The VIII edition of the Congress will take place on November 19, 20 and 21, 2025 in the Auditorium of the Congress Centre “Ciutat d’Elx” (Spain) (in person format), and via our website (online format). There are 3 participation options:

> Option 1: In this modality, the proposals of the Communications will follow the main thematic line of the new edition of the Congress and the Festival: Japan and its imprint on the Fantastic Genre.

> Option 2: In this modality, the abstracts will follow the generic thematic line of the Congress: The Fantastic Genre and its possible interconnection with the different platforms of culture, audiovisual and new technologies.

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We are delighted to share with you the Call for Papers for the upcoming GRACLS conference this November. Our conference, entitled “Configurations of Place and Death,” draws from the writings of Achille Mbembe to ask participants to consider the ways in which necropolitics shape how places and spaces are conceptualized and administered. The ubiquity of necropower as a determining force in the various ways in which humans inhabit the planet calls on us to engage with necropolitics as they relate to a vast array of fields and disciplines. Please see the attached CFP for a more in-depth description of the conference theme and suggested topics.

Anaphora's two journals, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, and Cinematic Codes Review, are seeking submissions of all types of essays, reviews, and creative works.

Victorian Jewish Life University of Heidelberg --  February 9-10, 2026 In the heyday of Victorian England, the era when the sun never set on the British Empire, Jewishculture in England was also experiencing an all-time height. International movements for reformand emancipation were shaping laws about Jewish rights, and as the century progressed,immigrants from Eastern Europe brought their cultures and experiences to London.

Venue: Dharmasala

Concept Note of Seminar

Games have long used medievalist or medieval-adjacent settings to engage with audiences. Scholars have noted the various connections to be made between popular perceptions of the medieval in games and historical and textual realities of the medieval world. While games may not always make it a priority to accurately portray medieval (or pseudo-medieval) life, there are still important parallels and intertextual references that games use to harken back to the medieval world—whatever version of that that reality they choose to use as a basis, at least. Just like games construct a faux reality for their players, so too have the popular conceptions of the medieval world been carefully constructed through literature and popular culture.

The concept of orphanhood may reveal a liminal yet productive state between figures, identities, homes, cultures and languages, exposing fertile spaces for crafting (re)generative views of self and other through literary texts. As characters, orphans may become queered figures, pointing back to the vulnerable state of childhood itself; as protagonists, orphans have also been connected to the concept of the hero (Rose-Emily Rothenberg), the role of the laborer, and the emotional “regeneration” of adults (Claudia Nelson).

Call For Submission: Interdisciplinary Research on Globalisation, Climate and Sustainability

Publisher: Deshbandhu College, University Of Delhi

Deadline For submission: 15th July 2025 (11.59 PM IST)

Deshbandhu Journal Of Social Sciences

ISSN: 2583-7974 (Online)

Deshbandhu Journal Of Social Sciences

Theme: Globalisation, Climate and Sustainability: Changing Perspectives and Hypotheses 

“December 2025 Issue”

The gothic is a genre of marginalization, foregrounding locales and figures that are ghostly, monstrous, or abandoned. It is no surprise, then, that authors across the Global South, from Akwaeke Emezi to Nick Joaquín to Mariana Enríquez, embrace the gothic when constructing narratives that resist colonialism and its myriad legacies. For this special issue of The Global South, the guest editor is inviting submissions from scholars whose research engages with gothic creators throughout this nebulous region. The gothic is likewise a broad term, and, given the innumerable repercussions of colonization, we welcome contributions from across gothic subgenres—ecological, gendered, neoliberal, or queer, to name a few.

Comparative Woman Journal – Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Comparative Woman is an online journal affiliated with LSU’s Department of Comparative Literature that explores topics related to comparative literature and women/gender studies through art and academic essays.Comparative Woman Journal is inviting papers for Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025) on Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement.

THEME

Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement

SUB-THEMES (including but not limited to):

CALL FOR PAPERS

Is a Better World Possible? - Solidarity as a Conversation across Temporalities A one-day hybrid interdisciplinary conference at the University of WarwickSaturday 29th November 2025Confirmed Keynote speaker: Dr Anna Bernard, King’s College London

The call for submissions for the next general issue (2026) of the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (ISSN 20455852 , ONLINE ISSN 20455860) is now open. The deadline for submissions of full articles for consideration is August 31 2025.

The Journal is indexed in SCOPUS (among others), and its remit is broad and international, publishing innovative scholarly research about a broad range of popular culture topics. Articles should be between 5,000 and 7,000 words and referenced using the Harvard style system. All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications.

The World Health Organisation (2022) states that universal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, including abortion, ‘is central to both individual and community health, as well as the realization of human rights.’ International human rights bodies such as the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women therefore recommend that governments decriminalise abortion and provide safe, timely, and legal access to services. The legalisation and provision of safe, evidence-based abortion services is important not only for avoiding unsafe abortion-related mortality, but for substantive, intersectional gender equality and the protection of many other rights.

History is horrifying. For horror creators in the twenty-first century, the terrors of the past have become central to the genre’s regeneration. The increasing diversity of who writes and creates horror has been tightly connected to the genre’s ability to depict otherwise occluded historical terrors. Critics have taken on horror’s relation of past and present as different subgenera, from what Sheri-Marie Harrison calls “the new Black Gothic” to Patricia Stuelke’s “anticapitalist feminist horror.”

CFP: Post-9/11 Representation after 25 Years.

A special issue of the European Journal of American Culture Issue 46.2 (Summer 2026) 

Edited by:

Colin Halloran, Old Dominion University, chall032@odu.edu

Marc Ouellette, Old Dominion University, mouellet@odu.edu

Cities and Identities: An Overview of the Global South

deadline for abstract submissions: 

20 August, 2025

contact email: 

editor.literature@yahoo.com

Call for Papers

Call for Papers: AI Policies in Higher Education – NeMLA 2026

The Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) invites submissions for its 2026 conference session on AI policies in higher education. We welcome papers exploring the integration, implementation, and impact of AI policies at various levels, including classroom, departmental, or institutional settings. Topics may include classroom AI guidelines, institutional AI frameworks, and effective strategies for ethical and practical AI adoption in academia.

Please submit abstracts of 250–300 words via the submission portal by September 30, 2025.

This seminar explores how structural and symbolic violence operate against marginalized bodies as mechanisms of control and exclusion within the contemporary global order, with particular attention to the Latin American context. From militarized borders and detention centers to the necropolitics of neoliberal disposability, violence is not only physical but also institutional, epistemic, and economic.

Cognition and the Media

International Conference

Sponsored by AIA (Italian Association for English Studies), Aston Stylistics Research Centre (Aston University - Birmingham) and CenTras (Centre for Translation Studies @UCL - UK)

Pescara, 30-31 October 2025

Venue: Museo delle Genti d’Abruzzo

                                                                                        Call for Papers

Call for Proposals
Beyond Boundaries: Visions of Ecological Futures
2025 PNCA Symposium
October 2–4, 2025
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) at Willamette University
511 NW Broadway, Portland, Oregon

We invite submissions for individual papers for the 2025 PNCA Symposium, Beyond Boundaries: Visions of Ecological Futures, a three-day convening of critical and creative voices engaging ecological thought across disciplines and communities. This symposium explores the intersections of environment, art, activism, pedagogy, and identity—with a focus on how ecological futures are imagined, embodied, and enacted through diverse cultural practices and positionalities.

Special Issue: Ecocriticism: Old and New Challenges

34th Annual CDE Conference, Prague (Czech Republic), 4-7 June 2026

The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE) is pleased to announce its 34th Annual Conference. It is organized by Charles University and will be held as a residential conference at Masarykova kolej, Thákurova 1, Prague 6, https://www.masarykovakolej.cz/en/home.

Theatre and Resilience

The year 2025 marked the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, yet Austen seems to be only increasing in cultural relevance on a global scale. This panel at the NeMLA conference in Pittsburgh, March 5-8, 2026 explores Jane Austen-related texts – including films, streaming, novels, graphic novels etc. - of the twenty-first century, including…

2025 Annual Conference

November 6-8, 2025

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse

Philadelphia, PA

Call for proposals:

Proposals are welcome on all aspects of popular and American culture for inclusion in the 2025 Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) conference in Philadelphia, PA. Single papers, panels, roundtables, and alternative formats are welcome.