all recent posts

Book Reviews on Food, Drink, and Foodways

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 2:01am
Food and Foodways: Explorations in the History and Culture of Human Nourishment
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Food and Foodways is an interdisciplinary journal, and we're expanding our coverage of book reviews. If you are interested in writing a review of an interdisciplinary food studies book published in recent years, we invite you to express interest by contacting our new collective of book review editors at FandFbookreviews@gmail.com

Please include the author and title of the book, its publisher and publication date, and your credentials for writing this review. Additionally, if you would like to suggest a book for consideration, we welcome your recommendations.

East Asian National Memories As Manifested in Popular Culture Gender Dynamics

updated: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024 - 9:03pm
Volume: East Asian Popular Culture Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 2, 2024

Deadline: Monday, Dec 2, 2024, midnight PST

Notification: Wednesday, Dec 4, 2024

Contact: EastAsianPopCulture2025@gmail.com

 

Dear East Asian Studies Scholars,

We are seeking a few more chapters to round out our in-progress volume's Table of Contents. Please email with any questions on a chapter concept.

Although chapter abstracts will be considered, we’re seeking FULL-chapter submissions (6-8,000 words, including references) for a volume titled: 

East Asian National Memories

As Manifested in Popular Culture Gender Dynamics

Bloomsbury's Critical Plant Studies Book Series

updated: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024 - 11:48am
Bloomsbury Books
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, calls us to re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:

Bloomsbury's Environment and Society Book Series

updated: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024 - 11:48am
Bloomsbury Books
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Environment and Society, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. Learn more about the 30 books already in the series on the publisher’s website: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXES

History and Nostalgia: The 1950s in popular culture

updated: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024 - 5:05am
PopCRN - the Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the 1950s in popular culture. Held online on Thursday 28th and Friday 29th of March 2025.

The 1950s was the decade where the world began to recover from the tragedy of the Second World War. This conference aims to explore both the popular culture of the 1950s, and how the 1950s have been depicted in the popular culture of other eras.

The Magic Kingdom: Exploring Disney’s Impact on Popular Culture

updated: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024 - 5:04am
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is back with a virtual conference exploring all things Disney, to be held online on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th of September 2025.

Since the Walt Disney was founded his eponymous film studio in 1923, the Disney brand has been a mainstay of popular entertainment. The iconic Micky and Minnie Mouse head the line-up of an impressive array of characters and actors that have become cultural icons. Today Disney is a conglomerate of entertainment businesses, investing in theme parks, sports television, a cruise line, resort destinations, National Geographic Expeditions, clothing, games, and publishing.

Delicious, Nutritious and Fictious: Food in Popular Culture

updated: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024 - 5:04am
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Sydney, Australia and Zoom 25-26 September 2025

 

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free conference in Sydney and online exploring representations of food in popular cultures in history and today, on 25 and 26 September 2025.

Delicious, Nutritious and Fictitious: Food in Popular Culture is asymposium that aims to interrogate the ways that food, recipes, cooking, eating and nutrition are evident in popular culture. This may be representations of food in television, film, literature, art, music, as text, narrative, discourse or any other scholarly form or genre.

STaPs-22: The 22nd STaPs (Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende – ‘Linguistics Conference for Ph.D. students’)

updated: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024 - 2:41pm
STaPs-22
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

STaPs, as a conference by Ph.D. students for Ph.D. students, is unique among PhD conferences in that it welcomes both work in progress and work in the planning phase, as well as work that focuses on methodological issues/challenges rather than on completed research projects/ attained results. Projects of any area of linguistics can be presented (theoretical and descriptive linguistics as well as language acquisition, phonetics, psycho-, neuro-, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and computational linguistics; synchronic or diachronic).

 

The following categories are welcome:

Oral Presentations (15 min. + 10 min. Q&A) and Posters (30 min.)

Extended Deadline EDITED COLLECTION Sciences and Fictions: New Human Models Beyond Boundaries

updated: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024 - 2:35pm
Dr. Muhsin Yanar, Visiting Researcher, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, Birkbeck, University of London / Dr. Grace Halden, Senior Lecturer, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

 

Editors:

  • Dr. Muhsin Yanar, Visiting Researcher, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, Birkbeck, University of London
  • Dr. Grace Halden, Senior Lecturer, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
  • Dr. Pelin Kümbet, Department of Literatures in English, Visiting Researcher, Cornell University
  • Dr. Russell Kilbourn, Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

 contact email:

sciencesandfictions@gmail.com

 Presentation

An Edited Collection- Green Memories

updated: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024 - 1:25pm
Green Memories: The Temporal and Sensory Landscapes of Plant Life in Cultural Narratives
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Call for Papers

Title of the proposed edited collection:

Green Memories: The Temporal and Sensory Landscapes of Plant Life in Cultural Narratives

 

Irresistible Decay: Discourses of Death in Life from the 18th Century to Today

updated: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024 - 6:43am
Airelle Amédro; Enrica Leydi - University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024
  • Conference date and location: 07 March 2025 at the University of Warwick  
  • Confirmed keynote speakers:Professor Corinna Wagner (University of Exeter) and Professor Sarah Lamble (Birkbeck, University of London)

According to Julia Kristeva, decay is a ‘privileged site of mingling, of the contamination of life by death, of begetting and ending’ (1982). As a cyclic organic process where life and death inexorably meet, decay is an irresistible metaphor in social, artistic, medical, and political investigations. Since the 18th century, its malleable imagery has lent itself to both the most emancipatory and the most oppressive ideas.   

General Call for Papers

updated: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024 - 5:59am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished, interdisciplinary, research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.

Mapping Body Space Continuum in Urbanscapes

updated: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024 - 5:59am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Space is not defined objectively, but in relation to bodies, as it is a manifestation of their needs, intentions, and desires. It is not a container in which objects exist but is intertwined with the body’s orientation in the world and its movements within the space. Human body, therefore, is at the centre of all spaces, which are more than a geometrical concept in abstraction. Individual bodies apprehend and appropriate space differently and give meaning to embedded systems and institutions through established and evolving associations. Any assumption of personalised space, whether private or public, is embedded with historical, cultural, and social meanings which help curate embodied experiences.

The Function of Humour- A Transdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Friday, November 29, 2024 - 6:07pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

The Function of Humour
A Transdisciplinary Conference

Conference Date: January 28-30, 2025 
Format: Online Virtual Conference
Fees: £100 for non-members (excluding Eventbrite fees)
15% discount for LABRC Members
Proposal deadline: 20 December 2024

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/humour/

 

“Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.” – Mark Twain

(Also, it’s a pretty good excuse to host an academic conference where people can laugh while learning!)

Feeling Cultures / Culturing Feelings: Emotions and Affects in Cultural Practices

updated: 
Friday, November 29, 2024 - 3:16pm
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 14, 2024

Deadline now extended to December 14, 2024.

 

 

[W]e need to contest this understanding of emotion as ‘the unthought’, just as we need to contest the assumption that ‘rational thought’ is unemotional…
Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion

[DEADLINE EXTENDED - Taking Submissions until Nov. 29th] CFP - Graduate Student Conference: Universality Renewed (Cultural Studies & Comp Lit, UMN - Twin Cities)

updated: 
Friday, November 29, 2024 - 11:32am
Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature - University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 29, 2024

[DEADLINE EXTENDED - Taking Submissions until Nov. 29th] CSCL Graduate Conference - Universality Renewed - March 21st to 22nd, 2025. Minneapolis, MN.

Keynote Speaker: Todd McGowan, University of Vermont 

Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies 2025 Conference-Toronto

updated: 
Thursday, November 28, 2024 - 10:13pm
Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

CAPS (formerly CACLALS) 2025 from June 1 to 3, 2025
Proposals due: January 15, 2025

Keynote Speakers: TBA

Conference Theme: Postcolonial Studies, Sustainability, and Shared Futures

The Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies (formerly CACLALS) will host its annual conference from June 1 to 3, 2025, at (TBA) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

AI in Collecting

updated: 
Thursday, November 28, 2024 - 10:06pm
Popular Cultural Asscociation PCA/ACA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

The “Collecting and Collectibles Area” of the Popular Culture Association invites papers on “AI in Collecting” for the National PCA/ACA Conference to be held April 16-19, 2025 in New Orleans, USA. We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “AI in Collecting” and particularly address how collections/collectibles and their galleries/museums respond to the recent digital shifts and the tectonic evolution of AI technologies.

Possible topics for presentations include but are not limited to:

MÉLANGE 2025: URBAN CONTEMPLATIONS

updated: 
Thursday, November 28, 2024 - 7:46am
CHRIST UNIVERSITY BANGALORE CENTRAL CAMPUS
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

Translation Review, call for submissions

updated: 
Wednesday, November 27, 2024 - 3:09pm
Translation Review
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 17, 2025

The editors of Translation Review are inviting submissions. We are particularly interested translations of contemporary international writers into English and submissions that discuss the process and practical challenges of translating.

We would also be happy to consider and interviews with translators, manuscripts that address the concept of translation in the visual and musical arts (intersemiotic or multimodal translations), as well as submissions that address issues of machine translation, AI translations, and translation in the digital age in general. Proposals for special issues are also welcome.

The 2nd International Conference on Global Plant Humanities (2–3 May 2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 2:28pm
Global Plant Humanities Network
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Call For Papers

The 2nd International Conference on Global Plant Humanities

 

Date of Conference: 2–3 May 2025 (Friday-Saturday)

Mode:                         Hybrid

Host:                           Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Partners:                    Nulungu Institute, University of Notre Dame, Australia

Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya (affiliated with the University of Calcutta)

Gifts from the Sentient Forest (project supported by the Kone Foundation, Finland)

Location:                    Kathmandu, Nepal

Reinventing The Witch: Witchcraft and Sorcery in 21st Century Fiction and Film

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 1:35pm
Nazan Yıldız Çiçekçi and Cenk Tan
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Reinventing The Witch: Witchcraft and Sorcery in 21st Century Fiction and Film

 “Under Strong Interest” by McFarland’s "Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy" Series

-UPDATE on the CHAPTERS-

Editors’ Introduction

Pages