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Embodied Spaces: Digital Reconfigurations of Experience

updated: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025 - 8:37am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Virtual interventions have become permanently embedded in our spaces, and play a major role not only in how a space is constituted but also in how our bodies exist in, encounter, and co-constitute space. Physical space and virtual networks are inextricably intertwined today, such that a space is never purely physical.

Planned, Unplanned, and the In-between: Interactions of Architecture, Space, and Experience

updated: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025 - 8:36am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

For the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas in twenty-first century. Urbanization is understood as the mass movement of human population from rural to urban areas. The trend of urbanization is increasing at an unprecedented pace, especially in developing countries of the world. Now considered as an irreversible phenomenon, the imperative of urbanization necessitates a rethinking of how we imagine cities and rural areas of tomorrow to provide a meaningful and sustainable lifeworld. The challenges that come with such a dramatic shift are multifold and complex. It involves envisioning a way of life that is dignified, a society that is sustainable and equitable. 

Power in Urbanscapes: Rethinking Spatiality and Sociality

updated: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025 - 8:36am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

The second Issue of Volume 7 of LLIDS examines how structures of power constitute and shape urban spaces. It proposes to explore their influence in determining social values wherein varied social groups—marked by religion, class, race, gender, etc.—negotiate the power dynamics that constitute life in urban spaces. The modern, bustling city carries within itself a continuous sense of becoming. The urban dwellers, inhabiting segregated parts of the city, shape the lived experience of these spaces through their socio-cultural interactions and relationships.

General Call for Papers

updated: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025 - 8:35am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished, interdisciplinary, research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.

Haunted Cities: Spaces, Spectres, and Urban Hauntologies

updated: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025 - 7:00am
Editors - Marko Lukic and Irena Jurkovic/University of Zadar
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Reminder:

Call for Papers

Haunted Cities: Spaces, Spectres, and Urban Hauntologies

Edited Collection

Journal article submissions for William Carlos Williams Review

updated: 
Friday, June 13, 2025 - 6:31pm
Williamm Carlos Williams Review
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 28, 2025

Call for submission of academic articles on William Carlos Williams for consideration by the William Carlos Williams Review. Articles must be between 20 to 30 pages in length. All topics welcome. Queries to the editor at copers@gmail.com. Deadline for submissions: July 28, 2025. To submit, register as an author and upload your article here: https://www.editorialmanager.com/wcwr/default.aspx

Early Modern Women: Figures, Labors, Afterlives (RSA 2026)

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:59pm
Renaissance Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

This panel invites papers that examine how early modern women were imagined and represented across genres and cultural contexts. From historical figures to literary characters, how were women positioned in relation to authority, virtue, sexuality, or empire?  How were women written, circulated, obscured, or celebrated in early modern texts? What roles did women play in shaping narratives of gender, race, and power? This panel welcomes work that attends to both the forms of representation and the structures that produced or obscured women’s presence in the early modern world. What kinds of authority or ambivalence did gendered figures carry, and how did race, class, and empire shape their depiction or erasure?

Pulse vol 13 (2026) CFP - Zines and STS: The Remix

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:59pm
Pulse: the Journal of Science and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 31, 2026

PULSE – the Journal of Science and Culture

ISSN 2416-111X

 

VOL 13 (2026) CALL FOR PAPERS

Zines and STS: The Remix

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Foreclosure, a Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:59pm
Chloe Ashbridge (Newcastle University) and Owain Burrell (Warwick University)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 18, 2025

British cultural production has a long history of foreclosure. Understood as a premature abandonment, or an abortive failure, of radical political projects, foreclosure has an imaginative and material register in working-class writing, which has been read since the 1930s as failing to experiment, relying on realism without meaningful engagement with questions of literary form. This view has been challenged by literary scholars, who have demonstrated that formal experimentation did exist, though not in ways that comfortably align with the usual reading of middle-class modernism (Clarke Working Class Writing, 2018).

Victorians and AI

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:59pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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.

The Writing's on the Wall

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:59pm
Institute of Faith and the Academy
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

Institute of Faith and the Academy Conference 

Call for Papers 

September 26, 2025 

Theme: Writing's on the Wall

10th Annual Siedlce Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:58pm
University of Siedlce
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

 

10th Annual Siedlce Forum for Contemporary Issues

in Language and Literature

to be held online for the purpose of presenting unpublished research findings in English

on November 13th-14th, 2025.

The leitmotif of the conference is:

Totality and fragmentation

in literature, linguistics, philosophy and culture

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature 7/2026

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:58pm
University of Siedlce
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

vol. 7/2026

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature is an international multidisciplinary periodical that welcomes for review any innovative and challenging research article encroaching upon the fields of literature, linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies.

The editorial board encourages researchers and young scholars to submit their article proposals that  comprise with the profile of the journal. The proposals can be sent in English, German, French, Spanish, Catalan and Polish. The manuscript submitted for publication is to be original and unpublished. It should not have been simultaneously submitted for review in any other journal.

Gendered Violence

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:58pm
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (T&F)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (T&F)

Special issue on

Gendered Violence

Guest Editors: Debajyoti Biswas (Bodoland University) & Parvin Sultana (Pramathesh Barua College)

 

Old English Literature, including Beowulf

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:58pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

The Old English Literature session is open to any and all papers that explore some aspect of Old English poetry, prose, and/or Beowulf studies. We welcome proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related.

Please submit an abstract here: 

 https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19648

 

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PAMLA 2025 Theme:

Trans-scriptions: Cultural Codings and the Poetics of the Body

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:58pm
International Conference organized by University of Szczecin & University of Wrocław
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 10, 2025

Trans-scriptions: Cultural Codings and the Poetics of the Body
International Conference organized by University of Szczecin & University of Wrocław
11-13 February 2026

Institute of English Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland
Hybrid On-site Conference

Critical Minerals Symposium

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:58pm
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

Critical Minerals Symposium

7 November 2025
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Keynote Speaker: Associate Professor Tom Nurmi, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Recent geopolitical contestations over Ukraine’s rare earths, global debates on ‘critical’ minerals in the context of green energy transitions, and growing scholarly engagement – such as Museum and Society’s recent special issue on minerals – have all highlighted the ethical, political, and environmental stakes of minerals.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AI AND LITERATURE

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 12:10pm
ONDA THANA MAHAVIDYALAYA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

The Department of English at Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya, Bankura, West Bengal, announces an upcoming international, interdisciplinary conference examining AI's impact on literature. 

The conference will take place on Friday and Saturday, 29-30 August 2025,  on the main campus, near the National Highway. 

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 7:34am
Bodoland University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

International Seminar

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus

16 & 17 October 2025

Venue: Bodoland University, Kokrajhar

A Special Issue will be published in Bandung: Journal of the Global South (De Gruyter Brill)

 

CFP Tiphys #1.Dopo il palazzo: la nascita della polis

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 5:18am
Tiphys. Uomini e culture nel Mediterraneo
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

CFP Tiphys #1, Dopo il palazzo: la nascita della polis

Editor: Massimo Cultraro (CNR-ISPC), Giancarlo Germanà Bozza (Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo)

Deadline per l’invio dei contributi: 30 giugno 2025

La complessa storia dell’Egeo tra la fine del II e gli inizi del I millennio a.C. è segnata dal passaggio da strutture socio-politiche centralizzate e gerarchiche, identificate nel modello del palazzo miceneo, a comunità sul territorio che si riorganizzano in centri abitati di nuova formazione.

REMINDER: DEADLINE EXTENDED: “A Day”: 2nd Annual Goth Music and Subculture Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 - 4:27pm
Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 11, 2025

“A Day”: 2nd Annual Goth Music and Subculture Conference

 

NEW Deadline: July 11, 2025 

Conference Date: August 16, 2025 

Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific)

Abstract: 150 words + 100 word biographical statement + Time Zone

Submit to: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University @ noahrgallego@gmail.com 

Contact: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com

 

CreArte Latino Arts & Humanities Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 - 2:43pm
CreArte Expo
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Call For Proposals

The CreArte hybrid conference seeks submission of proposals for papers, panels (3-4 papers), roundtables, workshops, and performances. We invite proposals from artists, educators, academics, and public scholars who examine various forms of Latino/a/e/x artistic expression, including but not limited to film, literature, music, visual arts, and dance, and how these artistic expressions have impacted the direction of society, broadly. Our hybrid conference is held in association with the CreArte Expo Latino Cultural Festival, a weekend-long celebration where attendees immerse themselves in Latino/a/e/x culture through literature, film, music, dance, cosplay, dance, comics and much more.

Veiled Visions: The (Re)generation of Image in Literary, Literal, and Liminal Veils

updated: 
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 - 2:01pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 25, 2025

Veiling obscures, but also reveals. It holds symbolic and aesthetic power that spans centuries, from the medieval and Victorian periods to contemporary expressions in visual, fashion, and social media culture. Further, it frames visibility itself and shapes how identity is hidden, controlled, surveilled, or disclosed. To veil is not only to conceal, but to shape what others are allowed to see and what they are left to imagine. Veiling shrouds, but also frames; withholds, but also invites interpretation. These tensions give veiling its interpretive depth, sustaining its power to provoke, unsettle, and reframe. 

(CFP: PAMLA 2025) Haunted Belonging: Memory, Erasure, and Identity in Diasporic Literatures

updated: 
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 - 10:03am
Wenyuan Wang / / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

This session explores how postcolonial and diasporic literatures grapple with memory, trauma, and cultural haunting. Rather than thinking of identity as fixed or linear, selfhood is complex and palimpsestic due to colonial violence, migration, and historical erasure. This session invites papers that analyze how characters or narratives navigate misremembering, inherited trauma, or overwritten histories to reclaim belonging and agency. Topics may include narrative voice, transgenerational memory, silence, storytelling, and archival gaps in multiethnic and immigrant literatures. This session welcomes interdisciplinary approaches and encourages work on Asian American, Black, Indigenous, and other diasporic communities.

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