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Publication Call: Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, University of Toronto
Immigrant Diaspora and the Future Dimensions of Canadian Multiculturalism
“Make you to ravel all this matter out” (Shakespeare, Hamlet, 3.4)
Within early modern studies, there has been a growing interest in the intersections between text, materiality, and performance, both in and beyond the commercial theatres. The Revels Office, an international research group comprised of early career academics, has always been fascinated by the relationship between textual, visual and material cultures and the material realities of theatre and performance.
This panel explores how fire and fossil fuels shape modernity and modernisms, focusing on literature, art, and culture beyond 1850. Papers may explore intersections of:
Please submit 250-word abstracts to Jennie Sekanics at jennie-sekanics@uiowa.edu or Harry Stecopoulos at harilaos-stecopoulos@uiowa.edu.
While revising Between the Acts in 1940, Virginia Woolf edited her drafts to reinforce the disruptive wartime shifts in food culture triggered by the Second World War: the novel notes a particular wariness for rationed beef and mutton, references the interwar freedom of easily obtaining bacon and oil, and suggests the indulgence of sugar consumption. The modernist moment saw a variety of such shifts in the alimentary, from increased industrialization and food processing to a more gastronomic turn to the realities of wartime food rationing that Woolf and others chart.
We live in an age of optimization. Norms of beauty and performance are relentlessly getting harder to achieve without modifying the psychophysiology of human beings. Humans are faced with choices and demands regarding increasing and reducing the size, mass, and weight of different body parts and the modification of the way they function. The normal no longer means the common, it means the optimal. From special diets and extreme workouts to silicon injections and from plastic surgery to brain chips, the human body is transforming into a workshop for different arts and technologies. The cosmetic surgery market, for example, is worth more than 57 billion dollars and is expected to continue to grow very fast.
Cinema’s First Epics in Focus:
Silent Epic Film from Literary Adaptation to Contemporary Epic Narratives
ReFocus: The International Directors Series: David Cronenberg
Edinburgh University Press
Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg is widely regarded as one of the finest proprietors of the body-horror genre. Cronenberg’s filmography traverses the realm of the corporeal beyond its bare form, testing the limits of what a body can do. His films explore the intricate relations between the market, science, and desire. Cronenberg also examines disease and illness, situating their grotesque ramifications in the soma and the psyche, while many other later film narratives diverge from Cronenberg’s earlier focus on body horror to exhibit a wide spectrum of directorial capabilities.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Beyond Human Divide: Revisiting the Partition of India
International Conference on 8th August 2025 (Friday)
Concept Note
Article Collection “Human & Beyond: Exploring Our More-Than-Human World”.
Collection's Advisors: Professor Peggy Karpouzou and Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki
Publisher: Routledge Open Research
The study of life-forms’ interplays has much to contribute to the survey of alternative post-anthropocentric narratives. This is no more pressing while the disastrous phenomena afflicted on Earth’s ecosystems continues to threaten all life-forms’ existence.
Ecokritike is an international, open access, blind and double peer-review journal for academics and researchers who study the fields of Environmental Humanities, Literary Theory and Cultural Criticism. The journal seeks to explore issues beyond the traditional binary and complex relationship of nature-culture, and also examines the changing status of subjectivity, agency, and citizenship, while envisioning matters for sustainable futures in a more-than-human world.
e-ISSN: 3034-9214
Publication Frequency: two issues a year (February and September)
We accept submissions of articles, book reviews and special issue proposals on a rolling basis.
Book Series: "Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures" at Rowman & Littlefield
Series Editor: Professor Peggy Karpouzou and Series co-Editor: Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki
Book Series: Exeter Studies in Environmental Humanities. Past, Present and Future Econarratives at University of Exeter Press
Series Editors: Professor Peggy Karpouzou and Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki
Book Series: “Brill Research Perspectives in Critical Theory”
Series Editor: Professor Peggy Karpouzou
Celebration
Celebrations—far more than mere expressions of joy or commemoration—function as complex social phenomena that reveal power dynamics, cultural transformations, and evolving relationships between humans and their environment. From a toddler’s birthday party with family and friends, to New Year celebrations with fireworks or public water fights (Songkran Water Festival), to pilgrimage festivals that attract up to 400 million pilgrims (Kumbh Mela), celebrations around the world and across cultures bring people together in appreciation and/or remembrance.
The Book of Acts contains elements of human actions and inactions that depict the beginning of a
new religious dispensation – Christianity that sought to redefine the nexus between the nascent
Christian faith, ethnicity, and identity. Identity is a hallmark of many religious groups manifest in
their practices that become a cultural identity of the group. This did not leave out ethnic issues in
the nascent group called Christianity. Early Christianity is construed as a "Jewish ethno-religious
identity into a Christian identity that was unattached to a particular geopolitical and ethno-cultural
identity” (Bennema 2015). This identity was formulated and emerged through conflict with
When
May 17, 2025
Where
University of California, Los Angeles
Submission Deadline
Mar 21, 2025
Southern California Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (SCULC), hosted by the UCLA Linguistics Department and the Bruin Linguists Society, will take place on May 17, 2025. SCULC was founded in 2010 to foster a collaborative, student-run conference for the undergraduate linguistics community.
MLA 2026, Toronto, Prose and poetics of aging in migration literature
I would like to organize a panel on aging in migration literature to provide a forum where participants can discuss current trends in and concerns about the representation of aging and older persons across various genres of migration writing as well as think about future possibilities. I am particularly interested in aesthetic representations of aging in irregular migration, asylum, and refugee narratives in addition to the portrayals of aging parents and relatives who are impacted by younger generations’ migration.
It is no wonder why many voracious consumers of culture, both “high” and “low, both inside and outside the academy, curl up on the weekend or escape midweek drudgery with a crossword, coffee stain lining the newspaper or—to use a more contemporary metaphor—finger sliding across a smartphone. In the same way they do with a literary text, crossword “readers” often find the crossword pleasurable, interesting, and mentally challenging. This is not, however, to say that these harmless amusements aren’t ultimately types of ideological vehicles, however slight they may seem.
This interdisciplinary panel at the RMMLA 2025 seeks to examine the complex intersections of colonial power, medical practice, and literary representation and welcomes proposals of 250 words on topics that address the following questions. How does literature engage with colonial medical interventions, their successes, failures, and lasting impacts on colonized populations? What does medical fiction and film tell us about the tension between Indigenous healing practices and Western medicine, the role of medical “experimentation” in colonial contexts, and the literary afterlives of colonial medical disasters?
amily Resemblances: Hawthorne’s Extended Bloodlines”
MLA, Guaranteed Panel
MLA Conference, Toronto, 8-11 January 2026
The Fifth Annual Undergraduate and Graduate Student Victorian Association (UGSVA) 2025 conference:Victorian Façades, Facets, and Fantasies. A Zoom Conference.
Conference on 5/1/25 and Abstracts due 4/11/25
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Organizer and contact email:
With the support of the Literature, Publishing, and Translation Commission, the UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS) announces a call for contributions to an edited volume on Translating Cultures and Artificial Intelligence. Organized by the Chair’s Translating Cultures Lab (TCL), this edited volume will reconceptualize, redefine, and expand the current conversations on translating cultures in the context of contemporary technological developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The Gaskell Journal
Joan Leach Memorial
Graduate Student Essay Prize 2026
Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2026
The Gaskell Journal runs a biennial Graduate Student Essay Prize in honour of Joan Leach MBE, founder of the Gaskell Society. The winning essay will be published in the Gaskell Journal (with revisions as appropriate), and its author will receive £200 from the Gaskell Society, and a complimentary copy of the Journal.
Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS) International Conference 2024
In association with Centre for Memory Studies (CMS) IIT Madras
Memory, Narrative Designs, and Strategies of Preservation
27-29 October 2025 IIT Madras
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Website: https://qutubminarreview.wordpress.com/about/
Submission Email: editorqutubminarreview@gmail.com
Submission Deadline: June 20th, 2025
Qutub Minar Review is inviting poetry, short stories (maximum 500 words for each story), one minute plays, interviews, book reviews, memoires and travelogues for July 2025 issue. Submission guidelines are as follows:
General guidelines:
InterArtes, n. 7, 2025
Editors-in-Chief: Laura Brignoli, Silvia Zangrandi
Department of Humanities
Università IULM - Milan
Faust, a Myth of Modernity
Myth is a living entity that develops and grows by embracing interpretations, suggestions, and reinterpretations, in what Hans Blumenberg calls a true epigenesis. The multiple forms of narrative, typical of modernity, feed on myth and continuously regenerate it, rewriting it from various perspectives—religious, social, aesthetic, political, or pop—according to the times, up to the post-modern.
Dear Scholars and Academicians,
We are pleased to announce a call for articles for a forthcoming book focusing on Indian Knowledge System (IKS), which will explore the depth and diversity of India’s ancient wisdom, traditions, and knowledge frameworks. The book aims to bridge the gap between the traditional and contemporary relevance of the Indian Knowledge System, highlighting its interdisciplinary applications and global significance.
The book will be published by a renowned publishing house and will have a ISBN, ensuring wide visibility and dissemination of your work among global academia and researchers.
Suggested Themes
Greetings from the Political Science Department of Rkm Narendrapur! VoxPopuli is back and this time it is better than ever, with newer and more events. This is the official information for the 'Analysis and Augmentation' event (Paper Presentation). Students, Research Scholars and faculty members all over are encouraged to put forward their valuable research and analysis, in order to present it before all of us on the 11th of April. Your contributions matter to us and we hope to publish a few, in order to broadcast your efforts before the world. The above date is regarding the submission of abstracts, after which we would publish a confirmation mail. The abstract is to be of 300 words, with keywords and a short bionote in the third person.
I'm looking to build a panel for OAH (Organization of American Historians ) in 2026. It will take place in Philadelphia and I'd love to create a Philly-centric panel. More broadly, decolonization focusing perhaps on city spaces, art, monuments, ecologies, and histories.
My abstract is below. Email me ASAP if your ideas feel simpatico.
Abstracts due via email by MARCH 17th, 2025
Act fast! Less than one month remains before the editorial deadline for Volume 52 of The Victorians Institute Journal.
We are still accepting manuscripts between 7k-9k words on any aspect of Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and culture for publication in Volume 52 of the journal, which will be published later this year.
For complete submission instructions and to upload your manuscript for consideration, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/vij and follow the steps given by the online system. Any submissions uploaded after the April 1 deadline will be considered for Volume 53.