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47th Annual Comparative Drama Conference
Conference Dates: July 9-11, 2025
Location: London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art - London, England
Deadline for Abstract Submission: January 15, 2025
Disability Studies in Dramatic Texts and Performance
10th Annual Post45 Graduate Symposium
University of Michigan
March 14-15, 2025
Submission deadline: October 21, 2024
Call for Papers:
The departments of American Culture, Communication and Media, Digital Studies, and English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor are thrilled to host the 1oth annual Post45 Graduate Symposium on March 14-15, 2025.
Call for Nominations: IJIA Book Award 2025
Deadline for submission: 30 December 2024
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/88490/1/IJIA_Book_Award_2025.pdf
The Hulu adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale has enjoyed unprecedented academic and popular international success, with the first season winning eight out of thirteen Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Elizabeth Moss. Therefore, there will be a variety of papers presented, from the fields of literature, language, film studies, and fashion, by postgraduate students and academics at various stages in their career. The Symposium is supported by research funding by Northumbria University and represents two research groups, ‘Gendered Subjects’ and ‘Modern and Contemporary Writings’. It is also endorsed by The Margaret Atwood Society.
6 December 2024, Online
Keynote Speaker: Jacob Jewusiak (Newcastle University, UK)
Pleasure and / in Historical Fictions
One-Day Online Workshop of the Historical Fictions Research Network
30 November 2024 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)
15 min talks
The Historical Fictions Research Network, an interdisciplinary and international network of scholars examining historical fictions, i.e. narratives of the past in a variety of popular media, is happy to organise its second one-day workshop on the topic of “Pleasure and / in Historical Fictions”.
Call for Papers for Edited Volume on Periodization
Periodization, the act of chunking up time to make units of study, is a fraught practice undertaken by scholars, educators, media professionals, and everyday people. Although largely arbitrary, the ending and beginning dates of a period do much to influence how people outside of the historical profession think about topics such as progression, regression, and the present’s current location in a larger human narrative.
Looking for scholars in game studies and or medievalisms to submit papers to our panel at the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies, at Western Michigan University, May 8 - May 11, 2025. See CfP below. Submissions can be made at https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=5919
Rædy Player One: Participation, Subjectivity, and the First-Person in Medievalist Games
Organizer: Antonia DiNardo
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS), Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
“Of paradise terrestre”: Secular and Spiritual Modernisms
Session sponsored by the International Lawrence Durrell Society
Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture after 1900
The International Lawrence Durrell Society requests proposals for 20-minute presentations on the relationship of the profane and the holy in the modernist era.
Potential topics include:
Frontier Mythology and Poverty, 1885 to 1923: Reading the Dark Side of the Progressive Era explores the complex relationship between the rise of frontier mythology and the acceptance of social inequality in America. This interdisciplinary collection under considertion by Vernon Press explores how western mythology, spread through popular media, may have eclipsed late 19th-century movements for equity, such as the Knights of Labor's efforts to promote racial and gender equality, alongside workers' rights.
Call for Papers – Medical and Health Humanities: Global Perspectives 2025
Doha, State of Qatar
7-8 February, 2025
The 3rd international conference on Medical and Health Humanities: Global Perspectives 2025 in Doha, Qatar on February 7-8, 2025 invites abstracts for oral presentations and posters on the topics of: narrative medicine, medical sociology, philosophy of medicine, medical ethics and narrative ethics, literature and medicine, arts therapies and arts-in-health, healthcare communication, the history of medicine and other humanistic initiatives in health and medicine.
Presentations are invited on any subject concerning the intersection of Irish culture and the humanities, provided its source is located outdoors and it functions as a free, democratic, inclusive space. Possible topics include the Irish busker tradition, street art, outdoor sculptures, walking tours, parks and greenspaces, cemeteries, memorials – even the recent Dublin-New York Portal.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur
10th Inter-University Students’ and Researchers’ Conference 2024
November 19—20, 2024
Off the Stage: Performance Practices in Postcolonial India
Panel for the 2025 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) annual meeting (online, May 29 - June 1, 2025).
Organizers: Ragini Chakraborty (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and Sofía Forchieri (Radboud University)
Deadline for proposing a paper: October 14, 2024
To propose a paper, please visit the ACLA website: https://www.acla.org/annual-meeting (the portal for submitting an abstract will open on September 13)
Texas Tech University’s 2024 Women’s & Gender Studies Fall Colloquium, to be held in person in Lubbock, Texas, on October 17, invites research proposals for individual papers or panels on topics relevant to women’s, gender, and sexuality studies in contemporary society.
The colloquium is interdisciplinary. Perspectives from anthropology, art, business, communication, education, economics, film, history, journalism, languages, law, linguistics, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, sociology, and other humanities and social science disciplines are welcome.
Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
ISSN: 2342-2009
Issue 2025/1
Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal published online twice a year. Fafnir is a completely open-access, non-profit publication of the Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research (FINFAR). Fafnir publishes various texts ranging from peer-reviewed research articles to short overviews and book reviews in the field of science fiction and fantasy research.
Call for Papers for Issue Number 26
The issue 26 of Al-Kīmiyā, the Journal of the Faculty of Languages and Translation of Saint Joseph University of Beirut will receive, under the sign of diversity, articles covering various fields of research in translation and in language. Proposals can deal with issues that currently concern research in translation studies and language sciences. The choice of themes is left to researchers who will thus reflect in their articles the diversity of approaches and perspectives paving the way to dismantle the barriers among the disciplines.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions are invited for a scholarly conference on domestic cats in literature to be hosted online 13-15 March 2025 by the Troy University Department of English.
Papers may address any aspect of the subject, including—but not limited to—the following:
Due to some unavoidable circumstances, Osmosis 2024 is hereby postponed. Further updates will be published duly.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Osmosis 2024: Sustainability and the 5Ps for a Comprehensive Future
Novel: A Forum on Fiction is accepting submissions. Founded in 1967 at Brown University, Novel is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best new criticism and theory in novel studies. After several decades under the editorship of Nancy Armstrong, Kevin McLaughlin took over as the chief editor in Summer 2023. Novel holds to these general principles:
International Journal of Education (IJE)
ISSN : 2348 - 1552
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJEMS/Home.html
Scope
International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies (IJHAS)
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHASS/Home.html
Scope
The GPA is accepting submissions for a special edition of The Journal of the Georgia Philological Association on the 19th century. Papers focused on literature, language, composition, history, philosophy, translation, the general humanities, interdisciplinary studies, and pedagogy as they relate to the 19th century will be considered.
Please send submissions to Nate Gilbert, Editor-in-Chief, at jgpasubmissions@gmail.com by December 31, 2024.
Please visit our website for information on submitting to the journal: https://www.mga.edu/arts-letters/english/gpa/index.php
International Journal of Information Technology (IJIT)
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJIT/Home.html
ISSN : 1834-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
Scope
Resources for American Literary Study, a peer-reviewed journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship published by Penn State UP, invites submissions for upcoming volumes. Covering all periods of American literature, Resources for American Literary Study welcomes both traditional and digital humanities approaches to archival discovery. The journal also publishes scholarly bibliographies and other bibliographical overviews. Typical contributions include newly discovered letters and documents, checklists of primary and/or secondary writings about American authors, and biographical and compositional studies drawn from archival materials.
Journal of Postcolonial Writing
Special Issue on
Decolonial Hope: Planetary Sustainability, Solidarity, and Transformation
Link to the CFP on the journal's website: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/decolonial-hope-planet...
Special Issue Editor(s)
Goutam Karmakar, Durban University of Technology, South Africa
BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus (Routledge, Global Edition)
Series Editors: Goutam Karmakar, Puspa Damai, Payel Pal, and Deimantas Valančiūnas
The “Collecting and Collectibles Area” of the Popular Culture Association invites papers on “AI in Collecting” for the National PCA/ACA Conference to be held April 16-19, 2025 in New Orleans, USA. We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “AI in Collecting” and particularly address how collections/collectibles and their galleries/museums respond to the recent digital shifts and the tectonic evolution of AI technologies.
Possible topics for presentations include but are not limited to:
'[...] the seas of literature are distraught with storms and currents, and full of the wrecks of Irish anthologies’. W. B. Yeats A Book of Irish Verse (1895)
“Approaching Dystopia”
Call for Papers
Graduate Students in English Interdisciplinary Conference 2025
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, April 5 - 6, 2025