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Beyond the Anthropocene: Special Issue of ASAP/Journal
https://asapjournal.com/call-for-papers/
Special Issue Editors: Sarah Dimick and Ben Stanley
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 31, 2025
ESSAY SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 January 2026
(Call for Paper & Podcast ) - Peter Lang
Victorian literature is being fundamentally reimagined. What was once read through the lens of industrial realism, imperial narration, and bourgeois decorum is now being reassessed through new critical modes such as Animal Studies, Environmental Humanities, Food history, Ecocriticism, and Postcolonial re-readings. The aim of Rewriting the Victorian Imagination: Fables, Flesh, and Fluidity in Nineteenth-Century Literature is to consolidate and advance these reconfigurations by drawing together new research that unsettles the stable categories through which the “Victorian” has traditionally been understood.
Conference online (via Zoom): 3-4 July 2025
CFP:
This panel seeks papers for the Renaissance Society of America’s annual meeting (February 19–21, 2026, San Franscico, California). It explores an overlooked poetic genre: the prefatory poem of the early printed book for the It considers such appendages as simultaneously occupying the niches of text and paratext: discrete units which both conform to the structural and aesthetic constraints of poetry and adorn a corresponding, substantive text. These poems are at once ubiquitous and neglected, appearing in books of nearly all genres: from the luxury atlas to the sailing manual; from the personal devotional to the folio Bible; from the illustrated epic poem to the clinical legal handbook.
This call for papers seeks to explore the rich and complex intersection of philosophical inquiry and narrative accounts of trauma and exile. Moving beyond disciplinary boundaries, it aims to investigate how philosophical concepts – such as subjectivity, time, memory, ethics, and belonging – are challenged, reshaped, and illuminated through the lived experiences and narrative expressions of those who have endured trauma and/or forced displacement.
2025 Dress and Body Association Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Dress and Body Association invites submissions for the organization’s sixth annual conference, which will be held on November 1-2, 2025. Consistent with our long-term goals for inclusivity and sustainability, all activities will be 100% online.
Join our Google Group to learn about opportunities and converse with members of the DBA year-round! Email to request membership: dress.body.assoc@gmail.com.
Comfort and Joy: Locating Hope in Dress and the Body
XXVIII Generative Art conference.
topics: Human Culture & AI in GA worthiness. The theme of this conference focuses on how to preserve human complexity, with Generative Art and AI.
Art, poetry, music, architecture, and historical cities need generative ideas to adapt to the deep new demands of our fast-changing times.
Our field of interest is to identify these possibilities and relate the most advanced creative approaches of Generative Art and AI.
We will be happy to present your generative approach. This can be done through generative ideas that could safeguard specific identities of Art, Nature, Environments, and History.
This virtual global symposium invites presentations that explore all aspects of pregnancy loss: abortion—elective, forced, spontaneous, and therapeutic—as well as stillbirth, highlighting its complexity and diversity.Pregnancy loss is a complex and contentious issue that is garnering increasing public and political scrutiny. Access to abortion—whether available or restricted—entails numerous personal, medical, legal, and ethical considerations related to reproductive justice, women’s autonomy, health, human rights, feminism, and motherhood.
LGBTQIA2S+ public memorialisation and remembrance have become an increasingly visible and contested part of public debate throughout the 21st century. At the sharp end of the “new culture wars”, memorial and remembrance projects engaging with queer subjects or themes often find themselves at the forefront of the ongoing question of who or what should be commemorated in our public spaces, and how. As such, memorialisation across the world is witnessing a re-configuring of its frameworks, with nation-states and their opposing counter-narratives in a sometimes bitterly-contested dialogue.
Global K-Culture Conference
August 28 (Thu) ~ August 29 (Fri), 2025 (2 days)
Chungbuk National University, Korea
https://kculture.chungbuk.ac.kr/
The Department of Global Korean Culture at Chungbuk National University is pleased to invite submissions for the upcoming Global K-Culture Conference, which brings together Korean language educators and Korean Studies scholars from around the world. This conference aims to foster meaningful dialogue and the exchange of ideas among instructors and researchers working across diverse educational and cultural settings.
(Im)politeness on Stage
Monday 15 – Tuesday 16 December, 2025
University of Naples L’Orientale
Prospective Essay Volume
Call for Book Chapters
In chapter 4 of The Ambassadors, following a scene that few who have read could ever forget,Strether’s dinner with Maria Gostrey, “whose dress was ‘cut down,’ . . . in respect to shoulders and bosom,” “face to face over a small table on which the lighted candles had rose-colored shades,” and after attending a play in London, Strether outlines the nature of his journey to Paris to Miss Gostrey, who asks whether Mamie Pocock is Chad Newsome’s “own niece.” Strether tries to clarify:
“Oh, you must yourself find a name for the relation. His brother-in-law’s sister. Mrs. Jim’s sister-in-law.”
It seemed to have on Miss Gostrey a certain hardening effect. “And who in the world’s Mrs. Jim?”
The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar. The prize carries with it an award of $300, and the prize-winning essay will be published in HJR.
The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic appointment for more than four years. Independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to apply.
Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under submission elsewhere or previously published. Please send electronic submssions in Microsoft Word format and a current CV to hjamesr@creighton.edu.
The Charles Olson Society will sponsor a session at the upcoming Re-Viewing Black Mountain College Conference, to be held in Asheville, NC, September 25-27, 2025. In keeping with this year’s conference theme of “Performance at Black Mountain College,” we are especially interested in abstracts that address aspects of performativity in relation to Black Mountain poetics, though more general proposals focused on broader topics within the work of Black Mountain poets, projective verse, or the New American Poetry more broadly construed will also be considered.
The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, published since 1988, is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of the fantastic in Literature, Art, Drama, Film, and Popular Media. It is published three times a year by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.
For Authors – Submissions2025 Article SubmissionWindow will open Monday, March 24, 2025,and will close Monday, June 30, 2025.
Submissions to VICFA 4: Embodied Spirits
Scholarly and creative proposals are welcome and are handled through the same process.
This season, Academic and Creative Proposals will submit via the same portal.
Submit your proposal here: https://form.jotform.com/251195173129154
CALL FOR PROPOSALS – DEADLINE JULY 15TH 2025
THE DIMENSION OF CONFLICT IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE: DELIBERATION, POLARIZATION, IDENTITY, MEDIA, GLOBAL BALANCES
2nd PhD and early-career scholars transdisciplinary seminar
October 9th-10th 2025
“Guglielmo Marconi” University – Via Plinio, 44 – Rome, Italy
Postcolonial Studies Association of the Global South (PSAGS)
Annual Conference 2025
“Backyard Texts and Junkyard Epistemes”
19-20 December 2025
Concept Note
The current conjuncture is marked by the clash of axioms, metaphorically represented by the
backyard/junkyard and the fore-yard. While the junkyard/ backyard relates to the obscure, the
unconscious, the leftover; the fore-yard, the screened and the hyper-projected or hyper-
narrativized stand for the accepted, the normative, the light and show, the conscious, the
progressed and the advanced. The dominant intellectual leitmotif of our time is a fore-yard
CFP Performing Wilderness Volume
The wilderness appears to be a place devoid of theatre. As perhaps the most social of artistic forms, theatre and performance seem to sit in opposition to the solitude of wilderness, natural areas supposedly untouched by human activity. That is, wilderness and the performing arts are often thought as part of separate spheres, opposites even, situated firmly on either side of the imaginary divides between “nature” and “culture.”
Telling Italy Abroad: National Narratives and the Transnational Adaptation of Italian Literature on TV
Deadline for abstract proposals (500 characters): August 31, 2025
Call for Papers: Symposium at Utrecht University, 10 April 2026
Literature, Care, and the Ethics of Living in Southwest Asia and North Africa
Concept Note
Mediterranean Crossings: A Studia Mediterranea Conference
Location: The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Split, Croatia
Dates: September 19-20, 2025
Abstract submission date: June 25, 2025
Keynote speaker (virtual): Anna Kornbluh (University of Illinois at Chicago)
*note: this is a hybrid conference, but there will be no recording and the conference is only open to registered participants
This seminar uses fiction across media to host a dialogue between critical space theory and contemporary frameworks of political relationality. We look for the crossroads of intersectional politics, the empty lots where to construct "a people," the putrid, fertile soils of post-human entanglements. Demolishers against all future: you are also welcome.
We produce the space of sociality, and, in return, space shapes social reproduction (Henri Lefebvre). This dialectic is traversed by the blueprint of form as "the precondition of possible space" (Anna Kornbluh). Narrative fiction -literary, filmic, graphic- objectifies those forms and configures new ones, reworking the very entanglement of space and society.
Ann Arbor, Michigan / Zoom (Hybrid)
Deadline for abstracts: June 30th (up to 250 words)
Submission Form: https://forms.gle/9zENxMYi9i1Wotu67
Free and open to the public
CFP: The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture – NEPCA Virtual Fall Conference 2025
Deadline for submissions: July 15, 2025 5pm EST
Contact email:
Hannah Sophie Schiffner, h.schiffner@zeppelin-university.net
Protichi Chatterjee, protichichatterjee@gmail.com.
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online October 9 – 11, 2025.
IATIS Yearbook 2025
Type: Edited volume from Routledge UK (contract signed)
Title:
Exploring ‘Geo’ in Translation:
Redefining Territoriality of Translational Landscape in South Asia
1. Rationale:
Book Proposal for the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)
Type: Edited volume
Title (provisional)
Craft Culture of Odisha:
A Study of Handicraft Heritage and Changing Dynamics of Craft-making
Rationale:
First Anglistics International
Conference on Continuing Education
in Philological and Related Studies in
the English Language (ONLINE)
September 25-26, 2025
Deadline for proposals: September 15, 2025
The First International Conference on Continuing Education in Philological
and Related Studies in the English Language invites academics, researchers,
educators, and postgraduate students to come together to explore English
philology in all its dimensions. This event will be held entirely online and aims
to foster dialogue and intellectual exchange on the dynamic linguistic,
literary, and cultural landscapes of the English language. The conference,