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Visualization and imagination have long been recognized as vital to the act of reading. While Russian Formalist Viktor Shklovsky may have denounced the maxim "Art is thinking in images" in his seminal essay "Art as Device" (1917), in favor of strategies of defamiliarization, m
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Politics of Care in Higher Education: Pedagogies, Communities, and Institutional Tensions
Eds. Gretta Sayers, Dominique Hétu, and Mousumi Majumder
This edited collection offers a timely contribution to the growin
Read moreN/A · NeMLA
"The decline of print as our culture's primary means of codifying, presenting, and preserving information isn't merely a methodological change; it is an epistemological transformation" - Dana Gioia
This panel explores how oral traditions, performance poetry, a
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"One of my life’s ambition[s] has been to remember what others have forgotten or chosen to forget—to give our people a voice and a modicum of humanity, to give them a place at the table of history...history doesn’t only belong to the victors but to the vanqui
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Originating as a European art movement, magical realism evolved as a genre during Latin America’s El Boom, which marked its worldwide recognition. Authors today, including Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez, have adapted the genre to form a community
Read moreN/A · NeMLA
Official histories and colonial archives have determined whose voices are silenced or heard, and what becomes recognized as historical truth. In this process, the memories of marginalized communities, whether colonized or indigenous, have frequently been sidelined or erased. I
Read moreBoston, MA · Popular Culture Association
PCA True Crime CFP 2027
PCA/ACA will be held from March 24-27th, 2027 in Boston, MA
The True Crime area co-chairs invite papers and presentations on all aspects of True Crime, including but not limited to analysis and interpretations across a range of media suc
Read moreGwangju (South Korea) · International Sociological Association
The abolition of racial slavery in the nineteenth century aligned with universal liberal norms of human freedom and equality but did not merely fulfill those norms. Processes of slaves’ emancipation resulted instead in the reconstitution of racial hierarchies and subjuga
Read moreHouston · ACLA
The 1980s represent a critical, yet highly under-researched decade in film studies. Frequently obscured by the towering grandeur of earlier revolutionary eras or the subsequent post-socialist New Waves of the 2000s, 1980s cinema across the socialist bloc suffers from low histo
Read moreLudhiana (Punjab) · SCD Govt. College
India's civilizational ethos is deeply rooted in its multilingual and multicultural fabric, where translation has enabled the circulation of ideas, texts, and knowledge across regions and traditions. Etymologically understood as "carrying across," translation in the 21st centu
Read moreNewport, Rhode Island, USA · Northeast Modern Language Association/NeMLA
This VIRTUAL panel invites papers on “Narrative Medicine and Community Empowerment in Asian and Arab Graphic Narratives for NeMLA 58th Annual Convention to be held on March 6-9, 2027.
“Recent scholarship on increasing global conflicts and ensuing hea
Read moreNewport, RI · NeMLA
Rethinking Cultural Mediation in Global Media
NeMLA 2027 — Panel
How does culture change as it travels across languages, media, technologies, and national borders? What roles do translators, audiences, institutions, platforms, and emerging technolog
· The Northeast Modern Language Association
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This panel examines how colonial regimes constructed, managed, and contested the category of “indigeneity as a shifting site of power, governance, and resistance. Focusing on the Spanish colonial presence in Morocco (1859—1
N/A · Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Cultural Studies and Media Studies / Interdisciplinary Humanities
This seminar opens up discussions on past and ongoing debates around indigeneity and indigenous lives. In America, the aboriginals assumed the title “First Nations to distinguish t
Read moreNewport, RI, USA · NeMLA
Somewhere in Morocco, a woman wakes up before dawn to open her cooperative. Somewhere in Africa, a young entrepreneur pitches his logistics startup to investors who have never been to his neighborhood. None of these people would see themselves as leaders in the usual way. Yet,
Read moreNewport, RI, USA · NeMLA
À travers le temps et l'espace, les femmes ont traversé différentes transformations, visibles et invisibles, qui les ont tour à tour élevées au rang d'êtres divines, de saintes vénérées et de guérisseu
Read moreOnline · NeMLA
Critical disability studies and the medical humanities have generated growing interest within cultural and literary studies in the past decade. Yet scholars in these fields tend to engage with disability and illness either thematically, examining their representations in liter
Read moreSalve Regina University · NeMLA
The term “transgressive fiction was coined in 1993 by LA Times columnist Michael Silverblatt to describe a loosely related coterie of authors in the ‘80s and ‘90s whose writing has “violation at its core: violation of norms, of humanistic enterpr
Read moreNewport, RI · NeMLA
What are the main avenues of innovation in language learning communities of 2027? How do we as language pedagogues lean in on culture and interculturality as a source of strength and empowerment in our programs, in order to collaborate with all stakeholders and foster innovati
Read moreBoston, Massachusetts · Popular Culture Association
The 2027 Conference of the Popular Culture Association (PCA) will host a special topic area on UFOs, Cryptids, Conspiracies, and the Paranormal.
The organizers of the PCA’s special topic on UFOs, Cryptids, Conspiracies, and the Paranormal w
Read more· American Comparative Literature Association
“We are now in the middle of a deep and decisive moment towards a more disciplinary, authoritarian kind of society, says Stuart Hall in his speech for Human Rights Day in 1979 (78). He proceeds to explain the components and manifestations of this “crisis,&rd
Read moreNewport, RI · NeMLA
Silences as Resistance in Public Narratives
Silence is generally seen as something to surmount: we break silence; we give voice to silenced stories; we speak out against injustice. But silence can be a powerful mode of expression in its own right. Ther
Read moreSalve Regina University, Newport, RI · NeMLA
Despite possessing intersecting histories and languages, Latin American studies and Latinx studies have historically been treated as separate fields of study. This panel seeks to spark a dialogue between fields by exploring themes of transhemispheric and archipelagic solidarit
Read more· Public Humanities
Public Humanities invites submissions for the upcoming themed issue Memorial Culture in Public Art, which will be guest edited by Rebecca Friedman and Alex Lichenstein.
The deadline for submissions is October 15, 2026.
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Read moreOnline · American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Emotions continue to attract critical attention across disciplines. Scholars have noted the growing prominence of emotion in media, politics, and internet culture, which some describe as an “emotionalization of social life (Yanacek 2026). Over the past three decad
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