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Seeking Monograph Peer Reviewers: Lit, Film, Gender & Transitional Justice

updated: 
Sunday, January 26, 2025 - 8:36am
Tailor
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

We're seeking PEER REVIEWERS for a monograph for Lexington Books:

Contactlilatailor595@gmail.com

Monograph info:

Transmedia Explorations of Cannibalism: Dehumanizing Accusations and Empowering Rebuttals (Lexington Books: Monsters and Villains series)

This transmedia monograph takes the theoretical perspective of “cannibalism as discourse.” It includes ten chapters that focus on an accusation of cannibalism and then a counter-culture pushback that uses cannibalism as a source of contemplation, empowerment, and/or returns the accusation of cannibalism back to the hegemonic culture. 

The Handbook of Trans Cinema

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 10:09pm
Douglas Vakoch
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Chapter proposals are invited for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. Join confirmed contributors like Cáel M. Keegan, author of Lana and Lilly Wachowski: Sensing Transgender. We seek a broadly international group of scholarly contributors. 

Extended Deadline: Call for Chapter on Morgan Spurlock's "30 Days" Reality Series on the FX Channel

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 4:37pm
David Pierson, University of Southern Maine & Brian Faucette, Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute USA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

This is a call for chapter proposals on the late Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days reality TV series (2005-08) on the FX Channel for the FX Reader, an anthology of FX's best original TV series, which is under a two-volume book contract with Syracuse University Press.  In each 30 Days episode, Spurlock, or some other person or group of people, would spend 30 days immersing themselves in a particular lifestyle or environment with which they are not familiar, which include such topics as working for minimum wage, being in prison, a Christian living as a Muslim, and others.

Beyond Green: Intersections of Ecology, Culture and Conservation

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 8:03am
Dr. Rajkumar Bera and Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Beyond Green: Intersections of Ecology, Culture and Conservation

(Proposed as part of Bloomsbury’s Environment and Society series)

Editors: Dr. Rajkumar Bera and Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash

Introduction

A TWO-DAY ONLINE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND NATION BUILDING THROUGH LITERATURE (YDNBL)

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:33am
Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Sriperumbudur
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

A TWO-DAY ONLINE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND NATION BUILDING THROUGH LITERATURE (YDNBL) on MARCH 4 & 5, 2025

ORGANIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, RGNIYD

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

Department of English in RGNIYD hosts a two-day online conference on Youth Development and Nation Building through Literature (YDNBL), exploring the role of literature in youth empowerment and nation-building. The conference aims to foster collaborations that can lead to actionable outcomes in promoting youth empowerment through literature and cultural studies.

Representation of Repression in Contemporary Francophone Women Writings.

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:32am
Patience Odeh/ University of Connecticut
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention 2025 (RMMLA)

Women in French

Call for Papers

Representation of Repression in Contemporary Francophone Women Writings.

Call for Submissions: Play in the Long Nineteenth Century

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:32am
Romance, Revolution and Reform: The Journal of the Southampton Centre for Nineteenth-Century Research
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 18, 2025

Romance, Revolution and Reform, Issue 8Play in the Long Nineteenth Century Call for Submissions

MLA Special Session Women and Physical Objects

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:32am
2026 MLA Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

2026 MLA Convention in Toronto, Canada, January 8-11, 2026

Special Session Title: Women and Physical Objects

We invite proposals exploring women’s encounters and interactions with physical objects in all literary and cultural products across history and regions. Comparative, interdisciplinary, and transnational approaches are welcome.

Email your 250-word proposal and a 150-word cv to Haihong Yang, hyang@udel.edu and Wanming Wang, wanming.wang@mail.mcgill.ca, by 3/15.

Deadline for submission: March 15, 2025.

[MLA 2026] Comparative Comfort Women Studies

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:32am
Modern Language Association 2026 - Toronto, Canada
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

The scholarly research on Comfort Women studies has grown significantly over the past three decades, focusing on the experiences of women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. Early works primarily centered on the historical and legal aspects, analyzing the testimonies of survivors and the geopolitical ramifications of Japan's wartime actions. Studies such as Yoshimi Yoshiaki's Comfort Women (1995) and the testimonies collected by organizations like the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery highlighted the widespread nature of the system and the ongoing struggles for justice.

Enthusiasm: A Political Affect? 

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:32am
Rutgers University Graduate Student Conference in German Studies 
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Enthusiasm: A Political Affect? 

Keynote Speaker: Avital Ronell 

24-25 April 2025 

Science and Society in the Age of Revolutions

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:32am
American Philosophical Society - Science History Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 3, 2025

As the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence drives increased interest in the founding of the United States, this conference, co-hosted by the American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum and the Science History Institute aims to widen the scope of such conversations. Inspired in part by the APS’s 2025 exhibition, Philadelphia: The Revolutionary City and “America’s Scientific Revolutionaries,” a multiyear project funded by the Lounsbery Foundation we invite proposals from scholars from all disciplines whose research illuminates the intersections of science and society in the Atlantic World between 1764 and 1804. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

"American Narratives and Video Games" Special Issue of American, British and Canadian Studies

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:32am
American, British and Canadian Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

American, British and Canadian Studies

Special Issue

American Narratives and Video Games

December 2025

Call for Papers

 

Guest Editors

Francesca Razzi, “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara (francesca.razzi@unich.it)

Valentina Romanzi, University of Torino and University of Verona (valentina.romanzi@unito.it)

 

Forms and Discourses of Spirituality and Materialism

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:31am
IASEMS Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 24, 2025

The Sixteenth IASEMS Conference

Tuscia University (Viterbo), 29-30 September 2025 Convenors: Alba Graziano and the IASEMS Executive Board

Waters: Fluidity and Crossing in Shakespeare and Early Modern Texts

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:31am
IASEMS Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 24, 2025

The Fifteenth IASEMS Conference

University of Salento (Lecce), 16-17 May 2025
Convenors: Maria Luisa De Rinaldis, Maria Renata Dolce and the IASEMS Executive Board

The Fifteenth IASEMS Conference in Lecce, University of Salento, 16-17 May 2025, will investigate the imaginary of waters in Shakespeare and early modern texts, aiming at the exploration of notions of fluidity and crossing. The conference wishes to investigate what meanings, both personal and collective, circulated around ‘water’ in early modern culture, but also to discuss the water-related relevance and value of the ideas of shapelessness and transformation, mutability and sea change as opposed to fixity, solidity, and normativity.

Symphonies of Imagination - Issue #4 - Education - Print

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:31am
Symphonies of Imagination
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 6, 2025

The issue’s topic revolves around Education and will challenge our anthropogenic philosophies.

It will be an exploration into what education actually means and what alternative philosophies could replace the current, education is for getting a good job and becoming a productive worker, expanding the economy, to something more holistic, more socially beneficial and more forward thinking.

All of this can be answered with fictional stories, philosophical papers, poems or personal essays.

The Anthropocene has a deficit of philosophy that looks at the world from a different point of view, instead of the one prescribed, centralised, accepted narrative.

Call For Papers - CFP

Engaging the Local Public Humanities in St. Louis Colloquium & Workshop

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:31am
Michael Henderson, Washington University in St. Louis
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Call for Papers: Engaging the Local Public Humanities in St. Louis Colloquium & Workshop
Colloquium Date: April 18, 2025
Location: Washington University in St. Louis
Deadline for Submissions: March 1, 2025

“Landscapes of the Mind: Narratives of Cultural Encounters” - Anda International Conference, 25-26 SEPTEMBER 2025

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:31am
Università del Salento, Lecce - Italy
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 2, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Landscapes Of the Mind: Narratives of Cultural Encounters

Anda International Conference

Università del Salento, Lecce – Italy

25-26 September 2025

 

 

Landscapes of the Mind: Narratives of Cultural Encounters explores how different cultures perceive, interpret, and narrate their experiences and interactions. Possible topics related to the conference include:

 

2025 Conference of The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:31am
The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 28, 2025

Our third annual conference on May 2-3 via Zoom! This online conference is free to attend. Please use this link to register to present or attend: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeSiuxTNYFJPUPxF1gAdfH1pQthfjig...

Submissions may cover any aspect of literature, film, or art related to science fiction, fantasy, or fairy tale in the Long Nineteenth Century (approximately 1789 to 1918). Also welcome are presentations on tv, film, and video game adaptations of nineteenth-century texts, or on works that re-envision the nineteenth century through science fiction or fantasy. Submissions to present are due by March 28.

CFP: Dracula: A Companion

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:31am
Matthew Crofts (University of Hull), Maddy Potter (University of Edinburgh)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

CFP: Dracula: A Companion

Matthew Crofts & Maddy Potter

Dracula: A Companion is intended to both be an essential guide to interpreting Bram Stoker’s Dracula and a collection of new perspectives supporting a reshaping of the way the text is taught and engaged with by students. 

Radical Retellings: New Perspectives on Greek Myth in Contemporary Writing

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:31am
Isabelle Berrow, Zoe Enstone, and Anne-Marie Evans
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 7, 2025

Are Greek myths, as Charlotte Higgins argued for The Guardian in 2021, ‘relevant for all time’? This question relates to the widespread influence of ancient Greek myth in contemporary culture, especially in areas such as literature. The classical stories of Homer and Sophocles, amongst others, are frequently being revised to offer a modern entry point to ancient myth. In recent years, publishing has seen a sharp rise in re-imaginings of Greek myth, and works by Pat Barker, Margaret Atwood, Madeline Miller, Natalie Haynes, Jennifer Saint, Bea Fitzgerald, and Jessie Burton, have all appeared on bestseller lists. 

Symposium at ABRALIC 2025: The Forms of Academic Work

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:30am
Tim Lanzendörfer
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

We are looking for submissions to a symposium as part of the 2025 Brazilian Association for Comparative Literature Conference "Redes, Margens et Rios," held June 23-28 in Manaus, Brazil. The symposium format is designed to allow for a several day working period over the course of the conference's days (depending on number of submissions). We are looking for 250 words abstracts for 20 minute presentations on the below topic. We expect to combine presentations, working periods, and discussion elements over the course of two to three days.

Migration Histories to Finland: Global Movements, Local Impacts

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:30am
Faravid – Journal for Historical and Archaeological Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Call For Papers

Special issue:        Faravid – Journal for Historical and Archaeological Studies

Publication date:    Spring 2026

Guest editors:        Moussa Pourya Asl, Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, and Johanna Leinonen

Language:              Finnish, English, German or Swedish

 

Migration Histories to Finland: Global Movements, Local Impacts

Shakespeare in Spirit

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:30am
Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

We are very pleased to announce that the 2025 Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association Conference will take place in person from Wednesday, 2 July to Friday, 4 July, hosted by the University of Queensland in its Queen Street campus in the Brisbane CBD (https://about.uq.edu.au/campuses-facilities/brisbane-city), conveniently located close to local hotels, cafes, and restaurants.

Keynote speakers will be Dennis Britton of the University of British Columbia, and Brandon Chua of the University of Hong Kong.

Funk Music in Popular Culture Conference

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:30am
Angela Nelson/Bowling Green State University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 2, 2025

Indie Lens Pop-Up, WBGU-PBS, the Popular Culture Program, and the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio are proud to announce the Funk Music in Popular Culture Conference to be held on Friday, April 25 and Saturday, April 26, 2025. The Funk Music in Popular Culture Conference will serve as a celebration and screening of the Independent Lens film We Want the Funk.

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