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MLA 2026: Plural Cosmologies DEADLINE TODAY (3/21/25)

updated: 
Friday, March 21, 2025 - 3:34pm
2026 Modern Language Association Annual Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 21, 2025

In her artist statement for Along the River of Spacetime (2020), a virtual reality “activation” of Anishinaabe star knowledge, scholar, artist, and video game designer Elizabeth LaPensée (Irish, Métis, Anishinaabe) described the ways in which Anishinaabe cosmologies anticipated a series of experiments carried out by CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the world's most advanced particle accelerator.

Dialogues and Dissonances: The Environmental Humanities from North-South Perspectives

updated: 
Friday, March 21, 2025 - 2:32pm
NOVA University of Lisbon - School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH) | Campolide Campus - Colégio Almada Negreiros
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Dialogues and Dissonances: The Environmental Humanities from North-South Perspectives 

NOVA University of Lisbon - School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH) |

Campolide Campus - Colégio Almada Negreiros (25-27 September, 2025)

Concept Note

 

In recent decades, the term Global South has come to signify the distinctions between the industrialised nations of the “North” and the comparatively less developed nations of the “South.” The Global North-South designation, however, is not strictly geographical but instead reflects various geopolitical, economic, and ecological commonalities between countries.

Middle Eastern and North African Films with Transgender Themes

updated: 
Friday, March 21, 2025 - 1:44pm
The Handbook of Trans Cinema
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Seeking chapters about Middle Eastern and North African films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents. We welcome the following high-priority chapters on Middle Eastern and North African films for the handbook's Part II (National Overviews of Trans Cinema):

EXTENDED DEADLINE: The Handbook of Trans Cinema

updated: 
Friday, March 21, 2025 - 1:44pm
Douglas Vakoch
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 17, 2025

We warmly invite additional chapters for The Handbook of Trans Cinema, with high priority for chapters exploring transgender films from Africa, Latin America, Asia, Oceania, and Europe. Proposals are due April 17, 2025. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters exploring trans films from 6 continents. After the following list of confirmed chapters, you will find details about how to submit your proposal for additional chapters. The handbook will include only one chapter for each topic, so please do not send proposals for any of the confirmed chapters listed here:

African Films with Transgender Themes

updated: 
Friday, March 21, 2025 - 1:43pm
The Handbook of Trans Cinema
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Seeking chapters about African films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents, including chapters devoted to films from Cape Verde, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda. We welcome the following high-priority chapters on African films for the handbook's Part II (National Overviews of Trans Cinema):

Latin American Films with Transgender Themes

updated: 
Friday, March 21, 2025 - 1:43pm
The Handbook of Trans Cinema
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Seeking chapters about Latin American films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents, including chapters devoted to ArgentinaBrazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. We welcome the following high-priority chapters on Latin American films for the handbook's Part II (National Overviews of Trans Cinema):

Asian Films with Transgender Themes

updated: 
Friday, March 21, 2025 - 1:43pm
The Handbook of Trans Cinema
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Seeking chapters about Asian films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents, including chapters devoted to Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Japan, Mainland China, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. We especially welcome the following high-priority chapters on Asian films for the handbook's Part II (National Overviews of Trans Cinema): 

Translation, Speculative Justice and Sustainability in the Global South

updated: 
Friday, March 21, 2025 - 2:00am
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.”

Two-Day International Seminar & Workshop On Indian Drama: Society-Culture, Tradition and Heritage

updated: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 2:48pm
Ateswartala Sanskritik Manch, Radhakantapur, Raidighi, South 24 Parganas In collaboration with Department of Bengali, Vidyasagar University, Paschim Medinipur and Jana Sanskriti, Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed (Publication Partner: Peter Lang)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 23, 2025

Call for Papers

  Mode: Blended (Online & Offline)

Two-Day International Seminar & Workshop On

Indian Drama: Society-Culture, Tradition and Heritage Organized by

Ateswartala Sanskritik Manch, Radhakantapur, Raidighi, South 24 Parganas

In collaboration with

Department of Bengali, Vidyasagar University, Paschim Medinipur

and

Jana Sanskriti, Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed

MLA Special Session: Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish Writers from the Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey (Online Session)

updated: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 10:51am
2026 MLA Convetion
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 21, 2025

Special Session Title: Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish Writers from the Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey (Online Session)

This panel explores Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish writers through various theoretical frameworks, spanning all historical periods. We welcome interdisciplinary perspectives and comparative works that examine authors who have produced literature, memoirs, travelogues, journalistic writings, or any other form of textual production in English.

Papers focusing on lesser-known writers and works are particularly encouraged.

CFP:International Young Researchers' Conference on Planet, Text and Context: Perspectives on Ecology

updated: 
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 2:38pm
Surya Sen Mahavidyalaya
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

International Multidisciplinary Young Researcher’s Seminar (Hybrid Mode)

on

Planet, Text and Context: Perspectives on Ecology

Organised by

PG Department of English & Research and Development Cell

In collaboration with

IQAC

Surya Sen Mahavidyalaya, Siliguri, India

5th April, 2025

 

 

Concept Note

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

updated: 
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 1:10am
Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

We invite submissions for the sixth issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in September. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography, ERIH Plus and DOAJ.

* Deadline is the end of July 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.

Mapping Body Space Continuum in Urbanscapes

updated: 
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 12:26am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Space is not defined objectively, but in relation to bodies, as it is a manifestation of their needs, intentions, and desires. It is not a container in which objects exist but is intertwined with the body’s orientation in the world and its movements within the space. Human body, therefore, is at the centre of all spaces, which are more than a geometrical concept in abstraction. Individual bodies apprehend and appropriate space differently and give meaning to embedded systems and institutions through established and evolving associations. Any assumption of personalised space, whether private or public, is embedded with historical, cultural, and social meanings which help curate embodied experiences.

The Problem of Social Justice: Global Perspectives and Personal Narratives

updated: 
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 12:25am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Social justice is the virtue which guides us in creating those organized human interactions we call institutions. In turn, social institutions, when justly organized, provide us with access to what is good for the person, both individually and in our associations with others. Social justice also imposes on each of us a personal responsibility to work with others to design and continually perfect our institutions as tools for personal and social development.

–             The Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ), Washington, D.C., USA

Power in Urbanscapes: Rethinking Spatiality and Sociality

updated: 
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 12:25am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025

The second Issue of Volume 7 of LLIDS examines how structures of power constitute and shape urban spaces. It proposes to explore their influence in determining social values wherein varied social groups—marked by religion, class, race, gender, etc.—negotiate the power dynamics that constitute life in urban spaces. The modern, bustling city carries within itself a continuous sense of becoming. The urban dwellers, inhabiting segregated parts of the city, shape the lived experience of these spaces through their socio-cultural interactions and relationships.

PAMLA 2025 Special Session CFP

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 12:18pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

PAMLA 2025 San Francisco: “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion”

The 122nd annual PAMLA Conference will be held between November 20-23, 2025 at the InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California.

PAMLA welcomes special session proposals for the 2025 PAMLA conference in San Francisco, California on topics of scholarly interest that are not too close to the topics of our general (standing) sessions (see below to find a list of PAMLA’s general/standing sessions).

The Boundaries of US Identity and the African American Experience

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:25am
REDEN journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Special thematic dossier 7.1 | The Boundaries of US Identity and the African American Experience

Editor: Beatriz Hermida Ramos (Universidad de Salamanca)

 

CFP - International Conference On "Labouring Bodies in South Asian Films and Filmmaking: From Beginning to Now."

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:25am
CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 11, 2025

An International Conference

On

Labouring Bodies in South Asian Films and Filmmaking: From Beginning to Now.

Organized by

The Cultural Studies Cell, School of Arts and Humanities, Christ University, Bengaluru

Conference Dates: 19 & 20 June 2025

 

“Pause to think a hundred times, a thousand times, on the doorstep of the film factory.”

Viktor Shklovsky: The Film Factory (1927)

"Memory, Affects and Emotions" 7th International Interdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:25am
InMind Support
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 6, 2025

Conference online (via Zoom): 24-25 April 2025

CFP:​

Affects, emotions and perceptions have always been at the center of philosophical discussion. Yet the so-called “Affective turn” in social studies and humanities is a relatively new phenomenon inspired by Deleuze and Guattari´s influential works among others. Affective turn challenges the still dominant representational approach in semiotics, discourse analysis and text analyses of all kinds.

Call for Papers – Feminist Mappings: Art, Literature and Films by Indian Women

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:24am
University School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indraprastha University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Spanning distances between bequeathed social identities and quests towards becoming, Indian women have documented the many shapes that such striving takes. They have traversed distances between equality and freedom; sifted nostalgia and futuristic imaginations; and mediated ideas of collectivization and autonomy. The upcoming issue of Indraprasth – A Journal of Culture and Communication Studies, investigates the ways in which Indian women writers and artists have perceived and shaped the world in literature and art.

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