Seeking chapters about African films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents, including chapters devoted to films from Cape Verde, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda. We welcome the following high-priority chapters on African films:

Seeking chapters about Asian films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents, including chapters devoted to Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Japan, Mainland China, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. We especially welcome the following high-priority chapters on Asian films: 

Ecocritical Theory and Practice, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, is seeking proposals at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment.

Special Session Title: Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish Writers from the Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey (Online Session)

This panel explores Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish writers through various theoretical frameworks, spanning all historical periods. We welcome interdisciplinary perspectives and comparative works that examine authors who have produced literature, memoirs, travelogues, journalistic writings, or any other form of textual production in English.

Papers focusing on lesser-known writers and works are particularly encouraged.

International Multidisciplinary Young Researcher’s Seminar (Hybrid Mode)

on

Planet, Text and Context: Perspectives on Ecology

Organised by

PG Department of English & Research and Development Cell

In collaboration with

IQAC

Surya Sen Mahavidyalaya, Siliguri, India

5th April, 2025

Concept Note

Concept Note-

Space is not defined objectively, but in relation to bodies, as it is a manifestation of their needs, intentions, and desires. It is not a container in which objects exist but is intertwined with the body’s orientation in the world and its movements within the space. Human body, therefore, is at the centre of all spaces, which are more than a geometrical concept in abstraction. Individual bodies apprehend and appropriate space differently and give meaning to embedded systems and institutions through established and evolving associations. Any assumption of personalised space, whether private or public, is embedded with historical, cultural, and social meanings which help curate embodied experiences.

The second Issue of Volume 7 of LLIDS examines how structures of power constitute and shape urban spaces. It proposes to explore their influence in determining social values wherein varied social groups—marked by religion, class, race, gender, etc.—negotiate the power dynamics that constitute life in urban spaces. The modern, bustling city carries within itself a continuous sense of becoming. The urban dwellers, inhabiting segregated parts of the city, shape the lived experience of these spaces through their socio-cultural interactions and relationships.

PAMLA 2025 San Francisco: “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion”

The 122nd annual PAMLA Conference will be held between November 20-23, 2025 at the InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California.

PAMLA welcomes special session proposals for the 2025 PAMLA conference in San Francisco, California on topics of scholarly interest that are not too close to the topics of our general (standing) sessions (see below to find a list of PAMLA’s general/standing sessions).

Dates: July 16-17, 2025

Venue: University of Bergamo, Italy

(Piazza Rosate 2, Bergamo)

Conference online (via Zoom): 24-25 April 2025

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.

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MSA Boston 2025: Modernist Aerial Infrastructure

The Midwest MLA conference will take place this November 14-16 at Marquette University, in Milwaukee, WI.

Literary Influences and Relationships in 19th-Century British Literature

Presentation Format: In-Person Only

We invite papers for an in-person panel, “French: Cultural Issues,” at the 2025 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference themed “The Humanities is Where Hope Lives," which will take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at Marquette University, 14-16 November 2025.