A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms

Healthcare and care provision have long been influenced by gendered dynamics. Whether in access to treatment, diagnosis, or the dominant narratives about body normativity, access to care remains unevenly distributed. The inclusion of women in health trials was not consistently considered until the NHS Revitalization Act of 1993; however, to this day, other structural factors, such as race, ethnicity, or class, remain underrepresented in clinical studies (Kwiatkowski et al., 2013). In patient-centered care, which emphasizes patients’ autonomy and overall well-being (Reynolds 2009), it is essential to consider both structural and individual factors.

Call for Submissions: "Hello Godot" – A One-Minute Existential Play Anthology (Volume 11)

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/home 

Email: dramaanthologyfreshwords@gmail.com 

Last date of submission: November 28th, 2025

Fresh Words-An International Literary Magazine is inviting submissions for a special one minute play anthology "Hello Godot". 

Submission Guidelines:

1. Theme and Tone

CONFERENCE IN ATLANTA, GA - April 8-11, 2026

Call For Papers: Reproductive Justice in Popular Culture

The conference will explore the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies and it will focus on the impact colonialism had on political, social, economic and cultural domains. It will examine various forms of colonial domination and control as well as theories and practices of resistance.

This conference aims at exploring motherhood and its diverse cultural representations, while interrogating the ways in which such representations impact on individual and collective experiences of motherhood. Thus, we attempt at examining motherhood both as a personal experience and as an institution, as well as observing the nuances involved in the interaction between both.

The conference seeks to encourage dialogue around cultural concepts of motherhood by observing the cultural roles that are given to maternal figures, the perspectives from which this experience is approached, and how these engage in dialogue with other current discourses such as politics, law and medicine.

Life-history approach occupies the central place in conducting and producing  (auto)biographical and (auto)ethnographic studies through the understanding of self, other, and culture. We construct and develop conceptions and practices by engaging with memory through narrative, in order to negotiate ambivalences and uncertainties of the world and to represent (often traumatic) experiences.

In an ever changing world the problems of setting boundaries as well as the need to create meanings and establish understanding of diverse phenomena have always been of the utmost importance for humanity. Borders, boundaries, frontiers, and borderlands, naturally formed or man made, are grounded in various ethical traditions, and have always been associated with limits and restrictions. The ongoing process of globalisation is changing the role and stereotypes of borders, so that they are often seen as opportunities rather than constraints. However, in some cases they are still being militarized and conflicted.

The conference will explore the social, historical and cultural dimensions of health and medicine. It will promote an interdisciplinary perspective on health, illness, health care and the body. The conference will also focus on the issues relevant to medical knowledge, public health policy, the experience of being ill and of caring for those who are ill.

Papers are invited on topics related, but not limited, to:

• history of medicine

• medical anthropology

• bioethics

• sociology of medicine

Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ and the Association for the Study of Buffy+ invite proposals for the eleventh biennial Slayage Conference (SC11). Devoted to creative works and workers of the ‘fuzzy set’ surrounding Buffy the Vampire Slayer, SC11 will be held on the campus of Illinois State University in Normal Illinois, 9-12 July 2026.

The “Central European Memory of the Holocaust in a Multicultural and Multidimensional Perspective” [CEMORY] project team at the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations (Jagiellonian University in Kraków) and the editorial team of The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series invite you to submit articles for 2/2026 thematic edition.

“Central European Memory of the Holocaust in a Multicultural and Multidimensional Perspective” [CEMORY] project is funded under Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV).

The topic of The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series 2/2026 is: Holocaust Memory in Central Europe.

Call for Papers

Online Symposium 

“Hindu Approaches to Dialogue”

Date: 18 and 19 April 2026

Network of Hinduism in Dialogue is organising an interdisciplinary online symposium to encourage and explore research focused on dialogue in the Hindu traditions. The keynote speaker will be Diwakar Acharya, Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at the University of Oxford. 

It’s time again to submit your creative work to Unearthed, the literary and art journal produced by SUNY College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry. We invite writers, poets, artists, and creatives of all kinds to submit to our upcoming Fall 2025 issue. In this issue, we invite you to reflect on what it means to nourish—to feed, to sustain, to grow, to heal.

Cultures of violence and female resistance: receptions of ancient Greek myths from the 14th to the 21st century, in Europe and beyond

International conference • ERC AGRELITA

June 10-12, 2026 at the University of Caen Normandie

Call for papers

Virtual Identities and Self-Promoting explores the fascinating intersection of self, identity construction, and self-promotion within the digital realm. The internet has revolutionized how we present ourselves to the world. Social media platforms, online games, virtual worlds, and even professional networking sites provide individuals with a myriad of opportunities to curate and project versions of themselves. In an increasingly online world, individuals craft and curate virtual identities across various platforms, engaging in strategic self-presentation to achieve personal, social, and professional goals.

Call For Chapter Proposals – The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Modernisms

Editors: Ruth Clemens, John Greaney, Maebh Long, Barry Sheils

More Terrors than her Reason Could JustifyA 200th Anniversary Celebration of Ann Radcliffe’s Posthumous Publications

Probing Humanities, Positioning Human-(i)-ties: New Paradigms and Shifts in the 21st century 

CONCEPT NOTE

Two-day International Conference

26-27 February 2026

VSES, VIPS-TC

Petrocultures is a sub-discipline in the humanities which contends with the ways fossil fuels shape interpersonal, social and cultural lives. Despite the field’s rapid expansion, there has been little concentrated work to date on the relationship between energy culture and popular music. What Stephanie LeMenager calls the ‘aesthetics of petroleum’ holds a particularly strong resonance with music cultures. Understanding the ways oil culture has structured ways of life requires attention to the music that exemplifies, glamorises and critiques petromodernity.

Coaching, Kindness, and Culture:
Psychology, Sports, the Arts, Leadership…& Ted Lasso
A Transdisciplinary conference

Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/07/09/coaching-kindness-and-culture/

Date: November 15-16, 2025
November 15: In person participation in Richmond, London (and online)
November 16:  Fully online
 

Call for Papers

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open: September 1, 2025

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025

Barry J. Faulk                                   Brady Harrison

Department of English                       Department of English

Florida State University                     University of Montana

bfaulk@fsu.edu                                 brady.harrison@mso.umt.edu

CFP: Dylan's Late Styles

Poetry’s Environments  (June 9-11 2026)

Poetry shapes and transforms experiences and attitudes toward nature and ecology, just as the natural environment maps the poetic imagination. Poetry roots itself in the environment of the breath, the voice, the hand, and the ear. It roams over pages of books and across digital, computational, performative, archival, monumental, and ephemeral landscapes. Poetry emerges and resides in institutional and ad hoc ecosystems, and it sounds and senses within and without the body of the poet, the audience, the blade of grass.

FAN STUDIES

The Fan Studies Area, formerly Fan Culture & Theory, of the PCA welcomes papers, presentations, panels, and roundtable discussions that cover all aspects of fandom for inclusion at the PCA National Conference in Atlanta, Georgia on April 8-11, 2026. The conference proposal system will be opening to submissions on Sept. 1, 2025. Please see the pcaaca.org website for more information on submitting your proposals.