African American Gothic and Horror have begun to receive more focused scholarly attention in the last decade or so, and interest has only increased with the release of films such as Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017) and Ryan Coogler’s recent box-office hit Sinners (2025). Meanwhile, Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean Gothic forms have yet to receive much critical attention or attain cross-cultural success, a gap that is arguably due to prolonged histories of erasure and particular manifestations of anti-Blackness in these regions. This session aims to begin teasing out a framework of analysis for the sub-field of Afro-Latin American Gothic.

Synchronicity and Intuition: Exploring Meaningful Coincidences and Inner Knowing
an online transdisciplinary conference

Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/06/07/synchronicity-and-intuition/

July 23-24, 2025

Online, Via Zoom

Proposal deadline: July 1, 2025

Fees:
£100 (for both presenters and attendees)
Prices exclude booking fees

Calling all children's literature scholars! The Children's Literature panel at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association conference is accepting papers until June 30th or when the panel is filled. PAMLA will meet November 20th-23rd in San Francisco. To submit a paper visit the online PAMLA portal and create an account: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/

The 2025 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 9th – Saturday, October 11th. We are looking forward to another engaging and rewarding conference for new and seasoned members alike. We are seeking proposals for panels and presentations for this year’s conference, including proposals for the Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Area.

Encontra-se aberta a chamada de trabalhos para o I Cine Bárbaras – Congresso Internacional de Cinema e Artes Audiovisuais , que decorrerá nos dias 23 e 24 de outubro de 2025 , na Universidade Lusófona – Centro Universitário do Porto , reunindo investigadores e profissionais que trabalham nas áreas do cinema e dos estudos audiovisuais.

Call for chapter proposals for an edited volume

titled

Ecospirituality in Asia:

Narratives of Care, Conservation, and Sustainability

(Call for Paper & Podcast ) - Peter Lang

Victorian literature is being fundamentally reimagined. What was once read through the lens of industrial realism, imperial narration, and bourgeois decorum is now being reassessed through new critical modes such as Animal Studies, Environmental Humanities, Food history, Ecocriticism, and Postcolonial re-readings. The aim of Rewriting the Victorian Imagination: Fables, Flesh, and Fluidity in Nineteenth-Century Literature is to consolidate and advance these reconfigurations by drawing together new research that unsettles the stable categories through which the “Victorian” has traditionally been understood.

Hosted in-person and online at Slippery Rock University October 23-24 (online) and 25 (at Slippery Rock University’s main campus)

Presenters must be instructional faculty or students at a PASSHE institution - proposals from outside the PASSHE system cannot be accepted

International Conference | Frontiers and Un/Belongings in US American Culture

Universidad de Valladolid, Spain | November 24–26, 2025

 Call for Journal Articles Now Open  Sensing Euphoric and Dysphoric Atmospheres (Volume 4) Following our symposium, we invite authors to submit papers for publication consideration. 

Our fifth annual online event addressed the theme of ‘sensing euphoric and dysphoric atmospheres’ in festive, celebratory, and ritual cultures. Taking an embodied perspective, we seek journal articles that focus on the role of corporeal perception in making sense of lived experience.

Journal Articles(Volume 5)Call for PapersMaking, Remaking, and Limitations  Following our symposium, we invite authors to submit papers for publication consideration. 

During our sixth annual online event, we discussed 'making, remaking, and limitations' in festive, celebratory, and ritual cultures. Our questions focused on: How and why do people continue to make and remake culture? In what ways do they experience limitations when making and remaking culture, if any? What is the significance of the making and remaking of culture and whom is it for?

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Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People An online conference hosted by the University of Münster
11-12 February 2026

In January 2025, just four days into the new Trump administration, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced that they had ended the so-called “Book Ban Hoax” by dismissing 11 pending civil rights complaints related to book bans in public schools and eliminating the position of Book Ban Coordinator – a position created by the Biden administration to address intellectual freedom violations in schools and federally-funded institutions.

Research in Contemporary World Literature (RCWL) invites submissions for upcoming issues. As a leading international journal committed to cutting-edge scholarship published by the University of Tehran, RCWL publishes double-blind, peer-reviewed research on modern and contemporary literary production across global contexts, with a primary focus on literature emerging after 1945.

Originally founded in 1994 as Journal of Foreign Languages and reconstituted in its current form, RCWL has evolved into a vital platform for the exploration of literary texts, movements, and theories that traverse cultural, linguistic, and disciplinary boundaries.

Call for Papers: “Confinement and Freedom”

2025 Arkansas Philological Association Conference

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Nov. 14-15, 2025