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PULSE – the Journal of Science and Culture
ISSN 2416-111X
VOL 13 (2026) CALL FOR PAPERS
Zines and STS: The Remix
British cultural production has a long history of foreclosure. Understood as a premature abandonment, or an abortive failure, of radical political projects, foreclosure has an imaginative and material register in working-class writing, which has been read since the 1930s as failing to experiment, relying on realism without meaningful engagement with questions of literary form. This view has been challenged by literary scholars, who have demonstrated that formal experimentation did exist, though not in ways that comfortably align with the usual reading of middle-class modernism (Clarke Working Class Writing, 2018).
Perhaps the most relevant question we are facing today, both in and out of the university, is how to deal with AI. In academia, different disciplines handle this question in a myriad of ways, some insisting that to not embrace AI in the classroom is harmful to the students, while others believe the utilization of AI must weaken critical thinking skills. Regardless of the differing opinions on how to use it appropriately, no one disagrees that it is here to stay.
Institute of Faith and the Academy Conference
Call for Papers
September 26, 2025
Theme: Writing's on the Wall
Concept Note
"Mapping Indian Literatures in Translation: Contemporary and Beyond"
10th Annual Siedlce Forum for Contemporary Issues
in Language and Literature
to be held online for the purpose of presenting unpublished research findings in English
on November 13th-14th, 2025.
The leitmotif of the conference is:
Totality and fragmentation
in literature, linguistics, philosophy and culture
CALL FOR PAPERS
vol. 7/2026
Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature is an international multidisciplinary periodical that welcomes for review any innovative and challenging research article encroaching upon the fields of literature, linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies.
The editorial board encourages researchers and young scholars to submit their article proposals that comprise with the profile of the journal. The proposals can be sent in English, German, French, Spanish, Catalan and Polish. The manuscript submitted for publication is to be original and unpublished. It should not have been simultaneously submitted for review in any other journal.
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (T&F)
Special issue on
Gendered Violence
Guest Editors: Debajyoti Biswas (Bodoland University) & Parvin Sultana (Pramathesh Barua College)
The Old English Literature session is open to any and all papers that explore some aspect of Old English poetry, prose, and/or Beowulf studies. We welcome proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related.
Please submit an abstract here:
https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19648
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PAMLA 2025 Theme:
Trans-scriptions: Cultural Codings and the Poetics of the Body
International Conference organized by University of Szczecin & University of Wrocław
11-13 February 2026
Institute of English Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland
Hybrid On-site Conference
Critical Minerals Symposium
7 November 2025
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Keynote Speaker: Associate Professor Tom Nurmi, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Recent geopolitical contestations over Ukraine’s rare earths, global debates on ‘critical’ minerals in the context of green energy transitions, and growing scholarly engagement – such as Museum and Society’s recent special issue on minerals – have all highlighted the ethical, political, and environmental stakes of minerals.
Date: November 8-9, 2025
Location: University of Oxford, UK
Online option available
Conference page: https://labrc.co.uk/2024/11/20/alchemy-2025/
Cost: 180 GBP (In person)
100 GBP (Online)
Prices exclude eventbrite fees
“Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.” – Paracelsus
CFP: Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America, Vol. 2
Edited by Cathy Rex (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire: rexcj@uwec.edu)
and Shevaun Watson (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: watsonse@uwm.edu)
The Department of English at Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya, Bankura, West Bengal, announces an upcoming international, interdisciplinary conference examining AI's impact on literature.
The conference will take place on Friday and Saturday, 29-30 August 2025, on the main campus, near the National Highway.
International Seminar
Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus
16 & 17 October 2025
Venue: Bodoland University, Kokrajhar
A Special Issue will be published in Bandung: Journal of the Global South (De Gruyter Brill)
CFP Tiphys #1, Dopo il palazzo: la nascita della polis
Editor: Massimo Cultraro (CNR-ISPC), Giancarlo Germanà Bozza (Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo)
Deadline per l’invio dei contributi: 30 giugno 2025
La complessa storia dell’Egeo tra la fine del II e gli inizi del I millennio a.C. è segnata dal passaggio da strutture socio-politiche centralizzate e gerarchiche, identificate nel modello del palazzo miceneo, a comunità sul territorio che si riorganizzano in centri abitati di nuova formazione.
“A Day”: 2nd Annual Goth Music and Subculture Conference
NEW Deadline: July 11, 2025
Conference Date: August 16, 2025
Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific)
Abstract: 150 words + 100 word biographical statement + Time Zone
Submit to: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University @ noahrgallego@gmail.com
Contact: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com
Call For Proposals
The CreArte hybrid conference seeks submission of proposals for papers, panels (3-4 papers), roundtables, workshops, and performances. We invite proposals from artists, educators, academics, and public scholars who examine various forms of Latino/a/e/x artistic expression, including but not limited to film, literature, music, visual arts, and dance, and how these artistic expressions have impacted the direction of society, broadly. Our hybrid conference is held in association with the CreArte Expo Latino Cultural Festival, a weekend-long celebration where attendees immerse themselves in Latino/a/e/x culture through literature, film, music, dance, cosplay, dance, comics and much more.
Veiling obscures, but also reveals. It holds symbolic and aesthetic power that spans centuries, from the medieval and Victorian periods to contemporary expressions in visual, fashion, and social media culture. Further, it frames visibility itself and shapes how identity is hidden, controlled, surveilled, or disclosed. To veil is not only to conceal, but to shape what others are allowed to see and what they are left to imagine. Veiling shrouds, but also frames; withholds, but also invites interpretation. These tensions give veiling its interpretive depth, sustaining its power to provoke, unsettle, and reframe.
This session explores how postcolonial and diasporic literatures grapple with memory, trauma, and cultural haunting. Rather than thinking of identity as fixed or linear, selfhood is complex and palimpsestic due to colonial violence, migration, and historical erasure. This session invites papers that analyze how characters or narratives navigate misremembering, inherited trauma, or overwritten histories to reclaim belonging and agency. Topics may include narrative voice, transgenerational memory, silence, storytelling, and archival gaps in multiethnic and immigrant literatures. This session welcomes interdisciplinary approaches and encourages work on Asian American, Black, Indigenous, and other diasporic communities.
The ninth annual Brandeis Novel Symposium (BNS), which will
take place on Friday October 17, 2025, invites proposals for
papers on Henry James’s novel The Bostonians (1886). The
Brandeis Novel Symposium is a one-day conference that
chooses a single novel as a point of focus for salient
theoretical, historical, political, and narratological
questions about the novel as a genre. (See the 2024 BNS
website and this archive for more information about the
BNS.)
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR VOLUME 18 OF Katherine Mansfield Studies
THE PEER-REVIEWED YEARBOOK OF THE KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOCIETY
PUBLISHED BY EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
on the theme of
KATHERINE MANSFIELD’S MEN
Editors
Dr Erika Baldt and Dr Gerri Kimber
Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2025
‘Everything must ring like elizabethan english and like those gentlemen I always seem to be
mentioning ‘the Poets’. There is a light upon them especially upon the elizabethans and our
‘special’ set – Keats, W.W. Coleridge Shelley De Quincey and Co. […] Those are the people
with whom I want to live – those are the men I feel are our brothers’. (Letter to John
The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce its annual essay prize competition for 2025, open to all, on the subject of Katherine Mansfield’s Men.
The winner will receive a cash prize of £200 and the winning essay will be considered for publication in Katherine Mansfield Studies, vol. 18 (2026), the peer-reviewed yearbook of the Katherine Mansfield Society, published by Edinburgh University Press.
The distinguished panel of judges will comprise:
Dr. Andrew Harrison
University of Nottingham, UK
Chair of the Judging Panel
Kathleen Jones
Royal Literary Fund Fellow and Biographer
Dr. Martin Griffiths
Author and Musician
CALL FOR PAPERS
Is a Better World Possible? - Solidarity as a Conversation across Temporalities A one-day hybrid interdisciplinary conference at the University of WarwickSaturday 29th November 2025Confirmed Keynote speaker: Dr Anna Bernard, King’s College London
'Variations of Anglophone Humor Studies'
A Special Issue of Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies
Edited by Kamil Chrzczonowicz and Jack Harrison (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Call for Chapter Proposals for Book on Abortion Related Theatre, Performance, and Protest
Edited by:
Angela Sweigart-Gallagher, Associate Professor of Performance and Communication Arts, St. Lawrence University (asweigart@stlawu.edu )
Victoria P. Lantz, Associate Professor of Theatre, Sam Houston State University (vicky.lantz@gmail.com)
We invite scholars to contribute to a forthcoming book, Abortion Performances: Staging and Protesting Reproductive Pasts, Presents, and Futures.
Media in Transition: The Stories We Tell, The Futures We Imagine
Edited by: Sangita Shresthova and Alfonso Hegde
Call for Submissions
Is artificial intelligence inevitable? Will it usher in a new era of creativity? Will it actually completely automate away all human creativity? How much agency do we have over AI? Is this the death of the author? Is this the end of original creative expression as we know it?
CFP: Post-9/11 Representation after 25 Years.
A special issue of the European Journal of American Culture 46.2 (Summer 2026):
Edited by:
Colin Halloran, Old Dominion University, chall032@odu.edu
Marc A. Ouellette, Old Dominion University, mouellet@odu.edu
Please submit an abstract to the panel session "International Bildungsroman" at this year's PAMLA conference , which takes takes place Nov. 20-23 in San Francisco.
In order to submit, use this link:
https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19478
or go to www.pamla.org, use the Conference pulldown tab, go to 122nd Conference and follow the link for submissions there.
Description of panel theme below.
Email mjaptok@palomar.edu if you have any questions.
This panel session for RSA 2026 in San Francisco invites proposals for papers on early modern literature and narrative theory, broadly conceived. Papers might consider narrative perspective, focalization, and free indirect discourse; formalist, structuralist and poststructuralist approaches to early modern narrative; and genre theory. How might early modern narrative invite us to question some of the assumptions of narrative theory, with its traditional emphasis on the novel? What kind of narrative theory (or theories) does early modern literature offer us?
Please email 200-word abstracts to Eve Houghton (eh565@cam.ac.uk) by July 31, 2025.