In all medical practices, two goals stand out: to cure and to care. In a vernacular context, care is discursive, relational, and mutual, while cure is linear, utilitarian, and quantifiable. In his book Care and Cure: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Medicine, Jacob Stegenga iterates on two sides of the care-cure conundrum: “[...] when an intervention mitigates harm then it provides some care, and when an intervention mitigates abnormal biological functioning
then it goes some way toward cure.”

The 2025 ELLAK International Conference
“Rethinking English Studies in the Age of New Media”

Organized by The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK)

Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea

December 18-20, 2025

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Taek-Gwang Lee, Kyung Hee University, Korea

Ted Underwood, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA

Slavoj Žižek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Cinema and Posthuman Bodies

Edited by Asijit Datta 

Conference online (via Zoom): 24-25 April 2025

All details: 7th "Memory, Affects and Emotions" Conference

CFP:​

Affects, emotions and perceptions have always been at the center of philosophical discussion. Yet the so-called “Affective turn” in social studies and humanities is a relatively new phenomenon inspired by Deleuze and Guattari´s influential works among others. Affective turn challenges the still dominant representational approach in semiotics, discourse analysis and text analyses of all kinds.

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We are seeking critical papers from all academic disciplines on the Korean Wave for an edited collection titled Cosmopolitan Korean Wave. 

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Call for Papers

Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies 

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2025 SWPACA Summer Salon

June 26-28, 2025

Virtual Conference

https://swpaca.org/ 

Submissions open on March 25, 2025

Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2025

Macquarie University (Sydney, AU) and online, 16-18 July 2025 

Life and art are entangled. […] Art makes life new. We become something different in an art world. And crucially, our world has always been an art world.  

(Alva Noë, The Entanglement, 2023)

This is an updated version of a previously submitted CfP for Planet Flanagan, a collection examining the Netflix series of Mike Flanagan. The call for chapters was very successful and we have some great work in progress, but we are still missing chapters covering two key content areas:

• Gender/Sexuality
• Space/Architecture

So, this is a specific call for submissions for chapters of about 10,000 words looking at these topic areas across all five of Mike Flanagan's Netflix series. The original call for chapters is replicated just below to give more detail.

Echoes of the Past in Written Memories: The Latinx Experience, is a creative session where participants will share a written piece that embodies a memory embracing oblivion, aligning with this year's conference theme. The session will be bilingual, and both English and/or Spanish texts are welcome. Submissions welcome include essays, poems and short stories.

https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19503

The Antiracism Permanent Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) is requesting abstracts from prospective panelists for this year’s in-person conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With this year’s conference theme— “The Humanities is Where Hope Lives”—as a foundation, this section calls for scholarly work that connects antiracism work with hope along with resilience. When researching or performing antiracist work, there is the risk of focusing on the despair brought on by racism without highlighting ways communities have and continue to build and foster resilience.

Discernment as Process/Method

Soapbox 7.0: call for papers

Between Bodies and Homes

— peer reviewed; open to critical and artistic work; submission deadline: April 30; extended proposals —

The Posthuman Studies panel is interested in papers that investigate the ongoing transformation of a human subject in social, political, and transhistorical contexts. Since the introduction of Cartesian duality, as opposed to the British Empirical monism, the field of literary studies has investigated the role of language and cognition. This panel is looking for papers that deal with literary theory, early modern philosophy, and English literature by analyzing what it means to be human and posthuman.