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INTERDISCIPLINARY; COMPARATIVE; GRADUATE - PROFESSIONAL DEVLOPMENT
Graduate students are invited to present on Dress and Fashion of Baroque Spain at the Boca Raton Museum of Art on March 27, 2025. The conference will be held in the Museum’s Wolgin Education Center, 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, FL 33432.
Calling all artists, essayists, and creative writers!
The editorial board of Unearthed, the environmental art and literary journal published by SUNY College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry, is thrilled to announce that we're now accepting submissions.
We invite essayists, creative writers, poets, artists, photographers, and creatives of all kinds to submit to our upcoming issue, exploring the themes of Transition & Transformation. We're excited to publish your work!
The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, Linda Peterson. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to support one scholar for four full-time months to enable him or her to conduct a research project on the British periodical and newspaper press of the long nineteenth century. It was created with funds from a generous bequest to RSVP by the late Eileen Curran, pioneering researcher and Emerita Professor of English at Colby College.
Within Cli-Fi, Anthropocene Literature, Speculative Futurism, and visual cultures of the Anthropocene, increasing attention and sympathy have been given to the non-humans in narratives of climate crisis. From films like 20th Century Fox’s Planet of the Apes reboot to texts such as Ted Chaing’s Parrots of The Great Silence, The Strange Bird of Jeff VanderMeer’s same-named Novella, and the Elk-Headed Woman of Stephen Graham Jones’ The Only Good Indians, to visual works like Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s The Substitute, Animal perspectives have never been more prevalent in narratives of human-driven climate catastrophe.
The Oswald Review is an international, refereed journal of undergraduate criticism and research in the discipline of English. Published annually, The Oswald Review accepts submissions from undergraduates in this country and abroad (with a professor’s endorsement).
Call for Proposals
Masculinities and Men’s Studies
(formerly known as Men and Men’s Studies)
National Popular/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) Conference
April 16-19, 2025
New Orleans, LA
Proposals on any aspect of masculinities and/or men’s studies are welcome; however, the following topics are of particular interest:
The Saul Bellow Society will host one session at the American Literature Association Annual Conference in Boston, on May 21-24, 2025. Proposals are welcome for paper presentations of 15-20 minutes in length concerning any aspect of Saul Bellow's work or life, including comparisons with other authors. We welcome proposals from graduate students, newer scholars, independent scholars, and established scholars alike.
The 16th Annual Research, Art, Writing Conference
March 1, 2025, University of Texas at Dallas
Call For Papers: RAW 2025
BAIT, PROMPTS, and AID: The Power and Poetics of Engagement
in Art, Technology, History, and Human Nature/Nurture
Call for Papers
Proposals due Monday, December 2, 2024
Asian Cinemas Encounter the Cold War
Friday, March 28, 2025 – Saturday, March 29, 2025
FedEx Global Education Center, UNC-Chapel Hill
“That’s for the future to say”: Eudora Welty in the 21st Century
Eudora Welty Society International Conference
Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi, April 9-13, 2025
Call for Papers
The Good Life beyond Optimism and Pessimism:
Philosophy –– Ideology –– Affective Materialities
International Conference
University of Augsburg, 9-11 October 2025
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Joshua Foa Dienstag (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Katrin Röder (TU Dortmund)
In 2008, the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) released its 70th anniversary manifesto reaffirming film’s status as the “optimal archival storage” of the moving image. “Don’t throw film away!” they urged, for unlike its digital successors, film elements tangibly embody traces of their own material history alongside a bygone cultural heritage. “No matter what technologies may emerge,” they write, existing film elements “connect us to the certainties of the past.”
#IFM2025 Resonances Conference
June 10-13, 2025, via Zoom
The 7th Interactive Film and Media Annual Conference invites you to engage with the theme "Resonances," exploring how media fosters deep, meaningful connections in our daily lives. This year’s conference delves into how personal and communal experiences shape our interactions and understanding of the world. We encourage submissions that critically engage with the theme and its subtopics, including:
Response: How do we form thoughtful responses to crises in an unstable world?
In On Revolution, Hannah Arendt celebrated what she called “the revolutionary spirit”: a set of political principles that combines a commitment to invent new institutions with a concern for those institutions’ durability. Arendt believed that all genuine revolutions in the modern world had been inspired by the revolutionary spirit, though “the failure of thought and remembrance” had, time and again, led to its disappearance. Indeed, a focus on the act of collective foundation—and a grave worry about the disappearance of the conditions under which such founding can take place—can be found across Arendt’s oeuvre, from Origins of Totalitarianism to her writings on American politics in the 1970s.
Call for paper for a Special issue of Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
Educators in Popular Culture: Educational Settings as Sites of Intersectional Struggle
Special Issue Editors: Jennifer Esposito and Tanja Burkhard
Popular culture is an educative space and, as such, we learn about ourselves and others
through our engagement with popular culture forms (Edwards & Esposito, 2020).
Expressions of popular culture that highlight educational settings, specifically schools and
Antonym Magazine invites contributions of English translations from any language for its quarterly print magazine and its online version in the following categories.
The magazine also invites critical essays that engage with various aspects of translations and interviews with translators.
In case you have queries please mail for clarifications.
Contributions are invited on a rolling basis. For the February issue, contributions should reach the magazine by the 30th of November 2024. Please mail contributions to submissionmag@antonymcollection.com
Special Issue: Reconceptualizing Sustainability Literacies
Action on behalf of life transforms…as we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Call for Papers
Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024
Young Researchers’ Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences-2024
Conference Date: 09.12.2024—13.12.2024
Location: Department of Humanities and Social sciences, IIEST, Shibpur
Abstract Submission Deadline: 12.11.2024
Notification of Acceptance: 19.11.2024
Submission of Full Paper: 01.12.2024
Last Date for Registration: 26.11.2024
Email Id for submission of Abstract: yrc2024.iiests@gmail.com
Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes
Literary and Cultural Responses to Racial and Migratory Politics
University of Kent
23 – 24 June 2025
‘Laws try to rationalise the border regime which fundamentally ignores the humanity of those who move. Knowing this, let’s take as our root and starting position the reality that no human is illegal.’ —Leah Cowan, Border Nation: A Story of Migration
This is a call for book chapters for Orientalism after 9/11 to be published by a major publisher
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies. A Quarterly
“The Cultural Politics of 1776: Rethinking an American Moment”
Guest Editors: Alexandra Hartmann (Paderborn University)
and Antonia Purk (University of Erfurt)
Deadline for abstracts: November 20, 2024
Deadline for full papers: March 31, 2025
Publication: 2026
Mythology in Contemporary Culture
at the
Annual Conference of the
Popular Culture Association
New Orleans Marriott April 1-19, 2024
Call for Papers
Call for Submissions: The RAACES Review, Volume 3, Issue 1 (2025).
For our third publication (2025), our focus is international solidarity and we invite academic and creative pieces about racial empowerment, racism, racialization, Indigeneity, and anticolonial practice in any field. We welcome submissions from students (undergraduate and graduate) -- especially international students; staff; faculty of all levels; and community members. We are particularly interested in:
Call for papers: Visual Culture, Popular Culure Association 2025
An inherently interdisciplinary field, visual culture studies investigates images, media, and art in the contexts of sharing, producing, consuming, saving, and communicating. What defines visual culture, perhaps, is its resistance to definition. WJT MItchell’s (2002) landmark essay summed it up coherently when we proposed 8 “counter-theses,” two of which read as follows:
“Visual culture encourages reflection on the differences between art and non-art, visual and verbal signs, and rations between different sensory and semiotic modes.
“To be neurodivergent is to reclaim the pathologizing aspects of a long-term cognitive diagnosis and to reclaim one’s neuro-status as a possible position from which to claim resources, representation and recognition” (Stenning and Bertisldottir Rosqvist 1535).
Imagining the Impossible: International Journal for the Fantastic in Contemporary MediaCFP for Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025)Theme: Old
This international, peer-reviewed journal is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the fantastic in today’s entertainment media, including film, literature, television, games, comic books, animated films, theme parks, and online forums. The journal is double blind peer-reviewed and has 1-2 issues per year.
Volume 4, Issue 1: Old (Fall 2025)
*This is a hybrid interdisciplinary conference funded by the Humanities Research Centre at the University of Warwick, accompanied by potential publication opportunities.*
In A Dying Colonialism (1959), Frantz Fanon, one of the most significant thinkers on decolonisation, writes firmly:
‘There is not occupation of territory, on the one hand, and independence of persons on the other. It is the country as a whole, its history, its daily pulsation that are contested, disfigured, in the hope of a final destruction’ (p. 65).
Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies (NCGS) is published three times a year—spring, fall and a specially-themed summer issue—and accepts both scholarly articles and book reviews year-round. We welcome articles of 5,000-8,000 words on gender studies and British literature, art, and culture during the long nineteenth century. Submissions should conform to the most recent MLA Handbook and must include a brief biographical note which will be posted if accepted for publication. Submissions must not have been previously published, in whole or in part, either in print or online.
Divination, Witchcraft & the Occult *SPECIAL TOPIC*
Popular Culture Association Conference
16-19 April 2025
New Orleans, Louisiana, US
The broad interest in divination, witchcraft, and the occult has been part of popular culture for centuries. Scholars’ discomfort with the topic is often palpable: they tend to focus on intersections that feel more legitimate, e.g. legal ramifications (laws against occult practice, witch trials etc), or archival documents, or simply sticking to fictional accounts.