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100 Years of Wonder

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Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:45am

Science Fiction Foundation

deadline for submissions:

Sunday, April 5, 2026

2026 marks the centenary of Hugo Gernsback’s Amazing Stories, the first anglophone magazine devoted to what Gernsback originally called ‘scientifiction’. To commemorate and critically explore what many regard as the birth of genre science fiction, the autumn 2026 issue of Foundation (no. 153) will present a series of articles that investigate and re-evaluate the history of the pulps.

Undisciplined Anthropologies: Practices, Trajectories, and Imaginations Beyond “Method”

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Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:44am

Department Cultures and Societies, University of Palermo

deadline for submissions:

Thursday, September 25, 2025

Call for papers

Undisciplined Anthropologies: Practices, Trajectories, and Imaginations Beyond “Method”

Cultures and Societies Department, University of Palermo, Italy

Institut Français, Palermo, Italy

International Conference

30th, 31rst October 2025

Institut Français Palermo

Via Paolo Gili 4, 90138, Palermo

Deadline for abstracts: September 25th, 2025

Technical Communication Quarterly Special Edition

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Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:44am

Diane Martinez/Western Carolina University

deadline for submissions:

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Hello Tech Comm Colleagues,

We, the guest editors of a special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly, invite you to submit a proposal on the topic of "Responding to the Changing Landscape of the Technical Communication Workplace in the 21st Century." For convenience, the full text of the CFP is below. It is also attached. Please feel free to distribute widely. We are happy to take questions about the special issue. Our emails are included in the CFP. Proposals are due October 1, 2025. See the CFP for submission instructions.

All our best,

Laura Vernon and Diane Martinez

Call for Proposals: A Special Issue of Technical Communication Quarterly

Literary Criticism as Composition: Montage, Genre, and the Art of World-Making

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Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:38am

American Comparative Literature Association

deadline for submissions:

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Literary criticism is often treated as a secondary act, the intellectual afterimage of the work it addresses. This seminar proceeds from the opposite premise: criticism can be understood as a compositional art, a practice that gathers elements from different media, genres, and historical moments in order to propose a world in which the work might live. The critic does not merely interpret but constructs, weaving together forms, narratives and temporalities to re-situate a work within a newly configured cultural space, animated by the critical desire to imagine and construct more just and inhabitable worlds.

Women’s Studies Non-Thematic

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Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:38am

Jamia Millia Islamia

deadline for submissions:

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The forthcoming non-thematic issue proposes to engage in an interdisciplinary manner with the varied

ways in which women continue to face discrimination and marginalisation in the socio- economic, cultural

and political arena. Around the world, millions of women, irrespective of their age groups, social classes,

locations or cultures face a series of risk factors ranging from physical and psychological violence, sexual

abuse and coercion to human trafficking. Women’s vulnerability is little addressed in the developmental

policies of governments and the capitalist expansion of market economies. We invite papers that critically