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W. B. YEATS: DUBLINER
The 2025 Conference of the International Yeats Society
30 October to 1 November | Trinity College Dublin
The book is part of the Scholarly Collection Series and seeks to include quality works which provide new insights into cultural memory studies and further uncover the dimensions of translation and transmission of cultural memory through various media.
EDITORS
Dr. Ananta Geetey Uppal, Professor of English and Business Communication, School of Liberal Arts and Management Studies, P P Savani University, India
Dhairya Barot, Assistant Professor of English, School of Liberal Arts and Management Studies, P P Savani University, India
Quality unpublished works as chapters are invited to the book. The chapters should strictly be according to the coverage scope of the book.
The amplification of right-wing, fascist rhetoric in 2025 is manifesting material effects on the lives of women, trans and queer communities, disabled persons, and Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC). It is a system being visibly re-organised to undo the work of feminists and other activists and exacerbate structural and systemic racism so as to dictate who will serve and whose interests will be served. In their treatise, Camilla Hawthorne and Jovan Scott Lewis (2023, p. 2) write that in spaces of continued “colonialism, fascism, and violent nationalisms”, developing the “theoretical tools necessary to engage with the ongoing production of race and racisms” is a necessary and urgent task.
Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture, a scholarly, peer-reviewed publication edited by graduate students in the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of History of Art & Architecture, invites submissions of short-form content for its upcoming relaunch issue.
The Politics of the Archive: Reimagining Visual Histories of Asian Diasporas
Special Issue of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas
Guest Editors: Stephanie Kang (University of Denver) and Eunice Uhm (San Diego State University)
Call for Abstracts - Due May 1, 2025
Conference online: 5-6 June 2025
CFP:
ABOUT CONFERENCE
How do we remember and represent our migration experiences? Who is involved in these processes? How does history remember these events? What helps migrants and societies to adapt? The significance of these and related questions have made their way into our daily lives, from the refugee crisis to policy decisions, individual psychotherapy to (re)building identities, communities, and memories.
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 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, including chapters devoted to films from Cape Verde, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda. We welcome the following high-priority chapters on African films for the handbook's Part II (National Overviews of Trans Cinema):
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):
Presentation Format: In-Person Only
Taking inspiration from the convention theme, this year’s short story panel asks presenters to consider how the unique properties of the form contribute to its ability to offer hope, particularly the hope of human connection in an inhuman time.
Panelists might explore how formal considerations inform the short story’s relationship with hope:
Call for Papers – DEADLINE EXTENDED!
ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, and MAGIC
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2025 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 26-28, 2025
Virtual Conference
NEW Proposal submission deadline: April 22, 2025
Archipelago of Extremity:
Fragmentation and Renovation in Puerto Rico
Editors
Daniel Nevárez Araújo, PhD, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Nelson Varas-Díaz, PhD, Florida International University
Description
The ways in which Europe remembers its past are central to shaping its future. From the memory of the Holocaust and the Second World War to the legacies of colonialism, dictatorship, and conflict, the continent’s history remains a site of both reconciliation and contestation. This conference invites scholars to explore the role of cultural memory in shaping European identities, values, and policies. How are memories transmitted across generations? How do different national narratives interact, clash, or converge within a shared European framework? What national and transnational memory cultures are created?
Submission Deadline for Abstracts: April 30, 2025
Contact Email: cfp.inclusive@gmail.com
Edited by: Dr. Soumik Sakar, Dr. Ashraf Pulikkamath, VIT-AP University (School of Social Sciences & Humanities) & Dr.
In Blue Ecocriticism, Sydney I. Dobrin provocatively calls for viewing “oceanic deficit” as form of “disciplinary critique” (9) in order to open up the epistemic realm of ecocriticism which primarily deals with the representation of ecological substance in literary and cultural works.
Call for Papers -- The Sixteenth Century Society: A Society for Early Modern Studies
Portland, Oregon, October 30 - November 1, 2025
We invite contributons to an edited volume that delves into the complex and often nuanced villains of the Spider-Man universe. We are specifically looking for chapters about the following villains: Kraven the Hunter, Carnage, Black Cat, Lizard, Sandman, Scorpion, Shocker, and Tombstone. Other submissions may be accepted, but we are not looking for chapters on Mysterio, Doc Ock, Electro, Vulture, Venom, Punisher, Green Goblin, Rhino, Kingpin, Jackal, Sinister Six, Spidey Super Stories, Spider-Man's War on Drugs, or J. Jonah Jameson.
This volume is being published by the University of Mississippi Press. We welcome a diverse range of scholarly analyses, including but not limited to:
Playing the Field VI: Video Games and Labour
University of Bucharest, Romania
19-21 March 2026
(in-person)
Keynote speakers:
Helen W Kennedy (University of Sheffield)
Emil Lundedal Hammar (University of Tromsø)
Maria Mandea
Narratives of health resilience: Prescribed confinement, forced displacement, and the stakes of global climate change
Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism
A Transdisciplinary Conference
July 4-5, 2025
July 4: In person participation at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park (and online)
July 5: Fully online
Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/ecopoetics-2025/
Fees** (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)
Call for Papers: Stories and Sacredness: Reimagining Myth and Folklore Across Indian Cultures
(Proposed as Part of Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions)
Editors:
Dr. Rajkumar Bera, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Midnapore City College, West Bengal
Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash, Fellow of Social Science Research Council, USA
Conference ThemeKenneth Burke, the Humanities, and Agency in the Era of AI
RABINDRANATH, GANDHI, AND THE ECOLOGY OF CHANGE
Concept Note
Children’s Literature and Young Adult Literature Permanent Sections
Session Coordinator: Dr. Amberyl Malkovich
Dept. of English, Concord University
“Hope and the Humanities” in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Cultures
1st NEOLAiA International Conference on Narrating (Hi)Stories in Decentring Europe
Universidad de Jaén, October 1-3, 2025
https://www.narratinghistories-neolaiaconference.com/
@neolaianarratories.bsky.social
Call for Papers:
This panel seeks presentations on uses of generative AI in the college classroom, with a particular focus on approaches that combine theory and practice. Especially welcome are presentations that are built around transferable skills and activities/assignments in different disciplines including writing and literature.
The panel will take place during the MMLA's annual convention from November 14-16 on the campus of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For more informationa about the organization and the conference, see: https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/futureconventionplans/
This panel seeks presentations on Technical and Professional writing, whether in the college classroom or in the world at large. The panel will be interdiscplinary - we invite proposals from those working in business writing, engineering communication, health science writing, and other fields.
Topics can range from ethics to pedagogy to technologies including AI. The final panel will seek to comprise a cohesive but varied set of papers.
Bloomsbury has shown interest in publishing this project.
Editors:
Dr. Shubhanku Kochar shubhankukochar@outlook.com
Dr. Tanupriya tanupriya.2493@gmail.com
Eighty Years of the Moomins: Approaches to Tove Jansson’s Life and Her Work
“It all began with the first Moomin tale, The Moomins and the Great Flood, published in 1945” (https://www.moomin.com/en/moomin80/). To celebrate the 80-year-old Moomins, FinnFest USA is organizing a panel on Tove Jansson as part of the Moomin conference theme during this year’s FinnFest in Duluth, Minnesota, July 31–August 3, 2025.