Half a century later, the seeds Alice Walker planted with her seminal essay “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” (1974) continue to  blossom today in aesthetic conversations. In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays (2023), whose title is inspired in part by Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983), Farah Jasmine Griffin asserts, “That book helped to shape many of us formed as intellectuals and writers in its wake.

The existence of a sense of contact within a particular culture remains inherently interdisciplinary and intersectional in terms of literature, the performative arts, and the social sciences. Contact essentially entails a continuity, one that consciously evolves from the preceding line of thought to facilitate the production of the interiority of further signification. As human societies evolved, diverse communities established distinct cultural, social, and literary traditions. The resultant intersections foster and foreground the ‘unconforming’, resulting in the emergence of new socio-cultural utterances.

We are seeking chapters to include in an edited book with the provisional title: Storied Citizenship: Reimagining Civic Encounters Among Children and Youth in the Post-Digital Age. This text will be an interdisciplinary, open access volume that will explore existing and emerging ideas about storied citizenship among children and youth in the post-digital age. Rather than defining citizenship or civic engagement in traditional ways, we see it as a process in which young people participate in arts-based, embodied, lived, and spatialized ways across cultural contexts.

Call for papers for the special issue of English Language Notes (published by Duke University Press)

Special issue editors

Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India

Eunice NgongKum, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon

Onyemaechi Udumukwu, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Environmental Injustice, Resistance and African Literature

Submissions are invited for the Richard D. Gooder Essay Prize, offered by Cambridge Quarterly, a journal published by Oxford University Press. The Prize is open to doctoral students and those who have submitted their thesis within the last calendar year, and offers a prize of £300 and publication in the journal. 

The Cambridge Quarterly is a journal of literary and cultural criticism with a broad remit. Our focus is largely on scholarship on Anglophone literature, but we also welcome work on writing in languages other than English, as well as on film, music, theatre, television, dance, the visual arts and other cultural and artistic forms, singly or in comparison.  

The Uncanny States of America: Encountering the Planetary

https://eaas.eu/eaas-news/call-for-papers-ejas-special-issue-the-uncanny...

Profanity: Redefining the Limits.

The F-word across Linguistics, Translation and the Arts

LOCATION: Université d’Artois (Arras, France), 24-26 September 2025

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Panels Sponsored by the American Theatre and Drama Society  

The following panels are seeking papers for presentation at the Comparative Drama Conference July 9-11, 2025 at the London Academy for Music & Dramatic Art.  

Abstracts are invited for the ICSSR Sponsored Three-Day International Conference "Urban Metamorphoses: Understanding the Dynamics and Diversity of South Asian Cities" at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IISER Bhopal.

*Conference dates: 27 February–01 March 2025

Conference Venue: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, INDIA

ICSSR Sponsored Three-Day International Conference

 Urban Metamorphoses: Understanding the Dynamics and Diversity of South Asian Cities

Organised by 

The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IISER Bhopal

Date:

27 February-01 March 2025

Venue: IISER Bhopal

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 5 December, 2024

1. About the Conference: 

The London Arts-Based Research Centre
Modernism Remodelled 2025
A Transdisciplinary Conference

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/modernism-remodelled-2025/

Date: March 8-10, 2025

Where:
March 8-9: In person participation at Cambridge University & online
March 10: Fully online

Call for Papers
Cost:        185 GBP (in person)
100 GBP (Online)
Abstract: Deadline December 15, 2024
Abstract form on: https://forms.gle/9TWGPbStYzTTqEvD9

CFP: Werner Herzog, Film Director:

A Multidisciplinary Collection

Proposals due December 31, 2024

OVERVIEW:

Call for Papers – CLOSURE: Journal of Comics Studies #12 (November 2025)

Thematic Section: »Queer Comics«

Open Call for Submissions

The e-journal CLOSURE will once again provide a platform for all facets of comic studies in its twelfth issue, to be published in Fall 2025. From cultural, visual, and media studies to social and natural sciences, and beyond, CLOSURE invites essays and academic reviews that engage with the »state of the comic«. Whether in-depth analysis, comic theory, or innovative new approaches—for the open topic section, we welcome diverse contributions from the interdisciplinary field of comics research.

Adaptation is the leading international, peer-reviewed journal of adaptation studies. The journal actively contributes to the development and visibility of adaptation studies as a field of academic enquiry and seeks to advance methodological approaches to the process.

Special Issue Editor: Reto Winckler (City University of Hong Kong)

Deadline for Submissions: 31 August 2025

Scope