Crossroads of Literary Creation:
Fact, Fiction, and Everything In-between
A Transdisciplinary Conference
Online, February 5-6, 2025

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/fact-fiction/

Fees: 100 GBP
15% discount for LABRC members

Call for Papers:  

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie” – Stephen King

“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.” – Doris Lessing

The London Arts-Based Research Centre

Women who Create: the Feminine and the Arts
A Transdisciplinary Conference

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/women-who-create-2025/

March 29-31, 2025

Where:
March 29-30: In person participation at Cambridge University & online
March 31: Fully online

Call for Papers
Cost:        185 GBP (in person)
100 GBP (Online)
Abstract: Deadline January 10, 2025

Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature

University College Dublin, Ireland

17-20 June 2025

Keynote Speakers –    Prof. Sarah Brouillette (Carleton University)

                                 Prof. Christopher Newfield (Independent Social Research Foundation)

The Summer School The Cultural Heritage and Memory of Totalitarianism explores the legacy of Fascism in Italy blending unique in situ visits to art, architecture and historical monuments led by international experts and classes on literature, film and culture led by Sapienza faculty. The goal is to broaden the scholarly assessment of the period and to suggest innovative curricula for students in the humanities, who are also interested in working in museums and cultural institutes in Italy and abroad. The heritage of Fascism in Rome and Italy will be approached in the context of Nazism and Stalinism, and framed within the broader scenario of European colonialism.

This collection of essays seeks to explore the many new and cutting-edge directions surrounding the scholarship of Henry V, especially related to global, transnational, and other approaches that connect the play to wider contexts than those in which it has been traditionally read. Henry V is a play that has long been read in terms of internal self-fashioning: both England’s and Henry’s own. What happens to the play as we look outwards from it towards the wider world, both early modern and contemporary, with which it engages? This collection looks to explore how we read Henry V now, both as an artifact of the past and as a living work still available for adaptation, interpretation, and re-use.

Playing Nice: Sincerity and Irony in Television

Edited by Owen Cantrell and Sage Westfall

Deadline for Submission: ASAP

We are urgently looking for at least one more completed essay for this collection under contract with a fast-approaching deadline. Please submit a 300-word abstract for a previously unpublished paper which is already or nearly complete. If accepted, we are looking to review your chapter and edit it within weeks, not months.

Full chapters should be between 6-8K words in length.

Collection details:

Guru Dutt’s films are integral to the golden age of Hindi cinema as they were both critical and commercial successes. In a short career spanning twenty years, Dutt has served as an actor, a director, and a producer. His versatility is testament to a deep understanding of every aspect of filmmaking. Critics contend that contradictory ideas coalesced in his movies. A prominent theme of nationalism is at the heart of Dutt’s oeuvre. While he set out to refashion Indian national identity, Dutt envisioned a utopia for the new nation. Ideologically, Dutt was influenced by Nehruvian socialism, which finds its expression in his selection of subjects and themes. His movies also critiqued the new nation’s failure to afford equal opportunities to every citizen.

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies invites submissions for the fourth issue of the journal - a general issue on Literature and Drama Studies. 

Indexed by MLA and EBSCO databases.

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal that serves as a forum for multi- and interdisciplinary discussions across Literature and Drama Studies, providing academicians, scholars, professionals and students with the opportunity to disseminate their research to a diverse audience of peers and professionals.

The second issue aims to cover literary and theatrical works in general.

This is a call for chapters on specific topics for The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespearean Biofiction, an edited collection which is under contract with Palgrave. The Handbook will be published in 2026. It will be the first book to comprehensively consider the history, state of the art, global cultures, and futures of Shakespeare biofiction; as such, it will be the definitive study of the topic, intervening at a critical juncture of development for this subject matter. Proposals are sought for the following chapters: 

INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOHISTORICAL ASSOCIATION’S 48th ANNUAL CONFERENCE

 MAY 23-25, 2025, VIRTUALLY ON ZOOM

THEME: IMAGINING BRIGHTER FUTURES FOR OUR DIVIDED WORLD: WHAT PSYCHOHISTORY CAN CONTRIBUTE

SUBTHEMES: Psychohistorical Insights On

Call for Papers: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers, Astronomy, and Gender

Call for Book Chapters

Title: Soft Skills Unscripted: Lessons from Literature and Films

Editors: Dr. Pragati Shukla

Publisher: International publisher

Revista Hispánica Moderna is currently seeking special issue proposals. Special issues should explore innovative and significant topics within Hispanic Studies. The journal is particularly interested in proposals that cross temporalities and territories, transversally studying problems that question Modern and Early Modern fields and Iberian, Hispanic and Latin American cultures.

When proposing a Special Issue, please include:

Call for Papers for an Edited Collection on Elizabeth (“Lizzie”) Champney