Since its tangential emergence in Said’s Orientalism in 1978, the term Occidentalism accrued multiple significations. Most notably, the term is argued to stage a counter- or reverse-discourse of Orientalism, operating on analogous dichotomic and oppositional paradigms. Most notable, in this context, is Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit’s Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies, which labels Occidentalism as “dehumanizing picture of the West painted by its enemies” (5). This panel queries if we can conceive East-West relations differently, apart from the Orientalist logic that inheres in studies of Occidentalism.

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already recasting numerous aspects of human life. By all accounts, AI has an intense and manifold impact on society, incorporating both positive and negative traits. This session aims to explore how the gendered lens of AI is creating disruptions both for the academic field and the society at large. This panel invites educators, scholars, and researchers to critically investigate the consequences of gendered biases projected through AI stratification. Papers which explore the conference theme (Knowledge) and connect to knowledge production through the gendered lens of AI are especially welcome.

Please submit a 300-word abstract for an edited collection, tentatively titled, Entanglements: Place-Based Literatures for Ecological Liberation. 

Please read the CFP below for details about the collection. We are expanding our search to include diverse geographies including South America, African countries, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Pacific Islands, and South East Asian countries. In addition to a “place” framework, we welcome diverse theoretical approaches and lenses including ones that apply Marxism, feminism, postcolonialism, New Materialism, indigeneity, critical race, nonhumanism, among others.

NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION, Virtual, October 9 to October 11, 2025 AREA: ROMANCE/POPULAR ROMANCE FICTION Deadline: Tuesday, July 15th by 5pm EST

Contact email: Wendy Wagner wwagner@jwu.edu

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its 2025 annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.

We are seeking paper proposals on the topic of Romance/Popular Romance Fiction for its annual conference.

In her 1981 study of surrealist poetry, The Metapoetics of the Passage, Mary Ann Caws considers the capacity of poetic language to simultaneously arrest itself and enable forward movement: "The word is situated, as Jacques Garelli reminds us, between two deaths, so that each cluster of sounds located within this regenerating rhythm is able to resume its impetus, thus refreshed, as if it were starting again." It is the practice of architextural reading, Caws argues, that reveals the sustained surface tension at work in written texts, a tension often concealed beneath plot, message, the presence of characters, or particularly potent visual images.

Are proms, homecoming parades, lunch lines, hall passes, detentions, and study halls part of your past work life?

Or maybe show and tell, milk break, and recess duty?

And are you now awash in committee work, grant writing, abstract proposals, and syllabus templates?

If so, we want to hear your stories!

This roundtable seeks narrative presentations from academics who have previously taught in elementary, middle school, or high school settings. We will discuss the challenges of transitioning from a PK-12 environment to higher education, the benefits that our backgrounds bring to the higher ed table, and the lived experiences of professors who once taught in the elementary, middle, or secondary classrooms.

In his essay “The Uncanny” (1919), Freud theorized the psychological implications of those aesthetic effects which disturb us without us quite knowing why.  While, according to Freud, the uncanny or das unheimlich evokes a peculiar form of affect within “the field of the frightening” (123), it is a type of fear distinct from that produced by horror and terror.  The uncanny, he argues, registers the traumatic return of “what was once known and had long been familiar” (124), but which had been repressed.  Explorations of the uncanny have linked the affect to repetition and the death drive (Royle 84), surrealism (97), uncertainty (Jentsch 7), and “a certainty that goes beyond any certainty that science can provide” (Dolar 22).  

Global South is phrase often heard in the academic parlance to categorise a group of nations which have been broadly classified in economic terms by the United Nations Trade and Development (UNCTAD) based on certain defining characteristics (socio-economic and political factors). The countries or continents which come under this category are Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia (excluding Australia and New Zealand). However, to classify on economic grounds poses severe questions about factors contributing to the dissemination of this inequality. This unevenness as one suspects can be major reason for armed conflicts often leading to tensions and permanent war zones.

We are pleased to announce our next essay-writing competition. The award is open to all post-graduate research students and to all early career researchers (up to five years after the completion of your PhD) who have yet to find a full-time or tenured position. The prize is guaranteed publication in Foundation in 2026. To be considered for the competition, please submit an original article on any topic, period, theme, author, film or other media within the (broadly defined) field of science fiction and its academic study. Approximate length should be 6000-8000 words. All submitted articles should comply with the guidelines to contributors as set out on the journal pages of the SF Foundation website.

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, a peer-reviewed international journal published by Çankaya University in Ankara, is currently accepting submissions of articles and book reviews for its forthcoming issues. Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences is listed or indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, the MLA Directory of Periodicals, Index Copernicus Master List, ERIH Plus, and TR Index. 

Issue Editors:

Patricia Belen, Fordham University

Stefano Morello, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Gregory Palermo, Emory University

Danica Savonick, SUNY Cortland

Brandon Walsh, University of Virginia

Perhaps the most relevant question we are facing today, both in and out of the university, is how to deal with AI. In academia, different disciplines handle this question in a myriad of ways, some insisting that to not embrace AI in the classroom is harmful to the students, while others believe the utilization of AI must weaken critical thinking skills. Regardless of the differing opinions on how to use it appropriately, no one disagrees that it is here to stay.

11th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture: “Humanities in the Digital Age” 

https://www.academia.edu/129910678/11th_International_Conference_on_Lang... October 2025, Batman, Türkiye

Keynote speakers: Prof. Dr. Hywel Dix, Bournemouth University & Prof. Dr. Adelheid Rundholz, JCS University

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, a peer-reviewed international journal published by Çankaya University in Ankara, is currently accepting submissions of articles and book reviews for its forthcoming issues. Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences is listed or indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, the MLA Directory of Periodicals, Index Copernicus Master List, ERIH Plus, and TR Index.