This panel explores how fire and fossil fuels shape modernity and modernisms, focusing on literature, art, and culture beyond 1850. Papers may explore intersections of:

• Environmental and energy humanities 
• Extractivism, petroculture, infrastructure
• Anthropocene, Pyrocene, energy unconscious 
• Fire, fire suppression, thermal politics 
• Aesthetics, identity, materiality

Please submit 250-word abstracts to Jennie Sekanics at jennie-sekanics@uiowa.edu or Harry Stecopoulos at harilaos-stecopoulos@uiowa.edu. 

We live in an age of optimization. Norms of beauty and performance are relentlessly getting harder to achieve without modifying the psychophysiology of human beings. Humans are faced with choices and demands regarding increasing and reducing the size, mass, and weight of different body parts and the modification of the way they function. The normal no longer means the common, it means the optimal. From special diets and extreme workouts to silicon injections and from plastic surgery to brain chips, the human body is transforming into a workshop for different arts and technologies. The cosmetic surgery market, for example, is worth more than 57 billion dollars and is expected to continue to grow very fast.

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.

Article Collection “Human & Beyond: Exploring Our More-Than-Human World”.

Collection's Advisors: Professor Peggy Karpouzou and Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki

Publisher: Routledge Open Research

The study of life-forms’ interplays has much to contribute to the survey of alternative post-anthropocentric narratives. This is no more pressing while the disastrous phenomena afflicted on Earth’s ecosystems continues to threaten all life-forms’ existence.

Book Series: "Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures" at Rowman & Littlefield

Series Editor: Professor Peggy Karpouzou and Series co-Editor: Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki

Book Series: “Brill Research Perspectives in Critical Theory”

Series Editor: Professor Peggy Karpouzou

The Book of Acts contains elements of human actions and inactions that depict the beginning of a
new religious dispensation – Christianity that sought to redefine the nexus between the nascent
Christian faith, ethnicity, and identity. Identity is a hallmark of many religious groups manifest in
their practices that become a cultural identity of the group. This did not leave out ethnic issues in
the nascent group called Christianity. Early Christianity is construed as a "Jewish ethno-religious
identity into a Christian identity that was unattached to a particular geopolitical and ethno-cultural
identity” (Bennema 2015). This identity was formulated and emerged through conflict with

MLA 2026, Toronto, Prose and poetics of aging in migration literature

I would like to organize a panel on aging in migration literature to provide a forum where participants can discuss current trends in and concerns about the representation of aging and older persons across various genres of migration writing as well as think about future possibilities. I am particularly interested in aesthetic representations of aging in irregular migration, asylum, and refugee narratives in addition to the portrayals of aging parents and relatives who are impacted by younger generations’ migration.

This interdisciplinary panel at the RMMLA 2025 seeks to examine the complex intersections of colonial power, medical practice, and literary representation and welcomes proposals of 250 words on topics that address the following questions. How does literature engage with colonial medical interventions, their successes, failures, and lasting impacts on colonized populations? What does medical fiction and film tell us about the tension between Indigenous healing practices and Western medicine, the role of medical “experimentation” in colonial contexts, and the literary afterlives of colonial medical disasters?

The Fifth Annual Undergraduate and Graduate Student Victorian Association (UGSVA) 2025 conference:Victorian Façades, Facets, and Fantasies. A Zoom Conference.

Conference on 5/1/25 and Abstracts due 4/11/25

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Organizer and contact email:

The Gaskell Journal 

Joan Leach Memorial 

Graduate Student Essay Prize 2026

 Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2026

The Gaskell Journal runs a biennial Graduate Student Essay Prize in honour of Joan Leach MBE, founder of the Gaskell Society. The winning essay will be published in the Gaskell Journal (with revisions as appropriate), and its author will receive £200 from the Gaskell Society, and a complimentary copy of the Journal.

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Submission Deadline: June 20th, 2025

Qutub Minar Review is inviting poetry, short stories (maximum 500 words for each story), one minute plays, interviews, book reviews, memoires and travelogues for July 2025 issue. Submission guidelines are as follows:

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Dear Scholars and Academicians,

We are pleased to announce a call for articles for a forthcoming book focusing on Indian Knowledge System (IKS), which will explore the depth and diversity of India’s ancient wisdom, traditions, and knowledge frameworks. The book aims to bridge the gap between the traditional and contemporary relevance of the Indian Knowledge System, highlighting its interdisciplinary applications and global significance.

The book will be published by a renowned publishing house and will have a ISBN, ensuring wide visibility and dissemination of your work among global academia and researchers.

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I'm looking to build a panel for OAH (Organization of American Historians ) in 2026. It will take place in Philadelphia and I'd love to create a Philly-centric panel. More broadly, decolonization focusing perhaps on city spaces, art, monuments, ecologies, and histories. 

My abstract is below. Email me ASAP if your ideas feel simpatico. 

Abstracts due via email by MARCH 17th, 2025