Murder Media Symposium

Call For Papers:

Liverpool John Moores University, 11th April 2025.

The recent Dahmer: Monster (Netflix, 2022), The Long Shadow (ITV, 2023), No Man of God (Sealey, 2021), and Beyond Reasonable Doubt (BBC Sounds, 2017), stand as some of the latest examples of the long and rich history of true crime content. The Murder Media Symposium will explore approaches to contemporary true crime and murder media texts, and the industrial, production, and fan cultures that surround such material.

The existence of a sense of contact within a particular culture remains inherently interdisciplinary and intersectional in terms of literature, the performative arts, and the social sciences. Contact essentially entails a continuity, one that consciously evolves from the preceding line of thought to facilitate the production of the interiority of further signification. As human societies evolved, diverse communities established distinct cultural, social, and literary traditions. The resultant intersections foster and foreground the ‘unconforming’, resulting in the emergence of new socio-cultural utterances.

We are seeking chapters to include in an edited book with the provisional title: Storied Citizenship: Reimagining Civic Encounters Among Children and Youth in the Post-Digital Age. This text will be an interdisciplinary, open access volume that will explore existing and emerging ideas about storied citizenship among children and youth in the post-digital age. Rather than defining citizenship or civic engagement in traditional ways, we see it as a process in which young people participate in arts-based, embodied, lived, and spatialized ways across cultural contexts.

Humanitarianism and Hunger

2025 Famine Summer School, National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, Ireland. 

May 29—June 1, 2025

Call for Papers:The 2025 Famine Summer School will take place at the National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, County Roscommon, Ireland on May 29—June 1, 2025. The theme of the 2025 Famine Summer School is “Humanitarianism and Hunger”.

The Uncanny States of America: Encountering the Planetary

https://eaas.eu/eaas-news/call-for-papers-ejas-special-issue-the-uncanny...

Profanity: Redefining the Limits.

The F-word across Linguistics, Translation and the Arts

LOCATION: Université d’Artois (Arras, France), 24-26 September 2025

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Panels Sponsored by the American Theatre and Drama Society  

The following panels are seeking papers for presentation at the Comparative Drama Conference July 9-11, 2025 at the London Academy for Music & Dramatic Art.  

Abstracts are invited for the ICSSR Sponsored Three-Day International Conference "Urban Metamorphoses: Understanding the Dynamics and Diversity of South Asian Cities" at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IISER Bhopal.

*Conference dates: 27 February–01 March 2025

Conference Venue: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, INDIA

ICSSR Sponsored Three-Day International Conference

 Urban Metamorphoses: Understanding the Dynamics and Diversity of South Asian Cities

Organised by 

The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IISER Bhopal

Date:

27 February-01 March 2025

Venue: IISER Bhopal

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 5 December, 2024

1. About the Conference: 

Call for Papers – CLOSURE: Journal of Comics Studies #12 (November 2025)

Thematic Section: »Queer Comics«

Open Call for Submissions

The e-journal CLOSURE will once again provide a platform for all facets of comic studies in its twelfth issue, to be published in Fall 2025. From cultural, visual, and media studies to social and natural sciences, and beyond, CLOSURE invites essays and academic reviews that engage with the »state of the comic«. Whether in-depth analysis, comic theory, or innovative new approaches—for the open topic section, we welcome diverse contributions from the interdisciplinary field of comics research.

Adaptation is the leading international, peer-reviewed journal of adaptation studies. The journal actively contributes to the development and visibility of adaptation studies as a field of academic enquiry and seeks to advance methodological approaches to the process.

Special Issue Editor: Reto Winckler (City University of Hong Kong)

Deadline for Submissions: 31 August 2025

Scope

Playing Nice: Sincerity and Irony in Television

Edited by Owen Cantrell and Sage Westfall

Deadline for Submission: ASAP

We are urgently looking for at least one more completed essay for this collection under contract with a fast-approaching deadline. Please submit a 300-word abstract for a previously unpublished paper which is already or nearly complete. If accepted, we are looking to review your chapter and edit it within weeks, not months.

Full chapters should be between 6-8K words in length.

Collection details:

Guru Dutt’s films are integral to the golden age of Hindi cinema as they were both critical and commercial successes. In a short career spanning twenty years, Dutt has served as an actor, a director, and a producer. His versatility is testament to a deep understanding of every aspect of filmmaking. Critics contend that contradictory ideas coalesced in his movies. A prominent theme of nationalism is at the heart of Dutt’s oeuvre. While he set out to refashion Indian national identity, Dutt envisioned a utopia for the new nation. Ideologically, Dutt was influenced by Nehruvian socialism, which finds its expression in his selection of subjects and themes. His movies also critiqued the new nation’s failure to afford equal opportunities to every citizen.

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies invites submissions for the fourth issue of the journal - a general issue on Literature and Drama Studies. 

Indexed by MLA and EBSCO databases.

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal that serves as a forum for multi- and interdisciplinary discussions across Literature and Drama Studies, providing academicians, scholars, professionals and students with the opportunity to disseminate their research to a diverse audience of peers and professionals.

The second issue aims to cover literary and theatrical works in general.