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CALL FOR PAPERS

Annual deadline: September 15

The VIII edition of the Congress will take place on November 19, 20 and 21, 2025 in the Auditorium of the Congress Centre “Ciutat d’Elx” (Spain) (in person format), and via our website (online format). There are 3 participation options:

> Option 1: In this modality, the proposals of the Communications will follow the main thematic line of the new edition of the Congress and the Festival: Japan and its imprint on the Fantastic Genre.

> Option 2: In this modality, the abstracts will follow the generic thematic line of the Congress: The Fantastic Genre and its possible interconnection with the different platforms of culture, audiovisual and new technologies.

Hello all!

We are delighted to share with you the Call for Papers for the upcoming GRACLS conference this November. Our conference, entitled “Configurations of Place and Death,” draws from the writings of Achille Mbembe to ask participants to consider the ways in which necropolitics shape how places and spaces are conceptualized and administered. The ubiquity of necropower as a determining force in the various ways in which humans inhabit the planet calls on us to engage with necropolitics as they relate to a vast array of fields and disciplines. Please see the attached CFP for a more in-depth description of the conference theme and suggested topics.

Surrealism and Arts-Based Research:

Bridging the Imagination and Reality Divide

Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/06/28/surrealism-2025/

Conference Dates: September 8-9, 2025

Location: Online

Proposal Deadline: August 4, 2025

Conference fee: 100 GBP

Call for Papers

André Breton, one of the founding figures of Surrealism, emphasizes the transformative and disruptive power of Surrealist art and thought in his famous quote:

Anaphora's two journals, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, and Cinematic Codes Review, are seeking submissions of all types of essays, reviews, and creative works.

Victorian Jewish Life University of Heidelberg --  February 9-10, 2026 In the heyday of Victorian England, the era when the sun never set on the British Empire, Jewishculture in England was also experiencing an all-time height. International movements for reformand emancipation were shaping laws about Jewish rights, and as the century progressed,immigrants from Eastern Europe brought their cultures and experiences to London.

Venue: Dharmasala

Concept Note of Seminar

Games have long used medievalist or medieval-adjacent settings to engage with audiences. Scholars have noted the various connections to be made between popular perceptions of the medieval in games and historical and textual realities of the medieval world. While games may not always make it a priority to accurately portray medieval (or pseudo-medieval) life, there are still important parallels and intertextual references that games use to harken back to the medieval world—whatever version of that that reality they choose to use as a basis, at least. Just like games construct a faux reality for their players, so too have the popular conceptions of the medieval world been carefully constructed through literature and popular culture.

The concept of orphanhood may reveal a liminal yet productive state between figures, identities, homes, cultures and languages, exposing fertile spaces for crafting (re)generative views of self and other through literary texts. As characters, orphans may become queered figures, pointing back to the vulnerable state of childhood itself; as protagonists, orphans have also been connected to the concept of the hero (Rose-Emily Rothenberg), the role of the laborer, and the emotional “regeneration” of adults (Claudia Nelson).

Call For Submission: Interdisciplinary Research on Globalisation, Climate and Sustainability

Publisher: Deshbandhu College, University Of Delhi

Deadline For submission: 15th July 2025 (11.59 PM IST)

Deshbandhu Journal Of Social Sciences

ISSN: 2583-7974 (Online)

Deshbandhu Journal Of Social Sciences

Theme: Globalisation, Climate and Sustainability: Changing Perspectives and Hypotheses 

“December 2025 Issue”

Call for Papers

Equinox: Volume I: Fables & Firelight
Published by La Société Étoilée 

Submission Deadline: August 31, 2025

In its inaugural issue, Equinox invites submissions on the theme of fables and firelight—that is, the stories we gather around, the myths that shape us, and the flickering interplay between tradition, memory, and imagination. We welcome work that explores folklore, mythology, ancestral knowledge, symbolic systems, oral traditions, and the cultural rituals of storytelling across time. But we also invite broader interpretations: How do stories act as shelter? When do they burn or illuminate? What truths lie within the fantastic?

This roundtable seeks to understand the ways in which early modern people conceived of the body as being willful. Early modern poets, playwrights, and prose writers represent the body as having (or almost as if having) a will of its own. For instance, in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, the titular protagonist desires to sign a devilish contract with his blood, but his blood congeals, preventing that damning deed. Margaret Cavendish imagines in Poems and Fancies cognitive processes as being directed by vital matter she metaphorizes as faeries, whose markets, funerals, and marriages dictate the functioning of the brain.

This is an open-CFP for one or more panel session(s) on Aemilia Lanyer. Lanyer has received a resurgence of attention in the last ten years from literary critics as well as popular dramatists and novelists. This panel aims to continue the scholarly conversation by seeking papers that examine new courses of inquiry or reevaluate established topics of Lanyer scholarship. Paper topics might include but are not limited to: