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Carceral Infrastructures and the Modernist Imagination

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:51am
MSA 2025, Boston, Oct. 9-12 [Modernist Studies Association]
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

This proposed panel will address intersections between carceral studies and literary studies, with a focus on modernist literature and art and their contemporary legacies.

CFP Medieval + Monsters in Comics (3/15/2025; online session 10/17-18/2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:51am
Michael A Torregrossa / Medieval Comics Project and the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Medieval + Monsters in Comics

 

Online Sponsored Session Proposed for Medieval + Monsters: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM), Mid-America Medieval Association (MAMA), Illinois Medieval Association (IMA) Joint Conference with The Newberry Library

Hosted at Dominican University & the Newberry Library

17-18 October 2025

 

The Medieval Comics Project and the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association seek proposals of 250 words for a proposed online panel devoted to the theme of the medieval and the monstrous in sequential art, comics, manga, and related media.

 

Topics might include:

2025 EALA Annual Conference, The theme for the conference is “Disease and Death”

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:51am
English and American Literature Association (EALA, Taiwan)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Call for Papers

2025 EALA Annual Conference

Disease and Death

 

Conference Co-organizers:

English and American Literature Association (EALA, Taiwan), National Taipei University of Education and University of Taipei

 

Date: October 18, 2025

Venue: National Taipei University of Education

 

The deadline for abstract submission is extended to February 25, 2025

 

Transnationalism and Australasian Literatures (MLA 2026)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:40am
American Association of Australasian Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

This CFP is for a guaranteed session organized by the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) for the 2026 Modern Language Association convention in Toronto (8-11 January 2026).

CELJ 2024 Virtual Conference: Open Dialogues April 4–5, 2025, from 2-6pm ET (Live)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:40am
Council of Editors of Learned Journals
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The Council of Editors of Learned Journals is pleased to host its inaugural conference to expand the knowledge sharing CELJ provides through its listserv, mentoring workshops, and Modern Language Association convention sessions. The online format offers a space where more of our members, and potential new members, can be included. The conference will be virtual and recorded for CELJ members who are not able to attend. 

Call For Papers 

The conference theme is Open Dialogues, and the organizers encourage submissions of roundtable-based discussions specific to editorial and publishing topics of conversation including, but not limited to: 

MSA Boston 2025: Queer Print Infrastructures in Literary Modernism

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:40am
Sophie Yates, University of British Columbia
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

This panel invites papers addressing the formative roles played by the queer print infrastructures that established, defined, and perpetuated literary modernism. Via the material production systems of independent magazines, small-run presses, special edition printings, and specialist bookstores (including Shakespeare & Co., The Little ReviewThe Egoist, Hogarth Press, Fire!!, etc, etc) queer/non-normative people had a remarkable shaping effect on the material productions and aesthetic coherences/incoherences of commercial and ‘high’ modernism.

Medieval Monsters

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:40am
Medieval Association of the Midwest/Mid-Atlantic Medieval Association/Illinois Medieval Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

October 17 & 18, 2025

Hosted at Dominican University and The Newberry Library

Leveling Up the Classroom 2

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:40am
University of Kentucky Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025

In partnership with UK’s Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies Department, “Leveling Up the Classroom” is continuing with a central focus on the integration of digital technologies and media into classroom settings. The last few years has given education a great insight into its own practices. Between online classrooms during the pandemic and the rapid emergence of more powerful technologies, we educators have seen a growing need to reevaluate our classrooms, as well as work with new tech to enhance these learning environments. 

Extended Deadline: Call for Chapter on Morgan Spurlock's "30 Days" Reality Series on the FX Channel

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 10:48am
David Pierson, University of Southern Maine & Brian Faucette, Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute USA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

This is a call for chapter proposals on the late Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days reality TV series (2005-08) on the FX Channel for the FX Reader, an anthology of FX's best original TV series, which is under a two-volume book contract with Syracuse University Press.  In each 30 Days episode, Spurlock, or some other person or group of people, would spend 30 days immersing themselves in a particular lifestyle or environment with which they are not familiar, which include such topics as working for minimum wage, being in prison, a Christian living as a Muslim, and others.

Fermentation

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 9:35am
Saint Louis University, Madrid
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

 

Deadline Extended to 2/28

Fermentation

Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus

April 24th-25th with optional visit to winery or brewery on Saturday the 26th

 

The 1516 German Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot) limited the ingredients of beer to barley, hops, and water. Yet, this restriction overlooks the invisible and essential agent behind fermentation: yeast. Only centuries later was yeast recognized as the microorganism that drives fermentation. Prior to its discovery, fermentation was often attributed to divine or spontaneous forces, with no understanding of the microbiological agents at play.

Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 1:30am
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

“Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond”

International Conference

Sibiu, Romania | 1-3.07. 2025

                                    

Lucian Blaga University is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the upcoming international conference, “Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond,” to be held between July 1-3 in Sibiu, Romania. The conference aims to explore tragedy as it is reflected in literature, theater, and other cultural forms from antiquity to the present day, with a focus on European (semi)peripheries and non-European cultural spaces. 

Cultural Intertexts vol. 15/2025

updated: 
Monday, February 17, 2025 - 11:14pm
Cultural Intertexts
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

We hereby invite proposals of original articles related to the general theme of Cultural Intertexts, an academic journal of Literature and Cultural Studies, ISSN 2393-0624, E-ISSN 2393-1078.

 

The editors will consider for publication papers which tackle strategies of representation and of (inter)textual construction emerging from the dialogic relation between:

-       literature and the historical and cultural context of text production;

-       distribution and consumption;

-       literature and other arts (music, film, visual arts, etc.) or sciences (linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology, history, sociology and political sciences, internet and new technologies, etc.);

Existence and Coexistence in the Age of Crises

updated: 
Monday, February 17, 2025 - 10:03pm
The American Studies Association of Korea (ASAK)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Existence and Coexistence in the Age of Crises

The American Studies Association of Korea (ASAK)

October 17-18, 2025

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Mel Y. Chen, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Jasbir Puar, University of British Columbia, Canada

Ok Yeon Yi, Seoul National University, Korea 

Emerging Scholars: Knowledge Production in Crisis

updated: 
Monday, February 17, 2025 - 5:27pm
Canadian Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Special issue of Canadian Literature — seeking work by new, graduate, and/or early-career scholars

Submission length: 5,000-8,000 words (including works cited and notes)

Guest Editors: Z. N. Dylan Jackson, amanda wan, Emma Gilroy (University of British Columbia)

 

8th World Conference On Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education May 22 - 23 , 2025 | Vienna, Austria

updated: 
Monday, February 17, 2025 - 9:27am
Eurasia Conferences
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Call for Abstracts: 8th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education

Dates: May 22 - 23, 2025

Venue: ARCOTEL Wimberger Wien, Neubaugürte, 34-36, 1070, Vienna, Austria

CPD Accreditation

As a Certified CPD Accredited Provider (Provider Number #785414), this conference offers 18 CPD credit hours, providing attendees with valuable recognition for their professional development. Verification is available at https://thecpdregister.com/view/eurasia-conferences-816429.

Apply for Editorial Positions

updated: 
Monday, February 17, 2025 - 7:42am
Chitrolekha Journal on Art and Design
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The Chitrolekha Journal on Art and Design (indexed by ProQuest Arts Premium Database, EBSCO Art & Architecture Core Source Database, Index Islamicus (Brill), Dimensions) is looking for dynamic editorial board members.

Apply here: https://forms.gle/he8jbmzMj9h1AmVk9

Please complete the following form and indicate your choices. Working for the journal is voluntary, and no remuneration is paid. The information collected here will be kept confidential.

See our Board: https://chitrolekha.com/board/

About the Journal

Apply for Editorial Positions

updated: 
Monday, February 17, 2025 - 7:42am
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The 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 dynamic board members. Apply HERE>>

Please complete the following form and indicate your choices. Working for the journal is voluntary, and no remuneration is paid. The information collected here will be kept confidential.

CFP: Future of Global Indigenous Literature and Arts

updated: 
Monday, February 17, 2025 - 7:41am
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

 

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 Papershttps://rupkatha.com/cfp-indigenous-2025

Decolonizing the Mind A Journey through; February 17th 4:30 PM (CET) at https://vroom.ut.ac.ir/ffll1

updated: 
Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 9:49pm
University of Tehran, Iran
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 17, 2025

The University of Tehran English Language Scientific Student Association (UTELSSA) presents:

Decolonizing the Mind: A Journey through

Scholars and students are invited to engage in a series of thought-provoking dialogues that examine the process of decolonizing the mind. This series aims to critically explore and challenge the pervasive influences of colonialism on knowledge, culture, and society. Through interactive discussions, we will delve into the complexities of colonial and postcolonial studies, the significance of decolonial theories, and engage directly with a remarkable author in the field.

The Magic Kingdom: Exploring Disney’s Impact on Popular Culture

updated: 
Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 4:57pm
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is back with a virtual conference exploring all things Disney, to be held online on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th of July 2025.

Since the Walt Disney was founded his eponymous film studio in 1923, the Disney brand has been a mainstay of popular entertainment. The iconic Micky and Minnie Mouse head the line-up of an impressive array of characters and actors that have become cultural icons. Today Disney is a conglomerate of entertainment businesses, investing in theme parks, sports television, a cruise line, resort destinations, National Geographic Expeditions, clothing, games, and publishing.

Delicious, Nutritious and Fictious: Food in Popular Culture

updated: 
Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 4:57pm
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Sydney, Australia and Zoom 25-26 September 2025

 

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free conference online exploring representations of food in popular cultures in history and today, on 25 and 26 September 2025.

Delicious, Nutritious and Fictitious: Food in Popular Culture is asymposium that aims to interrogate the ways that food, recipes, cooking, eating and nutrition are evident in popular culture. This may be representations of food in television, film, literature, art, music, as text, narrative, discourse or any other scholarly form or genre.

Enhanced Human Bodies in Literature and Cinema

updated: 
Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 2:06am
Aqib Javid / Psau, KSA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

We live in an age of optimization. Norms of beauty and performance are relentlessly getting harder to achieve without modifying the psychophysiology of human beings. Humans are faced with choices and demands regarding increasing and reducing the size, mass, and weight of different body parts and the modification of the way they function. The normal no longer means the common, it means the optimal. From special diets and extreme workouts to silicon injections and from plastic surgery to brain chips, the human body is transforming into a workshop for different arts and technologies. The cosmetic surgery market, for example, is worth more than 57 billion dollars and is expected to continue to grow very fast.

Dragons, Posthumanism, and Animality

updated: 
Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 1:37am
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by May 1, 2025. Chapters will be due by September 15, 2025.

All topics will be considered.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

Dragon Games and Online Culture

updated: 
Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 1:37am
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Dragons in Gaming and Online Culture

I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by May 1, 2025. Chapters will be due by September 15, 2025.

All topics about dragons will be considered.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

Paleontologists in Film, Literature, and Contemporary Media

updated: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025 - 11:45pm
Rachel Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025

This collection seeks essays on paleontologists in film, literature, and contemporary media. The Jurassic Park franchise solidified the presence of paleontology in the pop cultural imagination, but there have been other media and portrayals that have captured the public's imagination. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

-Studies of specific films

-Studies of specific novels

-Studies of fictional and/or real-life paleontologists in modern media

Chapters will be due in September 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Dinosaurs in Film, Literature, and the Arts

updated: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025 - 11:45pm
Rachel Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025

This collection seeks essays on dinosaurs in film, literature, and the arts. The Jurassic Park franchise solidified the presence of dinosaurs in the pop cultural imagination, but there have been other media and dinosaur portrayals that have captured the public's imagination. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

-Studies of specific films

-Studies of specific novels

-Studies of special effects renderings of dinosaurs

-Artwork with dinosaurs

Chapters will be due in September 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

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