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Fictions of Social Space in Late Capitalism / CFP for PAMLA Conference (20-23rd November, San Francisco)

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:25pm
Pascual Brodsky
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

This seminar uses fiction across media to host a dialogue between critical space theory and contemporary frameworks of political relationality. We look for the crossroads of intersectional politics, the empty lots where to construct "a people," the putrid, fertile soils of post-human entanglements. Demolishers against all future: you are also welcome.

We produce the space of sociality, and, in return, space shapes social reproduction (Henri Lefebvre). This dialectic is traversed by the blueprint of form as "the precondition of possible space" (Anna Kornbluh). Narrative fiction -literary, filmic, graphic- objectifies those forms and configures new ones, reworking the very entanglement of space and society.

CFP: The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture – NEPCA Virtual Fall Conference 2025

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:24pm
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

CFP: The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture – NEPCA Virtual Fall Conference 2025

Deadline for submissions: July 15, 2025 5pm EST

 

Contact email: 

Hannah Sophie Schiffner, h.schiffner@zeppelin-university.net 

Protichi Chatterjee, protichichatterjee@gmail.com

 

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online October 9 – 11, 2025.

 

Edited volume from Routledge UK (contract signed)

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:24pm
IATIS/Routledge UK
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

IATIS Yearbook 2025

Type: Edited volume from Routledge UK (contract signed)

Title:

Exploring ‘Geo’ in Translation:

Redefining Territoriality of Translational Landscape in South Asia

 

1. Rationale:

Edited Volume

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:24pm
Sri Sri Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies, Sri Sri University, Cuttack, Odisha
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Book Proposal for the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)

Type: Edited volume

Title (provisional)

Craft Culture of Odisha:

A Study of Handicraft Heritage and Changing Dynamics of Craft-making

 

Rationale:

Anglistics conference

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:23pm
Anglistics organizing committee
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

First Anglistics International
Conference on Continuing Education
in Philological and Related Studies in
the English Language (ONLINE)
September 25-26, 2025
Deadline for proposals: September 15, 2025
The First International Conference on Continuing Education in Philological
and Related Studies in the English Language invites academics, researchers,
educators, and postgraduate students to come together to explore English
philology in all its dimensions. This event will be held entirely online and aims
to foster dialogue and intellectual exchange on the dynamic linguistic,
literary, and cultural landscapes of the English language. The conference,

Special Issue on Gendered Violence

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:20pm
Women's Studies Journal (Taylor and Francis)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (T&F)

Special issue on

Gendered Violence

Guest Editors: Debajyoti Biswas (Bodoland University) & Parvin Sultana (Pramathesh Barua College)

 

CFP (Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media (In-Person) (7/24/2025; MAPACA Philadelphia 11/6-8/2025)

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:00pm
Michael Torregrossa / e Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Call for Papers

(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media (In-Person)

Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Annual Conference 

Sonesta Hotel Philadelphia (1800 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19103)

6-8 November 2025

 

The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture invites proposals for an in-person panel on the theme of "(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media" for the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Annual Conference, which will run from Thursday, 6 November, to Saturday, 8 November 2025. 

 

CSECS 2025 (deadline extended)

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 2:31pm
University of Regina
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Second Call For Papers

 

CFP:  Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Société canadienne d’études du dix-huitième siècle

 

2025 Conference:  Trans/Formations: Crossing Borders, Blurring Boundaries

Location: Atlas Hotel, Regina/Oskana, Saskatchewan

15-18 October, 2025

 

Deadline for Submissions: 31 May 2025

Please send submissions to the Organising Committee: CSECS2025@uregina.ca

 

Conference Details

 

Muslims in American

updated: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025 - 7:22pm
SAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

SAMLA 97 – Knowledge – Atlanta, GA | November 6th - 8th, 2025, https://samla.ballastacademic.com  

This panel intends to examine the works of Muslim American poets, novelists, playwrights, musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists. Papers are invited that explore the diverse compositions of Muslim American identities in cultural texts as they challenge and engage with the canonical codes and sociopolitical norms of national, theoretical, literary, and aesthetic spaces.

Early Scholars Publication Grants: Translating Cultures (Deadline Extended)

updated: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025 - 4:15pm
UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025

The King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS), through its UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures, and with support from the Literature, Publishing and Translation Commission, offers Early Scholars Publication Grants. These grants support the publication of outstanding PhD dissertations that critically examine contemporary debates related to the UNESCO Chair's two themes and adopt a global perspective that moves beyond Eurocentrism. Early Scholars Publication Grants will be awarded for this year's two themes:

1) Translating Cultures in the Digital Age

Rhetorical Theory (PAMLA Standing Session Ext. Deadline)

updated: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025 - 4:14pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

PAMLA 2025 RHETORICAL THEORY PANEL

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

“Rhetorical Theory” (Standing Session)
San Francisco, CA, Nov. 20-23
Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack (USC)
Email: leack@usc.edu

 

Abstract

This panel will explore recent movements in rhetorical theory writ large, either in connection with or apart from composition theory and practice. Special attention will be given to proposals that engage with the conference's theme.

Description 

***DEADLINE EXTENDED***Intersectionality, Immigration, and the Humanities in Contemporary Discourses and Narratives

updated: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025 - 10:45am
CERSHO, Mohammed I University, Oujda
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

In these turbulent times of global conflict and wars, and with the world witnessing human rights violations, scholars and individuals alike are grappling with the evolving definitions of fundamental issues such as human rights, international law, justice, and community peaceful coexistence. The crises challenge long-held assumptions on the so- called post-colonialist discourses, neocolonialism, systemic oppression, and cultural conflict, especially in transnational and diasporic encounters. Images of destruction and the continuous lurking waves of international sociopolitical plights inflicting the world raise urgent ethical questions that call upon the humanities to critically engage with these contemporary struggles of the human experience.

Panel for 2025 PAMLA (San Francisco): Modern Hispanic Queer Cultures

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 6:47pm
Jeffrey Zamostny, Kansas State University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

This accepted PAMLA special session panel explores memory and oblivion as they relate to queer culture and literature of the modern Hispanic world. Focusing on Latin America, Spain, and the global Hispanophone in the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, the panel explores practices of remembrance, commemoration, censorship, and forgetting both in queer culture (i.e., as practiced by queer individuals and groups) and of queer culture (in a broader cultural ecosystem). How have queer people sought to memorialize their predecessors and bequeath their legacy to future generations? How have these practices interacted with more expansive societal forces that alternately commemorate, silence or marginalize queer culture?

Studies on Vertigo (1958)

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 2:54pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo is considered a staple in American cinematic history. For decades, Vertigo has been the subject of study by many film scholars, peeling back the intricate layers of the technicolor thriller. This panel invites all papers on Vertigo whether it is about the film's placement in Hitchcock's auteurism, the film's relation to the city of San Francisco, or an entirely new layer that has yet to be fully discussed.

The Power or Powerlessness of Knowledge

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 1:56pm
Ben P. Robertson / Troy University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Sir Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes are associated with the phrase, “Knowledge is power,” articulated by both writers about four centuries ago.

PAMLA 2025: Navigating Graduate School: You're ABD, Now What? [DEADLINE EXTENDED]

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 1:52pm
Jan Maramot / PAMLA 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

This roundtable serves as a direct continuation of "Navigating Graduate School," from last year's PAMLA conference in Palm Springs. One of the most mystifying parts of graduate school that can seem intimidating to a prospective student is what happens after your qualifying exams. You're done with coursework. You've gone through your qualifying exams. You are now considered 'All-But-Dissertation,' or ABD. What happens? While graduate handbooks will helpfully detail requirements for dissertations, prospectus meetings, etc., the experience of navigating the terrain between qualifying exams and the job market can feel abstract.

International Conference on Food Studies: "Culinary Evolutions"

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 12:51pm
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 30, 2025

International Conference on Food Studies:
"Culinary Evolutions"

London/Online: 9-10 August 2025
Deadline for proposals: 30 May 2025 
Conference website: https://food.lcir.co.uk

Food is a basic foundation of culture and society, it is vital to our health and well-being and it plays a significant role in our everyday creative engagement with nature. The shifts in activities surrounding food acquisition, preparation and consumption are not only essential for learning a culinary tradition but for examining a broader societal change.

Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 10:29am
University of Münster
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 2, 2025

In their introduction to Mothers in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism (2016), Karen Coats and Lisa Rowe Fraustino observe that “[w]hether living or dead, present or absent, sadly dysfunctional or happily good enough, the figure of the mother carries an enormous amount of freight across the emotional and intellectual life of a child” (3).

South Asia Research at the Crossroads: Current World Order, New Horizons and Theorisations

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 12:52am
Institute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR), kolkata
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Two-day Early Career Researchers’ Conclave & Colloquium 2025

Institute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR), kolkata

Department of Higher Education, Goverment of West Bengal

Academic partner - British Council  

South Asia Research at the Crossroads: Current World Order, New Horizons and Theorisations

0n 23rd and 24th June, 2025

  • Keynotes

Francesca Orsini, SOAS, University of London

Justin Jones, University of Oxford

***DEADLINE EXTENDED*** 2025 Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Conference

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 10:51am
Cory Barker, MPCA/ACA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference

Friday-Sunday, 3–5, October 2025

The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Conference participants will be responsible for securing their own lodging.

Submit paper, abstract, or panel proposals (including the title of the presentation) with the appropriate keywords (formerly areas) on the submissions website at https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels

Individuals may only submit one paper.

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 6:30am
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 2, 2025

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism 
A Transdisciplinary Conference

July 4-5, 2025 

July 4: In person participation at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park (and online)
July 5: Fully online

Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/ecopoetics-2025/

Fees** (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)

 

 

ReFocus: The Films of Anurag Kashyap

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 12:28am
Edinburgh University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

 UPDATE: DEADLINE FOR ABATRACTS EXTENDED TILL 31ST OF DECEMBER.

 

NOTE: WE ARE NO LONGER LOOKING FOR PROPOSALS RELATING TO "MUKKABAAZ".

Medusa: Essay on Modern Drama

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 11:07pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

This call for papers seeks one specific chapter on Medusa for a volume intended for the series, Villains and Creatures.

Each chapter of the volume is intended to be an overview of depictions of Medusa in specific kinds of media; nevertheless, the arguments/theses of each chapter should still be original, using past works and research to develop a current (new) perspective on Medusa.

The chapter needed involves Modern Drama.

Chapters will be due in October 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 6,500 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Panel 16: Towards a Sustainable Translation Curriculum: Integrating the SDGs into Translation Education

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 1:10pm
IATIS / Sultan Qaboos University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

IATIS 8th International Conference: Sustainable Translation in the Age of Knowledge Extraction, Generation, and (Re)Creation

الترجمة المستدامة في عصر استخلاص المعرفة وتوليدها وإعادة إنتاجها

Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

10 – 13 December 2025

Panel 16: Towards a Sustainable Translation Curriculum: Integrating the SDGs into Translation Education

Food Studies Panel at PAMLA 2025

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 1:04pm
Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Conference Dates - November 20th to 23rd 2025

Location - San Francisco, California - The InterContinental San Francisco Hotel - U.S.A.

Topic - Food Studies Research on Culture, Literature, and Media

Call for Papers for Vol 4 of IJLS

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 12:21pm
Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

Politics and Leadership, Leadership Studies and Politics

Politics and leadership: two subjects that are commonly known, yet also deeply misunderstood. Politics is not merely the activities of official decision-makers and the ideas (and people) that give rise to them, but also, more broadly, how human groups determine who gets what (and under what circumstances—by consent or coercion). What if leadership is not entirely a person or position? Perhaps, leadership is a negotiation— a complex moral relationship between people that is predicated on role agreement. We might say, then, that leadership is a dynamic process that cannot be separated from the politics of human groups. Leadership, in this way, is very fundamentally political.

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