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The Zeitgeist in Toys & Games

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:20pm
International Toy Research Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

The International Toy Research Association (ITRA) invites proposals for the 10th ITRA World Conference to be held in Augsburg Germany 5-7 August, 2026.  The overarching conference theme is The Zeitgeist in Toys & Games.

Proposal Submission Deadline:  31 December, 2025

Throughout recorded history, toys and games have shaped and reflected who we are. They inspire our play and fuel our development, both as individuals and members of society.   As both carriers and changemakers of culture, toys represent and influence the collective spirit of their times – the Zeitgeist. 

Speical issue of Tropos on Mimetic Studies. New Steps for the Mimetic TUrn

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:20pm
Leiden University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Located at the juncture of philosophy and the arts, mimesis is one of the most ancient concepts of literary theory and may not initially appear new, let alone original. It was indeed marginalized and forgotten in the Romantic and modernist periods haunted by the myth of originality. Yet, in recent years, scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and even the neurosciences, have returned to the ancient, yet strikingly contemporary, realization that humans are an imitative species, or homo mimeticus (www.homomimeticus.eu). 

First Forum 2025 - SPEED

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:20pm
First Forum – Graduate Student Conference of the University of Southern California, Cinema and Media Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

FIRST FORUM CONFERENCE 2025—CALL FOR PROPOSALS 

DIVISION OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

OCTOBER 17TH AND 18TH 2025

 

This year’s keynote presentation will be given by Dr. Silpa Mukherjee (University of California, San Diego).

 

 

SPEED

 

Quilting and Women’s Storytelling

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:20pm
Hairong Chen(Guest Editor, Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Call for papers: Women’s Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal (A&HCI)

Special Issue: Quilting and Women's Storytelling

Guest Editor: Hairong Chen

 

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS - CINEMA'S FIRST EPICS IN FOCUS

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:20pm
Institute of Comparative Literature Margarida Losa, University of Porto
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

Cinema’s First Epics in Focus: Silent Epic Film from Literary Adaptation to Contemporary Epic Narratives

(Edited Volume)

Rethinking the Brut: ICMS 2026 (5/14-16)

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:18pm
Society for International Brut Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

This session seeks papers that examine points of contact between different languages in Layamon’s Brut and in other prose and verse Bruts.  Papers that focus on instances within the text where speakers of different languages interact are welcome, as are papers that take examine Layamon’s and other Brut authors’ methods of translating sections of source texts and/or incorporating other languages into their text.  The session hopes to advance critical understanding of relationships between language and cultural or ethnic identity, language as a source of power or prestige, and translation as a way of conveying history to different audiences.  What do perceptions of language tell us about the writers and readers of historical texts

Language, Culture, and Dynasty in the Brut: ICMS 2026 (5/14-16)

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:17pm
Society for International Brut Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

This session seeks papers that examine points of contact between different languages in Layamon’s Brut and in other prose and verse Bruts.  Papers that focus on instances within the text where speakers of different languages interact are welcome, as are papers that take examine Layamon’s and other Brut authors’ methods of translating sections of source texts and/or incorporating other languages into their text.  The session hopes to advance critical understanding of relationships between language and cultural or ethnic identity, language as a source of power or prestige, and translation as a way of conveying history to different audiences.  What do perceptions of language tell us about the writers and readers of historical texts

“coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickledgherkins…”: Eating Indoors and Outdoors in Children’s Literature

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:16pm
Alessandro Cabiati, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice 

27-28 November 2025

International Conference 

“coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickledgherkins…”: Eating Indoors and Outdoors in Children’s Literature

Keynote Speakers: Prof. Vanessa Joosen (University of Antwerp), Prof. Diane Purkiss (University of Oxford)

 

Digital Intimacies 11: The Love of Machines

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:16pm
University of Sydney
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 29, 2025

Digital Intimacies 11: The Love of Machines (Dec 3 to 5, 2025)

 

In the contemporary intimacy landscape, machines have emerged not merely as mediators but as potential objects of desire. From sophisticated dating apps that claim to decode compatibility, to conversational agents scripting our seductions, to synthetic lovers rendering human connection obsolete—machines don’t just shape digital intimacies; they reconfigure the terrain upon which intimacy itself is constructed. 

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Cross-Cultural Studies on Han Kang and the Cross-Cultural Imagination

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:16pm
Hyeryung Hwang/Cross-Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Cross-Cultural Studies on Han Kang and the Cross-Cultural Imagination

  • Deadline for abstract submissions: October 1, 2025
  • Deadline for full manuscript submissions (upon acceptance of abstract): September, 2026
  • Publication Date: December, 2026
  • Languages accepted: English
  • Full name / name of organization: The Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
  • Guest Editor: Dr. Hyeryung Hwang, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
  • Contact email: hhwang@cpp.edu

Overview

Journal of European Popular Culture

updated: 
Sunday, July 6, 2025 - 8:18pm
Journal of European Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

 

Journal of European Popular Culture

Intellect Publishers

Next issue - call for article/s

JEPC 16.2 - 2025  & JEPC 17.1 - early 2026  

This peer-reviewed journal seeks lively submissions for its latest issues on any aspect of European cultural and creative activity.

The 2025 issues are open at present

This peer reviewed journal is interested in contemporary practices, but also in historical, contextual, biographical or theoretical analyses relating to past cultural activities in Europe.

CFP: Guest Reviewers, New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing

updated: 
Sunday, July 6, 2025 - 8:16pm
New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Guest Reviewers

New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creaive Writing (Taylor and Francis / Routledge) seeks guest reviewers with the requisite expertise for its registry of esteemed guest reviewers for works of creative writing, creative writing studies and/or literary studies.

New Writing is one of the world's leading journals in Creative Writing and Creative Writing Studies.. The Peer Review Board - appointed after extensive international review - deals with the range of submitted material (creative and critical). Occasional additional opinions are sought from guest reviewers with the requisite expertise. 

International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology

updated: 
Sunday, July 6, 2025 - 1:05pm
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 6, 2025

International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology 

  ISSN: 0975-3826(online); 0975-4660 (Print)

https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJCST/Home.html

*** July Issue***

Submission System

Scope & Topics                                                  

[Extended Deadline CFP]: 122nd Annual PAMLA Conference (San Francisco, CA) – November 20-23, 2025

updated: 
Sunday, July 6, 2025 - 11:27am
Craig Svonkin / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

The PAMLA 2025 Conference (https://www.pamla.org/pamla2025/) will be held at the elegant InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference will begin on Thursday, November 20, and continue through November 23, 2025.

The 2025 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person at the InterContinental. There will be no virtual or hybrid sessions or papers–the entire conference is being held in-person.

GLOTECH 2025 International Conference: Global Perspectives on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning and Translation

updated: 
Sunday, July 6, 2025 - 4:28am
Digital Language Learning (DL2)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 18, 2025

GLOTECH 2025 International Conference: Global Perspectives on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning and Translation

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New Perspectives on Bob Dylan (NeMLA 2026)

updated: 
Friday, July 4, 2025 - 8:28pm
David Polanski (Independent Scholar) & Robert Reginio (Alfred University)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

New Perspectives on Bob Dylan (NeMLA 2026)

Deadline for abstract submission: September 30 2025

Don DeLillo and White Noise at Forty (co-sponsored by the Don DeLillo Society) (PAMLA, panel) — LAST CALL

updated: 
Friday, July 4, 2025 - 2:25pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) (Annual Convention, 122nd, November 20-23, 2025, https://www.pamla.org)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

PAMLA will meet during the fortieth anniversary of Don DeLillo’s celebrated novel, White Noise (1985). His ninth of eighteen, it begins the two periods that make up the work for which he is best known—the first including Libra (1988), Mao II (1991), and Underworld (1997), the second The Body Artist (2001), Cosmopolis(2003), Falling Man (2007), Point Omega (2010), Zero K (2016), and The Silence (2020). Interestingly, this developing body of work is punctuated by Noah Baumbach’s recent film adaptation of White Noise (2022).

Ursula K. Le Guin (PAMLA, roundtable) — LAST CALL!

updated: 
Friday, July 4, 2025 - 2:25pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) (Annual Convention, 122nd, November 20-23, 2025, https://www.pamla.org)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

PAMLA will meet during the fiftieth anniversary of Ursula Le Guin’s “The New Atlantis,” and of her rare achievement: winning the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards simultaneously, for The Dispossessed, which appeared the year before. It would seem an auspicious occasion to explore her retroactively provocative contributions to what has since come to be known as clifi, and her oeuvre more generally.

All disciplines and approaches welcome.

The conference is entirely in-person; no virtual participation is envisioned.

Call for Book Chapter_Green Humanities: Eco-Diaspora, Indigenous Resilience & Literary Cartographies

updated: 
Friday, July 4, 2025 - 11:16am
Shrabanti Kundu
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 25, 2025

Selected Papers will be published in an edited Book with an ISBN from AuthorsPress (International Publication), New Delhi, India

Submission Guidelines:

  • Abstracts should be no more than 300 words and include a clear outline of the proposed paper’s objectives, methodology, and relevance.

 

  • Bio-note: A separate bio-note (maximum 100 words) should include your title (Dr/Prof.), affiliation, contact information, and research interests.

 

Imagining Futures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Humanity, Crisis, and Change

updated: 
Friday, July 4, 2025 - 10:30am
New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

6th International e-Conference

on

Imagining Futures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Humanity, Crisis, and Change

Date: 25th and 26th September, 2025(Thursday & Friday)

To be Organized by

New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

In collaboration with

School of Languages & Literature & Indian Knowledge System (IKS) Cell, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu & Kashmir, India

&

Department of History, Humanities and Society, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

Dismantling the Neocolonial Maritime Archive: Indigenous Oceanic Epistemologies

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 11:49pm
The 57th Annual Convention for Northeast Modern Language Association/NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

 This VIRTUAL panel invites papers on “Dismantling the Neocolonial Maritime Archive:  Indigenous Oceanic Epistemologies” for NeMLA 57th Annual Convention to be held on March 5-8, 2026.

 

The panel addresses how West Asian, South Asian, and Gulf literatures regenerate the power of oceanic precarity that propels newer modes of decolonial resistance and resilience to interrogate and distrust the rigid structures that propagate epistemic violence and archival control. 

[CfP due 15 July] Providence, Propaganda, and Profit in the Early Modern English World (4–6 September)

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 3:08pm
Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

4–6 September 2025 | University of Tokyo (Hongo Campus)

The University of Tokyo will be hosting an international conference, Providence, Propaganda, and Profit in the Early Modern English World, on 4–6 September 2025. Should you wish to present a paper of 20 minutes at the conference, please submit your proposal by 15 July 2025. Limited travel bursaries are available, particularly for postgraduate students and early career researchers.

【CALL FOR PAPERS】

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