Editors:

• Dr. Muhsin Yanar, Visiting Researcher, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, Birkbeck, University of London
• Dr. Grace Halden, Senior Lecturer, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
• Dr. Pelin Kümbet, Department of Literatures in English, Visiting Researcher, Cornell University
• Dr. Russell Kilbourn, Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

 contact email:

sciencesandfictions@gmail.com

 Presentation

Deadline now extended to December 14, 2024.

[W]e need to contest this understanding of emotion as ‘the unthought’, just as we need to contest the assumption that ‘rational thought’ is unemotional…
Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

CAPS (formerly CACLALS) 2025 from June 1 to 3, 2025
Proposals due: January 15, 2025

Keynote Speakers: TBA

Conference Theme: Postcolonial Studies, Sustainability, and Shared Futures

The Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies (formerly CACLALS) will host its annual conference from June 1 to 3, 2025, at (TBA) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The editors of Translation Review are inviting submissions. We are particularly interested translations of contemporary international writers into English and submissions that discuss the process and practical challenges of translating.

We would also be happy to consider and interviews with translators, manuscripts that address the concept of translation in the visual and musical arts (intersemiotic or multimodal translations), as well as submissions that address issues of machine translation, AI translations, and translation in the digital age in general. Proposals for special issues are also welcome.

Call For Papers

The 2nd International Conference on Global Plant Humanities

Date of Conference: 2–3 May 2025 (Friday-Saturday)

Mode:                         Hybrid

Host:                           Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Partners:                    Nulungu Institute, University of Notre Dame, Australia

Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya (affiliated with the University of Calcutta)

Gifts from the Sentient Forest (project supported by the Kone Foundation, Finland)

Location:                    Kathmandu, Nepal

On behalf of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities, we invite all interested parties to submit proposals for the annual conference, hosted at George Brown College in Toronto this summer as part of the 2025 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. 

Call for Submissions 

The Janovics Center Award for Outstanding Humanities Research in Transnational Film and Theatre Studies 

The Janovics Center for Screen and Performing Arts Studies and the Faculty of Theatre and Film at Babes-Bolyai University invite submissions for their annual award for outstanding humanities research in transnational film and theatre studies. The award will be offered to contributions in the fields of film or theatre studies. The award consists of an invitation to give a talk at the Center and an honorarium.  

The Fantastical Constellations After Magical Realism research  group (formerly known as Post-Magical Realist Worlds) of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association (CCLA) invites submissions to our sessions in the upcoming CCLA 2025 Conference taking place June 7-9, 2025 at Trent University, Peterborough/Nogojiwanong, Ontario and online.  

The conference, entitled “Comparative Literature Off-Kilter,” considers “our often off-kilter positionality in (and out of) academia,” and the precarity of the balancing act of comparison. We are asked to conceive the conference “as a playground on which marginal practices, thoughts, works and formats can form revolutionary friendships.”

We are pleased to invite proposals from UK-based postgraduate and early-career researchers to participate in a twelve-person, interdisciplinary research workshop, ‘Genres of Revolt: Cultural Afterlives of 1848’, to be held on 12-13 June 2025, at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge.

In the history of revolutions, 1848 has often stood as a marker of utopian aspirations—but also a symbol of thwarted hopes. More recently, vibrant scholarly debates on the significance of this crucial year have begun to prompt a new reckoning and to revise a longstanding consensus that the revolutions simply ‘failed’, in part by looking beyond the European scene alone.

Perspectives in Architecture and Urbanism

Call for Papers: Studies in Materialistic Historiography

Virtual issue

Guest Editor: K. Michael Hays

The Eighth Biennial Conference of the Defoe Society

Discoveries and Improvements, 1660-1740
Thursday, July 3 – Saturday, July 5, 2025 (Keele University, Staffordshire, U.K.)

The Octavia E. Butler Literary Society invites prospective participants to submit proposals on any aspect of Butler’s life and work. This year, we especially encourage papers and panels that engage with her any of her work and/or her archives. We welcome both full panel proposals and individual papers.

Submit proposals to:
Kendra R. Parker
Email: oebliterarysociety@gmail.com

Proposal Deadlines:

• Preferred: December 15, 2024
• Final: January 13, 2025

Please include the following in your submission:

Call for Papers: Special Issue, The Comparatist

Topic: Failure

General Editor: Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College)

The professional journey of children’s and young adult literature scholars, librarians, and educators often involves significant transitions. These transitions present unique opportunities and challenges, often requiring redefinition of identity, reevaluation of goals, and the navigation of new professional landscapes. For this year’s “Building a Career Panel,” the Membership Committee invites proposals for an interactive workshop panel that explores the diverse experiences of career transitions within the field of children’s and young adult literature.