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Environment and Society, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. Learn more about the 30 books already in the series at: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXES
Extended Deadline! There's still time to submit to this conference panel. Please submit by May 30, 2025 for full consideration.
The 122nd annual PAMLA Conference will be held between November 20-23, 2025 at the InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. This special response responds directly to PAMLA's 2025 conference theme, “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” seeking presentations on fictions that present and respond to physical phenomena that defy understanding, specifically phenomena represented in theoretical physics and quantum mechanics.
In the fictional world of ‘Cvstodia’, a nameless ‘penitent’ traverses a world in which the ‘miracle’ - a divine entity - is worshipped through physical torment and suffering in a gloomy body horror style. In doing so, ‘Blasphemous’ transforms the established conventions of the ‘souls-like’ genre: the difficulty typical of the genre and the cyclical approach to failure are theologically charged. The progress made by defeating boss enemies is enhanced by sacred weapons and rituals, while the level design is recontextualised as a spiritual pilgrimage. These elements are embedded in an elaborate ecclesiastical infrastructure and open up multiple levels of analysis, e.g:
Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books that 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:
This panel aims to showcase current work on "queer romance," a subject that describes the enfolding of queer sexualities and genders within the popular romance genre. While we welcome careful close readings of specific texts, we are most interested in papers that help to theorize and historicize what it means that a genre once defined in terms of its heteronormative imaginary now openly features queer and trans-identified characters and holds considerable appeal for similarly identified publics of readers and viewers. We are also particularly interested in work that helps us to think queer romance across forms of media, in relation to deep histories of the romance genre, and in transnational and global contexts.
The Department of Communication at Saint Louis University’s Madrid, Spain campus announces an upcoming international, interdisciplinary conference that examines change from a wide panorama of angles.
The conference will take place across Thursday and Friday, 2-3 October 2025 on the SLU-Madrid Campus, close to central Madrid (seven metro stops from Puerta del Sol).
We invite abstracts of 250 words, plus up to six key words, by 15 June 2025. Decisions to invite candidates will happen shortly after the due date to assure adequate time for participants to make travel plans as needed.
Call for Papers
Journal of European Popular Culture
Intellect Publishers
Next issue - call for article/s
JEPC 16.1 and JEPC 16.2 - 2025
& JEPC 17.1 - 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.
PopCRN is delighted to announce a conference dedicated to the cult phenomenon, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. This free, online event will be held on Wednesday 27th and Thursday 28th of November 2025.
(Call for Paper & Podcast ) - Peter Lang
Victorian literature is being fundamentally reimagined. What was once read through the lens of industrial realism, imperial narration, and bourgeois decorum is now being reassessed through new critical modes such as Animal Studies, Environmental Humanities, Food history, Ecocriticism, and Postcolonial re-readings. The aim of Rewriting the Victorian Imagination: Fables, Flesh, and Fluidity in Nineteenth-Century Literature is to consolidate and advance these reconfigurations by drawing together new research that unsettles the stable categories through which the “Victorian” has traditionally been understood.
(Im)politeness on Stage
Monday 15 – Tuesday 16 December, 2025
University of Naples L’Orientale
CFP Performing Wilderness Volume
The wilderness appears to be a place devoid of theatre. As perhaps the most social of artistic forms, theatre and performance seem to sit in opposition to the solitude of wilderness, natural areas supposedly untouched by human activity. That is, wilderness and the performing arts are often thought as part of separate spheres, opposites even, situated firmly on either side of the imaginary divides between “nature” and “culture.”
CFP: The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture – NEPCA Virtual Fall Conference 2025
Deadline for submissions: July 15, 2025 5pm EST
Contact email:
Hannah Sophie Schiffner, h.schiffner@zeppelin-university.net
Protichi Chatterjee, protichichatterjee@gmail.com.
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online October 9 – 11, 2025.
Book Proposal for the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)
Type: Edited volume
Title (provisional)
Craft Culture of Odisha:
A Study of Handicraft Heritage and Changing Dynamics of Craft-making
Rationale:
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (T&F)
Special issue on
Gendered Violence
Guest Editors: Debajyoti Biswas (Bodoland University) & Parvin Sultana (Pramathesh Barua College)
Call for Papers
(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media (In-Person)
Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Annual Conference
Sonesta Hotel Philadelphia (1800 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19103)
6-8 November 2025
The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture invites proposals for an in-person panel on the theme of "(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media" for the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Annual Conference, which will run from Thursday, 6 November, to Saturday, 8 November 2025.
In accordance with the conference theme, “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” the work of French philosopher Henri Bergson is more than relevant. Bergson’s Matter and Memory published in 1896 explores not only how memory functions in human activity, but the levels of memory and its importance to our lives.
Update: Keynote Speakers Announced - See details here:
https://www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-events/conferences/reconfigurations-2025...
CFP:
In their introduction to Mothers in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism (2016), Karen Coats and Lisa Rowe Fraustino observe that “[w]hether living or dead, present or absent, sadly dysfunctional or happily good enough, the figure of the mother carries an enormous amount of freight across the emotional and intellectual life of a child” (3).
CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS
Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference
Friday-Sunday, 3–5, October 2025
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Conference participants will be responsible for securing their own lodging.
Submit paper, abstract, or panel proposals (including the title of the presentation) with the appropriate keywords (formerly areas) on the submissions website at https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels
Individuals may only submit one paper.
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia
Food is never just about sustenance. It is a charged cultural text, a site of memory and mourning, a marker of identity, a terrain of negotiation, and often, a weapon of exclusion or resistance. In South Asia—a region defined by deep pluralities, histories of colonialism, persistent socio-economic inequalities, and enduring spiritual traditions—food emerges not merely as a necessity, but as a powerful index of social structure, affective life, and ideological formation.
UPDATE: DEADLINE FOR ABATRACTS EXTENDED TILL 31ST OF DECEMBER.
NOTE: WE ARE NO LONGER LOOKING FOR PROPOSALS RELATING TO "MUKKABAAZ".
This call for papers seeks one specific chapter on Medusa for a volume intended for the series, Villains and Creatures.
Each chapter of the volume is intended to be an overview of depictions of Medusa in specific kinds of media; nevertheless, the arguments/theses of each chapter should still be original, using past works and research to develop a current (new) perspective on Medusa.
The chapter needed involves Modern Drama.
Chapters will be due in October 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 6,500 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.
Conference Dates - November 20th to 23rd 2025
Location - San Francisco, California - The InterContinental San Francisco Hotel - U.S.A.
Topic - Food Studies Research on Culture, Literature, and Media
Rising Asia Journal invites Research Articles on Film Studies in the geographical areas of Southeast Asia, East Asia (Japan, China, the Koreas, and Taiwan), and India's North-East Region, on all aspects of these Asian societies. Authors may use any thematic or theoretical discourse such as gender, race, colonialism and post-colonialism, and others.
Articles should be between 5,000 to 10,000 words in length, with footnotes, and Works Cited.
Authors are urged to visit the journal's website at www.rajraf.org to read the submission guidelines.
Articles should be original, and should offer a new and innovative perspective.
“A Day”: 2nd Annual Goth Music and Subculture Conference
Deadline: May 22, 2025
Conference Date: August 16, 2025
Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific)
Abstract: 150 words + 100 word biographical statement + Time Zone
Submit to: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University @ noahrgallego@gmail.com
Contact: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com
One Short Day: An Online Symposium Celebrating Wicked
Deadline: May 30, 2025
Conference Date: June 27, 2025
Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific Time)
Abstract: 150 words + 50 word biographical statement + Time Zone
Submit to: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com
Organizers: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona & Layal Dahi, California State Polytechnic University
We are looking for additional chapters for the upcoming edited volume, to be published in the Anglophone Postcolonial Studies series by HeiUP (2026), on the theme of haunting in postcolonial literatures and cultures as well as the endurance of Eurocentrism in academic practices and spaces. We are particularly interested in further contributions on the latter.
CfP:
This edited collection, Killing It In The Classroom: Teaching the Young Adult Detective Genre aims to address the changes in young adult detective/mystery literature, television shows, movies, and video games from 2015 to the present. The time, we maintain, is ripe for a re-investigation: adolescent engagement with social media and technology, along with the psychological after-effects of the Covid years, have significantly impacted what it means to be a teen in 2025. How does the YA detective fiction genre offer ways to explore contemporary issues and anxieties relevant to teens today?
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2025 Annual Conference, November 6-8, 2025 in Philadelphia, PA
Travel and Tourism Studies as a discipline continues to gain popularity in academia, in part because of its inter-disciplinary nature. The Travel and Tourism area seeks papers that discuss and explore any aspect of travel and/or tourism. Topics for this area include, but are not limited to, the following:-
- travel and gender/race/class
- personal travel narratives
- heritage tourism
- material culture and tourism
- travel in 2025: how has politics changed travel?