I'm an Assistant Professor of English at The University of The Bahamas looking to put together a paper panel for the American Studies Association 2025 meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, held Nov. 20-22, 2025, on the following topic:

Proposed Session Title: Tourism and Self-Help Culture

MORE PRIDE, LESS PREJUDICE: JANE AUSTEN AT 250

Faculty of Arts and Humanities I University of Porto

2-3 October 2025

Keynote Speakers 

John Mullan (University College London) 

Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford)

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism seeks original, well-researched, and intellectually rigorous papers about texts from any time period and literary tradition. We are now accepting submissions for the Fall 2024 issue. Submissions are due by September 22, 2024.

Fan Studies Network North America (FSNNA) is excited to announce that we are seeking new members of our organizing committee. 

FSNNA held its first conference in October 2018 to gather fan studies scholars in one place to meet, share new research, and promote the study of fanworks and fan cultures. During the Covid-19 pandemic, we ran successful online conferences with a focus on accessibility and community. Since then, we have continued implementing new online conference formats that allow us to bring together fan studies scholars from North America and around the world every year. 

Leveraging Legacies of Peacebuildingin a Precarious Time

The annual conference of The Peace and Justice Studies Association 

Hosted by the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, Swarthmore College

OCTOBER 9-12, 2025 | Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA

Proposal Submission Deadline: May 1, 2025

Early Bird Registration: May 15 – June 15, 2025

Draft Schedule Released: June 1, 2025

Perspectives in Architecture and Urbanism

Call for Papers: Studies in Materialistic Historiography

Virtual Special Issue

Guest Editor: K. Michael Hays

Readers Needed for “Author Meets Readers” Roundtable

American Studies Association Conference

November 20th-23rd

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Email me if you’re interested in discussing my forthcoming book, That Book is Dangerous!: How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing. It will be published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press and distributed by Penguin Random House on August 12th, 2025. I will send you an advance reader copy in March. 

Please email me by January 30th if you’re interested.

Call for Papers: The Turn to Podcasts as a Mass Campaign Medium Special Issue of The Journal of Radio and Audio Media
 

Dr. Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Prof. Kim Fox, American University in Cairo
Dr. Aram Sinnreich, American University

The Journal of Radio and Audio Media (JRAM), the world’s premier radio research journal, is published semi-annually by the Broadcast Education Association. JRAM is dedicated to radio research and the new technology redefining radio’s traditional use.

Profanity: Redefining the Limits.

The F-word across Linguistics, Translation and the Arts

The conference is still welcoming proposals in film, lit. and cultural studies focusing on the use of profanity, transgression and "bad language" in general.

LOCATION: Université d’Artois (Arras, France), 24-26 September 2025

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Ambivalent Solidarities: South Asian Women’s Intellectual, Affective and Activist Networks

Editors:

Hiya Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Swarnamoyee Jogendranath Mahavidyalaya, Vidyasagar University

Sreejata Paul, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Shiv Nadar University Delhi-NCR

European Network for Psychological Anthropology Biennial Conference:

 Anthropologies and Psychologies in (Inter)Action - Engaging Interdisciplinary Perspectives

11 - 13 June 2025, University of Münster, Germany

Conference information: https://enpanthro.net/enpa-2025-conference/

CFP for an in-person panel:

Anthropology, Psychology, and Self-Understanding: Exploring Educative Contexts and Possibilities

Graduate Student Awards in Literature (literary analysis) or Pedagogy (teaching methodologies and reflections), and Writing (fiction, non-fiction, and poetry) 

Graduate students are invited to submit papers or creative pieces for the NJCEA annual Graduate Student Awards. The winners of these two awards will receive Amazon gift cards and have their papers published in The Watchung Review, the official publication of the NJCEA. Complete submissions can be sent as electronic attachments to Rachael Warmington at rkw2111@gmail.com by February 7th, 2025. 

Call for Papers

Healing Narratives, Embodied Histories: Medical Humanities in South Asia

Animesh Roy and Bosudha Bandyopadhyay

Medical Humanities is an interdisciplinary field that examines the human dimensions of health, illness, and healthcare through the lens of literature, arts, humanities, and social sciences. It seeks to deepen understanding of medical practices by exploring how cultural, historical, ethical, and literary contexts shape healthcare experiences.

Dear colleagues,

We are seeking presenters for the panel, Network Imaginaries: Past, Present, and Future, at the next 4S conference (September 3-7, 2025, Seattle, WA, USA). We welcome papers of varying approaches that consider the origins, mobilizations, endurances, and evolutions of the network imaginaries underlying technologies and systems from the 19th Century through to contemporary transformations and promises. (See below for the full call and submission details.)

Proposals consisting of a short abstract (up to 250 words) will be accepted until January 31 via the official website of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).