online conferences

“Odd Temporalities”

ACLA 2025, to be held virtually from May 29 to June 1, 2025

Call for Papers:

For our fourth iteration of the HPN Symposium, we find ourselves interrogating, engaging with, and pushing the boundaries of the concept of  “best practices” and how it relates to humanities podcasting. Our initial inquiry was born out of a discussion about the need to counteract worker invisibility and exploitation on university campus podcast teams. But this raised a larger, thornier debate: Are there other agreed-upon principles of podcast-making and audio creation?  If so, have they emanated from particular forebears and models, or sprung up out of habitual creation like unwritten, but widely understood, common laws? Are there contexts peculiar to podcasting that deserve their own careful ethical treatment or understanding?

More than The Green Knight: Exploring the Ongoing Tradition of Adapting and Appropriating Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (hybrid)

Call for Papers Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture; International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB); International Pearl-Poet Society

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Joseph M. Sullivan, and Amber Dunai

60th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

Hybrid event: Thursday, 8 May, through Saturday, 10 May, 2025

Submissions are invited for a scholarly conference on domestic cats in literature to be hosted online 13-15 March 2025 by the Troy University Department of English.  

Papers may address any aspect of the subject, including—but not limited to—the following:

Call for Papers

Natality: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Birth as Existential Experience

Virtual Symposium of the Society for the Study of Pregnancy and Birth (SSPRB)
April 4-5, 2025​

The Society for the Study of Pregnancy and Birth (SSPRB) is pleased to announce its first symposium, Natality: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Birth as Existential Experience, held in collaboration with Dr. Lois Lee of the University of Kent. 

This symposium is a virtual event that will take place online across two half day sessions on April 3rd and April 4th, 2025 (to facilitate participation across time zones).

The East Asian Network for the Academic Study of Esotericism (EANASE) will hold its second international conference on November 30 (Sat.) and December 1 (Sunday). The conference will be online, but we offer the possibility of a small on-site section for those who are able to come to Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan).

This conference aims to explore how the region once referred to as the “Far East” has influenced and shaped various esoteric and spiritual visions of history, and conversely, how fantastical views of the past were developed within and impacted different areas of East Asia.

Deadline: September 13, 2024

Conference Date: October 5, 2024

Format: Online (via Zoom, PST)

Abstract: 200 words + short biographical statement + timezone

Submit to: eap215conference@gmail.com 

Call for Proposals for Online Symposium: Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil

Online Symposium Friday 24th January 2025

Keynote Speaker: Mona Damluji, Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Oil is a cultural as well as material product. It is now pervasive in every aspect of modern life: transport, energy, communications and media, pharmaceuticals, farming, food ingredients and packaging, homes. As many scholars in the energy and environmental humanities have demonstrated, to understand our current dependence on oil and enact decarbonisation we need to contend with its cultural dimensions.

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual conference exploring all things Bridgerton to be held online on Thursday 30th January 2025.

From a popular book series to the Netflix phenomenon, Bridgerton has captured the public imagination, courted scandal and dazzled readers and audiences with a glittering reimagining of regency London.

We welcome papers from researchers across the academic spectrum and encourage papers from postgraduate researchers and early career researchers. We welcome individual papers, panels and round table submissions. Papers from this conference will have the opportunity to be in our sister journal The International Journal of Popular Culture Studies.

Medieval Monsters as Modern Monsters: Exploring Continuums of the Monstrous (virtual)

Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture and Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa

60th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

Hybrid event: Thursday, 8 May, through Saturday, 10 May, 2025

Please Submit Proposals by 15 September 2024

Session Information

Deadline for Proposals: October 1
Session: 2:00 pm (Central) November 22, online via Zoom

Medieval topics tend to intrigue elementary, middle-school, and high-school students. In a teaching environment where time is precious, how do teachers approach the Middle Ages? This session seeks papers addressing issues, opportunities, and innovations in the K-12 classroom to inform the larger community of K-12 teachers and post-secondary educators about how the topic is approached at the K-12 level.

Submit full session proposals or paper proposals (no more than 300 words) to mwgeorge.51@gmail.com no later than October 1, 2024.

By popular demand, PopCRN will be hosting a conference about Barbie, the popular culture phenomenon. The free, online event will be held on Wednesday 27th and Thursday 28th of March 2024.

                        Call for Papers: "Womanism, Afrofuturism in the Paradigm Era"

Hosted by the Department of English, Howard University

The Department of English at Howard University invites scholars, researchers, and educators to submit abstracts for our forthcoming virtual conference on "Womanism, Afrofuturism in the Paradigm Shift Era." This second annual conference will explore contemporary approaches to the study of Womanism and Afrofuturism during this transformative period in American history.

Conference Themes:

We encourage submissions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

1. Literary Works and Authors:

The Societas Ovidiana welcomes proposals for a virtual panel to be held at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) on May 8-10, 2025.

Given the global turn in medieval studies, it is important to reconsider the place of ancient authors beyond the sphere of European reception.

This panel invites global perspectives on the medieval reception of Ovid.

Proposals might consider, but are not limited to the topics of: