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Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 2025 Symposium

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:26am
Pacific Northwest College of Art(PNCA), Willamette University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

Call for Proposals
Beyond Boundaries: Visions of Ecological Futures
2025 PNCA Symposium
October 2–4, 2025
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) at Willamette University
511 NW Broadway, Portland, Oregon

 


 

We invite submissions for individual papers for the 2025 PNCA Symposium, Beyond Boundaries: Visions of Ecological Futures, a three-day convening of critical and creative voices engaging ecological thought across disciplines and communities. This symposium explores the intersections of environment, art, activism, pedagogy, and identity—with a focus on how ecological futures are imagined, embodied, and enacted through diverse cultural practices and positionalities.

Call for Abstracts: A Research Symposium on Migration Studies in Peninsular India

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:25am
CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore India
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 7, 2025

Cultural Studies Methodology Lab

Department of English and Cultural Studies

In collaboration with

Department of Media Studies

CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore India

Organizes

A Research Symposium on Migration Studies in Peninsular India

August 28-30th, 2025

 

 

Wellness & Equity as Collective Care Frameworks For Graduate Student Wellbeing

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:24am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

The notion of “wellness” as it pertains to university contexts has taken on a problematic valence over the years. Owing to the increasing neoliberalization of academia, wellness has been increasingly tied to pop psychology, self-care spending, pizza parties, and other “self-actualizing” capitalistic practices. By virtue of the precarious nature of their status and labour, graduate students in the university are especially susceptible to experiences of overwork, exploitation, burnout, poor well-being, and existential harm, with studies showing that nearly 40% of graduate students globally experienced symptoms of anxiety, depression, or suicide ideation.

 

Theatre and Resilience

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:23am
German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

34th Annual CDE Conference, Prague (Czech Republic), 4-7 June 2026

The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE) is pleased to announce its 34th Annual Conference. It is organized by Charles University and will be held as a residential conference at Masarykova kolej, Thákurova 1, Prague 6, https://www.masarykovakolej.cz/en/home.

Theatre and Resilience

 

Media and Aesthetics of Environmental Decay in the “Global South”

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:23am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Dear colleagues,

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit your creative work and scholarly reflections and papers to participate in the panel Media and Aesthetics of Environmental Decay in the “Global South"  to be held at NEMLA's Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. 

Jane Austen Now

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:23am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

The year 2025 marked the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, yet Austen seems to be only increasing in cultural relevance on a global scale. This panel at the NeMLA conference in Pittsburgh, March 5-8, 2026 explores Jane Austen-related texts – including films, streaming, novels, graphic novels etc. - of the twenty-first century, including…

 

From Silos to Collaborative Teaching and Research

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:23am
Northeastern Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This roundtable hopes to bring together faculty and administrators with a vision to invigorate humanities programs. Its goal is twofold: (1) to provide a platform for sharing innovative strategies to enhance collaboration across traditional academic units; and (2) to critically discuss efforts that have led to new successes in (re)generating full-time faculty satisfaction in teaching, research, and service. Such efforts may include valued practices in co-teaching, faculty residency programs, Interdisciplinary Studies programs, joint appointments, and visiting professorships.

Mid Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2025 Annual Conference Call for Proposals

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:22am
Mid Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

2025 Annual Conference

November 6-8, 2025

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse

Philadelphia, PA

Call for proposals:

Proposals are welcome on all aspects of popular and American culture for inclusion in the 2025 Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) conference in Philadelphia, PA. Single papers, panels, roundtables, and alternative formats are welcome.

Navigating Trauma Through Storytelling and Narrative Medicine

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:22am
Laura Lazzari, The Sasso Corbaro Foundation for the Medical Humanities (Switzerland) and Giulia Po DeLisle UMass Lowell
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This session is organized withing the 2025 NeMLA Annual Conference in Pittsburg. Virtual participation is accepted. The panel investigates literature and the Medical Humanities, focusing on the potential of storytelling and narrative medicine to navigate trauma and improve empathy and communication between patients and health care providers. We seek contributions from scholars pertaining to various disciplines who works at the intersection of literature and medicine. Papers will explore how literature and life writing can successfully address traumatic events and improve medical practice.

Enacting Curtailment: Practices of Censorship in Colonial India

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:21am
Ashutosh Kumar Pand & Mohammad Kamaran Siddiqi
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Call for Chapters: Edited Volume on Enacting Curtailment: Practices of Censorship in Colonial India

We are excited to announce the forthcoming publication of an edited volume titled Enacting Curtailment: Practices of Censorship in Colonial India. This interdisciplinary volume will explore themes of censorship, resistance in the literature, art, performance, film, sound, history, and related fields within the humanities and social sciences.

NeMLA CfP: “Vroom Vroom Let’s Drive” – Toxic Masculinity on the Road

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:20am
Northeast Modern Language Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Hybrid format: in-person and virtual presentations welcome

“Men will literally drive 200km/h through a neon-drenched cityscape instead of going to therapy.”

NeMLA CfP: Not Gay as in Happy, but Queer as in Fuck You: Horror and Cinematic Disobedience

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:20am
Northeast Modern Language Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Hybrid format: in-person and virtual presentations welcome

This panel explores the volatile and seductive intersections of queerness, horror, and psychosexual cinema. Taking inspiration from the defiant slogan “Not gay as in happy, but queer as in fuck you,” we frame queerness not as static identity, but as a generative force of disruption, resistance, and cinematic disobedience.

NEMLA Conference 2026 Seminar- (Re)Imagining Trans: Mappings, Crossings, and Tracings

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:19am
Juie Gune / Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This seminar seeks to reimagine Trans Studies through the lens of a prefixial turn, where trans signifies a movement across, as well as a digression away from an unchosen starting point. Presenters are urged to negotiate the limits such given points of departure pose to our horizons of thought and emotion.

Non-Western Aesthetics: Rhetoric, Resistance, and Representation

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:19am
NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

We invite submissions for a paper panel themed “Non-Western Aesthetics: Rhetoric, Resistance, and Representation” – an exploration of aesthetics from diverse cultural perspectives, non-Western rhetorical traditions, and globalized literary theory. Our aim is to examine non-Western, non-hegemonic discourses from non-White nations that incorporate indigenous critical approaches and local theories within artistic and literary practices. We are particularly interested in South and Southeast Asian literary and cultural studies.

Broad areas of exploration may include, but are certainly not limited to, the following literary and cultural theoretical perspectives:

CFP: “Entangled Histories, Emerging Futures: South Asia in a Multipolar World“

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:18am
Journal of South Asian Exchanges A Multidisciplinary Journal of South Asian Research (ISSN: 3048-8877)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

The Journal of South Asian Exchanges (ISSN: 3048-8877) invites submissions for its upcoming special issue dedicated to the rich, layered, and dynamic terrain of South Asian Studies. This issue seeks to cultivate cross-disciplinary conversations that explore both the historical depth and contemporary complexities of South Asia, from its ancient entanglements to its evolving place in the 21st-century global order. We are especially interested in papers that foreground interdisciplinary approaches and prioritize marginalized perspectives—scholarship that moves beyond binaries and embraces the messy, hybrid realities of the region.

Abstracts for NeMLA 2026 Panel - Creative and Forensic Accounting: Cultural and Corporate Continuity Beyond Weimar

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:17am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Call for paper proposals

In periods of economic and cultural crisis, cui bono? Who benefits? How are accounts kept, and gains accounted for? Who is accountable and who is not? What forms does the balance sheet take? What is its narrative and who gets to construct it? How is creative accounting investigated?

The early to mid-twentieth century was a period of global economic crisis, revolution, and war that facilitated a shift of global economic and political hegemony from the British empire to the American. The Weimar Republic’s afterlife as a historical nexus of crisis lends itself especially well to issues of accountability and accounting.

Black Antiquity, Emplotment, and the Vindicating Self

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:17am
Jorge Serrano/UD
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

This call for papers invites contributors to submit papers for publication in a university press. The anthology will gather analyses focusing on writers, artists, and others who have engaged with or represented aspects of a Black past. We are seeking works in literature, film, music, art, or any other relevant fields that incorporate elements of the Black past in a broad sense.

Intersectional Feminisms and Regenerative Justice

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:16am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This panel explores how intersectional feminist frameworks reimagine justice as a regenerative process- one that not only repairs harm but actively cultivates equitable futures. Centering marginalized voices (BIPOC, disabled, and Global South perspectives), we interrogate literary, activist, and pedagogical interventions that challenge systemic oppression while envisioning liberation. Papers might analyze speculative fiction’s role in feminist worldbuilding, decolonial pedagogies that restore Indigenous knowledge, or grassroots movements modeling restorative alternatives to carceral systems.

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