We are seeking proposals for papers that explore Octavia E. Butler’s oeuvre for a special session at the PAMLA 2025 Conference in San Francisco. 

The session format is a seminar: Four to seven participants will share their paper ahead of time and then present a brief (five to seven minute) summary of their paper during the seminar, allowing time for an extended question and discussion period.

All submissions are welcome, but because Butler’s literature evidently lives in the past, present, and future—within the fictional worlds she builds and in our world as her readers—we are particularly interested in papers that engage with her work in relation to the 2025 PAMLA conference theme, “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion.”

This special issue of Horror Studies aims to address female empowerment (cis- and transgender women) in literary and cinematic horror from 2010 to the present. The issue will showcase horror media (literature, films, television, and gaming) created by women. An intersectional approach should be applied to analyses, stressing categories of race, gender, sexuality, class and/or age in submissions. While we are interested in submissions focused on various forms of horror media, we are eager to receive submissions that foreground literary texts.

Open Call for Current Topics in Visual & Cultural Studies

Submissions requested by May 15. Rolling submissions accepted until June 15.

InVisible Culture is accepting essays (4,000-10,000 words) and artworks addressing issues in visual and culture studies for an upcoming general issue. The journal welcomes authors from the disciplines of film and media studies, art history, anthropology, and visual studies to submit work on any topic. Academics and artists at all stages in their careers, as well as independent scholars, are encouraged to apply. We particularly encourage submissions by graduate students.

Articles

PAEDEIA: NSU Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Law

Published by

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

North South University

CALL FOR PAPERS

(Vol. 1, 2025; Expected publication in November 2025)

2025 Online Summer Workshop: Transnational and Postnational Historical Fictions

13 June 2025 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)

15 min talks

Transnational and Postnational Historical Fictions

SYNAPSIS – EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Date: September 22–26, 2025
Location: San Miniato, PI (Italy)
Synapsis 2025 Theme: Knots, Bonds
Application Deadline: June 30, 2025
 

Call for Papers: Symposium on "Teaching Innovation in Higher Education in U.S. Literature, History, and Culture" at the CIDICO Conference

In this new edition, which will take place online on November 17, 18, and 19, and in person on November 20 and 21, organized by the SEJ-473 Research Group of the University of Almería and the Research and Training in Psychology, Education, and Health Group, we aim to continue promoting a multidisciplinary meeting of educators. This space seeks to highlight all University Areas of Knowledge and provide an opportunity to share work related to Teaching Innovation, methodologies, and research projects.

Conference Call

26th MELOW International Conference to be held at the

University of Kashmir, SRINAGAR

15-17 September 2025

CHALLENGES IN ADAPTATION: INTERPLAY OF TRADITION AND INNOVATION

Call for Papers

The Louisiana Creole Research Association invites submissions for its 2025 journal, La Créole, on subjects relevant to its mission of advancing family research, providing education, and celebrating Creole history and culture.

Digital & Analog Cultures

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2025 SWPACA Summer Salon

Call for Papers to be prestented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) 2025 in Spokane, WA!

Description of Session: The session is currently accepting submissions for papers on all topics related to Shakespeare. Submissions from Ph.D. candidates and early career scholars are especially encouraged.

NOTE: This call is for papers to be presented at the conference.

Please direct your brief abstract (less than 250 words) and/or any questions to Jennifer Topale at Jennifer.topale@du.edu. Abstracts are due by 30 April 2025.

This panel explores the movement and circulation of texts within multilingual contact zones, spaces that, through cultural exchange, commerce, and conflict, are defined by the presence of multiple languages. Multilingualism is often heralded as a feature of cosmopolitanism, defined against nationalist monolingualism, yet it can also be the product of forces including incipient capitalist mercantilism, imperialist conquest and colonization, and exile.

Call for Papers for an Edited Volume with ISBN
Tentative title of the book-
“Critical Pedagogy in ELT: Empowering Learners”
Editors- Dr. Asim Kumar Betal
Dr. Kishwar Badakhshan
It is a great pleasure to announce that an edited volume tentatively titled “Critical Pedagogy in ELT: Empowering Learners” by a national publisher of repute is going to be published soon. Critical Pedagogy in ELT has gained significant attention in recent years, emphasizing the need to challenge dominant power structures, promote social justice, and empower learners. This special issue seeks to explore the intersections of critical pedagogy and ELT, highlighting innovative approaches, research, and practices that foster learner empowerment.

Call for Book Proposals

Peter Lang Book Series

Theatre of the Marginalised: Dalit and Adivasi Performance Traditions in South Asia