The history of "rights" as a concept is mired in complications. Regarded as the moral or legal recognition of interests or entitlements of individuals and communities, rights have been present in history in a variety of ways - both justiciable and not. This history of rights, and the securing of rights, is long and arduous, and has taken various forms along the way - with sudden victories and abrupt revocations all the same - resulting in the present that we find ourselves in now.

Postcolonial Interventions (ISSN 2455-6564) Call for Papers Vol. X, Issue 2 (June 2025)   

Postcolonial Interventions invites scholarly articles for an OPEN ISSUE to be published in June 2025. As this call is being circulated, older territorial imperial aggression is threatening to bare its fangs across the world, right-wing forces of xenophobia, discrimination and intolerance continue to gather momentum across the world, inequality and ecological crisis continue to escalate and new forms of precarity are being constantly negotiated. The next issue of Postcolonial Interventions seeks to explore such issues and more based on postcolonial experiences across the world.

Submission Guidelines:

Editor-in-Chief: Martin Ovens

This international, peer-reviewed journal seeks to encourage and promote research in non-western and cross-cultural philosophy. This may include scholarship typically identified, defined or characterised as comparative philosophy, intercultural philosophy or global philosophy. In addition, the journal offers opportunities to publish research that explores or analyses relations between philosophy, culture and dialogue. In this way Culture and Dialogue provides a forum for scholars in many subfields of philosophical studies.

The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale (I19) seeks to publish the best scholarship on the century that was, in many ways, the time period in which the modern genres of science fiction and fantasy began, and in which the academic study of fairy tale and folklore has its roots. 

CALL FOR PAPERS
Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society
University of Freiburg, Germany, 27-30 July 2026

See this link for the proposal submission guidelines; submission deadline 5/10/2025:

https://cdn.ymaws.com/newchaucersociety.org/resource/resmgr/files/2026_congress/ncs_2026_cfp.pdf

We Live Again! Disney's Gargoyles as an Evolving Transmedia Text

Co-sponsored by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area and Disney Studies Area

Call for Papers for 2025 Virtual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)

Thursday, 9 October, to Saturday, 11 October, 2025

Submissions are open until Tuesday, 15 July by 5 PM EDT

Call for Papers

 Special Issue of Early Popular Visual Culture: Teaching Silent Cinema Today

 Guest edited by Carolyn Condon Jacobs and Aurore Spiers

Silent films are critical teaching tools. In film and media studies classrooms, these films give students a crucial understanding of cinema’s emergence and development. Students  

Submission deadline: August 5, 2025

We are pleased to announce an open call for bids to host the 2026 Post45 Graduate Symposium. The Post45 Graduate Symposium is a two-day event, typically held in Spring, which brings together graduate students and faculty members working on post-1945 arts, literature, media, and culture. Around fifteen graduate students each submit a work-in-progress and convene in a workshop-style setting along with faculty respondents to discuss each participant's work. 

ESO at SAMLA 97: Non-Traditional Souths

【Call for Papers】

The Sixth International Conference on the Film Histories of Taiwan and Asia Cinema, 2025

Wars in films and films during war time

Date: August 23-24, 2025

Venue: College of Communication, National Chengchi University

Dialectics of Transformation

UC Irvine Graduate Student Conference
Oct. 9th and 10th, 2025
Keynote speaker: Prof. Andreja Novakovic (UC Berkeley)

Organizers: Rhema Hokama (Univerisity of Washington) and Jonathan Koch (Pepperdine University)

This is a call for submissions for a guaranteed session in English Literature sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America for the 2026 RSA conference in San Francisco (February 19–21, 2026).

This panel invites papers that explore the themes of toleration and cosmopolitanism in early modern English literature and its transnational connections. Tolerationist and cosmopolitan ideals, while often aspirational, also reveal tensions between universal humanism and local or national allegiances.

Organizer: Rhema Hokama (University of Washington) and Yangyou Fang (Princeton)

This is a call for submissions for a guaranteed session in English Literature sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America for the 2026 RSA conference in San Francisco (February 19–21, 2026).

In 1892, the satirical magazine Moonshine published “The Commission on Ghosts,” a mock-article recounting the “first sitting” of the Society for General Psychology’s Royal Commission on spirits. Those present are “The Chairman, the Editor of Light, Mrs. Annie Besant, Miss Florence Marryat, Mr. W. Eglinton, Mr. Dawson Rogers, Mr. C. N. Williamson, and Mr. W. T. Stead” (315). Each member was a public supporter/purveyor of spiritualist belief at the fin de siècle.