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).
You may still submit a proposal for a special session: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/
Special session and paper submissions are not limited to the theme of this year’s conference, “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion.” But if you’d like to touch on the theme that would be most welcome.
While we welcome special sessions on a wide range of topics, we are particularly interested in special session proposals that engage with the 2025 PAMLA Conference theme.
Our theme will be “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion.” PAMLA welcomes special session proposals on a wide array of creative, scholarly, literary, filmic, or cultural topics. Palimpsest-focused submissions related to thematics of remembering, forgetting, erasure, and lingering presences from the past are particularly welcome. However, we also encourage proposals that lie beyond this focus (please review our standing session topics so as to avoid undue overlap with our standing session topics: https://www.pamla.org/about/constitution-bylaws/).
The 2025 special session proposal deadline is March 15 (but please try to propose your special session sooner, if possible). To submit a session proposal, log into pamla.ballastacademic.com (you will need to create an account there if you’ve never done so before), click on the Propose Session button, and follow the directions from there.