PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the 1950s in popular culture. Held online on Thursday 28th and Friday 29th of March 2025.

The 1950s was the decade where the world began to recover from the tragedy of the Second World War. This conference aims to explore both the popular culture of the 1950s, and how the 1950s have been depicted in the popular culture of other eras.

Sydney, Australia and Zoom 25-26 September 2025

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free conference in Sydney and online exploring representations of food in popular cultures in history and today, on 25 and 26 September 2025.

Delicious, Nutritious and Fictitious: Food in Popular Culture is asymposium that aims to interrogate the ways that food, recipes, cooking, eating and nutrition are evident in popular culture. This may be representations of food in television, film, literature, art, music, as text, narrative, discourse or any other scholarly form or genre.

We are currently seeking contributions from the humanities and social sciences for a scientific network that explores ephemerality in both its material forms and theoretical conceptualizations. This interdisciplinary network aims to bring into dialogue various questions about ephemerality, specifically examining how different fleeting forms of expression are implicated in the continual making and unmaking of proximities, both human and non-human, producing “a matter of temporary intensities and pacts amongst people” and other entities (Vélez-Serna, 14).

Boy Not There is a newly established fellowship, advocating for collaboration between scholars and lived-experience advocates regarding sexual violence against men and boys.

We aim to amplify voices that confront the challenges of male sexual violence, reckoning with social stigmas that often become barriers to disclosure. We work with survivors, researchers, educators and professional clinicians to create supportive frameworks for histories to be shared and eventually overcome.

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

We are pleased to announce that the 41st International Conference on Psychology and the Arts will be held at Amsterdam University College (AUC), Science Park 113, 1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 27-June 30, 2025. With a commitment to excellence, diversity and the global perspective, AUC is a modern, public liberal arts college founded in 2009 as a joint initiative of the University of Amsterdam (auc.nl) and VU Amsterdam (vu.nl).

One Short Day: An Online Symposium Celebrating Wicked

Deadline: May 30, 2025

Conference Date: June 27, 2025

Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific Time)

Abstract: 150 words + 50 word biographical statement + Time Zone

Submit to: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com 

Organizers: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona & Layal Dahi, California State Polytechnic University 

“Beyond Labels”: International Conference
on Disability, Different Ability and Neurodiversity

London/Online: 13-14 September 2025
Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2025
Conference website: https://diversity.lcir.co.uk

Disability, different ability and neurodiversity are concepts that traverse boundaries, challenging disciplines to rethink foundational assumptions about identity, culture and power. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring together scholars from different fields to critically examine the shifting narratives, representations and lived experiences surrounding ability and difference.

International Conference on Food Studies:
"Culinary Evolutions"

London/Online: 9-10 August 2025
Deadline for proposals: 30 April 2025
Conference website: https://food.lcir.co.uk

Food is a basic foundation of culture and society, it is vital to our health and well-being and it plays a significant role in our everyday creative engagement with nature. The shifts in activities surrounding food acquisition, preparation and consumption are not only essential for learning a culinary tradition but for examining a broader societal change.

“Money Beyond Numbers”: 
International Conference on Money, Markets and Meaning
London/Online: 19-20 July 2025
Deadline for proposals: 15 April 2025
Conference website: https://money.lcir.co.uk

Money holds immense power — not just as a medium of exchange but as a cultural symbol, a psychological force, and a social construct. How do we ascribe meaning to money, and how does it shape our identities, relationships and values? What narratives and myths surround its use, accumulation and distribution? From its role in consumer culture to its depiction in literature, art and media, money permeates every aspect of human life, embodying ideals of wealth, power and morality.

“Migrating World”: International Conference
on Migration, Identity and Belonging
London/Online: 5-6 July 2025
Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2025
Conference website: https://integration.lcir.co.uk

"The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place"
International Conference

London/Online: 21-22 June 2025
Deadline for proposals: 1 March 2025
Conference website: https://memory.lcir.co.uk

45th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum:

Spanning the Globe: Thinking across Geographies in Medieval and Medievalism Studies

Keene State College

Keene, NH, USA

Friday and Saturday March 28-29, 2025

Call for Papers and Sessions