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YOUNG RESEARCHERS CONFERENCE
CINEMA STUDIES
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND AESTHETICS
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY
How do we continue to teach in unending crisis? How do we move from neoliberal and ableist expectations of “excellence” and “resilience” to center community and care? How can classrooms make space for what hurts? This roundtable intends to generate a conversation around teaching approaches and strategies faculty are using that attend to their own needs and the needs of their students given ongoing institutional and political turmoil.
Submit a 250-word abstract and short bio by March 15th, 2025.
EXTENDED DEADLINE
CFP SPECIAL ISSUE OF ANGLES - NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE ANGLOPHONE WORLD
PUBLICATION DATE: APRIL 2027
THE LIVES AND AFTERLIVES OF COOKIE MUELLER: TALES, KINSHIPS, PERSISTENCE
Russell Crowe’s talents were globally recognized in the early 2000s after he appeared in a slate of well-received films – L.A. Confidential, Gladiator, and A Beautiful Mind, among others – that earned him critical acclaim. Nevertheless, in the years following these productions, he has continued to be a part of numerous projects with international and creative appeal. Alongside his films are his associations with Roman soccer teams – established in Spera’s (2023) chapter in my recent volume on Gladiator (https://vernonpress.com/book/1213) – his social media presence, and his musical performances.
This call for papers seeks one specific chapter on Medusa for a volume intended for the series, Villains and Creatures.
Each chapter of the volume is intended to be an overview of depictions of Medusa in specific kinds of media; nevertheless, the arguments/theses of each chapter should still be original, using past works and research to develop a current (new) perspective on Medusa.
The chapter needed involves Modern Drama.
Chapters will be due in August 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 6,500 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.
The twentieth anniversary of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000) was an important moment in film history, for it not only marked a great film and work of art, but it also reminded audiences how peplum and historical epics still mattered. The edited collection “A Hero Will Endure”: Essays at the Twentieth Anniversary of ‘Gladiator’ (2023) provided insights on the film two decades after its release.
Yet now there is a sequel. This CFP therefore serves to build on the work done in the 2023 essays and provide a further avenue of exploration for connections between the two films as well as innovative readings of Gladiator 2 on its own.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
Narratives of health resilience: Prescribed confinement, forced displacement, and the stakes of global climate change
Call for Individual Proposals:
Dear Comparative Literature scholars/students,
Now the 2025 ICLA Congress (https://icla2025-seoul.kr/en) call for individual proposal submission is out.
You can search for the cfp here:
https://www.conftool.pro/icla2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&presentations=hide
I. Individual Proposal Submission Guidelines:
This symposium, due to be held on 9th June 2025, proposes to investigate the formal or informal infrastructures and networks which sustain (or, perhaps, inhibit) the production, preservation, curation, distribution and analysis of artists’ books in Britain now. We are actively seeking contributions not just from academics and doctoral students working in the field, but from all those involved in the artists’ books and small press ecosystem, from retailers to publishers to librarians to artists. This symposium is supported by a grant from the Association for Art History.
EVENT: 5th Annual GOTH Symposium
DATE: Thursday 15 to Friday 16 May 2025
ORGANIZERS: The Open University Centre for Research into Gender and Otherness in the Humanities
GUEST PANEL: The Open University Medieval and Early Modern Research Group
TYPE: F2F
HOST: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Arts & Humanities
LOCATION: The Open University, Milton Keynes
THEME: Gender and otherness in drama, literature and visual culture, III.
CFP DEADLINE: 28 February 2025
NOTIFICATION: 14 March 2025
Modernity in Translation
Guest Editors
Professor Mustafa Riad, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Professor Tarek Shamma, Binghamton University, New York, USA
Journal: Encounters in translation – Rencontres en traduction
Diamond open access:
free for authors, free for readers
Languages of submission
Proposals may be submitted in French or English. Submissions in other languages may also be considered, subject to confirmation by the editors
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‘With the tremendous acceleration of life, mind and eye have become accustomed to seeing and judging partially or inaccurately, and everyone is like the traveller who gets to know a land and its people from a railway carriage.’ (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878)
We are inviting proposals for a multidisciplinary conference on the aesthetics of the railway. Taking place on two trains from Vienna to Bucharest and from Bucharest to Istanbul, the conference will itself be a mobile experience.
Call for chapter proposals for an edited volume
on
Off the Stage: Performance Practices in Postcolonial India
The John Clare Society of North America invites proposals for its annual session at the MLA Convention in Toronto, January 8-11, 2026. Abstracts (250-300 words) are invited on any aspect of John Clare's writings, his life and times, and the work of his contemporaries. Please submit abstract and short bio by March 15, 2025, by email to Erica McAlpine (erica.mcalpine@ell.ox.ac.uk).
Episcopalian Bishop Mariann Budde’s January 2025 inauguration sermon sparked both praise and critique, shining light on the contested role of religious speech in public discourse and its relation to justice and good governance. As Elizabeth Ammons writes in Brave New Words: How Literature Will Save the Planet(2010), religious values—and religious speech—have contributed enormously to justice throughout history, including movements for abolition, civil rights, decolonization, and more recently, calls to redress environmental damage as in Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home and Amitav Ghosh’s 2016 book, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable.
For this guaranteed session of the January 2026 MLA convention, the Transdiscipinary Connections Religion and Literature forum invites proposals that focus on literatures of Palestine and the Palestinian diaspora, especially in their engagements with religion, interfaith encounters, justice, and liberation movements. As members of the MLA debate institutional responses to the Gaza genocide, we seek to amplify scholarship in our transdisciplinary field that bears witness to the struggle for just peace and Palestinian liberation.
Please submit 250-word proposal and CV by Mary 15, 2025 to Cynthia Wallace, forum chair: cwallace [at] stmcollege.ca.
The Indo-Dutch research Centre on Climate Change Law Research and Education is thrilled to announce its international workshop on Interdisciplinary Approach to Climate Change Education, set to take place from 27th to 28th February 2025 at Government Law College, Ernakulam.
CFP: The Witch in American Women’s Writing after 1865
Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference
Philadelphia, November 6-9, 2025
Spectral TV/Les spectralités télévisuelles
2026 MLA Convention in Toronto, Canada, January 8-11, 2026
Special Session Title: Doors and Gates to the Ottoman Lands
This session explores the multifaceted experiences, perceptions, and narratives of travelers who journeyed to the Ottoman Empire and documented their encounters through travel writing.
Email a 300-word abstract with a 75-word bionote to bakirtassennur@gmail.com
Deadline for submission: 20 March 2025
Although initially dismissed as “a holiday from history” (Will), a “frivolous if not decadent decade” (Rich), and a “time of trivial pursuits” (Halberstam) (cf. Chollet and Goldgeier 2008), the 1990s have increasingly been recognized as a pivotal historical moment. Scholars have underscored its defining impact, with Wegner characterizing the decade as “life between two deaths,” framed by the end of the Cold War and the events of 9/11 (2009).
Dear Researcher
We cordially invite you to participate in the International Conference on Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation and Sustainability (ARTIIS 2025), aCorporación Universitaria Rafael Núñez, to be held on October 21-23, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
www.artiis.org
The conference will be in a hybrid format (in-Person and Virtual).
Submitted papers should be related to one or more of the main themes proposed.
The 2025 First Book Institute
June 1-7, 2025
Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University
Co-Directors
Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature
John Marsh, Professor of English and Director of the Center for American Literary Studies
2025 ICLA Congress-Seoul Call for Individual Proposals:
Dear Comparative Literature scholars/students,
Now the 2025 ICLA Congress (https://icla2025-seoul.kr/en) call for individual proposal submission is out.
For New Deadline and How to Submit Your Abstract, Click NOTICE 18:
https://icla2025-seoul.kr/en/notice/press-and-reviews/01JG9QCYG7XM2H36DE...
UPDATE: Submission deadline extended to March 1, 2025
The Board of Board Game Academics (BGA) is pleased to announce our call for papers for the 2025 journal. BGA is dedicated to the exploration of critical issues within the distinct yet overlapping communities of tabletop board and role-playing games.
While these communities are expanding, players, creators, and scholars of tabletop board and role-playing games have traditionally been late to addressing and including diverse representations and perspectives.
For instance, production companies such as Wizards of the Coast (best known for Dungeons & Dragons) have been criticized for their continued celebration of oppressive ideological perspectives, systems, and governments.
Working Title - Planet Flanagan: Essays on the Netflix Series of Mike Flanagan
Mike Flanagan has steadily made a significant name for himself in horror, garnering praise for his originality in films such as Oculus (2013) and Hush (2016), and further critical acclaim for works like Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Gerald’s Game (2017) and especially his adaptation of Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep (2019).
The Victorian era (1837–1901) was a period marked by industrial revolution, scattered religious beliefs and technological advancements. In the midst of everything, the ocean played a central role in shaping the cultural, economic, and ecological landscapes of the time. The British Empire’s reliance on maritime trade routes and naval power made the ocean a key site of economic and political activity. The expansion of global trade, driven by steamships and colonial ventures, brought the ocean into the everyday lives of Victorians.
Telangana Journal of Higher Education (TJHE)
Inaugural Issue Theme: Technology and Higher Education
The Telangana Journal of Higher Education (TJHE), published by the Telangana Council of Higher Education (TGCHE), Government of Telangana, invites submissions for its inaugural issue, focusing on “Technology and Higher Education.” This issue aims to discuss the transformative role of technology in reshaping the practices, policies, and experiences within higher education. With a focus on the Indian context and a global outlook, the journal seeks contributions that examine innovative approaches, critical challenges, and forward-thinking strategies in the integration of technology across diverse areas of higher education.
Since the release of Jordan Peele’s landmark 2017 film Get Out, Black horror has been catapulted to the fore of the American cultural imagination. From Lovecraft Country to Antebellum to adaptations of Candyman and Interview With the Vampire, contemporary depictions of the Black horrific continue to revise and reorient the horror genre. Black horror distinguishes itself by turning the horror genre away from white anxieties about an ominous and ephemeral Other and towards an examination of the horrifying qualities of everyday Black Life.
Truth in Crisis: Literary and Linguistic Representations of Post-Truth Phenomena
26th-27th June 2025, Rzeszów, Poland