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Chapter proposals are invited for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. Join confirmed contributors like Cáel M. Keegan, author of Lana and Lilly Wachowski: Sensing Transgender. We seek a broadly international group of scholarly contributors.
Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, calls us to re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:
Food fests, feasts, and gatherings address the role of food in events, gatherings, celebrations, and ceremonies. Exploring how people incorporate ideas about food into festival culture, including history, heritage, tradition, creativity, and social and political factors.
In addition, it examines festivals in which food is not the main focus, yet contributes significantly to the atmosphere, memory, and tradition. It also looks at people's fascination with taste. In addition to examining these notions, we will also examine trends in the consumption and production of food.
Call for Papers
During our sixth annual online event, we will discuss 'making, remaking, and limitations' in festive, celebratory, and ritual cultures. Our questions are: How and why do people continue to make and remake culture? In what ways do they experience limitations when making and remaking culture, if any? What is the significance of the making and remaking of culture and whom is it for?
Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature
University College Dublin, Ireland
17-20 June 2025
Keynote Speakers – Sarah Brouillette (Carleton University)
Christopher Newfield (Independent Social Research Foundation)
Simone Murray (Monash University)
Reflections and Refractions: Contemporary Anglophone Fiction and the Atlantic Poetics of WaterJournal: Atlantic Studies: Global CurrentsGuest Editors: Andrea Carosso and Valentina Romanzi (University of Torino) We are inviting proposals for a limited number of contributions to a Special Issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, titled “Reflections and Refractions: Contemporary Anglophone Fiction and the Atlantic Poetics of Water.” The issue focuses on the new directions that anglophone fiction is exploring to express its “aquatic” imagination.We seek articles addressing new trends and currents of anglophone narratives focusing on the
CFP: The 27th Annual University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group/MRG Conference
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 17, 2025
“Rethinking Institutions”
The Critical Theory Reading Group/MRG, University of Florida
March 27-29, Gainesville, FL
Keynote speakers: Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks
Nicole LaRose Alumni keynote speaker: Wesley Beal
The 2025 Marxist Reading Group Conference invites submissions for “Rethinking Institutions” to explore the manifold issues endured by global institutions and reimagine the former for the present and future.
The London Arts-Based Research Centre
Women who Create: the Feminine and the Arts
A Transdisciplinary Conference
Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/women-who-create-2025/
March 29-31, 2025
Where:
March 29-30: In person participation at Cambridge University & online
March 31: Fully online
Call for Papers
Cost: 185 GBP (in person)
100 GBP (Online)
Abstract: Deadline February 15, 2025
Call for Book Chapters
Title: Becoming A Human-Animal: Interpretations of the Therianthropes in the Folk Arts of India
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Editor: Thakurdas Jana, Department of English, Bhatter College, Dantan, India
About the Book
This is a call for chapter proposals on the late Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days reality TV series (2005-08) on the FX Channel for the FX Reader, an anthology of FX's best original TV series, which is under a two-volume book contract with Syracuse University Press. In each 30 Days episode, Spurlock, or some other person or group of people, would spend 30 days immersing themselves in a particular lifestyle or environment with which they are not familiar, which include such topics as working for minimum wage, being in prison, a Christian living as a Muslim, and others.
Two-Day International Conclave (in Blended Mode)
on
“Transcultural Linguistic, Literary & Cultural Aspects of the Indian
Knowledge System (IKS)” [15-16 February, 2025]
Organized by Centre for Foreign Languages, Bankura University
Call for Participation:
Visual Culture Papers
American Studies Association (ASA)
November 20-23, 2025 | San Juan, Puerto Rico
**As the ASA has extended the deadline for its general CFP, the Visual Culture Caucus is also extending its call until January 24.**
Call for Papers:
The Turn to Podcasts as a Mass Campaign Medium
Special Issue of The Journal of Radio and Audio Media
Dr. Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Prof. Kim Fox, American University in Cairo
Dr. Aram Sinnreich, American University
The Journal of Radio and Audio Media (JRAM), the world’s premier radio research journal, is published semi-annually by the Broadcast Education Association. JRAM is dedicated to radio research and the new technology redefining radio’s traditional use.
The Function of Beauty: A Transdisciplinary Conference
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
— Khalil Gibran
Conference Dates: April 24-25, 2025
Location:
Day 1-Pembroke Lodge (Richmond Park, London) / Online (Hybrid Format)
Day 2- Online only
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 1, 2025
Cost: 180 GBP (in person)
100 GBP (Online)
Call for Papers: Performing Imaginary Futures: Utopian (and Dystopian) Performativity
Cultural Studies Association (CSA) 2025 Annual Conference
29-31 May 2025
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
Imaginary Futures: Utopias, Dystopias & Protopias of Cultural Studies
The Performance Working Group of the Cultural Studies Association invites proposals for individual papers and pre-constituted panels for the 2025 Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Annual Conference.
Appel à participation pour le numéro 10/2026 de la revue Topiques. Études satoriennes
Topiques des Orients et de l’Occident
La SATOR projette de consacrer un numéro spécial de sa revue en ligne TOPIQUES. Études satoriennes aux « Topiques d’Orients et d’Occident ». La SATOR s’est jusqu’à maintenant assez peu aventurée au-delà des limites de la culture européenne. Mais le travail est engagé[1] et l’objectif de ce numéro spécial de la revue TOPIQUES est de poursuivre sur cette lancée. Ce numéro sera coordonné par Jean-Pierre Dubost (UCA) et Claudine Le Blanc (Univ. de Paris – Sorbonne nouvelle).
Philosophy and its Form
Throughout its history, philosophy has appeared in myriad forms: Plato’s dialogues; Montaigne’s Essais; Nietzsche’s aphorisms; Rosa Luxemburg’s Public Lectures; Simone de Beauvoir’s journalism, travelogs, and novels; Aimé Césaire’s dramas; and Fred Moten’s poetry collections. This is before we recognize the variety of styles employed by philosophers within more traditional essay forms: Benjamin’s critical biographies of Baudelaire, Deleuze’s Plateaus, and W. E. B. DuBois’ interpolation of musical passages in The Souls of Black Folk.
Conference online: 13-14 February 2025
CFP:
UC Irvine Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference 2025
Conference Date: April 3 & 4, 2025
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Tracy McNulty (Cornell)
In the context of wider postcolonial and decolonial shifts that have occurred in both critical and popular thought over the past decades, we have seen growing interests in recovering and recentering histories of Islamic civilizations and their shaping influence on knowledge, systems,and technologies that we now associate with the modern world. Whether recognized as the powerful authorities that transformed trade, belief, politics, science, and art in the premodernworld, or as the ‘other’ necessary for Western colonial self-fashioning, as per Edward Said’s formative theorization of them in Orientalism, there is no denying that Muslims and Islamicate societies hold a fundamental place in our (global) past.
The 21st century has been marked as an emerging epoch of new discourses with a dynamic change of intellectual, methodological, epistemological and critical avenues of research to address the swiftly changing nuances of social, political, economic, personal and professional lives of human beings all over the world. Researchers have embraced innovative approaches, methodologies and pedagogies to navigate the new complex frontiers of 21st Century. As the world grapples with multifaceted challenges such as climate change, economic inequality, and global health crises, the need for innovative approaches to economic development has become more urgent than ever.
CFP: Special Issue of Open Screens - Teaching Video Games in the Humanities: New Media, New Pedagogies
Link: https://www.openscreensjournal.com/news/761/
Timeline:
The University of Tehran English Language Scientific Student Association (UTELSSA) presents:
Decolonizing the Mind: A Journey through
Scholars and students are invited to engage in a series of thought-provoking dialogues that examine the process of decolonizing the mind. This series aims to critically explore and challenge the pervasive influences of colonialism on knowledge, culture, and society. Through interactive discussions, we will delve into the complexities of colonial and postcolonial studies, the significance of decolonial theories, and engage directly with a remarkable author in the field.
Ege University 20th Cultural Studies Symposium
AI & Cultural Production
6-8 May 2026
We invite submissions to our panel at 4S 2025 in Seattle, Washington (September 3 – 7, 2025). Please see details below:
Blackness as Onto-Epistemological Departure and Arrival*
To think in terms of risk is to imagine the future as a set of foreseeable possibilities and to ameliorate the potentially hazardous ones through action in the present. Distinct from danger, which is seen as inchoate and incalculable, risk carries with it the notion of statistical, probabilistic, or otherwise enumerated legibility, and the costs and benefits of prospective courses of action are given the narrative authority of mathematical language. But even as risk posits itself as a rational approach to considerations of the future, it ignores the mythology of its own construction: risk is, as its critics note, always a process of storytelling.
Aesthetics of the Clinic
Call for Papers
IABA European Conference
Life Writing, and Social Transformation
July 23 to 26, 2025
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra
Call for papers until 15 January 2025
We are pleased to announce that the next IABA Europe Conference will be held at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra in partnership with the Centre for Social Studies, 23-26 July 2025. We invite proposals for individual papers or panels of 3-4 papers as well as round-table suggestions on the theme of the Conference: “Life Writing and Social Transformation”.
Blurring the lines between art and scholarship, creative-critical practices combine imaginative production with theoretical analysis and reflection. The creative process itself becomes a method of research, discovery and meaning-making, extending and transforming critical theories. By inhabiting a space between established genres and methodologies, creative-critical practitioners generate hybrid works that provoke new ways of seeing, understanding and engaging with the world.
The crafts of India are varied and illustrate the economy, history, culture, religious beliefs, politics, material culture, societal formations and creative faculties of a civilization. The craftsmanship of many states of India reflects diverse cultural influences and has a significant narrative relating to its origins. For ages, crafts have served as an archive of culture and heritage in various communities in India. Every state of India narrates its tales of handicrafts. The wonderful artistry of handcrafted artifacts, the traditions woven in time, get eroded by automation and accuracy, which draw us towards the ‘sophistication’ of repetitive mass production in a capitalist society.