2025 Dress and Body Association Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Dress and Body Association invites submissions for the organization’s sixth annual conference, which will be held on November 1-2, 2025. Consistent with our long-term goals for inclusivity and sustainability, all activities will be 100% online.

Join our Google Group to learn about opportunities and converse with members of the DBA year-round! Email to request membership: dress.body.assoc@gmail.com.

Comfort and Joy: Locating Hope in Dress and the Body

Recent years have seen an upsurge of narratives from the Global South that engage in the representation of various African cosmologies. In contrast with Western traditions, these narratives are contributing to an epistemological shift from “the study of African religion as object [to] the study of African religion as subject” (Olupona 2013: xix). 

This book will explore how religion and the sacred emerge from within the structure and narrative of The Legend of Zelda series, one of the most influential and enduring franchises in video game history. Zelda has greatly impacted multiple generations of players, and has an extremely loyal and dedicated fanbse.

The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia (JEASA) is looking for book reviews of any recent books (published in the last 5 or 6 years) in the field of Australian studies, including Indigenous Australian studies.

In particular, JEASA is looking for reviewers for Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene (2024) by Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell and Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities (2025) edited by Maxine Newlands and Claire Hansen. Other review proposals are also very welcome.

Routledge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft: Wollstonecraft at Work
Call for Papers

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Equinox: Volume I: Fables & Firelight
Published by La Société Étoilée 

Submission Deadline: August 31, 2025

In its inaugural issue, Equinox invites submissions on the theme of fables and firelight—that is, the stories we gather around, the myths that shape us, and the flickering interplay between tradition, memory, and imagination. We welcome work that explores folklore, mythology, ancestral knowledge, symbolic systems, oral traditions, and the cultural rituals of storytelling across time. But we also invite broader interpretations: How do stories act as shelter? When do they burn or illuminate? What truths lie within the fantastic?

This roundtable seeks to understand the ways in which early modern people conceived of the body as being willful. Early modern poets, playwrights, and prose writers represent the body as having (or almost as if having) a will of its own. For instance, in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, the titular protagonist desires to sign a devilish contract with his blood, but his blood congeals, preventing that damning deed. Margaret Cavendish imagines in Poems and Fancies cognitive processes as being directed by vital matter she metaphorizes as faeries, whose markets, funerals, and marriages dictate the functioning of the brain.

This is an open-CFP for one or more panel session(s) on Aemilia Lanyer. Lanyer has received a resurgence of attention in the last ten years from literary critics as well as popular dramatists and novelists. This panel aims to continue the scholarly conversation by seeking papers that examine new courses of inquiry or reevaluate established topics of Lanyer scholarship. Paper topics might include but are not limited to:

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Is a Better World Possible? - Solidarity as a Conversation across Temporalities A one-day hybrid interdisciplinary conference at the University of WarwickSaturday 29th November 2025Confirmed Keynote speaker: Dr Anna Bernard, King’s College London

Global K-Culture Conference

August 28 (Thu) ~ August 29 (Fri), 2025 (2 days)

Chungbuk National University, Korea

https://kculture.chungbuk.ac.kr/

Keynote Speakers

Hyung-jin Lee (Sookmyung Women’s University)

Topic: “K-culture and Translation“ (TBA)

Ji Hyeon Kim (Hanyang University)

Topic: “K-culture and Media Platform” (TBA)

In “The Art of Fiction” (1884), Henry James writes, “A novel is a living thing, all one and continuous, like every other organism, and in proportion as it lives will it be found, I think, that in each of the parts there is something of each of the other parts.” In the same essay, he conceives of the novel in geographical terms, cautioning that “The critic who over the close texture of a finished work will pretend to trace a geography of items will mark some frontiers as artificial ... as any that have been known to history.”  James’s conception of the novel as a “living thing” inhabiting a physical landscape invites us to think about the writer and his work in terms of relationships between organisms and their environments.

EXTENSION FOR ABSTRACTS: Submissions for the Democratisation of (Outer) Space Conference to be held in Norrköping, Sweden in November 2025 are expected on Thursday 31ST JULY. Details below.

We look forward to seeing your abstracts!

Graham and Michael

We invite submissions for the upcoming Linköping Space Studies Institute international conference 26-28 November 2025: Campus Norrköping at Linköping University, Sweden.

Democratisation of Space: The decline of the public and rise of the private?

An urgent focus on ecocriticism in the humanities has developed in parallel to increased cultural engagement with folklore studies, particularly as such areas relate to the relationships between human communities and ecosystems. The application of folklore studies in ecocriticism facilitates the incorporation of previously marginalized perspectives and identities in order to speak to a global reality, building on the 'past' while responding to potential, and potentially unstable, 'futures'.

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage."

–Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Call for Papers: AI Integration in Academic Writing and Research – NeMLA 2026

The Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) invites submissions for the session “AI Integration in Academic Writing and Research” at its 2026 conference. We welcome papers exploring AI’s transformative role in scholarly practices, including its benefits, challenges, and the effective and ethical use of AI in writing and research processes. Topics may include the impact of AI tools on users’ critical thinking skills, the accuracy of AI-generated content, AI’s role in learning writing skills, and the use of AI in teaching practices.

This panel explores how Latin American comics represent popular spiritualities, racialized bodies, and subaltern knowledge as forms of symbolic regeneration, resistance, and collective healing. Proposals are accepted in Spanish, Portuguese, or English. Those that particularly highlight subaltern religious, racial, and cultural traditions from the Global South and historically marginalized spiritual experiences will be especially valued. See complete description and submit an abstract here: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21924

Propuestas para la colección Terror: Estudios críticos

deadline for submissions:

August 15, 2025

full name / name of organization:

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

contact email:

coleccion.terror@uca.es

English version below

Frank*ology, or the Thoroughly Modern Prometheus: A Re-vision of Sensualities in Romanticism from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (virtual conference)

West of Canon press seeks papers and presentations on Frankenstein from academics, artists, and folks across disciplines for a virtual conference celebrating the long legacy of this incredible book. We are looking for academic style papers as well as creative responses to Frankenstein and its related media.

A non-comprehensive list of what we’re hoping to see and include:

• Transgender identity (specifically transmasculinities) in Frankenstein and other works by the Romantics.

Cultural Studies Methodology Lab

Department of English and Cultural Studies

In collaboration with

Department of Media Studies

CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore India

Organizes

A Research Symposium on Migration Studies in Peninsular India

August 28-30th, 2025

The notion of “wellness” as it pertains to university contexts has taken on a problematic valence over the years. Owing to the increasing neoliberalization of academia, wellness has been increasingly tied to pop psychology, self-care spending, pizza parties, and other “self-actualizing” capitalistic practices. By virtue of the precarious nature of their status and labour, graduate students in the university are especially susceptible to experiences of overwork, exploitation, burnout, poor well-being, and existential harm, with studies showing that nearly 40% of graduate students globally experienced symptoms of anxiety, depression, or suicide ideation.

Dear colleagues,

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit your creative work and scholarly reflections and papers to participate in the panel Media and Aesthetics of Environmental Decay in the “Global South"  to be held at NEMLA's Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. 

This roundtable hopes to bring together faculty and administrators with a vision to invigorate humanities programs. Its goal is twofold: (1) to provide a platform for sharing innovative strategies to enhance collaboration across traditional academic units; and (2) to critically discuss efforts that have led to new successes in (re)generating full-time faculty satisfaction in teaching, research, and service. Such efforts may include valued practices in co-teaching, faculty residency programs, Interdisciplinary Studies programs, joint appointments, and visiting professorships.

This session is organized withing the 2025 NeMLA Annual Conference in Pittsburg. Virtual participation is accepted. The panel investigates literature and the Medical Humanities, focusing on the potential of storytelling and narrative medicine to navigate trauma and improve empathy and communication between patients and health care providers. We seek contributions from scholars pertaining to various disciplines who works at the intersection of literature and medicine. Papers will explore how literature and life writing can successfully address traumatic events and improve medical practice.

Call for Chapters: Edited Volume on Enacting Curtailment: Practices of Censorship in Colonial India. 

We are excited to announce the forthcoming publication of an edited volume titled Enacting Curtailment: Practices of Censorship in Colonial India. This interdisciplinary volume will explore themes of censorship, resistance in the literature, art, performance, film, sound, history, and related fields within the humanities and social sciences.