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Call for Panel Participants
College Art Association Annual Conference
18-21 February 2026 | Chicago, IL USA
https://www.collegeart.org/programs/conference/proposals
“Dissent Nearby: Diasporic & LGBTQ+ Resistance”
Cinema and Posthuman Bodies
Edited by Asijit Datta
Session Format: Seminar
This session invites scholars to bring Chaucer and the Lancastrian poets in
conversation with the latest criticism and theoretical underpinnings in
relation to queer and trans studies of the last few years. Particularly, using
time as a teleological field to measure queer and trans experience,
embodiment, and memoir. Chaucerian and medieval studies have been33
responsible for groundbreaking work over the years on pre-modern
conceptions of gender and sexuality. However, those fields are also
responsible for the perpetuation of cisgender/cissexual centred optics that
have continued to influence the reception of texts like The Canterbury
Conference online (via Zoom): 24-25 April 2025
All details: 7th "Memory, Affects and Emotions" Conference
CFP:
Affects, emotions and perceptions have always been at the center of philosophical discussion. Yet the so-called “Affective turn” in social studies and humanities is a relatively new phenomenon inspired by Deleuze and Guattari´s influential works among others. Affective turn challenges the still dominant representational approach in semiotics, discourse analysis and text analyses of all kinds.
DEADLINE EXTENDED! [send proposals by 5 May 2025]
Vermillion Writing and Literature Conference at University of South Dakota
Boundaries: Preserving and Creating Space (October 9–11, 2025)
University of South Dakota (Vermillion, SD)
Featured Readers: Laird Hunt and Eleni Sikelianos
Call for Papers
We are seeking critical papers from all academic disciplines on the Korean Wave for an edited collection titled Cosmopolitan Korean Wave.
Editor
Dr Mala Shikha Shukla
Assistant Professor
Department of Spanish Studies, Doon University, Uttarakhand, India.
Email: editor@cgsjournal.com
The Theme
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Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, Journal Impact Factor (JIF)™ 2023: 0.2, 5 Year JIF: 0.2, Category Quartile: Q2, is now inviting papers on Future of Global Indigenous Literature and Arts.
Call for Papers: https://rupkatha.com/cfp-indigenous-2025
Call for Papers
Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2025 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 26-28, 2025
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 25, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2025
This panel examines the role of institutions in late-medieval literature and the contexts in which it is encountered and studied.
Macquarie University (Sydney, AU) and online, 16-18 July 2025
Life and art are entangled. […] Art makes life new. We become something different in an art world. And crucially, our world has always been an art world.
(Alva Noë, The Entanglement, 2023)
Taylor Swift is everywhere, it seems, and teachers at all levels have begun to Taylor-tailor their courses to harness her popularity for student learning. At the K-12 level, the TeachersPayTeachers site boasts TS figurative poetry lessons, TS-themed reading comprehension mystery games, TS rhetorical analysis units, and pages more of TS-specific materials (“Taylor Swift”). At the college level, courses devoted explicitly to Taylor Swift are proliferating, from BYU’s political science offering, “Ms.
This is an updated version of a previously submitted CfP for Planet Flanagan, a collection examining the Netflix series of Mike Flanagan. The call for chapters was very successful and we have some great work in progress, but we are still missing chapters covering two key content areas:
So, this is a specific call for submissions for chapters of about 10,000 words looking at these topic areas across all five of Mike Flanagan's Netflix series. The original call for chapters is replicated just below to give more detail.
The critically acclaimed science fiction series Severance (produced by Ben Stiller and created by Dan Erickson, 2022-) explores the idea of surgically dividing a person’s memories between their work and private lives. It raises many thought-provoking questions, embedded in a rich environment of cultural references and equipped with a distinct visual style, nuanced storytelling, and outstanding performances of its cast. With its second season, it has become the most successful production by Apple TV+ so far and is widely discussed by critics and fans. A large part of the fascination for the series comes from the multitude of possible readings it elicits.
Echoes of the Past in Written Memories: The Latinx Experience, is a creative session where participants will share a written piece that embodies a memory embracing oblivion, aligning with this year's conference theme. The session will be bilingual, and both English and/or Spanish texts are welcome. Submissions welcome include essays, poems and short stories.
CFP – “CARIBBEAN METAMORPHOSIS”
liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 10, no. 2, Fall 2026 Guest edited by Christina León, C.C. McKee, Judith Rodriguez
Submissions due September 15, 2025
The Antiracism Permanent Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) is requesting abstracts from prospective panelists for this year’s in-person conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With this year’s conference theme— “The Humanities is Where Hope Lives”—as a foundation, this section calls for scholarly work that connects antiracism work with hope along with resilience. When researching or performing antiracist work, there is the risk of focusing on the despair brought on by racism without highlighting ways communities have and continue to build and foster resilience.
Words of Suffering: Autobiographical Writing and Pain
Discernment as Process/Method
EXTENDED DEADLINE: 24.04.2025
July 15-17, 2025
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
Soapbox 7.0: call for papers
Between Bodies and Homes
— peer reviewed; open to critical and artistic work; submission deadline: April 30; extended proposals —
International Pynchon Week 2026
June 15-19, 2026
TU Dortmund University, Germany
“Consider coal and steel. There is a place where they meet.” (Gravity’s Rainbow)
The Posthuman Studies panel is interested in papers that investigate the ongoing transformation of a human subject in social, political, and transhistorical contexts. Since the introduction of Cartesian duality, as opposed to the British Empirical monism, the field of literary studies has investigated the role of language and cognition. This panel is looking for papers that deal with literary theory, early modern philosophy, and English literature by analyzing what it means to be human and posthuman.
The way our current globally interconnected and digitally enabled capitalist formation continuously reshapes itself to reinforce categories of class and overarching capitalist structures requires analyses that engage and critique these adaptive forces of capital. Responding to this need, this seminar seeks to examine the relationship of texts to a global capitalist economy by asking how class and capitalism function within and exert force upon texts and their contexts—in film, literature, art, video games, social media, and other extratextual spaces such as fan sites.
Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Special Issue: Feminist Resistance to Fascism, Past and Present
Submission Deadline: May 25, 2025
Estimated Publication Date: February 2026
The Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik, published by Peter Lang and indexed by the Web of Science (Arts and Humanities Index – AHCI) and Book Citation Index (BKCI), is calling for submissions for its upcoming special issue on Addiction and Crisis in German and English Narratives.
This issue will address how addiction—in its various manifestations such as substance abuse, behavioral dependency, and psychological compulsions—is depicted in literature and culture. We particularly seek contributions that situate addiction within broader societal, existential, and ecological crises in German- and English-language narratives.
Possible areas of focus include but are not limited to:
The Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik, published by Peter Lang and indexed by the Web of Science (Arts and Humanities Index – AHCI) and Book Citation Index (BKCI), invites scholarly contributions for a special issue on Disability in German and English Narratives.
This volume seeks to explore the literary, cultural, and discursive representations of disability in German- and English-language literatures. We welcome contributions that examine how disability is portrayed, constructed, and negotiated in fictional and non-fictional texts across time periods—from early modern literature to contemporary works.
Possible areas of focus include but are not limited to:
Seminar “P raises his head”. Acts of Resistance in Samuel Beckett
Convenors:
Davide Crosara (“Sapienza” Università di Roma) davide.crosara@uniroma1.it
Rossana Sebellin (Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”) sebellin@lettere.uniroma2.it
Abstract
Humanistic Approaches to Environmental OrganizingCFP Deadline: April 20, 2025Submission Requirements: Please email a 250-word abstract, brief bio-note, and A/V requirements to powellti@gvsu.edu.
Presentation Format: In-Person Only