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CFP: Werner Herzog, Film Director:
A Multidisciplinary Collection
Proposals due December 31, 2024
OVERVIEW:
Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature
University College Dublin, Ireland
17-20 June 2025
Keynote Speakers – Prof. Sarah Brouillette (Carleton University)
Prof. Christopher Newfield (Independent Social Research Foundation)
Call for Papers – CLOSURE: Journal of Comics Studies #12 (November 2025)
Thematic Section: »Queer Comics«
Open Call for Submissions
The e-journal CLOSURE will once again provide a platform for all facets of comic studies in its twelfth issue, to be published in Fall 2025. From cultural, visual, and media studies to social and natural sciences, and beyond, CLOSURE invites essays and academic reviews that engage with the »state of the comic«. Whether in-depth analysis, comic theory, or innovative new approaches—for the open topic section, we welcome diverse contributions from the interdisciplinary field of comics research.
The Summer School The Cultural Heritage and Memory of Totalitarianism explores the legacy of Fascism in Italy blending unique in situ visits to art, architecture and historical monuments led by international experts and classes on literature, film and culture led by Sapienza faculty. The goal is to broaden the scholarly assessment of the period and to suggest innovative curricula for students in the humanities, who are also interested in working in museums and cultural institutes in Italy and abroad. The heritage of Fascism in Rome and Italy will be approached in the context of Nazism and Stalinism, and framed within the broader scenario of European colonialism.
Adaptation is the leading international, peer-reviewed journal of adaptation studies. The journal actively contributes to the development and visibility of adaptation studies as a field of academic enquiry and seeks to advance methodological approaches to the process.
Special Issue Editor: Reto Winckler (City University of Hong Kong)
Deadline for Submissions: 31 August 2025
Scope
This collection of essays seeks to explore the many new and cutting-edge directions surrounding the scholarship of Henry V, especially related to global, transnational, and other approaches that connect the play to wider contexts than those in which it has been traditionally read. Henry V is a play that has long been read in terms of internal self-fashioning: both England’s and Henry’s own. What happens to the play as we look outwards from it towards the wider world, both early modern and contemporary, with which it engages? This collection looks to explore how we read Henry V now, both as an artifact of the past and as a living work still available for adaptation, interpretation, and re-use.
Playing Nice: Sincerity and Irony in Television
Edited by Owen Cantrell and Sage Westfall
Deadline for Submission: ASAP
We are urgently looking for at least one more completed essay for this collection under contract with a fast-approaching deadline. Please submit a 300-word abstract for a previously unpublished paper which is already or nearly complete. If accepted, we are looking to review your chapter and edit it within weeks, not months.
Full chapters should be between 6-8K words in length.
Collection details:
Date: May 23 - 25, 2025
Call for Papers | Liminal Prospects
Location: Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario & Online Submissions due: January 8, 2025
The Queen’s Graduate Conference in Literature (QGCL) seeks academic abstracts and creative pieces for its 2025 conference on the theme of “Liminal Prospects.”
Guru Dutt’s films are integral to the golden age of Hindi cinema as they were both critical and commercial successes. In a short career spanning twenty years, Dutt has served as an actor, a director, and a producer. His versatility is testament to a deep understanding of every aspect of filmmaking. Critics contend that contradictory ideas coalesced in his movies. A prominent theme of nationalism is at the heart of Dutt’s oeuvre. While he set out to refashion Indian national identity, Dutt envisioned a utopia for the new nation. Ideologically, Dutt was influenced by Nehruvian socialism, which finds its expression in his selection of subjects and themes. His movies also critiqued the new nation’s failure to afford equal opportunities to every citizen.
American Literature Association / Boston / May 21-24, 2025
This roundtable celebrates the ten-year anniversary of the edited collection Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture. Panelists are invited to reflect on the book's impact and/or to explore the presence and pervasiveness of "undead souths" beyond what the book discusses.
Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies invites submissions for the fourth issue of the journal - a general issue on Literature and Drama Studies.
Indexed by MLA and EBSCO databases.
Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal that serves as a forum for multi- and interdisciplinary discussions across Literature and Drama Studies, providing academicians, scholars, professionals and students with the opportunity to disseminate their research to a diverse audience of peers and professionals.
The second issue aims to cover literary and theatrical works in general.
Call for Papers
ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies
ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies invites submissions for the fifth issue of the journal - a general issue on literature, theatre and culture studies.
This is a call for chapters on specific topics for The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespearean Biofiction, an edited collection which is under contract with Palgrave. The Handbook will be published in 2026. It will be the first book to comprehensively consider the history, state of the art, global cultures, and futures of Shakespeare biofiction; as such, it will be the definitive study of the topic, intervening at a critical juncture of development for this subject matter. Proposals are sought for the following chapters:
DIVEST.
INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOHISTORICAL ASSOCIATION’S 48th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
MAY 23-25, 2025, VIRTUALLY ON ZOOM
THEME: IMAGINING BRIGHTER FUTURES FOR OUR DIVIDED WORLD: WHAT PSYCHOHISTORY CAN CONTRIBUTE
SUBTHEMES: Psychohistorical Insights On
Purdue University Literary, Interdisciplinary, Theory, and Culture Organization Symposium, March 7–8, 2025.
Rediscovery, Reclamation, and Renewal in Literature, Theory, and Culture
Producer, director, and screenwriter Gregg Araki is a pivotal figure in independent film, known for his distinctive style and contributions to New Queer Cinema. Despite his inclusion in such cinematic movement thanks to The Living End (1992), and his rise to fame with the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy (1993-1997), Araki's explorations of a more mainstream style and his incursions in television directing have garnered little critical and academic attention, except for his 2004 adaptation of the novel Mysterious Skin and his win of the first ever Cannes Film Festival Queer Palm in 2010 for his film Kaboom.
La Escuela Nacional Superior de Arte Dramático “Guillermo garte Chamorro” (ENSAD), hoy Universidad de Arte Escénico (UNAE), invita a la comunidad académica dedicada a la crítica y estudio de las artes escénicas a presentar sus artículos de investigación (en castellano y en inglés) para su publicación en la revista Liminal. Los artículos de investigación deben cumplir los estándares y requisitos de publicación de la revista: http://revistas.ensad.edu.pe/index.php/liminal/directrices
Si necesita mayor información puede escribirnos al siguiente correo electrónico: revistas@ensad.edu.pe
Revista Hispánica Moderna is currently seeking special issue proposals. Special issues should explore innovative and significant topics within Hispanic Studies. The journal is particularly interested in proposals that cross temporalities and territories, transversally studying problems that question Modern and Early Modern fields and Iberian, Hispanic and Latin American cultures.
When proposing a Special Issue, please include:
This panel aims to provoke discussion of “trauma” and the critical paradigm that has grown up around it in our time. Especially since the publication of Cathy Caruth’s Unclaimed Experience in 1996, “the traumatic” has grown from a specialist analytic discourse to a catch-all framework that informs how we talk about everything from politics, to art, to personal relationships. In short, the concept of trauma today enjoys a culturally dominant status. In recent years, however, the narrative trope of trauma has served as a target for critics increasingly frustrated with its seeming omnipresence.
Call for Papers for an Edited Collection on Elizabeth (“Lizzie”) Champney
Occult Artifice, Esoteric Intelligence, and Magical Generation
The Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic for the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association invites paper presentation proposals for a special panel investigating intersections between artifice, intelligence, generation and generativity, and esoteric, occult, and magical practices and worldviews.
Psychogeography: Liminal Loci and Haunted Haunts
The Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic invites special panel presentation proposals on the subject of psychogeography to be included in its events at the 46th annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, held this February 19-22 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Set and Setting: Magical Spaces and Places
The Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic invites special panel presentation proposals regarding the role that location plays in operative esoteric, occult, and magical practice. This panel will be included in Area events at the 46th annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, held this February 19-22 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Skenographia: Rethinking Design
Yale University Department of Comparative Literature Graduate Conference
March 28th, 2025
Keynote Speaker: Spyros Papapetros (Princeton University)
What sets a scene apart from a mere place or setting? Etymologically, the term resists simplification to a physical location or continuous action. It encompasses both the material apparatus of the stage and the events unfolding upon it. This oscillation— between object and subject, exterior and interior, self and world—forms a conceptual framework that this conference seeks to apply to the study of design.
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference
BWWC 2025
TRANSFORMATIONS
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
May 15–17, 2025
Hosted by South Dakota State University and The University of South Dakota
Deadline for submission of proposals: December 15, 2024
Walt Whitman and Visual Culture
A special issue of The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (Fall/Winter 1986-1987) first brought together nearly all the known photographs of Whitman, laying the foundation for the Walt Whitman Archive’s Gallery of Images. Whitman wrote about and sat for sculptors and painters, and he has been the inspiration for many art and film projects. In light of this and the recent publication of several illustrated editions of Whitman’s writings, the Whitman Studies Association invites proposals focused on Whitman and any aspect of visual culture. We seek presentations that explore and analyze Whitman and/or his writings in relation to:
Whitman’s Legacies
CFP: The 27th Annual University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group/MRG Conference
“Rethinking Institutions”
The Critical Theory Reading Group/MRG, University of Florida
March 27-29, Gainesville, FL
Keynote speakers: Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks
Nicole LaRose Alumni keynote speaker: Wesley Beal
The 2025 Marxist Reading Group Conference invites submissions for “Rethinking Institutions” to explore the manifold issues endured by global institutions and reimagine the former for the present and future.
Call for abstracts: Ecology and the Art(-ifice) of Attention
A special issue of the journal Environmental Philosophy
General aim of the Special Issue