Call for Papers: What is Asian Cinema? 

14th Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference 2025 (May 22-24, 2025) 

University of Hong Kong

FEMSPEC Journal is looking for writers to join their review team in the areas of speculative fiction, sci-fi and fantasy (including dark fantasy or horrort), myth, and utopian/dystopian texts.

Creative and scholarly texts are both covered. Books and films, as well as other media, are all considered.

Opportunities to submit once are available, and regular contributor positions are also open.

Here are several lists of upcoming or recent titles, but reviewers are welcome to suggest titles for approval, also.

MYSTIC GALAXY, 

https://www.mystgalaxy.com/upcoming-sff.

LIBRARY JOURNAL,

Why Shakespeare? Why now? Why here? These important questions come up time and again in academic and performance discussions of the Bard as we grapple with the inherent tensions of studying and producing Shakespeare today. Even the encyclopedia Britannica participates in the ongoing dialogue with an entry—albeit a short one—defending “why is Shakespeare still important today?” In the midst of an ongoing (r)evolution, this roundtable seeks to address the pressing why-now-here questions as they apply to considerations of Shakespeare in all forms with a focus on adaptation, performance, and pedagogy.

Title: Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving

ACLA Conference Dates: May 29–June 1, 2025, Online

Call for Papers and Book Chapters

In humanities, food, feeding, and feedback come together under one umbrella of human nature, culture, and creativity. Within this context fall the ethical, epistemological, phenomenological, and political tropes of food, calling for understanding and interrogation.

Food as a thematic focus in art has acquired a wide range of meanings related to consumption and consumerism, the search for and the loss of identity, localization/globalization, and high/pop culture. In literature, food has also been used as a metaphor for gender roles, human desires, power dynamics, and social status.

The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar.  The prize carries with it an award of $300, and the prize-winning essay will be published in HJR.

The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic appointment for more than four years. Independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to apply.

Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under submission elsewhere or previously published.  Please send electronic submssions in Microsoft Word format and a current CV to hjamesr@creighton.edu.

UCI Premodern Graduate Humanities Conference 2025: February 14, 2025

Call for Papers

Corporeality and Incorporation: The Body in Literature and Culture Pre-1800

Keynote speaker: Professor Maggie Vinter (Case Western Reserve University)

“By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world.”

- Portia, Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association, invites contributions to a special issue on ‘Unseen Shakespeares’, broadly conceived.  Topics covered might include (but are not limited to) bedtricks; things that happen off or under the stage; invisibility; ‘ghost’ characters; events which the audience is called upon to imagine; lines or scenes which are frequently cut in performance; and topics, issues or characters which have historically been marginalised or have failed to attract critical attention.  Please send abstracts of c.

South-South Connections in the Eighteenth Century (sponsored by the Race & Empire Caucus) [ID 95]
Co-chairs: Jeremy Chow, Bucknell University, j.chow@bucknell.edu, Mona Narain, Texas Christian University, m.narain@tcu.edu

Breathing in the Global South

Panel proposed for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres
July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park

CFP for JWLS 2025

Wyndham Lewis: Collaboration, Influence, Impact

From his uneasy alliance with first-wave feminists to his role as a frontman for state-sponsored attempts to popularise the inter-war avant-garde in 1950s radio, Wyndham Lewis’s collaborative endeavours are as varied as they are surprising.

In her introduction to Living with the Weather: Climate Change, Ecology, and Displacement in South Asia, Piya Srinivasan emphasizes that the focus of the essays in the collection is to “imagine and investigate non-human spaces: charlands, crumbling coastlines, land facing desertification.” (Srinivasan 7) In a reportage-based essay in this anthology, investigating climate migration from the Sundarbans, Dipanjan Sinha discusses the present condition of these marshlands. He argues that the unique ecological and economic challenges faced by the land and its people include salination of water, challenges of relocation in fast-disappearing island communities, and climate migration – all being results of colonial policies of land degradation.

American Academy of Religion, Western Region 2025 Conference 
"Performing Religions, Faith, and Spirituality" -- Arizona State University March 14-16, 2025
https://www.aarwr.com/call-for-papers.html
Proposals Due October 31, 2024

Religious Studies intersects with every aspect of our lives: political, spiritual, pastoral, creative,  performative, and relational. The study of religious life, thought, and practice touches upon our identities, responsibilities, and cultures. It can help us to explore our own selves as we acknowledge the diversity of religious expression across time and space

Call for Papers

Children’s/Young Adult Culture

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024