This panel will examine the ongoing catastrophe and accelerating devolution of medicine and its attendant practices in contemporary America. How late-stage America undermines health humanities keywords such as empathy, care, healing and the like are appreciated. What ways of "doing otherwise" are becoming evident in terms of medicine and health systems? What does this moment reveal in larger discussions of medicine, national affiliation, individual survival, and neoliberal, anti-democratic empire?

Call for Proposals (CFP): College Professors Who Homeschool: Expertise, Theory, and Practice

Deadline for Submission: DEADLINE EXTENDED: Feb. 21, 2025

As the homeschooling movement continues to grow, with close to 4 million documented homeschoolers in America (NHERI), college professors who choose to educate their own children at home bring a unique and valuable perspective to this educational approach. We invite college professors from various disciplines to contribute chapters to an upcoming collection on "College Professors and Homeschooling: Bridging Academic Scholarship and Home Education."

We are looking for papers for the panel Infrastructure as the Boundary Media/Medium at the coming 4S (Society of Science and Society Studies) conference at Seattle, WA, United States, September 3-7, 2025. We hope to encourage submissions from different disciplines including media studies, critical infrastructure studies, urban planning, and history of STS. Submission (~250 words abstract) processes should be completed via official website of 4S below.

Rin Huang (they/she)

Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Washington, Seattle

Tianren Luo (He/him)

Department of Comparative Literature, Brown University

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4S Open Panel (No. 12): Infrastructure as the Boundary Media/Medium

FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OTUOKE, BAYELSA STATE, NIGERIA
www.fuotuoke.edu.ng

FACULTY OF HUMANITIES FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
(ON-SITE & ONLINE)
13-16 May, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS
THEME: ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) AND THE FUTURE OF THE HUMANITIES

A popular t-shirt claims the first Pride was a riot.

During a police raid on the Stonewall Inn on 28 June 1969, some customers fought back. Resistance continued for several nights. Whilst this may have inspired the first Pride march, it was not the first LGBT+ protest.

Call for Book Chapters

(Peter Lang International Academic Publishers)

Call for Chapters for the anthology Performing Dalits: Theatre of the  Marginalized Communities of Bengal

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

One-Day International Conference

Pakistani English Literature and the UN 2030 Agenda

Conference Date

February 20, 2025

(Hybrid Mode) 

The body functions as an active agent in generating knowledge, memory, and stories. This year's conference places the relationship between memory and the body at its core, emphasizing how the latter serves as a site of cultural, political, and historical negotiation. The body exerts significant influence on the creation and retrieval of memory, compelling us to critically examine the individual and collective memories produced and transmitted through the embodied experiences of culture, politics, trauma, and (post)nation.

The Jonathan Bayliss Society invites proposals for a roundtable on American experimental fiction. Beginning at least as early as Moby-Dick, American experimental fiction flourishes in the work of Stein, Burroughs, Pynchon, Gass, and Bayliss, and continues today with such writers as Giannina Braschi, Karen Russell, Colson Whitehead, Lance Olsen, and Mark Danielewski. Such writers disrupt conventions of genre, style, syntax, diction, propriety, narrative form, page layout, and much more. We are interested in papers devoted to particular works or authors as well as more wide-ranging or theoretical approaches to the topic.

Accepting 300-word abstracts proposing 15-minute papers on paranoia in contemporary American literature and/or film. Topics may include but are not limited to: conspiracy fiction, paranoid reading, racial paranoias, queer paranoias, surveillance, paranoid genre, and ecoparanoias.

CFP for ASAP/16, convening in Houston, TX, 22-25 October 2025

https://www.artsofthepresent.org/conference/asap-16-worldmaking-worldbre...

A black box is an abstraction. In systems theory, it names a model for complex exchanges in which mysterious, secret, or unknowable processes alter input stimuli and produce output reactions. The black box’s inner workings cannot be observed directly, only inferred through hypotheses about causes and effects.

Leveraging Legacies of Peacebuildingin a Precarious Time

The annual conference of The Peace and Justice Studies Association 

Hosted by the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, Swarthmore College

OCTOBER 9-12, 2025 | Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA

Proposal Submission Deadline: May 1, 2025

Early Bird Registration: May 15 – June 15, 2025

Draft Schedule Released: June 1, 2025

Perspectives in Architecture and Urbanism

Call for Papers: Studies in Materialistic Historiography

Virtual Special Issue

Guest Editor: K. Michael Hays

Readers Needed for “Author Meets Readers” Roundtable

American Studies Association Conference

November 20th-23rd

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Email me if you’re interested in discussing my forthcoming book, That Book is Dangerous!: How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing. It will be published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press and distributed by Penguin Random House on August 12th, 2025. I will send you an advance reader copy in March. 

Please email me by January 30th if you’re interested.