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PAMLA 2025 Panel (standing session): Gothic

updated: 
Saturday, May 10, 2025 - 8:03pm
Melanie A. Marotta, College of William & Mary / Pacific & Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA 2025 Conference)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Gothic writers embrace the genre for its inclusive and representational nature. The genre is, in effect, a palimpsest as it prominently features both the past and memory. The creators in the genre continue to create plots that center on women, queer, transgender, and racialized characters and create stories that address societal inequalities. The environment (the Ecogothic) also continues to be a prominent character in the genre.

Horror Studies Special Issue: Women and Horror

updated: 
Saturday, May 10, 2025 - 8:02pm
Melanie A. Marotta and Miranda Corcoran
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

This special issue of Horror Studies aims to address female empowerment (cis- and transgender women) in literary and cinematic horror from 2010 to the present. The issue will showcase horror media (literature, films, television, and gaming) created by women. An intersectional approach should be applied to analyses, stressing categories of race, gender, sexuality, class and/or age in submissions. While we are interested in submissions focused on various forms of horror media, we are eager to receive submissions that foreground literary texts.

Call for chapters (Art volume in the series Oceans, Seas and Shorelines)

updated: 
Friday, May 9, 2025 - 3:12pm
Amin Heidari
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Please note that this call has expired! Thank you! 

 

This is a limited and urgent call for chapters in the Art Volume (part of the Routledge series Oceans, Seas, and Shorelines: Cultural, Environmental, and Natural Histories). Since some of the previous contributors were unable to complete their manuscripts, I am reaching out to those of you who have a fitting concept for a chapter within the already themed structure of the book and are able to complete the chapter by June 30. The volume is currently under contract with Routledge.

In the words of the series editors:

Mapping Body Space Continuum in Urbanscapes

updated: 
Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 1:49am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Space is not defined objectively, but in relation to bodies, as it is a manifestation of their needs, intentions, and desires. It is not a container in which objects exist but is intertwined with the body’s orientation in the world and its movements within the space. Human body, therefore, is at the centre of all spaces, which are more than a geometrical concept in abstraction. Individual bodies apprehend and appropriate space differently and give meaning to embedded systems and institutions through established and evolving associations. Any assumption of personalised space, whether private or public, is embedded with historical, cultural, and social meanings which help curate embodied experiences.

The Problem of Social Justice: Global Perspectives and Personal Narratives

updated: 
Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 1:49am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025

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

Power in Urbanscapes: Rethinking Spatiality and Sociality

updated: 
Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 1:48am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025

The second Issue of Volume 7 of LLIDS examines how structures of power constitute and shape urban spaces. It proposes to explore their influence in determining social values wherein varied social groups—marked by religion, class, race, gender, etc.—negotiate the power dynamics that constitute life in urban spaces. The modern, bustling city carries within itself a continuous sense of becoming. The urban dwellers, inhabiting segregated parts of the city, shape the lived experience of these spaces through their socio-cultural interactions and relationships.

Planned, Unplanned, and the In-between: Interactions of Architecture, Space, and Experience

updated: 
Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 1:48am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

For the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas in twenty-first century. Urbanization is understood as the mass movement of human population from rural to urban areas. The trend of urbanization is increasing at an unprecedented pace, especially in developing countries of the world. Now considered as an irreversible phenomenon, the imperative of urbanization necessitates a rethinking of how we imagine cities and rural areas of tomorrow to provide a meaningful and sustainable lifeworld. The challenges that come with such a dramatic shift are multifold and complex. It involves envisioning a way of life that is dignified, a society that is sustainable and equitable. 

The Creative Psyche and Arts-Based Research Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 - 7:16pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 12, 2025

The Creative Psyche and Arts-Based Research Conference

June 14-15, 2025

 

Where: Association of Jungian Analysts Centre, London

and online

Proposal Deadline: May 12, 2025

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Susan Rowland

 Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/the-creative-psyche/

 

Call for Papers:

 

 

The Sea and the World (Nov 6-7, 2026) --Abstract due on July 1, 2025

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 9:43pm
Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The 19th International Conference of Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS)November 6-7, 2026National Central UniversityTaoyuan City, Taiwan---- 

The Art of Living: Living, Learning, and Liberal Education

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 5:28pm
Frederick Whiting / Blount Scholars Program, University of Alabama
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

[CFP: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 21st]

The Art of Living: Living, Learning, and Liberal Education - October 29-31, 2025 

Keynote Speaker:

Julie Reuben

Professor of the History of American Education, Harvard University

Teaching Twenty-First Century Literature

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 5:12pm
Mitch R. Murray
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Many teachers of 21st century anglophone literature would agree that the field’s strength lies in how it has opened literary study to new authors, genres, mediums, and methods. But the field lacks unifying vocabularies, canons, and pedagogies. Among teachers themselves, there is bafflingly little deliberation about the goals of our teaching and what we expect our students to learn from the study of the literature of the present. So, what exactly is the job of teaching 21st century literature?

Oxford Handbook of Camp and Screen Cultures

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 4:26pm
Barbara Jane Brickman / University of Alabama
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

For at least the last fifty years, critics, commentators, and celebrity cognoscenti have repeatedly resounded the death knell of camp. First, facing the political crucibles of the queer civil rights and feminist protests of the 1960s and 1970s, gay men, lesbians, and trans folks were supposed to abandon the shameful practice and kill their darlings. Yet, twenty years later, they found camp coming gloriously back into vogue, striking a pose on the ironic drag stages of the queer 1990s. Now, come forward another twenty years, when self-conscious postmodern parody and biting double entendre are the fuel that makes meme culture go, and we are obliged to wonder at camp’s ubiquity and to question its possible utility.

Time Trial: Advancing an Understanding of Temporality in Play and Games

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:58pm
Emma Kostopolus
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 13, 2025

Whether it is made an explicit mechanic via countdown clocks and quick-time events, or is simply a natural part of the narrative, games are always already inherently concerned with the passage of time. While it is easy to think of mechanics as being about player control, the relationship of input to output, and how a game’s particular physics engine is encoded, every game has a unique relationship with temporality that players must learn to navigate in order to play successfully, whether that is perfecting the timing of their jumps in a platformer or remembering to log in to complete daily tasks in an MMO.

Marianne Moore Generations Conference

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:58pm
Jon Tadmor (Stanford), Celine Shanosky (Harvard)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Call for Papers: Marianne Moore Generations Conference October 23 and 24, 2025
Organizing Committee: Jon Tadmor (Stanford), Celine Shanosky (Harvard)
Speakers: Elizabeth Gregory (University of Houston), Virginia Jackson (UCI), Cristanne Miller (University at Buffalo SUNY)
Location: Stanford Humanities Center

The Marianne Moore Generations Conference is an invitation to join in consideration of one poet in the broadest sense, and with a spirit of experiment. How does Moore contribute, or not contribute, to a variety of fields and approaches within literary studies? How might this poet be carried forward?

Call for Book Chapters -- Fans, Fandoms, and Tabletop Roleplaying Games

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:58pm
Fans, Fandoms, and Tabletop Roleplaying Games
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Call for Book Chapters
on Fans, Fandoms, and Tabletop Roleplaying Games

 


Deadline for submissions: Sunday, June 15, 2025

Contact email:fans.fandoms.and.ttrpgs@gmail.com 

 

Editors: 

Maria K. Alberto, University of Utah

Adrianna Burton, University of California – Irvine

 

We are seeking proposals for chapters to be included in a peer-reviewed edited collection on fans, fandom(s), and tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs). The University of Michigan Press has expressed interest in this collection and the book proposal is currently underway. 

 

Fan Studies Network North America (FSNNA) 2025 conference

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:58pm
Fan Studies Network North America (FSNNA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 16, 2025

Get Ready – CFP for FSNNA 2025! Call for Participation

Fan Studies Network North America Conference 2025 (virtual)

October 23-26, 2025

 

REPUTATION: Influence, Power, and Capital

FSNNA Annual Conference 2025

Lectures from the Underground: Rethinking “Education” in the Long C19

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:58pm
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

Drawing on the theme “Underground,” this proposed panel considers the hidden, unearthed role of nineteenth-century forms of education. We think of education broadly here, including textbooks, expositions, World’s Fairs, newspapers, public history, and other print and material culture with didactic purpose. The panel will consider how these forms of education challenge or uphold prevailing nineteenth-century historiographies, as well as how they engage with counternarratives, reveal buried histories, reshape public memory, or critically construct belonging.

 

2025 Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Conference

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:58pm
Cory Barker, MPCA/ACA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference

Friday-Sunday, 3–5, October 2025

The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Conference participants will be responsible for securing their own lodging.

Submit paper, abstract, or panel proposals (including the title of the presentation) with the appropriate keywords (formerly areas) on the submissions website at https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels

Individuals may only submit one paper.

Modality, Mutability, and Mobility: Currents of Change in Translation and Interpreting

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:58pm
University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 25, 2025

The International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting 2025

Modality, Mutability, and Mobility: Currents of Change in Translation and Interpreting

In an era characterised by rapid advances in media and technology, intensifying cross-cultural interactions that shape our languages and identities, the transformative influences of AI, multimodality, and intermediality on our understanding of meanings and forms, as well as emerging challenges in global social, political and ecological contexts, the theme of this year’s conference will be ‘Modality, Mutability, and Mobility’. 

 

Medieval Times in Early Modern Texts

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:57pm
SAS Institute of History and the Scientiae
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Medieval Times in Early Modern Texts

Tuesday, April 8, 2025  

 

The Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the international research group Scientiae are pleased to invite you to participate in the conference:

Medieval Times in Early Modern Texts

that will take place on 3–5 December 2025 in Bratislava, Slovakia.

THE CULTURE OF ATTRACTIONS: PAST AND PRESENT International Scholarly Conference 10–12 September 2025

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:57pm
Nicolaus Copernicus Univeristy in Torun
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 4, 2025

THE CULTURE OF ATTRACTIONS: PAST AND PRESENT

International Scholarly Conference

10–12 September 2025

Faculty of Humanities, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń,

Collegium Maius, Fosa Staromiejska 3, Toruń, Poland

We cordially invite scholars specializing in various disciplines such as cultural studies, cultural

anthropology, theatre and performance studies, film and media studies, and related disciplines, to

participate in an international, transdisciplinary research conference. This conference, organized by the

Research Group on Performance Studies and Drama Translation at Nicolaus Copernicus University

Art, Architecture, and Culture of Odisha: Bridging Traditions and Global Narratives

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:57pm
S.C.S. (A) COLLEGE
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

 

National Seminar

on
"Art, Architecture, and Culture of Odisha: Bridging Traditions and Global Narratives"

18th and 19th September, 2025

Organised By 

POST GRADUATE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, 

S.C.S. AUTONOMOUS COLLEGE, PURI, ODISHA, INDIA

(Call For Book Chapters) In Living Color: Exploring the Complexities of Colorism in the Twenty-First Century

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:57pm
Amir Gilmore
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

In Living Color:

 Exploring the Complexities of Colorism in the Twenty-First Century

Under Contract with Bloomsbury Publishing

 

Edited by

Amir A. Gilmore, Washington State University

Vikki Carpenter, Heritage University

 

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, the question as to how far differences of race-which show themselves chiefly in the color of the skin and the texture of the hair

Soap Operas in Popular Culture Conference

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:57pm
Department of Popular Culture Bowling Green State Univ.
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 7, 2025

 

The Department of Popular Culture and the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, are proud to announce the Soap Operas in Popular Culture Conference.

We are seeking presentations by graduate students, academics, television industry professionals, longtime viewers and fans interested in the study of Soap Operas as an iconic Popular Culture format.

Possible topics might include but are not limited to:

Latinx Literature and Culture (PAMLA)

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:57pm
Pacific, Ancient, Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

This year’s Latinx Literature and Culture session welcomes paper proposals centering on any aspect of Latinx literary studies, cultural studies, and film or media studies. Topics could include but are not limited to: the U.S./Mexico Borderlands, migrancy and the diaspora, Chicanx/Latinx Feminisms, Queer Latinidades, Translation Studies, Central American and Caribbean studies, Chicanx/Latinx Poetics, and anything else that may broadly fit under the umbrella of Latinx/Chicanx studies. We welcome proposals that maneuver through disciplinary boundaries and thoughtfully engage with a variety of artifacts (theatre, performance, popular culture, children’s literature, memoirs, and autobiographies).

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