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Mapping Body Space Continuum in Urbanscapes

updated: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 12:14am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Space is not defined objectively, but in relation to bodies, as it is a manifestation of their needs, intentions, and desires. It is not a container in which objects exist but is intertwined with the body’s orientation in the world and its movements within the space. Human body, therefore, is at the centre of all spaces, which are more than a geometrical concept in abstraction. Individual bodies apprehend and appropriate space differently and give meaning to embedded systems and institutions through established and evolving associations. Any assumption of personalised space, whether private or public, is embedded with historical, cultural, and social meanings which help curate embodied experiences.

General Call for Papers

updated: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 12:13am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished, interdisciplinary, research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.

The Problem of Social Justice: Global Perspectives and Personal Narratives

updated: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 12:13am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Social justice is the virtue which guides us in creating those organized human interactions we call institutions. In turn, social institutions, when justly organized, provide us with access to what is good for the person, both individually and in our associations with others. Social justice also imposes on each of us a personal responsibility to work with others to design and continually perfect our institutions as tools for personal and social development.

–             The Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ), Washington, D.C., USA

Extended Deadline--Writing the Midwest: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers, 5/29 - 5/30/2025, East Lansing, MI

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 10:21am
The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

WRITING THE MIDWEST: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers

The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)
May 29-30, 2025. Kellogg Hotel and Convention Center, East Lansing, Michigan

About SSML and The Writing the Midwest Symposium: The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML), founded in 1971, exists to support the study and dissemination of work in Midwestern literature, art, film, and scholarly study. 

CFP: Future of Global Indigenous Literature and Arts

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 10:10am
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

 

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, Journal Impact Factor (JIF)™ 2023: 0.2, 5 Year JIF: 0.2, Category Quartile: Q2, is now inviting papers on Future of Global Indigenous Literature and Arts. 

Call for Papershttps://rupkatha.com/cfp-indigenous-2025

Apply for Editorial Positions

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 10:10am
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, Journal Impact Factor (JIF)™ 2023: 0.2, 5 Year JIF: 0.2, Category Quartile: Q2) is now inviting dynamic board members. Apply HERE>>

Please complete the following form and indicate your choices. Working for the journal is voluntary, and no remuneration is paid. The information collected here will be kept confidential.

Apply for Editorial Positions

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 10:10am
Chitrolekha Journal on Art and Design
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The Chitrolekha Journal on Art and Design (indexed by ProQuest Arts Premium Database, EBSCO Art & Architecture Core Source Database, Index Islamicus (Brill), Dimensions) is looking for dynamic editorial board members.

Apply here: https://forms.gle/he8jbmzMj9h1AmVk9

Please complete the following form and indicate your choices. Working for the journal is voluntary, and no remuneration is paid. The information collected here will be kept confidential.

See our Board: https://chitrolekha.com/board/

About the Journal

The Art of Storytelling: Archetypes in Focus

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:23am
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 4, 2025

Call for Papers:
The Art of Storytelling: Archetypes in Focus
A Transdisciplinary Conference
May 24-26, 2025

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/storytelling-2025/

Where:
May 24-25, 2025: Oxford University (and Online)
May 26: Online only

Fees:
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)
Prices exclude eventbrite fees

MLA26: Milton's Afterlives

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:22am
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

The Milton Society of America invites proposals for a sponsored panel at the 2026 MLA Convention being held in Toronto, Canada. Papers (15 minutes in length) should examine Milton’s writings through a lens of adaptation studies, media studies, or reception studies, or their appropriation (social, legal, or political). Send 150-word abstract and brief cv to MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com.

The Sun Also Rises at 100

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:22am
The Hemingway Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION

TORONTO
JANUARY 8-11, 2026

The Ernest Hemingway Society will sponsor a panel at the upcoming MLA Conference:

The Sun Also Rises at 100

Heights, Depths, and Extremes: The 17th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:22am
Victorian Popular Fiction Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

The 17th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association

Heights, Depths, and Extremes

The Birmingham & Midland Institute, Birmingham UK

14th-16th July 2025

The Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) is delighted to announce its 17th annual conference for 2025, inviting scholars, researchers, and enthusiasts of Victorian literature to explore this year’s theme, Heights, Depths, and Extremes. This theme encourages an examination of the limits, boundaries, and expanses of Victorian popular fiction, encompassing everything from physical and metaphorical heights to the extremities of human emotion, imagination, and social structures.

MLA26: New Voices, New Directions in Milton Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:05am
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

The Milton Society of America invites proposals for a sponsored panel at the 2026 MLA Convention being held in Toronto, Canada. Papers (15 minutes in length) should bring attention to new work in Milton studies by early career scholars and to innovative approaches by scholars of any rank. Send 150-word abstract and brief cv to MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com.

CFP Conference "Contemporary Art & Extractivist Culture"

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:03am
Dr. Christian Alonso / VIGEO Universitat de Barcelona
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 3, 2025

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)

Asian Feminisms and Contemporary Cultural Production

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:03am
Korean Association for Feminist Studies in English Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 10, 2025

The Korean Association for Feminist Studies in English Literature (KAFSEL, fsel.org) will host a one-day international conference on “Asian Feminisms and Contemporary Cultural Production” on May 10, 2025. The bi-lingual (Korean and English) conference will be held at Seoul National University. We hope to promote a wide-ranging and inclusive discussion on contemporary women writers and artists in and around Asia, the varieties of feminist and queer interventions in Asian contexts, and new challenges in contemporary feminist theory. We welcome proposals for 15-20 minute papers related to the topics above. Graduate students are also welcome to submit proposals. Keynote speakers TBA shortly.

 

Selling Scary Movies: Horror Film Marketing & the American Market

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:02am
Richard Nowell, FAMU (The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

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

 

The Solarpunk Conference 2025: Collective Care, Collective Power: Call for Conference Presentations

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:02am
The Solarpunk Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 17, 2025

Call for Presentations – The Solarpunk Conference 2025: Collective Care, Collective Power

Solarpunk is a growing subculture, existing across various veins of human endeavors, such as fiction, media, politics, technology, agriculture and urban planning and development. Solarpunk imagines an accessible, equitable world either without systemic barriers, or with those barriers in the process of disassembly, while championing intersectional social and climate justice. Drawing on ideas from permaculture, post- and trans-humanism, social ecology, and anarcho-socialism, while reacting against late stage capitalism, Solarpunk declares that our world is worth saving, and that saving it is possible.

Buddhism and Literary Nonfiction

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:01am
Religion and the Arts Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

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

 

Stories and Sacredness: Reimagining Myth and Folklore Across Indian Cultures

updated: 
Monday, February 10, 2025 - 8:51pm
Dr. Rajkumar Bera and Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Call for Papers: Stories and Sacredness: Reimagining Myth and Folklore Across Indian Cultures

(Proposed as Part of Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions)

Editors:

Dr. Rajkumar Bera, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Midnapore City College, West Bengal

Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash, Fellow of Social Science Research Council, USA

Articles on American Literary Archives / Bibliography

updated: 
Monday, February 10, 2025 - 11:43am
Resources for American Literary Study (Penn State UP) Extended Deadline
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

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

Current Research in Speculative Fiction Conference 2025

updated: 
Monday, February 10, 2025 - 11:35am
CRSF
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 24, 2025

Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2025

15th Annual Conference

Boundaries: transgression, subversion, deconstruction

July 3rd & 4th 2025

University of Liverpool (Hybrid)

All bodies are, in some sense; engines driven by the health or disease of their owners, jackets of flesh that are the physical sum of their wearers. But to become your disease? To become the consumption itself? (Kathe Koja, The Cipher)

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live inits reality. (Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation)

Japanese Video Games and Critiques of the Western Aesthetic Tradition

updated: 
Monday, February 10, 2025 - 9:34am
Austin Anderson, Howard University / DA Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

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.

Popular Arts Conference (PAC) 18th Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, August 28 – September 1, 2025

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 3:44pm
Popular Arts Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The Popular Arts Conference (PAC) invites submissions for our 18th Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, August 28 – September 1, 2025.

PAC is an annual academic conference for the studies of comics and the popular arts, including science/speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and other media; comic books; manga; graphic novels; anime; gaming; etc., presented to a mixed audience of scholars and fans. The mission of PAC is to promote scholarship on popular culture and to encourage the engagement between scholars and fans in order to deepen our understanding of the popular arts. PAC presentations are peer reviewed, based on scholarly research.

ASA 2025: Trans Studies Under Trump 2.0

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 3:20pm
Míša Stekl / Stanford University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025

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: 

28th Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 2:23pm
English Graduate Student Body, University of Mississippi
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

28th Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference 

University of Mississippi

July 26th-27th, 2025

Call for Submissions

Intersecting Ecologies: Environmental Studies in the U.S. and Global South

 

The Southern Writers/Southern Writing Conference (SW/SW) is an interdisciplinary conference, welcoming graduate students, creative writers, activists, and community members with interest in the U.S. or Global South from all departments and fields of study. The 28th edition of SW/SW will be held at the University of Mississippi from July 26th-27th, 2025.

 

Refugees and Borders: Life, Law, and Limits

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 2:14pm
Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England's Refugee Justice Network for a Borderless World
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 22, 2025

Call for Papers for the inaugural event of CHASE's newly established Refugee Justice Network for a Borderless World: Borders proliferate and refugeehood expands at the present time. Borders follow us everywhere, they are not just physical; they are as much digital, institutional, social,  imaginative. Bordering methods that exert their force on human lives and experiences by ordering statehood, stagnation and citizenship regimes have for long been in discussion. However, the nuances and challenges of the problem are yet to be re-evaluated and re-thought. While discussions of certain geographical areas and lives affected by borders have been in the spotlight, many remained unanalysed and, as a result, invisible.

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