Issue 40 - Diffraction: Open Call for Current Topics in Visual & Cultural Studies

Deadline: Submissions due by March 1, 2025 to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu. 

“Abrahamic Religions and Religious Others”  - Call for Papers

International Network for Interreligious Research and Education |
Date:  July 21–25, 2024
Location: Katholische Akademie Berlin

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.

The concept of subalternity, rooted in Antonio Gramsci’s theoretical framework and later expanded in postcolonial studies by thinkers like Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, has been central to understanding the dynamics of power, representation, and marginalization. Subalternity refers to those groups and individuals excluded from hegemonic structures of power, whose voices are systematically silenced by dominant discourses. In contemporary literature, the subaltern is no more a passive subject of marginalization but an active agent of resistance, contestation, and self-articulation. Contemporary literature has become a critical space for the articulation of subaltern experiences, foregrounding the voices of those who have historically been denied agency.

Performance ResearchVolume 30, Issue 6 - On Scores

Deadline: 13 January 2025

Issue Editors: Kevin Egan, Michael Pinchbeck, Rachel Rimmer-Piekarczyk and Jane Turner

Thoreau Annual Gathering

July 9 – 13, 2025

 Ralph Waldo Emerson Society

 Emersonian Revolutions Today

The (post)memory working group provides a platform to the scholars of memory studies to engage with the thematic and theoretical interventions in (post)memory studies. It also offers an opportunity to the scholars to embrace the complexity of (post)memory; navigate the intersections of identity; and explore the nuances of belonging in a world marked by division. The group invites the scholars to examine the ways (post)memory reflects the analogical nature of memory in postmodern world that triangulates the dominant forms including prosthetic, polyphonic and transcultural memories by revisiting the reconstruction of violence, identity, and cultural displacement.

10-12th June 2025, University of Stirling

BACLS are delighted to open for proposals for their 2025 conference which, for the first time, will be held in Scotland at the University of Stirling.