Concept Note

This seminar uses fiction across media to host a dialogue between critical space theory and contemporary frameworks of political relationality. We look for the crossroads of intersectional politics, the empty lots where to construct "a people," the putrid, fertile soils of post-human entanglements. Demolishers against all future: you are also welcome.

We produce the space of sociality, and, in return, space shapes social reproduction (Henri Lefebvre). This dialectic is traversed by the blueprint of form as "the precondition of possible space" (Anna Kornbluh). Narrative fiction -literary, filmic, graphic- objectifies those forms and configures new ones, reworking the very entanglement of space and society.

CFP: The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture – NEPCA Virtual Fall Conference 2025

Deadline for submissions: July 15, 2025 5pm EST

Contact email: 

Hannah Sophie Schiffner, h.schiffner@zeppelin-university.net 

Protichi Chatterjee, protichichatterjee@gmail.com. 

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online October 9 – 11, 2025.

Book Proposal for the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)

Type: Edited volume

Title (provisional)

Craft Culture of Odisha:

A Study of Handicraft Heritage and Changing Dynamics of Craft-making

Rationale:

Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (T&F)

Special issue on

Gendered Violence

Guest Editors: Debajyoti Biswas (Bodoland University) & Parvin Sultana (Pramathesh Barua College)

Second Call For Papers

CFP:  Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Société canadienne d’études du dix-huitième siècle

2025 Conference:  Trans/Formations: Crossing Borders, Blurring Boundaries

Location: Atlas Hotel, Regina/Oskana, Saskatchewan

15-18 October, 2025

Deadline for Submissions: 31 May 2025

Please send submissions to the Organising Committee: CSECS2025@uregina.ca

Conference Details

Update: Keynote Speakers Announced - See details here: 

https://www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-events/conferences/reconfigurations-2025...

CFP:

The King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS), through its UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures, and with support from the Literature, Publishing and Translation Commission, offers Early Scholars Publication Grants. These grants support the publication of outstanding PhD dissertations that critically examine contemporary debates related to the UNESCO Chair's two themes and adopt a global perspective that moves beyond Eurocentrism. Early Scholars Publication Grants will be awarded for this year's two themes:

1) Translating Cultures in the Digital Age

In these turbulent times of global conflict and wars, and with the world witnessing human rights violations, scholars and individuals alike are grappling with the evolving definitions of fundamental issues such as human rights, international law, justice, and community peaceful coexistence. The crises challenge long-held assumptions on the so- called post-colonialist discourses, neocolonialism, systemic oppression, and cultural conflict, especially in transnational and diasporic encounters. Images of destruction and the continuous lurking waves of international sociopolitical plights inflicting the world raise urgent ethical questions that call upon the humanities to critically engage with these contemporary struggles of the human experience.

Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo is considered a staple in American cinematic history. For decades, Vertigo has been the subject of study by many film scholars, peeling back the intricate layers of the technicolor thriller. This panel invites all papers on Vertigo whether it is about the film's placement in Hitchcock's auteurism, the film's relation to the city of San Francisco, or an entirely new layer that has yet to be fully discussed.

This roundtable serves as a direct continuation of "Navigating Graduate School," from last year's PAMLA conference in Palm Springs. One of the most mystifying parts of graduate school that can seem intimidating to a prospective student is what happens after your qualifying exams. You're done with coursework. You've gone through your qualifying exams. You are now considered 'All-But-Dissertation,' or ABD. What happens? While graduate handbooks will helpfully detail requirements for dissertations, prospectus meetings, etc., the experience of navigating the terrain between qualifying exams and the job market can feel abstract.

In their introduction to Mothers in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism (2016), Karen Coats and Lisa Rowe Fraustino observe that “[w]hether living or dead, present or absent, sadly dysfunctional or happily good enough, the figure of the mother carries an enormous amount of freight across the emotional and intellectual life of a child” (3).

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference

Friday-Sunday, 3–5, October 2025

The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Conference participants will be responsible for securing their own lodging.

Submit paper, abstract, or panel proposals (including the title of the presentation) with the appropriate keywords (formerly areas) on the submissions website at https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels

Individuals may only submit one paper.

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism 
A Transdisciplinary Conference

July 4-5, 2025 

July 4: In person participation at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park (and online)
July 5: Fully online

Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/ecopoetics-2025/

Fees** (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)