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6th International Conference Reframing the Archive
Online event
HAUNTED ARCHIVES OF LIVINGNESS
Visual Culture and the Politics of Care in the Age of Ecological Entanglement
Entanglements: Journal of PosthumanitiesEntanglements: Journal of Posthumanities is an international, double-blind, peer-reviewed, open-access, bi-annual, transdisciplinary journal dedicated to critically interrogating and dismantling the overarching human social contract that largely underpins existing disciplines of the humanities and social sciences.
Call for Papers
Multisensuality and Language Across Media, Cultures, and Histories International Scientific Conference
When: November 14–15, 2025 Where: Online
“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words.” — Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments
Conference Dates - November 20th to 23rd 2025
Location - San Francisco, California - The InterContinental San Francisco Hotel - U.S.A.
Topic - Reclaiming History: Trauma, Memory and Resilience in the Narratives from Africa
Deadline for Abstract/Proposal Submission - Thursday, May 15th 2025
Overview -
This edited collection, Killing It In The Classroom: Teaching the Young Adult Detective Genre aims to address the changes in young adult detective/mystery literature, television shows, movies, and video games from 2015 to the present. The time, we maintain, is ripe for a re-investigation: adolescent engagement with social media and technology, along with the psychological after-effects of the Covid years, have significantly impacted what it means to be a teen in 2025. How does the YA detective fiction genre offer ways to explore contemporary issues and anxieties relevant to teens today?
Call for Submissions: Poetry Anthology Titled "Alone Together: Echoes of Existence in the Modern Abyss"
Overview:
Fresh Words-An International Literary Journal is thrilled to invite submissions for an international poetry anthology titled "Alone Together: Echoes of Existence in the Modern Abyss".
Bible and Literature (Panel / In-Person)Presiding Officer: Kathryn Vulic (Western Washington University)
This session welcomes papers about the Bible and Literature that will ideally but not necessarily connect to the conference theme of “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” and touch on:
— Jewish biblical or post-biblical works
— Canonical or non-canonical Christian scriptures
— Post-biblical literary works that borrow from, adapt, translate, comment on, satirize, or allude to biblical stories, verses, characters, themes, or tropes
Manuscripts and Textual Criticism (Panel / In-Person)Presiding Officer: Kathryn Vulic (Western Washington University)
Research in Education Curriculum and Pedagogy: Global Perspectives (ISSN: 2977-1633) invites outstanding dissertations/papers from MA Early Childhood students and early career researchers to submit abstracts/ interests by 30th June 2025.
For this special issue, we seek to explore a wide range of early childhood studies content. We strive to build a bridge between theory and practice in early childhood, which not only reflects researcher interests but can also appeal to public understanding of relevant educational issues. For more detials visit the journal's website https://recap.at-journals.com/.
Proposed timeline:
30 June 2025: Abstract/Interest submission deadline
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2025 Annual Conference, November 6-8, 2025 in Philadelphia, PA
This two-day conference, sponsored by the Faculty of English and St John’s College, Cambridge, invites proposals for papers on Thomas Nashe and voice. Papers might consider orality and performance; typographic representation of dialogue; gesture and non-verbal speech; heteroglossia and genre hybridity; point of view, narrative perspective, and focalization; style, parody, and mimicry; and Nashe’s use of multiple authorial personae and narratorial surrogates.
C21 are excited to be commissioning a series of new review essays! This would be a 3,000-word essay putting 2–3 academic books in conversation. Check out the suggestion of topics and titles below and get in touch with our review editors via email (c21literature.reviews@gmail.com) if you’d like to review any of these recent publications. You’re welcome to run with a topic we’ve proposed or tweak it to your research interests and we’d be happy to develop your ideas with you!
Call for Papers
Call for Papers
Litinfinite Journal
July 2025
(Vol 7 Issue I)
On
Narratives of Nature: Representations of the Environment, Urban Ecology and Planetary Crisis in Indigenous and Postcolonial Literatures
E-ISSN: 2582-0400 | CODEN: LITIBR
All the manuscripts should be mailed to litinfinitejournal@gmail.com
Abstract (150-200 words), Keywords – (5-6), and Final research papers of 4000-6000 words (including citations) should be submitted by 15th June 2025.
Narratives of Nature: Representations of the Environment, Urban Ecology and Planetary Crisis in Indigenous and Postcolonial Literatures
E-ISSN: 2582-0400 | CODEN: LITIBR
All the manuscripts should be mailed to litinfinitejournal@gmail.com
Abstract (150-200 words), Keywords – (5-6), and Final research papers of 4000-6000 words (including citations) should be submitted by 15th June 2025.
(The Bengali research manuscripts should be accompanied by English title, author(s) details, keywords, abstracts, and references)
Travel and Tourism Studies as a discipline continues to gain popularity in academia, in part because of its inter-disciplinary nature. The Travel and Tourism area seeks papers that discuss and explore any aspect of travel and/or tourism. Topics for this area include, but are not limited to, the following:-
- travel and gender/race/class
- personal travel narratives
- heritage tourism
- material culture and tourism
- travel in 2025: how has politics changed travel?
We invite website submissions of poems and creative essays that engage with coercive forces in capitalist and imperialist states based on Marxist thought, particularly in the Global South. We are especially interested in poems and essays that critically address contemporary global issues, including but not limited to race, gender, environment, decolonization, and imperialism.
Our Blog section features poetry, creative and analytical essays.
Submissions: https://www.thelocomotive.org/submission
Due Date: 06/30/2025
Marxism and the Coercive Forces of Capital: Today’s Implications and Critical Perspectives
“[The state] power rises out of society, placing itself above it, and alienating itself more and more from it.”
–Frederick Engels
Date: 19-20
September 2025
Keynote Speaker: Hatim El-Hibri, George Mason University
Mode: In Person
Call for Papers
Body, Time, and Digital Technology
2-3 October 2025, Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus
CFP: Small Forms in Nineteenth-Century America
This edited collection expands critical approaches to scale in nineteenth-century America by shifting focus from immensity (Baker 2006; Roberts 2014) to “small forms,” or forms disposed toward brevity or reduction. Building on scholarship that examines the operation of individual forms such as epigraphs (Stokes 2021), extracts (Wisecup 2021), footnotes (Cohen 2022), recipes (Tompkins 2013), and the serial sketch (Spires 2021), this collection aims to synthesize analysis of diverse small forms evident in nineteenth-century American literature and culture.
PAMLA 2025 RHETORICAL THEORY PANEL
CALL FOR PAPERS
“Rhetorical Theory” (Standing Session)
San Francisco, CA, Nov. 20-23
Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack (USC)
Abstract
This panel will explore recent movements in rhetorical theory writ large, either in connection with or apart from composition theory and practice. Special attention will be given to proposals that engage with the conference's theme.
Description
MAPACA 2025 Summer Virtual Symposium Call for Proposals
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.
The history of "rights" as a concept is mired in complications. Regarded as the moral or legal recognition of interests or entitlements of individuals and communities, rights have been present in history in a variety of ways - both justiciable and not. This history of rights, and the securing of rights, is long and arduous, and has taken various forms along the way - with sudden victories and abrupt revocations all the same - resulting in the present that we find ourselves in now.
Screening Women and/in Politics
Film Journal - special issue
Hélène Charlery and Anita Jorge
This special issue of Film Journal seeks papers on the representation of political women and women in institutional politics in audiovisual productions from and on the anglophone world, whether they be documentaries, fiction films (short, medium, feature-length, television or platform) films, series or mini-series.
Postcolonial Interventions (ISSN 2455-6564) Call for Papers Vol. X, Issue 2 (June 2025)
Postcolonial Interventions invites scholarly articles for an OPEN ISSUE to be published in June 2025. As this call is being circulated, older territorial imperial aggression is threatening to bare its fangs across the world, right-wing forces of xenophobia, discrimination and intolerance continue to gather momentum across the world, inequality and ecological crisis continue to escalate and new forms of precarity are being constantly negotiated. The next issue of Postcolonial Interventions seeks to explore such issues and more based on postcolonial experiences across the world.
Submission Guidelines:
Editor-in-Chief: Martin Ovens
This international, peer-reviewed journal seeks to encourage and promote research in non-western and cross-cultural philosophy. This may include scholarship typically identified, defined or characterised as comparative philosophy, intercultural philosophy or global philosophy. In addition, the journal offers opportunities to publish research that explores or analyses relations between philosophy, culture and dialogue. In this way Culture and Dialogue provides a forum for scholars in many subfields of philosophical studies.
Editor-in-Chief: Martin Ovens
This international, peer-reviewed journal seeks to encourage and promote research in non-western and cross-cultural philosophy. This may include scholarship typically identified, defined or characterised as comparative philosophy, intercultural philosophy or global philosophy. In addition, the journal offers opportunities to publish research that explores or analyses relations between philosophy, culture and dialogue. In this way Culture and Dialogue provides a forum for scholars in many subfields of philosophical studies.
Dear Colleagues,
The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale (I19) seeks to publish the best scholarship on the century that was, in many ways, the time period in which the modern genres of science fiction and fantasy began, and in which the academic study of fairy tale and folklore has its roots.