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CFP Conference "Contemporary Art & Extractivist Culture"

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:03am
Dr. Christian Alonso / VIGEO Universitat de Barcelona
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 3, 2025

1st International Conference
Contemporary Art & Extractivist Culture
14 May 2025: Facultat de Lletres, Universitat de Lleida
15 May 2025: Facultat de Geografia i Història, Universitat de Barcelona

Keynote Speakers: Dr. Juan Martín Prada (Universidad de Cádiz), Dr. Rick Dolphijn (Utrecht University), Dr. Joaquín Barriendos (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey), Dra. Bárbara Fluxá (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Dra. Paula Bruna (artist and researcher), Gabriela Bettini (artist and researcher)

Japanese Video Games and Critiques of the Western Aesthetic Tradition

updated: 
Monday, February 10, 2025 - 9:34am
Austin Anderson, Howard University / DA Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Nintendo was founded just three years after the beginning of the Meiji era in 1889; 100 years later, the company dominated the global game market, having rescued the U.S. video game market in the wake of the 1983 crash. Considering Japanese cultural identity as isolated from a global context misunderstands a long history of active construction of that identity as global and globalizing. Yet, Video Game Studies has often come from a decidedly Euro-centric perspective that regularly frames Japan as an isolated monoculture rather than acknowledging the global existence of Japan and its cultural products.

ASA 2025: Trans Studies Under Trump 2.0

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 3:20pm
Míša Stekl / Stanford University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025

I would like to (co)organize a panel on trans studies under Trump 2.0 for the 2025 meeting of the American Studies Association, which will take place in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from November 20-22. This is, obviously, a fraught and rapidly evolving subject, but here are some of the topics I would like to broach: 

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:39pm
University of Siedlce
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

CFP - Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature , vol. 6/2025

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature is an international multidisciplinary periodical that welcomes for review any innovative and challenging research article encroaching upon the fields of literature, linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies.

The editorial board encourages researchers and young scholars to submit their article proposals that  comprise with the profile of the journal. The proposals can be sent in English, German, French, Spanish, Catalan and Polish. The manuscript submitted for publication is to be original and unpublished. It should not have been simultaneously submitted for review in any other journal.

ASAP-16 (2025) -- Rethinking Justice “Where Life is Precious…”

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:37pm
Jennie Snow
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

In recounting how she introduces prison abolition work to skeptics, Ruth Wilson Gilmore shares the principle, “where life is precious, life is precious.” This life-affirming axiom grounds a praxis that is about changing everything, breaking with oppressive power systems and making worlds that reduce harm by investing in care. At the same time, the ongoing climate crisis reinforces a horizon of extinction that reorients the relationships between more-than-human and human lives, demanding more radical conceptions of our collective world(s). A. Naomi Paik, for instance, develops the idea of “abolitionist sanctuary” out of the movement for immigrant rights.

R/evolution: Radical Change and Gradual Transformation in Literature and Culture (April 11–13, 2025, Hybrid)

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 1:08pm
English Graduate Students' Society (Université de Montréal)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 17, 2025

EGSS/EBSS 2025 Conference: Call for Papers

R/evolution: Radical Change and Gradual Transformation in Literature and Culture

Université de Montréal

April 11–13, 2025

 

The English Graduate Students’ Society (soon to become the English and Bidisciplinary Students’ Society) at l’Université de Montréal currently solicits proposals for paper presentations at its 2025 annual conference. The conference theme, “R/evolution,” invites us to considers the frictions and affinities between evolution and revolution, as we trace radical change and gradual transformation in literature and culture.

 

Blue Victorian - Call For Book Chapters 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 7:57am
Shaonli Bhowmik (JNU) / Ritam Dutta (JU)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

The Victorian era (1837–1901) was a period marked by industrial revolution, scattered religious beliefs and technological advancements. In the midst of everything, the ocean played a central role in shaping the cultural, economic, and ecological landscapes of the time. The British Empire’s reliance on maritime trade routes and naval power made the ocean a key site of economic and political activity. The expansion of global trade, driven by steamships and colonial ventures, brought the ocean into the everyday lives of Victorians.

Decolonizing the Mind A Journey through

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 4:04am
University of Tehran, Iran
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

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.

Taiwan in the Anthropocene: Essays from the Edge of a Planetary Epoch

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:18am
Taiwan in the Anthropocene Network
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Taiwan in the Anthropocene Network

Call for papers

Taiwan in the Anthropocene: Essays from the Edge of a Planetary Epoch

 

Abstract Deadline: March 1, 2025

Edited by Hannes Bergthaller, Jean-Yves Heurtebise,
Kuang-chi Hong, and Li-hsin Hsu

 

The Outdated

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:18am
Aberrations-Graduate Conference, UCLA Cinema and Media Studies Department
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 9, 2025

 

Keynote speaker: Dr. Nick Davis - Northwestern University 

Submission form: https://forms.gle/NseVDG44o6pggdao7

If you face any difficulties in the submission process or have questions about the conference, please email aberrations@tft.ucla.edu 

Call for Papers: IEEE International Conference On Quantum Software 2025

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 2:55am
2025 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON QUANTUM SOFTWARE (QSW 2025)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 24, 2025

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Call for Papers: IEEE QSW 2025
2025 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON QUANTUM SOFTWARE (QSW 2025)
PART OF THE 2025 IEEE WORLD CONGRESS ON SERVICES (SERVICES 2025)

When and Where: July 7-12, 2025 in Helsinki, Finland
Website: https://services.conferences.computer.org/2025/qsw/
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ABOUT IEEE QSW 2025 AND IEEE SERVICES CONGRESS

Racial Capitalism and its Discontents: Theory, History-Writing, and Periodization in Late-Stage Empire | American Studies Association (ASA)| November 20-23, 2025 | San Juan, Puerto Rico

updated: 
Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 4:22pm
Eric Cheuk / University of Notre Dame
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 7, 2025

From its origins in South African debates about the direction of the anti-apartheid movement, to its reinvention by Cedric Robinson as a theory of race and capital’s world-historical enmeshment, to its contemporary status as a master signifier for left-antiracist critique, racial capitalism is here to stay. Across fields and theories, archives and methods, it circulates as the authorizing ballast for any number of arguments: that capitalism differentiates rather than homogenizes; that anticapitalist politics must proceed from the existential grounding wire of alternative cosmologies; that race names the persistence of feudal social relations in the conceptual, libidinal, and political infrastructures of global modernity.

Marlowe X Theory - EXTENDED DEADLINE

updated: 
Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 3:12am
Northumbria University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 2, 2025

Chapter submissions are invited for an edited collection, Marlowe X Theory.  

“Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond” International Conference

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:15pm
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

“Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond”

International Conference

Sibiu, Romania | 1-3.07. 2025

                                    

Lucian Blaga University is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the upcoming international conference, “Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond,” to be held between July 1-3 in Sibiu, Romania. The conference aims to explore tragedy as it is reflected in literature, theater, and other cultural forms from antiquity to the present day, with a focus on European (semi)peripheries and non-European cultural spaces. 

The Affordances of Frustrating Narratives (proposed panel for MLA 2026 in Toronto)

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 10:09am
Isidora Cortes-Monroy & Daniel Aureliano Newman / University of Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

To what ends do narratives fail? If narrative is our way of making sense of the world (Herman 2004), why frustrate sense-making? Well-known in experimental fiction and film (from Sterne, Stein and Rankine to Caché and The Stanley Parable), frustrated narratives also occur, intriguingly, in texts with more practical, didactic or ideological aims: documentaries, journalism, political discourse, advertising, etc.

Essay Prize: Philosophy in the Public Sphere

updated: 
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 3:46pm
Revue Internationale de Philosophie
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Submissions are invited for the Revue internationale de philosophie’s newly established essay prize. The topic of this year’s prize is “Philosophy in the Public Sphere”.

PHILOSOPHY AND ITS FORM -- Graduate Student Conference--DEADLINE EXTENDED

updated: 
Monday, January 27, 2025 - 1:03pm
Duquesne University Graduate Students in Philosophy
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

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.

Enthusiasm: A Political Affect? 

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:32am
Rutgers University Graduate Student Conference in German Studies 
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Enthusiasm: A Political Affect? 

Keynote Speaker: Avital Ronell 

24-25 April 2025 

Penny Pether Law & Language Scholarship Award

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:29am
University of Nevada Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law, Penny Pether Law & Language Scholarship Award Committee
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Call for Nominations: The Penny Pether Law & Language Scholarship Award 2024

A passionate advocate for interdisciplinary scholarship in law, literature, and language, Penelope J. Pether (1957-2013) was Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law and former Professor of Law and Director of Legal Rhetoric at the American University Washington College of Law. Her own scholarship focused not only on law, literature, and language, but also on constitutional and comparative constitutional law; legal theory, including constitutional theory; common law legal institutions, judging practices, and professional subject formation.

Art and Smoke: Morris, Ruskin, Art, and Industrialism

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:27am
Jude V. Nixon/Salem State University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

MLA Toronto (January 8-11, 2026). Both John Ruskin and William Morris decried the evil effects of industrial blight on the environment, citing the impossibility of authentic art in the context of poverty and pollution. We seek papers that treat all aspects of this topic as reflected in literature, art, and social theory: broadened definitions of art, late-Victorian and modernist responses to urban industrialism, art for the masses, eco-socialism, utopian otherworlds, and the rise of urban design. Contributions on Canadian-related and contemporary material are also welcome. Please send abstracts and a brief c. v.

William Morris and Material Culture

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:27am
Jude V. Nixon/Salem State University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

For MLA in Toronto (January 8-11, 2026), we welcome contributions on Morris, his associates, and their influence in relation to material culture: the Arts and Crafts movement, the portrayal of objects and environments in literature, and the meanings ascribed to “things.” In addition to seeking new approaches to the work of Morris and his circle in the book arts, stained glass, textiles, architecture, and landscape design, we seek reevaluations of materiality and concrete symbolism within Pre-Raphaelite writings more broadly as reflective of beliefs about identity, permanence, and change. Contributions on Morrisian and Arts and Crafts-related Canadian material culture are especially welcome. Please send abstracts and a brief c. v.

Bridges and Borders: The Archive

updated: 
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 - 2:17pm
Bridges and Borders Graduate Student Conference, Department of English in collaboration with the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Applied Linguistics
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 17, 2025

Bridges and Borders: The Archive

April 11-12, 2025 | Proposals Due by February 17, 2025

Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) and on Zoom 

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Abdulhamit Arvas (University of Pennsylvania) 

Bridges and Borders is an annual, interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference presented by the Carnegie Mellon University Department of English in collaboration with the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Applied Linguistics.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

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