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International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
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Seeking chapters about African films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents, including chapters devoted to films from Cape Verde, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda. We welcome the following high-priority chapters on African films for the handbook's Part II (National Overviews of Trans Cinema):
Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Mobilization of Regret
Social justice is the virtue which guides us in creating those organized human interactions we call institutions. In turn, social institutions, when justly organized, provide us with access to what is good for the person, both individually and in our associations with others. Social justice also imposes on each of us a personal responsibility to work with others to design and continually perfect our institutions as tools for personal and social development.
– The Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ), Washington, D.C., USA
Special thematic dossier 7.1 | The Boundaries of US Identity and the African American Experience
Editor: Beatriz Hermida Ramos (Universidad de Salamanca)
Keywords: Colonialism, Hauntings, Postcolonial, Memory, Imperial, Afterlives, Bodies, Narratives
Empire's ghosts persist beyond colonial rule, manifesting as hauntings that collapse the distance between past and present. These specters transform the immaterial into tangible forces that infiltrate daily life. The colonial past is never truly gone; it lingers, erupting through material and psychic traces.
THREAD: Ubiquitous Medieval
SESSION TITLE: Understanding the Coloniser/Re-Imagining the Medieval
FORMAT: Short Paper
Deadline extended: March 15, 2025.
28th Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference
University of Mississippi
July 26th-27th, 2025
Call for Submissions
Intersecting Ecologies: Environmental Studies in the U.S. and Global South
Ampersand: An American Studies Journal
Volume III, No. 2 (Summer 2025)
Disrupting Forms
Editors are seeking contributions to an edited collection titled, Writing with the Gods. This collection of original essays focuses on literary representations of African-influenced religions and spiritual traditions in African-American and Caribbean Literature, such as Voodoo, Hoodoo, Conjure, Obeah, Vodou, Santeria, Myal, and Candomble.
Proposals are invited for a session at MLA 2026 in Toronto (session sponsor, The Conference on Christianity and Literature). The contemporary political and cultural scene in the United States is fraught with religion. Religion is fraught with politics, whether thinking about the ascendancy of the forms of Christian Nationalism in the discourses and halls of power, the continued political relevance and concern of the Black Church, the rhetorical and theological interventions of leaders like Bishop Marianne Budde (ECUSA), Pope Francis, or Billy and Franklin Graham, or the difficult political and cultural engagements across national divides in the clashing of cultures influenced by versions of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.
The 2026 MLA Convention will take place in Toronto from January 8 to 11 2026. I am organizing this panel on any aspect of racial passing. This panel seeks abstracts that explore racial passing in literature & film. Topics can explore any aspect of racial passing in literature and/or film from any time period. Submit a 300-word abstract and brief bio by March 25 for full consideration.
This session invites abstracts for papers that engage meaningfully with Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy. This session seeks to bring together a wide variety of approaches to and thematic interests in the novel. Papers might explore questions as diverse as possession/haunting, coloniality, race, the archive, gender, or theories of reading.
Please submit a 250-word abstract and a 150-word bio through the Google form below:
Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower: Visions of Yesterday and Tomorrow
Special Issue of African and Black Diaspora: an International Journal
The editors invite research articles examining Octavia Butler’s seminal and prophetic novels Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents for a special issue of African and Black Diaspora: an International Journal. In addition, the editors are accepting short creative works inspired by Butler’s Parable series.
Call for Papers: (Re)Reading Encyclopedic Narratives in the Digital Age
RSAJournal - Special Issue no. 37 (September 2026)
Guest editors: Giorgio Mariani (Sapienza University of Rome), Ali Dehdarirad (Sapienza University of Rome), Sascha Pöhlmann (TU Dortmund University)
Not Without Laughter: Tracing Humour in African American Literature Across the Ages
Many philosophers, from Aristotle to Hobbes, Freud to Schopenhauer, Spencer to Peter McGraw, have given interesting insights on matters concerning humour, comedy, and laughter. While the classical theories of humour, namely the superiority theory, the incongruity theory, and the relief theory, discuss the fundamental nature of humour, its evolved forms, such as the benign violation theory, provide a more compact version of the same. Nevertheless, humour is pervasive and can be witnessed in all aspects of life.
Call For Book Chapters
Don’t Get Lost in Their Sauce:
Navigating Academic Identity, the Creative Self, and Reductive Practices
Edited by
Amir A. Gilmore, Washington State University
Adrianne Mitchell, Washington State University
“See, when I had no money, I still had sauce. See if you don’t got no sauce, then ya lost. But you can also get lost in the sauce.” –Gucci Mane (2013)
In celebration of 50 yearsof scholarship and community, the 50th European StudiesConferencewill offer both online and in person panels at theUniversity of Nebraska Omaha and welcomespaperson European topics in all disciplines. Areasof interest include art, anthropology, history, literature, education, business, international affairs, religion, foreign languages, philosophy, geography, performing arts, and current issues in cultural, political, social, or economic areas of study.
Graduate students are invited to apply for the Best GraduateStudent Paper Award in the amount of $250. Deadline to submit their paper for consideration is1 September 2025.
CALL FOR PAPERS
NEW ACADEMIA: An International Journal of English Language, Literature and Literary Theory (Online ISSN 2347-2073)
Vol. 14 Issue 2 April 2025
New Academia is a peer reviewed and refereed journal published quarterly by Interactions Forum. The Journal strives to publish research work of high quality related to Literature written in English Language across the World, English language and literary theory. The aim of the journal is to give space to scholars and researchers to publish their works.
We are always keen to receive submissions from scholars, academicians and researchers in the form of Research Papers, Articles, Poems, Short Stories, Interviews and Book Reviews.
Below is an updated list of texts available for review in The Journal for the Study of Radicalism. Reviewers must be professors, independent scholars, or professionals who hold a PhD or terminal degree in their field. Advanced graduate students are also encouraged to reply.
Email the Book Review Editor at jsrbookreview@gmail.com in order to review a text listed below. We also welcome and encourage ideas on other texts related to radicalism.
The LLC African American Forum and The College Language Association invite abstracts for a panel at the MLA Convention (January 8-11, 2026 in Toronto, CA). The proposed panel, "A Light on the Lesser Known: Black Writers and their Work," will explore understudied and underdiscussed writers, or understudied and underdiscussed works by well-known authors, within the Black Literary Tradition.
Please email abstracts (250 words) and bios (150 words) to McKinley E. Melton (meltonm@rhodes.edu) by Friday, 21 March 2025.
Please note: accepted panelists will need to be active members of both MLA African American Forum and the College Language Association by April 1, 2025.
Diasporic literature is often deeply engaged with the tensions between displacement and belonging, rupture and continuity, loss and recovery. In narratives of migration, exile, and forced displacement, family becomes both a site of longing and a contested space where histories of trauma and survival play out. Diasporic texts frequently challenge normative understandings of kinship, moving beyond biological ties to reimagine family through memory, affect, and political solidarities.
“Margaret Fuller and 19C American Women Writers Observing Nature, Engaging Science”
Margaret Fuller’s “Entertainments of the Past Winter,” published in the July 1842 issue of the Dial, relays, “Wherever we went, there was Lyell’s Geology on the table, and many of the suggestions made by these lectures lingered in conversation throughout the winter.” She is referencing Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology, which made the then relatively new concept of deep time palatable to a wide audience. Lyell aided Fuller’s understanding of how past and present are connected, and helped her to see the long and ongoing processes of nature.
Kierkegaard and Incarceration
American Academy of Religion
In-person Annual Meeting, November 22-25 in Boston, MA
Following the 2025 American Academy of Religion Presidential Theme focused on “Freedom,” the Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Unit invites papers on the topic of “Kierkegaard and Incarceration.”
Call for Papers: Inaugural Issue
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists seeks submissions for its eighth biennial conference, which will take place March 12-14, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency in Cincinnati, Ohio. We invite individual papers and group proposals on literature and culture in the United States, the Americas and beyond during the long nineteenth century.
CALL FOR PAPERS: James Baldwin Review
Modern Language Association
2026 MLA Convention
January 8-11, 2026
James Baldwin and the Reproduction of Racial Capitalism
Social domination, as exerted and felt through the categories of race, class, sex, and gender, finds itself expressed in and through James Baldwin’s work, often unevenly, subject to the peculiarities of his historical moments. Both Baldwin and his interpreters can be seen to elevate one vector of domination in racial capitalist modernity over the others, or forget one at the others’ expense, obscuring our vision of such domination and our capacities for struggling against it.
XXVIII AISNA Biennial Conference
“Facing West: Thinking, Living, Outliving the American West”
(Bergamo, Italy, 11-13 September 2025) Deadline: February 28 2025
PANEL 4
American Requiem: “Cowboy Carter” and Black Feminist Imaginings of the South-West
Gianna Fusco (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila) mariagiovanna.fusco@univaq.it
Giuseppe Polise (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila) giuseppe.polise@univaq.it
Last year marked the centenary of both the Republic of Turkey and James Baldwin, yet Baldwin’s time in Istanbul (1960–71) remains an understudied period in his literary and intellectual life. This panel seeks to explore Baldwin’s "Turkish decade" beyond exile narratives, and focuses on how his engagement with Istanbul’s artistic, literary, and queer communities shaped his work and political thought. How did Baldwin’s experiences in Turkey influence his evolving critique of race, sexuality, and transnational belonging? How might we rethink Baldwin’s literary and activist legacy through the lens of his Istanbul years?
Toward a Critical Color Theory; Black American Women’s Writing and Color