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Deadline extended: March 15, 2025.
28th Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference
University of Mississippi
July 26th-27th, 2025
Call for Submissions
Intersecting Ecologies: Environmental Studies in the U.S. and Global South
PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is back with a virtual conference exploring all things Disney, to be held online on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th of July 2025.
Since the Walt Disney was founded his eponymous film studio in 1923, the Disney brand has been a mainstay of popular entertainment. The iconic Micky and Minnie Mouse head the line-up of an impressive array of characters and actors that have become cultural icons. Today Disney is a conglomerate of entertainment businesses, investing in theme parks, sports television, a cruise line, resort destinations, National Geographic Expeditions, clothing, games, and publishing.
Online 25-26 September 2025
PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free conference online exploring representations of food in popular cultures in history and today, on 25 and 26 September 2025.
Delicious, Nutritious and Fictitious: Food in Popular Culture is asymposium that aims to interrogate the ways that food, recipes, cooking, eating and nutrition are evident in popular culture. This may be representations of food in television, film, literature, art, music, as text, narrative, discourse or any other scholarly form or genre.
Existence and Coexistence in the Age of Crises
The American Studies Association of Korea (ASAK)
October 17-18, 2025
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Mel Y. Chen, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Jasbir Puar, University of British Columbia, Canada
Ok Yeon Yi, Seoul National University, Korea
Call for Papers: Modernist Cosmopolitanism
Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025
Conference Date: MSA 2025 Boston October 9-12
Organized by: Adriana Fischetti, CCNY, 2nd year graduate student
Modernism has long been associated with transnational exchanges, migratory identities, and an engagement with global cultures. The modernist period witnessed an unprecedented interplay between local traditions and global influences, as writers, artists, and intellectuals navigated new cultural landscapes shaped by colonialism, war, exile, and technological advancement.
We invite submissions for the upcoming Linköping Space Studies Institute international conference 26-28November 2025: Campus Norrköping at Linköping University, Sweden.
Democratisation of Space: The decline of the public and rise of the private?
Ampersand: An American Studies Journal
Volume III, No. 2 (Summer 2025)
Disrupting Forms
Since the early days of computational text analysis in the 1940s, the digital humanities has been a space designed for cross and interdisciplinary work. From using digital tools and software to enhance research across the humanities, to using them to create new kinds of research in those same fields, the digital humanities has long been at the forefront of new and exciting research.
Editors are seeking contributions to an edited collection titled, Writing with the Gods. This collection of original essays focuses on literary representations of African-influenced religions and spiritual traditions in African-American and Caribbean Literature, such as Voodoo, Hoodoo, Conjure, Obeah, Vodou, Santeria, Myal, and Candomble.
“Queer Journeys in North American Literature and Culture”
University of Innsbruck (Austria), November 14-15, 2025
The conference, "Undercover Agents: Women, Crime, and Detection in the Global Nineteenth Century" will be held on 28-29 August 2025 at the School of English, University of St Andrews, and is supported by funding from the British Association for Victorian Studies.
estrema: interdisciplinary journal of humanities, an online, double-blind peer-reviewed journal from the Centre for Comparative Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (CEComp-FLUL), is currently accepting article and review submissions for the first issue of its Volume 4 until 12 May 2025. The previous issue featured reflections, in the form of articles and interviews, on the life/death dichotomy, approached from an interdisciplinary, comparative, and innovative perspective. In 2025, we are launching estrema's first call for papers specifically focused on a particular field of study: Speculative Fiction.
Call for Chapters: The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation (Revised Edition, 2027)
Editors: Weixiao Wei, Zhaoming Gao and Chris Shei
We are pleased to announce the call for chapters for the revised edition of The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation, scheduled for publication in 2027. Building on the foundation of the 2017 edition, the revised volume aims to reflect the latest developments, research trends, and innovations in Chinese translation studies. We particularly welcome contributions that explore how advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping the theory and practice of Chinese translation across various domains.
Call for Papers
“War & Culture”
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2025 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 26-28, 2025
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 25, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2025
Call for Papers
“Horror (Literary & Cinematic)”
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2025 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 26-28, 2025
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 25, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2025
ABOUT SRMIST
SRM Institute of Science and Technology's sprawling 380-acre campus along NH45 near Chennai blends cutting-edge infrastructure with lush greenery, fostering innovation and learning. SRMIST is recognized with an A++ NAAC grade and is ranked 12th in NIRF. The Institute stands as a hub of academic and research excellence creating an indelible impact both at the national and international levels.
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MMLA 2025 Religion and Literature Permanent Section CFP
The Religion and Literature permanent section invites proposals for the 2025 Midwest Modern Language Association convention in Milwaukee. Those aspiring to be on the panel should feel empowered to offer proposals that interpret the concept of religion rather loosely by potentially including “the humanities” and the academy as faith driven institutions. Maintaining a broad interpretation of religion to include all intersections of faith, folklore, belief, and literature; expressions of belief may include creeds, mottos, mission statements, charters, manifestos, doctrines, etc.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of English, Igbinedion University Okada, Edo State, Nigeria, invites quality articles for inclusion in Volume 2 of the June/July and November/December editions of IUO Journal of English and Literary Studies. The journal publishes articles and compositions written in English and French in all areas of English Language and Literature, including African and non-African Studies, Canonical, Contemporary, and Comparative Studies, Linguistics Studies, Theatre Arts, Film/Home Video, conference proceedings, editorials, book reviews, interviews, creative works, and sketches. IUO Journal of English and Literary Studies is an online periodical which allows free and unrestricted access to its published material.
Editors-in-chief: Emily Marie Passos Duffy, Amadea Kovič
Call for Papers | Visual Poetics and Gender: Rendering Absence and Error
We invite papers that explore aspects of Young/Adult literature and/or culture, broadly construed. We welcome proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related. Paper proposals that engage the following questions are welcome: How have notions of age and development impacted and/or been encoded in literary and cultural materials, including media? How has the story of "young adult" or "adolescent" literature been written over, rewritten, or written out, and with what occlusions?
Call for Papers -- The Sixteenth Century Society: A Society for Early Modern Studies
Portland, Oregon, October 30 - November 1, 2025
CFP:
Reconfigurations 2025 seeks to explore the innovative and dynamic achievements of contemporary arts and to extend the critical discourses on their significance in our time. The central theme of the Conference is the intermedial, that is, the interconnectedness and interaction of different art forms across aesthetic and cultural boundaries, and the invigorating and rich transformations resulting from these crisscrossings.
The Circus Historical Society will hold its 2025 Convention in Las Vegas Nevada from October 22 to October 25. More information about Convention is available here: https://circushistory.org/next-convention/ (Registration opens soon!)
We invite proposals for presentations at the convention on any subject related to circus history:
This conference aims to bring together Postgraduate students and Research Scholars to critically engage with the theme of “Popular Culture and the Politics of Representation.” Culture has always been the force to determine the course of human history, which has been sempiternally constituted by multitudinous and multidirectional fluxes of cultural exchanges, overlaps, and influences of various degrees. The aforementioned dynamics had not only been operative at collective levels but also at individual ones, ceaselessly permeating and turning us into its impacts and mouldings.
Pinehurst, NC - February 19-21, 2026
All topics related to the long 18th century are welcome. We especially encourage papers related to this year's theme: reading and writing; rural sports; golf, spas, and resorts; shopping; competitions; gambling; drinking; music; theatre, and all other eighteenth-century pastimes. Those speaking on any eighteenth-century topic will be providing pleasure, hence in keeping with the theme.
CFP for Peace, Literature, and Pedagogy Panel
MMLA 2025, November 14–16, Milwaukee, WI
The Midwest Modern Language Association welcomes proposals dealing with any aspect of the theme "The Humanities is Where Hope Lives" for the 2025 conference. Please find a general description of this theme here: https://www.midwest-mla.org/call-for-papers.
SAMLA 97: CFP for “The ‘Unfamiliar and Unnecessary’ in College Writing Instruction”
November, 6–8, 2025
Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center, Atlanta, GA
The South Atlantic Modern Language Association invites proposals dealing with any aspect of the general theme for the 2025 conference: “Knowledge.” Please find a general description of this theme here: https://southatlanticmla.org/conference-theme-and-cfp/.
Call for Papers:
Special Issue on Radical Kinship in the Capitalocene:
Interspecies Ontologies and Biopolitical Resistance
Editors: Elizabeth (Eli) Tavella & Cagatay Emre Dogan
Publisher: TRACE ∴ Journal for Human-Animal Studies
Cinema’s First Epics in Focus:
Silent Epic Film from Literary Adaptation to Contemporary Epic Narratives
Acts of Writing: Cultural Practices, Knowledge Construction, Authorship
Symposium at the GCSC/GGK, Otto-Behaghel-Str. 12, 35394 Giessen, Germany
4th – 6th of June, 2025
When thinking of writing as a practice, one might imagine a lone author with shoulders bent over a desk, frantically looking over messy handwritten notes and typing away on a laptop. What ideas are behind this image, and how do practices of writing actually look like?