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Ecocritical Theory and Practice, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment. Learn more about the 100+ books already published at: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/ETAP/Ecocritical-Theory-and-Practice
In the context of media hostility and panic, what are the challenges faced by new scholars, audiences and learners?
How should Shakespeare be positioned in the twenty-first century cultural landscape?
Following the success of WOKE SHAKESPEARE: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era ... this * new * edited volume aims to explore some of the most recent conversations about teaching and performing Shakespeare in the age of woke cultural politics, culture wars, and social justice debates.
Contributors are invited to consider:
Environment and Society, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, 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 at: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXES
Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books that 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:
In Living Color:
Exploring the Complexities of Colorism in the Twenty-First Century
Under Contract with Bloomsbury Publishing
Edited by
Amir A. Gilmore, Washington State University
Vikki Carpenter, Heritage University
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, the question as to how far differences of race-which show themselves chiefly in the color of the skin and the texture of the hair
Edited Collection: Teaching Twenty First Century Literature
International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
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Call for Papers: Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales
In honor of the 650th year of Giovanni Boccaccio’s passing, the Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales project is accepting papers on individual tales of The Decameron. We welcome papers and proposals from students!
About the project
Call For Papers
Special issue: Faravid – Journal for Historical and Archaeological Studies
Abstracts deadline:15 June 2025.
Publication date: Summer 2026
Guest editors: Moussa Pourya Asl, Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, and Johanna Leinonen
Language: English, or Finnish
Transatlantic Mobilities: Migration, Memory, and the Making of Modernity
Extended Deadline! There's still time to submit to this conference panel. Please submit by May 30, 2025 for full consideration.
The 122nd annual PAMLA Conference will be held between November 20-23, 2025 at the InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. This special response responds directly to PAMLA's 2025 conference theme, “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” seeking presentations on fictions that present and respond to physical phenomena that defy understanding, specifically phenomena represented in theoretical physics and quantum mechanics.
In the fictional world of ‘Cvstodia’, a nameless ‘penitent’ traverses a world in which the ‘miracle’ - a divine entity - is worshipped through physical torment and suffering in a gloomy body horror style. In doing so, ‘Blasphemous’ transforms the established conventions of the ‘souls-like’ genre: the difficulty typical of the genre and the cyclical approach to failure are theologically charged. The progress made by defeating boss enemies is enhanced by sacred weapons and rituals, while the level design is recontextualised as a spiritual pilgrimage. These elements are embedded in an elaborate ecclesiastical infrastructure and open up multiple levels of analysis, e.g:
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing
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Call for Papers
dialog, No. 45, Spring 2025
dialog, a Peer-reviewed, Bi-annual International Journal of the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India is open to submissions for its next issue, No. 45, Spring 2025 (ISSN: 0975 - 4881). dialog provides a forum for interdisciplinary research on diverse aspects of culture, society and literature. For its forthcoming issue, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University specifically invites:
The 17th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference will be held September 13, 2025, at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The conference committee is now accepting presentation proposals for the upcoming conference. Presentation proposals on any aspect of the 2025 conference theme “Louisiana Dramas,” as well as creative texts by, about, and/or for Louisiana and Louisianans, are sought for this year’s conference.
This panel aims to showcase current work on "queer romance," a subject that describes the enfolding of queer sexualities and genders within the popular romance genre. While we welcome careful close readings of specific texts, we are most interested in papers that help to theorize and historicize what it means that a genre once defined in terms of its heteronormative imaginary now openly features queer and trans-identified characters and holds considerable appeal for similarly identified publics of readers and viewers. We are also particularly interested in work that helps us to think queer romance across forms of media, in relation to deep histories of the romance genre, and in transnational and global contexts.
Call for Papers
Trans Joy in Latin American Cinema
Joy is a fundamental element of human life, yet its depiction in media and academic discourse— especially in relation to marginalized communities—remains limited. Representations of the trans* community, in particular, often center narratives of exclusion, violence, and trauma. As Shuster and Westbrook (2022) note, this tendency reflects a broader “joy deficit” in the sociological study of marginalized people, overshadowing the transformative power of joy and solidarity.
The Department of Communication at Saint Louis University’s Madrid, Spain campus announces an upcoming international, interdisciplinary conference that examines change from a wide panorama of angles.
The conference will take place across Thursday and Friday, 2-3 October 2025 on the SLU-Madrid Campus, close to central Madrid (seven metro stops from Puerta del Sol).
We invite abstracts of 250 words, plus up to six key words, by 15 June 2025. Decisions to invite candidates will happen shortly after the due date to assure adequate time for participants to make travel plans as needed.
Call for Papers
Journal of European Popular Culture
Intellect Publishers
Next issue - call for article/s
JEPC 16.1 and JEPC 16.2 - 2025
& JEPC 17.1 - 2026
This peer-reviewed journal seeks lively submissions for its latest issues on any aspect of European cultural and creative activity.
The 2025 issues are open at present
This peer reviewed journal is interested in contemporary practices, but also in historical, contextual, biographical or theoretical analyses relating to past cultural activities in Europe.
The family is often conceived in terms of exclusivity, closeness and intimacy. The word ‘intimate’ – intimus, or ‘most interior’, in the Latin – suggests that this relationship touches our innermost part, that which is deepest and hidden from view. Familial ties are further corporealized in terms of blood, or the physical proximity of shared space, resources, and memories, and acts of care. Broader ethnic, linguistic, cultural and national communities may be framed as extensions of this familial ‘inner circle’, as the concept of the body politic suggests; the family, for Rousseau, is ‘the first model of political societies’ (The Social Contract).
JEASA (the Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia) is looking for other 3 papers to conclude its special issue on
Voicing Otherness: Reconfiguring Australia’s Postcoloniality?. This was originally a panel organized by professors Salhia Ben-Messahel
(Université de Toulon, France) and Marilena Parlati (University of Padova, Italy), but we would like to further open the discussion to other
scholars worldwide.
This is the call:
The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia (JEASA) was founded and has been maintained by the European Association for Studies of Australia (EASA) since 2009. It is a double blind peer-reviewed, open-access online journal published twice a year, intended to showcase both European and Australian scholarhip in the field of Australian studies.
PopCRN is delighted to announce a conference dedicated to the cult phenomenon, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. This free, online event will be held on Wednesday 27th and Thursday 28th of November 2025.
We are inviting abstracts of papers on “Culinary Crossovers: Authenticity and Ambiguity in Reimagining Food Heritage in South Asia”, to be published in a special issue for the Journal of Food, Culture & Society (Taylor and Francis, Scopus Q1). In this special issue, we aim to probe into culinary histories and practices as appended to cultural/collective memory, where the idealised and marketable concept of “authenticity” emerges as a “palimpsest” conditioned by competing ideologies of nostalgia and privilege afforded by the ability to relocate.
We are pleased to announce below CFP:
Following the first Τ Ε Κ Μ Η Ρ Ι Α Meeting, held in October 2023, and the publication of the Proceedings in December 2024 (https://shorturl.at/FQXE6), the initiative comes to its second edition, offering once again a space for exchange, confrontation and discussion in the wake of interdisciplinarity. Subject of this second Study and Research Meeting will be Greeks and Local Historiography.
The topics of the proposals may include:
Ekphrasis and the Music of Literature: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts
This roundtable invites proposals that explore the intersection of visual, aural, and verbal frontiers. Although ekphrasis and musical form mirror words, they directly affect the emotions at a primordial level not available to verbal articulation. Ekphrasis translates words into visual images, whereas musical form translates them into sounds and rhythms. What are the differences between these modes of expression and how they affect their audiences? Papers that focus on the relationship of music to literature, the visual arts to literature, or on the interrelations of all three art forms are invited.
Sapphic Echoes: Representations of Female Love and Desire in Global Literatures
This panel asks questions and invites responses that explore representations of female love and desire in global literatures. How have the complex poetics of female love and desire—the desire to have something, or escape something, or punish, or know—been represented over time? What strategies have been employed to subvert literary conventions defined predominantly by male perspectives on home, love, war, victory and loss? How have female characters navigated the interplay between things done (overtly) and thought (covertly) to reveal the inner web of desires, fears and conflicts that constitute a female poetics of love and longing?
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the upcoming "Spatiality and Temporality" International Conference. The conference is addressed to academics, researchers and professionals with a particular interest related to the conference topic. We invite proposals from various disciplines including philosophy, history, sociology, anthropology, culture studies, literature and architecture.
Over the course of the 20th century and into the 21st, cinema, television, and related media have become increasingly central both to individual lives and to the lives of peoples, groups, and nations. Cinema has become a major form of cultural expression and films both reflect and influence the attitudes and behaviour of people, representing their tensions and anxieties, hopes and desires and incarnating social and cultural determinants of the era in which they were made.