MLA 2026 Toronto, January 8-11: Melville and the Law

July 15-17, 2025

Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania

The Ink Tide Writing Prize 2025

Fresher Publishing, in association with Bad Hand Coffee Roasters, are delighted to announce the launch of the Ink Tide Writing Prize, a short story competition open to all undergraduate students from around the world!

The winner of this contest will win a £200 cash prize and they, along with all short-listed entries, will see their work published in The Ink Tide Writing Prize anthology!

The competition is judged by experienced writer, artist, and educator Emma Scattergood, and runs between 17th February and 16th April 2025.

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.

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.

Call for Papers – IEEE AI Standard 2025

"Advancing AI Standardization & Quality Assurance"

Exciting News! Submissions are now open for IEEE AI-Standard 2025 - The IEEE Conference on AI Standardization and Quality Assurance. The conference serves as a global platform for AI researchers, industry leaders, policymakers, and technology developers to discuss and shape the future of AI standardization, governance, and quality assurance.

This is a call for a Special Topics Panel to be held at the Modern Language Association Conference in Toronto, January 8-11, 2026.

Agnotology, the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt, has emerged as a critical lens through which to examine the production, dissemination, and contestation of knowledge within various spheres of human expression. This interdisciplinary panel seeks to investigate the intersections of agnotology with literature, culture, and the arts, and to explore how these fields both reflect and contribute to the construction of ignorance and uncertainty.

We welcome proposals for papers that engage with the following topics (but are not limited to):

“Whatever his personal beliefs, Shakespeare is in the most important sense of the word a religious writer: not a proponent of any particular religion, but a writer who is aware, and makes his spectators aware, of the mystery of things.”

-Stanley Wells, Shakespeare: For All Time 

This is a call for chapter proposals on the late Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days reality TV series (2005-08) on the FX Channel for the FX Reader, an anthology of FX's best original TV series, which is under a two-volume book contract with Syracuse University Press.  In each 30 Days episode, Spurlock, or some other person or group of people, would spend 30 days immersing themselves in a particular lifestyle or environment with which they are not familiar, which include such topics as working for minimum wage, being in prison, a Christian living as a Muslim, and others.

Contemporary African literature is an effective medium through which the continent’s dynamic realities are articulated. From postcolonial identity crises and political disillusionment to gender dynamics, migration, and the impact of globalization, African writers and creatives continue to provide nuanced explorations of the African condition. These narratives do not merely reflect societal issues but also challenge stereotypes, redefine cultural identities, and contribute to global literary discourse. The diversity of voices in African literature—ranging from established authors to emerging voices—offers rich analytical opportunities to understand how literature and arts engage with evolving African realities.

Kente: Cape Coast Journal of Literature and the Arts invites scholars, researchers, and literary critics to contribute to a Special Issue focusing on the representation of climate and environmental issues in African literature. As climate change poses significant challenges worldwide, African communities face unique environmental impacts, including desertification, flooding, and resource conflicts. These experiences are increasingly reflected in African literary works, offering nuanced perspectives on ecological crises, cultural adaptations, and social resilience.

Comparative Cinema - Call For Papers Nº 25 (Winter 2025)
The Body Without Limit: The "Monstrous-Feminine" in Spanish Cinema

CFP From the European South, 19, Fall 2026

Special Issue: Dark Tourism in Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Contexts: Topographies of Suffering, Narrative Constructions and the Consumption of Place(s) 

Guest Editors: Eleonora Federici (University of Ferrara) and Marilena Parlati (University of Padova)

This guaranteed session sponsored by the Screen Arts and Culture Forum considers films that engage the idea of film history. Possibilities: films that sample other cinematic works, retell or revise cinematic history, or theorize archives.

Submit 350 word abstracts and 50 word bios by March 15.