Singles have been and continue to be regarded as anomalies and threats to the social order in the United States and elsewhere (Moran). Within the humanities, the growing interdisciplinary field of Singles Studies builds on scholarship in queer theory and gender and women’s studies to highlight the evolution of relationships that fall outside the structure of traditional marriage and the nuclear family to include singlehood and other types of intimate relationships that do not revolve around these conventional models. As more people opt toward relationship models and orientations that do not involve marriage, it is important that scholarship in the humanities reflect this revolutionary thinking.

10th Annual Post45 Graduate Symposium

University of Michigan

March 14-15, 2025

Submission deadline: October 21, 2024

Call for Papers:

The departments of American Culture, Communication and Media, Digital Studies, and English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor are thrilled to host the 1oth annual Post45 Graduate Symposium on March 14-15, 2025.

The Hulu adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale has enjoyed unprecedented academic and popular international success, with the first season winning eight out of thirteen Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Elizabeth Moss. Therefore, there will be a variety of papers presented, from the fields of literature, language, film studies, and fashion, by postgraduate students and academics at various stages in their career. The Symposium is supported by research funding by Northumbria University and represents two research groups, ‘Gendered Subjects’ and ‘Modern and Contemporary Writings’. It is also endorsed by The Margaret Atwood Society.

Pleasure and / in Historical Fictions

One-Day Online Workshop of the Historical Fictions Research Network

30 November 2024 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)

15 min talks

The Historical Fictions Research Network, an interdisciplinary and international network of scholars examining historical fictions, i.e. narratives of the past in a variety of popular media, is happy to organise its second one-day workshop on the topic of “Pleasure and / in Historical Fictions”.

Looking for scholars in game studies and or medievalisms to submit papers to our panel at the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies, at Western Michigan University, May 8 - May 11, 2025. See CfP below. Submissions can be made at https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=5919

Rædy Player One: Participation, Subjectivity, and the First-Person in Medievalist Games

Organizer: Antonia DiNardo

Delivery Mode: In-Person

Principal Sponsoring Organization: Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS), Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill

Frontier Mythology and Poverty, 1885 to 1923: Reading the Dark Side of the Progressive Era explores the complex relationship between the rise of frontier mythology and the acceptance of social inequality in America. This interdisciplinary collection under considertion by Vernon Press explores how western mythology, spread through popular media, may have eclipsed late 19th-century movements for equity, such as the Knights of Labor's efforts to promote racial and gender equality, alongside workers' rights.

Presentations are invited on any subject concerning the intersection of Irish culture and the humanities, provided its source is located outdoors and it functions as a free, democratic, inclusive space. Possible topics include the Irish busker tradition, street art, outdoor sculptures, walking tours, parks and greenspaces, cemeteries, memorials – even the recent Dublin-New York Portal. 

Panel for the 2025 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) annual meeting (online, May 29 - June 1, 2025).

Organizers: Ragini Chakraborty (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and Sofía Forchieri (Radboud University)

Deadline for proposing a paper: October 14, 2024

To propose a paper, please visit the ACLA website: https://www.acla.org/annual-meeting (the portal for submitting an abstract will open on September 13)

Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research

 ISSN: 2342-2009

Issue 2025/1

Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal published online twice a year. Fafnir is a completely open-access, non-profit publication of the Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research (FINFAR). Fafnir publishes various texts ranging from peer-reviewed research articles to short overviews and book reviews in the field of science fiction and fantasy research.

Submissions are invited for a scholarly conference on domestic cats in literature to be hosted online 13-15 March 2025 by the Troy University Department of English.  

Papers may address any aspect of the subject, including—but not limited to—the following:

Novel: A Forum on Fiction is accepting submissions. Founded in 1967 at Brown University, Novel is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best new criticism and theory in novel studies. After several decades under the editorship of Nancy Armstrong, Kevin McLaughlin took over as the chief editor in Summer 2023. Novel holds to these general principles:

 International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies (IJHAS)

ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)

https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHASS/Home.html 

Submission System

Scope

International Journal of Information Technology (IJIT) 

https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJIT/Home.html

ISSN : 1834-624N 2974-5962 (Print)

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Journal of Postcolonial Writing

Special Issue on

Decolonial Hope: Planetary Sustainability, Solidarity, and Transformation

Link to the CFP on the journal's website: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/decolonial-hope-planet...

Special Issue Editor(s)

Goutam Karmakar, Durban University of Technology, South Africa