1st International Conference
Contemporary Art & Extractivist Culture
14 May 2025: Facultat de Lletres, Universitat de Lleida
15 May 2025: Facultat de Geografia i Història, Universitat de Barcelona

Keynote Speakers: Dr. Juan Martín Prada (Universidad de Cádiz), Dr. Rick Dolphijn (Utrecht University), Dr. Joaquín Barriendos (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey), Dra. Bárbara Fluxá (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Dra. Paula Bruna (artist and researcher), Gabriela Bettini (artist and researcher)

Hi folks,

I hope everyone is happy and well.

I would like to announce that I am putting together a new edited collection on horror film promotion in the US. At present, I am sketching out a due date for chapter submissions of January 2027, but obviously this can only really be provisional at this point. For the record, once a line-up is in place, I will be approaching Anthem Press about including the book in its "Series on Exploitation and Industry in World Cinema", of which I am a board member.

Selling Scary Movies: Horror Film Promotion & the American Market

Edited by Richard Nowell

Religion and the Arts is issuing a call for papers on the theme “Buddhism and Literary Nonfiction” for a special issue to be published in March, 2026. We are looking articles on the topic of Buddhism and literary nonfiction: including memoir, biography, the essay,  literary and art criticism, the diary, the handbook, and the sermon or dharma talk. Articles should be roughly 5,000-10,000 words long. Color and black and white Images are also welcome, and should be 300 dpi for the size they are to be reproduced for photography/ 600 for linework.

Articles are due 1 September 2025.  For inquiries, please contact James Najarian, editor, at relarts@bc.edu

Resources for American Literary Study (Penn State UP), a peer-reviewed journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship in American literature, invites submissions for our upcoming 2025 issues. Covering all periods of American literature, RALS welcomes both traditional and digital approaches to archival and bibliographical analysis. We also welcome proposals for our "Prospects" series in which scholars forecast future developments (and identify scholarly gaps) in the study of major authors.

Instructions for submissions may be found @ http://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_rals.html. 

Nintendo was founded just three years after the beginning of the Meiji era in 1889; 100 years later, the company dominated the global game market, having rescued the U.S. video game market in the wake of the 1983 crash. Considering Japanese cultural identity as isolated from a global context misunderstands a long history of active construction of that identity as global and globalizing. Yet, Video Game Studies has often come from a decidedly Euro-centric perspective that regularly frames Japan as an isolated monoculture rather than acknowledging the global existence of Japan and its cultural products.

Theorizing (Sub)peripheries: Strategies of Synchronization 

in Southeast European Literary and Cultural Criticism

(1821–2025)

Dates: May 9–10, 2025

Location: Sibiu, Romania

Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

I would like to (co)organize a panel on trans studies under Trump 2.0 for the 2025 meeting of the American Studies Association, which will take place in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from November 20-22. This is, obviously, a fraught and rapidly evolving subject, but here are some of the topics I would like to broach: 

We are currently putting together a plenary roundtable on ‘Understanding Medieval Race-Making’ for the June 9-11 conference in Waterloo, ON.

CFP - Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature , vol. 6/2025

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature is an international multidisciplinary periodical that welcomes for review any innovative and challenging research article encroaching upon the fields of literature, linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies.

The editorial board encourages researchers and young scholars to submit their article proposals that  comprise with the profile of the journal. The proposals can be sent in English, German, French, Spanish, Catalan and Polish. The manuscript submitted for publication is to be original and unpublished. It should not have been simultaneously submitted for review in any other journal.

Writing Human: Post-Chatbot Approaches to College Writing

We are seeking short, first-person narratives (2,000-3,000 words) from college instructors in any discipline who use writing activities and assignments in ways that foster engagement, enhance learning, and stimulate creativity.  We are compiling a book of stories that affirm the educational value of human writing at a time when more of our writing is being done for us by generative AI.        

The Department of English and Comparative Literature at San José State University welcomes proposals for 15-20 minute paper presentations on any topic related to literary studies or creative writing for a one-day conference just for graduate students. 

We will form panels based on the topics/categories of the abstracts that students submit. For one of the panels, we are particularly interested in papers on or related to decolonizing literary studies. The conference will take place on April 25th from 12:30-3pm.

To apply to become a presenter, please send a 250-word abstract of your paper to sjsugradconference@gmail.com by March 25, 2025.

Abstract: Feministas Unidas invites interdisciplinary contributions for its non-guaranteed session in online format for MLA 2026 (Toronto, January 8-11, 2026). Proposals can be submitted even if you are not a member of Feministas Unidas. Now, if accepted, they must register for the periods 2025 and 2026. This call for contributions seeks proposals that examine literatures written by women in the transatlantic orbit, from the Middle Ages to the present, focusing on experiences of exile, displacement, and the difficulties faced by both the women and their texts in entering archives.

ODIOUS COMPARISONS

... ACROSS & BEYOND THE EARLY GLOBAL WORLD

April 17-April 18 2026 [In Person]

CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, UCLA

Organized by Basil Arnould Price (John W. Baldwin Postdoctoral Fellow, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, UCLA)

and Nancy Alicia Martínez (Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, UCLA)

This call for papers seeks contributions examining the relationship between narratives and ecological issues, focusing on the ways storytelling addresses ecological challenges. Narratives – whether literary, cinematic, or multimodal – have the potential to critique environmental exploitation, envision sustainable futures, and explore human and non-human interconnections. The intersection of ecocriticism and storytelling offers fertile ground for discussions about the role of culture in shaping ecological consciousness and practices.