Latinx Fandoms

Editor: Frederick Luis Aldama

Despite the recent boom in fan studies scholarship—a field that has traditionally provided space for those deemed academically undisciplined—significant gaps remain in our understanding of the cultural impact of Latinx fan communities and scenes. With Latinx Fandoms I hope to address this by bringing together the work of extraordinary scholars to highlight Latinx practices, knowledges, and cultural innovations as fans, fandoms, and collective shapers of scenes.

The history of the Black Atlantic is rife with narratives of leaving and returns that can prove destabilizing factors, regarding identity and culture. Yet, it is in these stories, that a more complete image of the complexities of the lives of the people who traverse(d) the Black Atlantic becomes clearer. The literature of the men and women whose texts engage the 500-year history of the Black Atlantic narrative work to form a more nuanced image of Black life in the US, Caribbean, and Europe. In doing so, many of these works demonstrate the influence of African culture on members of the Diaspora through the inclusion of African spirituality in the texts.

Call for additional contributions to volume

Interdisciplinary Approaches to British Chinese Cultures: 

History, Representation, Diversity 

(under contract with Palgrave Macmillan)

Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2025

First drafts: 31 March 2025

Submission of manuscript: 1 July 2025

Théâtre et femmes au Québec et au Canada francophone

Dossier thématique de la revue Nouvelles études francophones (printemps/été 2026)

dirigé par Sandrine Duval, Nicole Nolette et Jimmy Thibeault

 Un appel à articles est lancé pour un dossier thématique de la revue Nouvelles études francophones (NÉF) sur le sujet de “Théâtre et femmes au Québec et au Canada francophone.”

Intraspection publishes academic work that exhibits compelling prose, captivating arguments,
and rhetorical flair. The journal seeks to meld academic writing with evolving forms and writing
styles. Intraspection invites submissions that explore and inquire in ways that mesh with our aim
to blend scholarship and creativity, emphasizing style and rhetorical flair to highlight content and
the development of provocative ideas.

New Perspectives on Creature Features

Edited by

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

The workshop aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and domain experts to exchange knowledge, address challenges, and outline future directions for developing explainable, interpretable, and transparent AI systems. It focuses on advancing Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) by incorporating knowledge and semantics as core components. Contributions will address “demystifying the black-box” nature of AI and tailoring explanations to diverse user expertise levels, supporting equitable and fair decision-making for long-term sustainability. The workshop seeks to overcome the challenges of embedding semantic abstractions into intelligent information systems.

Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference
24-25 July 2025, University of Queensland, Australia

Keynote Speaker: Professor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford)

 “Common Time: Enclosure and the Renaissance,” a symposium organized by 

Theatre Topics Special Issue Call for Papers: Whose Story? Resisting and Reimagining Master Narratives 

Theatre tells stories; and theatre historically have been telling certain stories more than others. Examining several larger factors such as classicization, canonization, colonialism, racism and sexism, this special issue of Theatre Topics invites inquiries into ways in which theatre classics and canons may have formed historically, and the ways in which we are grappling with epistemic violence of erasure in our contemporary relationship with master narratives across the world. 

Graduate Journal of Food StudiesSpecial Issue: Food and Loss

Loss permeates our lives, shaping our relationships with food, culture, and each other. How does the experience of loss transform our food systems, traditions, and identities? From ecological devastation to personal grief, food is inextricably tied to how we process and remember what has been lost.

Cadernos de Fraseoloxía Galega (CFG), an international journal on phraseological and paremiological research edited by Centro Ramón Piñeiro para a Investigación en Humanidades (Xunta de Galicia), is seeking submissions of contributions for its twenty-seventh issue, concerning the topics covered in the Imago Mundi. An Overview of Metaphor: Creativity, Phraseology and Discourse conference held in Cagliari in 2024, that is, metaphor and imagery, but also subjects related to phraseology or paremiology: for instance, idiomatic, metaphorical, graphic, conceptual and cultural phraseology.

Working Title - Planet Flanagan: Essays on the Netflix Series of Mike Flanagan

Mike Flanagan has steadily made a significant name for himself in horror, garnering praise for his originality in films such as Oculus (2013) and Hush (2016), and further critical acclaim for works like Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Gerald’s Game (2017) and especially his adaptation of Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep (2019).

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Call for Papers: IEEE QSW 2025
2025 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON QUANTUM SOFTWARE (QSW 2025)
PART OF THE 2025 IEEE WORLD CONGRESS ON SERVICES (SERVICES 2025)

When and Where: July 7-12, 2025 in Helsinki, Finland
Website: https://services.conferences.computer.org/2025/qsw/
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