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(What’s the story) Reunion glory? Assessing Oasis’s legacy as Morning Glory turns 30.

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:28am
Guillaume Clément / Université Rennes 2 (France)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 7, 2025

(What’s the story) Reunion glory?

Assessing Oasis’s legacy as Morning Glory turns 30.

 

Université Rennes 2 (France), 27 November 2025

 

Organisation committee: Aurore Caignet, Guillaume Clément, David Haigron

 

It is estimated that nearly 14 million people tried to get tickets for this year’s Oasis’s UK tour following the announcement of their reunion in 2024. This staggering figure echoes the band’s one-off concert at Knebworth in 1996, when 4% of the British population had applied for tickets. Such statistics confirm Oasis’s special status within British popular culture and the band’s ability to allow people to come together.

Open Panel: "Desperate Media"

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:28am
Society for the Social Study of Science
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Open Panel #171: "Desperate Media"

When all else fails, we are left with desperation: extravagant recklessness, scrappy desire, a call to create new worlds through inventive forms, even as temperatures rise.

Conference: Epistolography, knowledge, and the Ancient World

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:28am
University of Bucharest - Dept. of Ancient History
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Epistolography, knowledge, and the Ancient World

Conference, University of Bucharest, October 3-4, 2025 (hybrid) 

CFP deadline: February 28, 2025

 

Founders Fellowship

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:27am
The Hemingway Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Each year the Hemingway Society accepts applications for its Lewis-Reynolds-Smith Founders Fellowship grant, and typically makes two awards of $1,000 each to support the development of a Hemingway-related project.

Genealogies and Futurities of AI in Speculative Fiction

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:27am
Modern Language Association (MLA) 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

Speculative Fiction forum (guaranteed session)

MLA Call for Papers #29768 

 

Description & Requirements:

Inviting proposals examining AI’s historical and futuristic representations in speculative fiction. How have speculative narratives anticipated, shaped, and reflected current developments in AI or imagined AIs that diverge from present realities? 250-word abstract, short cv

Submit proposals to:  Rachel Haywood, Iowa State University (rhaywood@iastate.edu)

CFP “Experimental Interfaces: The Invention of the Digital Body”

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:27am
Galactica Media: Journal of Media Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Description

We live in a world where interfaces play an increasingly central role. Interfaces are our means of engaging with both technical and social realities; gradually, they become not only conditions of access to the world of technology but also intrinsic structures of our experience. The interfaces designed by major corporations, game developers, and social application creators set standards of perception and self-awareness, disciplining us and determining the measure of control. This makes it all the more crucial to continue experimenting with interfaces, developing a new semiotic, symbolic, and bodily grammar—a challenge embraced by digital artists, gamers, science fiction writers, and neuromancers of media reality.

Art and Smoke: Morris, Ruskin, Art, and Industrialism

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:27am
Jude V. Nixon/Salem State University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

MLA Toronto (January 8-11, 2026). Both John Ruskin and William Morris decried the evil effects of industrial blight on the environment, citing the impossibility of authentic art in the context of poverty and pollution. We seek papers that treat all aspects of this topic as reflected in literature, art, and social theory: broadened definitions of art, late-Victorian and modernist responses to urban industrialism, art for the masses, eco-socialism, utopian otherworlds, and the rise of urban design. Contributions on Canadian-related and contemporary material are also welcome. Please send abstracts and a brief c. v.

William Morris and Material Culture

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:27am
Jude V. Nixon/Salem State University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

For MLA in Toronto (January 8-11, 2026), we welcome contributions on Morris, his associates, and their influence in relation to material culture: the Arts and Crafts movement, the portrayal of objects and environments in literature, and the meanings ascribed to “things.” In addition to seeking new approaches to the work of Morris and his circle in the book arts, stained glass, textiles, architecture, and landscape design, we seek reevaluations of materiality and concrete symbolism within Pre-Raphaelite writings more broadly as reflective of beliefs about identity, permanence, and change. Contributions on Morrisian and Arts and Crafts-related Canadian material culture are especially welcome. Please send abstracts and a brief c. v.

8th International Public History Summer School

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:27am
University of Wrocław
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 16, 2025

The Historical Institute of the University of Wrocław, Poland (HI UWr), Depot History Centre, the International Federation for Public History, and the Commission for Public History of the Committee of Historical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences invite students, PhD candidates and practitioners to participate in the eighth Public History Summer School to be held in hybrid format (on-site and on-line), 9-13 June 2025.

Call for Chapters | Contemporary Women’s Issues Reflected in Indian Regional Literature

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:25am
Dr. Munish Kumar Thakur / Department of English, IEC University, Baddi, (HP) India
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The edited volume aims to explore the portrayal of contemporary women’s issues as depicted in Indian regional literature. The focus of the volume is to explore how cultural, social, economic, and political issues affecting women are reflected and represented across various Indian languages and regions. This book seeks to bridge the gap between literary studies and gender discourse, emphasizing how literature acts as a mirror to societal transformations and the challenges women face today. The volume will cover diverse genres, including fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiographies, while also addressing regional variations in themes and representations.

The thematic objectives of this edited volume are as follows:

Cultural Texts and Contexts in the English-Speaking World (IX) 2025 Theme: “History Claims Everybody” Online Conference – March 28th, 2025

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:25am
Faculty of Letters, University of Oradea, Romania
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

 

Cultural Texts and Contexts in the English-Speaking World (IX)

2025 Theme: “History Claims Everybody”

Online Conference – March 28th, 2025

Hosted by the English Department of the Faculty of Letters, University of Oradea

 

 

Conference Scope

Translation, Speculative Justice and Sustainability in the Global South

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:25am
IATIS; Sultan Qaboos University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025

 

 

The IATIS - International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies invites papers on  “Sustainable Translation in the Age of Knowledge Extraction, Generation, and (Re)Creation” for its 8th International Conference to be held at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman on December 10-13, 2025.

We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “Translation, Speculative Justice and Sustainability in the Global South.”

2025 WOCIA Call for Workshop Proposals

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:24am
Women of Color in the Academy (WOCIA)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

2025 WOCIA Call for Workshop Proposals

Submission Deadline:Friday, February 19, 2025 at 11:59pm

Home: The Space We Claim

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:24am
The University of Ottawa
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Call for Papers Home: The Space We Claim March 14-16, 2025

University of Ottawa, English Graduate Student Association 2025 Conference

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition” - James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room.

"Unpopular Shaw"

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:24am
James Armstrong / The City College of New York
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Call for papers for a proposed Special Session of the 2026 MLA Annual Convention in Toronto, January 8-11

"Unpopular Shaw"

Irish dramatist Bernard Shaw was never far from controversy. This session will examine aspects of Shaw and his works that either were deeply unpopular in his own day or run contrary to majoritarian thinking today.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

abortion and contraception
censorship
education and child rearing
eugenics
dictatorship
the medical profession
marriage and divorce
prostitution
race and nationality
religion
politics and government
actors and acting

Historical Facts, Features, and Figures in Music

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:24am
Modern Language Association (Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

How have operas, musical plays, and individual songs reflected historical narratives, events, and individuals?  We invite 250-word abstracts regarding works that dramatize, in words and music, a past that remains alive and compelling.

Submissions are welcome in an unlimited range of cultural contexts , media, and time periods (of history or composition), e.g. Philip Glass's Akhnaten, Shaina Taub's Suffs, etc.

Thie session will take place at the Modern Language Association convention in Toronto, January 9-12, 2026.  Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations is an affialiated organization of the MLA.

[UPDATE] Studia theodisca - Deadline: 30th September of each year

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 3:50am
Studia theodisca - An international journal devoted to the study of German culture and literature - http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/StudiaTheodisca/
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Studia theodisca
An international journal devoted to the study
of German culture and literature
Published annually in the autumn
Hosted by Università degli Studi di Milano under OJS
ISSN 2385-2917
http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/StudiaTheodisca/

Editor-in-chief: Fausto Cercignani

Co-Editor: Marco Castellari

[UPDATE] Studia austriaca - Deadline: 30th April of each year

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 3:48am
Studia austriaca - An international journal devoted to the study of Austrian culture and literature - http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/StudiaAustriaca/
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Studia austriaca (founded in 1992)
An international journal devoted to the study of Austrian culture and literature
Published annually in the spring
p-ISSN 1593-2508 | e-ISSN 2385-2925
http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/StudiaAustriaca/

Editor-in-chief: Fausto Cercignani
Co-Editor: Marco Castellari

The 9th Annual Global Souths Conference

updated: 
Friday, January 24, 2025 - 12:29pm
Department of English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Call For Papers
Conference Theme: 
“The World at a Crossroads”
Conference Date: March 27-29, 2025
Location: In-Person, the Student Union at The University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette, Louisiana
Submissions Due: February 15, 2025 (extended deadline)

Website: ulglobalsouths.wordpress.com

“Transcultural Linguistic, Literary & Cultural Aspects of the Indian Knowledge System (IKS)”

updated: 
Friday, January 24, 2025 - 2:50am
Centre for Foreign Languages, Bankura University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Two-Day International Conclave (in Blended Mode)
                                 on

 “Transcultural Linguistic, Literary & Cultural Aspects of the Indian Knowledge System (IKS)” [15-16 February, 2025]

 Organized by Centre for Foreign Languages, Bankura University

Call for Book Chapters on "Becoming A Human-Animal: Interpretations of the Therianthropes in the Folk Arts of India"

updated: 
Friday, January 24, 2025 - 2:25am
Thakurdas Jana, Bhatter College, Dantan
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Call for Book Chapters

Title: Becoming A Human-Animal: Interpretations of the Therianthropes in the Folk Arts of India

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Editor: Thakurdas Jana, Department of English, Bhatter College, Dantan, India

 

About the Book

Modernism Remodelled 2025

updated: 
Thursday, January 23, 2025 - 4:28am
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

The London Arts-Based Research Centre
Modernism Remodelled 2025
A Transdisciplinary Conference

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/modernism-remodelled-2025/

Date: March 8-10, 2025

Where:
March 8-9: In person participation at Cambridge University & online
March 10: Fully online

Call for Papers
Cost:        185 GBP (in person)
100 GBP (Online)
Abstract: Deadline February 5, 2025
Abstract form on: https://forms.gle/9TWGPbStYzTTqEvD9

Bridges and Borders: The Archive

updated: 
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 - 2:17pm
Bridges and Borders Graduate Student Conference, Department of English in collaboration with the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Applied Linguistics
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 17, 2025

Bridges and Borders: The Archive

April 11-12, 2025 | Proposals Due by February 17, 2025

Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) and on Zoom 

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Abdulhamit Arvas (University of Pennsylvania) 

Bridges and Borders is an annual, interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference presented by the Carnegie Mellon University Department of English in collaboration with the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Applied Linguistics.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Multiplicities, Multidisciplinarity, and the Future of Humanities

updated: 
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 - 10:48am
Idaho State Univeristy Intermountain Graduate Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

The concept of multiplicity has attained prominence largely through the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995). According to Sage Encyclopedia of Political Theory, “A multiplicity is an entity that originates from a folding or twisting of simple elements. Like a sand dune, a multiplicity is in constant flux, though it attains some consistency for a short or long duration. A multiplicity has porous boundaries and is defined provisionally by its variations and dimensions.” Deleuze and Guattari redefine multiplicities to revisit Western political theory and its conceptions of categories such as race, class, gender, language, state, society, person, and party.

Deadline extension - Feb. 15 - Thematic panel: Not many events in world history have 'a literature of their own'. 9/11 and the War on Terror in Contemporary Literature and Culture -AICED-26 International Conference, University of Bucharest, Romania

updated: 
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 - 9:39am
Oana Gheorghiu
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024

In the very first year of the new millennium, the world witnessed the attacks on the World Trade Center, in New York City, on September 11. We all watched it numbly on television, as if it had been an action movie or an apocalyptic dystopia. This event has remained in the collective consciousness as the most tragic terrorist attack on American soil, with more than 3,000 deaths and a list of geopolitical consequences that have changed the world.

[EXTENDED DEADLINE] Call for Chapters: Interdisciplinary Communication Studies from the Periphery: Ways of Being and Doing

updated: 
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 - 3:02am
Edited Book Project - Istanbul Bilgi University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025

This edited volume seeks contributions from scholars whose subject matter, methods, or researcher identities resonate with what might be considered peripheral in communication studies. We aim to explore how diverse perspectives—often shaped by specific contexts, marginalized identities or cases, or alternative approaches—can challenge, expand or be an alternative to traditional paradigms, perspectives and cases in the field. The concept of the periphery is not defined here as a rigid geographic or socio-political category, nor is it a simple counterpoint to the North or Western paradigms. Instead, we understand the periphery as a space where various ‘ways of being’ and ‘ways of doing’ emerge, offering insights into communication processes and practices.

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