On his way to the Temple of the Grail Knights, Parsifal says: I move only a little, yet already I seem to have gone far. The all-knowing Gurnemanz replies: You see, my son, here time turns into space. - Wagner’s “Parsifal”

The Department of Religions and Cultures at Concordia University is pleased to announce the 30th Annual Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference (AGIC). In part commemorating AGIC’s 30th year of existence and coinciding with Concordia University’s 50th anniversary, we invite both academic and creative submissions (research papers, short films, visual arts/media, short stories, poems, etc.) that engage with this year’s theme,“Journeying”. 

INTERDISCIPLINARY; COMPARATIVE; GRADUATE - PROFESSIONAL DEVLOPMENT

Graduate students are invited to present on Dress and Fashion of Baroque Spain at the Boca Raton Museum of Art on March 27, 2025. The conference will be held in the Museum’s Wolgin Education Center, 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, FL 33432.

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, Linda Peterson. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to support one scholar for four full-time months to enable him or her to conduct a research project on the British periodical and newspaper press of the long nineteenth century. It was created with funds from a generous bequest to RSVP by the late Eileen Curran, pioneering researcher and Emerita Professor of English at Colby College.

Within Cli-Fi, Anthropocene Literature, Speculative Futurism, and visual cultures of the Anthropocene, increasing attention and sympathy have been given to the non-humans in narratives of climate crisis. From films like 20th Century Fox’s Planet of the Apes reboot to texts such as Ted Chaing’s Parrots of The Great Silence, The Strange Bird of Jeff VanderMeer’s same-named Novella, and the Elk-Headed Woman of Stephen Graham Jones’ The Only Good Indians, to visual works like Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s The Substitute, Animal perspectives have never been more prevalent in narratives of human-driven climate catastrophe.

Call for Proposals

Masculinities and Men’s Studies

(formerly known as Men and Men’s Studies)

National Popular/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) Conference

 April 16-19, 2025

New Orleans, LA

Proposals on any aspect of masculinities and/or men’s studies are welcome; however, the following topics are of particular interest:

The 16th Annual Research, Art, Writing Conference
March 1, 2025, University of Texas at Dallas

Call For Papers: RAW 2025

BAIT, PROMPTS, and AID: The Power and Poetics of Engagement

in Art, Technology, History, and Human Nature/Nurture

“That’s for the future to say”: Eudora Welty in the 21st Century

Eudora Welty Society International Conference

Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi, April 9-13, 2025

In 2008, the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) released its 70th anniversary manifesto reaffirming film’s status as the “optimal archival storage” of the moving image. “Don’t throw film away!” they urged, for unlike its digital successors, film elements tangibly embody traces of their own material history alongside a bygone cultural heritage. “No matter what technologies may emerge,” they write, existing film elements “connect us to the certainties of the past.”

In On Revolution, Hannah Arendt celebrated what she called “the revolutionary spirit”: a set of political principles that combines a commitment to invent new institutions with a concern for those institutions’ durability. Arendt believed that all genuine revolutions in the modern world had been inspired by the revolutionary spirit, though “the failure of thought and remembrance” had, time and again, led to its disappearance. Indeed, a focus on the act of collective foundation—and a grave worry about the disappearance of the conditions under which such founding can take place—can be found across Arendt’s oeuvre, from Origins of Totalitarianism to her writings on American politics in the 1970s.

Antonym Magazine invites contributions of English translations from any language for its quarterly print magazine and its online version in the following categories.

1. Novellas
2. Short stories
3. Flash fiction
4. Poetry
5. Essays

The magazine also invites critical essays that engage with various aspects of translations and interviews with translators.

In case you have queries please mail for clarifications.

Contributions are invited on a rolling basis. For the February issue, contributions should reach the magazine by the 30th of November 2024. Please mail contributions to submissionmag@antonymcollection.com

Call for Papers

Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies 

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024

Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes

Literary and Cultural Responses to Racial and Migratory Politics

University of Kent

23 – 24 June 2025

‘Laws try to rationalise the border regime which fundamentally ignores the humanity of those who move. Knowing this, let’s take as our root and starting position the reality that no human is illegal.’ —Leah Cowan, Border Nation: A Story of Migration

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies. A Quarterly

“The Cultural Politics of 1776: Rethinking an American Moment”

Guest Editors: Alexandra Hartmann (Paderborn University)
and Antonia Purk (University of Erfurt)

Deadline for abstracts: November 20, 2024
Deadline for full papers: March 31, 2025
Publication: 2026

Call for Submissions: The RAACES Review, Volume 3, Issue 1 (2025).

For our third publication (2025), our focus is international solidarity and we invite academic and creative pieces about racial empowerment,  racism, racialization, Indigeneity, and anticolonial practice in any field. We welcome submissions from students (undergraduate and graduate) -- especially international students; staff; faculty of all levels; and community members. We are particularly interested in: