South Asian Expressions: Reimagining Narratives, Histories, and Cultures

South Asian literature presents an intricate and layered depiction of the life, history, and identity of the people within their geopolitical spaces of belonging and beyond. These narratives delve into the socio-political complexities, cultural tensions, and resilient identities shaped by colonial legacies and postcolonial realities. Addressing themes such as the impact of British colonialism and the upheavals of national and cultural divisions, this body of literature intricately portrays intersections of gender, caste, religion, and class, capturing the evolving dimensions of South Asian identity.

Call for Papers:

The Turn to Podcasts as a Mass Campaign Medium
Special Issue of The Journal of Radio and Audio Media
Dr. Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Prof. Kim Fox, American University in Cairo

Dr. Aram Sinnreich, American University

The Journal of Radio and Audio Media (JRAM), the world’s premier radio research journal, is published semi-annually by the Broadcast Education Association. JRAM is dedicated to radio research and the new technology redefining radio’s traditional use.

The Function of Beauty: A Transdisciplinary Conference

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”

— Khalil Gibran

Conference Dates: April 24-25, 2025
Location:

Day 1-Pembroke Lodge (Richmond Park, London) / Online (Hybrid Format)

Day 2- Online only
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 1, 2025
Cost: 180 GBP (in person)
100 GBP (Online)

Call for Papers: Performing Imaginary Futures: Utopian (and Dystopian) Performativity

Cultural Studies Association (CSA) 2025 Annual Conference
 29-31 May 2025

California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
Imaginary Futures: Utopias, Dystopias & Protopias of Cultural Studies

The Performance Working Group of the Cultural Studies Association invites proposals for individual papers and pre-constituted panels for the 2025 Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Annual Conference. 

Un)welcome Imaginaries: (Non-)Fiction Literature on Fundamental Rights

International Interdisciplinary Conference (online)

12-13th December 2025

Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland)

Call for papers

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Abstracts now due January 30, 2025

Soil/Soiling
An interdisciplinary, graduate-student conference hosted by the Department of English, Brandeis University

Call for Papers: Hopkins as Classicist 

A Special Issue of The Hopkins Quarterly 

The ‘difficulties’ of the old Greek philosophers, Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote, ‘cannot be pooh-poohed: some perhaps are really resolved, but generally they exist still’.

This special issue of the Hopkins Quarterly seeks to understand the invigorating influence of classical thought on Hopkins’ intellectual life. 

To mark the conclusion of a biennial research carried out by four Italian Universities (Siena, Turin, Florence, and Naples “L’Orientale”), the scientific committee of the PRIN 2022 Project Monsters, Sorcerers, and Witches of Northwestern Europe: The Medieval and Early Modern Construction of Otherness in Literature for Popular Audiences invites abstract submissions for a three-day international conference, to be hosted at the University of Siena on 9-11 July 2025.

This year the Latina/o/x Literature & Culture Society welcomes submissions focusing on diverse topics including literary genre, single authors, children’s literature, speculative fiction, comparative analyses, as well as cultural studies approaches. The society also encourages a variety of theoretical and interdisciplinary prisms, and a variety of panel types, including traditional paper sessions, roundtable discussions, and sessions dedicated to the teaching of Latina/o/x literature and culture.

Conference online: 13-14 February 2025

CFP:

In the context of wider postcolonial and decolonial shifts that have occurred in both critical and popular thought over the past decades, we have seen growing interests in recovering and recentering histories of Islamic civilizations and their shaping influence on knowledge, systems,and technologies that we now associate with the modern world. Whether recognized as the powerful authorities that transformed trade, belief, politics, science, and art in the premodernworld, or as the ‘other’ necessary for Western colonial self-fashioning, as per Edward Said’s formative theorization of them in Orientalism, there is no denying that Muslims and Islamicate societies hold a fundamental place in our (global) past.

The 21st century has been marked as an emerging epoch of new discourses with a dynamic change of intellectual, methodological, epistemological and critical avenues of research to address the swiftly changing nuances of social, political, economic, personal and professional lives of human beings all over the world. Researchers have embraced innovative approaches, methodologies and pedagogies to navigate the new complex frontiers of 21st Century. As the world grapples with multifaceted challenges such as climate change, economic inequality, and global health crises, the need for innovative approaches to economic development has become more urgent than ever.

4th EDITION THEME: Do Films Lie?

"Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth."
Michael Haneke

Cinema exists within the narrative frame that the director or writer chooses. How closely that reflects reality is entirely arbitrary. Yet it is undeniable that like all art, film plays a fundamental role in shaping the way we think about politics, culture, identity, and social norms.

Call for Proposals: Thinking Politics Book Series (Edinburgh University Press)

Artificial intelligence, technological oligarchy, the environment in distress, a growing authoritarianism and postcolonial imperialism — just some of the flashpoints of the current millennium.

And yet, from the margins, fresh voices emerge, innovative social movements and protest coalitions arise and challenge technocracy and populism.

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Who are the thinkers who can seed the changes that matter most to us today?

How can political theory take us forward, in positive ways?