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Special Panel on Preternatural Undeath in Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Feb 19-22, Albuquerque, New Mexico
In the last couple of decades, our embodied actions with others have become increasingly more fluid and disentangled from fixed/static contexts so much so that the materiality of social life has been filtered through texts produced in a variety of semiotic resources that bind people together while keeping them apart. By further blurring online/offline boundaries, the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the long-lasting mediatization of social life leading to a reconceptualization of phenomena such as corporeality and matter and their relationship with both virtual and physical environments.
This new issue takes as its starting point Joy Harjo (Creek Muscogee)’s observation that “‘reinventing’ in the colonizer’s tongue and turning those images around to mirror an image of the colonized to the colonizers as a process of decolonization indicates that something is happening, something is emerging and coming into focus that will politicize as well as transform literary expression” (Harjo et al. 1998, 22). Postcolonial and Indigenous authors often appropriate the Western Literary canon, both in terms of form, language, and cultural elements in order to foreground their epistemologies and histories.
We welcome papers for our ECSAS panel on Muslim Counterpublics in the Indian Nation-state Public Sphere which will bring together emerging and advanced scholars of Muslim identity in South Asia in the context of the nation-state public sphere. We wish to explore the deep history and contemporary imaginings of Muslimness from the vantage point of songs, music and sound, literary studies, history, anthropology, dastangoi, oral historiography, and cinema. We aim to shed light on the multiperspectival and pan-national Muslim identification process as it also intersects with ideas of ideological homogenisation, modernity, and religious revivalism.
Sacred Journeys 12th Global Conference: Canberra, Australia
June 3-6, 2025. Venue: Australian Center for Christianity and Culture, Ngunnawal Country. Sponsored by the Indiana University Events and Tourism Institute (ETI), in partnership with the Sacred Journeys Project, and Réseau québécois pour les études pèlerines/ Quebec Network for Pilgrimage Studies, Laval University. Hosted by Rev’d Cameron West, Defence Anglicans, Australia.
Call for Papers
Narratives of health resilience: Prescribed confinement, forced displacement, and the stakes of global climate change
The So What welcomes proposals for short, public-facing pieces engaging with Netflix’s The Decameron for a special issue of TSW planned for web publication in late 2025.
We are interested in critical, pedagogical, and creative pieces that explore the Netflix series from a wide variety of angles and approaches, including: plague studies, the history of medicine and science, premodern critical race studies, gender and sexuality studies, disability studies, adaptation theory, and so on. We particularly welcome pieces that consider how the series helps us think more about our own time, including but not limited to:
How pandemics (re)shape art and the world;
Esoterrorism, Occult Conspiracy, and Magical Treason: Political Demonology and Demonic Politics in Popular Culture
The Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic for the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association invites paper proposals for a special panel on the intersections of demonology and politics in popular culture.
We are seeking a limited number of essays to complete an edited collection exploring the connections between the gothic genre and literary modernism. Inspired by the work of scholars such as Sam Wiseman, Linda Dryden, David Punter, and the late John Paul Riquelme, this collection will consider how and why gothic elements such as dark doubles, the uncanny, the return of the repressed, haunted spaces, etc. enter modernist writing.
Call for papers
15th CIPA International Conference: “The arts under constraints”
Date: October 8-9, 2025
Place: University of Liège
Organization: UR Traverses/CIPA
The Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North is an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate students (masters and doctoral level) and early career researchers working in the broad field of medieval northern studies, held every April in Reykjavík, Iceland. Students who have not given papers at an academic conference before are especially encouraged to submit. The conference will be held April 10th-12th, 2025, online and in-person at Háskóli Íslands.
This conference seeks proposals on the theme of “Other Things.”
CALL FOR PAPERS
II Conference on Feminisms and Humour: Humour-Sofías
(14-16 May 2025)
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
The University of Santiago de Compostela invites proposals of papers or posters for the Second International Conference on Feminisms and Humour: Humour-Sofías. The conference, supported by the Instituto de las Mujeres, will take place from May 14-16, 2025 in the Philosophy Department. In order to reflect collectively on humour’s feminist potential, we encourage the following topics:
- Philosophical approaches to humour
- Political Strategies of Humour: Subversion and Power
Minority groups are often underrepresented in official archives, which has resulted in their continuing marginalization in historiography. Critical archive scholars argue for empowering such groups by developing and investigating archival collections. This symposium intends to expand this approach by demonstrating how the visual practices of underrepresented groups can be studied through underutilized data sources. To this end, the symposium will focus on indigenous, black, and diaspora communities seen through their visual production, with the presumption that the vernacular representations of everyday life can provide substantial insights into evolving minority identities.
August 4-6, 2025
Southern Utah University - Utah Shakespeare Festival
The Wooden O Symposium is a cross-disciplinary conference exploring the impact of Shakespeare's plays on culture and history, from his time to the present. This face-to-face conference aims to foster research in the field of Shakespeare Studies and to provide connections between academia and professional theatre productions through our partnership with the Utah Shakespeare Festival.
We invite paper and panel proposals on any topic relating to Shakespeare and his plays, including:
Special Panel CFP: The Omniversal Occult
Multiverses, Alternate Timelines, and Parallel Realities of Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic in Popular Culture
The Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic for the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association invites proposals for a special panel or panel series for its conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this February 19-22, 2025:
This is an in-person conference which will take place at the University of Cincinnati on Friday, February 28th, 2025. Graduate students from any specialty are welcome to submit.
Fredric Jameson as Marxist Educator
Special issue of the journal Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
Edited by: Dr. Tyson E. Lewis
Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to invite submissions for the 11th Graduate Conference in Political Theory, organised at Sciences Po in Paris, France, which will be held on May 19th-20th, 2025. This year, our theme is “Ethics and Politics”, focusing on the complex intersections between ethical concerns and political frameworks in contemporary societies.
We are honoured to welcome Professor Nancy Fraser as our keynote speaker, a leading voice in critical social theory, whose work has significantly influenced debates on justice, democracy, and the ethics of public life.
Call for Papers: ‘Before, After and Beyond: Prequels and Sequels in Literature, Arts and Culture’
A Special Issue of Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-adaptation-in-film-performance#call-for-papers
Edited by Annamária Fábián and Márta Minier
Call for Book Chapters for an Edited Volume
Perfect Adaptations.
Perfetti sconosciuti (2016)Between Remake, Translation, Adaptation and Tradaptation
Co-Editors: Gianluca Fantoni and Armando Rotondi
Technology and film labour: crafting the look of the film
Investigating the impacts of technological change on below the line film labour.
DEADLINE EXTENDED – FRIDAY DECEMBER 6TH
Call for Papers
The Centre for Creative Technologies, University of Galway
May 22nd and 23rd 2025
Shakespeare-Seminar | CFP Shakespeare-Tage | Weimar 2025
CFP SHAKESPEARE-SEMINAR 2025:
SHAKESPEARE AND POPULAR CULTURES
If you find Hamlet difficult, ask him to tea. He is a highbrow. Ask Ophelia to meet him. She is a lowbrow. Talk to them, as you talk to me, and you will know more about Shakespeare than all the middlebrows in the world can teach you.
Virginia Woolf, Collected Essays II
Call for Book Proposals
Peter Lang Book Series
Theatre of the Marginalised: Dalit and Adivasi Performance Traditions in South Asia
"Generations and Generational Time in the United States During the Long Nineteenth Century"
Lille University, June 12-13, 2025
Call for Papers
Editors Evdokia Stefanopoulou and Yannis Mazarakis invite book chapter proposals for a scholarly collection entitled Contemporary Women Filmmakers and Posthumanism. Edinburgh University Press has expressed interest in publishing the book.
Call for Papers, African American Literature at CEA 2025
March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
215.561.7500
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on African American Literature for our 54th annual conference in Philadelphia, March 27-29, 2025.
Conference Theme: Freedom
Call for Abstracts: 8th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education
Dates: May 22 - 23, 2025
Venue: ARCOTEL Wimberger Wien, Neubaugürte, 34-36, 1070, Vienna, Austria
CPD Accreditation
As a Certified CPD Accredited Provider (Provider Number #785414), this conference offers 12 CPD credit hours, providing attendees with valuable recognition for their professional development. Verification is available at https://thecpdregister.com/view/eurasia-conferences-816429.
Deadline for Proposals: December 1
Session: 2:00 pm (Central) January 17, online via Zoom
The Arthurian Tradition(s) is often most students’ first and only exposure to the Middle Ages. Exposure often comes from films that students have seen: Fuqua’s King Arthur (2004), Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017), and Lowery’s Green Knight (2021). What students learn from a course or unit on the Arthurian Tradition(s) is often very different from filmed depictions. This session seeks papers that explore issues, opportunities, and innovations in teaching the Arthurian Traditions(s). We welcome all aspects of teaching Arthuriana.
Proposal Submission Deadline: January 10, 2025
Join us in New Orleans, LA, on April 11
Delgado Community College is excited to host the 2025 Louisiana Gateway English & Math Success Symposium (LaGEMSS). This symposium invites educators, administrators, and practitioners to share innovative practices, research, and strategies to improve student success in gateway English and Mathematics courses.
Symposium Tracks
LaGEMSS welcomes proposals that focus on the following areas:
Crip and Queer Intimacies
Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture (https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters)
(Issue 16, 2026)
University of Lodz, Poland
Co-Editors of the issue:
Kateřina Kolářová, PhD (Charles University)
Katarzyna Ojrzyńska, PhD (University of Lodz)