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CfP: Sensing Euphoric and Dysphoric Atmospheres (JFCIA)

updated: 
Monday, June 9, 2025 - 6:56am
Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

 Call for Journal Articles Now Open  Sensing Euphoric and Dysphoric Atmospheres (Volume 4) Following our symposium, we invite authors to submit papers for publication consideration. 

 

Our fifth annual online event addressed the theme of ‘sensing euphoric and dysphoric atmospheres’ in festive, celebratory, and ritual cultures. Taking an embodied perspective, we seek journal articles that focus on the role of corporeal perception in making sense of lived experience.

Call for Reviews (JFCIA)

updated: 
Monday, June 9, 2025 - 6:25am
Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Call for Reviews

 

For 2025 Journal Publication

We are pleased to announce a call for reviews for Volume 4 of our journal to be published in 2025.

 

Making, Remaking, and Limitations (JFCIA)

updated: 
Monday, June 9, 2025 - 6:21am
Festival Culture Research and Education
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Journal Articles(Volume 5)Call for PapersMaking, Remaking, and Limitations  Following our symposium, we invite authors to submit papers for publication consideration. 

 

During our sixth annual online event, we discussed 'making, remaking, and limitations' in festive, celebratory, and ritual cultures. Our questions focused on: How and why do people continue to make and remake culture? In what ways do they experience limitations when making and remaking culture, if any? What is the significance of the making and remaking of culture and whom is it for?

CfP: Food Fest, Feasts, and Gatherings

updated: 
Monday, June 9, 2025 - 6:05am
Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 30, 2026

Food fests, feasts, and gatherings address the role of food in events, gatherings, celebrations, and ceremonies. Exploring how people incorporate ideas about food into festival culture, including history, heritage, tradition, creativity, and social and political factors. 

In addition, it examines festivals in which food is not the main focus, yet contributes significantly to the atmosphere, memory, and tradition. It also looks at people's fascination with taste. In addition to examining these notions, we will also examine trends in the consumption and production of food.

Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People

updated: 
Monday, June 9, 2025 - 4:56am
University of Münster
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People An online conference hosted by the University of Münster
11-12 February 2026

In January 2025, just four days into the new Trump administration, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced that they had ended the so-called “Book Ban Hoax” by dismissing 11 pending civil rights complaints related to book bans in public schools and eliminating the position of Book Ban Coordinator – a position created by the Biden administration to address intellectual freedom violations in schools and federally-funded institutions.

Adaptation and Terry Pratchett--Essay Collection

updated: 
Sunday, June 8, 2025 - 3:07pm
Anne Hiebert Alton & William C. Spruiell
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

We invite proposals for an edited collection of essays on Adaptation and the work of Terry Pratchett. The book proposal will be submitted to Palgrave Macmillan or Bloomsbury Academic’s Perspectives on Fantasy series in the Spring of 2026. 

Call for paper: Research in Contemporary World Literature

updated: 
Sunday, June 8, 2025 - 11:58am
Dr. Ali Salami, University of Tehran
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Research in Contemporary World Literature (RCWL) invites submissions for upcoming issues. As a leading international journal committed to cutting-edge scholarship published by the University of Tehran, RCWL publishes double-blind, peer-reviewed research on modern and contemporary literary production across global contexts, with a primary focus on literature emerging after 1945.

Originally founded in 1994 as Journal of Foreign Languages and reconstituted in its current form, RCWL has evolved into a vital platform for the exploration of literary texts, movements, and theories that traverse cultural, linguistic, and disciplinary boundaries.

Body,Time and Digital Technology

updated: 
Saturday, June 7, 2025 - 10:45am
University of Cyprus, Department of English Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 23, 2025

Call for Papers

Body, Time, and Digital Technology

2-3 October 2025, Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus

Call for Papers on "Confinement and Freedom"

updated: 
Friday, June 6, 2025 - 2:16pm
Arkansas Philological Association Conference 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

 

Call for Papers: “Confinement and Freedom”

2025 Arkansas Philological Association Conference

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Nov. 14-15, 2025

 

Critical Thinking and Writing

updated: 
Friday, June 6, 2025 - 9:21am
Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing has moved to a rolling publication model and is now inviting submissions for Volume 13 (2025). DH publishes a range of scholarly work--from research articles to notes--on writing and critical thinking pedagogy. For more information about DH, please visit the journal at the WAC Clearinghouse of Colorado State University: https://wac.colostate.edu/double-helix/.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Refocus: The Films of Leos Carax

updated: 
Friday, June 6, 2025 - 6:49am
James Slaymaker (Trinity College Dublin), Edinburgh University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Across a career spanning over 40 years, French-born filmmaker Leos Carax has firmly established himself as one of the most unique and innovative voices in modern European cinema. After a period writing criticism for Cahiers du Cinéma while he was still a teenager, Carax released his debut film Boy Meets Girl (1984) at age 23 to international acclaim. Carax followed up on this early promise with the futuristic neo-noir Mauvais Sang (1986), the romantic drama Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), and the Herman Melville adaptation Pola X (1999).

50th Anniversary of Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon: A New Collection of Essays

updated: 
Thursday, June 5, 2025 - 5:31pm
Jericho Williams / University of Alaska Fairbanks
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 11, 2025

2027 will be the 50th anniversary of Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison’s third novel and one of the author’s more popular books alongside The Bluest Eye and Beloved.

This forthcoming volume of essays will provide new readings of the novel for high school and undergraduate readers just in time to celebrate Song of Solomon’s 50th anniversary. 

It seeks to advance Morrison studies and foster critical appreciation of the novel, especially in light of new directions in literary criticism since 2010.

Memory and Reparation: Healing the Past for a Better Present and Future

updated: 
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 7:34pm
University at Buffalo (UB) Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

We invite papers that explore the theme of memory and reparation, and demonstrate the interconnectedness of the past, present, and future by focusing on any of the four spheres of reparation: economic, political, cultural, and psychological.

Please send your 200-word abstract in French or English to sawuni@crimson.ua.edu ( Sawel Awuni)  and to ldjamess@iu.edu (Lolonyo Djamessi)  , along with the title of the paper, your email, your institutional affiliation, and a brief one-paragraph bio. Please send your submission by September 30. Thank you!

Contemporary Ekphrasis: Call for Papers

updated: 
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 7:34pm
Leo Bussi, University of Glasgow
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Ekphrasis, the verbal representation of visual representation, is one of art’s oldest preoccupations. Over the past decade, we have seen a rise in both ekphrastic poetry and visual art that responds to poetry. Concurrently, there has been a new wave of interest in the efficacy and function of ekphrasis, that focuses on its role as a type of creative practice and a way of thinking through aesthetic judgement. Despite all this activity, no formal consideration of the field of ekphrasis itself has emerged. As such, we are holding a cross-disciplinary symposium on contemporary ekphrasis called ‘Ek’.

Hybrid 08 Call for Abstracts: IMITATION

updated: 
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 7:34pm
Hybrid Journal, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Hybrid 08: IMITATION | Call for Abstracts 

Deadline: June 24, 2025

https://www.indusvalley.edu.pk/research-and-publications

Copy That! – Hybrid 08 Seeks Abstracts on ‘Imitation’ 

Hybrid, the annual peer-reviewed journal published by the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, invites submissions for Volume 8 centered on the theme ‘Imitation.’  


 

REMINDER - call for book chapters: Fans, Fandoms, and TTRPGs

updated: 
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 7:33pm
Fans, Fandoms, and Tabletop Roleplaying Games
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Call for Book Chapters -- Fans, Fandoms, and Tabletop Roleplaying Games deadline for submissions: June 15, 2025 full name / name of organization: Fans, Fandoms, and Tabletop Roleplaying Games contact email: fans.fandoms.and.ttrpgs@gmail.com 

Call for Book Chapters
on Fans, Fandoms, and Tabletop Roleplaying Games

 


Deadline for submissions: Sunday, June 15, 2025

Contact email:fans.fandoms.and.ttrpgs@gmail.com 

 

Editors: 

Maria K. Alberto, University of Utah

Adrianna Burton, University of California – Irvine

Alternate Epistemologies: Esoteric Knowledge & Conspiracism

updated: 
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 7:33pm
Robert Spinelli/Independent Scholar
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference 2025

This panel will discuss the historical and contemporary relevance of alternative sources and ways of knowing. From Gnostic spirituality and ancient traditions to the 19th century spiritualist movement, secret organizations and conspiracy theories, esoteric knowledge has always stood in stark contrast to traditional means of information gathering and learning. Rather than debunk or ridicule, we will attempt to understand the fascination with alternative ways of knowing and determine the significance of what it means to promote beliefs and thought processes that speak to those who do not find satisfaction with mainstream thought.

Herkimer County 250th Commission Semi-Quincentennial Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 7:33pm
Herkimer College/Herkimer County 250th Commission
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Call for Papers
Herkimer County 250th Commission Semi-Quincentennial Conference
Theme: Liberty and the American Revolution
 April 24–26, 2026
 Herkimer College, 100 Reservoir Road, Herkimer, NY 13350
Conference Director: Sharon Powell, Herkimer College
 Conference Fee: TBD
 Proposal Deadline: December 31, 2025

Call for Submissions: “ Test Tube Theatre ” – An Anthology of One-Minute Plays Inspired by Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World Brave New World

updated: 
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 7:33pm
Fresh Words-An International Literary Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 12, 2025

Call for Submissions: “ Test Tube Theatre  ” – An Anthology of One-Minute Plays Inspired by Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World Brave New World

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/home

Email: dramaanthologyfreshwords@gmail.com

Last date of submission: July 12, 2025

 

“Everyone belongs to everyone else.”

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus (Guest-edited special issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 7:33pm
Bandung: Journal of the Global South (De Gruyter Brill)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

Special Issue

Bandung: Journal of the Global South (De Gruyter Brill)

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus

 

Debajyoti Biswas (lead guest editor)

Associate Professor,

Department of English, Bodoland University, Kokrajhar, India

Email:  deb61594@gmail.com ; debajyotibiswas.bu@gmail.com

 

Pak Nung Wong

Editor-in-Chief, Bandung: Journal of the Global South,

Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies,

University of Bath, Bath, UK

Poetry in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Symposium

updated: 
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 7:33pm
Case Western Reserve Department of English
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Poetry in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Symposium

Case Western Reserve University 

Friday, October 31, 2025

 

Keynote Speaker: Roland Greene, Stanford University

ADE Bulletin Special Issue on Succession Planning

updated: 
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 7:33pm
ADE Bulletin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

ADE Bulletin Special Issue on Succession Planning: Call for Papers

Timeline:

  • Abstracts due 9/1/2025

  • Essays due 8/2026

Inter- and Transcultural Heritage. Conflicts, Overlaps, Coexistence

updated: 
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 4:36pm
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 20, 2025

November 6-7, 2025

Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, as part of the FORTHEM Alliance, invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit proposals for the upcoming Cultural Heritage Lab International Conference, dedicated to exploring cultural heritage within, across, and beyond the European Union’s borders. This year’s theme investigates the dynamics of intercultural, interethnic, and social interactions—especially in regions where boundaries (geographical, political, linguistic, or symbolic) are fluid and contested.

The Problem of Social Justice: Global Perspectives and Personal Narratives

updated: 
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 8:48am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 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

Teaching Social Justice in the World Literature Classroom: An edited collection on the theory and practice of teaching world literary texts with a focus on social justice

updated: 
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - 7:38pm
Department of English, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 20, 2025

Editors: 

Dr. Manzur Alam and Dr. Tanja Stampfl 

Contact Emails: malam@uiwtx.edu; stampfl@uiwtx.edu

Important Dates:

  • Extended Deadline for Abstract Submission: June 20th, 2025
  • Notification of Acceptance: June 30th, 2025
  • Submission deadline for the full articles and case studies: January 10th, 2026

Overview:

Marianne Moore Generations Conference 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - 5:06pm
Stanford Humanities Center
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Call for Papers: Marianne Moore Generations Conference
October 23 and 24, 2025

Organizing Committee: Jon Tadmor (Stanford), Celine Shanosky (Harvard)
Speakers: Elizabeth Gregory (University of Houston), Virginia Jackson (UCI), Cristanne Miller (University at Buffalo SUNY) 
Location: Stanford Humanities Center

The Marianne Moore Generations Conference is an invitation to join in consideration of one poet in the broadest sense, and with a spirit of experiment. How does Moore contribute, or not contribute, to a variety of fields and approaches within literary studies? How might this poet be carried forward? 

John le Carré

updated: 
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - 4:09pm
Adam Parkes / SAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

This panel will consider the spy fiction of John le Carré in relation to the SAMLA conference theme of "Knowledge."  Possible topics: intelligence and information; secrets and secrecy; the security state; surveillance; paranoia; moles; betrayal and treason.  

This panel will consider the spy fiction of John Le Carré.  Proposals are welcome on a wide range of topics related to Le Carré’s fiction and adaptations for film and television.  Some possible topics: intelligence and information; secrets and secrecy; the security state; surveillance; paranoia; moles; treason.

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