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Bloomsbury's Critical Plant Studies Book Series

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 8:56pm
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books that re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:

Early Modern Women: Figures, Labors, Afterlives (RSA 2026)

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:59pm
Renaissance Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

This panel invites papers that examine how early modern women were imagined and represented across genres and cultural contexts. From historical figures to literary characters, how were women positioned in relation to authority, virtue, sexuality, or empire?  How were women written, circulated, obscured, or celebrated in early modern texts? What roles did women play in shaping narratives of gender, race, and power? This panel welcomes work that attends to both the forms of representation and the structures that produced or obscured women’s presence in the early modern world. What kinds of authority or ambivalence did gendered figures carry, and how did race, class, and empire shape their depiction or erasure?

Pulse vol 13 (2026) CFP - Zines and STS: The Remix

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:59pm
Pulse: the Journal of Science and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 31, 2026

PULSE – the Journal of Science and Culture

ISSN 2416-111X

 

VOL 13 (2026) CALL FOR PAPERS

Zines and STS: The Remix

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Foreclosure, a Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:59pm
Chloe Ashbridge (Newcastle University) and Owain Burrell (Warwick University)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 18, 2025

British cultural production has a long history of foreclosure. Understood as a premature abandonment, or an abortive failure, of radical political projects, foreclosure has an imaginative and material register in working-class writing, which has been read since the 1930s as failing to experiment, relying on realism without meaningful engagement with questions of literary form. This view has been challenged by literary scholars, who have demonstrated that formal experimentation did exist, though not in ways that comfortably align with the usual reading of middle-class modernism (Clarke Working Class Writing, 2018).

Victorians and AI

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:59pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Perhaps the most relevant question we are facing today, both in and out of the university, is how to deal with AI. In academia, different disciplines handle this question in a myriad of ways, some insisting that to not embrace AI in the classroom is harmful to the students, while others believe the utilization of AI must weaken critical thinking skills. Regardless of the differing opinions on how to use it appropriately, no one disagrees that it is here to stay.

The Writing's on the Wall

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:59pm
Institute of Faith and the Academy
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

Institute of Faith and the Academy Conference 

Call for Papers 

September 26, 2025 

Theme: Writing's on the Wall

10th Annual Siedlce Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:58pm
University of Siedlce
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

 

10th Annual Siedlce Forum for Contemporary Issues

in Language and Literature

to be held online for the purpose of presenting unpublished research findings in English

on November 13th-14th, 2025.

The leitmotif of the conference is:

Totality and fragmentation

in literature, linguistics, philosophy and culture

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature 7/2026

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:58pm
University of Siedlce
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

vol. 7/2026

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.

Gendered Violence

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:58pm
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (T&F)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (T&F)

Special issue on

Gendered Violence

Guest Editors: Debajyoti Biswas (Bodoland University) & Parvin Sultana (Pramathesh Barua College)

 

Call for papers: An Awkward Marriage: Considering the serial killer’s social standing in a changing British culture

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:58pm
University of Worcester
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 29, 2025

Great Britain has a rich and varied history when it comes to true crime. This statement applies as much to the crimes themselves as it does to media producers’ coverage of them. While a global canon of true crime is forming, there has to date still been an emphasis placed on Western narratives according to American culture, with crimes from this region dominating media attention. However, Britain itself has a long history of true crime that warrants further critical attention, to include some of the most prolific serial killers within the genre: Fred and Rose West; Harold Shipman; John Christie; Dennis Nilsen; and, more recently, and controversially, Lucy Letby.

Old English Literature, including Beowulf

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:58pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

The Old English Literature session is open to any and all papers that explore some aspect of Old English poetry, prose, and/or Beowulf studies. We welcome proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related.

Please submit an abstract here: 

 https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19648

 

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PAMLA 2025 Theme:

Trans-scriptions: Cultural Codings and the Poetics of the Body

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:58pm
International Conference organized by University of Szczecin & University of Wrocław
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 10, 2025

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

Critical Minerals Symposium

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:58pm
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

Critical Minerals Symposium

7 November 2025
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Keynote Speaker: Associate Professor Tom Nurmi, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Recent geopolitical contestations over Ukraine’s rare earths, global debates on ‘critical’ minerals in the context of green energy transitions, and growing scholarly engagement – such as Museum and Society’s recent special issue on minerals – have all highlighted the ethical, political, and environmental stakes of minerals.

Journal article submissions for William Carlos Williams Review

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:58pm
Williamm Carlos Williams Review
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 28, 2025

Call for submission of academic articles on William Carlos Williams for consideration by the William Carlos Williams Review. Articles must be between 20 to 30 pages in length. All topics welcome. Queries to the editor at copers@gmail.com. Deadline for submissions: July 28, 2025. 

Alchemy 2025: Exploring Metaphorical Transformations and Arts-Based Research

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:58pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Date: November 8-9, 2025
Location: University of Oxford, UK
Online option available
Conference page: https://labrc.co.uk/2024/11/20/alchemy-2025/

 

Cost:  180 GBP (In person)
100 GBP (Online)
Prices exclude eventbrite fees

“Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.” – Paracelsus

The Handbook of Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series Exploring Transgender Themes

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:14pm
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The response to our CFP for Indian Trans Cinema has been so strong that we have expanded it into The Handbook of Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series. Proposals are due July 1, 2025.

We seek a diverse group of contributors from countries around the world.

We especially welcome additional chapters on the following 16 themes, for which we already have 47 confirmed chapters:

Theme 1. Historical Cinema

Seeking the chapters "Trans Cinema from the United States" and "Trans Cinema from the United Kingdom" for The Handbook of Trans Cinema

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 12:14pm
The Handbook of Trans Cinema
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Seeking the chapters "Trans Cinema from the United States" and "Trans Cinema from the United Kingdom" for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. These are the final chapters needed to complete the handbook.

We have over 70 confirmed chapters exploring trans films from 6 continents.

Your chapter "Trans Cinema from the United States" or "Trans Cinema from the United Kingdom" should provide a broad survey and analysis of films with transgender themes from the respective country, while also examining at least three films in depth. 

Bloomsbury's Ecocritical Theory and Practice Book Series

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 12:14pm
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Ecocritical Theory and Practice, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment. More than 100 books have already appeared in the series.

Works that explore environmental issues through literatures, oral traditions, and cultural/media practices around the world are welcome. The series features books by established ecocritics that examine the intersection of theory and practice, including both monographs and edited volumes. Contemporary and historical works are equally appropriate.

Proposals are invited in the range of topics covered by ecocriticism, including but not limited to works informed by

Bloomsbury's Environment and Society Book Series

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 12:14pm
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Environment and Society, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. More than 30 books have already appeared in the series.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AI AND LITERATURE

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 12:10pm
ONDA THANA MAHAVIDYALAYA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

The Department of English at Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya, Bankura, West Bengal, announces an upcoming international, interdisciplinary conference examining AI's impact on literature. 

The conference will take place on Friday and Saturday, 29-30 August 2025,  on the main campus, near the National Highway. 

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 7:34am
Bodoland University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

International Seminar

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus

16 & 17 October 2025

Venue: Bodoland University, Kokrajhar

A Special Issue will be published in Bandung: Journal of the Global South (De Gruyter Brill)

 

CFP Tiphys #1.Dopo il palazzo: la nascita della polis

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 5:18am
Tiphys. Uomini e culture nel Mediterraneo
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

CFP Tiphys #1, Dopo il palazzo: la nascita della polis

Editor: Massimo Cultraro (CNR-ISPC), Giancarlo Germanà Bozza (Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo)

Deadline per l’invio dei contributi: 30 giugno 2025

La complessa storia dell’Egeo tra la fine del II e gli inizi del I millennio a.C. è segnata dal passaggio da strutture socio-politiche centralizzate e gerarchiche, identificate nel modello del palazzo miceneo, a comunità sul territorio che si riorganizzano in centri abitati di nuova formazione.

REMINDER: DEADLINE EXTENDED: “A Day”: 2nd Annual Goth Music and Subculture Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 - 4:27pm
Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 11, 2025

“A Day”: 2nd Annual Goth Music and Subculture Conference

 

NEW Deadline: July 11, 2025 

Conference Date: August 16, 2025 

Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific)

Abstract: 150 words + 100 word biographical statement + Time Zone

Submit to: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University @ noahrgallego@gmail.com 

Contact: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com

 

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