READING NOTHING ACROSS LITERATURES: A HANDBOOK

“No friend is He who to his friend and comrade who comes imploring food, will offer nothing.” (Rig Veda CXVII)

“Did you rise to the crisis? Not a word, you and your birds, your gods – nothing.” (Oedipus the King)

“Nothing will come of Nothing. Speak again.” (King Lear 1.1)

“Some people think the future means the end of history. Well, we haven't run out of history quite yet.” 

- Captain Kirk, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

Building from a successful summer conference, this edited collection is about science fiction media in the 1990s. We are looking for high quality papers that examine science fiction properties and fiction during that decade. As several papers from the conference have already been selected, we are now calling for additional chapters for the collection generally related to the following topics:

Postcolonial Interventions (ISSN 2455-6564)

CFP for Vol. X, Issue 1 (January 2025)

Reviewing Diaspora: Dispersal, Dislocation, Diversities

Humanities Bulletin Journal - Call for papers
Submission Deadline: October 25, 2024
Vol. 7, No. 2 - November, 2024

ISSN 2517-4266

Humanities Bulletin is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed Journal which features original studies and reviews in the various branches of Humanities, including History, Literature, Philosophy, Arts.
This journal is not allied with any specific school of thinking or cultural tradition; instead, it encourages dialogue between ideas and people with different points of view. Our aim is to bring together different international scholars, in order to promote the dialogue between cultures, ideas and new academic research.
The Journal is hosted by London Academic Publishing, London, UK.

RSAJournal, the journal of the Italian Association of American Studies (AISNA) seeks contributions for its n. 36 issue (September 2025) for both its General and Special Sections.

Full papers for the General Section, on any aspect of American Studies, should be submitted by January 31st, 2025, using our OJS portal, at rsa.aisna.net (which includes full submission and stylesheet details).

The Northeast Victorian Studies Association 2025

50th Anniversary Conference

April 4-6, 2025

Keynote panel with Kristin Mahoney, Nasser Mufti, and John Plotz

View the full call here >> https://nvsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/call-for-papers-nvsa-2025-1.pdf

We are seeking essay submissions pertaining to Henry James’s early stories and criticism, to be published by Vernon press. The working title of the collection is Writing as Revenge. We define James’s “early period” as anything he wrote up to The Portrait of a Lady. Please submit an abstract by October 31, 2024.

NeMLA's 56th Annual Conference, Philadelphia, March 6 to March 9, 2025: https://www.nemla.org/convention.html

Please consider submitting an abstract to the following CFP:https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21067

This roundtable invites educators to present their revolutionary approaches to language teaching in the post pandemic era, from AI integration, to project-based and task-based learning, to career preparedness. Contributions that address curricular innovations in all languages and learning modalities are welcome. 

Call for Papers

Food and Culture Studies

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024

Peace and Conflict in the Space Between, May 28-30, 2025

The Space Between Society: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945

University of Kansas (KU)

Lawrence, Kansas

The Henry Miller in the 21st Century Conference is offering five scholarships for students to help defray the costs of housing, food, and registration fees while attending this event to be held at the Asilomar Conference -Grounds, in Pacific Grove, California, from October 16, 2025 - October 19, 2025.

Eligibility:        This scholarship is open to any currently enrolled college student who has Junior, Senior, or Graduate Student level standing as of October 1, 2024.

Panel proposal for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres 

University of Maryland, College Park, MD 

July 8-11, 2025

“The Same Air, Water, and Hope”: Environmental Narratives Through the Razor Wire

In his 1989 essay “A Toxic Shock,” imprisoned activist and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal writes, “Despite the legal illusions erected by the system to divide and separate life, we the caged share the same air, water, and hope with you, the not-yet-caged. We share your same breath.” How can something as violently boundary-setting as razor wire still allow for the circulation of air, water, and hope?

GAI is now soliciting submissions for a new publication project, The Alien Forms of Global Asias Writing. Submissions for this Asia Shorts volume are due on September 15, 2025.

Petrocultures is a fast growing sub-discipline in the humanities which contends with the ways fossil fuels shapes our interpersonal, social and cultural lives. There has been little attention yet paid, however, to the relationship between energy culture and music. What Stephanie LeMenager calls the ‘aesthetics of petroleum’ holds a particularly strong resonance with 20th and 21st century music culture.