Sydney, Australia and Zoom 25-26 September 2025

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free conference in Sydney and online exploring representations of food in popular cultures in history and today, on 25 and 26 September 2025.

Delicious, Nutritious and Fictitious: Food in Popular Culture is asymposium that aims to interrogate the ways that food, recipes, cooking, eating and nutrition are evident in popular culture. This may be representations of food in television, film, literature, art, music, as text, narrative, discourse or any other scholarly form or genre.

STaPs, as a conference by Ph.D. students for Ph.D. students, is unique among PhD conferences in that it welcomes both work in progress and work in the planning phase, as well as work that focuses on methodological issues/challenges rather than on completed research projects/ attained results. Projects of any area of linguistics can be presented (theoretical and descriptive linguistics as well as language acquisition, phonetics, psycho-, neuro-, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and computational linguistics; synchronic or diachronic).

The following categories are welcome:

Oral Presentations (15 min. + 10 min. Q&A) and Posters (30 min.)

Call for Papers

Title of the proposed edited collection:

Green Memories: The Temporal and Sensory Landscapes of Plant Life in Cultural Narratives

Deadline now extended to December 14, 2024.

[W]e need to contest this understanding of emotion as ‘the unthought’, just as we need to contest the assumption that ‘rational thought’ is unemotional…
Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

CAPS (formerly CACLALS) 2025 from June 1 to 3, 2025
Proposals due: January 15, 2025

Keynote Speakers: TBA

Conference Theme: Postcolonial Studies, Sustainability, and Shared Futures

The Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies (formerly CACLALS) will host its annual conference from June 1 to 3, 2025, at (TBA) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The editors of Translation Review are inviting submissions. We are particularly interested translations of contemporary international writers into English and submissions that discuss the process and practical challenges of translating.

We would also be happy to consider and interviews with translators, manuscripts that address the concept of translation in the visual and musical arts (intersemiotic or multimodal translations), as well as submissions that address issues of machine translation, AI translations, and translation in the digital age in general. Proposals for special issues are also welcome.

Call For Papers

The 2nd International Conference on Global Plant Humanities

Date of Conference: 2–3 May 2025 (Friday-Saturday)

Mode:                         Hybrid

Host:                           Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Partners:                    Nulungu Institute, University of Notre Dame, Australia

Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya (affiliated with the University of Calcutta)

Gifts from the Sentient Forest (project supported by the Kone Foundation, Finland)

Location:                    Kathmandu, Nepal

The 13th Stella Incognita Symposium

April 2, 3 and 4, 2025

Room Jacques Cartier - Campus Saint Martin d'Hères

Université Grenoble Alpes (France)

Science Fiction & Disabilities

Organizers: Clément Pélissier, Filippo Fonio

Call for Papers

On behalf of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities, we invite all interested parties to submit proposals for the annual conference, hosted at George Brown College in Toronto this summer as part of the 2025 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. 

Call for Submissions 

The Janovics Center Award for Outstanding Humanities Research in Transnational Film and Theatre Studies 

The Janovics Center for Screen and Performing Arts Studies and the Faculty of Theatre and Film at Babes-Bolyai University invite submissions for their annual award for outstanding humanities research in transnational film and theatre studies. The award will be offered to contributions in the fields of film or theatre studies. The award consists of an invitation to give a talk at the Center and an honorarium.  

Dickinson and Ecologies deadline for submissions: November 30, 2024 full name / name of organization: Li-hsin, Hsu / National Chengchi University  contact email: johsu@mail2.nccu.tw 

Dickinson and Ecologies

Emily Dickinson International Society + Wenshan Conference (Hybrid)

Department of English, National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taiwan

19-22 June 2025

(1 Day Critical Institute + 3-Day International Conference)

Call for Papers 

Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 November 2024

Call for Papers5th Spiral Film and Philosophy Conference “Rise of the Machines”Toronto, Canada

May 23-24, 2025

We are pleased to invite proposals from UK-based postgraduate and early-career researchers to participate in a twelve-person, interdisciplinary research workshop, ‘Genres of Revolt: Cultural Afterlives of 1848’, to be held on 12-13 June 2025, at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge.

In the history of revolutions, 1848 has often stood as a marker of utopian aspirations—but also a symbol of thwarted hopes. More recently, vibrant scholarly debates on the significance of this crucial year have begun to prompt a new reckoning and to revise a longstanding consensus that the revolutions simply ‘failed’, in part by looking beyond the European scene alone.

I am planning a podcast called "Cunterbury", wherein we the co-hosts go through each of the Canterbury Tales and talk about their plot, characters, references, scholarship, and goof around. I am planning as well as demonstrating the queer/trans potential for Chaucer and teaching his corpus, as well as engaging with premodern race studies, feminism at large, disability studies etc. I want this project to be funny and informative, and probably will take a few years to get through everything -- so we'll go slow! My main point of inspirations would be the Hurly Burly Shakespeare Show starring Whamlet and Weird Studies featuring Phil Ford and JT Martel.