EXTENDED DEADLINE: The Handbook of Trans Cinema
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:
MMLA Permanent Section - Short Story **deadline extended**
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:
Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic at ONLINE VIRTUAL Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Summer Salon, June 26-28, 2025
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
Call for Chapters - Archipelago of Extremity: Fragmentation and Renovation in Puerto Rico
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
Deadline Reminder: Conference "Cultural Memory – Memory Culture(s): Europe’s Past, Present and Future"
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?
Call for Papers: Edited Book "The Inclusive Edge: Reimagining India's Development in the 21st Century"
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.
Blue Humanities and Indian Ocean: South Asian Literary and Cultural Representations
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.
New Deadline: May 2 -- Call for Papers -- The Sixteenth Century Society: A Society for Early Modern Studies - Portland, Oregon, October 30 - November 1, 2025
Call for Papers -- The Sixteenth Century Society: A Society for Early Modern Studies
Portland, Oregon, October 30 - November 1, 2025
Second Call for Chapters: Spider-Man's Villains - Specific Villains
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:
Narratives of health resilience: Prescribed confinement, forced displacement, and the stakes of global climate change
Narratives of health resilience: Prescribed confinement, forced displacement, and the stakes of global climate change
Stories and Sacredness: Reimagining Myth and Folklore Across Indian Cultures
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
FINAL DEADLINE EXTENSION: Kenneth Burke, the Humanities, and Agency in the Era of AI
Conference ThemeKenneth Burke, the Humanities, and Agency in the Era of AI
RABINDRANATH, GANDHI, AND THE ECOLOGY OF CHANGE
RABINDRANATH, GANDHI, AND THE ECOLOGY OF CHANGE
Concept Note
“Hope and the Humanities” in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Cultures
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
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:
DEADLINE EXTENDED - Generative AI in the College Classroom (MMLA 2025, Milwaukee, WI)
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/
DEADLINE EXTENDED - Technical and Professional Writing (MMLA 2025, Milwaukee, WI)
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.
Waste, Pollution and Margins: Uncanny in Twenty-first Century Literature from Global South
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
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.
(Deadline Extended) Call for Papers – Feminist Mappings: Art, Literature and Films by Indian Women
Spanning distances between bequeathed social identities and quests towards becoming, Indian women have documented the many shapes that such striving takes. They have traversed distances between equality and freedom; sifted nostalgia and futuristic imaginations; and mediated ideas of collectivization and autonomy. The upcoming issue of Indraprasth – A Journal of Culture and Communication Studies, investigates the ways in which Indian women writers and artists have perceived and shaped the world in literature and art.
"Bridging Creativity and Precision": Creative Writing and Technical Writing as inclusive disciplines
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
CFP: The 43rd Annual West Indian Literature Conference
CFP: The 43rd Annual West Indian Literature Conference
Call for Papers
Where: The University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
When: October 8-11, 2025
Abstracts: 250-300 words, via online submission form
Proposals Due:DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL APRIL 14, 2025
The Time of the “Bruggadung”:
States of EmUrgency
‘but leh murder start an’ bruggalungdung/ yu cahn fine a man to hole up de side’ (Kamau Brathwaite)
Fungal Horror and Popular Culture
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.
CfP – September 2025 Issue "Alma Mater – Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies" (German/English), Frankfurt am Main
English:
Alma Mater – Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, an anonymous double-blind peer-reviewed international journal published by Maurer Press in Germany and indexed by DNB, ZDB, EZB, and ERIH+, is currently welcoming cultural and social contributions from scholars around the world for its upcoming issue in September 2025. The journal publishes articles in German and English. Submissions can be made via the journal platform at https://jics.ejournal.gen.tr/ or by email to habib.tekin@hotmail.com. For further information, please visit: www.almamaterjics.com
CfP: "Serial Minimalism: Contemporary Strategies of Sparseness, Reduction and Condensation"
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).
From Experiences to Storytelling of Postmigration. Reinventing the Narratives of the Self and the World in Pluralistic European Societies
Developed and promoted by the German-speaking academic community, frequently mobilized by Anglophone and Scandinavian scholars, yet less used in Francophone and Italophone research, the concept of postmigration marks a significant shift in migration discourses. By dissolving the binary opposition between migrants and non-migrants, it allows immigration to be regarded as an intrinsic component of European societies. The conference “From Experiences to Storytelling of Postmigration” aligns with this ongoing epistemological and analytical transformation. It aims to explore how postmigration thinking is reshaping the narratives that can be written, spoken, or reconstructed from migration-related experiences.
T. S. Eliot in Dublin: Peer Seminars Available
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
A Duel Between Memories: Israel and Palestine
A Duel Between Memories: (Special Session) at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference 2025
Jewish Israelis and Palestinian Arabs have, through literature, songs, poetry, film, and other media, constructed two very different understandings of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict's history. This session invites papers that address any aspect of the role that literature and/or other media have played in creating, maintaining, and disseminating two distinct narratives. Proposals related to the conference theme of "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion" are preferred but not required.
Potential topics include:
Workshop: The Companies We Keep – Figurations, Narratives, and Practices of Co-Living in Common Spaces in 21st-Century British and Anglophone Literatures”
CFP: “The Companies We Keep – Figurations, Narratives, and Practices of Co-Living in Common Spaces in 21st-Century British and Anglophone Literatures”
Workshop, 31. October – 1. November 2025, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
Confirmed Keynote speaker: Ben Highmore (University of Sussex)