Tolkien and War!  is the theme of the 21st annual Tolkien at the University of Vermont conference on April 5th. This is a hybrid event!!

We are excited to have John Garth as our keynote speaker, and we are encouraging all abstracts but will give priority to those on the theme. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

War in Europe

War in Middle-earth

War and Tolkien's poetry 

Heroic battle poetry

War and Tolkien's English

War in the films/Tv shows

Gender/Sexuality and War

Psychology and War

Religion and War

Please submit 200 word abstracts to cvaccaro@uvm.edu by Sunday February 2nd!

The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference committee is delighted to announce this year's Call for Papers! We look forward to receiving submissions for 20 minute papers from graduate students on ‘Rituals and Ceremonies’. 

The conference will be held in person on the 24th and 25th of April, 2025. Submissions are welcome from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. There are no limitations on geographical focus or time period, so long as the topic pertains to the medieval period.

Topics could include, but are certainly not limited to:

Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture is seeking reviews for upcoming issues. The journal welcomes reviews of a wide range of queer media and cultural artefacts. Like other academic journals, Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture certainly publishes reviews of recently released books on queer subject matter. Consistent with the journal's overall focus, however, we also strongly encourage the submission and publication of reviews pertaining to significant films, musical recordings, plays, television series, video games, exhibitions, and related cultural artefacts that are of relevance to queerness in its various forms.

Fifteenth International Conference on Food Studies, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

CALL FOR PAPERS

https://food-studies.com/2025-conference/call-for-papers

Place: University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa + Online

Format: A mix of live, pre-recorded, and in person (at scale that’s allowed) presentations and social interaction spaces.

Dates: 8-10 October 2025

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SPECIAL FOCUS: Fed Up: Learning From the Past, Imagining New Futures

Calcutta Research Group (www.mcrg.ac.in) will conduct an online orientation course on the city of our time, under the specific theme “Making and Unmaking of Cities”. This online certificate course will be held from 15 February to 31 March 2025. It will have twelve lectures (two lectures on Saturdays / weekends) encompassing accounts of making and unmaking of cities in South Asia and the world, issues of urban autonomy and sovereignty, struggles for rights and urban justice, as well as dominant stories that cities tell of themselves. Some of the discussions will be anchored in a political-economy perspective throwing light on forms of labour in global South, which include cities of South Asia.

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, AND MAGIC

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) 

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: NOVEMBER 14, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED to NOVEMBER 14

The Paranoid Realities of David Cronenberg: The Occult Body Techno-politic as Magical Medium 

The Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic invites special panel presentation proposals on the paranoid realities of David Cronenberg to be included in its events at the 46th annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, held this February 19-22 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

Climate Fiction: Ecological Dimensions

Concept Note:

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) will hold its annual conference in downtown Chicago, July 10-12, 2025. The conference will be an in-person event. RSVP remains committed, however, to making our gatherings accessible to as wide a range of members as possible. The two keynote addresses and Annual General Meeting will be transmitted live and freely available without registration. In addition, we are planning a series of online Digital Events on the conference theme in the weeks leading up to the conference (tentatively June 13, 20, and 27, pending interest).

Popular Culture Association

2025 National Conference

April 16-19, 2025

New Orleans, LA

Call for Papers: James Baldwin Review Panel/Roundtable

Baldwin Again and Again

Call for Papers -- Play in the Long Nineteenth Century

17th January 2025

University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

While the long nineteenth century is not immediately associated with playfulness, scholars recognise it as a period that revolutionised play, whether as an end (Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens 1944) or a reimaging (Matthew Kaiser, The World in Play, 2011). Games were ubiquitous throughout the period, hundreds of dedicated recreational spaces (museums, playgrounds, parks) were established, and a new cult of leisure took root that reshaped both public and private life.

The ongoing interdependence between the United Kingdom and the United States dates back further than the "Special Relationship" popularized by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1946. In the early decades of their independence, the United States maintained strong cultural ties with the United Kingdom (cf.

Concept Note

Conference Date: April 4-5, 2025

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AVXufNHQQFN00hrpVBOOsl2jMpv5-_ss/view

We warmly invite established and emerging scholars to participate in the Eaton Conference on Speculative Fiction, which will be held in-person at the University of California, Riverside from April 4-5, 2025. All scholars, especially graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts for a two-day conference on speculative fiction and the archive to share and engage in conversation about their work, foster community and collegiality, and gain conference experience. This event will be free and open to the public.