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Strangeness and Oddity: Embracing the Extraordinary
in Arts-Based Research
A Transdisciplinary Conference
February 25-26, 2025
Online
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 15, 2025
Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/strangeness-and-oddity/
Call for Papers:
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).
Florida Atlantic University’s English Graduate Student Society (EGSS) is pleased to announce the return of our annual academic conference, to be held at the Grand Palm Room located at our Boca Raton Campus's Student Union* on February 3rd, 2025.
*The full address for our Student Union is 1995 Dade Ave #1973, Boca Raton, FL 33431.
Eco-environmental criticism has now become a staple presence in the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary landscape, calling for ongoing reflections on the human impact on the environment. A distinct aspect of these conversations has been the growing focus on the concern of ecological destruction for the planet, with all the inevitable consequences that this entails. Within changing contexts that feel increasingly more precarious, conceptualisations of the ‘eco-futures’ have become central to our cultural discourses, from film to television series, from literature to comics, from animation and video games to digital narratives, from architecture to design, from socio-ecology to animal studies.
Dear Colleagues:
My forthcoming collection, Imperial Debt: Colonial Theft, Postcolonial Reparations, is in contract and due out in 2025.
Please review the original CFP for the book, copied below, and let me know if you have work that would be appropriate for it and fits within the rubric of the book (see below).
The full chapter is needed by Dec. 31st. Please email to: maureen.fadem@gmail.com
Thank you considering this important project--my very best,
~Maureen Ellen Ruprecht, CUNY
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The “Collecting and Collectibles Area” of the Popular Culture Association invites papers on “AI in Collecting” for the National PCA/ACA Conference to be held April 16-19, 2025 in New Orleans, USA. We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “AI in Collecting” and particularly address how collections/collectibles and their galleries/museums respond to the recent digital shifts and the tectonic evolution of AI technologies.
Possible topics for presentations include but are not limited to:
This collection seeks essays on dinosaurs in film, literature, and the arts. The Jurassic Park franchise solidified the presence of dinosaurs in the pop cultural imagination, but there have been other media and dinosaur portrayals that have captured the public's imagination. Topics can include, but are not limited to:
-Studies of specific films
-Studies of specific novels
-Studies of special effects renderings of dinosaurs
-Artwork with dinosaurs
Chapters will be due in September 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.
This collection seeks essays on paleontologists in film, literature, and contemporary media. The Jurassic Park franchise solidified the presence of paleontology in the pop cultural imagination, but there have been other media and portrayals that have captured the public's imagination. Topics can include, but are not limited to:
-Studies of specific films
-Studies of specific novels
-Studies of fictional and/or real-life paleontologists in modern media
Chapters will be due in September 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.
Late submissions being accepted until 15 December 2024.
Call for Paper for the Monsters, Monstrosities, & the Monstrous area of the PCA for the 2025 PCA Conference in New Orleans
“Imagining Deleuze’s Romanticism”
NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism) 2025 Virtual CFP
Cornell EGSO Conference 2025: Sound—Systems
Deadline for Submissions: January 15th
Conference: March 14-15, 2025
Call for Academic and Creative Proposals
IUP English Graduate Organization 2025 Spring Conference
Landscapes of Language and Literature
Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP)’s English Graduate Organization is proud to announce our 2025 E-G-O Spring Conference. The conference will be held on March 21st & 22nd 2025, on campus in Indiana, PA and simultaneously in a hybrid format.
CFP: 59th Annual Comparative World Literature Conference
Ecocriticism and Popular Culture: Cool Trends in a Warming ClimateVenue: California State University, Long Beach. Hybrid Dates: 23-25 April 2025; two days of in-person and one day of Zoom panelsKeynote Speaker: Kaniehtiio Horn.
EXposuRE.
The Dynamics of Influence in Post-millennial North American Literature and Culture
March 2026
Call for papers
Robert Lowell session, American Literature Association, 21-24 May 2025 in Boston
The Robert Lowell Society welcomes proposals for one session at the American Literature Association's annual conference (Boston, MA, 21–24 May 2025).
We are especially interested in proposals that consider Lowell's work in light of today's "death studies." For example: Lowell’s own elegies, his memories of and reconstructions of predecessors and peers, his cemetery poems, his care poems, his commemorative publishing projects, his imitations of elegies by others, his prose about others. Panelists might also consider poems about Lowell, including but not limited to elegies.
Call for Proposals
August Wilson Society’s Biennial Colloquium
Celebrating 20 Years: August Wilson’s Legacy and The Confluence of Voices in Literary and Cultural Expression
April 2-5, 2025
The Hillman Library at the University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Social justice is the virtue which guides us in creating those organized human interactions we call institutions. In turn, social institutions, when justly organized, provide us with access to what is good for the person, both individually and in our associations with others. Social justice also imposes on each of us a personal responsibility to work with others to design and continually perfect our institutions as tools for personal and social development.
– The Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ), Washington, D.C., USA
OGOM Conference 2025: CFPSea changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, and enchanted hybrids of ocean and river
Conference page: https://www.opengravesopenminds.com/sea-changes-2025/
Venue: The British Library, London, UK (and online) Date: 5–6 September 2025
“To be neurodivergent is to reclaim the pathologizing aspects of a long-term cognitive diagnosis and to reclaim one’s neuro-status as a possible position from which to claim resources, representation and recognition” (Stenning and Bertisldottir Rosqvist 1535).
American Literature Association
May 21-24, 2025
The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA
The Richard Wright Society announces two sessions on Wright to take place at
the 36th Annual American Literature Association Conference.
Roundtable: Richard Wright’s Contributions to Postcolonial Studies
In his introduction to AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics, Vijay Prashad tells
the story of how Richard Wright came to attend the historic Bandung Conference in
Call for Papers: International Conference "Sounds of a Lifetime: Exploring Life Writing in Audio Media" (29–30 January 2026, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
This conference aims to expand the boundaries of life writing studies by focusing on the often overlooked domain of audio life narratives. As Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson highlight in the preface of Reading Autobiography, “[l]ife narrative studies has become an expansive, transnational, multimedia field” (xi), going far beyond the written word. In the latest edition of this seminal work, they touch upon the concept of mediated voice and the aural qualities of social media messages, indicating the varied manifestations of auto/biographical acts (129).
Recent developments in the study of theatre festivals (Knowles 2020) highlight the importance of investigating festivals as key events, both for the field of theatre and, more broadly, for cultural life. These contributions demonstrate the value of examining festivals from transnational perspectives and exploring their impact on the artistic and social communities that have designed, produced, and hosted them. As recurring events that create a distinct time and space, festivals can be seen as a lens through which processes of negotiation between socio-political positions and artistic perspectives can be investigated, often within a context that is simultaneously local and global.
Unquiet Shores: coastal acoustics and the terpsichorean ocean
18-20 June 2025, Edinburgh Napier University, Craiglockhart Campus, and Online
Call for Proposals: Conference on Creativity, Creative Arts, and Neurodivergence, June 2025
Hybrid in-person/Online: June 18 - 20, 2025 (dates tentative at this stage, will be confirmed)
Online pre-sessional: Thursday, June 18 (2 - 6pm GMT)
In person: Friday & Saturday, June 19-20 (2 - 5pm and 9am - 5pm)
Call for Papers: Dramatherapy
Deadline: 15 February 2025
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/dramatherapy#call-for-papers
#CFP: The 13th International Conference on Future Prospects in the Education and Rehabilitation of Children with Special Needs in Light of AI Applications
Conference Dates: Sunday, February 16, 2025
Conference Venue: Faculty of Education for Early Childhood Cairo University Cairo, Egypt and Online Relevant Dates:
• Abstract Submission for Review: December 15, 2024
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Full Paper Submission Deadline: January 15, 2025
Conference Themes: The conference will feature the following parallel working sessions:
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Session 1: "Using AI Applications to Improve the Quality of Life for Children with Special Needs"
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Session 2: "Modern Trends in Educating and Rehabilitating Children with Special Needs Using AI"
Call for Papers: ‘Nordic Film Culture in the 21st Century’
Special Issue of Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
Guest editors: Eva Novrup Redvall (University of Copenhagen), Anders Grønlund (Lund University) and Pietari Kääpä (University of Warwick)
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-scandinavian-cinema#call-for-papers
In a world marked by fluctuating borders, diverse identities, and global interconnectedness, the concepts of hospitality and hostility present complex meanings and challenges. This conference invites scholars and researchers to explore the diverse manifestations of hospitality and hostility across linguistics, literature, culture, social sciences, and political discourse. From acts of welcoming to experiences of exclusion, from cultural exchange to conflict, this theme highlights the delicate balance between openness and resistance, friendship and enmity, inclusion and exclusion.
Call for Papers for WLA’s guaranteed panel at the 2025 American Literature Association Meeting (Boston, May 21-24) This year’s general call seeks proposals related to any aspect of the study of Western literature, regardless of period. Papers on single texts or single authors are welcome, though comparative, transnational, and/or multiethnic approaches are especially encouraged. Graduate students are encouraged to apply. For consideration, please submit an abstract (250-400 words) to Travis Franks (travis.franks@usu.edu) by DECEMBER 31, 2024.
2025 WAR AND MEDIA STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT WRITING AWARD
The War and Media Studies SIG is holding its annual graduate student writing award competition to showcase innovative work in the field by our graduate student members. We will again be partnering with the Sage journal Media, War & Conflictand the winning author will have the opportunity to be published in the journal in addition to receiving a $100 cash prize.