9/1/25 - 9/22/25: Litmag Subs are OPEN!The theme is: The Urge

… as in the many faces of “the feminine urge” — to cave-dwell or home-make, towards tenderness or violence, giddiness or belligerence, nurturing or devouring, and so on.

We’d like to explore a full spectrum of “the female experience,” and especially showcase her inner world. What makes her tick? What’s behind the mask and under her skin? Which desires and urges are rarely spoken but always just below the surface?

All are cordially invited to present their research regarding current issues of tourism, archaeology, heritage and history in English or Arabic.

The full articles of the conference will be published as the book of conference (provided with International Standard Book Number (ISBN), and according to the Governmental Approval (The Ministry)), and also will be indexed in CIVILICA (however, the book of abstracts will be published too).

You may select either Virtual Presentation or In-Person Presentation.

Conference Themes

A) Tourism (Any issue related to tourism)

This seminar investigates how repression, repetition, and unresolved rhythms shape emotional experience across Anglophone literature, heritage film, and contemporary media. It emphasizes stalled movements of feeling, looping tensions, and residues that resist closure. Such affective patterns disrupt inherited memories and unsettle formations of Englishness and other post-imperial identities. At the center of this seminar lies a guiding question: how do patterns of emotion simultaneously sustain and fracture collective identity?

In a world that constantly urges us to scale up—to dream bigger, to grow up, to grasp the “big picture”—what does it mean to think small? This seminar turns to the miniature, not merely as an object of study but as a method of inquiry. To think with the miniature is to reconsider scale itself—not as a neutral or fixed formal property of things, but as a way of seeing and knowing, shaped by desire, enabled by technology, and embedded within power relations. 

Forms in Dialogue

Universität Konstanz, 11-13 Juni 2026

                                Trans-scriptions: Cultural Codings and the Poetics of the Body
                     International Conference organized by University of Szczecin & University of Wrocław
                                                       
                                                                    11-13 February 2026
                Institute of English Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland Hybrid On-site Conference

Conference online: 18-19 September 2025 (via Zoom)

Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Professor Ryan Habermeyer -  Salisbury University, USA

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CFP:

This panel invites presentations that explore “extreme geographies”—sites at the limits of habitability and at the horizon of speculation—in literary, visual, and cinematic archives of Latin America. Drawing from David J. Nemeth’s working definition (entry in Encyclopedia of Geography, 2010), we consider both material environments beyond human thresholds, such as polar zones, tropical belts, deserts, volcanic craters, deep-sea trenches, and outer space, and imagined loci including utopias/dystopias, lost islands, fantastic and counterfactual frontiers.

Video essays are inevitably entwined with today’s content industry, which relies on engagement metrics, personal branding, and like-and-subscribe platforms to generate revenue and increase time-on-device. Perhaps for this reason, they are frequently associated with advertising or edutainment and rarely appear in journals and other scholarly venues.

This is an updated CFP for an edited collection representing contemporary “conservative cultural criticism” of books, film, TV, and other media. We are taking a broad view of what conservatism entails, but common influences cited by contributors include Russell Kirk, C. S. Lewis, Paul Elmore More, and Roger Scruton. I have 12 chapters so far on the following topics / authors:

Call for Papers

Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, & Personal Narrative

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open: September 1, 2025

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025

ACLA 2026: Marxism & Lyric

This seminar examines the lyric as a central and contested form in Marxist literary theory. Often viewed as the genre most resistant to historical materialist analysis—associated with interiority, formal autonomy, and expressive immediacy—lyric has nonetheless emerged, across multiple Marxist traditions, as a nexus for theorizing the contradictions of subjectivity, value, and mediation under capital.

Tinta regada (Spilled Ink) a multilingual publication, invites submissions for a Series on Travel Writing (Literatura de viajes). 

The editors of the literary magazine of the Instituto Nuevos Horizontes welcome personal commentaries, essays, poetry, short story and other forms, in any language, up to 2,500 words.

Send questions and submissions to nuevos.horizontes.uprm@gmail.com. 

In a 1918 speech at Munich University, sociologist Max Weber observed a widespread cultural loss of belief in magic and the supernatural: “the fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization, and above all, by the ‘disenchantment of the world.’… the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life." Weber’s idea of disenchantment is borrowed from the Enlightenment-era playwright Fredrich Schiller's exploration of Entzauberung, the "de-divinizing" of art, literature, culture, and existence. As Richard Jenkins clarifies, Weber's disenchantment is “right at the heart of modernity,” a product of the world becoming “knowable, predictable, and manipulable by humans ...

Addressing Ocean and Space Pollution Through the Arts: New Considerations on Indigenous Knowledges and Collaborative Practices

A conference organized by the ERC-funded research project OSPAPIK, the Centre des métiers d’art de la Polynésie française (CMAPf) and the Université de la Polynésie française (UPF, Vice-Présidence Dialogue Sciences, Cultures & Sociétés)

(For the CFP in French, please scroll down)

26-28 October 2026

TWO-DAY NATIONAL CONFERENCE

 on

Precarity and Resistance:  Bengali Muslim Experience and Contemporary India

on

15-16 November 2025

(Tentative Dates)

Organised by

Bengali Academia for Social Empowerment (BASE), Kolkata, West Bengal

in collaboration with

Department of English, Nagar College, Nagar, Murshidabad, West Bengal &

Historical Fictions Research Conference, Erlangen (Germany),

19th-20th February 2026

Call for Papers

Deadline: 1st September 2025

Submission Form

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open: September 1, 2025

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025

Call for Papers

Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster in Culture

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open: September 1, 2025

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025

********DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 1st 2025********

London Metropolitan University, in partnership with Vilnius University, invite proposals for conference papers for an international symposium “1984 and its afterlife: legacy, narratives, and the making of a community” to be held at London Metropolitan University, London, 18 – 19 December 2025. The symposium will be held in hybrid form, we are welcoming both on-site and online papers. 

This symposium will explore the historical, social and cultural reverberations of the events of 1984 in India and abroad through the analysis of literature, films and artworks engaged with them. 

The last decade of the Twentieth century witnessed a drastic shift from a ‘Bipolar’ to a ‘Unipolar’ world including the definition of the power politics and the diplomatic, economic and military status quo of the cold war era. Now the geographies of the globe had to shape the historical predictability, literary upsurges, socio-economic developments and psycho-cultural practices within the communities including the entire ecosystem of the various ecosophical narratives of climate change. In this context, ‘Geopolitics’ proved to the most apt term that invokes many things simultaneously. Political tussle and dominance is the most obvious meaning of the term that implicitly implies its global extent.

A guest-edited special issue of the journal SOUTHEAST OF NOW: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia. Editors: Louis Ho, Michelle Lim, Sushma Griffin Deadline for proposals and abstracts (in all formats):Nov 1, 2025 (please submit an abstract of 400-500 words, and a brief biographical note) Deadline for the submission of complete manuscripts for accepted proposals (in all formats):Mar 1, 2026 (please see below for more details about the submission formats) Please send all submissions for, and queries regarding, this issue to artecopol.seon@gmail.com. About the journal:Southeast of Now is a scholarly journal on art and visual cultur