International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies

ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)

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*** March Issue***

Submission System 

Scope

Seeking additional chapters for the book Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series. This collection showcases the breadth of languages and regional differences within Indian cinema that explores transgender themes. We already have over a dozen confirmed chapters. Proposals are due May 1, 2025. Chapters may focus on a single film or multiple films.

We warmly invite additional chapters for The Handbook of Trans Cinema, with high priority for chapters exploring transgender films from Africa, Latin America, Asia, Oceania, and Europe. Proposals are due April 17, 2025. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters exploring trans films from 6 continents. After the following list of confirmed chapters, you will find details about how to submit your proposal for additional chapters. The handbook will include only one chapter for each topic, so please do not send proposals for any of the confirmed chapters listed here:

Call for Papers: Androgyny in Modern Literature

Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025
Conference Date: MSA Boston October 9-12
Organized by: Adriana Fischetti, CCNY, 2nd year graduate student

Call for Papers

Sport and Popular Culture Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2025 SWPACA Summer Salon

June 26-28, 2025

Virtual Conference

https://swpaca.org/

Submissions open on March 25, 2025

Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2025

In partnership with UK’s Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies Department, “Leveling Up the Classroom” is continuing with a central focus on the integration of digital technologies and media into classroom settings. The last few years has given education a great insight into its own practices. Between online classrooms during the pandemic and the rapid emergence of more powerful technologies, we educators have seen a growing need to reevaluate our classrooms, as well as work with new tech to enhance these learning environments. 

In Blue Ecocriticism, Sydney I. Dobrin provocatively calls for viewing “oceanic deficit” as form of “disciplinary critique” (9) in order to open up the epistemic realm of ecocriticism which primarily deals with the representation of ecological substance in literary and cultural works.

Seeking chapters about Middle Eastern and North African films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents. We welcome the following high-priority chapters on Middle Eastern and North African films for the handbook's Part II (National Overviews of Trans Cinema):

Seeking chapters about Latin American films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents, including chapters devoted to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. We welcome the following high-priority chapters on Latin American films for the handbook's Part II (National Overviews of Trans Cinema):

MLA 2026 Convention (Toronto), non-guaranteed roundtable

Call for Papers

An Archipelagic Turn and the “Other Asias”: Planetary Care in Literature, Politics, Culture

August 4-6, 2025

Jeju National University

South Korea

Keynote: Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University, US

The Critical Island Studies Consortium announces a conference that aims to fundamentally challenge and reconceptualize our understanding of “Asia” by privileging an archipelagic perspective

“Confinement and Freedom”

Call for Papers

2025 Arkansas Philological Association Conference

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, October 3-4, 2025

One Short Day: An Online Symposium Celebrating Wicked

Deadline: May 30, 2025

Conference Date: June 27, 2025

Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific Time)

Abstract: 150 words + 50 word biographical statement + Time Zone

Submit to: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com 

Organizers: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona & Layal Dahi, California State Polytechnic University 

In her artist statement for Along the River of Spacetime (2020), a virtual reality “activation” of Anishinaabe star knowledge, scholar, artist, and video game designer Elizabeth LaPensée (Irish, Métis, Anishinaabe) described the ways in which Anishinaabe cosmologies anticipated a series of experiments carried out by CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the world's most advanced particle accelerator.