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Decolonization and Global Justice [DEADLINE EXTENDED]

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 8:48pm
Decolonial Philosophies Collaboratory
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Decolonial Philosophies Collaboratory
presents the conference

Decolonization & Global Justice
22nd, 23rd, 24th of January, 2026 
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon

Call For Participation

Decolonization and Global Justice will be a three-day, transdisciplinary conference that brings together decolonial, postcolonial, anticolonial, Indigenous and anti-imperial feminist perspectives on contemporary global crises.

Naturing Bodies, Embodying Nature (ICMS 2026)

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 5:04pm
International Congress on Medieval Studies 2026 / Sponsored by Medieval Ecocriticisms
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

This session seeks to explore the intersections of embodiment and environment in the Middle Ages, considering how bodies—organic and inorganic, human and non-human, material and immaterial—constitute, shape, and envelop one another. By “naturing” bodies, we seek to erode neat divisions between humans and the natural world to uncover the earthy entanglements linking humans to the environments they shape and are shaped by. Attuning to John Scotus Eriugena’s claim that nature is the name “for all things, for those that are, and those that are not,” we invite papers that reflect on the fundamentally relational ontology of humans, non-humans, and environments.

Contributions to Wilderness and Performance volume

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:54pm
Michelle Liu Carriger
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

CFP Performing Wilderness Volume

 <DEADLINE EXTENDED>

The wilderness appears to be a place devoid of theatre. As perhaps the most social of artistic forms, theatre and performance seem to sit in opposition to the solitude of wilderness, natural areas supposedly untouched by human activity. That is, wilderness and the performing arts are often thought as part of separate spheres, opposites even, situated firmly on either side of the imaginary divides between “nature” and “culture.” 

 

The Zeitgeist in Toys & Games

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:20pm
International Toy Research Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

The International Toy Research Association (ITRA) invites proposals for the 10th ITRA World Conference to be held in Augsburg Germany 5-7 August, 2026.  The overarching conference theme is The Zeitgeist in Toys & Games.

Proposal Submission Deadline:  31 December, 2025

Throughout recorded history, toys and games have shaped and reflected who we are. They inspire our play and fuel our development, both as individuals and members of society.   As both carriers and changemakers of culture, toys represent and influence the collective spirit of their times – the Zeitgeist. 

First Forum 2025 - SPEED

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:20pm
First Forum – Graduate Student Conference of the University of Southern California, Cinema and Media Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

FIRST FORUM CONFERENCE 2025—CALL FOR PROPOSALS 

DIVISION OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

OCTOBER 17TH AND 18TH 2025

 

This year’s keynote presentation will be given by Dr. Silpa Mukherjee (University of California, San Diego).

 

 

SPEED

 

Quilting and Women’s Storytelling

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:20pm
Hairong Chen(Guest Editor, Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Call for papers: Women’s Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal (A&HCI)

Special Issue: Quilting and Women's Storytelling

Guest Editor: Hairong Chen

 

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS - CINEMA'S FIRST EPICS IN FOCUS

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:20pm
Institute of Comparative Literature Margarida Losa, University of Porto
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

Cinema’s First Epics in Focus: Silent Epic Film from Literary Adaptation to Contemporary Epic Narratives

(Edited Volume)

Rethinking the Brut: ICMS 2026 (5/14-16)

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:18pm
Society for International Brut Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

This session seeks papers that examine points of contact between different languages in Layamon’s Brut and in other prose and verse Bruts.  Papers that focus on instances within the text where speakers of different languages interact are welcome, as are papers that take examine Layamon’s and other Brut authors’ methods of translating sections of source texts and/or incorporating other languages into their text.  The session hopes to advance critical understanding of relationships between language and cultural or ethnic identity, language as a source of power or prestige, and translation as a way of conveying history to different audiences.  What do perceptions of language tell us about the writers and readers of historical texts

Language, Culture, and Dynasty in the Brut: ICMS 2026 (5/14-16)

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:17pm
Society for International Brut Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

This session seeks papers that examine points of contact between different languages in Layamon’s Brut and in other prose and verse Bruts.  Papers that focus on instances within the text where speakers of different languages interact are welcome, as are papers that take examine Layamon’s and other Brut authors’ methods of translating sections of source texts and/or incorporating other languages into their text.  The session hopes to advance critical understanding of relationships between language and cultural or ethnic identity, language as a source of power or prestige, and translation as a way of conveying history to different audiences.  What do perceptions of language tell us about the writers and readers of historical texts

“coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickledgherkins…”: Eating Indoors and Outdoors in Children’s Literature

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:16pm
Alessandro Cabiati, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice 

27-28 November 2025

International Conference 

“coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickledgherkins…”: Eating Indoors and Outdoors in Children’s Literature

Keynote Speakers: Prof. Vanessa Joosen (University of Antwerp), Prof. Diane Purkiss (University of Oxford)

 

Digital Intimacies 11: The Love of Machines

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:16pm
University of Sydney
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 29, 2025

Digital Intimacies 11: The Love of Machines (Dec 3 to 5, 2025)

 

In the contemporary intimacy landscape, machines have emerged not merely as mediators but as potential objects of desire. From sophisticated dating apps that claim to decode compatibility, to conversational agents scripting our seductions, to synthetic lovers rendering human connection obsolete—machines don’t just shape digital intimacies; they reconfigure the terrain upon which intimacy itself is constructed. 

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Cross-Cultural Studies on Han Kang and the Cross-Cultural Imagination

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:16pm
Hyeryung Hwang/Cross-Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Cross-Cultural Studies on Han Kang and the Cross-Cultural Imagination

  • Deadline for abstract submissions: October 1, 2025
  • Deadline for full manuscript submissions (upon acceptance of abstract): September, 2026
  • Publication Date: December, 2026
  • Languages accepted: English
  • Full name / name of organization: The Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
  • Guest Editor: Dr. Hyeryung Hwang, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
  • Contact email: hhwang@cpp.edu

Overview

Journal of European Popular Culture

updated: 
Sunday, July 6, 2025 - 8:18pm
Journal of European Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

 

Journal of European Popular Culture

Intellect Publishers

Next issue - call for article/s

JEPC 16.2 - 2025  & JEPC 17.1 - early 2026  

This peer-reviewed journal seeks lively submissions for its latest issues on any aspect of European cultural and creative activity.

The 2025 issues are open at present

This peer reviewed journal is interested in contemporary practices, but also in historical, contextual, biographical or theoretical analyses relating to past cultural activities in Europe.

CFP: Guest Reviewers, New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing

updated: 
Sunday, July 6, 2025 - 8:16pm
New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Guest Reviewers

New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creaive Writing (Taylor and Francis / Routledge) seeks guest reviewers with the requisite expertise for its registry of esteemed guest reviewers for works of creative writing, creative writing studies and/or literary studies.

New Writing is one of the world's leading journals in Creative Writing and Creative Writing Studies.. The Peer Review Board - appointed after extensive international review - deals with the range of submitted material (creative and critical). Occasional additional opinions are sought from guest reviewers with the requisite expertise. 

[Extended Deadline CFP]: 122nd Annual PAMLA Conference (San Francisco, CA) – November 20-23, 2025

updated: 
Sunday, July 6, 2025 - 11:27am
Craig Svonkin / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

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.

New Perspectives on Bob Dylan (NeMLA 2026)

updated: 
Friday, July 4, 2025 - 8:28pm
David Polanski (Independent Scholar) & Robert Reginio (Alfred University)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

New Perspectives on Bob Dylan (NeMLA 2026)

Deadline for abstract submission: September 30 2025

Don DeLillo and White Noise at Forty (co-sponsored by the Don DeLillo Society) (PAMLA, panel) — LAST CALL

updated: 
Friday, July 4, 2025 - 2:25pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) (Annual Convention, 122nd, November 20-23, 2025, https://www.pamla.org)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

PAMLA will meet during the fortieth anniversary of Don DeLillo’s celebrated novel, White Noise (1985). His ninth of eighteen, it begins the two periods that make up the work for which he is best known—the first including Libra (1988), Mao II (1991), and Underworld (1997), the second The Body Artist (2001), Cosmopolis(2003), Falling Man (2007), Point Omega (2010), Zero K (2016), and The Silence (2020). Interestingly, this developing body of work is punctuated by Noah Baumbach’s recent film adaptation of White Noise (2022).

Ursula K. Le Guin (PAMLA, roundtable) — LAST CALL!

updated: 
Friday, July 4, 2025 - 2:25pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) (Annual Convention, 122nd, November 20-23, 2025, https://www.pamla.org)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

PAMLA will meet during the fiftieth anniversary of Ursula Le Guin’s “The New Atlantis,” and of her rare achievement: winning the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards simultaneously, for The Dispossessed, which appeared the year before. It would seem an auspicious occasion to explore her retroactively provocative contributions to what has since come to be known as clifi, and her oeuvre more generally.

All disciplines and approaches welcome.

The conference is entirely in-person; no virtual participation is envisioned.

Call for Book Chapter_Green Humanities: Eco-Diaspora, Indigenous Resilience & Literary Cartographies

updated: 
Friday, July 4, 2025 - 11:16am
Shrabanti Kundu
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 25, 2025

Selected Papers will be published in an edited Book with an ISBN from AuthorsPress (International Publication), New Delhi, India

Submission Guidelines:

  • Abstracts should be no more than 300 words and include a clear outline of the proposed paper’s objectives, methodology, and relevance.

 

  • Bio-note: A separate bio-note (maximum 100 words) should include your title (Dr/Prof.), affiliation, contact information, and research interests.

 

Imagining Futures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Humanity, Crisis, and Change

updated: 
Friday, July 4, 2025 - 10:30am
New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

6th International e-Conference

on

Imagining Futures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Humanity, Crisis, and Change

Date: 25th and 26th September, 2025(Thursday & Friday)

To be Organized by

New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

In collaboration with

School of Languages & Literature & Indian Knowledge System (IKS) Cell, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu & Kashmir, India

&

Department of History, Humanities and Society, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

[CfP due 15 July] Providence, Propaganda, and Profit in the Early Modern English World (4–6 September)

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 3:08pm
Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

4–6 September 2025 | University of Tokyo (Hongo Campus)

The University of Tokyo will be hosting an international conference, Providence, Propaganda, and Profit in the Early Modern English World, on 4–6 September 2025. Should you wish to present a paper of 20 minutes at the conference, please submit your proposal by 15 July 2025. Limited travel bursaries are available, particularly for postgraduate students and early career researchers.

【CALL FOR PAPERS】

[Taller] Electric Marronaege Call for Submissions

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 3:08pm
[Taller] Electric Marronage | DSL
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Established in 2018 and revealed in 2020, TALLER ELECTRIC MARRONAGE (EM) began when a group of Black/Latina, queer, writers, and artists decided to plot points across their escape matrix. Inspired by the petit marronage of our ancestors, we steal away on the electric platform, share our journeys and offer what we find along the way. EM now invites submissions pertaining to the key theme: “In the time of war”.

 

The Post-Secular Turn in Victorian Studies

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 3:07pm
Anna Peak, Temple University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The so-called “post-secular turn” in Victorian studies has helped produce a more accurate view of the Victorian period by acknowledging the religiosity of the time rather than privileging doubt and skepticism. However, so far the post-secular turn, understandably, has focused on religious movements and the role of the Bible in the literature of the time. This panel seeks to broaden that focus by examining ways in which a consideration of Victorian religiosity sheds new light on a range of scholarly debates – including but not limited to such topics as disability studies, eugenics, “scientific” racism, or animal rights, among many other possibilities. Interdisciplinary papers are welcome.

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