Tattva Journal of Philosophy

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                                                         Department of English and Cultural Studies, Central Campus

                                                                 CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India

                                                                                                Organizes 

April 10-11, 2026

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Alan Liu, Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara

Dr. Kalindi Vora, Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Yale University

Dr. Neda Atanasoski, Professor and Chair of the Harriet Tubman Department of

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park

Dr. Bruce Clarke, Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor of Literature

and Science Emeritus, Texas Tech University

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — Mini Plays Review | December 2025 Issue
Theme: UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Deadline      December 15, 2025  
Format:       1-Minute Plays and Monologues  
Length:       Maximum one page (A4 size)  
Submission Email: miniplaysmag@gmail.comWebsite: 

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The curtain didn’t close. The letter was never sent. The apology… still unspoken.

Mini Plays Review invites you to explore the weight of what’s left hanging — the stories suspended mid-air, the emotions caught in the throat, the promises half-made and paths not taken.

Colleges and universities across the country are under attack.  Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives have lost funding and faced multiple challenges to curriculum.  DEI offices have been shuttered, and support groups have been eliminated.  Much of the effect has been felt in the Humanities, which has always served as a space for free discussion of writing and literature that embraces diversity.  Such conversation is in many ways our lifeblood.

The editors of Sargasso invite submissions for a volume on post-narrative futures in Caribbean letters and cultures that will engage works of literature, art, and culture that challenge, subvert, reimagine, and transcend, dominant colonial, postcolonial, and traditional forms of narrative.

This is a call for chapter abstracts for an upcoming edited volume exploring the cultural, narrative, musical, and global fandom implications of the animated film K-Pop Demon Hunters. The volume will be published as part of the Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies book series (https://tinyurl.com/rbtm8fve).

BOSS: The Biannual Online-Journal of Springsteen Studies (http://boss.mcgill.ca/) is an open-access academic journal that publishes peer-reviewed essays on Bruce Springsteen. The editors of BOSS are currently soliciting papers for the journal’s seventh edition, with an expected publication date of December 2026.

This is a CFP for NeMLA 2026, Pittsburg, PA - March 5-8

Inspired by Ruha Benjamin’s Imagination: A Manifesto, how can we listen to and amplify the voices at the margins that are dismissed or silenced because they are otherwise rejected as naive or impossible for embracing the whole? How can we help each other refrain from “policing the parameters of imagination” (ix) as we are often trained to do, and openly encounter the collective imaginations of others? How can we together learn to take on the challenge that radical imagination begs for radical equality?

Special Issue Title: Long Modernism, Altered Natures 

Guest Editors: Matthew Gannon, Patrick Whitmarsh, and Kate Marshall

Deadline for Abstracts: 30 November 2025

Deadline for Manuscript Drafts: 31 July 2026

In the Anthropocene, human activities profoundly reshape the climate and environment, disrupting ecological balance and transforming humans into a potent geological force. Dominant strands of Western thought from Descartes to Heidegger have contributed to reinforcing this perceived superiority of humans over other beings, thereby calcifying a dichotomy between the human and the non-human. In the field of translation studies, this human-centered focus has historically been echoed through the discipline’s sustained attention to human languages and culture. However, posthumanism and post-anthropocentrism, which advocate the interconnectedness between humans and non-humans, have challenged the centrality of anthropos in translation. 

Call for Papers – CLOSURE: Journal of Comics Studies #13 (November 2026)

Open Call for Submissions

 CLOSURE: Journal of Comics Studies will once again provide a platform for all facets of comic studies in its thirteenth issue, to be published in Fall 2026. From cultural, visual, and media studies to social and natural sciences and beyond, CLOSURE invites essays and academic reviews that engage with the »state of the comic.« Whether in-depth analysis, comic theory, or innovative new approaches—for the open topic section, we welcome diverse contributions from the interdisciplinary field of comics research.

Thematic Section: »Animal Studies«

CALL FOR PAPERS

Sonic Representations of Jewishness, On Screen and Off

In-person conference at UCLA, April 19-21, 2026

Jews’ longstanding involvement with film and television has drawn much attention from scholars and the general public alike, raising the question of the significance of Jewish heritage and Jewishness more broadly for these creative endeavors, both on screen and behind the scenes. 

Given the centrality of music to Jewish culture, this conference seeks especially to delve into the ways portrayals of Jewishness are reinforced or made more complicated through music and sound in screen culture. 

To mark the 50th anniversary of Stephen King’s landmark 1977 novel, The Shining, editors Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Tony Magistrale solicit chapter proposals for an edited collection of scholarly essays with the working title, Fifty Years of The Shining: New Essays. Proposals are welcome on any aspects of the novel, its adaptations, paratexts, and cultural influence.

Please direct 250-word proposals (demonstrating appropriate conversance with relevant existing scholarly literature), as well as inquiries, to Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu and Anthony.Magistrale@uvm.edu. The deadline for proposals is December 1st, 2025.  

Bureaucratic Modernism

Edited by Alexandra Irimia and Jonathan Foster

Both modernist literature and modern bureaucracy reshaped how societies imagined authority, individuality, and the written word. Modernist authors not only depicted bureaucracy—they absorbed and transformed its textual forms, procedural rhythms, and rationalized aesthetics. This volume takes that convergence as its starting point, asking how the rise of administrative culture in the early twentieth century influenced modernist style, and how modernist experimentation in turn reframed the experience of bureaucracy.

Call for Papers for the Samuel Beckett Working Group at the IFTR World Congress in Melbourne, Australia, 6–10 July 2026

‘Nothing to be done’: What Samuel Beckett’s Theatre Does and What We Do with It

Through this Call for Papers, the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) invites submission of proposals for breakout sessions and applications for the New Voices Breakout Speaker Grant at the 2026 JASNA Annual General Meeting (AGM) October 29-November 1, 2026 in Tucson, Arizona.  The Call for Papers forms also include the application for the JASNA New Voices Breakout Speaker grant.

2026 AGM Theme: "Jane Austen's Bath Novels: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion." 

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2025

In 2025-2026, Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture will host two virtual mini-conferences consisting of four thematically-linked keywords actively shaping digital literary culture in the very online, very present moment. We are working at the bleeding edge of culture, and these mini-conferences are designed to be intimate, safe, and collaborative spaces to think with others about what we see emerging, as it is emerging.

Call for Abstracts!

Classic Rock and Philosophy: Dispatches from the Dark Side of the Moon

Edited by Joshua Heter and Richard Greene

The 57th annual NeMLA Convention is taking place Thursday, March 5, through Sunday, March 8, 2026, at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown in Pittsburgh, PA.  For more information, see https://www.nemla.org/.

Call for Research Article

For December 2025 Issue

Last date for Research Article Submission is 10th December 2025 for December Issue ,

The Creative Launcher

An International, Peer Reviewed Indexed, Refereed Journal in English

Indexed in MLA, ERIHPLUS, MIAR, Sherpa Romeo, World cat, Fatcat, Google Scholar, BASE, Crossref, EBSCO, Google Scholar, and World wide acknowledged.

Useful in Thesis submission and CAS promotion

Editor-in-chief: Dr. Ram Avadh Prajapati

Connect on WhatsApp +91 9807740808

Each article will be published with DOI.

This panel invites papers that engage with aspects of performance, mediated by concepts of gender, in English and Anglophone theatre and drama. The panel is not restricted to any particular period, but preference may be given to proposals that engage with British theatre from 1500 to 1800.

Please submit abstracts through the NeMLA portal: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21738

Conference Details

We are seeking papers for the "Kafka's Fiction" panel at the 57th annual Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), which will be held between March 5-8 in Pittsburgh, PA. You can find more information about the event on NeMLA's website: https://www.nemla.org/convention.html

Modality

Hybrid: The session will be held in-person but a few remote presentations may be included.

Panel Abstract

From Lisa Barlow’s claim of being “Mormon 2.0,” to Meredith Marks’ immortal declaration about “the rumors and the nastiness,” The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City has captured imaginations far beyond Utah. The show is at once high drama, cultural export, and local funhouse mirror—inviting us to think seriously (and playfully) about how Salt Lake City is represented, interpreted, and mythologized.

This event will bring together fans, critics, scholars, and community members for a day of lively discussion, re-enactment, and reflection. We are less interested in the strict application of academic methods than in thoughtful, stimulating insights rooted in local culture, fandom, and appreciation.

The CUNY Graduate Center French Department invites submissions for our Spring 2026 student conference on the theme of “étrangeté.”

Étrangeté evades easy translation. It encompasses "strangeness," "foreignness," and "otherness," offering expansive variability. Etrangeté inhabits both the self and the other. It arises through external judgment and internal reflection alike. It can be unsettling, absurd, and beautiful.