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45th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum:
Spanning the Globe: Thinking across Geographies in Medieval and Medievalism Studies
Keene State College
Keene, NH, USA
Friday and Saturday March 28-29, 2025
Call for Papers and Sessions
The upcoming deadline for the next conference of the International Association for Word and Music Studies has been extended UNTIL JANUARY 15th! See full CfP here: https://www.wordandmusicstudies.org/_files/ugd/5dbb84_21bf80d26ca74a839d19725255461956.pdf Call for papersFrauds & Fakes in Words and MusicUniversity of Richmond, Virginia, May 29–31, 2025 With the proliferation of fake news, synthetic video, and AI-powered chatbots and compositions,deceptive material is all around us.
5th International Conference on the Philosophy of Language, Literature, and Linguistics (ICPL 2025)
This is a hybrid event and in-person event will be held at Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China from May 8 to 10, 2025.
Beyond Green: Intersections of Ecology, Culture and Conservation
(Proposed as part of Bloomsbury’s Environment and Society series)
Editors: Dr. Rajkumar Bera and Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash
Introduction
The E. E. Cummings Society will sponsor two sessions at the 2025 American Literature Association conference in Boston [ https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ ]. We invite proposals for papers on any aspect of Cummings’ life and/or work. Proposals that touch upon the following topics will be especially welcome:
Romantic-era approaches to popular belief, from the philosophical to the sociological, had different ways of framing the “common.” Common beliefs might be framed as ordinary, intuitive, or rooted in common sentiment; or might in contrast suggest vulgar or popular belief, as in the category of “popular superstitions.” This panel will look at Romantic-era constructions of common or popular belief, with topics that might include (but are not limited to): “Common Sense” philosophy and intuitive belief; popular religion; folklore and supernatural beliefs; cultures of popular magic; or other approaches to “traditional” belief.
Call for Papers
The Department of English at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, invites submissions for the upcoming special issue of its journal Research and Criticism, (ISSN 2229-3639) on Literature and the Environment. The journal is published by Pencraft International.
Deep Time in Irish Literature, Culture, Media, and the Arts
In considering the ecocritical urgency of Irish texts, past and present—including characters such as the geographer-protagonist of Caoilinn Hughes’s 2024 novel The Alternatives—we invite papers that consider deep time and its uses in Irish literature, culture, media, and the arts. Topics across genres and time periods may include the human and nonhuman, periodization and cosmic/ancestral time, Irish legend and folklore in deep time, traditions of prehistory, seeds, agriculture, stones, gems, the bog and bog bodies, fossils, climate change, and the anthropocene.
We have good news to share: the deadline for proposal submissions to ASLE 2025 has been extended to January 10, 2025
ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference
Collective Atmospheres: Air, Intimacy, and Inequality
July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park, ancestral lands of the Piscataway People
Virtual panels held on July 17-18, 2025
Working Title - Planet Flanagan: Essays on the Netflix Series of Mike Flanagan
Mike Flanagan has steadily made a significant name for himself in horror, garnering praise for his originality in films such as Oculus (2013) and Hush (2016), and further critical acclaim for works like Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Gerald’s Game (2017) and especially his adaptation of Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep (2019).
Femspec seeks both scholarly and creative submissions for its upcoming Issue 25.1
Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist academic journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres. Femspec publishes both academic scholarship and creative writing.
Creative writing submissions could include short fiction, poetry, or experimental forms.
To submit work for consideration, please review Femspec’s submission guidelines at the following link: SUBMISSION GUIDELINES | Femspec
The Humanities Center at Texas Tech Annual Conference 2025:
“Celebrating Indigenous Resilience”
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
April 5, 2025
Keynote Speaker:
David Treuer,
National Book Award Finalist,
Author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee:
Native America from 1890 to the Present
Professor of English, University of Southern California
Dr. K. R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
Call for Papers
National Conference of Research Scholars
Vision of a Viksit Bharat: Challenges, Initiatives, Strategies
24-25 February, 2025
Theme: Society, Citizens, Development
Eligibility: PhD Scholars registered in any University or Research Institution
CALL FOR PAPERS-
Dear, Faculty members, Film enthusiasts, Researcher, Scholars, and Students,
With utmost pleasure, I invite you to the National Seminar which is being organised by ASBM School of Liberal Arts and will be hosted at ASBM University Campus, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India on 8th March, 2025 at 11 am.
About our School:
Call for papers
We invite paper proposals for Panel 36: Margins of edibility: Non-food in South Asian literatures at the upcoming 28th European Conference for South Asian Studies (ECSAS 2025) hosted by University of Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany) from October 1-4, 2025.
Panel description:
Call for Papers
Glocal Colloquies: An International Journal of World Literature and Cultures
ISSN : 2454-2423
Glocal Colloquies (https://glocalcolloquies.com/) invites scholarly submissions for its upcoming issues, focusing on two critical and contemporary themes:
We seek contributions that engage deeply with these topics, exploring intersections between literature and evolving global discourses.
2023 Issue: Literature and Environment
The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100 to 200 word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at Comic-Con International, in San Diego, CA, July 24–27, 2025. We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars. We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists. The CAC is presently scheduled to take place in person and does not accept virtual presentations. The CAC is designed to bring together
Call for Book Chapters
(PETER LANG)
Performing the Earth: Tribal Green Stage and Environmental Resilience
Performing the Earth: Tribal Green Stage and Environmental Resilience aims to explore the intersection of indigenous cultural expression, performance art, and environmental sustainability. Drawing on the profound ecological wisdom of indigenous peoples, this book focuses to present a dynamic collection of original articles, and creative works that examine how the performing arts can serve as powerful tools for environmental advocacy and resilience.
Mary Shelley Today: Frankenstein in the Twenty-First Century seeks to reevaluate the influence of Mary Shelley, and particularly her most prominent novel, on literature and imaginative work of the last quarter century (defined as 1999-2024). This project engages with works and authors on whom little has been written to date in the hope of providing exciting new resources for Romanticists and general readers alike.
Internation Online Conference
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Age of Transformation: Opportunities and Challenges
AAB College, May 13, 2025
Organized by: AAB College, Pristina, Kosovo
Keynote Speaker:
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rudolph, Director of Research & Learning Innovation, Kaplan Higher Education Academy, Singapore
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The Sea and the World
Conference Dates: April 23-25, 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference at Al Al-Bayt University, 8-9 April 2025
Languages in the Digital World
As part of this conference, several discussion topics will be open to contributors. The following list is not exhaustive, but its main axes will allow for the identification of assessments, the evaluation of ongoing data, and the outlining of perspectives for the future.
In order to provide the broadest possible picture of the multiple dimensions of the interaction between living languages and the digital world, the debates will focus on these areas, which present as many opportunities as challenges for our societies.
The “Hotels, Inns and Motels” International Conference in Toulouse invites scholars to reflect upon the way places of temporary hospitality have structured space and displacements in English-speaking countries and therefore reveal the stakes and forms of hospitality. From medieval inns to the motel chains dotting the endless US interstate landscapes, these spaces offer a temporary home to their dwellers, and perform commercial, social, political and symbolic functions that so far have not been studied thoroughly.
The aim of the conference is to explore how these places, and the people who designed them, work or live there, can reflect or create conceptions of hospitality that provide insight into a given society or a period.
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 31st if you’re interested.
Laughter and Medicine
We invite proposals for contributions to an edited volume exploring the interfaces between laughter and medicine. Developing from a British Academy/Wellcome Trust-funded conference held at the University of Birmingham in November 2024, this volume will put the medical humanities in dialogue with healthcare provision and the medical sciences so as to bridge the divides between the clinic, the laboratory, cultural history, literature, and the arts in Western cultures from the classical period to the present day.
Creativitas: Critical Explorations in Literary Studies invites scholarly contributions that delve into the complex and dynamic relationships between memory, materiality, and affect in literary and cultural studies. This annual issue seeks to unravel the intricate ways in which memory is constructed, mediated, and transformed through material objects, spatial configurations, and emotional experiences.
The Nagoya Gifu Chapter of JALT (Japan Association for Language Teaching) is seeking papers on EFL (English as a foreign language) topics. We are a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal.
See past issues of our journal here:
https://sites.google.com/view/nagoyajaltpublication2020/the-jalt-nagoya-...
See the submission guidelines page and link for submissions here:
https://sites.google.com/view/nagoyajaltpublication2020/the-jalt-nagoya-...
Issue 40 - Diffraction: Open Call for Current Topics in Visual & Cultural Studies
Deadline: Submissions due by March 1, 2025 to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu.
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Retelling and Representation in the Ramakatha Tradition: Critical Perspectives
[ISBN: 978-81-952119-4-4]
Editor: Dr. Pallavi Mishra, Assistant Professor of English, SDM Govt PG College, Doiwala, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
Manuscripts in MS Word (4,000–8,000 words) adhering to MLA 9th edition formatting guidelines should be sent to pallavi.engdhe@gmail.com by 31 December 2024.