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(Re)generating The Craft of the Witch: Culture, Gender, and Translation (NeMLA 2026)

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 9:57am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Witch Studies and Translation Studies are both relatively young fields within the western academic canon. Practical and theoretical connections exist between them: for example, the ritualization of praxis, the cultural embeddedness of (re)generative act, and the tensions present within the sequence of intention, act, and consequence. The modern witch may mark time with celebrations within the Wheel of the Year, protect her home and her body with amulets and incantations, or treat her loved ones with herbal remedies. This roundtable conceptualizes witchcraft as a set of personal practices and acts, separate from organized deity worship, structured coven associations, and other markers of formal practice.

Bad Medieval/ism: Mis/Uses of the Medieval in Contemporary Fiction (A Paper Session)

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 9:52am
Tales after Tolkien Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

ICMS 2026, Session 7572

This session seeks to examine the misuses and misapplications of the medieval within any fictional media from 1974 forward. Sometimes, accessibility to contemporary audiences requires deviation from what is known to scholarship; sometimes, narrative demands impose changes to particular interpretations of source material. Sometimes, however, things are flatly wrong. Effects on audiences differ, but it is clear that many audiences and authors use contemporary fiction as a means to understand earlier periods. This session seeks to explore what they get right, what they get less right, and why it matters to our ongoing understanding of the belief about the medieval.

Off of the Printed Prose Page: Multimodal Medievalisms (A Paper Session)

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 9:51am
Tales after Tolkien Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 5, 2025

ICMS 2026, Session 7569

While the pop culture landscape of books and films often borrow from and are inspired by "the medieval period"–as well as frequently disseminated, propagated, and influenced by neo-medievalist works such as those by Martin, Jordan, Sanderson, and Hobb–relatively little discourse focuses on how other types of contemporary works pull from the same and/or similar influences. With the increasing popularity of medievalism in games, music, etc., this paper panel seeks to prompt, deepen, and explore the study and discussion of the less commonly talked about–yet no less consumed–works and how they look to and use popular mis/understandings of the medieval.

Adaptations of Tolkien: Medieval Traces in Movies, Games and Other Transmedial Texts

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 9:51am
Tales after Tolkien Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

ICMS 2026, Session 7564

This roundtable explores enduring medieval influences in adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's works across various media, including films and television, table-top and video games, and other transmedial texts. Roundtable panelists will examine how Tolkien's deep engagement with medieval literature, history, and mythology continues to shape modern interpretations, from the visual aesthetics and world-building in cinematic adaptations to the narrative structures and mechanics in interactive games and other media. Through interdisciplinary perspectives, the discussion will address ways medieval motifs are preserved, altered, or reimagined in these adaptations, considering both creative intentions and audience reception.

"Voices in Constraint, Languages in Confinement"

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 9:47am
Patience Odeh/ University of Connecticut
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

 

Northeast Modern Language Association 57th Annual Convention 2026

March 5-8, 2026 Pittsburgh, PA

"Voices in Constraint, Languages in Confinement"

 

This panel explores how language restrictions operate across spatial, social, and systemic boundaries, and defines who can speak, what can be spoken, and where. It invites abstracts that examine the forms and consequences of such restrictions. Submissions may address suppressed or minoritized languages, restricted expressions, and the reception of silenced voices in public and private life.

Call for paper : International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 6:21am
USA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025

International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

                                                                                                                                                   https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHSS/Home.htmlISSN : 2349 - 219N

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[DEADLINE EXTENDED] CFP Blood and Bile: Perspectives from the humanities, art and gaming culture on Blasphemous

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 6:05am
Jonas Müller-Laackman; Victoria Mummelthei / c:hum
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

In the fictional world of ‘Cvstodia’, a nameless ‘penitent’ traverses a world in which the ‘miracle’ - a divine entity - is worshipped through physical torment and suffering in a gloomy body horror style. In doing so, ‘Blasphemous’ transforms the established conventions of the ‘souls-like’ genre: the difficulty typical of the genre and the cyclical approach to failure are theologically charged. The progress made by defeating boss enemies is enhanced by sacred weapons and rituals, while the level design is recontextualised as a spiritual pilgrimage. These elements are embedded in an elaborate ecclesiastical infrastructure and open up multiple levels of analysis, e.g:

Twainian Regeneration: Adaptations of the Works, Life, and Legacy of Mark Twain (NeMLA Session 21918)

updated: 
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - 4:11pm
57th Northeast Modern Language Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This session is sponsored by the Mark Twain Circle of America.

 

American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1935-1910) achieved lasting fame as Mark Twain, an identity that served as both his pen name and the persona he cultivated for the public. Twain’s writings and his distinctive character have dispersed across time and space, and the resulting Twainian tradition incorporates these elements in many ways.

 

Bloomsbury's Critical Plant Studies Book Series

updated: 
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - 3:45pm
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books that re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives

Poetry in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Symposium

updated: 
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - 3:43pm
Case Western Reserve Department of English
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

Poetry in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Symposium

Case Western Reserve University 

Friday, October 31, 2025

 

Keynote Speaker: Roland Greene, Stanford University

International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology

updated: 
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - 8:11am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology 

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

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

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

updated: 
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - 7:32am
Digital Language Learning (DL2)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 25, 2025

***Submission deadline extended to July 25, 2025***

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

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NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION, Virtual, October 9 to October 11, 2025 CFP for ROMANCE/POPULAR ROMANCE FICTION

updated: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 - 6:47pm
Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Deadline Extended NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION, Virtual, October 9 to October 11, 2025 AREA: ROMANCE/POPULAR ROMANCE FICTION Deadline: Tuesday, July 31st by 5pm EST

 Contact email: Wendy Wagner wwagner@jwu.edu

 The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its 2025 annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.

"Knowledge from the Cracks"

updated: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 - 4:43pm
Patience Odeh/ University of Connecticut
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

SAMLA 97: Knowledges

Atlanta, GA | November 6th - 8th, 2025 | Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center

Knowledge from the cracks

Call for Chapters: Critical Sociocultural Examinations of Gender Discrimination and Persecution

updated: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 - 12:11pm
Robin Throne, PhD
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 23, 2025

Call for Chapters: Critical Sociocultural Examinations of Gender Discrimination and Persecution

The history of gender discrimination and persecution is as ancient as human civilization itself, rooted in societal structures, cultural norms, and institutional practices that have perpetuated inequality. This critical examination seeks to uncover the deeply entrenched dynamics of gender-based oppression, its evolution across epochs, and the persistent struggle for equality.

See for details and submission https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/9088

CFP: BROLLY (peer-reviewed journal, London, UK) - [Humanities]

updated: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 - 12:11pm
London Academic Publishing (UK)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

CfP: BROLLY. Journal of Social Sciences

(London Academic Publishing, UK)

 

Vol. 6, No. 2, August 2025 (General Topic)

Submission Deadline: August 20, 2025

 

No processing or publication fees. Peer-reviewed.

#OpenAccess

 

ISSN 2516-869X (Print)

ISSN 2516-8703 (Online)

 

Web: https://www.journals.lapub.co.uk/index.php/Brolly

Email: brolly@journals.lapub.co.uk

REVISED DEADLINE Call for Book Chapters - Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia

updated: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 - 4:15am
Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 28, 2026

(REVISED DEADLINE)

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

 

Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia

Food is never just about sustenance. It is a charged cultural text, a site of memory and mourning, a marker of identity, a terrain of negotiation, and often, a weapon of exclusion or resistance. In South Asia—a region defined by deep pluralities, histories of colonialism, persistent socio-economic inequalities, and enduring spiritual traditions—food emerges not merely as a necessity, but as a powerful index of social structure, affective life, and ideological formation.

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

updated: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 - 2:54am
Leiden University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 31, 2026

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). 

Coaching, Kindness, and Culture: Psychology, Sports, the Arts, Leadership…& Ted Lasso

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 3:30pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

Coaching, Kindness, and Culture:
Psychology, Sports, the Arts, Leadership…& Ted Lasso
A Transdisciplinary conference

Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/07/09/coaching-kindness-and-culture/

Date: November 15-16, 2025
November 15: In person participation in Richmond, London (and online)
November 16:  Fully online
Proposal Submission Deadline: September 15, 2025

 

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