travel writing

Culinary Expeditions: Media, Food, and Halal Tourism in the Global South, to be published by Peter Lang International Academic Publisher as part of the book series Food and Cultures from the Global South.

This book will explore the intersection of media, halal tourism, and gastronomy in the Global South, examining how food storytelling, digital media, and travel narratives influence Muslim tourist experiences and cultural representation.

                                                                         CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

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Submission Email: editorqutubminarreview@gmail.com

Submission Deadline: June 20th, 2025

Qutub Minar Review is inviting poetry, short stories (maximum 500 words for each story), one minute plays, interviews, book reviews, memoires and travelogues for July 2025 issue. Submission guidelines are as follows:

General guidelines:

Call for papers for a collective volume

In 2024, the AGRELITA ERC (The Reception of Ancient Greece) organised several scientific events on the theme of "New lives of Greek deities in Europe from the 14th to the 20th century". An international colloquium was held at the University of Caen-Normandy on 23 and 24 May, followed by a study day at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris on 29 May . Finally, a second international colloquium was held at the École française d'Athènes on 14 and 15 November (see https://agrelita.hypotheses.org).

Religion and the Arts is issuing a call for papers on the theme “Buddhism and Literary Nonfiction” for a special issue to be published in March, 2026. We are looking articles on the topic of Buddhism and literary nonfiction: including memoir, biography, the essay,  literary and art criticism, the diary, the handbook, and the sermon or dharma talk. Articles should be roughly 5,000-10,000 words long. Color and black and white Images are also welcome, and should be 300 dpi for the size they are to be reproduced for photography/ 600 for linework.

Articles are due 1 September 2025.  For inquiries, please contact James Najarian, editor, at relarts@bc.edu

Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities (Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities (uwi.edu) is a new, open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of cultural and social issues related to complex cosmopolitan identities arising from mobile global childhoods which transcend conventional categories of migrancy and diaspora.

2026 MLA Convention in Toronto, Canada, January 8-11, 2026

Special Session Title: Doors and Gates to the Ottoman Lands 

This session explores the multifaceted experiences, perceptions, and narratives of travelers who journeyed to the Ottoman Empire and documented their encounters through travel writing.

Email a 300-word abstract with a 75-word bionote to bakirtassennur@gmail.com 

Deadline for submission: 20 March 2025

UPDATED DEADLINE: Feb, 7th, 20245.

I'm an Assistant Professor of English at The University of The Bahamas with a partial panel formed for this year's American Studies Association 2025 meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, held Nov. 20-22, 2025. We're looking for one more presenter and a chair for a panel on the following topic:

Proposed Session Title: Tourism and Self-Help Culture

CALL FOR PAPERS

Landscapes Of the Mind: Narratives of Cultural Encounters

Anda International Conference

Università del Salento, Lecce – Italy

25-26 September 2025

Landscapes of the Mind: Narratives of Cultural Encounters explores how different cultures perceive, interpret, and narrate their experiences and interactions. Possible topics related to the conference include:

Conference online: 13-14 February 2025

CFP:

Students in Writing Studies 4200, “Writing and Cultures,” will edit a collection of creative writing (visual art, poems and nonfiction writing) entitled "Through my Eyes" -- How we perceive world issues, crises or maybe even beauty. As such, they solicit writings from everyone (students, alumni, and the broader community) on this topic for inclusion in the collection.
Submissions could address the ways that we use our own experience to think about local, global, international or interpersonal issues.  Or, they could address the ways that local, global, international or interpersonal issues change the ways that we understand our own experiences.  

Bradford Arts Centre*

Saturday 6 September 2025
 

We invite you to an exciting linked symposia that focus on key issues and questions around eighteenth- and nineteenth-century letters.

Hosted consecutively by Baylor University and Texas A&M University, the symposia build upon both institutions' substantial collections of 18th- and 19th-century archival materials and their commitment to creating accessible digital archives and scholarship.

Call for papers - Doctoral conference
Pescara (Italy), 29-30 May 2025

Doctoral Course in Languages, Literatures, Cultures in Contact - Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Set and Setting: Magical Spaces and Places

The Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic invites special panel presentation proposals regarding the role that location plays in operative esoteric, occult, and magical practice. This panel will be included in Area events at the 46th annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, held this February 19-22 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.