For the 2025 edition of Multiplatform, the Manchester Game Centre teams up with the MMU research group DVRK – Dark Arts Research Kollective – to host a conference exploring the intersections between games and occulture, investigating the transformative potential of games as forms of rituals to explore alternative histories and speculate on radical futures.

This conference titled Gender Mainstreaming – ‘Feminist Foreign Policy’ Approaches in the Context of South Asia is an attempt to explore burgeoning conversations around Feminist Foreign Policy in South Asia with tangential focus on India. The ‘Global North’ has been focusing its attention on foreign policy agendas that are transformative and unique beginning with Sweden taking the initiative in 2014 focusing on rights, representation and resources that impact women. This responsive approach was followed by Canada, France, Luxemburg and Mexico drawing out the ‘Feminist International Assistance’ policy in intersection with focusing on areas namely inclusive governance, security, cross border trade and human rights.

This panel invites papers on transnational influences among liberation theologies worldwide or on comparisons of theologians’ negotiations between Christianity and Marxism in their local contexts. Submit a 150-word abstract and a short bio to Youngkyun Choi (youngkch@umich.edu). 

Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 20 March 2025

https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper30421.html

The Renaissance and Early Modern Forum executive committee invites proposals for a guaranteed *virtual* panel at MLA 2026 titled “Early Modern Women’s Violence.” This panel will explore representations of women’s violence across early modern literature and culture. How do early modern texts gender violence? How do they figure women’s force, resistance, criminality, self-harm, vengeance, etc.? How do cultural forces shape and respond to these portrayals? Please email a short CV and 200-word abstract to nazarian@northwestern.edu by March 15, 2025. 

Call for WrestlePosium VI Proposals

When Worlds Collide:  Business, Culture, Politics, and the Future Professional Wrestling

The President of the PWSA invites submissions for the association’s WrestlePosium VI. This symposium seeks to bring academic scholarship to the Wrestlemania festivities by connecting wrestling scholars around the world to present their research and ideas.

This virtual symposium will happen online on Saturday, April 26th, 2025, a week after WrestleMania.  For more on the WrestlePosium series, visit: 

RE-CFP: ReFocus: The International Directors Series: David Cronenberg

Edinburgh University Press

Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg is widely regarded as one of the finest proprietors of the body-horror genre. Cronenberg’s filmography traverses the realm of the corporeal beyond its bare form, testing the limits of what a body can do. His films explore the intricate relations between the market, science, and desire. Cronenberg also examines disease and illness, situating their grotesque ramifications in the soma and the psyche, while many other later film narratives diverge from Cronenberg’s earlier focus on body horror to exhibit a wide spectrum of directorial capabilities.

Conference online (via Zoom)

27-28 March 2025

CFP:

In 2050, according to scientists’ expectations, 17% of world population will be people aged 65 and over. There will be twice as many elderly people as today. In the light of these predictions, it is obvious that we have to change radically our viewpoint on many aspects of life. We have to re-think our attitudes toward cultural, social, political, economic, medical, and many other dimensions of the world’s near future.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: LITERATURE TODAY'S JUNE 2025 ISSUEWebsite: https://literaturetodayjournal.blogspot.com/Email: editorliteraturetoday@gmail.comSubmission Deadline: June 18, 2025Call for: poems, short stories, memoirs and one minute plays. Literature Today- an International Literary Journal is inviting submissions for the JUNE 2025 issue of 'Literature Today'.

The LLC African American Forum and The College Language Association invite abstracts for a panel at the MLA Convention (January 8-11, 2026 in Toronto, CA). The proposed panel, "A Light on the Lesser Known: Black Writers and their Work," will explore understudied and underdiscussed writers, or understudied and underdiscussed works by well-known authors, within the Black Literary Tradition.

Please email abstracts (250 words) and bios (150 words) to McKinley E. Melton (meltonm@rhodes.edu) by Friday, 21 March 2025.

Please note: accepted panelists will need to be active members of both MLA African American Forum and the College Language Association by April 1, 2025.

Diasporic literature is often deeply engaged with the tensions between displacement and belonging, rupture and continuity, loss and recovery. In narratives of migration, exile, and forced displacement, family becomes both a site of longing and a contested space where histories of trauma and survival play out. Diasporic texts frequently challenge normative understandings of kinship, moving beyond biological ties to reimagine family through memory, affect, and political solidarities.

This is a non-guaranteed panel co-sponsored by the GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum and the TS Age Studies Forum for the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, January 8-11 in Toronto, ON. In the spirit of the conference theme “Family Resemblances”, we are interested in opening conversations on the interdisciplinary intersections of Health Humanities, Children’s Literature, and Age Studies. These offer a rich space for exploring how contemporary narratives shape our understanding of mental health across generations.

The peer-reviewed, online and open access journal Studies in Testimony is currently accepting submissions on an on-going basis. The call for submissions is intentionally broad in nature, allowing for submissions that look at emerging areas of academic interest, in addition to those of continued and lasting relevance from a wide range of academic disciplines including, but certainly not limited to, literature, critical theory, history and psychoanalysis.

Subject areas could include, but are not limited to:

EXTENDED DEADLINE: MARCH 14, 2025

Organization: ASAP/16 (The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present)

Deadline for Papers: March 14, 2025

We invite papers for a proposed panel “Breaking the Narrative: Creating Inclusive Space in Adaptations”, in ASAP/16: Worldmaking/Worldbreaking for its 16th annual conference to be held at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University in Houston, Texas on Wednesday, October 22 - Saturday, October 25, 2025.