Call for Papers, ALA 2025, Boston

The American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) plans to offer three panels.

One panel, “New Directions,” will provide an opportunity for innovative thinking on new and old topics.

This first panel will give priority to early career scholars—untenured faculty, newly-minted PhDs, and graduate students writing dissertations.

The second panel will be open-ended, but we will be especially interested in papers focusing on comic artifacts in digital formats, e. g. texts and images produced by generative AI, memes, viral videos, comment threads in social media platforms or websites.

Acta Ludologica (ISSN 2585-8599, e-ISSN 2585-9218) is a double-blind peer-reviewed scientific journal published twice a year in both online and print versions. It focuses on the comprehensive discourse of games and digital games, including theoretical and empirical studies, research results, and their implementation into practice, as well as professional publication reviews and scientific reviews of digital games.

Acta Ludologica is inviting manuscripts for Vol. 8, No. 1, scheduled to be published in June 2025. The deadline for submissions has been extended to January 31, 2025.

A forthcoming special issue of Survive and Thrive will feature stories written by survivors of perinatal loss, their loved ones, their healthcare providers and other support workers, and scholars from interdisciplinary fields.

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is back with a virtual conference exploring all things Disney, to be held online on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th of September 2025.

Since the Walt Disney was founded his eponymous film studio in 1923, the Disney brand has been a mainstay of popular entertainment. The iconic Micky and Minnie Mouse head the line-up of an impressive array of characters and actors that have become cultural icons. Today Disney is a conglomerate of entertainment businesses, investing in theme parks, sports television, a cruise line, resort destinations, National Geographic Expeditions, clothing, games, and publishing.

Call for book chapters:  Speech strategies and discourse analysis:the powerful and the oppressed (edited volume)

Co-editors: Manuel Macías (URJC) and Carmen Gómez-Galisteo (UNED)

manuel.macias@urjc.es

cgomez@flog.uned.es

Call for Chapters: The Dissertation Research Guide for the Doctoral Scholar

See details: https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/8370

February 1, 2025: Proposal Submission Deadline

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Psychoanalyzing the Post-Apocalypse:

Psychoanalytic Approaches to 21st Century Fiction and Film

 “Under Strong Interest” by McFarland’s Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy series

Editors’ Introduction

Food and Foodways is an interdisciplinary journal, and we're expanding our coverage of book reviews in the months ahead. If you are interested in writing a review of an interdisciplinary food studies book published in recent years, we invite you to express interest by contacting our new collective of book review editors at FandFbookreviews@gmail.com

Please include the author and title of the book, its publisher and publication date, and your credentials for writing this review. Additionally, if you would like to suggest a book for consideration, we welcome your recommendations.

  Making Visible: Disability Representations in Popular Culture

  Department of Englishi n collaboration with IQAC

  Gargi College, University of Delhi 

  21-22 February,  2025

Conference in Hybrid Mode for participants residing outside Delhi 

Registration link for Abstracts/  Fees for Successful Applicants/ Participants:

 https://forms.gle/aCXeZ4SErSJC7r9v7

The Jonathan Bayliss Society invites proposals for a roundtable on American experimental fiction. Beginning at least as early as Moby-Dick, American experimental fiction flourishes in the work of Stein, Burroughs, Pynchon, Gass, and Bayliss, and continues today with such writers as Giannina Braschi, Karen Russell, Colson Whitehead, Lance Olsen, and Mark Danielewski. Such writers disrupt conventions of genre, style, syntax, diction, propriety, narrative form, page layout, and much more. We are interested in papers devoted to particular works or authors as well as more wide-ranging or theoretical approaches to the topic.

“Decolonial Utopia and the War to Be Human” 

Critical Survey Journal

Guest Editor: Dr. Om Prakash Dwivedi, Bennett University, India 

Digital Studies in Language and Literature (DSLL), a new Open-Access journal co-launched by De Gruyter and Chongqing University, cordially invites submissions for its 2025 Issue 1.

DSLL is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary publication committed to promoting research at the intersection of digital technology, language, and literature. Accepted articles will be published under a fully sponsored Open Access via a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY-4.0) License, ensuring that your research is freely accessible for reading and downloading by all.

“The Uncanny in Language, Literature and Culture”
International Conference

Malta/Online: 22-23 August 2025
Deadline for proposals: 20 March 2025
Conference website: https://uncanny.lcir.co.uk

The uncanny captures the unsettling and the eerie—a feeling that defies boundaries between the familiar and the strange. Rooted in Freud’s exploration, the uncanny reveals how what is known and intimate can suddenly become alien, evoking dread and unease. Everyday objects, spaces, and experiences that once offered comfort transform into symbols of danger, disrupting not only our external environments but also the landscapes of our inner selves.

International Conference on Postcolonial Studies:
"Trajectories and Transitions of (Post)Colonialism"

London/Online: 26-27 July 2025
Deadline for proposals: 30 April 2025
Conference website: https://postcolonialism.lcir.co.uk

The conference will explore the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies and it will focus on the impact colonialism had on political, social, economic and cultural domains. It will examine various forms of colonial domination and control as well as theories and practices of resistance.