***Extended Deadline*** 

Nothing on Leila (1997) please!

ReFocus: The International Directors Series, published by Edinburgh University Press invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit papers for a title dedicated to the influential works of Dariush Mehrjui (1939-2023), a seminal figure in Iranian cinema. Known for his profound impact on the New Wave of Iranian cinema, Mehrjui’s films blend social commentary, philosophical inquiry, and aesthetic innovation. This title aims to explore the multifaceted dimensions of Mehrjui’s oeuvre, examining his contributions to film art and his role in shaping Iranian and global cinema.

Topics of Interest

Call for Proposals for a Special Issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL)

Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2025

Full name / name of organization: Texas Studies in Literature and Language

Prospective publication: September 2026

Contact email: TSLL@austin.utexas.edu

Special Issue Proposals

Where: The Australian National University, Acton campus, ACT

When: Friday 11 April, 2025

CFP: Playing Games in the American Environmental Literature classroom
Panel at ALA 2025 in Boston 

Call for Papers, ALA 2025, Boston

The American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) plans to offer three panels.

One panel, “New Directions,” will provide an opportunity for innovative thinking on new and old topics.

This first panel will give priority to early career scholars—untenured faculty, newly-minted PhDs, and graduate students writing dissertations.

The second panel will be open-ended, but we will be especially interested in papers focusing on comic artifacts in digital formats, e. g. texts and images produced by generative AI, memes, viral videos, comment threads in social media platforms or websites.

hosted online on 15–16 January 2025, at 11 am (+2 GMT)

Anyone, then, who has tasted fairy fruit walks through life beside other people to a different tune from theirs.

Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

Hi all,

There is just two days left to submit your abstract for MultiPlay's conference, Games in the Zeitgeist, taking place online 28th January 2025, 6pm GMT.

Critical hegemony tracing the start of the Second Golden Age of Television to the release of HBO’s The Sopranos in 1999 means that several properties released before that time have flown under the academic radar. Oz (1997-2003), the first serial drama ever produced by HBO, contains all the tightly plotted storytelling and enhanced aesthetics Alexis Pichard defines as key features of Golden Age television, and achieved the required level of popular success with both audiences and critics.

ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025

University of Maryland, College Park

Panel: National Cinemas of Agriculture

This proposed panel at ASLE 2025 seeks proposals that explore ideal of national cinema in the global landscape, with specific emphasis on the cinematic representations of agriculture, rural life, and their connections to (post)colonial and Indigenous foodways.

The editors invite scholars and practitioners with interests and/or experience in justice studies to contribute chapters to Research Methods for Qualitative Justice Studies. We are seeking originally authored chapters that focus on specific qualitative research approaches aligned with justice studies-oriented research. Each chapter should cover one primary method of qualitative research. 

See full CFP at link for further details. 

Call for Papers

Join us in Los Angeles for the 39th annual MELUS conference!

April 3-6, 2025

Hosted by Cal State LA

Conference Theme: MELUS Outside

Deadline for Abstracts: December 6, 2024

Inspired by Fort Wayne’s proximity to the Allen County Library, with its large genealogical center, MVSA 2025 takes the theme of “Genealogies.” We encourage participants to think about origins and descent broadly speaking and across disciplines. Genealogies were powerful scientific tools or narrative red herrings, and they were also sources of anxiety for Victorians. Of course, people have genealogies, but so do ideas, artistic forms, and texts, including scholarly concepts and methods themselves. MVSA invites proposals for papers that present, interrogate, explore, celebrate, and puncture material and textual genealogies.

Papers Might Take up Issues Including, but not Limited to:

                                            Florida Atlantic Univeristy - Comparative Studies Student Association 

                                                            CSSA’s 2025 Intellectual Resistance Conference

Call for Papers

The literature of early medieval England, both Old English and Anglo-Latin, is often characterized either by a derivative devotion to an authoritative past, or by unorthodox innovation. While this dichotomy between tradition and innovation has much merit, many textual examples defy this categorization. In some cases, innovative texts and authors actually conform closely to their discursive models, while other texts that seem to adhere to tradition in fact create significant developments and variations. Untangling the complex relationships between texts and their sources reveals much about composition, genre, form, and language – the very foundations of textual practice.