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:

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

https://swpaca.org/

NEW Proposal submission deadline: April 22, 2025 

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?

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.

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: 

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

RABINDRANATH, GANDHI, AND THE ECOLOGY OF CHANGE

Concept Note

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 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.

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.

Creative writing and technical writing are often seen as distinct disciplines , one rooted in imagination and artistic expression, the other in clarity, functionality, and precision. However, in today’s evolving communication landscape, these boundaries are increasingly blurred. From storytelling and spontaneous overflow of emotion to persuasive technical crafting, the fusion of creativity and technical accuracy is more relevant than ever. This conference seeks to explore how these disciplines can inform, inspire, and shape each other.

Sub-Themes: We invite original research papers and creative presentations on the following sub-themes, though not limited to:

● Narrative Techniques in Technical Writing

As editors of the planned Palgrave Handbook on Fungal Horror in Popular Culture, which has 33 commissioned chapters, Dr Katarina Gregersdotter and Dr Berit Åström, Umeå University, Sweden seek approximately 10 additional original essays. 

We are primarily looking for chapters on fungal horror in non-Anglophone material, but also welcome studies of less mainstream Anglophone texts. 

Higher, faster, more expensive: At the latest since the era of the insurgent streaming wars, excess has become a leitmotif of modern television culture (cf. Maeder 2021, 11–14). As an "oversized audiovisual narrative" (Bandirali/Terrone 2021, 14), series indulge in dramatic opulence, preferably becoming entangled in a dynamic of exposed exaggeration, trying to compete not only with other shows but also with themselves (cf. Sudmann 2017). In this context, excess seems inevitably linked to the discourse of narrative quality, which increasingly demonstrates that "size matters" (Jahn-Sudmann/Kelleter 2012, 209).

Dear Colleagues and Friends,