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The August Wilson Society
at the
American Literature Association
announces its
CALL FOR PAPERS
for the
36th Annual ALA Conference
May 21–24, 2025
The Westin Copley Place
10 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02116
***Extended Deadline***
Nothing on Leila (1997) please!
ReFocus: The International Directors Series, published by Edinburgh University Press invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit papers for a title dedicated to the influential works of Dariush Mehrjui (1939-2023), a seminal figure in Iranian cinema. Known for his profound impact on the New Wave of Iranian cinema, Mehrjui’s films blend social commentary, philosophical inquiry, and aesthetic innovation. This title aims to explore the multifaceted dimensions of Mehrjui’s oeuvre, examining his contributions to film art and his role in shaping Iranian and global cinema.
Topics of Interest
The Human Catalyst: Ecological Crises and Their Cinematic Echoes
International Journal of Education (IJE)
ISSN : 2348 - 1552
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJEMS/Home.html
Scope
International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies (IJHAS)
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHASS/Home.html
Scope
East Asian National Memories
As Manifested in Popular Culture Gender Dynamics
2015 to the Present
Extended Deadline! Monday, Dec 9, 2024, midnight PST
MAs, PhDs in progress, and PhDs are welcome to apply~~
Notification: Wednesday, Dec 11, 2024
Contact: EastAsianPopCulture2025@gmail.com
Schedule:
Feedback for revisions: Saturday, Dec 14, 2024
Chapter proposals are invited for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We seek a broadly international group of scholarly contributors.
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Reinventing The Witch: Witchcraft and Sorcery in 21st Century Fiction and Film
“Under Strong Interest” by McFarland’s "Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy" Series
-UPDATE on CHAPTERS-
Editors’ Introduction
Webs of Wonder
37th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 28, 2025
Keynote Speaker:
Kyla Wazana Tompkins
University at Buffalo
Bridges and Borders: The Archive
April 11-12, 2025 | Proposals Due by February 17, 2025
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) and on Zoom
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Abdulhamit Arvas (University of Pennsylvania)
Bridges and Borders is an annual, interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference presented by the Carnegie Mellon University Department of English in collaboration with the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Applied Linguistics.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park
Panel: National Cinemas of Agriculture
This proposed panel at ASLE 2025 seeks proposals that explore ideal of national cinema in the global landscape, with specific emphasis on the cinematic representations of agriculture, rural life, and their connections to (post)colonial and Indigenous foodways.
Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, calls us to re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:
Ecocritical Theory and Practice, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books, is seeking proposals at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment.
The “Collecting and Collectibles Area” of the Popular Culture Association invites papers on “AI in Collecting” for the National PCA/ACA Conference to be held April 16-19, 2025 in New Orleans, USA. We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “AI in Collecting” and particularly address how collections/collectibles and their galleries/museums respond to the recent digital shifts and the tectonic evolution of AI technologies.
Possible topics for presentations include but are not limited to:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Mutations and Permutations of Care
Graduate Student Conference
Hybrid modality
Hosted By: Graduate students of French and Francophone World Studies
Department of French & Italian, The University of Iowa
Conference Dates: Friday, April 4 through Saturday, April 5, 2025
Location: University of Iowa campus (Iowa City, Iowa) and on Zoom
Abstracts Due: Sunday, December 15, 2024 ** EXTENDED TO SUNDAY, JANUARY 05, 2025 ****
In the Humanities, notions of coloniality and postcoloniality are usually entangled with nation states that are, by nature, multilingual and multicultural. The societies of each of these nations are further stratified based on hierarchies of economic and social-political classifications. In other words, motivated and maintained by and through power and notions of telos, differences of race, sexuality, caste, and religion exist in differing ways. Literatures of these differences then occupy their space(s) under the larger category of ‘postcolonial literature(s)’.
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.
While we received a high volume of truly exciting submissions for the conference Irresistible Decay: Discourses of Death in Life from the 18th Century to Today, we are extending the deadline to further the interdisciplinarity of the event! As such, we are encouraging abstracts analysing contemporary discourses or intermedial representations of death in life across fields including (but not limited to): queer and sex studies, human rights, criminology, sociology, and medical humanities.
Terrifier 3 (in cinemas at the time of sharing this call) has defied all expectations, attracting widespread commercial and critical success, and becoming the number one film in the USA. Since the creation of Art the Clown in the short film The 9th Circle in 2008, the Terrifier franchise has gone from strength to strength, challenging some of the fundamental assumptions underpinning Hollywood filmmaking over this period. Damien Leone’s films, boasting low budgets, a grindhouse aesthetic and an impressive level of envelope-pushing gore (bolstered explicitly by practical effects), have turned Art and Sienna into modern horror icons and continued to unashamedly appeal to genre fans.
Astrology in Focus:
Navigating Art, Psyche, and Knowledge
A Transdisciplinary Conference
January 12-14, 2025
Conference page: https://labrc.co.uk/astrology-2025/
Call for Papers:
Proposal Submission Deadline: December 20, 2024
Proposal Form: https://forms.gle/cJAzkPYfKhJJNbWK7
Format: Online
Plenary Speakers: TBC
Fee: 100 GBP
“Astrology represents the sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity”, Carl Jung
International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies [IJHASS]
****December Issue ****
http://deepublisher.com/Jnl/hass/Home.html
ISSN : 1831-622N 2974-5862 (Print)
Call for papers
Ex-position Feature Topic Call for Papers
Mosaic Outlooks: New Directions in Studies of Scottish Literature, Culture, and Society
Guest Editors: Kang-yen Chiu, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Shu-fang Lai, National Sun Yat-sen University
Publication Date: June 2026 (Issue No. 55)
Submission Deadline: October 31, 2025
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The UC Davis English Department is hosting its third annual student-led Connections conference under the wide-ranging theme of “Landscapes.” Organized by the English Graduate Student Association (EGSA), the Connections 2025 in-person conference examines the concept of landscape in its broadest sense—not only as a physical terrain but also as a cultural, social, political, and literary construct.
To what ends do narratives fail? If narrative is our way of making sense of the world (Herman 2004), why frustrate sense-making? Well-known in experimental fiction and film (from Sterne, Stein and Rankine to Caché and The Stanley Parable), frustrated narratives also occur, intriguingly, in texts with more practical, didactic or ideological aims: documentaries, journalism, political discourse, advertising, etc. And despite our rich conceptual vocabulary of frustrating narratives—“weak narrativitiy” (McHale 2001), plot “perversion” (Roof 1996), “antinarrative” (Rose 2012), “unnarratability” (Abbott 2003; Warhol 2005)—much remains to be explored about the motivations, readerly dynamics and impacts of narrative frustration.
Edgar Allan Poe worked for a double audience (the popular and the critical), in double tones and manners (grim and mocking, metaphysical and pseudo-scientific). Whether he strove for alternance or interdependence between the terms “grotesque” and “arabesque” which he used to categorize his own narratives, critics such as G. R. Thompson and Dennis Eddings have argued that the former – more visible in tales such as “King Pest,” “Some Words with a Mummy,” “Lionizing,” and “Loss of Breath” - underscored the carnivalesque, the satirical, and the hoaxical.
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society will host two sessions at the upcoming ALA Conference in Boston, May 21-24, 2025. The PEHS is collaborating with the Research Society of American Periodicals (RSAP) on one of these two sessions. You can find the two CFPs below. Please consider submitting a proposal. The deadline is January 15, 2025.
PEHS CFP One:
#IFM2025 Resonances Conference – Extended CFP Deadline: December 16th!
Join us for the 7th Interactive Film and Media Annual Conference from June 10-13, 2025, via Zoom.
This year’s theme, Resonances, invites you to explore how media fosters deep, meaningful connections in our daily lives, shaping how we engage with the world.
Response: How do we form thoughtful responses to crises in an unstable world?
Resilience: How can media practices adapt and resist in the face of 21st-century challenges?
Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America invites submissions for a special issue on “Dictionaries and Disability: Ideologies, Definitions, and Depictions.”
Call for Papers for a Special Issue of The Hemingway Review
Emerson Society at the Thoreau Annual Gathering CFP
The Emerson Society will sponsor a panel at the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering this summer in Concord, Mass. (July 9-13, 2025). This year’s conference theme is Thoreau’s Revolutions. We will consider papers both on the topic below and on the conference theme more generally.
“Emersonian Revolutions Today”