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Marxism and the Coercive Forces of Capital: Today’s Implications and Critical Perspectives
“[The state] power rises out of society, placing itself above it, and alienating itself more and more from it.”
–Frederick Engels
Date: 19-20
September 2025
Keynote Speaker: Hatim El-Hibri, George Mason University
Mode: In Person
Call for Papers
Body, Time, and Digital Technology
2-3 October 2025, Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus
CFP: Small Forms in Nineteenth-Century America
This edited collection expands critical approaches to scale in nineteenth-century America by shifting focus from immensity (Baker 2006; Roberts 2014) to “small forms,” or forms disposed toward brevity or reduction. Building on scholarship that examines the operation of individual forms such as epigraphs (Stokes 2021), extracts (Wisecup 2021), footnotes (Cohen 2022), recipes (Tompkins 2013), and the serial sketch (Spires 2021), this collection aims to synthesize analysis of diverse small forms evident in nineteenth-century American literature and culture.
PAMLA 2025 RHETORICAL THEORY PANEL
CALL FOR PAPERS
“Rhetorical Theory” (Standing Session)
San Francisco, CA, Nov. 20-23
Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack (USC)
Abstract
This panel will explore recent movements in rhetorical theory writ large, either in connection with or apart from composition theory and practice. Special attention will be given to proposals that engage with the conference's theme.
Description
MAPACA 2025 Summer Virtual Symposium Call for Proposals
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 history of "rights" as a concept is mired in complications. Regarded as the moral or legal recognition of interests or entitlements of individuals and communities, rights have been present in history in a variety of ways - both justiciable and not. This history of rights, and the securing of rights, is long and arduous, and has taken various forms along the way - with sudden victories and abrupt revocations all the same - resulting in the present that we find ourselves in now.
Screening Women and/in Politics
Film Journal - special issue
Hélène Charlery and Anita Jorge
This special issue of Film Journal seeks papers on the representation of political women and women in institutional politics in audiovisual productions from and on the anglophone world, whether they be documentaries, fiction films (short, medium, feature-length, television or platform) films, series or mini-series.
Postcolonial Interventions (ISSN 2455-6564) Call for Papers Vol. X, Issue 2 (June 2025)
Postcolonial Interventions invites scholarly articles for an OPEN ISSUE to be published in June 2025. As this call is being circulated, older territorial imperial aggression is threatening to bare its fangs across the world, right-wing forces of xenophobia, discrimination and intolerance continue to gather momentum across the world, inequality and ecological crisis continue to escalate and new forms of precarity are being constantly negotiated. The next issue of Postcolonial Interventions seeks to explore such issues and more based on postcolonial experiences across the world.
Submission Guidelines:
Editor-in-Chief: Martin Ovens
This international, peer-reviewed journal seeks to encourage and promote research in non-western and cross-cultural philosophy. This may include scholarship typically identified, defined or characterised as comparative philosophy, intercultural philosophy or global philosophy. In addition, the journal offers opportunities to publish research that explores or analyses relations between philosophy, culture and dialogue. In this way Culture and Dialogue provides a forum for scholars in many subfields of philosophical studies.
Editor-in-Chief: Martin Ovens
This international, peer-reviewed journal seeks to encourage and promote research in non-western and cross-cultural philosophy. This may include scholarship typically identified, defined or characterised as comparative philosophy, intercultural philosophy or global philosophy. In addition, the journal offers opportunities to publish research that explores or analyses relations between philosophy, culture and dialogue. In this way Culture and Dialogue provides a forum for scholars in many subfields of philosophical studies.
Dear Colleagues,
The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale (I19) seeks to publish the best scholarship on the century that was, in many ways, the time period in which the modern genres of science fiction and fantasy began, and in which the academic study of fairy tale and folklore has its roots.
Silly Old Bear? Adaptations, Appropriations, and Transformations of Winnie-the-Pooh
Co-sponsored by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area and Disney Studies Area
Call for Papers for 2025 Virtual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)
Thursday, 9 October, to Saturday, 11 October, 2025
Submissions are open until Tuesday, 15 July by 5 PM EDT
CALL FOR PAPERS
Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society
University of Freiburg, Germany, 27-30 July 2026
See this link for the proposal submission guidelines; submission deadline 5/10/2025:
https://cdn.ymaws.com/newchaucersociety.org/resource/resmgr/files/2026_congress/ncs_2026_cfp.pdf
This edited book seeks to include quality works which provide new insights on the life-writings as an autoethnographical account of the lived experiences of Muslim women in India.
EDITOR
Dr. N. Safrine, an Independent Researcher & Practitioner, Chennai, India
The chapters (abstracts/full-texts) should be submitted to the volume editor at safrine2017@gmail.com
SCOPE & OBJECTIVES OF THE BOOK
We Live Again! Disney's Gargoyles as an Evolving Transmedia Text
Co-sponsored by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area and Disney Studies Area
Call for Papers for 2025 Virtual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)
Thursday, 9 October, to Saturday, 11 October, 2025
Submissions are open until Tuesday, 15 July by 5 PM EDT
‘Theory Today’ working group [USC] is organizing a two-day theory workshop with one of the preeminent and prolific theorists of our time, Prof. Todd McGowan1. The workshop will take place on March 12-13, 2026, at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), and will have the following schedule:
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Day 1 : March 12, 2026
Session 1 | McGowan: Foundations of Thinking [10 am to 1 pm]
- Workshop session focused on reading and discussing primary texts, including Hegel, Kant, Marx, and Lacan.
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Early Popular Visual Culture: Teaching Silent Cinema Today
Guest edited by Carolyn Condon Jacobs and Aurore Spiers
Silent films are critical teaching tools. In film and media studies classrooms, these films give students a crucial understanding of cinema’s emergence and development. Students
The Literature and Popular Culture area for the 2025 Northeast Popular Culture Association conference is accepting paper and panel proposals from faculty and graduate students. NEPCA’s 2025 virtual annual conference will be held from Thursday, October 9-Saturday, October 11, 2025. Sessions will take place on Zoom through Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. More information on the conference can be found here: https://www.northeastpca.org/conference.
250-word abstracts are due by July 15, 2025.
Submission deadline: August 5, 2025
We are pleased to announce an open call for bids to host the 2026 Post45 Graduate Symposium. The Post45 Graduate Symposium is a two-day event, typically held in Spring, which brings together graduate students and faculty members working on post-1945 arts, literature, media, and culture. Around fifteen graduate students each submit a work-in-progress and convene in a workshop-style setting along with faculty respondents to discuss each participant's work.
Call for Papers for a Special Issue
Vernacular City-Narratives from Postcolonial South Asia
We are inviting short abstracts (100 words) of papers on “Vernacular City-Narratives from Postcolonial South Asia”, to be published in a special issue for a Scopus-indexed journal (Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Taylor and Francis, Q1). The deadline for the abstract submission is June 14, 2025.
ESO at SAMLA 97: Non-Traditional Souths
Special thematic dossier 7.2 | Native American Visibility and Representations in Contemporary USA: Between Cultural Belonging and Activism
Editor: María Elena Serrano Moya (Universidad de Alcalá)
【Call for Papers】
The Sixth International Conference on the Film Histories of Taiwan and Asia Cinema, 2025
Wars in films and films during war time
Date: August 23-24, 2025
Venue: College of Communication, National Chengchi University
Two-day Early Career Researchers’ Conclave & Colloquium 2025
Institute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR), kolkata
Department of Higher Education, Goverment of West Bengal
Academic partner - British Council
South Asia Research at the Crossroads: Current World Order, New Horizons and Theorisations
0n 23rd and 24th June, 2025
Francesca Orsini, SOAS, University of London
Justin Jones, University of Oxford
122nd PAMLA ConferenceThursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23, 2025San Francisco, California | InterContinental Hotel San Francisco
This panel examines the works and influence of American science fiction author Philip K. Dick. We are interested in proposals about the novels and short stories written by PKD, the many film and television adaptations of those works, the influence of his works and ideas on media of various kinds, and, more generally, the influence of Philiip K. Dick on other science fiction authors. This panel welcomes proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related.
Submit abstract here: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19694
The Historical Fictions Research Network invites you to its international, interdisciplinary online summer workshop on historical fiction. We invite scholars from all over the world to come and join us for this international conversation. We have yet to find a time zone we cannot accommodate, so do join us in June!
2025 Online Summer Workshop: Transnational and Postnational Historical Fictions
13 June 2025 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)
15 min talks
Transnational and Postnational Historical Fictions