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:

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

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. 

Update: Keynote Speakers Announced - See details here: 

https://www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-events/conferences/reconfigurations-2025...

CFP:

[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

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.

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
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. 

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.

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

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.

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

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:

Call for Chapters

Springer Nature Contracted Volume
Series Title: Shifting Borders, Emerging Voices: Narratives of Change in Global South Asia
Edited by Moussa Pourya Asl and Manju Jaidka