We warmly invite additional chapters for The Handbook of Trans Cinema, with high priority for chapters exploring transgender films from Africa, Latin America, Asia, Oceania, and Europe. Proposals are due April 17, 2025. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters exploring trans films from 6 continents. After the following list of confirmed chapters, you will find details about how to submit your proposal for additional chapters. The handbook will include only one chapter for each topic, so please do not send proposals for any of the confirmed chapters listed here:

Seeking chapters about Middle Eastern and North African films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents. We welcome the following high-priority chapters on Middle Eastern and North African films for the handbook's Part II (National Overviews of Trans Cinema):

Call for Papers – DEADLINE EXTENDED!

ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, and MAGIC

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2025 SWPACA Summer Salon 

June 26-28, 2025

Virtual Conference

https://swpaca.org/

NEW Proposal submission deadline: April 22, 2025 

The ways in which Europe remembers its past are central to shaping its future. From the memory of the Holocaust and the Second World War to the legacies of colonialism, dictatorship, and conflict, the continent’s history remains a site of both reconciliation and contestation. This conference invites scholars to explore the role of cultural memory in shaping European identities, values, and policies. How are memories transmitted across generations? How do different national narratives interact, clash, or converge within a shared European framework? What national and transnational memory cultures are created?

In Blue Ecocriticism, Sydney I. Dobrin provocatively calls for viewing “oceanic deficit” as form of “disciplinary critique” (9) in order to open up the epistemic realm of ecocriticism which primarily deals with the representation of ecological substance in literary and cultural works.

We invite contributons to an edited volume that delves into the complex and often nuanced villains of the Spider-Man universe. We are specifically looking for chapters about the following villains: Kraven the Hunter, Carnage, Black Cat, Lizard, Sandman, Scorpion, Shocker, and Tombstone. Other submissions may be accepted, but we are not looking for chapters on Mysterio, Doc Ock, Electro, Vulture, Venom, Punisher, Green Goblin, Rhino, Kingpin, Jackal, Sinister Six, Spidey Super Stories, Spider-Man's War on Drugs, or J. Jonah Jameson.

This volume is being published by the University of Mississippi Press. We welcome a diverse range of scholarly analyses, including but not limited to: 

Narratives of health resilience: Prescribed confinement, forced displacement, and the stakes of global climate change

Conference ThemeKenneth Burke, the Humanities, and Agency in the Era of AI

Children’s Literature and Young Adult Literature Permanent Sections

Session Coordinator: Dr. Amberyl Malkovich 

Dept. of English, Concord University

amalkovich@concord.edu

“Hope and the Humanities” in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Cultures

This panel seeks presentations on uses of generative AI in the college classroom, with a particular focus on approaches that combine theory and practice. Especially welcome are presentations that are built around transferable skills and activities/assignments in different disciplines including writing and literature.

The panel will take place during the MMLA's annual convention from November 14-16 on the campus of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For more informationa about the organization and the conference, see: https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/futureconventionplans/

Bloomsbury has shown interest in publishing this project.

Editors:

Dr. Shubhanku Kochar shubhankukochar@outlook.com

Dr. Tanupriya tanupriya.2493@gmail.com 

Spanning distances between bequeathed social identities and quests towards becoming, Indian women have documented the many shapes that such striving takes. They have traversed distances between equality and freedom; sifted nostalgia and futuristic imaginations; and mediated ideas of collectivization and autonomy. The upcoming issue of Indraprasth – A Journal of Culture and Communication Studies, investigates the ways in which Indian women writers and artists have perceived and shaped the world in literature and art.

CFP: The 43rd Annual West Indian Literature Conference

Call for Papers

Where: The University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
When: October 8-11, 2025
Abstracts: 250-300 words, via online submission form
Proposals Due:DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL APRIL 14, 2025

The Time of the “Bruggadung”:
States of EmUrgency

‘but leh murder start an’ bruggalungdung/ yu cahn fine a man to hole up de side’ (Kamau Brathwaite)

English:
Alma Mater – Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, an anonymous double-blind peer-reviewed international journal published by Maurer Press in Germany and indexed by DNB, ZDB, EZB, and ERIH+, is currently welcoming cultural and social contributions from scholars around the world for its upcoming issue in September 2025. The journal publishes articles in German and English. Submissions can be made via the journal platform at https://jics.ejournal.gen.tr/ or by email to habib.tekin@hotmail.com. For further information, please visit: www.almamaterjics.com