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Bloomsbury's Critical Plant Studies Book Series

updated: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025 - 12:09am
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books that re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:

CFP : International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology (IJCSIT)

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 10:43pm
Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025

International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology (IJCSIT)

  ISSN: 0975-3826(online); 0975-4660 (Print)

https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJCST/Home.html

*** May Issue***

Submission System 

 Scope & Topics                                                  

Panel for 2025 PAMLA (San Francisco): Modern Hispanic Queer Cultures

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 6:47pm
Jeffrey Zamostny, Kansas State University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

This accepted PAMLA special session panel explores memory and oblivion as they relate to queer culture and literature of the modern Hispanic world. Focusing on Latin America, Spain, and the global Hispanophone in the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, the panel explores practices of remembrance, commemoration, censorship, and forgetting both in queer culture (i.e., as practiced by queer individuals and groups) and of queer culture (in a broader cultural ecosystem). How have queer people sought to memorialize their predecessors and bequeath their legacy to future generations? How have these practices interacted with more expansive societal forces that alternately commemorate, silence or marginalize queer culture?

Studies on Vertigo (1958)

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 2:54pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo is considered a staple in American cinematic history. For decades, Vertigo has been the subject of study by many film scholars, peeling back the intricate layers of the technicolor thriller. This panel invites all papers on Vertigo whether it is about the film's placement in Hitchcock's auteurism, the film's relation to the city of San Francisco, or an entirely new layer that has yet to be fully discussed.

The Power or Powerlessness of Knowledge

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 1:56pm
Ben P. Robertson / Troy University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Sir Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes are associated with the phrase, “Knowledge is power,” articulated by both writers about four centuries ago.

PAMLA 2025: Navigating Graduate School: You're ABD, Now What? [DEADLINE EXTENDED]

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 1:52pm
Jan Maramot / PAMLA 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

This roundtable serves as a direct continuation of "Navigating Graduate School," from last year's PAMLA conference in Palm Springs. One of the most mystifying parts of graduate school that can seem intimidating to a prospective student is what happens after your qualifying exams. You're done with coursework. You've gone through your qualifying exams. You are now considered 'All-But-Dissertation,' or ABD. What happens? While graduate handbooks will helpfully detail requirements for dissertations, prospectus meetings, etc., the experience of navigating the terrain between qualifying exams and the job market can feel abstract.

International Conference on Food Studies: "Culinary Evolutions"

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 12:51pm
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 30, 2025

International Conference on Food Studies:
"Culinary Evolutions"

London/Online: 9-10 August 2025
Deadline for proposals: 30 May 2025 
Conference website: https://food.lcir.co.uk

Food is a basic foundation of culture and society, it is vital to our health and well-being and it plays a significant role in our everyday creative engagement with nature. The shifts in activities surrounding food acquisition, preparation and consumption are not only essential for learning a culinary tradition but for examining a broader societal change.

Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 10:29am
University of Münster
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 2, 2025

In their introduction to Mothers in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism (2016), Karen Coats and Lisa Rowe Fraustino observe that “[w]hether living or dead, present or absent, sadly dysfunctional or happily good enough, the figure of the mother carries an enormous amount of freight across the emotional and intellectual life of a child” (3).

South Asia Research at the Crossroads: Current World Order, New Horizons and Theorisations

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 12:52am
Institute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR), kolkata
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Two-day Early Career Researchers’ Conclave & Colloquium 2025

Institute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR), kolkata

Department of Higher Education, Goverment of West Bengal

Academic partner - British Council  

South Asia Research at the Crossroads: Current World Order, New Horizons and Theorisations

0n 23rd and 24th June, 2025

  • Keynotes

Francesca Orsini, SOAS, University of London

Justin Jones, University of Oxford

(CFP: PAMLA 2025) Haunted Belonging: Memory, Erasure, and Identity in Diasporic Literatures

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 2:53pm
Wenyuan Wang / / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025

This session explores how postcolonial and diasporic literatures grapple with memory, trauma, and cultural haunting. Rather than thinking of identity as fixed or linear, selfhood is complex and palimpsestic due to colonial violence, migration, and historical erasure. This session invites papers that analyze how characters or narratives navigate misremembering, inherited trauma, or overwritten histories to reclaim belonging and agency. Topics may include narrative voice, transgenerational memory, silence, storytelling, and archival gaps in multiethnic and immigrant literatures. This session welcomes interdisciplinary approaches and encourages work on Asian American, Black, Indigenous, and other diasporic communities.

PAMLA 2025 Panel (standing session): Gothic

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 11:14am
Melanie A. Marotta, College of William & Mary / Pacific & Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA 2025 Conference)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Gothic writers embrace the genre for its inclusive and representational nature. The genre is, in effect, a palimpsest as it prominently features both the past and memory. The creators in the genre continue to create plots that center on women, queer, transgender, and racialized characters and create stories that address societal inequalities. The environment (the Ecogothic) also continues to be a prominent character in the genre.

***DEADLINE EXTENDED*** 2025 Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Conference

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 10:51am
Cory Barker, MPCA/ACA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference

Friday-Sunday, 3–5, October 2025

The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Conference participants will be responsible for securing their own lodging.

Submit paper, abstract, or panel proposals (including the title of the presentation) with the appropriate keywords (formerly areas) on the submissions website at https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels

Individuals may only submit one paper.

[Extended Deadline CFP]: 122nd Annual PAMLA Conference (San Francisco, CA) – November 20-23, 2025

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 10:38am
Craig Svonkin / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

The PAMLA 2025 Conference (https://www.pamla.org/pamla2025/) will be held at the elegant InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference will begin on Thursday, November 20, and continue through November 23, 2025.

The 2025 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person at the InterContinental. There will be no virtual or hybrid sessions or papers–the entire conference is being held in-person.

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 6:30am
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 2, 2025

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism 
A Transdisciplinary Conference

July 4-5, 2025 

July 4: In person participation at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park (and online)
July 5: Fully online

Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/ecopoetics-2025/

Fees** (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)

 

 

Call for Book Chapters - Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 2:30am
Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 28, 2025

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

 

Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia

Food is never just about sustenance. It is a charged cultural text, a site of memory and mourning, a marker of identity, a terrain of negotiation, and often, a weapon of exclusion or resistance. In South Asia—a region defined by deep pluralities, histories of colonialism, persistent socio-economic inequalities, and enduring spiritual traditions—food emerges not merely as a necessity, but as a powerful index of social structure, affective life, and ideological formation.

Call for Chapters - Voices of Change: Women in 19th and 20th Century Indian Print Culture

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 2:30am
Voices of Change: Women in 19th and 20th Century Indian Print Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 30, 2025

The narrative of women in Indian print culture reflects a dynamic interplay of struggle and achievement, where, despite significant contributions, women's voices were frequently marginalized, and societal expectations and institutional barriers often constrained their roles. This complex history underscores the ongoing need for a more inclusive historical narrative that fully acknowledges the diverse and critical roles women have played
in shaping print culture in India.

ReFocus: The Films of Anurag Kashyap

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 12:28am
Edinburgh University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

 UPDATE: DEADLINE FOR ABATRACTS EXTENDED TILL 31ST OF DECEMBER.

 

NOTE: WE ARE NO LONGER LOOKING FOR PROPOSALS RELATING TO "MUKKABAAZ".

Medusa: Essay on Modern Drama

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 11:07pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

This call for papers seeks one specific chapter on Medusa for a volume intended for the series, Villains and Creatures.

Each chapter of the volume is intended to be an overview of depictions of Medusa in specific kinds of media; nevertheless, the arguments/theses of each chapter should still be original, using past works and research to develop a current (new) perspective on Medusa.

The chapter needed involves Modern Drama.

Chapters will be due in October 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 6,500 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Panel 16: Towards a Sustainable Translation Curriculum: Integrating the SDGs into Translation Education

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 1:10pm
IATIS / Sultan Qaboos University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

IATIS 8th International Conference: Sustainable Translation in the Age of Knowledge Extraction, Generation, and (Re)Creation

الترجمة المستدامة في عصر استخلاص المعرفة وتوليدها وإعادة إنتاجها

Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

10 – 13 December 2025

Panel 16: Towards a Sustainable Translation Curriculum: Integrating the SDGs into Translation Education

Food Studies Panel at PAMLA 2025

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 1:04pm
Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Conference Dates - November 20th to 23rd 2025

Location - San Francisco, California - The InterContinental San Francisco Hotel - U.S.A.

Topic - Food Studies Research on Culture, Literature, and Media

Call for Papers for Vol 4 of IJLS

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 12:21pm
Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

Politics and Leadership, Leadership Studies and Politics

Politics and leadership: two subjects that are commonly known, yet also deeply misunderstood. Politics is not merely the activities of official decision-makers and the ideas (and people) that give rise to them, but also, more broadly, how human groups determine who gets what (and under what circumstances—by consent or coercion). What if leadership is not entirely a person or position? Perhaps, leadership is a negotiation— a complex moral relationship between people that is predicated on role agreement. We might say, then, that leadership is a dynamic process that cannot be separated from the politics of human groups. Leadership, in this way, is very fundamentally political.

Thomas Nashe and Voice

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 7:42am
St John’s College, Cambridge and Faculty of English, Cambridge
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

CFP: Thomas Nashe and Voice

St John’s College, Cambridge and Faculty of English, Cambridge

January 9-January 10, 2026

Vulnerable Lives, Precarious Existence: Contemporary Narratives of Vulnerability from the Global South

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 4:53am
Dr.Chilkhe Ganesh Nagorao (VIT-Chennai), Dr.Minu Susan Koshy (Mar Thoma College for Women, Kerala), Mr.Rajkumar (Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Original, unpublished research papers are invited for an edited volume titled Vulnerable Lives, Precarious Existence: Contemporary Narratives of Vulnerability from the Global South, scheduled to be published in 2025.

 

Research Articles on Southeast Asia, East Asia and India's North-East Region

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 4:20am
Rising Asia Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 5, 2026

Rising Asia Journal invites Research Articles on Southeast Asia, East Asia (Japan, China, the Koreas, and Taiwan), and India's North-East Region, on all aspects of these Asian societies, in particular literature, poetry, music, art, society, as well as politics and diplomacy. We are interested in the use of diplomacy in the arts as well.

Articles should be between 5,000 to 10,000 words in length, with footnotes, and Works Cited.

Authors are urged to visit the journal's website at www.rajraf.org to read the submission guidelines. 

Articles should be original, and should offer a new and innovative perspective.

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