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SPECULATIVE DETECTIVES
The biannual journal Studies in the Fantastic invites proposals for an upcoming special issue investigating the popular yet puzzling pairing of detective and speculative genres, guest edited by Christiana Salah and Steven Mollmann.
Films that seem to demand more than their “fair share” of their audience’s lives or are deemed not “worth” watching index the complex ways spectatorship, attention, labor, and biopolitics are imbricated in our treatment of moving-image media. This panel examines how exhausting, pointless, and/or somnolent cinema stages experiences of duration and endurance as feats of aesthetic difficulty. We invite papers that consider the relationship(s) between cinematic temporality, modes of diffused attention, and the affective labor of spectatorship. How might we expand beyond interpretations of such media as solely about refusal and negation? What interdisciplinary methodologies might help us approach this “difficult” cinema?
The Southern Humanities Conference, 2025
Call for Papers
Conference Theme: Real, Artificial, and Superficial
Greenville, SC, January 30- February 2, 2025
The Southern Humanities Conference offers an opportunity for scholars, artists, writers, musicians, performers, and humanists of all kinds to share their knowledge, research, work, and experiences in an interdisciplinary, welcoming, and engaging intellectual space.
Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities welcomes contributions for future issues. Ecocene is published by Cappadocia University, Environmental Humanities Center. Each issue has a general section and a section on creative writing (Storying Ecocenes), creative art (Ecocene Arts), and book reviews. The general section can contain 6-8 articles. These articles should be research articles with a length of 5500 words. The word limit for short fiction is 3000, 1500-2000 for book reviews.
The explosion of revolutionary literature in South Asia is traced back to the formation of the All India Writers’ Association in 1936. Within a few years, the Indian People’s Theatre Association was formed in 1943. Operating with a distinct socialist fervor partly inspired by the Bolshevik revolution, these umbrella organizations brought together hundreds of poets, writers, thespians, and musicians working in various languages across the length and breadth of undivided India to consolidate a consensus against colonialism and fascism. Although the 1947 partition soon separated them into India or East/West Pakistan, the polemics of their art could not be stopped from reverberating across borders.
Abstracts (200 words) due: August 30
Final essays (2500-3000 words) due: December 15
My So-Called Life at 30: An Introspective Retrospective
L’Afrique est un continent aux expériences historiques et culturelles diversifiées, aux contextes politiques, économiques et sociaux variés. Ce continent incarne également des disparités culturelles, politiques et économiques, notamment en matière de développement humain et d’égalités de genre. Dans la majorité des pays africains, il est possible de tracer les grandes lignes d’un état des lieux du genre dans sa complexité et ses contradictions.
Call for Papers
Evolving Manhood: Reframing Masculinities in South Asia
This panel seeks to explore and shed light to the multiplicity of voices and accounts that surround issues of memory and exile in Spain in relationship to the Spanish Civil War and its impacts as a reflection of unresolved issues that are portrayed in recent contemporary fiction. The goal is to foster an interdisciplinary discussion about how memory, and exile, that in many cases are intertwined in these narratives, deepen our understanding of how the female experience is portrayed. The intention of giving agency to the unheard women voices and those marginalized by normative discourses is prevalent in these counter discourses that, frequently, have an autobiographical component.
Can we have a Revolution in how we talk about women’s and femme-identifying bodies and minds? Can we write about disability, mental health, pregnancy, perimenopause and menopause, transitioning, chronic pain, and other health concerns in ways that build us up and unite us?
In Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life (2013), Michael Marder posits that plants “are agents in the production of meaning” (35), echoing Jane Bennett’s claim that “the concept of agency [is enlarged] once nonhuman things are figured . . . as actors . . . [and] affective bodies forming assemblages” (Vibrant Matters 21-24).
A forthcoming special issue of Survive and Thrive will feature stories written by survivors of perinatal loss, their loved ones, their healthcare providers and other support workers, and scholars from interdisciplinary fields.
In recent years, the intersection of computational creativity and literature has gained significant attention. "Algorithmic Authors: Computational Creativity in Literature" aims to explore how algorithms and artificial intelligence are transforming the creation, analysis, and understanding of literary texts. This volume will investigate the roles of machine learning, natural language processing, and other computational techniques in generating and analyzing literary works, as well as their implications for the future of literature and authorship.
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers on any aspect of affective expression in medieval mystical and devotional texts. These papers will compose a series of panels to run at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 7-10, 2025.
Potential themes could include – but are not limited to – the following:
Experiencing divine grace/consolation
Longing for God
Compassionating Christ’s Passion
Mystical ecstasies and affective transports
External perceptions of mystics’ emotionality
Please submit via the official CAA portal here: https://caa.confex.com/caa/2025/webprogrampreliminary/meeting.html
CALL FOR PAPERS
College Art Association Annual Conference 2025
12-15 February 2025, New York City
"Art as Shifting Knowledge?: Histories of Science, Medicine, and Sinophone Art"
Chairs: Yizhuo Li (Universität Wien) and Jiaqi Kang (University of Oxford)
Although some of the most iconic British fictional detectives—Marple, Poirot, and Holmes—are old-age pensioners, the 21st century is witnessing a proliferation of aging detectives in fiction, television, and film. Among recent novels are Jesse Q. Sutanto’s Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (2023), Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club series (2021-), and Robert Thorogood’s The Marlow Murder Club series (2021-), but it is a growing trend that cannot be accounted for simply by demographics.
CALL FOR PAPERS
for the forthcoming issue of Jadavpur University Department of English Journal
Essays and Studies
Global South Conversations: Eco-Cosmopolitanism, Ethics of Proximity and Anthropocentric Anxieties in the Time of Climate Change
The next Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention will be held in Philadelphia, PA, from March 6-9, 2025. The roundtable "Storytelling in and about the Humanities: (R)evolving Disciplinary Discourses" is seeking abstracts (200-300 words) consistent with the conference theme of (R)EVOLUTION:
The Societas Ovidiana welcomes proposals for an in-person panel to be held at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) on May 8-10, 2025.
This panel invites new perspectives on the relationship between Dante and Ovid.
Proposals might consider, but are not limited to the topics of:
The Societas Ovidiana welcomes proposals for a virtual panel to be held at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) on May 8-10, 2025.
Given the global turn in medieval studies, it is important to reconsider the place of ancient authors beyond the sphere of European reception.
This panel invites global perspectives on the medieval reception of Ovid.
Proposals might consider, but are not limited to the topics of:
The journal Studies in Popular Culture publishes reviews of books in the broad field of pop culture studies. If you are interested in reviewing a book submitted to the journal or would like to suggest one to review, please contact the Book Reviews Editor at sipceditor.gmail.com. If you have not already reviewed a book for the journal, please include either a CV or a brief description of your interests and qualifications in the email.
Members of the Popular Culture Association in the South who have published a book are encouraged to inform the Book Reviews Editor of that fact.
SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 Themed Issue (64.1, Winter 2026):
“Reproduction without Bodies, Bodies without Reproduction”
SCMS Panel CFP: Remix in the Age of Generative AI
CALL FOR PAPERSRoundtable: “Slowly Engaging with the Indigenous Turn” (in person)
60th International Congress on Medieval StudiesKalamazoo, MichiganMay 9-10, 2025 In 2020, Bitterroot Salish scholar Tarren Andrews, in discussing the recent Indigenous turn in medieval studies, asks medievalists to “slow down” their engagement with Indigenous studies, “to be more deliberate, to be thoughtful, and to consider first the ethics of kinship and reciprocity that we owe Indigenous peoples, places, and communities who have labored to craft Indigenous studies as an academic field” (2).
CALL FOR PAPERSPanel: “Relational Approaches to the Indigenous Turn” (in-person)
60th International Congress on Medieval StudiesKalamazoo, MichiganMay 9-10, 2025 In 2020, Bitterroot Salish scholar Tarren Andrews coined the term “Indigenous turn” when describing the recent medievalist engagement with Indigenous studies. Recent scholarship (e.g., Akbari 2023; Price 2024) demonstrates the potentials for an Indigenous turn that is relational when combined with other critical approaches such as trans theory, gender and sexuality studies, premodern critical race studies, the Global Middle Ages, and others.
CALL FOR PAPERSPanel: “Red Reading the Premodern” (hybrid)
60th International Congress on Medieval StudiesKalamazoo, MichiganMay 9-10, 2025 This panel takes up Cherokee scholar Scott Andrews’ 2018 challenge to interpret (non-Indigenous) literature from Indigenous perspectives, an approach that he labels a 'Red Reading,’ and extends it to premodern texts. Red Reading allows us to reconsider premodern texts, divorcing them from engrained approaches towards a plurality of perspectives.
Call for Proposals of Monographs and Edited Collections for the new Book Horror Series “Terror: Estudios Críticos” for publication in 2026
Universidad de Cádiz (Spain)
Director: Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
(Spanish version below)
Violence in elections is a critical issue that threatens the very fabric of democracy. To address this challenge, we are compiling a comprehensive book titled "Democratic Harmony: Techniques for Eliminating Violence in Elections." This book aims to explore various strategies, approaches, and techniques that can promote peaceful and harmonious elections, ultimately leading to stronger democracies.
We invite researchers, scholars, practitioners, and experts in the field to contribute chapters to this important publication. The book will serve as a valuable resource for policymakers, electoral stakeholders, academics, and anyone interested in fostering democratic harmony and ensuring violence-free elections.
Sub-Themes
The discussion of the Western as a global genre enables the exploration of the multi-directional and multi-layered transnational contexts in which this genre has functioned in the course of its history. The Western circulates across arts and media, encountering narratives that have emerged in diverse geographies and that may appear under different names. Contemporary Westerns dislodge exceptionalist readings of the genre related to Frederick Jackson Turner’s classical “frontier thesis,” focusing on the changing identity of the U.S. West in contexts that transcend clearly defined borders.
Genre and Video Games - Science Fiction
We are seeking short chapters of approximately 2500-2700 words for an edited collection on literary genres in video games. We invite submissions for the “science fiction” category of the collection.