In our daily lives, we frequently encounter terms like "culture," "cultured," "high-cultured," "low-cultured," and "uncultured." We often hastily label individuals based on their appearance or social status; for instance, a shabbily dressed person or a homeless individual might be instantly deemed "uncultured." Certain activities, such as traditional children's games like using a gulti (slingshot) to collect mangoes, playing hopscotch, or spinning tops, are sometimes dismissively categorized as pastimes of the chotolok or lower classes.

“The desire for transcendence is the longing for something that breaks this cycle of means and ends and enables us to escape the everydayness of the everyday.”

— John Lachs, “Transcendence in Philosophy and in Everyday Life” (1997) 

Please note: This is a proposed, not a guaranteed, session, co-sponsored by the forum on Comics & Graphic Narratives and Adaptation Studies for MLA 2026 in Toronto (Jan. 8-11). It is contingent on approval by the MLA Program Committee. All prospective presenters must be current MLA members by April 1, 2025.

We are excited to announce the call for proposals for Volume 32 of The Grove: Working Papers on English Studies, which will be published by the end of 2025. The Grove is an international, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to research in the English language, literature, and culture.

We welcome original research articles, reviews, and literary contributions on a wide range of topics within English Studies, including but not limited to:

Postcolonial Interventions invites scholarly articles for an OPEN ISSUE to be published in June 2025. As this call is being circulated, older territorial imperial aggression is threatening to bare its fangs across the world, right-wing forces of xenophobia, discrimination and intolerance continue to gather momentum across the world, inequality and ecological crisis continue to escalate and new forms of precarity are being constantly negotiated. The next issue of Postcolonial Interventions seeks to explore such issues and more based on postcolonial experiences across the world.

Submission Guidelines:

Money Talks: Futures for the Economic Humanities

University of Edinburgh, 28–29 May 2025

Keynote Speakers:

Dr Devin Singh (Dartmouth College)

Dr Rachel O’Dwyer (National College of Art and Design, Dublin)

Over the past decade, growing numbers of researchers in the arts and humanities have turned their attention to questions of money, finance, and the economy. At the same time, social scientists have increasingly drawn on humanities-based methodologies in their analyses of economic phenomena. “Money Talks: Futures for the Economic Humanities” is a landmark conference dedicated to mapping this emerging interdisciplinary space and charting its multiple potential futures.

The issue 27 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

Literature and Taxonomy

Taxonomy is a fraught word in literary studies. As a regime of classification descended from the Euro-American scientific tradition, taxonomy encourages the organization of biological life on earth based on hard distinctions or similarities between groups. This practice appears to endorse essentialist and deterministic paradigms that scholars in literary and cultural studies typically eschew—and for good reason. Taxonomic modes of thinking are allied with racial, medical, and sexual ideologies that have fueled historical and contemporary efforts to police the categories of race, gender, ability, and desire.

 Call for Journal Articles Now Open  Sensing Euphoric and Dysphoric Atmospheres (Volume 4) Following our symposium, we invite authors to submit papers for publication consideration. 

Our fifth annual online event addressed the theme of ‘sensing euphoric and dysphoric atmospheres’ in festive, celebratory, and ritual cultures. Taking an embodied perspective, we seek journal articles that focus on the role of corporeal perception in making sense of lived experience.

Call for Papers – IEEE AI Standard 2025

"Advancing AI Standardization & Quality Assurance"

Exciting News! Submissions are now open for IEEE AI-Standard 2025 - The IEEE Conference on AI Standardization and Quality Assurance. The conference serves as a global platform for AI researchers, industry leaders, policymakers, and technology developers to discuss and shape the future of AI standardization, governance, and quality assurance.

This is a call for a Special Topics Panel to be held at the Modern Language Association Conference in Toronto, January 8-11, 2026.

Agnotology, the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt, has emerged as a critical lens through which to examine the production, dissemination, and contestation of knowledge within various spheres of human expression. This interdisciplinary panel seeks to investigate the intersections of agnotology with literature, culture, and the arts, and to explore how these fields both reflect and contribute to the construction of ignorance and uncertainty.

We welcome proposals for papers that engage with the following topics (but are not limited to):

“Whatever his personal beliefs, Shakespeare is in the most important sense of the word a religious writer: not a proponent of any particular religion, but a writer who is aware, and makes his spectators aware, of the mystery of things.”

-Stanley Wells, Shakespeare: For All Time 

This is a call for chapter proposals on the late Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days reality TV series (2005-08) on the FX Channel for the FX Reader, an anthology of FX's best original TV series, which is under a two-volume book contract with Syracuse University Press.  In each 30 Days episode, Spurlock, or some other person or group of people, would spend 30 days immersing themselves in a particular lifestyle or environment with which they are not familiar, which include such topics as working for minimum wage, being in prison, a Christian living as a Muslim, and others.

Contemporary African literature is an effective medium through which the continent’s dynamic realities are articulated. From postcolonial identity crises and political disillusionment to gender dynamics, migration, and the impact of globalization, African writers and creatives continue to provide nuanced explorations of the African condition. These narratives do not merely reflect societal issues but also challenge stereotypes, redefine cultural identities, and contribute to global literary discourse. The diversity of voices in African literature—ranging from established authors to emerging voices—offers rich analytical opportunities to understand how literature and arts engage with evolving African realities.