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An Archipelagic Turn and the “Other Asias”: Planetary Care in Literature, Politics, Culture

August 4-6, 2025

Jeju National University

South Korea

Keynote: Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University, US

The Critical Island Studies Consortium announces a conference that aims to fundamentally challenge and reconceptualize our understanding of “Asia” by privileging an archipelagic perspective

This prospective Panel-Session at the Modern Language Association (MLA) 2026 Convention will Focus on Decipherment of Multiple-Births in Literature, with Themes such as Bonding and Resemblance. I Invite Scholarship through Lenses such as Literary-Criticism, Genetics, Psychoanalysis, etc. Please Submit an Abstract of 250-300 Words to padmini.sukumaran@gmail.com.

The Academic Association for Doctoral Students & Students of English (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń) is pleased to announce the call for papers for the online young researchers’ conference to be held on 22 May 2025 and the journal issue (Currents No 11) on the themes of adaptation and innovation within Anglophone language, culture and literature.

  ‘Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.’

~ H.G. Wells Mind at the End of Its Tether

This prospective Panel-Session at the Modern Language Association (MLA) 2026 Convention will Focus on Decipherment of Multiple-Births in Literature, with Themes such as Bonding and Resemblance. I Invite Scholarship through Lenses such as Literary-Criticism, Genetics, Psychoanalysis, etc. Please Submit an Abstract of 250-300 Words to padmini.sukumaran@gmail.com.

CFP: PAMLA 2025 

Seriality, Repetition, and Adaptation in 21st-Century Storytelling  

Special Session for Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association

Location: San Francisco, California at the InterContinental San Francisco Hotel

Conference: Thursday, November 20 through Sunday, November 23, 2025. 

Abstract Submission Deadline: May 15, 2025

Presiding officer: 

Mavis Tseng, 

Associate Professor, Director of the Language Center

Taipei Medical University

mavistseng@tmu.edu.tw

Abstract

The first Canadian conference on agri-food and rural advisory, extension, and education (CAREE) will be held at the University of Guelph, 29-31 October 2025. The conference theme is extension 4.0: disruption and transformation in agri-food and rural development. It highlights the growing recognition of the Canadian approach to agri-food development. The conference addresses an overarching scholarly and policy discussion, both globally and regionally, that has long been captivated by a compelling question: Does Canada have an effective agri-food and rural extension and advisory service?

Held previously in renowned locations like Beirut, Almeria, Barcelona, and Tenerife, MIFS is now set to take place at the University of Catania, Italy. The conference fosters academic networking and critical thinking through the presentation of research articles across various social sciences and humanities disciplines. Over the years, hundreds of papers have been presented and published in open-access format after undergoing a rigorous peer-review process.

MIFS welcomes scholars from a wide range of fields to participate in this vibrant intellectual exchange. Join us at the upcoming conference and contribute to the ongoing discourse in the social sciences and humanities!

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  Mode: Blended (Online & Offline)

Two-Day International Seminar & Workshop On

Indian Drama: Society-Culture, Tradition and Heritage Organized by

Ateswartala Sanskritik Manch, Radhakantapur, Raidighi, South 24 Parganas

In collaboration with

Department of Bengali, Vidyasagar University, Paschim Medinipur

and

Jana Sanskriti, Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed

PAMLA 2025 San Francisco: “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion”

The 122nd annual PAMLA Conference will be held between November 20-23, 2025 at the InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California.

PAMLA welcomes special session proposals for the 2025 PAMLA conference in San Francisco, California on topics of scholarly interest that are not too close to the topics of our general (standing) sessions (see below to find a list of PAMLA’s general/standing sessions).

An International Conference

On

Labouring Bodies in South Asian Films and Filmmaking: From Beginning to Now.

Organized by

The Cultural Studies Cell, School of Arts and Humanities, Christ University, Bengaluru

Conference Dates: 19 & 20 June 2025

“Pause to think a hundred times, a thousand times, on the doorstep of the film factory.”

Viktor Shklovsky: The Film Factory (1927)

                                                       Calls for Papers for the 2026 MLA Convention

                                                                       January 8-11, Toronto

                                                                   The Doris Lessing Society

1       Doris Lessing the Storyteller: Literature and Social Change

The goal is to explore the ways in which Lessing uses fiction for social transformation through the elaboration and dissemination of knowledge, e.g., self-education, constructing knowledge, questioning moral/political values, and the relationship to language.

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 23 March 2025

Keywords: Colonialism, Hauntings, Postcolonial, Memory, Imperial, Afterlives, Bodies, Narratives 

Empire's ghosts persist beyond colonial rule, manifesting as hauntings that collapse the distance between past and present. These specters transform the immaterial into tangible forces that infiltrate daily life. The colonial past is never truly gone; it lingers, erupting through material and psychic traces.

2025 Situations International Conference

Precarity and Injustice: A Global Reckoning of Our Time

October 23-24, 2025

Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica,

Taipei, Taiwan

Conference: 24-25 April 2025 (online - via Zoom)

Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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