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Critical Readings on the Silver Surfer

updated: 
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - 12:22pm
Mike Lemon and Rob Weiner
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Since his debut inFantastic Four #48, the Silver Surfer has become an integral part of Marvel Comic’s sprawlinguniverse. In his six-decade existence, the character has been featured in merchandise and Marvel’s transmedia properties, including cartoons, movies, video games, and podcasts. 
 
While there exists a smattering of academic research on the Silver Surfer, this edited collection welcomes differing perspectives on thischaracter. We welcome contributions from different disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, including comics studies, film and media studies, communication, theology, literary criticism, and so on. 

Postmodern Horror in the New Millennium

updated: 
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - 12:22pm
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This panel seeks to investigate the intersection of postmodernism and horror cinema in the 21st century, highlighting shifts in themes, the rise of new filmmakers, innovative production techniques, and the ways in which the genre has absorbed and requalified postmodernist conventions. Comparative studies among American, European, and/or non-Western cinema are encouraged.

 

Last Days for Submission – Call for Papers | I Cine Bárbaras – International Conference on Cinema and Audiovisual

updated: 
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - 8:57am
XX Element Project Associação Cultural
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 11, 2025

We would like to remind you that there are only a few days left to submit proposals for the I Cine Bárbaras – International Conference on Cinema and Audiovisual, which will take place on October 23–24, 2025, at Universidade Lusófona – Centro Universitário do Porto.

First Forum 2025 - SPEED

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:20pm
First Forum – Graduate Student Conference of the University of Southern California, Cinema and Media Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

FIRST FORUM CONFERENCE 2025—CALL FOR PROPOSALS 

DIVISION OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

OCTOBER 17TH AND 18TH 2025

 

This year’s keynote presentation will be given by Dr. Silpa Mukherjee (University of California, San Diego).

 

 

SPEED

 

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS - CINEMA'S FIRST EPICS IN FOCUS

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:20pm
Institute of Comparative Literature Margarida Losa, University of Porto
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

Cinema’s First Epics in Focus: Silent Epic Film from Literary Adaptation to Contemporary Epic Narratives

(Edited Volume)

Digital Intimacies 11: The Love of Machines

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:16pm
University of Sydney
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 29, 2025

Digital Intimacies 11: The Love of Machines (Dec 3 to 5, 2025)

 

In the contemporary intimacy landscape, machines have emerged not merely as mediators but as potential objects of desire. From sophisticated dating apps that claim to decode compatibility, to conversational agents scripting our seductions, to synthetic lovers rendering human connection obsolete—machines don’t just shape digital intimacies; they reconfigure the terrain upon which intimacy itself is constructed. 

Journal of European Popular Culture

updated: 
Sunday, July 6, 2025 - 8:18pm
Journal of European Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

 

Journal of European Popular Culture

Intellect Publishers

Next issue - call for article/s

JEPC 16.2 - 2025  & JEPC 17.1 - early 2026  

This peer-reviewed journal seeks lively submissions for its latest issues on any aspect of European cultural and creative activity.

The 2025 issues are open at present

This peer reviewed journal is interested in contemporary practices, but also in historical, contextual, biographical or theoretical analyses relating to past cultural activities in Europe.

Call for paper : International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

updated: 
Sunday, July 6, 2025 - 1:05pm
USA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 13, 2025

International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

                                                                                                                                                   https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHSS/Home.htmlISSN : 2349 - 219N

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Supernatural Liminalities in MTV's Teen Wolf

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 3:07pm
Supernatural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Special issue Call for Papers

Supernatural liminalities in MTV’s Teen Wolf

VIII INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF FANTASTIC GENRE, AUDIOVISUALS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 2:55pm
FANTAELX
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 21, 2025

The VIII edition of the Congress will take place on November 19, 20 and 21, 2025 in the Auditorium of the Congress Centre “Ciutat d’Elx” (Spain) (in person format), and via our website (online format). There are 3 participation options:

> Option 1: In this modality, the proposals of the Communications will follow the main thematic line of the new edition of the Congress and the Festival: Japan and its imprint on the Fantastic Genre.

> Option 2: In this modality, the abstracts will follow the generic thematic line of the Congress: The Fantastic Genre and its possible interconnection with the different platforms of culture, audiovisual and new technologies.

Surrealism and Arts-Based Research

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 2:54pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 4, 2025

Surrealism and Arts-Based Research:

Bridging the Imagination and Reality Divide

 

Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/06/28/surrealism-2025/

Conference Dates: September 8-9, 2025

Location: Online

Proposal Deadline: August 4, 2025

Conference fee: 100 GBP

 

Call for Papers

 

André Breton, one of the founding figures of Surrealism, emphasizes the transformative and disruptive power of Surrealist art and thought in his famous quote:

PLJ and CCR Seeking Articles

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 2:43pm
Anaphora Literary Press / Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Cinematic Codes Review
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

Anaphora's two journals, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, and Cinematic Codes Review, are seeking submissions of all types of essays, reviews, and creative works.

Twainian Regeneration: Adaptations of the Works, Life, and Legacy of Mark Twain (NeMLA Session 21918)

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 2:17pm
57th Northeast Modern Language Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This session is sponsored by the Mark Twain Circle of America.

 

American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1935-1910) achieved lasting fame as Mark Twain, an identity that served as both his pen name and the persona he cultivated for the public. Twain’s writings and his distinctive character have dispersed across time and space, and the resulting Twainian tradition incorporates these elements in many ways.

 

The Handbook of Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series Exploring Transgender Themes

updated: 
Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - 12:38am
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

As of July 1, 2025, we are still seeking additional chapters for The Handbook of Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series to complement the 50+ confirmed chapters. Proposals are due July 1, 2025.

While most chapters examine Indian cinema with clearly transgender characters, we also welcome chapters for the handbook’s first theme, “Transing Cinema with No Transgender Characters,” showing how trans theories provoke new interpretations of film and television that don’t explicitly address transgender topics. For example, Dr. Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi’s chapter “Transing the Lens in Hindi Cinema” studies the following films:

Seeking the chapters "Trans Cinema from the United States" and "Trans Cinema from the United Kingdom" for The Handbook of Trans Cinema

updated: 
Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - 12:38am
The Handbook of Trans Cinema
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

As of July 1, 2025, we are still 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. 

Horror Studies Special Issue: Women and Horror

updated: 
Monday, June 30, 2025 - 10:45pm
Melanie A. Marotta and Miranda Corcoran
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

This special issue of Horror Studies aims to address female empowerment (cis- and transgender women) in literary and cinematic horror from 2010 to the present. The issue will showcase horror media (literature, films, television, and gaming) created by women. An intersectional approach should be applied to analyses, stressing categories of race, gender, sexuality, class and/or age in submissions. While we are interested in submissions focused on various forms of horror media, we are eager to receive submissions that foreground literary texts.

CFP for The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:35pm
The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

The call for submissions for the next general issue (2026) of the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (ISSN 20455852 , ONLINE ISSN 20455860) is now open. The deadline for submissions of full articles for consideration is August 31 2025.

The Journal is indexed in SCOPUS (among others), and its remit is broad and international, publishing innovative scholarly research about a broad range of popular culture topics. Articles should be between 5,000 and 7,000 words and referenced using the Harvard style system. All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications.

EXTENSION FOR ABSTRACTS: Submissions for the Democratisation of (Outer) Space Conference extended to Thursday 31ST JULY

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:38am
Graham Minenor-Matheson Linköping University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

EXTENSION FOR ABSTRACTS: Submissions for the Democratisation of (Outer) Space Conference to be held in Norrköping, Sweden in November 2025 are expected on Thursday 31ST JULY. Details below.

We look forward to seeing your abstracts!

Graham and Michael

We invite submissions for the upcoming Linköping Space Studies Institute international conference 26-28 November 2025: Campus Norrköping at Linköping University, Sweden.

Democratisation of Space: The decline of the public and rise of the private?

Regenerating genre: History and Multicultural Perspectives in Horror (NeMLA 26)

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:38am
Joshua Gooch / NeMLA 2026 panel
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

History is horrifying. For horror creators in the twenty-first century, the terrors of the past have become central to the genre’s regeneration. The increasing diversity of who writes and creates horror has been tightly connected to the genre’s ability to depict otherwise occluded historical terrors. Critics have taken on horror’s relation of past and present as different subgenera, from what Sheri-Marie Harrison calls “the new Black Gothic” to Patricia Stuelke’s “anticapitalist feminist horror.”

Cities and Identities: An Overview of the Global South

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:37am
Dr. Cyrine Kortas, a postdoctoral fellow at the MECAM: the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Cities and Identities: An Overview of the Global South

 

deadline for abstract submissions: 

20 August, 2025

 

contact email: 

editor.literature@yahoo.com

 

Call for Papers

 

Propuestas para la colección Terror: Estudios críticos

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:36am
Universidad de Cádiz (España)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

Propuestas para la colección Terror: Estudios críticos

deadline for submissions:

August 15, 2025

full name / name of organization:

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

contact email:

coleccion.terror@uca.es

 

English version below

 

Cognition and the Media

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:35am
G. d'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 22, 2025

Cognition and the Media

International Conference

 

Sponsored by AIA (Italian Association for English Studies), Aston Stylistics Research Centre (Aston University - Birmingham) and CenTras (Centre for Translation Studies @UCL - UK)

 

Pescara, 30-31 October 2025

Venue: Museo delle Genti d’Abruzzo

                                                                                        Call for Papers

Media and Aesthetics of Environmental Decay in the “Global South”

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:23am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Dear colleagues,

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit your creative work and scholarly reflections and papers to participate in the panel Media and Aesthetics of Environmental Decay in the “Global South"  to be held at NEMLA's Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. 

Jane Austen Now

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:23am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

The year 2025 marked the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, yet Austen seems to be only increasing in cultural relevance on a global scale. This panel at the NeMLA conference in Pittsburgh, March 5-8, 2026 explores Jane Austen-related texts – including films, streaming, novels, graphic novels etc. - of the twenty-first century, including…

 

Mid Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2025 Annual Conference Call for Proposals

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:22am
Mid Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

2025 Annual Conference

November 6-8, 2025

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse

Philadelphia, PA

Call for proposals:

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.

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