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Call for Book Chapters
(Peter Lang International Academic Publishers)
Call for Chapters for the anthology Performing Dalits: Theatre of the Marginalized Communities of Bengal
Editors:
Reffat Ferdous, Assistant Professor, Department of Television, Film and Photography, Dhaka University
Sreejata Paul, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Shiv Nadar University Delhi-NCR
Subham Dutta, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Gokhale Memorial Girls’ College (Affiliated to University of Calcutta)
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
One-Day International Conference
Pakistani English Literature and the UN 2030 Agenda
Conference Date
February 20, 2025
(Hybrid Mode)
Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture
Friday, March 21, 2025
On the campus of Ottawa University, Ottawa, Kansas
Morning plenary speaker: David Block, author of Baseball before We Knew It and Pastime Lost
Luncheon keynote speaker: Bobby Dernier
The body functions as an active agent in generating knowledge, memory, and stories. This year's conference places the relationship between memory and the body at its core, emphasizing how the latter serves as a site of cultural, political, and historical negotiation. The body exerts significant influence on the creation and retrieval of memory, compelling us to critically examine the individual and collective memories produced and transmitted through the embodied experiences of culture, politics, trauma, and (post)nation.
XXVIII AISNA Biennial Conference
“Facing West: Thinking, Living, Outliving the American West”
(Bergamo, 11-13 September 2025) Deadline: February 28 2025
Panel 19.
(Un)Narrating the West: Literature, Politics, and the Frontier Unconscious
Coordinators:
Marco Petrelli (Università degli Studi di Pisa), marco.petrelli@unipi.it
Virginia Pignagnoli (Universitat autònoma de Barcelona), virginia.pignagnoli@uab.cat
The Jonathan Bayliss Society invites proposals for a roundtable on American experimental fiction. Beginning at least as early as Moby-Dick, American experimental fiction flourishes in the work of Stein, Burroughs, Pynchon, Gass, and Bayliss, and continues today with such writers as Giannina Braschi, Karen Russell, Colson Whitehead, Lance Olsen, and Mark Danielewski. Such writers disrupt conventions of genre, style, syntax, diction, propriety, narrative form, page layout, and much more. We are interested in papers devoted to particular works or authors as well as more wide-ranging or theoretical approaches to the topic.
Call for Articles: Volume 14, Issue 2 (2025)
The editors of Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning are pleased to announce an open call for articles for a forthcoming issue.
Impact is a peer-reviewed biannual online journal devoted to interdisciplinary teaching, learning, and scholarship.
The editors especially value pieces that demonstrate the need for interdisciplinary solutions to twenty-first-century problems. Articles of interest will engage the advantages, challenges, and modes of interdisciplinary work.
Cinema’s First Epics in Focus:
Silent Epic Film from Literary Adaptation to Contemporary Epic Narratives
MORE PRIDE, LESS PREJUDICE: JANE AUSTEN AT 250
Faculty of Arts and Humanities I University of Porto
2-3 October 2025
Keynote Speakers
John Mullan (University College London)
Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford)
Accepting 300-word abstracts proposing 15-minute papers on paranoia in contemporary American literature and/or film. Topics may include but are not limited to: conspiracy fiction, paranoid reading, racial paranoias, queer paranoias, surveillance, paranoid genre, and ecoparanoias.
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism seeks original, well-researched, and intellectually rigorous papers about texts from any time period and literary tradition. We are now accepting submissions for the Fall 2024 issue. Submissions are due by September 22, 2024.
CFP for ASAP/16, convening in Houston, TX, 22-25 October 2025
https://www.artsofthepresent.org/conference/asap-16-worldmaking-worldbre...
A black box is an abstraction. In systems theory, it names a model for complex exchanges in which mysterious, secret, or unknowable processes alter input stimuli and produce output reactions. The black box’s inner workings cannot be observed directly, only inferred through hypotheses about causes and effects.
Fan Studies Network North America (FSNNA) is excited to announce that we are seeking new members of our organizing committee.
FSNNA held its first conference in October 2018 to gather fan studies scholars in one place to meet, share new research, and promote the study of fanworks and fan cultures. During the Covid-19 pandemic, we ran successful online conferences with a focus on accessibility and community. Since then, we have continued implementing new online conference formats that allow us to bring together fan studies scholars from North America and around the world every year.
Archipelago of Extremity:
Fragmentation and Renovation in Puerto Rico
Editors
Daniel Nevárez Araújo, PhD, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Nelson Varas-Díaz, PhD, Florida International University
Description
Leveraging Legacies of Peacebuildingin a Precarious Time
The annual conference of The Peace and Justice Studies Association
Hosted by the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, Swarthmore College
OCTOBER 9-12, 2025 | Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA
Proposal Submission Deadline: May 1, 2025
Early Bird Registration: May 15 – June 15, 2025
Draft Schedule Released: June 1, 2025
British Shakespeare Association Conference
Practising Shakespeare: new collaborations, expanding horizons
25-28 June 2025, University of York
Call for Panels, Papers, Roundtables, and Seminar Enrolment: Deadline 14 February 2025
For more information: https://www.britishshakespeare.ws/conference/
Perspectives in Architecture and Urbanism
Call for Papers: Studies in Materialistic Historiography
Virtual Special Issue
Guest Editor: K. Michael Hays
LAMAR JOURNAL OF THE HUMANITIES
Call for Papers
Readers Needed for “Author Meets Readers” Roundtable
American Studies Association Conference
November 20th-23rd
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Email me if you’re interested in discussing my forthcoming book, That Book is Dangerous!: How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing. It will be published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press and distributed by Penguin Random House on August 12th, 2025. I will send you an advance reader copy in March.
Please email me by January 30th if you’re interested.
Call for Papers: The Turn to Podcasts as a Mass Campaign Medium Special Issue of The Journal of Radio and Audio Media
Dr. Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Prof. Kim Fox, American University in Cairo
Dr. Aram Sinnreich, American University
The Journal of Radio and Audio Media (JRAM), the world’s premier radio research journal, is published semi-annually by the Broadcast Education Association. JRAM is dedicated to radio research and the new technology redefining radio’s traditional use.
The Queerness and Games Conference (QGCon) is now accepting submissions for presentations at its sixth conference, which will be held on September 26-28, 2025, in Montreal, Quebec. Proposals for talks, pre-constituted panels, workshops, roundtables, and post-mortems are due on April 13th, 2025.
Submit your proposal using this form. Do not use our contact email for submissions.
Profanity: Redefining the Limits.
The F-word across Linguistics, Translation and the Arts
The conference is still welcoming proposals in film, lit. and cultural studies focusing on the use of profanity, transgression and "bad language" in general.
LOCATION: Université d’Artois (Arras, France), 24-26 September 2025
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
The conference will take place at Université Toulouse II - Jean Jaurès on 13 May 2025. Please send your proposals, along with a summary of up to 300 words and a brief bio-bibliographical note, by January 31, 2025 to anita.jorge@univ-tlse2.fr, Zachary.baque@univ-tlse2.fr and Vincent.souladie@univ-tlse2.fr.
Ambivalent Solidarities: South Asian Women’s Intellectual, Affective and Activist Networks
Editors:
Hiya Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Swarnamoyee Jogendranath Mahavidyalaya, Vidyasagar University
Sreejata Paul, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Shiv Nadar University Delhi-NCR
CFP: “If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once having felt crushingly depressed, then you probably haven’t been paying attention” – The Representation of Mental Health in Theatre & Performance
Keynote: Robert Icke
The organizers invite proposals for 15-minute papers to be presented at the first Re-Staging conference. Hosted by staff aligned to the Stage & Screen Faculty of The Northern School of Art, this event will take place in person on Friday 11th April 2025. The theme for this year’s conference will explore the representation of mental health in theatre & performance.
The CFP will broadly look at three key strands:
European Network for Psychological Anthropology Biennial Conference:
Anthropologies and Psychologies in (Inter)Action - Engaging Interdisciplinary Perspectives
11 - 13 June 2025, University of Münster, Germany
Conference information: https://enpanthro.net/enpa-2025-conference/
CFP for an in-person panel:
Anthropology, Psychology, and Self-Understanding: Exploring Educative Contexts and Possibilities
Graduate Student Awards in Literature (literary analysis) or Pedagogy (teaching methodologies and reflections), and Writing (fiction, non-fiction, and poetry)
Graduate students are invited to submit papers or creative pieces for the NJCEA annual Graduate Student Awards. The winners of these two awards will receive Amazon gift cards and have their papers published in The Watchung Review, the official publication of the NJCEA. Complete submissions can be sent as electronic attachments to Rachael Warmington at rkw2111@gmail.com by February 7th, 2025.
NJCEA 47th Annual Conference
"TEACHING LITERATURE AND WRITING STUDIES IN A POLARIZED SOCIETY"
March 22, 2025 Seton Hall University
The challenges of teaching humanities in today’s increasingly polarized political climate are profound. Educators find themselves at the intersection of diverse ideologies, cultural tensions, and barriers students may face in their access to education. How do we teach literature and writing in ways that foster civility, empathy, and meaningful dialogue amid stark political divides? For the 2025 NJCEA annual conference, we ask you to consider ideas and pedagogical strategies that help navigate these tensions without losing the richness and relevance of literature and writing.
Call for Papers
Healing Narratives, Embodied Histories: Medical Humanities in South Asia
Animesh Roy and Bosudha Bandyopadhyay
Medical Humanities is an interdisciplinary field that examines the human dimensions of health, illness, and healthcare through the lens of literature, arts, humanities, and social sciences. It seeks to deepen understanding of medical practices by exploring how cultural, historical, ethical, and literary contexts shape healthcare experiences.