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"Existence Precedes Essence": (Post)Colonial Reconciliations

updated: 
Friday, December 6, 2024 - 2:50pm
International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) - In-person, Seoul, Korea, 28th July 2025 - 1st August 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 7, 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)’.

American Experimental Fiction

updated: 
Friday, December 6, 2024 - 2:44pm
Jonathan Bayliss Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025

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.

Bloomsbury's Environment and Society Book Series

updated: 
Friday, December 6, 2024 - 1:50pm
Bloomsbury Books
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Environment and Society, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. Learn more about the 30 books already in the series on the publisher’s website: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXES

Bloomsbury's Critical Plant Studies Book Series

updated: 
Friday, December 6, 2024 - 1:49pm
Bloomsbury Books
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

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:

Irresistible Decay: Discourses of Death in Life from the 18th Century to Today

updated: 
Friday, December 6, 2024 - 12:45pm
Airelle Amédro; Enrica Leydi - University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 22, 2024

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 2025

updated: 
Friday, December 6, 2024 - 10:47am
University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 13, 2025

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

updated: 
Friday, December 6, 2024 - 8:40am
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

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

East Asian National Memories As Manifested in Popular Culture Gender Dynamics

updated: 
Friday, December 6, 2024 - 5:54am
Volume: East Asian Pop Culture Studies 2015-Present
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 9, 2024

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

ContactEastAsianPopCulture2025@gmail.com

 

Schedule:

Feedback for revisions: Saturday, Dec 14, 2024

Mosaic Outlooks: New Directions in Studies of Scottish Literature, Culture, and Society

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 9:40pm
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

 

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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Connections Conference 2025: Landscapes

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 4:09pm
UC Davis English Graduate Student Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 21, 2025

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.

The Affordances of Frustrating Narratives (proposed panel for MLA 2026 in Toronto)

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 2:50pm
Isidora Cortes-Monroy & Daniel Aureliano Newman / University of Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

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.

Teaching Poe's Humor - ALA 2025 Poe Studies Association Teaching Panel

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:18pm
Poe Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

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.

CFPs for Pauline Hopkins sessions at ALA 2025 Conference

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:17pm
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

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:

Extended Deadline #IFM2025 Resonances Conference: December 16th!

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:17pm
Hudson Moura / IFM Network
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 16, 2024

#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 and disability for special issue of journal Dictionaries

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:15pm
Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North AmericaDictionary Society of North America
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America invites submissions for a special issue on “Dictionaries and Disability: Ideologies, Definitions, and Depictions.”

Emersonian Revolutions Today

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:07pm
Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

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”

Emerson's Like-Minded Transcendentalists

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:07pm
Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

CFP: American Literature Association 36th Annual Conference May 21-24, 2025, The Westin Copley Place 10 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02116

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites proposals for two panels at the upcoming ALA conference in Boston.

"Emerson's Like-Minded Transcendentalists."

XV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture: THE AGE OF EXCESS

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:06pm
The Lisbon Consortium - Universidade Católica Portuguesa
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025

After years of financial crisis and politics of austerity, as well as a pandemic that brought ordinary life to a halt, culture today is laden with excess. This excess can take many different shapes and foster diverse readings, some of them positive, focusing on excess as an opportunity, while others reflect on its pernicious effects.

 

Call for Papers: The Identity Factor in Contemporary Wars and Violent Conflicts

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:03pm
International Center for Ethno-Religious Mediation (ICERMediation)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Conference Overview

The International Center for Ethno-Religious Mediation (ICERMediation) is pleased to announce the 10th Annual International Conference on Ethnic and Religious Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding. The 10th conference will explore the crucial role of identity in contemporary conflicts, emphasizing the importance of historical context, collective memory, and transformative learning in understanding and addressing these issues.

MLA 2026 (Toronto, Canada) Special Session: "Food Representation in the Hispanic World"

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:03pm
Jose Eduardo Villalobos Graillet, Idaho State University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Food transcends its role as sustenance, serving as a powerful lens through which to examine identity, memory, and power dynamics. From hunger-driven narratives to the celebratory and symbolic depictions of meals in contemporary cinema and television, food occupies a central place in Hispanic cultural productions. It can represent tradition and identity, critique societal norms, or even subvert power structures.

Routledge Handbook of Doctor Who

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:03pm
University of Southern Queensland
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 24, 2025

Contributions of 4000 words are invited for the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Doctor Who. Under contract with Routledge and edited by Catriona Mills, Russell Sandberg and Marcus Harmes, this large-scale Handbook will be a generational work encompassing all aspects of the global phenomenon Doctor Who. The purpose of the work is to further academic research and the interdisciplinary approach that fuses the exploration of the official and the fan made.

 

The below table of contents indicates which chapters still require contributors. Please also review the notes below on what the overall focus of each section will be and tailor your abstract to this focus.

 

Popular Arts Conference (PAC) 18th Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, August 28 – September 1, 2025

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:03pm
Popular Arts Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The Popular Arts Conference (PAC) invites submissions for our 18th Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, August 28 – September 1, 2025.

PAC is an annual academic conference for the studies of comics and the popular arts, including science/speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and other media; comic books; manga; graphic novels; anime; gaming; etc., presented to a mixed audience of scholars and fans. The mission of PAC is to promote scholarship on popular culture and to encourage the engagement between scholars and fans in order to deepen our understanding of the popular arts. PAC presentations are peer reviewed, based on scholarly research.

Bridges and Borders: The Archive

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:03pm
Bridges and Borders Graduate Student Conference, Department of English in collaboration with the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Applied Linguistics
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 17, 2025

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

Boundaries: Preserving and Creating Space (October 9–11, 2025)

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:03pm
Vermillion Writing and Literature Conference at University of South Dakota
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Vermillion Writing and Literature Conference at University of South Dakota

Boundaries: Preserving and Creating Space (October 9–11, 2025)

University of South Dakota (Vermillion, SD)

 

Featured Readers: Laird Hunt and Eleni Sikelianos

 

Call for Papers

How does your creative work and/or scholarship engage with boundaries? Which boundaries mark its edges? How extensive are its stakes? What limits—aesthetic, geographical, social, political, ethical—does your work challenge, secure, or redraw? What spaces do you seek to preserve? What spaces need creating—and for whom? And how porous will their boundaries be?

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