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International Journal of Advances in Artificial Intelligence (IJAAI)
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International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies [IJHASS]
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ISSN : 1831-622N 2974-5862 (Print)
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Call for papers
Seeking the chapters "Trans Cinema from the United States" and "Trans Cinema from the United Kingdom" for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. These are the final chapters needed to complete the handbook.
We have over 70 confirmed chapters exploring trans films from 6 continents.
Your chapter "Trans Cinema from the United States" or "Trans Cinema from the United Kingdom" should provide a broad survey and analysis of films with transgender themes from the respective country, while also examining at least three films in depth.
International Journal of Education (IJE)
ISSN : 2348 - 1552
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International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology
ISSN: 0975-3826(online); 0975-4660 (Print)
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International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies (IJHAS)
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
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In Living Color:
Exploring the Complexities of Colorism in the Twenty-First Century
Under Contract with Bloomsbury Publishing
Edited by
Amir A. Gilmore, Washington State University
Vikki Carpenter, Heritage University
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, the question as to how far differences of race-which show themselves chiefly in the color of the skin and the texture of the hair
In her essay, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book,” Hortense Spillers articulates the enduring violence of racial enslavement through the concept of the “hieroglyphics of the flesh” (67). This term marks how the captive body, stripped of legal and social personhood, became inscribed with meaning through the violence of racial differentiation. This transformation rendered the Black body not only a surface upon which terror was written but also a metaphysical site from which alternative modes of being might be imagined. In attending to the duality of skin and flesh, Spillers distinguishes between Black skin as legible and social, and Black flesh as ungendered, unsovereign, and open—both wounded and full of radical potential.
Queer-Class Relations Conference
Call for Proposals
April 17-18, 2026
CUNY Graduate Center, New York City
CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center will host a Queer-Class Relations conference April 17-18, 2026. Proposals are due by September 1, 2025. Successful applicants will be required to register by November 15, 2025.
Please submit a 300-word abstract for an edited collection, tentatively titled, Entanglements: Place-Based Literatures for Ecological Liberation.
Please read the CFP below for details about the collection. We are expanding our search to include diverse geographies including South America, African countries, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Pacific Islands, and South East Asian countries. In addition to a “place” framework, we welcome diverse theoretical approaches and lenses including ones that apply Marxism, feminism, postcolonialism, New Materialism, indigeneity, critical race, nonhumanism, among others.
Submit a 300 word abstract for the panel below only through the portal at https://www.nemla.org/ by Sep 30, 2025. Please refer to the NeMLA website for conference details and schedule (forthcoming).
Proposals are welcome on all aspects of popular and American culture for inclusion in the 2025 Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) conference in Philadelphia, PA. Single papers, panels, roundtables, and alternative formats are welcome.
From book bans to executive orders, the question of academic freedom and the freedom to read has become increasingly urgent. In the wake of the 2024 election, debates around “parental rights” and ideological control have intensified, fueling challenges to literacy and intellectual freedom. According to preliminary data from the American Library Association, 1,128 unique titles were challenged between January 1 and August 31, 2024 (“American Library Association reveals preliminary data on 2024 book challenges,” September 23, 2024).
For the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas in twenty-first century. Urbanization is understood as the mass movement of human population from rural to urban areas. The trend of urbanization is increasing at an unprecedented pace, especially in developing countries of the world. Now considered as an irreversible phenomenon, the imperative of urbanization necessitates a rethinking of how we imagine cities and rural areas of tomorrow to provide a meaningful and sustainable lifeworld. The challenges that come with such a dramatic shift are multifold and complex. It involves envisioning a way of life that is dignified, a society that is sustainable and equitable.
CFP: Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America, Vol. 2
Edited by Cathy Rex (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire: rexcj@uwec.edu)
and Shevaun Watson (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: watsonse@uwm.edu)
This session explores how postcolonial and diasporic literatures grapple with memory, trauma, and cultural haunting. Rather than thinking of identity as fixed or linear, selfhood is complex and palimpsestic due to colonial violence, migration, and historical erasure. This session invites papers that analyze how characters or narratives navigate misremembering, inherited trauma, or overwritten histories to reclaim belonging and agency. Topics may include narrative voice, transgenerational memory, silence, storytelling, and archival gaps in multiethnic and immigrant literatures. This session welcomes interdisciplinary approaches and encourages work on Asian American, Black, Indigenous, and other diasporic communities.
Seeking original book chapters for a collection of essays on the influence of Gullah Geechee narratives and songs in contemporary American literature and culture, recognizing and cataloguing the long-overlooked contributions of the of the Sea Island people of the southeast coast of the United States. Interdisciplinary contributions encouraged.
Chapter length: approximately 6,000 words
Submit a proposal of 300-400 words via email by July 10th, 2025.
Feroza Jussawalla
Gerard Lavin
Conference Dates - November 20th to 23rd 2025
Location - San Francisco, California - The InterContinental San Francisco Hotel - U.S.A.
Topic - Reclaiming History: Trauma, Memory and Resilience in the Narratives from Africa
Deadline for Abstract/Proposal Submission - June 30th 2025
Overview -
Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is a quintessential blues narrative composed for the twenty-first century. The film embodies perspectives commonly found in blues-oriented expression, including songs, autobiographies, and interviews, not to mention Black fiction and poetry that thematizes and/or reflects blues-oriented music and blues criticism as well. But before academic scholars considered blues worthy of analysis, Langston Hughes wrote critically and creatively about blues music and the suffusion of its principles throughout much of Black expressive culture. In fact, he first observed a blues performance in his early teens, well before Mamie Smith’s recording “Crazy Blues” (1920) launched the classic blues era.
Research in Contemporary World Literature (RCWL) invites submissions for upcoming issues. As a leading international journal committed to cutting-edge scholarship published by the University of Tehran, RCWL publishes double-blind, peer-reviewed research on modern and contemporary literary production across global contexts, with a primary focus on literature emerging after 1945.
Originally founded in 1994 as Journal of Foreign Languages and reconstituted in its current form, RCWL has evolved into a vital platform for the exploration of literary texts, movements, and theories that traverse cultural, linguistic, and disciplinary boundaries.
2027 will be the 50th anniversary of Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison’s third novel and one of the author’s more popular books alongside The Bluest Eye and Beloved.
This forthcoming volume of essays will provide new readings of the novel for high school and undergraduate readers just in time to celebrate Song of Solomon’s 50th anniversary.
It seeks to advance Morrison studies and foster critical appreciation of the novel, especially in light of new directions in literary criticism since 2010.
We invite papers that explore the theme of memory and reparation, and demonstrate the interconnectedness of the past, present, and future by focusing on any of the four spheres of reparation: economic, political, cultural, and psychological.
Please send your 200-word abstract in French or English to sawuni@crimson.ua.edu ( Sawel Awuni) and to ldjamess@iu.edu (Lolonyo Djamessi) , along with the title of the paper, your email, your institutional affiliation, and a brief one-paragraph bio. Please send your submission by September 30. Thank you!
Call for Papers
Herkimer County 250th Commission Semi-Quincentennial Conference
Theme: Liberty and the American Revolution
April 24–26, 2026
Herkimer College, 100 Reservoir Road, Herkimer, NY 13350
Conference Director: Sharon Powell, Herkimer College
Conference Fee: TBD
Proposal Deadline: December 31, 2025
2025 Meeting of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts
September 25-27, 2025
Embassy Suites Austin Central
Austin, TX
“Justice”
Keynote Speaker: TBA
Talking About Slavery: Abolitionism, Censorship, and Free Speech
The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Biennial Conference
March 12-14, 2026, Cincinnati, OH
CFP: Langston Hughes’s The Weary Blues at 100
Special Issue of The Langston Hughes Review
Guest Editor: Michael Borshuk (Texas Tech University)
4th Annual Billy Joe Turner Symposium
Title: Soul & Syntax: The Evolution of Expression through Art, Dance, and Literature
Dates: April 15–17, 2026
Location: Texas Southern University – Houston, TX
Format: In-Person Conference
Abstracts due: 30 July 2025
Completed Manuscript due: 15 December 2025
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787)
Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/6L757WY6UC
Call For Papers
This panel invites scholarship that explores how sound—broadly understood as an aesthetic, material, and theoretical force—functions within and shapes literature, music, performance, and visual media to riff on history and modulate experience. We seek contributions that investigate how sound operates both as a method and a site of creative invention—where dominant narratives are unsettled and histories that resist closure come into audible presence. Sonic form becomes a space where the unfinished, the fugitive, and the refused emerge through rhythm, echo, distortion, repetition, and resonance.
Return to the South: The Complexities of Southern Culture in Ryan Coogler’s film Sinners.
On April 18, Warner Brothers released Ryan Coogler’s long anticipated film Sinners. Since its release, the film has achieved both critical acclaim and popular resonance, marking a significant entry in contemporary Southern cinema. Critics and audiences praise Sinners for its nuanced treatment of inter/intra-racial dynamics, spirituality, and regional identity. In addition, the film has prompted sustained cultural discourse, and now, academic interest in the South. Its layered narrative and atmospheric rendering of the South position Sinners as a vital text for examining the complexities of Southern culture and history.