PAMLA: Queer Literary History, Deadline Extended, 11/20-11/23, San Francisco
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This panel aims to showcase current work on "queer romance," a subject that describes the enfolding of queer sexualities and genders within the popular romance genre. While we welcome careful close readings of specific texts, we are most interested in papers that help to theorize and historicize what it means that a genre once defined in terms of its heteronormative imaginary now openly features queer and trans-identified characters and holds considerable appeal for similarly identified publics of readers and viewers. We are also particularly interested in work that helps us to think queer romance across forms of media, in relation to deep histories of the romance genre, and in transnational and global contexts.
Call for Papers
Trans Joy in Latin American Cinema
Joy is a fundamental element of human life, yet its depiction in media and academic discourse— especially in relation to marginalized communities—remains limited. Representations of the trans* community, in particular, often center narratives of exclusion, violence, and trauma. As Shuster and Westbrook (2022) note, this tendency reflects a broader “joy deficit” in the sociological study of marginalized people, overshadowing the transformative power of joy and solidarity.
The Department of Communication at Saint Louis University’s Madrid, Spain campus announces an upcoming international, interdisciplinary conference that examines change from a wide panorama of angles.
The conference will take place across Thursday and Friday, 2-3 October 2025 on the SLU-Madrid Campus, close to central Madrid (seven metro stops from Puerta del Sol).
We invite abstracts of 250 words, plus up to six key words, by 15 June 2025. Decisions to invite candidates will happen shortly after the due date to assure adequate time for participants to make travel plans as needed.
Call for Papers
Journal of European Popular Culture
Intellect Publishers
Next issue - call for article/s
JEPC 16.1 and JEPC 16.2 - 2025
& JEPC 17.1 - 2026
This peer-reviewed journal seeks lively submissions for its latest issues on any aspect of European cultural and creative activity.
The 2025 issues are open at present
This peer reviewed journal is interested in contemporary practices, but also in historical, contextual, biographical or theoretical analyses relating to past cultural activities in Europe.
In the fictional world of ‘Cvstodia’, a nameless ‘penitent’ traverses a world in which the ‘miracle’ - a divine entity - is worshipped through physical torment and suffering in a gloomy body horror style. In doing so, ‘Blasphemous’ transforms the established conventions of the ‘souls-like’ genre: the difficulty typical of the genre and the cyclical approach to failure are theologically charged. The progress made by defeating boss enemies is enhanced by sacred weapons and rituals, while the level design is recontextualised as a spiritual pilgrimage. These elements are embedded in an elaborate ecclesiastical infrastructure and open up multiple levels of analysis, e.g:
The family is often conceived in terms of exclusivity, closeness and intimacy. The word ‘intimate’ – intimus, or ‘most interior’, in the Latin – suggests that this relationship touches our innermost part, that which is deepest and hidden from view. Familial ties are further corporealized in terms of blood, or the physical proximity of shared space, resources, and memories, and acts of care. Broader ethnic, linguistic, cultural and national communities may be framed as extensions of this familial ‘inner circle’, as the concept of the body politic suggests; the family, for Rousseau, is ‘the first model of political societies’ (The Social Contract).
JEASA (the Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia) is looking for other 3 papers to conclude its special issue on
Voicing Otherness: Reconfiguring Australia’s Postcoloniality?. This was originally a panel organized by professors Salhia Ben-Messahel
(Université de Toulon, France) and Marilena Parlati (University of Padova, Italy), but we would like to further open the discussion to other
scholars worldwide.
This is the call:
The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia (JEASA) was founded and has been maintained by the European Association for Studies of Australia (EASA) since 2009. It is a double blind peer-reviewed, open-access online journal published twice a year, intended to showcase both European and Australian scholarhip in the field of Australian studies.
PopCRN is delighted to announce a conference dedicated to the cult phenomenon, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. This free, online event will be held on Wednesday 27th and Thursday 28th of November 2025.
We are inviting abstracts of papers on “Culinary Crossovers: Authenticity and Ambiguity in Reimagining Food Heritage in South Asia”, to be published in a special issue for the Journal of Food, Culture & Society (Taylor and Francis, Scopus Q1). In this special issue, we aim to probe into culinary histories and practices as appended to cultural/collective memory, where the idealised and marketable concept of “authenticity” emerges as a “palimpsest” conditioned by competing ideologies of nostalgia and privilege afforded by the ability to relocate.
We are pleased to announce below CFP:
Following the first Τ Ε Κ Μ Η Ρ Ι Α Meeting, held in October 2023, and the publication of the Proceedings in December 2024 (https://shorturl.at/FQXE6), the initiative comes to its second edition, offering once again a space for exchange, confrontation and discussion in the wake of interdisciplinarity. Subject of this second Study and Research Meeting will be Greeks and Local Historiography.
The topics of the proposals may include:
Ekphrasis and the Music of Literature: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts
This roundtable invites proposals that explore the intersection of visual, aural, and verbal frontiers. Although ekphrasis and musical form mirror words, they directly affect the emotions at a primordial level not available to verbal articulation. Ekphrasis translates words into visual images, whereas musical form translates them into sounds and rhythms. What are the differences between these modes of expression and how they affect their audiences? Papers that focus on the relationship of music to literature, the visual arts to literature, or on the interrelations of all three art forms are invited.
Sapphic Echoes: Representations of Female Love and Desire in Global Literatures
This panel asks questions and invites responses that explore representations of female love and desire in global literatures. How have the complex poetics of female love and desire—the desire to have something, or escape something, or punish, or know—been represented over time? What strategies have been employed to subvert literary conventions defined predominantly by male perspectives on home, love, war, victory and loss? How have female characters navigated the interplay between things done (overtly) and thought (covertly) to reveal the inner web of desires, fears and conflicts that constitute a female poetics of love and longing?
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the upcoming "Spatiality and Temporality" International Conference. The conference is addressed to academics, researchers and professionals with a particular interest related to the conference topic. We invite proposals from various disciplines including philosophy, history, sociology, anthropology, culture studies, literature and architecture.
Over the course of the 20th century and into the 21st, cinema, television, and related media have become increasingly central both to individual lives and to the lives of peoples, groups, and nations. Cinema has become a major form of cultural expression and films both reflect and influence the attitudes and behaviour of people, representing their tensions and anxieties, hopes and desires and incarnating social and cultural determinants of the era in which they were made.
Memory and trauma are two deeply interconnected phenomena that have captivated the attention of scholars and professionals across various disciplines. Understanding the complex interplay between these two elements is essential for comprehending how individuals, communities, and societies cope with and recover from traumatic experiences.
The International Conference on "Memory and Trauma" provides a platform for in-depth exploration of these and other aspects of memory and trauma. Through interdisciplinary dialogue, we aim to advance our understanding of how memory influences and is influenced by traumatic experiences, fostering resilience, healing, and justice for individuals and communities affected by trauma.
Decay and destruction have long been sources of fascination, inspiration and contemplation in artistic and cultural contexts. From the crumbling ruins of ancient civilizations to the ravages of time on natural landscapes, from the haunting beauty of abandoned spaces to the transformative power of decay in artistic expression, this conference aims to explore the creative potential of decay and destruction across diverse disciplines and perspectives.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Call for Papers: International conference
Flux and Flow in Irish and Scottish Literatures (late-19th century to present)
9-10 April 2026 Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Keynote Speaker: John Brannigan, University College Dublin
The conference seeks to explore the narratives of displacement and to demonstrate the validity of a cross-disciplinary approach which brings together the historical, cultural, social and literary expertise in the handling of text. The conference will particularly focus on time and space representations and on treatment of the theme of cultural ambivalence and identity conflict. The subject of displacement will be regarded as both a migration, voluntary or forced, and a sense of being socially or culturally “out of place”.
Papers are invited on topics related, but not limited, to:
Multiple environmental crises are increasingly inescapable at both transnational and local levels and the role of the humanities in addition to technology and politics is more and more recognized as central for exploring and finding solutions. Representations of nature’s agency have become central to many studies conducted in literature, culture studies, philosophy, history, sociology or political science. This conference aims to explore the relationship between the physical environment and text in its broader meaning as well as analyse the social concerns raised by environmental crises.
Humankind has always sought to explain its origins and the mysteries of life to map personal and collective boundaries, and to secure its sense of identity through the power of everyday events and occurrences. Exemplary accounts of imaginary happenings and supernatural creatures from a time beyond history and memory explain the genesis of the universe, the making of a living thing, the formation of an attitude or the inception of an institution. The essence of these traditional narratives reflects a certain system of values and code of self-conduct of a group of individuals bound together by social and cultural ties, and the cardinal virtues and vices of human nature captured in a conventional configuration.
Poetry is a constant, being produced by all known civilisations from ancient to modern times. Throughout its extensive history, the individual art of high emotions sublimated into perfect language has approached a vast array of subject matters, including love, war, social issues, the beauty of nature, etc. A particular exercise of the mind and soul, and a unique way of apprehending reality, poetry is a self-sufficient universe that intensifies and enlarges life experience. Pointing to inner knowledge rather than real circumstance, it activates different layers of perception, sweeps away human thoughts, feeds emotions and soothes suffering.
The conference invites academics, researchers and professionals to critically examine the evolving concept of gender in its many forms and contexts. The conference seeks to explore the past and present dimensions of gender identity across the globe, analyse how societal structures are shaped by and shape gender and consider the role of gender in the broad spectrum of human experience.The theme, Que(e)rying Gender, highlights the importance of questioning, expanding and disrupting conventional understandings of gender. It emphasises the intersections between gender, power, identity and culture, encouraging innovative approaches to understanding how gender influences lived experiences and societal norms.
Beyond the Anthropocene: Special Issue of ASAP/Journal
https://asapjournal.com/call-for-papers/
Special Issue Editors: Sarah Dimick and Ben Stanley
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 31, 2025
ESSAY SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 January 2026
(Call for Paper & Podcast ) - Peter Lang
Victorian literature is being fundamentally reimagined. What was once read through the lens of industrial realism, imperial narration, and bourgeois decorum is now being reassessed through new critical modes such as Animal Studies, Environmental Humanities, Food history, Ecocriticism, and Postcolonial re-readings. The aim of Rewriting the Victorian Imagination: Fables, Flesh, and Fluidity in Nineteenth-Century Literature is to consolidate and advance these reconfigurations by drawing together new research that unsettles the stable categories through which the “Victorian” has traditionally been understood.
Conference online (via Zoom): 3-4 July 2025
CFP:
This panel seeks papers for the Renaissance Society of America’s annual meeting (February 19–21, 2026, San Franscico, California). It explores an overlooked poetic genre: the prefatory poem of the early printed book for the It considers such appendages as simultaneously occupying the niches of text and paratext: discrete units which both conform to the structural and aesthetic constraints of poetry and adorn a corresponding, substantive text. These poems are at once ubiquitous and neglected, appearing in books of nearly all genres: from the luxury atlas to the sailing manual; from the personal devotional to the folio Bible; from the illustrated epic poem to the clinical legal handbook.
This call for papers seeks to explore the rich and complex intersection of philosophical inquiry and narrative accounts of trauma and exile. Moving beyond disciplinary boundaries, it aims to investigate how philosophical concepts – such as subjectivity, time, memory, ethics, and belonging – are challenged, reshaped, and illuminated through the lived experiences and narrative expressions of those who have endured trauma and/or forced displacement.