This conference titled Gender Mainstreaming – ‘Feminist Foreign Policy’ Approaches in the Context of South Asia is an attempt to explore burgeoning conversations around Feminist Foreign Policy in South Asia with tangential focus on India. The ‘Global North’ has been focusing its attention on foreign policy agendas that are transformative and unique beginning with Sweden taking the initiative in 2014 focusing on rights, representation and resources that impact women. This responsive approach was followed by Canada, France, Luxemburg and Mexico drawing out the ‘Feminist International Assistance’ policy in intersection with focusing on areas namely inclusive governance, security, cross border trade and human rights.

Deadline EXTENDED: Submissions due by March 15, 2025 to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu. 

Conference online (via Zoom): 27-28 March 2025

ABOUT CONFERENCE:

CFP: In 2050, according to scientists’ expectations, 17% of world population will be people aged 65 and over. There will be twice as many elderly people as today. In the light of these predictions, it is obvious that we have to change radically our viewpoint on many aspects of life. We have to re-think our attitudes toward cultural, social, political, economic, medical, and many other dimensions of the world’s near future.

Call for Book Chapters 

Title:  The Father in the Diasporic Literatures of America

Editor: Prof. Hamid Masfour

Dept. of English

Faculty of Arts and Humanities,Sultan Moulay Slimane University

Beni Mellal, Morocco

h.masfour@usms.ma

Deadline for abstract submission: August15,2024

Book Argument

Call for WrestlePosium VI Proposals

When Worlds Collide:  Business, Culture, Politics, and the Future Professional Wrestling

The President of the PWSA invites submissions for the association’s WrestlePosium VI. This symposium seeks to bring academic scholarship to the Wrestlemania festivities by connecting wrestling scholars around the world to present their research and ideas.

This virtual symposium will happen online on Saturday, April 26th, 2025, a week after WrestleMania.  For more on the WrestlePosium series, visit: 

RE-CFP: ReFocus: The International Directors Series: David Cronenberg

Edinburgh University Press

Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg is widely regarded as one of the finest proprietors of the body-horror genre. Cronenberg’s filmography traverses the realm of the corporeal beyond its bare form, testing the limits of what a body can do. His films explore the intricate relations between the market, science, and desire. Cronenberg also examines disease and illness, situating their grotesque ramifications in the soma and the psyche, while many other later film narratives diverge from Cronenberg’s earlier focus on body horror to exhibit a wide spectrum of directorial capabilities.

The ways in which Europe remembers its past are central to shaping its future. From the memory of the Holocaust and the Second World War to the legacies of colonialism, dictatorship, and conflict, the continent’s history remains a site of both reconciliation and contestation. This conference invites scholars to explore the role of cultural memory in shaping European identities, values, and policies. How are memories transmitted across generations? How do different national narratives interact, clash, or converge within a shared European framework? What national and transnational memory cultures are created?

Call for Book Proposals

Peter Lang Book Series

Theatre of the Marginalised: Dalit and Adivasi Performance Traditions in South Asia

Conference online (via Zoom)

27-28 March 2025

CFP:

In 2050, according to scientists’ expectations, 17% of world population will be people aged 65 and over. There will be twice as many elderly people as today. In the light of these predictions, it is obvious that we have to change radically our viewpoint on many aspects of life. We have to re-think our attitudes toward cultural, social, political, economic, medical, and many other dimensions of the world’s near future.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: LITERATURE TODAY'S JUNE 2025 ISSUEWebsite: https://literaturetodayjournal.blogspot.com/Email: editorliteraturetoday@gmail.comSubmission Deadline: June 18, 2025Call for: poems, short stories, memoirs and one minute plays. Literature Today- an International Literary Journal is inviting submissions for the JUNE 2025 issue of 'Literature Today'.

The LLC African American Forum and The College Language Association invite abstracts for a panel at the MLA Convention (January 8-11, 2026 in Toronto, CA). The proposed panel, "A Light on the Lesser Known: Black Writers and their Work," will explore understudied and underdiscussed writers, or understudied and underdiscussed works by well-known authors, within the Black Literary Tradition.

Please email abstracts (250 words) and bios (150 words) to McKinley E. Melton (meltonm@rhodes.edu) by Friday, 21 March 2025.

Please note: accepted panelists will need to be active members of both MLA African American Forum and the College Language Association by April 1, 2025.

Diasporic literature is often deeply engaged with the tensions between displacement and belonging, rupture and continuity, loss and recovery. In narratives of migration, exile, and forced displacement, family becomes both a site of longing and a contested space where histories of trauma and survival play out. Diasporic texts frequently challenge normative understandings of kinship, moving beyond biological ties to reimagine family through memory, affect, and political solidarities.

This is a non-guaranteed panel co-sponsored by the GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum and the TS Age Studies Forum for the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, January 8-11 in Toronto, ON. In the spirit of the conference theme “Family Resemblances”, we are interested in opening conversations on the interdisciplinary intersections of Health Humanities, Children’s Literature, and Age Studies. These offer a rich space for exploring how contemporary narratives shape our understanding of mental health across generations.

CFP for SPECIAL ISSUE

Translating Silence—Gender, Trauma, and the Untranslatable in Postcolonial Asian Literature

Journal:                      Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific
Publisher:                   The Australian National University
Guest-editors:             Dr. Moussa Pourya Asl & Dr. Roya Monsefi
Abstract deadline:        15 May 2025