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Terraqueous Globe: Land and Sea in the Age of Sterne

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:16am
The Shandean, Liverpool University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Eighteenth-century global history is a history of seas and oceans. International trade and migration stretched across all continents. Britain’s colonial empire, and the trades on which it thrived – not least the Slave Trade – was driven by its domination of the world’s waterways. The port city of Liverpool was a major gateway for Britain’s contact with the wider world through maritime routes. This complemented the complex network of domestic waterways – rivers, canals – which played a significant part in Britain’s industrial revolution.

13th Mediterranean Interdisciplinary Forum on Social Sciences and Humanities

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:16am
University of Catania
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Held previously in renowned locations like Beirut, Almeria, Barcelona, and Tenerife, MIFS is now set to take place at the University of Catania, Italy. The conference fosters academic networking and critical thinking through the presentation of research articles across various social sciences and humanities disciplines. Over the years, hundreds of papers have been presented and published in open-access format after undergoing a rigorous peer-review process.

MIFS welcomes scholars from a wide range of fields to participate in this vibrant intellectual exchange. Join us at the upcoming conference and contribute to the ongoing discourse in the social sciences and humanities!

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PCAS / ACAS 2025 Conference

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:03am
Popular Culture Association in the South / American Culture Association in the South
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

2025 Conference Huntsville, AL October 9th- 11th

The Popular Culture Association in the South and the American Culture Association in the South meets annually to to present and discuss ideas about popular culture, American culture, and culture world-wide. This year we meet at the Embassy Suites by Hilton in Huntsville, a lively hub of universities near the Space Center.

“What Like It’s Hard?” Representations and Remediations of Academia in Popular Culture

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:03am
Scaffold: the Journal for the Institute of Comparative Studies of Literature, Art, and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 5, 2025

Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, popular culture increasingly served as an intermediary to present and, in some cases, reimagine academia and the academy for mass audiences. This mediation results from an assembly of narratives from various media forms and contexts, both by those inside and outside the academy. The result is a vision of the academy in Western popular culture that is exciting and inviting at turns, but is more frequently shark-like, insular, and intimidating. 

Literature and Social Justice

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:03am
Lehigh English Graduate Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

Conference: March 20, 2026

Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA

 

Contact email: slb322@lehigh.edu

 

Dialogues and Dissonances: The Environmental Humanities from North-South Perspectives

updated: 
Friday, March 21, 2025 - 2:32pm
NOVA University of Lisbon - School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH) | Campolide Campus - Colégio Almada Negreiros
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Dialogues and Dissonances: The Environmental Humanities from North-South Perspectives 

NOVA University of Lisbon - School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH) |

Campolide Campus - Colégio Almada Negreiros (25-27 September, 2025)

Concept Note

 

In recent decades, the term Global South has come to signify the distinctions between the industrialised nations of the “North” and the comparatively less developed nations of the “South.” The Global North-South designation, however, is not strictly geographical but instead reflects various geopolitical, economic, and ecological commonalities between countries.

Two-Day International Seminar & Workshop On Indian Drama: Society-Culture, Tradition and Heritage

updated: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 2:48pm
Ateswartala Sanskritik Manch, Radhakantapur, Raidighi, South 24 Parganas In collaboration with Department of Bengali, Vidyasagar University, Paschim Medinipur and Jana Sanskriti, Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed (Publication Partner: Peter Lang)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 23, 2025

Call for Papers

  Mode: Blended (Online & Offline)

Two-Day International Seminar & Workshop On

Indian Drama: Society-Culture, Tradition and Heritage Organized by

Ateswartala Sanskritik Manch, Radhakantapur, Raidighi, South 24 Parganas

In collaboration with

Department of Bengali, Vidyasagar University, Paschim Medinipur

and

Jana Sanskriti, Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed

MLA Special Session: Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish Writers from the Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey (Online Session)

updated: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 10:51am
2026 MLA Convetion
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 21, 2025

Special Session Title: Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish Writers from the Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey (Online Session)

This panel explores Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish writers through various theoretical frameworks, spanning all historical periods. We welcome interdisciplinary perspectives and comparative works that examine authors who have produced literature, memoirs, travelogues, journalistic writings, or any other form of textual production in English.

Papers focusing on lesser-known writers and works are particularly encouraged.

CFP:International Young Researchers' Conference on Planet, Text and Context: Perspectives on Ecology

updated: 
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 2:38pm
Surya Sen Mahavidyalaya
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

International Multidisciplinary Young Researcher’s Seminar (Hybrid Mode)

on

Planet, Text and Context: Perspectives on Ecology

Organised by

PG Department of English & Research and Development Cell

In collaboration with

IQAC

Surya Sen Mahavidyalaya, Siliguri, India

5th April, 2025

 

 

Concept Note

PAMLA 2025 Special Session CFP

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 12:18pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

PAMLA 2025 San Francisco: “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion”

The 122nd annual PAMLA Conference will be held between November 20-23, 2025 at the InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California.

PAMLA welcomes special session proposals for the 2025 PAMLA conference in San Francisco, California on topics of scholarly interest that are not too close to the topics of our general (standing) sessions (see below to find a list of PAMLA’s general/standing sessions).

The Boundaries of US Identity and the African American Experience

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:25am
REDEN journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Special thematic dossier 7.1 | The Boundaries of US Identity and the African American Experience

Editor: Beatriz Hermida Ramos (Universidad de Salamanca)

 

CFP - International Conference On "Labouring Bodies in South Asian Films and Filmmaking: From Beginning to Now."

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:25am
CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 11, 2025

An International Conference

On

Labouring Bodies in South Asian Films and Filmmaking: From Beginning to Now.

Organized by

The Cultural Studies Cell, School of Arts and Humanities, Christ University, Bengaluru

Conference Dates: 19 & 20 June 2025

 

“Pause to think a hundred times, a thousand times, on the doorstep of the film factory.”

Viktor Shklovsky: The Film Factory (1927)

Culinary Expeditions – Media, Food, and Halal Tourism in the Global South

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:24am
Dr Tamilselvi Natarajan / Bayan College
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Culinary Expeditions: Media, Food, and Halal Tourism in the Global South, to be published by Peter Lang International Academic Publisher as part of the book series Food and Cultures from the Global South.

This book will explore the intersection of media, halal tourism, and gastronomy in the Global South, examining how food storytelling, digital media, and travel narratives influence Muslim tourist experiences and cultural representation.

Resistance and Defiance in Francophone World(s)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:24am
Midwest Modern Language Conference - French Cultural Issues Panel
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

We invite papers for an in-person panel, “French: Cultural Issues,” at the 2025 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference themed “The Humanities is Where Hope Lives," which will take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at Marquette University, 14-16 November 2025. 

Them Among Us: No Nation for the Less Equals

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:24am
Debajyoti Biswas
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Space and Culture, India (Q2 ranked Journal)

Guest Editors: Dr. Debajyoti Biswas and Professor Om Prakash Dwivedi

 

CfP: BROLLY. Journal of Social Sciences (London, UK)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:23am
London Academic Publishing LTD
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 20, 2025

CfP: BROLLY. Journal of Social Sciences

(London Academic Publishing, UK)

 

Vol. 6, No. 1, April/May 2025 (General Topic)

Submission Deadline: April 20, 2025

 

No processing or publication fees.

#OpenAccess

 

ISSN 2516-869X (Print)

ISSN 2516-8703 (Online)

 

Web: https://www.journals.lapub.co.uk/index.php/Brolly

Email: brolly@journals.lapub.co.uk

Critique: Journal of English Language and Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:23am
Department of English Literature, Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

Critique: Journal of English Language and Literature

https://critique.gcuf.edu.pk

Submission Deadline: May 15, 2025

 

The editors of Critique: Journal of English Language and Literature invite submissions for its upcoming issue that advance scholarly research and critical inquiry in the fields of English language and literature. We seek original contributions that explore a diverse array of topics, aiming to enhance academic discourse and foster interdisciplinary dialogue.

Doris Lessing Society Calls for Papers for 2026 MLA Convention

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:22am
Doris Lessing Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 23, 2025

                                                       Calls for Papers for the 2026 MLA Convention

                                                                       January 8-11, Toronto

                                                                   The Doris Lessing Society

1       Doris Lessing the Storyteller: Literature and Social Change

The goal is to explore the ways in which Lessing uses fiction for social transformation through the elaboration and dissemination of knowledge, e.g., self-education, constructing knowledge, questioning moral/political values, and the relationship to language.

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 23 March 2025

International Conference Fairy Tales in Slavic Countries: Reception – Production – Circulation

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:22am
Sapienza University of Rome
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 30, 2025

The interest in Slavic fairy tales and fables remains relatively marginal in international Fairy Tale Studies. Influential essays by Vladimir Propp on the Morphology of the Folktale (1928, English translation 1958, Italian translation 1966) and the Historical Roots of the Wondertale (1946, Italian translation 1949) encouraged international interest in Russian folk tales. However, they also contributed to the tendency to perceive these tales primarily as a manifestation of the oral or folkloric tradition—a perspective that prevails up to this day.

The Spectral Haunting of Empire: Afterlives in the Colonial Present

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:22am
2025 National Women's Studies Annual Conference: An Honour Song: Feminist Struggles, Feminist Victories
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Keywords: Colonialism, Hauntings, Postcolonial, Memory, Imperial, Afterlives, Bodies, Narratives 

Empire's ghosts persist beyond colonial rule, manifesting as hauntings that collapse the distance between past and present. These specters transform the immaterial into tangible forces that infiltrate daily life. The colonial past is never truly gone; it lingers, erupting through material and psychic traces.

Fashion, Modeling, and Embodiment Panel at NWSA

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:22am
National Women's Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

This panel calls for papers that examine theories and histories of the body alongside histories of fashion and modeling. In what ways do contemporary fashion studies or modeling studies build on or depart from foundational texts that interrogate the body? How do fashion and modeling embody or resist ableism, ageism, transphobia, fatphobia, and other forms of oppression that are mediated through the body? This panel is particularly interested in the role of the model, expansively defined as fashion modeling, artist's modeling, instagram modeling or other forms of model-like roles and embodied performances.

“Hope for Voice and Gender” Conference Panel

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:21am
Hye Hyon Kim/ MMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

2025 MMLA theme "The Humanities is Where Hope Lives"

Gender Studies

 

Panel Title “Hope for Voice and Gender” – Virtual Panel

 

Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential,

flooding, eroding, quiet, steady, filling the earth, collecting in hidden springs.

When it rains, when we love, new life grows.

—Carol Gilligan, The Birth of Pleasure: A New Map of Love (232)

 

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