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“Decolonial Utopia and the War to Be Human”
Critical Survey Journal
Guest Editor: Dr. Om Prakash Dwivedi, Bennett University, India
One Short Day: An Online Symposium Celebrating Wicked
Deadline: May 30, 2025
Conference Date: June 27, 2025
Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific Time)
Abstract: 150 words + 50 word biographical statement + Time Zone
Submit to: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com
Organizers: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona & Layal Dahi, California State Polytechnic University
Digital Studies in Language and Literature (DSLL), a new Open-Access journal co-launched by De Gruyter and Chongqing University, cordially invites submissions for its 2025 Issue 1.
DSLL is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary publication committed to promoting research at the intersection of digital technology, language, and literature. Accepted articles will be published under a fully sponsored Open Access via a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY-4.0) License, ensuring that your research is freely accessible for reading and downloading by all.
“Beyond Labels”: International Conference
on Disability, Different Ability and Neurodiversity
London/Online: 13-14 September 2025
Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2025
Conference website: https://diversity.lcir.co.uk
Disability, different ability and neurodiversity are concepts that traverse boundaries, challenging disciplines to rethink foundational assumptions about identity, culture and power. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring together scholars from different fields to critically examine the shifting narratives, representations and lived experiences surrounding ability and difference.
“The Uncanny in Language, Literature and Culture”
International Conference
Malta/Online: 22-23 August 2025
Deadline for proposals: 20 March 2025
Conference website: https://uncanny.lcir.co.uk
The uncanny captures the unsettling and the eerie—a feeling that defies boundaries between the familiar and the strange. Rooted in Freud’s exploration, the uncanny reveals how what is known and intimate can suddenly become alien, evoking dread and unease. Everyday objects, spaces, and experiences that once offered comfort transform into symbols of danger, disrupting not only our external environments but also the landscapes of our inner selves.
International Conference on Food Studies:
"Culinary Evolutions"
London/Online: 9-10 August 2025
Deadline for proposals: 30 April 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.
International Conference on Postcolonial Studies:
"Trajectories and Transitions of (Post)Colonialism"
London/Online: 26-27 July 2025
Deadline for proposals: 30 April 2025
Conference website: https://postcolonialism.lcir.co.uk
The conference will explore the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies and it will focus on the impact colonialism had on political, social, economic and cultural domains. It will examine various forms of colonial domination and control as well as theories and practices of resistance.
“Money Beyond Numbers”:
International Conference on Money, Markets and Meaning
London/Online: 19-20 July 2025
Deadline for proposals: 15 April 2025
Conference website: https://money.lcir.co.uk
Money holds immense power — not just as a medium of exchange but as a cultural symbol, a psychological force, and a social construct. How do we ascribe meaning to money, and how does it shape our identities, relationships and values? What narratives and myths surround its use, accumulation and distribution? From its role in consumer culture to its depiction in literature, art and media, money permeates every aspect of human life, embodying ideals of wealth, power and morality.
“The Politics of Emotion: Affect, Identity and Power”
International Conference
London/Online: 12-13 July 2025
Deadline for proposals: 15 April 2025
Conference website: https://emotions.lcir.co.uk
“Migrating World”: International Conference
on Migration, Identity and Belonging
London/Online: 5-6 July 2025
Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2025
Conference website: https://integration.lcir.co.uk
"Discourses on Motherhood" International Conference
London/Online: 28-29 June 2025
Deadline for proposals: 20 January 2025
Conference website: https://genderstudies.lcir.co.uk
This conference aims at exploring motherhood and its diverse cultural representations, while interrogating the ways in which such representations impact on individual and collective experiences of motherhood. Thus, we attempt at examining motherhood both as a personal experience and as an institution, as well as observing the nuances involved in the interaction between both.
"The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place"
International Conference
London/Online: 21-22 June 2025
Deadline for proposals: 1 March 2025
Conference website: https://memory.lcir.co.uk
"Digital Dilemmas: Technology, Identity and Society"
International Conference
London/Online: 14-15 June 2025
Deadline for proposals: 20 March 2025
Conference website: https://digital-dilemmas.lcir.co.uk
45th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum:
Spanning the Globe: Thinking across Geographies in Medieval and Medievalism Studies
Keene State College
Keene, NH, USA
Friday and Saturday March 28-29, 2025
Call for Papers and Sessions
The upcoming deadline for the next conference of the International Association for Word and Music Studies has been extended UNTIL JANUARY 15th! See full CfP here: https://www.wordandmusicstudies.org/_files/ugd/5dbb84_21bf80d26ca74a839d19725255461956.pdf Call for papersFrauds & Fakes in Words and MusicUniversity of Richmond, Virginia, May 29–31, 2025 With the proliferation of fake news, synthetic video, and AI-powered chatbots and compositions,deceptive material is all around us.
5th International Conference on the Philosophy of Language, Literature, and Linguistics (ICPL 2025)
This is a hybrid event and in-person event will be held at Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China from May 8 to 10, 2025.
The E. E. Cummings Society will sponsor two sessions at the 2025 American Literature Association conference in Boston [ https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ ]. We invite proposals for papers on any aspect of Cummings’ life and/or work. Proposals that touch upon the following topics will be especially welcome:
Romantic-era approaches to popular belief, from the philosophical to the sociological, had different ways of framing the “common.” Common beliefs might be framed as ordinary, intuitive, or rooted in common sentiment; or might in contrast suggest vulgar or popular belief, as in the category of “popular superstitions.” This panel will look at Romantic-era constructions of common or popular belief, with topics that might include (but are not limited to): “Common Sense” philosophy and intuitive belief; popular religion; folklore and supernatural beliefs; cultures of popular magic; or other approaches to “traditional” belief.
Call for Papers
The Department of English at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, invites submissions for the upcoming special issue of its journal Research and Criticism, (ISSN 2229-3639) on Literature and the Environment. The journal is published by Pencraft International.
Deep Time in Irish Literature, Culture, Media, and the Arts
In considering the ecocritical urgency of Irish texts, past and present—including characters such as the geographer-protagonist of Caoilinn Hughes’s 2024 novel The Alternatives—we invite papers that consider deep time and its uses in Irish literature, culture, media, and the arts. Topics across genres and time periods may include the human and nonhuman, periodization and cosmic/ancestral time, Irish legend and folklore in deep time, traditions of prehistory, seeds, agriculture, stones, gems, the bog and bog bodies, fossils, climate change, and the anthropocene.
We have good news to share: the deadline for proposal submissions to ASLE 2025 has been extended to January 10, 2025
ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference
Collective Atmospheres: Air, Intimacy, and Inequality
July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park, ancestral lands of the Piscataway People
Virtual panels held on July 17-18, 2025
Working Title - Planet Flanagan: Essays on the Netflix Series of Mike Flanagan
Mike Flanagan has steadily made a significant name for himself in horror, garnering praise for his originality in films such as Oculus (2013) and Hush (2016), and further critical acclaim for works like Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Gerald’s Game (2017) and especially his adaptation of Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep (2019).
Femspec seeks both scholarly and creative submissions for its upcoming Issue 25.1
Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist academic journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres. Femspec publishes both academic scholarship and creative writing.
Creative writing submissions could include short fiction, poetry, or experimental forms.
To submit work for consideration, please review Femspec’s submission guidelines at the following link: SUBMISSION GUIDELINES | Femspec
The Humanities Center at Texas Tech Annual Conference 2025:
“Celebrating Indigenous Resilience”
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
April 5, 2025
Keynote Speaker:
David Treuer,
National Book Award Finalist,
Author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee:
Native America from 1890 to the Present
Professor of English, University of Southern California
Dr. K. R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
Call for Papers
National Conference of Research Scholars
Vision of a Viksit Bharat: Challenges, Initiatives, Strategies
24-25 February, 2025
Theme: Society, Citizens, Development
Eligibility: PhD Scholars registered in any University or Research Institution
CALL FOR PAPERS-
Dear, Faculty members, Film enthusiasts, Researcher, Scholars, and Students,
With utmost pleasure, I invite you to the National Seminar which is being organised by ASBM School of Liberal Arts and will be hosted at ASBM University Campus, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India on 8th March, 2025 at 11 am.
About our School:
Call for papers
We invite paper proposals for Panel 36: Margins of edibility: Non-food in South Asian literatures at the upcoming 28th European Conference for South Asian Studies (ECSAS 2025) hosted by University of Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany) from October 1-4, 2025.
Panel description:
Call for Papers
Glocal Colloquies: An International Journal of World Literature and Cultures
ISSN : 2454-2423
Glocal Colloquies (https://glocalcolloquies.com/) invites scholarly submissions for its upcoming issues, focusing on two critical and contemporary themes:
We seek contributions that engage deeply with these topics, exploring intersections between literature and evolving global discourses.
2023 Issue: Literature and Environment
The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100 to 200 word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at Comic-Con International, in San Diego, CA, July 24–27, 2025. We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars. We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists. The CAC is presently scheduled to take place in person and does not accept virtual presentations. The CAC is designed to bring together
Call for Book Chapters
(PETER LANG)
Performing the Earth: Tribal Green Stage and Environmental Resilience
Performing the Earth: Tribal Green Stage and Environmental Resilience aims to explore the intersection of indigenous cultural expression, performance art, and environmental sustainability. Drawing on the profound ecological wisdom of indigenous peoples, this book focuses to present a dynamic collection of original articles, and creative works that examine how the performing arts can serve as powerful tools for environmental advocacy and resilience.