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International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
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Seeking chapters about Middle Eastern and North African films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents. We welcome the following high-priority chapters on Middle Eastern and North African films for the handbook's Part II (National Overviews of Trans Cinema):
Seeking additional chapters for the book Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series. This collection showcases the breadth of languages and regional differences within Indian cinema that explores transgender themes. We already have over a dozen confirmed chapters. Proposals are due May 1, 2025. Chapters may focus on a single film or multiple films.
We warmly invite additional chapters for The Handbook of Trans Cinema, with high priority for chapters exploring transgender films from Africa, Latin America, Asia, Oceania, and Europe. Proposals are due April 17, 2025. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters exploring trans films from 6 continents. After the following list of confirmed chapters, you will find details about how to submit your proposal for additional chapters. The handbook will include only one chapter for each topic, so please do not send proposals for any of the confirmed chapters listed here:
Seeking chapters about Latin American films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents, including chapters devoted to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. We welcome the following high-priority chapters on Latin American films for the handbook's Part II (National Overviews of Trans Cinema):
Seeking chapters about Asian films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents, including chapters devoted to Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Japan, Mainland China, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam. We especially welcome the following high-priority chapters on Asian films for the handbook's Part II (National Overviews of Trans Cinema):
Seeking chapters about European films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents, including chapters devoted to France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and Sweden. We especially welcome the following high-priority chapters on European films for the handbook's Part II (National Overviews of Trans Cinema):
International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHASS/Home.html
*** March Issue***
Scope
Literature and film are filled with characters whose choices shape worlds, inspire audiences, and sometimes make no sense at all. This session takes a playful yet insightful approach to the conference theme of Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion by examining how cultural memory preserves, distorts, or over-glorifies certain fictional figures. Through witty critiques and audience participation, we’ll interrogate why some characters remain revered despite glaring flaws while others are unfairly forgotten or misunderstood. What does our collective memory choose to retain, and what are we rewriting with each new adaptation, retelling, or reinterpretation?
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.
The Superhero Project: 9th Global Meeting
THE MULTIVERSAL SUPERHERO
Friday 5th to Sunday 7th September 2025
The View Hotel, Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
“Anyone can wear the mask. You can wear the mask. If you didn’t know that before, I hope you do now. Cuz I’m Spider-Man. And I’m not the only one. Not by a long shot”. – Miles Morales, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Conference dates: 16-18 October 2025
Conference venue: Faculty of Letters, 31 Horea St., Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Conference website: https://consid.conference.ubbcluj.ro
LITERARY FUTURES: CONFLICTS OF TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE, AND GLOBALIZATION
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: THE SOUTHERN GOTHIC AT PCAS/ ACAS 2025
RABINDRANATH, GANDHI, AND THE ECOLOGY OF CHANGE
Concept Note
This prospective Panel-Session at the Modern Language Association (MLA) 2026 Convention will Focus on Decipherment of Multiple-Births in Literature, with Themes such as Bonding and Resemblance. I Invite Scholarship through Lenses such as Literary-Criticism, Genetics, Psychoanalysis, etc. Please Submit an Abstract of 250-300 Words to padmini.sukumaran@gmail.com.
MMLA 2025 Call for Papers for their Permanent Section: "English III: Literature after 1900" under the theme Optimism Against All Odds in American/English Modernism
Deadline: April 24th, 2025
For consideration: please send a brief abstract (250 words), tentative title, and bio to Sophie Nunberg at snunberg@uwm.edu by April 24th, 2025.
DETAILS:
The 122nd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in San Francisco at the InterContinental Hotel San Francisco, from Thursday, November 20, to Sunday, November 23, 2025.
Cultural History
MMLA 2025 Animal Studies Panel
“Do Animals Hope?”
Although many books have been written on hope for non-human animals, their collective or individual survival, this session invites proposals on hope by non-human animals, or representations of such hope. Many different approaches are welcome—literary critical, ethnographic (human or animal), environmental studies, affect studies, thought experiments. Please submit a 1-2 page abstract to Lucinda Cole (lcol@illinois.edu) by April 14, 2025.
Virtual session
Gothic writers embrace the genre for its inclusive and representational nature. The genre is, in effect, a palimpsest as it prominently features both the past and memory. The creators in the genre continue to create plots that center on women, queer, transgender, and racialized characters and create stories that address societal inequalities. The environment (the Ecogothic) also continues to be a prominent character in the genre.
All photography takes place somewhere, but only some photography makes that place the focal point. From its conception, photographers have used the medium to document places, ranging from specific sites to regional and national landscapes, with the aim to educate, archive, preserve, and critique. Photographs of home and the local allow for reflections on belonging, community, and personal identity, whereas images taken elsewhere, perhaps in foreign lands, suggest an anthropological drive to capture (the essence of) the unfamiliar.
Caleidoscopio invites you to submit papers for its series 2, vol. 1, no. 1: under the topic “In Media-Making: Start-on-and-go-over-Media”
Archives, while carrying out the operation of the gaze, function like a mirror: they point to a spectral exteriority. The archive is of the order of the phantasmagorical and, by definition, they are phantasmatic. This approach points out to what Harun Farocki’s stressed as the definition of a phantom or operational image, images that are built from a non-human perspective, although they call-in human agency.
Why should humans be witnessing and/or scrutinizing images productions? Is that still a need? Are there any ethical or aesthetical motives or meanings to it?
The Academic Association for Doctoral Students & Students of English (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń) is pleased to announce the call for papers for the 11th issue of Currents, on the themes of adaptation and innovation within Anglophone language, culture and literature.
‘Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.’~ H.G. Wells Mind at the End of Its Tether
The Academic Association for Doctoral Students & Students of English (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń) is pleased to announce the call for papers for the online young researchers’ conference to be held on 22 May 2025 and the journal issue (Currents No 11) on the themes of adaptation and innovation within Anglophone language, culture and literature.
‘Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.’
~ H.G. Wells Mind at the End of Its Tether
The PAMLA 2025 Conference (https://www.pamla.org/pamla2025/) will be held at the elegant InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference will begin on Thursday, November 20, and continue through November 23, 2025.
The 2025 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person at the InterContinental. There will be no virtual or hybrid sessions or papers–the entire conference is being held in-person.
PAMLA 2025 Annual Conference
We invite paper proposals for an accpetd panel titled “Queer Temporalities, Memory, and Resistance in Asia,” to be held at the 2025 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Convention in San Francisco (November 20–23, 2025), complementing the broader conference theme of “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion.”
This panel explores how non-normative experiences of embodiment, temporality, spatiality, and memory practices intersect with acts of resistance across diverse Asian contexts. We invite submissions that examine these themes across Asia and its diasporas.
Call for Papers
Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2025 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 26-28, 2024
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 25, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2025
I would like to organize a panel on raving and nightlife studies for the 2025 ASAP conference (in Houston, Texas, from October 22-25). In line with the ASAP conference theme of "Worldmaking/Worldbreaking," I am especially interested in papers that consider the worldmaking and worldbreaking capacities of raving/nightlife, especially in relation to Black, queer, and trans nightlife and studies. We welcome a variety of approaches, from the autotheoretical/autoethnographic to critical perspectives on nighlife studies as a nascent field formation. 250-word abstracts are due 3/27. Please email me at mstekl@stanford.edu with any questions.
Call for papers Heteroglossia 22, 2025
Call for papers Heteroglossia 21 (2025)