Graduate Journal of Food StudiesSpecial Issue: Food and Loss

Loss permeates our lives, shaping our relationships with food, culture, and each other. How does the experience of loss transform our food systems, traditions, and identities? From ecological devastation to personal grief, food is inextricably tied to how we process and remember what has been lost.

Cadernos de Fraseoloxía Galega (CFG), an international journal on phraseological and paremiological research edited by Centro Ramón Piñeiro para a Investigación en Humanidades (Xunta de Galicia), is seeking submissions of contributions for its twenty-seventh issue, concerning the topics covered in the Imago Mundi. An Overview of Metaphor: Creativity, Phraseology and Discourse conference held in Cagliari in 2024, that is, metaphor and imagery, but also subjects related to phraseology or paremiology: for instance, idiomatic, metaphorical, graphic, conceptual and cultural phraseology.

Working Title - Planet Flanagan: Essays on the Netflix Series of Mike Flanagan

Mike Flanagan has steadily made a significant name for himself in horror, garnering praise for his originality in films such as Oculus (2013) and Hush (2016), and further critical acclaim for works like Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Gerald’s Game (2017) and especially his adaptation of Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep (2019).

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Call for Papers: IEEE QSW 2025
2025 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON QUANTUM SOFTWARE (QSW 2025)
PART OF THE 2025 IEEE WORLD CONGRESS ON SERVICES (SERVICES 2025)

When and Where: July 7-12, 2025 in Helsinki, Finland
Website: https://services.conferences.computer.org/2025/qsw/
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ABOUT IEEE QSW 2025 AND IEEE SERVICES CONGRESS

Call for Submissions
CAMINO REAL. Estudios de las Hispanidades Norteamericanas
El universo de Los Bros Hernández
Guest editors: Ana Merino and Francisco Sáez de Adana
Deadline extended until January 15th, 2025

The new issue of CAMINO REAL. Estudios de las Hispanidades Norteamericanas journal (Year 2025, Issue 20), edited by Ana Merino and Francisco Sáez de Adana, is seeking essays and creative writings that focus on the Universe of The Bros Hernández from all possible perspectives.

“Hawthorne and Food: A Tasty Affair”

CFP for the American Literature Association Conference, May, 2025 in Boston

Call for papers
Frauds & Fakes in Words and Music
University of Richmond, Virginia, May 29–31, 2025

ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025

University of Maryland, College Park

Panel: National Cinemas of Agriculture

This proposed panel at ASLE 2025 seeks proposals that explore the ideal of national cinema in the global landscape, with specific emphasis on the cinematic representations of agriculture, rural life, and their connections to (post)colonial and Indigenous foodways.

***Extended Deadline*** 

Nothing on Leila (1997) please!!!

ReFocus: The International Directors Series, published by Edinburgh University Press invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit papers for a title dedicated to the influential works of Dariush Mehrjui (1939-2023), a seminal figure in Iranian cinema. Known for his profound impact on the New Wave of Iranian cinema, Mehrjui’s films blend social commentary, philosophical inquiry, and aesthetic innovation. This title aims to explore the multifaceted dimensions of Mehrjui’s oeuvre, examining his contributions to film art and his role in shaping Iranian and global cinema.

Topics of Interest

Conference Panel: Faulkner and Digital Yoknapatawpha

The Digital Yoknapatawpha project is organizing a panel for Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2025: “Faulkner’s Bodies”, July 20-24, 2025, Oxford, MS. We are seeking papers from anyone who has used Digital Yoknapatawpha (https://faulkner.iath.virginia.edu/) for their research or in the classroom. The presentation format is open. In years past, presentations have featured:

Special Issue “World Mythology and Ecocriticism: Remembering Nature as a Sacred Teacher”

A special issue of Humanities.

Conference: 23-24 January 2025 (online)

ABOUT CONFERENCE: 

Call for Proposals: "TRANS∗Media”Harvard Graduate Music Forum 2025 ConferenceCambridge, MA | February 28–March 1, 2025 

∗Deadline extended to January 5th, 2025 at 11:59PM!∗

The African American Literature and Culture Society invites abstracts (of no more than
250 words) for presentations at the annual conference of the American Literature
Association (http://americanliteratureassociation.org/). We will also consider a limited
number of panel proposals (of no more than 500 words).