Concept Note

“Decolonial Utopia and the War to Be Human” 

Critical Survey Journal

Guest Editor: Dr. Om Prakash Dwivedi, Bennett University, India 

Digital Studies in Language and Literature (DSLL), a new Open-Access journal co-launched by De Gruyter and Chongqing University, cordially invites submissions for its 2025 Issue 1.

DSLL is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary publication committed to promoting research at the intersection of digital technology, language, and literature. Accepted articles will be published under a fully sponsored Open Access via a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY-4.0) License, ensuring that your research is freely accessible for reading and downloading by all.

“The Uncanny in Language, Literature and Culture”
International Conference

Malta/Online: 22-23 August 2025
Deadline for proposals: 20 March 2025
Conference website: https://uncanny.lcir.co.uk

The uncanny captures the unsettling and the eerie—a feeling that defies boundaries between the familiar and the strange. Rooted in Freud’s exploration, the uncanny reveals how what is known and intimate can suddenly become alien, evoking dread and unease. Everyday objects, spaces, and experiences that once offered comfort transform into symbols of danger, disrupting not only our external environments but also the landscapes of our inner selves.

International Conference on Postcolonial Studies:
"Trajectories and Transitions of (Post)Colonialism"

London/Online: 26-27 July 2025
Deadline for proposals: 30 April 2025
Conference website: https://postcolonialism.lcir.co.uk

The conference will explore the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies and it will focus on the impact colonialism had on political, social, economic and cultural domains. It will examine various forms of colonial domination and control as well as theories and practices of resistance.

“The Politics of Emotion: Affect, Identity and Power” 
International Conference
London/Online: 12-13 July 2025
Deadline for proposals: 15 April 2025
Conference website: https://emotions.lcir.co.uk

"Discourses on Motherhood" International Conference

London/Online: 28-29 June 2025
Deadline for proposals: 20 January 2025
Conference website: https://genderstudies.lcir.co.uk

This conference aims at exploring motherhood and its diverse cultural representations, while interrogating the ways in which such representations impact on individual and collective experiences of motherhood. Thus, we attempt at examining motherhood both as a personal experience and as an institution, as well as observing the nuances involved in the interaction between both.

"Digital Dilemmas: Technology, Identity and Society"
International Conference

London/Online: 14-15 June 2025
Deadline for proposals: 20 March 2025
Conference website: https://digital-dilemmas.lcir.co.uk

The upcoming deadline for the next conference of the International Association for Word and Music Studies has been extended UNTIL JANUARY 15th!  See full CfP here: https://www.wordandmusicstudies.org/_files/ugd/5dbb84_21bf80d26ca74a839d19725255461956.pdf Call for papersFrauds & Fakes in Words and MusicUniversity of Richmond, Virginia, May 29–31, 2025 With the proliferation of fake news, synthetic video, and AI-powered chatbots and compositions,deceptive material is all around us.

Beyond Green: Intersections of Ecology, Culture and Conservation

(Proposed as part of Bloomsbury’s Environment and Society series)

Editors: Dr. Rajkumar Bera and Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash

Introduction

Romantic-era approaches to popular belief, from the philosophical to the sociological, had different ways of framing the “common.” Common beliefs might be framed as ordinary, intuitive, or rooted in common sentiment; or might in contrast suggest vulgar or popular belief, as in the category of “popular superstitions.” This panel will look at Romantic-era constructions of common or popular belief, with topics that might include (but are not limited to): “Common Sense” philosophy and intuitive belief; popular religion; folklore and supernatural beliefs; cultures of popular magic; or other approaches to “traditional” belief.

Deep Time in Irish Literature, Culture, Media, and the Arts

In considering the ecocritical urgency of Irish texts, past and present—including characters such as the geographer-protagonist of Caoilinn Hughes’s 2024 novel The Alternatives—we invite papers that consider deep time and its uses in Irish literature, culture, media, and the arts. Topics across genres and time periods may include the human and nonhuman, periodization and cosmic/ancestral time, Irish legend and folklore in deep time, traditions of prehistory, seeds, agriculture, stones, gems, the bog and bog bodies, fossils, climate change, and the anthropocene.

Working Title - Planet Flanagan: Essays on the Netflix Series of Mike Flanagan

Mike Flanagan has steadily made a significant name for himself in horror, garnering praise for his originality in films such as Oculus (2013) and Hush (2016), and further critical acclaim for works like Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Gerald’s Game (2017) and especially his adaptation of Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep (2019).

The Humanities Center at Texas Tech Annual Conference 2025:

“Celebrating Indigenous Resilience”

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

April 5, 2025

Keynote Speaker:

David Treuer,

National Book Award Finalist,

Author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee:

Native America from 1890 to the Present

Professor of English, University of Southern California