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Toward a Critical Color Theory; Black American Women’s Writing and Color
Concept Art and Character Design – Critical and Creative Perspectives
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Surrey, UK
18 July 2025
The School of Games & Creative Technology at UCA, Farnham, is hosting a one-day conference, examining the role of concept art and character design across the culture industries.
This is a call for proposals to participate in a proposed panel at MLA in Toronto in January 2026.
Higher education had three socially pertinent effects in previous eras of capitalist development. It: offered graduates a pathway to upward mobility; conferred a “stake” in normative society such that graduates could “buy into” the dominant economic systems from which they stood to benefit; and was an incubator for mass social and political movements such as the 1960s student movement.
But much recent fiction evinces a change in attitudes to university – a weakening of the assumption that higher education is a pathway to social mobility for the individual and social justice/progress for the collective.
Call for Papers: Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration
Special Issue: ‘Understanding the contemporary foreign human flow to Vietnam and its impact’
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/transitions-journal-of-transient-migration#call-for-papers
As we prepare to launch the tenth issue of our academic journal, we invite submissions for a special issue dedicated to the theme of Polyphony.
Why Polyphony?
Polyphony—the coexistence of multiple, independent voices—offers a compelling lens through which to explore the interconnected perspectives in scholarship and creativity. Ideas do not develop in isolation; they emerge through conversation, contradiction, and resonance across disciplines, generations, and methodologies. Our journal has always nurtured interdisciplinary engagement, and Polyphony allows us to celebrate this fully by embracing the richness of intellectual and artistic dialogue.
Oscar Wilde, French by Sympathy?
The Oscar Wilde Society invites abstracts for a special session at the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto, Jan. 8-11 2026.
On behalf of the English Graduate Association at the University of Idaho, this is a reminder that all abstracts for the 2025 University of Idaho Graduate English Conference are due on February 24, 2025. All graduate students are invited to submit an abstract for work that is relevant to the conference theme, “What Fuels Feeling?: Multidisciplinary Studies of Emotions and the Elements”. While the English Department is hosting this conference, we are seeking work from graduate students of all disciplines.
We are excited to host Nicole Seymour from California State University as our keynote speaker for this conference.
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 15 2025
IAAS Annual Conference
Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
24-26 April 2025
Conference Theme: “We the People”
CALL FOR PAPERS
“It is certain in Theory, that the only moral Foundation of Government is the Consent of the People. But to what an Extent Shall We carry this Principle?”—John Adams, 1776
The Superhero Project: 9th Global Meeting
THE MULTIVERSAL SUPERHERO
Friday 5th to Sunday 7th September 2025
The View Hotel, Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
“Anyone can wear the mask. You can wear the mask. If you didn’t know that before, I hope you do now. Cuz I’m Spider-Man. And I’m not the only one. Not by a long shot”. – Miles Morales, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
IL PARLAGGIO
ISSN 2280-6849
This section of the academic journal “Sinestesieonline” is open to contributions about theatre and performing arts in all historical ages, forms and variations, in English, Italian and foreign languages. We use double blind peer review.
“Il Parlaggio” is the name created by Gabriele d’Annunzio for the amphitheatre in Vittoriale – a place of empathy, a cradle of emotions, a crossroads of cultures, a connection between antiquity and contemporaneity, an emblem of the “neverending show”.
Deadline Extended!
Abstract Deadline: Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Chapter Drafts Deadline: December 15, 2025
Essays sought for a peer-reviewed edited collection focused on Brian De Palma’s film, Phantom of the Paradise.
The maternal figure has long been central to literary imaginings of the nation-state, shaping narratives of belonging, exile, and inheritance. As both metaphor and material reality, motherhood is entwined with national reproduction, kinship structures, and the regulation of bodies, often reinforcing but sometimes resisting dominant ideologies. At the same time, motherhood is a site of labor—both reproductive and economic—raising questions about care work, migration, and the feminization of labor within and across borders. Maternal grief, loss, and displacement further complicate the imagined continuity between mother and motherland, exposing fractures in nationalist and colonial narratives.
Call for Chapters: Edited collection of essays on Bengali periodicals in the long nineteenth century
The editors, Dr Madhumita Roy and Mr Soumyarup Bhattacharjee, are inviting abstracts for proposed chapters in a collection of essays on Bengali periodicals and the construction(s) of the “bhadrasamaj” in the long nineteenth century.
December 12, 2025
Aula Baratto, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice - Dorsoduro, 3246, Venice
‘Body horror,’ a subgenre devoted to corporeal transgressions, is undergoing a rebirth with films like Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (2024)—a cautionary tale challenging the beauty industry and the gendered double standards of ageing. This emerging biopolitical discourse concerned with body dysmorphia, loss of control, abjection, susceptibility to illness and mutation is not limited to film. From classics like Frankenstein to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the Grand Guignol ghastly extends its arms to the literary sphere with emerging works like Mona Awad’s Rouge or Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation.
Conference Dates: October 22-25, 2025
Venue: Hilton Cincinnati
This panel examines how contemporary artistic practices—including monumental, visual, and performing arts—engage with memory-making processes. By focusing on the interconnection between material experiences and memory, the panel explores how artists embody and reimagine memory while challenging traditional approaches. For instance, activist artists push the boundaries of memory work by challenging conventional notions of archives and historical narratives, positioning artists as critical contributors to understanding how societies remember and forget.
MELUS Call for Papers
Modern Language Association 2026
January 8-11, 2026
Toronto, ON (Canada)
Description:
** UPCOMING DEADLINE: 28 FEBRUARY 2025 **
If you'd like to submit an abstract but cannot make the deadline, please get in touch at r.gregory-fox@kent.ac.uk to discuss an extension.
Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes
Literary and Cultural Responses to Racial and Migratory Politics
University of Kent
23 – 24 June 2025
III CIMCiH - "Dissidences" - October 24-25, 2025 - Clark University (Worcester, MA)
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF DELEUZE(NESS)
International symposium
18-19 September 2025
National Gallery of Art, Konstitucijos pr. 22, Vilnius
Dates: May 9–10, 2025
Location: Sibiu, Romania
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
Sibiu, Romania | 1-3.07. 2025
Lucian Blaga University is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the upcoming international conference, “Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond,” to be held between July 1-3 in Sibiu, Romania. The conference aims to explore tragedy as it is reflected in literature, theater, and other cultural forms from antiquity to the present day, with a focus on European (semi)peripheries and non-European cultural spaces.
CFP Special Issue, Volume 22 (2026) : Contingency, Precarity, and Jeopardy: Labor in the Space Between
Abstract Submission Due Date: April 1, 2025.
Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2025.
Accepted Essays Due Date: January 1, 2026.
For MLA 2026 - Toronto, we invite papers that examine how contemporary literature and film reimagine haunted space narratives through the lens of immigrant experiences and displaced families. Please e-mail a 250-word abstract, title, and short bio by March 16th, 2025 to Ibrahim and Laura.
Panel organizers:Ibrahim Williams, The University of Mississippi (iawillia@go.olemiss.edu )Laura Evers, Washington University in St Louis (e.laura@wustl.edu )
Submission call:
https://epitaphs-magazine.weebly.com/
For the second issue of Epitaphs, we invite writers, artists and academics to submit their short form Gothic or Horror work on the following theme:
Beaten Hearts.
The theme can be understood as literally or as figuratively as needed. We encourage contributors to think about the many meanings of hearts within a Gothic/Horror context. Works can relate to:
What does the future hold for us, as the inhabitants of a planet much burdened by a burgeoning population, whose demands for time-saving technologies and physical comfort are endless? Will there be wars over potable water? Will we give up gold and gems and treasure oxygen instead? Or will existence end with either bang or whimper?
Utopian visions carry hope and contrarily, but more importantly, dystopian ones are much-needed warnings of what is likely to happen. This latter view made us feel that cli-fi needs to urgently present unflattering futuristic scenarios of our continued apathy towards nature and climate.
Philosophy, Spirituality & the Meaning of Life Conference
De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines
1-3 December 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS
MLA 2026 (Guaranteed Session)
Toronto, January 8-11, 2026
Generous Modernisms
CFP: MLA 2026 Convention – Roundtable on "Bad Adaptations"
The Adaptation Studies Forum invites submissions for a roundtable discussion at the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto (January 8-11, 2026). In collaboration with the Screen Arts and Culture Group, this roundtable will engage in a critical exploration of what constitutes a “bad” adaptation and how these works can be understood and assessed both aesthetically and pedagogically.
Title: Bad Adaptations
This guaranteed panel is sponsored by the GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum for the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, January 8-11, 2026, in Toronto, Canada. In conjunction with the 2026 presidential theme, ‘Familial Resemblances,’ this panel engages with forms of Indigenous literacies and epistemologies, especially from the Global South, to highlight their connections to the Land, cultural memory, and traditions.