Neoliberal Global Capitalism – Challenges for Postcolonial Studies
Call for Papers
Annual Conference of the German Association for Postcolonial Studies (GAPS)
29-31 May 2025, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Deadline for submissions: 15 December 2024

Thinkers, Texts, and Traditions:  A Cultural Coalition

A Two-Day Multidisciplinary International Conference

Vivekananda School of English Studies

Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies-TC, Delhi

Call For Papers: Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms 

Co-edited by Yo-Ling Chen (Independent Scholar) and Ela Przybyło (Illinois State University)

Deadline for abstracts: September 30, 2024

Contact email: globalacearo(at)gmail(dot)com

Expanding Perspectives on Hoccleve and Gender

A Session of Papers at the 2025 International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, sponsored by the International Hoccleve Society

In his notoriously laddish introduction to The Minor Poems,Frederick Furnivall wishes that Thomas Hoccleve had been “a manlier fellow.” Furnivall’s judgment reflects straitened Victorian gender norms that have little to do with medieval reality. But Hoccleve’s relationship to masculinity, femininity, and the gender politics of his own era remains an open question in criticism.

FASHION’S FIBRES AS PLANETARY FLOWSFashion Highlight journal, call for papers- issue 4

Guest Editors: Alice Payne and Anneke Smelik

Fibre, the basis of fashion’s materiality, is experiencing rising demand year on year, reflecting the insatiable desire for ‘more’ that defines the dominant fashion system. With an annual consumption of 116 million tonnes in 2022, close to a doubling in 20 years (Textile Exchange 2023), humanity’s appetite for fibre has never been more voracious. 

Sankofa: A Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature is accepting scholarly article submissions for its Summer 2025 (Vol. 15) publication. This issue will focus on the theme “Gender and Sexuality in African and African Diaspora Children’s and Young Adult Literature.”

The anthology, Compton: Reflections on Art and the City, aims to analyze the intellectual and creative contributions of Compton artists and their works and explore the city of Compton as an important site of artistic and historical production. We seek essays and criticism that interpret and evaluate recognized and underrecognized Compton artists and their individual or collective bodies of work within the contexts of larger artistic movements, artistic and cultural impact, and intersections of art, place, and culture.

Call for Anthology Submissions

Compton: Reflections on Art and the City

The Cinematic Codes Review is seeking reviewers to submit regular tri-annual sets of or single-item reviews of any time of visual content that is of individual interest. Ideas can range from standard reviews with screen shots of recent releases, as well as scholarly reviews of classics. You can review fine art gallery shows, theatrical dramas, or minor films shown at festivals. Reviews can be short (a few hundred words) or very long essays (up to 8,000 words). You can submit a single review, or commit to submitting regular reviews three times per year. The deadlines for the issues are: August 1, December 1, and May 1. Work that arrives after the deadline will be considered for the next issue.

The Matter of the Humanities

“When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressors.”
Paolo Freire

“The future has arrived, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.”
William Gibson

RSAJournal, the journal of the Italian Association of American Studies (rsa.aisna.net), is issuing the following calls relating to proposals for its #36 issue (publication date: September 2025): 1.

Routledge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Co-Editors: Riché Richardson, Philathia Rufaro Bolton

rccafam@gmail.com

300-word abstracts due:

September 15, 2024

Dates: November 7th-9th, 2024.

Mode: Mixed mode: In-person, hybrid, and online.

Venue: 7th- In person at Yale University, 8th Hybrid, 9th online only.

Hosts: Council on African Studies at Yale University & the University of South Africa (UNISA).

The Council on African Studies at the MacMillan Center, Yale University, and the Department of Religious Studies & Arabic at the University of South Africa (UNISA), jointly invite presentations for the second African Epistemologies for the 21st Century conference. This year’s theme is “Genesis Epistemologies: Origins, Syncretism, and Human Evolution in Africa.”

https://cxc-symposium.org

What effect has Asian thought or culture had in/on American poetry? How has it diversified or failed to diversify that poetry or its epistemology? This panel seeks papers on connections between American poetry/poetics and Asian culture, philosophy, and/or religion.  Any connection is welcome including how poets have (mis)used Asian culture and/or thought in their poetry and thinking about poetry.  However, in keeping with the Northeast Modern Language Association’s (NeMLA's) theme of “(R)EVOLUTION,” I am particularly interested in affinities between ways of knowing in Asian thought and American poetry and how such affinities may disrupt traditional Western epistemologies or cause American and European readers to rethink their connection to the world.