that the 41st International Conference on Psychology and the Arts will be held at Amsterdam University College (AUC), Science Park 113, 1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 27-June 30, 2025. With a commitment to excellence, diversity and the global perspective, AUC is a modern, public liberal arts college founded in 2009 as a joint initiative of the University of Amsterdam (auc.nl) and VU Amsterdam (vu.nl).
“Beyond Labels”: International Conference
on Disability, Different Ability and Neurodiversity
London/Online: 13-14 September 2025
Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2025
Conference website: https://diversity.lcir.co.uk
Disability, different ability and neurodiversity are concepts that traverse boundaries, challenging disciplines to rethink foundational assumptions about identity, culture and power. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring together scholars from different fields to critically examine the shifting narratives, representations and lived experiences surrounding ability and difference.
“The Uncanny in Language, Literature and Culture”
International Conference
Malta/Online: 22-23 August 2025
Deadline for proposals: 20 March 2025
Conference website: https://uncanny.lcir.co.uk
The uncanny captures the unsettling and the eerie—a feeling that defies boundaries between the familiar and the strange. Rooted in Freud’s exploration, the uncanny reveals how what is known and intimate can suddenly become alien, evoking dread and unease. Everyday objects, spaces, and experiences that once offered comfort transform into symbols of danger, disrupting not only our external environments but also the landscapes of our inner selves.
International Conference on Postcolonial Studies:
"Trajectories and Transitions of (Post)Colonialism"
London/Online: 26-27 July 2025
Deadline for proposals: 30 April 2025
Conference website: https://postcolonialism.lcir.co.uk
The conference will explore the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies and it will focus on the impact colonialism had on political, social, economic and cultural domains. It will examine various forms of colonial domination and control as well as theories and practices of resistance.
“Money Beyond Numbers”:
International Conference on Money, Markets and Meaning
London/Online: 19-20 July 2025
Deadline for proposals: 15 April 2025
Conference website: https://money.lcir.co.uk
Money holds immense power — not just as a medium of exchange but as a cultural symbol, a psychological force, and a social construct. How do we ascribe meaning to money, and how does it shape our identities, relationships and values? What narratives and myths surround its use, accumulation and distribution? From its role in consumer culture to its depiction in literature, art and media, money permeates every aspect of human life, embodying ideals of wealth, power and morality.
“The Politics of Emotion: Affect, Identity and Power”
International Conference
London/Online: 12-13 July 2025
Deadline for proposals: 15 April 2025
Conference website: https://emotions.lcir.co.uk
“Migrating World”: International Conference
on Migration, Identity and Belonging
London/Online: 5-6 July 2025
Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2025
Conference website: https://integration.lcir.co.uk
"Discourses on Motherhood" International Conference
London/Online: 28-29 June 2025
Deadline for proposals: 20 January 2025
Conference website: https://genderstudies.lcir.co.uk
This conference aims at exploring motherhood and its diverse cultural representations, while interrogating the ways in which such representations impact on individual and collective experiences of motherhood. Thus, we attempt at examining motherhood both as a personal experience and as an institution, as well as observing the nuances involved in the interaction between both.
"The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place"
International Conference
London/Online: 21-22 June 2025
Deadline for proposals: 1 March 2025
Conference website: https://memory.lcir.co.uk
"Digital Dilemmas: Technology, Identity and Society"
International Conference
London/Online: 14-15 June 2025
Deadline for proposals: 20 March 2025
Conference website: https://digital-dilemmas.lcir.co.uk
5th International Conference on the Philosophy of Language, Literature, and Linguistics (ICPL 2025)
This is a hybrid event and in-person event will be held at Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China from May 8 to 10, 2025.
Deep Time in Irish Literature, Culture, Media, and the Arts
In considering the ecocritical urgency of Irish texts, past and present—including characters such as the geographer-protagonist of Caoilinn Hughes’s 2024 novel The Alternatives—we invite papers that consider deep time and its uses in Irish literature, culture, media, and the arts. Topics across genres and time periods may include the human and nonhuman, periodization and cosmic/ancestral time, Irish legend and folklore in deep time, traditions of prehistory, seeds, agriculture, stones, gems, the bog and bog bodies, fossils, climate change, and the anthropocene.
The Humanities Center at Texas Tech Annual Conference 2025:
“Celebrating Indigenous Resilience”
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
April 5, 2025
Keynote Speaker:
David Treuer,
National Book Award Finalist,
Author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee:
Native America from 1890 to the Present
Professor of English, University of Southern California
Dr. K. R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
Call for Papers
National Conference of Research Scholars
Vision of a Viksit Bharat: Challenges, Initiatives, Strategies
24-25 February, 2025
Theme: Society, Citizens, Development
Eligibility: PhD Scholars registered in any University or Research Institution
CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference at Al Al-Bayt University, 8-9 April 2025
Languages in the Digital World
As part of this conference, several discussion topics will be open to contributors. The following list is not exhaustive, but its main axes will allow for the identification of assessments, the evaluation of ongoing data, and the outlining of perspectives for the future.
In order to provide the broadest possible picture of the multiple dimensions of the interaction between living languages and the digital world, the debates will focus on these areas, which present as many opportunities as challenges for our societies.
The “Hotels, Inns and Motels” International Conference in Toulouse invites scholars to reflect upon the way places of temporary hospitality have structured space and displacements in English-speaking countries and therefore reveal the stakes and forms of hospitality. From medieval inns to the motel chains dotting the endless US interstate landscapes, these spaces offer a temporary home to their dwellers, and perform commercial, social, political and symbolic functions that so far have not been studied thoroughly.
The aim of the conference is to explore how these places, and the people who designed them, work or live there, can reflect or create conceptions of hospitality that provide insight into a given society or a period.