Skenographia: Rethinking Design

Yale University Department of Comparative Literature Graduate Conference

March 28th, 2025

Keynote Speaker: Spyros Papapetros (Princeton University)

What sets a scene apart from a mere place or setting? Etymologically, the term resists simplification to a physical location or continuous action. It encompasses both the material apparatus of the stage and the events unfolding upon it. This oscillation— between object and subject, exterior and interior, self and world—forms a conceptual framework that this conference seeks to apply to the study of design.

Walt Whitman and Visual Culture
A special issue of The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (Fall/Winter 1986-1987) first brought together nearly all the known photographs of Whitman, laying the foundation for the Walt Whitman Archive’s Gallery of Images. Whitman wrote about and sat for sculptors and painters, and he has been the inspiration for many art and film projects. In light of this and the recent publication of several illustrated editions of Whitman’s writings, the Whitman Studies Association invites proposals focused on Whitman and any aspect of visual culture. We seek presentations that explore and analyze Whitman and/or his writings in relation to:

Call for abstracts: Ecology and the Art(-ifice) of Attention

A special issue of the journal Environmental Philosophy

General aim of the Special Issue

Banaras Hindu University 

Two day National Seminar 

brat and it’s a conference but it’s still brat

Deadline for submissions: December 2nd, 2024

Conference date/time: February 8th, 2025, UC Berkeley (will be in hybrid format).

Names and affiliations: Paz Regueiro and Cory Nguyen, Department of Comparative Literature

Contact emails: paz_regueiro@berkeley.edu and corytnguyen@berkeley.edu 

“You wanna guess if I'm serious about this song.”

- Charli xcx, 2024. (“Guess”, 17th track on “brat and it's the same but there's three more songs so it's not”.)

In the last couple of decades, our embodied actions with others have become increasingly more fluid and disentangled from fixed/static contexts so much so that the materiality of social life has been filtered through texts produced in a variety of semiotic resources that bind people together while keeping them apart. By further blurring online/offline boundaries, the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the long-lasting mediatization of social life leading to a reconceptualization of phenomena such as corporeality and matter and their relationship with both virtual and physical environments.

We welcome papers for our ECSAS panel on Muslim Counterpublics in the Indian Nation-state Public Sphere which will bring together emerging and advanced scholars of Muslim identity in South Asia in the context of the nation-state public sphere. We wish to explore the deep history and contemporary imaginings of Muslimness from the vantage point of songs, music and sound, literary studies, history, anthropology, dastangoi, oral historiography, and cinema. We aim to shed light on the multiperspectival and pan-national Muslim identification process as it also intersects with ideas of ideological homogenisation, modernity, and religious revivalism.

Narratives of health resilience: Prescribed confinement, forced displacement, and the stakes of global climate change

Esoterrorism, Occult Conspiracy, and Magical Treason: Political Demonology and Demonic Politics in Popular Culture

The Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic for the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association invites paper proposals for a special panel on the intersections of demonology and politics in popular culture. 

Call for papers

15th CIPA International Conference: “The arts under constraints”

Date: October 8-9, 2025

Place: University of Liège

Organization: UR Traverses/CIPA

CALL FOR PAPERS

II Conference on Feminisms and Humour: Humour-Sofías

(14-16 May 2025)

University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

The University of Santiago de Compostela invites proposals of papers or posters for the Second International Conference on Feminisms and Humour: Humour-Sofías. The conference, supported by the Instituto de las Mujeres, will take place from May 14-16, 2025 in the Philosophy Department. In order to reflect collectively on humour’s feminist potential, we encourage the following topics:

- Philosophical approaches to humour

- Political Strategies of Humour: Subversion and Power

August 4-6, 2025

Southern Utah University - Utah Shakespeare Festival

The Wooden O Symposium is a cross-disciplinary conference exploring the impact of Shakespeare's plays on culture and history, from his time to the present. This face-to-face conference aims to foster research in the field of Shakespeare Studies and to provide connections between academia and professional theatre productions through our partnership with the Utah Shakespeare Festival. 

We invite paper and panel proposals on any topic relating to Shakespeare and his plays, including:

This is an in-person conference which will take place at the University of Cincinnati on Friday, February 28th, 2025. Graduate students from any specialty are welcome to submit.

Dear colleagues,

We are delighted to invite submissions for the 11th Graduate Conference in Political Theory, organised at Sciences Po in Paris, France, which will be held on May 19th-20th, 2025. This year, our theme is “Ethics and Politics”, focusing on the complex intersections between ethical concerns and political frameworks in contemporary societies.

We are honoured to welcome Professor Nancy Fraser as our keynote speaker, a leading voice in critical social theory, whose work has significantly influenced debates on justice, democracy, and the ethics of public life.