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Anviksha: A Research Scholars’ Conference on theme of "Identities"

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:49am
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur presents 
Anviksha: A Research Scholars’ Conference
8th and 9th February, 2025
Conference Theme: Identities

Forward Moving / Moving Forward: University of Maryland 18th Annual Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:48am
University of Maryland Graduate English Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

“It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually, time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively. ... We must come to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability.”

— Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail."

The University of Maryland’s Graduate English Organization (GEO) invites proposals relating to the theme of “Forward Moving / Moving Forward” for our 18th annual graduate student conference, to be held in person on Friday, March 7, 2025.

An Archaeology of the Gaze Studying the evolutions of the Iconography of Violence and Brutality

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:48am
An Archaeology of the Gaze. Symposium at Sorbonne University, Paris
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 8, 2025

An Archaeology of the Gaze
Studying the evolutions of the Iconography of Violence and Brutality

Anyone familiar with the war iconography of ancient sovereigns—from the Assyrian palaces and temples of Ramses II to Trajan’s Column—would not be surprised by these powers' claims to legitimate violence. It was entirely endorsed by the sovereign, reducing the victims of the conquering arm to mere foils for the political power asserting itself through force. In stark contrast, the photographs that journalists share from contemporary conflicts are often characterized by a specific focus on the victims, whose suffering has become central to the interpretation of violence.

Call for Book Reviews and Reviewers, interdisciplinary

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:48am
Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning / Boston University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 5, 2025

Call for Book Reviews: Volume 14, Issue 1 (2025)

 

The editors of Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning are pleased to announce an open call for book reviews for a forthcoming volume.

Impact is a peer-reviewed biannual online journal devoted to interdisciplinary teaching, learning, and scholarship.

If you would like to contribute, you may submit a review for consideration at https://impact.scholasticahq.com/for-authors. If you would like to serve as reviewer, but have no text in mind, please send your CV and a statement of interest to citl@bu.edu.

 

Call for Papers - Humanities Education and Research Association

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:47am
Humanities Education and Research Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

HERA

Call for Papers

        Humanities Education and Research Association

Annual Conference, 12-15 March 2025

University of Houston-Downtown

Houston, Texas

 

"Humanities 2.0: Traditions & Technology"

 

Cultures of Correspondence Symposium

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:46am
Baylor University and Texas A&M University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

We invite you to an exciting linked symposia that focus on key issues and questions around eighteenth- and nineteenth-century letters.

Hosted consecutively by Baylor University and Texas A&M University, the symposia build upon both institutions' substantial collections of 18th- and 19th-century archival materials and their commitment to creating accessible digital archives and scholarship.

FRAME 38.2 “Paper Pills: A Medical Humanities Issue”

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:46am
FRAME, Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 21, 2025

‘Body horror,’ a subgenre devoted to corporeal transgressions, is undergoing a rebirth with films like Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (2024)—a cautionary tale challenging the beauty industry and the gendered double standards of ageing. This emerging biopolitical discourse concerned with body dysmorphia, loss of control, abjection, susceptibility to illness and mutation is not limited to film. From classics like Frankenstein to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the Grand Guignol ghastly extends its arms to the literary sphere with emerging works like Mona Awad’s Rouge or Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation.

Call for Chapters: Interdisciplinary Communication Studies from the Periphery: Ways of Being and Doing

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:46am
Edited Book Project - Istanbul Bilgi University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 20, 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

Acta Ludologica (Special Issue: Game and Monetisation)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:45am
Acta Ludologica
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Acta Ludologica is inviting manuscripts for its Special Issue: Games and Monetisation.

Guest editor: assoc. prof. PhDr. Jana Radošinská, PhD.

Worlding Beyond the End of the World

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:45am
University of Western Ontario
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 6, 2025

We are pleased to announce the in-person 2025 Theory & Criticism conference at Western University from April 25th-26th. This conference aims to look beyond visions of the future that are confined to the utopian-dystopian binary. To do so, it will feature theoretically rich work from decolonial, queer, trans, and crip-futurism(s) and their intersections. 

Extended Deadline: The Marilynne Robinson Society at ALA

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:44am
American Literature Association Conference (ALA); May 21-24, 2025; Boston, MA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 6, 2025

The Marilynne Robinson Society will be hosting two panels at the annual American Literature Association Conference (May 21-24, 2025; Boston, MA).  The first panel will focus on a wide variety of topics connected to Robinson’s essays and novels.

Please submit a 350-word proposal and short bio to haein.park@biola.edu by November 15, 2024.

Proposals for Kate Chopin panels at 2025 American Literature Association Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:44am
Kate Chopin International Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 17, 2025
  • The first panel, a roundtable on “Kate Chopin in the Classroom/ Teaching Through Technology,” seeks short (seven- to eight-minute) papers/remarks that address an aspect of or strategy for teaching Chopin’s life or work in the contemporary classroom. How do you teach Chopin in the post-covid classroom? What in-class activities and assignments incorporating technology, multimodality, infographics, podcasts, TikTok videos, AI, etc. are engaging your students as they study Chopin? Proposals should include a title, your name and affiliation, and a paragraph about your proposed remarks.

The World of Bob Dylan 2025: Call for Papers and Proposals

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:43am
The University of Tulsa's Institute for Bob Dylan Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The World of Bob Dylan returns to Tulsa from July 24-27, 2025 and, in cooperation with the Bob Dylan Center, will celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of Dylan going electric at the Newport Folk Festival.  We now seek proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, and creative sessions that will run across the event’s four days.

The Intersection of Literature and Censorship in Modern Society

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:43am
Istanbul Bilgi University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 27, 2025

Deadline for abstract submission: January 27th, 2025

Conference title, organization name: The Intersection of Literature and Censorship in Modern Society, Istanbul Bilgi University.

Conference date and location: April 26th, 2025 at Santralistanbul Campus, Energy Museum Seminar Hall.

Contact email: literatureandcensorship2025@gmail.com


 

The Intersection of Literature and Censorship in Modern Society

Rethinking Race, Nation and Empire: Charles Dickens, Slavery, and the American Civil War

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:43am
Salem State University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Rethinking Race, Nation and Empire: Charles Dickens, Slavery, and the American Civil War considers how the writings of Charles Dickens are shaped by—and contribute to—Victorian discourses of race, nation, and empire in the middle of the nineteenth century. The “discursive roots of modern racism lie in British, European, and colonial writings,” writes Patrick Brantlinger. But often unacknowledged is the “extent to which racism informed virtually all aspects of Romantic and Victorian culture” (Taming Cannibals 6-7).

Call for Applications: RSVP's Curran Fellowships

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:42am
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival sources. Made possible through the generosity of the late Eileen Curran, Professor Emerita of English, Colby College, and inspired by her pioneering research on Victorian periodicals, the Fellowships are awarded annually.

What can pictures still do in the 21st century? Figuring reality in visual arts.

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:37am
Helena LAMOULIATTE-SCHMITT (University of Bordeaux and Bordeaux Montaigne University)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 6, 2025

This conference aims to examine the question of figurative art at the beginning of the 21st century. Nowadays, figurative artistic models are challenged by increasingly sophisticated technologies that reshape our definition of “the real,” and more particularly, of reality. AI-generated images tend to normalize manipulated and distorted representations of the world we live in and can sometimes become indistinguishable from real images (“deepfakes”).

Call for Papers: Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre *Deadline: 31 January 2025*

updated: 
Monday, November 25, 2024 - 3:45pm
Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

We invite submissions for the fifth issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in March. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography.

* Deadline is the end of January but we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.

* Original works, not published elsewhere or related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication.

* Please note that all manuscripts will be closely examined through Turnitin once they are received by the journal.

Call for Chapters on FX Channel Original Documentary and Reality TV Series

updated: 
Monday, November 25, 2024 - 11:01am
David Pierson, University of Southern Maine & Brian Faucette, Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute USA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 6, 2025

This is a call for chapters on the following FX Channel documentary and reality TV series: Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days (2005), New York Times Presents (2020-2023), AKA Jane Roe (2020), Welcome to Wrexham (2022-present), and The Secrets of Hillsong (2023) for an edited book collection (The FX Reader), which is under a two-volume book contract with Syracuse University Press.  This collection will serve as a valuable resource for TV scholars and educators on FX’s history and its most critically acclaimed, noteworthy series.

SCSECS 2025

updated: 
Sunday, November 24, 2024 - 8:33pm
South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

The South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies invites you to present papers and organize conference panels on being lost and found in the long eighteenth century. Whether one is lost at sea or lost in thought, finding one's bearings can bring about new insights and inspirations. Discovering the answers to the mysteries of existence has led to whole new understandings of the world around and within us -- and whole new speculations about the unseen and unknown. We look forward to hearing your guiding perspectives.

Emotions in Turmoil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Painful Emotions

updated: 
Saturday, November 23, 2024 - 9:46pm
The University of Western Australia/ Society for the History of Emotions
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

Emotions in Turmoil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Painful Emotions 

16th -17th June 2025

The University of Western Australia, Perth

Keynote speakers: 

Daniel M. Gross (University of California Irvine)

Robbert Boddice (Tampere University)  

Astrology in Focus: Navigating Art, Psyche, and Knowledge

updated: 
Saturday, November 23, 2024 - 12:07pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024

Astrology in Focus:
Navigating Art, Psyche, and Knowledge
A Transdisciplinary Conference
January 12-14, 2025

Conference page: https://labrc.co.uk/astrology-2025/

Call for Papers:

Proposal Submission Deadline: December 5, 2024
Proposal Form: https://forms.gle/cJAzkPYfKhJJNbWK7
Format: Online
Plenary Speakers: TBC
Fee: 100 GBP 

“Astrology represents the sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity”, Carl Jung

ROUTLEDGE BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus

updated: 
Saturday, November 23, 2024 - 9:42am
ROUTLEDGE, Taylor & Francis, Informa, Informa UK Limited
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus (Routledge, Global Edition) 

Series Editors: Goutam Karmakar, Puspa Damai, Payel Pal, and Deimantas Valančiūnas

ASLE Panel on "Plant Humanities" at ALA 2025 - American Literature Association Annual Conference (Boston)

updated: 
Friday, November 22, 2024 - 3:43pm
American Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 6, 2025

ASLE Panel Topic: “Plant Humanities”

This is a call for papers for the ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) Panel at the American Literature Association Conference: May 21-24, 2025, The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA (in person - Wednesday through Saturday of Memorial Day weekend).

“Plant Humanities” will investigate how plants shape American literary and environmental landscapes, cultural narratives, and material practices. Please submit 300-word abstracts on any aspect of plant studies in American, transnational, or postcolonial literature and material culture related, but not limited to, the following topics:

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