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Indigeneity in the Global South

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:46pm
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Mandi
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 6, 2025

Concept Note

Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture – NEPCA Online Fall Conference 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:45pm
Northeast Popular and American Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.

We encourage panel proposals as well as individual submissions.

Papers are generally 15–20 minutes in length. We also encourage works in progress, and informal presentations. 

This area considers the intersection of politics, civic life, and popular culture. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Political actions that involve pop culture, including banning or attacking elements of pop culture

Special Issue: Visibilizing Intersectional Girlhood(s) in Contemporary Anglophone Cultural Manifestations

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:35pm
Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research (JACLR)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

In recent years, girls have been progressively gaining increased visibility in popular culture. 2023 has been considered by different media outlets as “the year of the girl” (Firth 2023), which became especially noticeable on social media. Trends like girl math or girl dinner filled sites such as TikTok or Instagram where girls may find a space to express themselves and connect with other like-minded people. The release of Barbie (2023), Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour (2023-2024) or more recently Charli XCX’s album brat (2024) have all interpellated girls and worked as grounds for connection through enacting girlhood.

On Speaking Obscenely: Queer and Trans Cultural Production in an Atmosphere of Censorship

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:35pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Abstract

This session at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA 2025) annual conference explores the relationship between queer and trans cultural productions and the politics of censorship and obscenity.

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Borderland Cartographies in the Global South: Postcolonial Cinema, Identity, and National Allegories

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:35pm
SAMLA 97 South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Call for Papers: SAMLA 97 – Atlanta, GA (Nov 6–8, 2025)
Session ID: 19280
Title: Borderland Cartographies in the Global South: Postcolonial Cinema, Identity, and National Allegories
Session Type: Special
Area: Film Studies / Asian / Asian American Studies

DEADLINE: PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT BY JULY 15, 2025.

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:34pm
Demeter collection on Trans Parenting edited by Charlotte Beyer, Liana Cusmano, and Allie Robbins
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

DEADLINE: PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT BY JULY 15, 2025.

 

Demeter collection on Trans Parenting edited by Charlotte Beyer, Liana Cusmano, and Allie Robbins

 

We have had a couple of spaces open up in our collection on trans parenting. As such, we are seeking contributors who are keen to engage critically and/or creatively with this topic and invite further chapter proposals.

SAMLA 97: Late Pynchonian Epistemologies

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:34pm
SAMLA - South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

The 97th annual SAMLA Conference is taking place Thursday, November, 6, through Saturday, November, 8, 2025, at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, GA.  For more information, see https://southatlanticmla.org/.

A Gathering of Horrors, Terrors, and Monstrosities

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:33pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

PAMLA: A Gathering of Horrors, Terrors, and Monstrosities Panel, 11/20/25-11/23/25, San Francisco

Pacific Northwest College of Art(PNCA) Symposium 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:33pm
Pacific Northwest College of Art(PNCA), Willamette University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

 

Call for Proposals
Beyond Boundaries: Visions of Ecological Futures
2025 PNCA Symposium
October 2–4, 2025
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) at Willamette University
511 NW Broadway, Portland, Oregon

 


 

European Journal of American Culture *Open Call for Papers*

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:33pm
European Journal of American Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

European Journal of American Culture *Open Call for Papers*

 

The European Journal of American Culture (EJAC) is an academic, peer-reviewed journal for scholars, academics and students from many disciplines with a common involvement in the interdisciplinary study of America and American culture, drawing on a variety of approaches and encompassing the whole evolution of the country.

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Songs in Shakespeare: proposal for a special issue of Cahiers Élisabéthains

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:33pm
Nicholas Bellinson, St. John's College
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Songs in ShakespeareProposing a special issue of Cahiers Élisabéthains for July 2027 We are seeking abstracts to include in our proposal for a special issue of Cahiers Élisabéthains on the topic of songs in Shakespeare. If the proposal is accepted, the issue will be published in print in July 2027. Proposals on any aspect of songs in Shakespeare will be considered, but we are particularly interested in the dramatic questions, “What can songs do in Shakespeare?” and “What can singing mean to characters in Shakespeare?”. Topics might include analysis of the songs in one play or across various plays; songs and sonnets; meter and music; birdsong; singers’ voice changes; non-English songs; missing songs; performance history.

“One cannot have too large a party”: a 250 años del nacimiento de Jane Austen

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:33pm
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 23, 2025

La Cátedra Extraordinaria Virginia Woolf

El Colegio de Letras Modernas 

El Departamento de Letras Inglesas

 

Convocan al Coloquio

 

“One cannot have too large a party”: a 250 años del nacimiento de Jane Austen

 

Mothers, Mothering, and Motherhood in the King Universe

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:33pm
Dr Conner McAleese
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Dr Conner McAleese invites proposals on representations of motherhood in any of Stephen King’s fiction.

Over the past fifty years, King’s works have been adapted, discussed, academically investigated, and, of course, read to an extent that few authors have ever been before. However, one aspect of King’s writing has yet to be given scholastic attention – the mothers of Stephen King’s fiction.

Call for Papers: ‘Metaverse Futures: Policy, Power, and the Digital Media Landscape'

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:33pm
Journal of Digital Media & Policy
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Call for Papers: Journal of Digital Media & Policy (JDMP)

Special Issue: ‘Metaverse Futures: Policy, Power, and the Digital Media Landscape’

#JDMPJournal

Guest Editors:

Brighton Nyagadza, York St John University, London Campus, United Kingdom

Abu Bashar, Gulf University, Kingdom of Bahrain

Eugine Tafadzwa Maziriri, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Tamer M. Alkadash, Gulf University, Kingdom of Bahrain

View the full call here>>

SWCCL 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:32pm
Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 18, 2025

The Department of Languages and Literature and the College of Liberal Arts at Northeastern State University will be hosting the Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature annual regional meeting on October 24-25, 2025 at Northeastern State University’s campus in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

The general theme of this year’s conference is “Anger in Literature.” Negative emotions are everywhere in literature and popular culture, but are not always directly addressed. Anger can be both righteous and shameful, redemptive and crippling. Part of the theme is to explore the uses of anger (and associated emotions) in terms of a Christian worldview.

American Nightmares II (Return to Salem): The Biennial Symposium of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:20pm
Society for the Study of the American Gothic
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

 Call For Proposals AMERICAN NIGHTMARES II: RETURN TO SALEMTHE BIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAN GOTHIC March 19th – 21st, 2026Salem, Massachusetts Keynote Speaker: Victor LavalleKeynote Speaker: Siân Silyn Roberts Conference co-director: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan UniversityConference co-director: Jennifer Schell, University of Alaska FairbanksWith the kind support of the American Literature Association  Please join the Society for the Study of the American Gothic for our second biennial symposium!

Architectures of the Apocalypse

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:18pm
Irit Kleiman, Boston University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 6, 2025

The word apocalypse contains a paradox. In common usage, it means, “a disaster resulting in drastic, irreversible damage to human society or the environment, esp. on a global scale; a cataclysm” (OED); but the word’s roots come from the ancient Greek for “unveiling." 

                  Apocalypse contains both end and beginning, annihilation and exaltation. The apocalyptic promises death and destruction, yes, but also, knowledge and transformation.  The apocalypse is above all a threshold. Thus, as an object of inquiry, apocalypse calls for the examination of perspective and perception, as much as of semiotics and the historical. 

Call for Papers: Sonic Palimpsests: Sound, History, and Speculative Listening PAMLA 2025 Conference | San Francisco, November 20–23

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:18pm
Andrew Brooks / University of Massachusetts Amherst
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

This panel invites scholarship that explores how sound—broadly understood as an aesthetic, material, and theoretical force—functions within and shapes literature, music, performance, and visual media to riff on history and modulate experience. We seek contributions that investigate how sound operates both as a method and a site of creative invention—where dominant narratives are unsettled and histories that resist closure come into audible presence. Sonic form becomes a space where the unfinished, the fugitive, and the refused emerge through rhythm, echo, distortion, repetition, and resonance.

CFP (Conference): Terminal Futures: JG Ballard In The 21st Century

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:15pm
Kingston University, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

 

Conference Call for Papers

 

Kingston University, UK, 28th and 29th October 2025

 

Terminal Futures: JG Ballard In The 21st Century

 

Kingston School of Art, Kingston University

 

#Kingston2025

 

October 28th and 29th 2025

 

Call For Papers

 

Call for Papers: ‘The Tyranny of Truth: The Cinema of Gillo Pontecorvo’

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:15pm
Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Call for Papers: Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies

Special Issue: ‘The Tyranny of Truth: The Cinema of Gillo Pontecorvo’

CFP for a guest-edited issue of the Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies

Guest-editor Fabio Pezzetti Tonion

Museo Nazionale del Cinema

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-italian-cinema-media-studies#call-for-papers

Experimental Archives Conference: call for Papers

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:15pm
Kingston University, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

 

Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, September 11th and 12th September, 2025

 

 

Indigeneity in the Global South

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:15pm
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Mandi
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 6, 2025

Indigeneity is a complex and dynamic concept that encapsulates the identities, cultures, and rights of Indigenous peoples worldwide. It (Indigeneity) has historically been defined through rigid legal and anthropological frameworks established by nation-states and colonial powers. These frameworks often rely on lineage, territorial ties, and historical continuity to grant recognition, land rights, and resource access. Such definitions create fixed distinctions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities, reducing indigeneity to static identity markers (Perreault, Bridge, & McCarthy, 2015).

NEPCA 2025 - Storytelling and Narrative (Virtual Conference!)

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:15pm
Kristi Gatto
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

 

The 2025 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.

Virtual sessions will take place via Zoom throughout the day on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Registration will open up in mid-July. 

The Storytelling & Narrative area explores the multifaceted nature and role of storytelling and narrative. We invite submissions from all theoretical and methodological perspectives. Submissions should have a connection to how storytelling and narrative plays a role in popular culture including, but not limited to, topics such as:

Return to the South: The Complexities of Southern Culture in Ryan Coogler's film Sinners

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:15pm
Journal of American Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Return to the South: The Complexities of Southern Culture in Ryan Coogler’s film Sinners. 

On April 18, Warner Brothers released Ryan Coogler’s long anticipated film Sinners. Since its release, the film has achieved both critical acclaim and popular resonance, marking a significant entry in contemporary Southern cinema. Critics and audiences praise Sinners for its nuanced treatment of inter/intra-racial dynamics, spirituality, and regional identity. In addition, the film has prompted sustained cultural discourse, and now, academic interest in the South. Its layered narrative and atmospheric rendering of the South position Sinners as a vital text for examining the complexities of Southern culture and history.

RSA 2026 Roundtable: Our Minor Poets

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:14pm
Arya Sureshbabu; Margaux Delaney
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

“[Minor poets are poets] who may have a strong personal appeal to certain readers. . . This poet may not be very important, you should say defiantly, but his work is good for me.” –T. S. Eliot

 

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