CfP International conference “Writing Meritocracy: Figurations of a Concept Across Literary History and Contexts of Literary Production”

Vrije Universiteit Brussels, 18-20 September 2025

This conference explores the role of literature in constructing, circulating, and critiquing meritocratic thought across historical periods and cultural contexts. We invite papers examining literary representations of meritocracy, its impact on literary production and reception, and the ways literature challenges or sustains meritocratic paradigms. Contributions focusing on non-Western, premodern, and transcultural perspectives are especially welcome.

Submission deadline: 15 March 2025
Apply here: https://events.vub.be/merlit-conference-abstract-submission-form

Full call can be found here.

Call for Abstracts: NITS conference (June 6, Tilburg University)

Date: Friday, 6th June 2025
Location: Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands
Website: https://nitsnetwork.github.io

The Network of Interdisciplinary Translation Studies (NITS) in the Netherlands and Flanders is pleased to
announce its fourth annual meeting, hosted by the Inclusive and Sustainable Machine Translation (ISMT)
research group of the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence at Tilburg University.

We invite submissions for presentations on topics including, but not limited to:
● Interdisciplinary approaches in Translation Studies
● Innovations in Interpreting Studies
● Advancements in Machine Translation
● Developments in Translation Technology
● Pedagogical innovations in translation and interpreting education
● Collaborative projects between Translation Studies and other disciplines

Submission Guidelines:
● Abstracts: Please submit an abstract of up to 300 words outlining your proposed presentation.
● Format: Abstracts should be submitted as text.
● Submission Portal: The submission form can be found here.

Abstract Submission Deadline: 02 May 2025

The full call can be found here.

DEADLINE EXTENDED – Open Call – Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings – Issue 11.1 (Spring 2026)

The Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (ISSN 2506-8709) offers an online publication platform to researchers who wish to explore various aesthetic ‘crossings’ concerning media, genres and/or spaces. Targeted squarely at investigating the ‘in-between,’ the journal seeks contributions from scholars broadly covering medial, literary, generic, spatial and cultural crossings that bridge a plurality of potential discourses, modalities, and methodologies. We particularly welcome articles focusing on e.g. intra-, inter- and transmedial phenomena, hypermedia, genre hybridization and mixing, (inter-/cross-)cultural exchange, networks, interactions, contact zones, entanglements, cross-border movements, multilingualism, transnationality, topographies, etc. JLIC publishes two issues a year and has a running open call.

We welcome contributions between 5,000 and 6,000 words (references and footnotes included) in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian or Spanish. All manuscripts are peer-reviewed. JLIC supports textual as well as multi-media formatting. All work submitted to JLIC should reference and be formatted according to our Author Guidelines. Articles should be submitted in Word format and figures, video and audio files etc. should be saved separately from the text.

The deadline for full articles is 15 June 2025.

Please send an abstract of maximum 350 words (in English and, if applicable, also in the language of your article, i.e. Dutch, French, German, Italian or Spanish), a list of 3-5 keywords (in the same (two) language(s)) and a 100-word author bio (in English only) to jlic@vub.be by 21 april 2025. The editorial board will notify all contributors who applied by 20 February 2025.

More information can be found here.