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CFP - Postcolonial coming-of-age novels in the Indian and Pacific Ocean worlds
Open Group Session at the 2025 ICLA Conference
Nancy Drew and Sookie Stackhouse. The Executioner and Sweet Valley High. Warhammer or Star Wars tie-in novels. Franchise series like these occupy a unique position, inspiring voracious (often young) readers while often complicating traditional scholarly approaches to literature.
We seek 15-minute papers for a prospective panel on franchise fiction, mass market books, and pulp at the American Literature Association conference in Boston, May 21-24, 2025.
Call for Papers: Journal of Illustration
Special Issue: ‘ILLUSTRATION & HERITAGE: Sharing Histories to Draw Out Futures’
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-illustration#call-for-papers
On 22 and 23 November 2024, the 14th Annual International Illustration Research Symposium explored the role that illustration plays in cultural heritage: Illustration & Heritage: Sharing Histories to Draw Out Futures.
The So What welcomes proposals for short, public-facing pieces — whether critical, pedagogical, or creative — on social media accounts that engage with the medieval period for a special issue of TSW planned for on-line publication in 2025 or early 2026.
Iperstoria no. 26 Call for Papers
Special Issue: Parties, Luxury and American Celebrity: From Gatsby to Instagram
Guest editors: Alessandro Clericuzio, University of Perugia (alessandro.clericuzio@unipg.it); Cinzia Schiavini, University of Milan (cinzia.schiavini@unimi.it)
Re-Defining Boundaries: Exploring Writing Program Administration Identities
Editors: Kristi Murray Costello, Old Dominion University, and Jacob Babb, Appalachian State University
This call emerges from our understanding that over the past five years, something has changed about how writing program administrators relate to their work.
Or maybe we’ve changed.
Maybe it’s both.
Wednesday 18th June 2025 to Friday 20th June 2025
Falmouth University, UK
The Contemporary Women’s Writing Association’s 2025 conference will be an interdisciplinary and global exploration of the role and impact of women’s writing. This conference is dedicated to the discussion of a broad range of women’s writing, including the popular and the literary; bestsellers and genres; poetry and prose; screen and script; writing for games and digital spaces; creative non-fiction; life-writing, biography, and memoir; and journalism and other forms of cultural production.
DIFFERENCE, DIASPORA, AND THE NATION: THE POLITICS AND AESTHETICS OF MINORITARIAN PERFORMANCE IN 20th AND 21st CENTURY ITALY
7-8 February 2025
A two-day hybrid conference organized by the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Performance and Politics, Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage, University of Milan, Italy
The study and analysis of creative fan production (e.g., fanfiction, fanart, cosplay, etc.) is a cornerstone of fandom studies. These practices enable fans to assert a level of authorship over their favorite media – to reimagine, recontextualize, and reconceptualize their canons to better reflect their desires, wants, interests, and demands. They provide voice to individuals who cannot necessarily shape source texts directly (Vinney & Dill-Shackleford, 2018), allowing fans to carve out space for themselves within the pop-culture landscape that celebrates/embraces their identities. This is particularly poignant for marginalized fans.
Florida Atlantic University’s English Graduate Student Society (EGSS) is pleased to announce the return of our annual academic conference, to be held at the Grand Palm Room located at our Boca Raton Campus's Student Union* on February 3rd, 2025.
*The full address for our Student Union is 1995 Dade Ave #1973, Boca Raton, FL 33431.
Eco-environmental criticism has now become a staple presence in the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary landscape, calling for ongoing reflections on the human impact on the environment. A distinct aspect of these conversations has been the growing focus on the concern of ecological destruction for the planet, with all the inevitable consequences that this entails. Within changing contexts that feel increasingly more precarious, conceptualisations of the ‘eco-futures’ have become central to our cultural discourses, from film to television series, from literature to comics, from animation and video games to digital narratives, from architecture to design, from socio-ecology to animal studies.
Dear Colleagues:
My forthcoming collection, Imperial Debt: Colonial Theft, Postcolonial Reparations, is in contract and due out in 2025.
Please review the original CFP for the book, copied below, and let me know if you have work that would be appropriate for it and fits within the rubric of the book (see below).
The full chapter is needed by Dec. 31st. Please email to: maureen.fadem@gmail.com
Thank you considering this important project--my very best,
~Maureen Ellen Ruprecht, CUNY
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Late submissions being accepted until 15 December 2024.
Call for Paper for the Monsters, Monstrosities, & the Monstrous area of the PCA for the 2025 PCA Conference in New Orleans
“Imagining Deleuze’s Romanticism”
NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism) 2025 Virtual CFP
CFP: 59th Annual Comparative World Literature Conference
Ecocriticism and Popular Culture: Cool Trends in a Warming ClimateVenue: California State University, Long Beach. Hybrid Dates: 23-25 April 2025; two days of in-person and one day of Zoom panelsKeynote Speaker: Kaniehtiio Horn.
EXposuRE.
The Dynamics of Influence in Post-millennial North American Literature and Culture
March 2026
Call for papers
Robert Lowell session, American Literature Association, 21-24 May 2025 in Boston
The Robert Lowell Society welcomes proposals for one session at the American Literature Association's annual conference (Boston, MA, 21–24 May 2025).
We are especially interested in proposals that consider Lowell's work in light of today's "death studies." For example: Lowell’s own elegies, his memories of and reconstructions of predecessors and peers, his cemetery poems, his care poems, his commemorative publishing projects, his imitations of elegies by others, his prose about others. Panelists might also consider poems about Lowell, including but not limited to elegies.
Call for Proposals
August Wilson Society’s Biennial Colloquium
Celebrating 20 Years: August Wilson’s Legacy and The Confluence of Voices in Literary and Cultural Expression
April 2-5, 2025
The Hillman Library at the University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
OGOM Conference 2025: CFPSea changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, and enchanted hybrids of ocean and river
Conference page: https://www.opengravesopenminds.com/sea-changes-2025/
Venue: The British Library, London, UK (and online) Date: 5–6 September 2025
“To be neurodivergent is to reclaim the pathologizing aspects of a long-term cognitive diagnosis and to reclaim one’s neuro-status as a possible position from which to claim resources, representation and recognition” (Stenning and Bertisldottir Rosqvist 1535).
American Literature Association
May 21-24, 2025
The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA
The Richard Wright Society announces two sessions on Wright to take place at
the 36th Annual American Literature Association Conference.
Roundtable: Richard Wright’s Contributions to Postcolonial Studies
In his introduction to AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics, Vijay Prashad tells
the story of how Richard Wright came to attend the historic Bandung Conference in
Call for Papers: International Conference "Sounds of a Lifetime: Exploring Life Writing in Audio Media" (29–30 January 2026, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
This conference aims to expand the boundaries of life writing studies by focusing on the often overlooked domain of audio life narratives. As Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson highlight in the preface of Reading Autobiography, “[l]ife narrative studies has become an expansive, transnational, multimedia field” (xi), going far beyond the written word. In the latest edition of this seminal work, they touch upon the concept of mediated voice and the aural qualities of social media messages, indicating the varied manifestations of auto/biographical acts (129).
Recent developments in the study of theatre festivals (Knowles 2020) highlight the importance of investigating festivals as key events, both for the field of theatre and, more broadly, for cultural life. These contributions demonstrate the value of examining festivals from transnational perspectives and exploring their impact on the artistic and social communities that have designed, produced, and hosted them. As recurring events that create a distinct time and space, festivals can be seen as a lens through which processes of negotiation between socio-political positions and artistic perspectives can be investigated, often within a context that is simultaneously local and global.
Unquiet Shores: coastal acoustics and the terpsichorean ocean
18-20 June 2025, Edinburgh Napier University, Craiglockhart Campus, and Online
Call for Proposals: Conference on Creativity, Creative Arts, and Neurodivergence, June 2025
Hybrid in-person/Online: June 18 - 20, 2025 (dates tentative at this stage, will be confirmed)
Online pre-sessional: Thursday, June 18 (2 - 6pm GMT)
In person: Friday & Saturday, June 19-20 (2 - 5pm and 9am - 5pm)
Call for Papers: Dramatherapy
Deadline: 15 February 2025
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/dramatherapy#call-for-papers
Call for Papers: ‘Nordic Film Culture in the 21st Century’
Special Issue of Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
Guest editors: Eva Novrup Redvall (University of Copenhagen), Anders Grønlund (Lund University) and Pietari Kääpä (University of Warwick)
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-scandinavian-cinema#call-for-papers
In a world marked by fluctuating borders, diverse identities, and global interconnectedness, the concepts of hospitality and hostility present complex meanings and challenges. This conference invites scholars and researchers to explore the diverse manifestations of hospitality and hostility across linguistics, literature, culture, social sciences, and political discourse. From acts of welcoming to experiences of exclusion, from cultural exchange to conflict, this theme highlights the delicate balance between openness and resistance, friendship and enmity, inclusion and exclusion.
2025 WAR AND MEDIA STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT WRITING AWARD
The War and Media Studies SIG is holding its annual graduate student writing award competition to showcase innovative work in the field by our graduate student members. We will again be partnering with the Sage journal Media, War & Conflictand the winning author will have the opportunity to be published in the journal in addition to receiving a $100 cash prize.
Appel à propositions / Call for Submissions : Numéro spécial pour une édition pérenne
Sous la direction de Rachel Webb Jekanowski (The Goose : revue pour les arts, l’environnement, et la culture au Canada); Abigail Fields (The Goose : revue pour les arts, l’environnement, et la culture au Canada); Brent Ryan Bellamy (Imaginations: revue d’études interculturelles de l’image); Markus Reisenleitner (Imaginations: revue d’études interculturelles de l’image); Margot Mellet (Imaginations: revue d’études interculturelles de l’image), et Lori Bradford (Engaged Scholar Journal : Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning)
Échéance : 10 janvier 2025