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Alchemy 2025: Exploring Metaphorical Transformations and Arts-Based Research

updated: 
Saturday, June 28, 2025 - 7:21pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Date: November 8-9, 2025
Location: University of Oxford, UK
Online option available
Conference page: https://labrc.co.uk/2024/11/20/alchemy-2025/

 

Cost:  180 GBP (In person)
100 GBP (Online)
Prices exclude eventbrite fees

“Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.” – Paracelsus

Global K-Culture Conference (Deadline extended)

updated: 
Friday, June 27, 2025 - 3:33pm
Chungbuk National University, Korea
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Global K-Culture Conference

August 28 (Thu) ~ August 29 (Fri), 2025 (2 days)

Chungbuk National University, Korea

https://kculture.chungbuk.ac.kr/

 

Keynote Speakers

 

Hyung-jin Lee (Sookmyung Women’s University)

Topic: “K-culture and Translation“ (TBA)

 

Ji Hyeon Kim (Hanyang University)

Topic: “K-culture and Media Platform” (TBA)

 


 

Poetry and Poetry Studies at MAPACA in Philadelphia

updated: 
Friday, June 27, 2025 - 9:49am
Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

 

The Poetry and Poetry Studies area at the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) seeks creative and critical proposals for this year’s conference in Philadelphia from November 6-8, 2025.

CFP for The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:35pm
The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

The call for submissions for the next general issue (2026) of the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (ISSN 20455852 , ONLINE ISSN 20455860) is now open. The deadline for submissions of full articles for consideration is August 31 2025.

The Journal is indexed in SCOPUS (among others), and its remit is broad and international, publishing innovative scholarly research about a broad range of popular culture topics. Articles should be between 5,000 and 7,000 words and referenced using the Harvard style system. All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications.

Jamesian Ecosystems / Jamesian Organisms (Henry James Society Tenth International Conference, Vancouver, BC)

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 12:57pm
Henry James Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

In “The Art of Fiction” (1884), Henry James writes, “A novel is a living thing, all one and continuous, like every other organism, and in proportion as it lives will it be found, I think, that in each of the parts there is something of each of the other parts.” In the same essay, he conceives of the novel in geographical terms, cautioning that “The critic who over the close texture of a finished work will pretend to trace a geography of items will mark some frontiers as artificial ... as any that have been known to history.”  James’s conception of the novel as a “living thing” inhabiting a physical landscape invites us to think about the writer and his work in terms of relationships between organisms and their environments.

Abortion Within and Beyond Medico-Legal Frameworks

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 12:14pm
Dr Zoe L. Tongue / University of Leeds
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

The World Health Organisation (2022) states that universal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, including abortion, ‘is central to both individual and community health, as well as the realization of human rights.’ International human rights bodies such as the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women therefore recommend that governments decriminalise abortion and provide safe, timely, and legal access to services. The legalisation and provision of safe, evidence-based abortion services is important not only for avoiding unsafe abortion-related mortality, but for substantive, intersectional gender equality and the protection of many other rights.

International Conference on Geopolitics of Climate Change

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:45am
Ecosophical Foundation for the Study of Literature and Environment
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

The last decade of the Twentieth century witnessed a drastic shift from a ‘Bipolar’ to a ‘Unipolar’ world including the definition of the power politics and the diplomatic, economic and military status quo of the cold war era. Now the geographies of the globe had to shape the historical predictability, literary upsurges, socio-economic developments and psycho-cultural practices within the communities including the entire ecosystem of the various ecosophical narratives of climate change. In this context, ‘Geopolitics’ proved to the most apt term that invokes many things simultaneously. Political tussle and dominance is the most obvious meaning of the term that implicitly implies its global extent.

Imagining Extinction: Afterness, Fossils and Fiction

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:39am
Asijit Datta
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Writing about extinction is an aporetic coming together of our current geological reality and imagination that borders on speculation. It is an act that opens up the ecological, the ontological, and simultaneously interrogates the disappearance of humans from the planetary scene. The space of imagination imagining its own annihilation is a precarious zone for the writer, one that also discharges a kind of nervousness for the reader. The crisis facing us now is how to disentangle extinction as a kind of placelessness, as empty space beyond time. How do we, as a species on the edge of the Sixth Mass Extinction, make sense of Rosi Braidotti’s statement, “‘We’ are in this together, but We are not one and the same”?

EXTENSION FOR ABSTRACTS: Submissions for the Democratisation of (Outer) Space Conference extended to Thursday 31ST JULY

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:38am
Graham Minenor-Matheson Linköping University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

EXTENSION FOR ABSTRACTS: Submissions for the Democratisation of (Outer) Space Conference to be held in Norrköping, Sweden in November 2025 are expected on Thursday 31ST JULY. Details below.

We look forward to seeing your abstracts!

Graham and Michael

We invite submissions for the upcoming Linköping Space Studies Institute international conference 26-28 November 2025: Campus Norrköping at Linköping University, Sweden.

Democratisation of Space: The decline of the public and rise of the private?

Regenerating genre: History and Multicultural Perspectives in Horror (NeMLA 26)

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:38am
Joshua Gooch / NeMLA 2026 panel
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

History is horrifying. For horror creators in the twenty-first century, the terrors of the past have become central to the genre’s regeneration. The increasing diversity of who writes and creates horror has been tightly connected to the genre’s ability to depict otherwise occluded historical terrors. Critics have taken on horror’s relation of past and present as different subgenera, from what Sheri-Marie Harrison calls “the new Black Gothic” to Patricia Stuelke’s “anticapitalist feminist horror.”

Roundtable: Regeneration through Return; Folklore and Ecocritical Futures

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:38am
Kathleen Hudson/NeMLA Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

An urgent focus on ecocriticism in the humanities has developed in parallel to increased cultural engagement with folklore studies, particularly as such areas relate to the relationships between human communities and ecosystems. The application of folklore studies in ecocriticism facilitates the incorporation of previously marginalized perspectives and identities in order to speak to a global reality, building on the 'past' while responding to potential, and potentially unstable, 'futures'.

Post-9/11 Representation after 25 Years. A special issue of the European Journal of American Culture Issue 46.2 (Summer 2026):

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:38am
European Journal of American Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

CFP: Post-9/11 Representation after 25 Years.

A special issue of the European Journal of American Culture Issue 46.2 (Summer 2026) 

 

Edited by:

Colin Halloran, Old Dominion University, chall032@odu.edu

Marc Ouellette, Old Dominion University, mouellet@odu.edu

 

Our Love Affair With Marriage

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:37am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage."

–Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Cities and Identities: An Overview of the Global South

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:37am
Dr. Cyrine Kortas, a postdoctoral fellow at the MECAM: the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Cities and Identities: An Overview of the Global South

 

deadline for abstract submissions: 

20 August, 2025

 

contact email: 

editor.literature@yahoo.com

 

Call for Papers

 

AI Integration in Academic Writing and Research

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:37am
Mohammad Azim Arbabi / Universiti Brunei Darussalam
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Call for Papers: AI Integration in Academic Writing and Research – NeMLA 2026

The Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) invites submissions for the session “AI Integration in Academic Writing and Research” at its 2026 conference. We welcome papers exploring AI’s transformative role in scholarly practices, including its benefits, challenges, and the effective and ethical use of AI in writing and research processes. Topics may include the impact of AI tools on users’ critical thinking skills, the accuracy of AI-generated content, AI’s role in learning writing skills, and the use of AI in teaching practices.

AI Policies in Higher Education

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:37am
Mohammad Azim Arbabi / Universiti Brunei Darussalam
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Call for Papers: AI Policies in Higher Education – NeMLA 2026

The Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) invites submissions for its 2026 conference session on AI policies in higher education. We welcome papers exploring the integration, implementation, and impact of AI policies at various levels, including classroom, departmental, or institutional settings. Topics may include classroom AI guidelines, institutional AI frameworks, and effective strategies for ethical and practical AI adoption in academia.

Please submit abstracts of 250–300 words via the submission portal by September 30, 2025.

Graphic Spiritualities: (Re)generation/Resistance in Latin American Comics (Panel) (NeMLA)

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:36am
Felipe Gomez
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This panel explores how Latin American comics represent popular spiritualities, racialized bodies, and subaltern knowledge as forms of symbolic regeneration, resistance, and collective healing. Proposals are accepted in Spanish, Portuguese, or English. Those that particularly highlight subaltern religious, racial, and cultural traditions from the Global South and historically marginalized spiritual experiences will be especially valued. See complete description and submit an abstract here: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21924

Grievable Lives: Violence, Resistance, and Political (Re)generation in Latin America

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:36am
Angel Diaz-Davalos / The Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This seminar explores how structural and symbolic violence operate against marginalized bodies as mechanisms of control and exclusion within the contemporary global order, with particular attention to the Latin American context. From militarized borders and detention centers to the necropolitics of neoliberal disposability, violence is not only physical but also institutional, epistemic, and economic.

Propuestas para la colección Terror: Estudios críticos

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:36am
Universidad de Cádiz (España)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

Propuestas para la colección Terror: Estudios críticos

deadline for submissions:

August 15, 2025

full name / name of organization:

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

contact email:

coleccion.terror@uca.es

 

English version below

 

Cognition and the Media

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:35am
G. d'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 22, 2025

Cognition and the Media

International Conference

 

Sponsored by AIA (Italian Association for English Studies), Aston Stylistics Research Centre (Aston University - Birmingham) and CenTras (Centre for Translation Studies @UCL - UK)

 

Pescara, 30-31 October 2025

Venue: Museo delle Genti d’Abruzzo

                                                                                        Call for Papers

Frank*ology, or the Thoroughly Modern Prometheus: A Re-vision of Sensualities in Romanticism from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (virtual conference)

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:26am
West of Canon Press
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

Frank*ology, or the Thoroughly Modern Prometheus: A Re-vision of Sensualities in Romanticism from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (virtual conference)

 

West of Canon press seeks papers and presentations on Frankenstein from academics, artists, and folks across disciplines for a virtual conference celebrating the long legacy of this incredible book. We are looking for academic style papers as well as creative responses to Frankenstein and its related media.

 

A non-comprehensive list of what we’re hoping to see and include:

  • Transgender identity (specifically transmasculinities) in Frankenstein and other works by the Romantics.

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 2025 Symposium

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:26am
Pacific Northwest College of Art(PNCA), Willamette University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

Call for Proposals
Beyond Boundaries: Visions of Ecological Futures
2025 PNCA Symposium
October 2–4, 2025
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) at Willamette University
511 NW Broadway, Portland, Oregon

 


 

We invite submissions for individual papers for the 2025 PNCA Symposium, Beyond Boundaries: Visions of Ecological Futures, a three-day convening of critical and creative voices engaging ecological thought across disciplines and communities. This symposium explores the intersections of environment, art, activism, pedagogy, and identity—with a focus on how ecological futures are imagined, embodied, and enacted through diverse cultural practices and positionalities.

Call for Abstracts: A Research Symposium on Migration Studies in Peninsular India

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:25am
CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore India
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 7, 2025

Cultural Studies Methodology Lab

Department of English and Cultural Studies

In collaboration with

Department of Media Studies

CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore India

Organizes

A Research Symposium on Migration Studies in Peninsular India

August 28-30th, 2025

 

 

Wellness & Equity as Collective Care Frameworks For Graduate Student Wellbeing

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:24am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

The notion of “wellness” as it pertains to university contexts has taken on a problematic valence over the years. Owing to the increasing neoliberalization of academia, wellness has been increasingly tied to pop psychology, self-care spending, pizza parties, and other “self-actualizing” capitalistic practices. By virtue of the precarious nature of their status and labour, graduate students in the university are especially susceptible to experiences of overwork, exploitation, burnout, poor well-being, and existential harm, with studies showing that nearly 40% of graduate students globally experienced symptoms of anxiety, depression, or suicide ideation.

 

Theatre and Resilience

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:23am
German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

34th Annual CDE Conference, Prague (Czech Republic), 4-7 June 2026

The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE) is pleased to announce its 34th Annual Conference. It is organized by Charles University and will be held as a residential conference at Masarykova kolej, Thákurova 1, Prague 6, https://www.masarykovakolej.cz/en/home.

Theatre and Resilience

 

Media and Aesthetics of Environmental Decay in the “Global South”

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:23am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Dear colleagues,

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit your creative work and scholarly reflections and papers to participate in the panel Media and Aesthetics of Environmental Decay in the “Global South"  to be held at NEMLA's Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. 

Jane Austen Now

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:23am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

The year 2025 marked the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, yet Austen seems to be only increasing in cultural relevance on a global scale. This panel at the NeMLA conference in Pittsburgh, March 5-8, 2026 explores Jane Austen-related texts – including films, streaming, novels, graphic novels etc. - of the twenty-first century, including…

 

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