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CFP: Special Issue of Postmodern Culture:
“Speculative Imaginaries & Counter-Futures in the Middle East & North Africa”
Co-Editors:
Veterans Studies is a growing field of research that addresses the significant impact of military personnel transitioning from active duty to civilian life with an emphasis on the veteran experience. This session invites papers that explore the many facets of military life exhibited in literature, theater, film, and poetry written about or by military veterans as well as scholarly explorations of the veteran experience. We welcome proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related.
Please consider sending an abstract for the Standing Session on Italian Cinema PAMLA 2025. The extended deadline is June 30th, 2025.
Moviegoers in Italy have long gone to the cinema to make sense of Italian history, particularly in regard to socio-political issues and questions. For the 122nd edition of the PAMLA conference, we would like to ask presenters for the “Italian Cinema” session to think about Italy’s cinema as a mode of collective history-making, but also a collective space where structured forms of forgetting also occur. We thus invite proposals related to this year’s theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” as well as those unrelated.
We have also extended the topic to include Italian American Film and TV series.
The 53rd annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 (LCLC) invites submissions of critical, creative, and hybrid work exploring 20th- and 21st-century literature and culture. We welcome submissions in English, Spanish, French, and, occasionally, other languages. We encourage group proposals that cross institutional, disciplinary, and/or experiential boundaries.
Concept Note
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.
We encourage panel proposals as well as individual submissions.
Papers are generally 15–20 minutes in length. We also encourage works in progress, and informal presentations.
This area considers the intersection of politics, civic life, and popular culture. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
Political actions that involve pop culture, including banning or attacking elements of pop culture
In recent years, girls have been progressively gaining increased visibility in popular culture. 2023 has been considered by different media outlets as “the year of the girl” (Firth 2023), which became especially noticeable on social media. Trends like girl math or girl dinner filled sites such as TikTok or Instagram where girls may find a space to express themselves and connect with other like-minded people. The release of Barbie (2023), Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour (2023-2024) or more recently Charli XCX’s album brat (2024) have all interpellated girls and worked as grounds for connection through enacting girlhood.
Abstract
This session at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA 2025) annual conference explores the relationship between queer and trans cultural productions and the politics of censorship and obscenity.
Description
Call for Papers: SAMLA 97 – Atlanta, GA (Nov 6–8, 2025)
Session ID: 19280
Title: Borderland Cartographies in the Global South: Postcolonial Cinema, Identity, and National Allegories
Session Type: Special
Area: Film Studies / Asian / Asian American Studies
DEADLINE: PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT BY JULY 15, 2025.
Demeter collection on Trans Parenting edited by Charlotte Beyer, Liana Cusmano, and Allie Robbins
We have had a couple of spaces open up in our collection on trans parenting. As such, we are seeking contributors who are keen to engage critically and/or creatively with this topic and invite further chapter proposals.
The 97th annual SAMLA Conference is taking place Thursday, November, 6, through Saturday, November, 8, 2025, at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, GA. For more information, see https://southatlanticmla.org/.
CONGIST’26Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis
Date: 13-15 May 2026
Venue: Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Istanbul, Turkey
https://congist.istanbul.edu.tr/en/content/congist-2026/call-for-papers
PAMLA: A Gathering of Horrors, Terrors, and Monstrosities Panel, 11/20/25-11/23/25, San Francisco
Call for Proposals
Beyond Boundaries: Visions of Ecological Futures
2025 PNCA Symposium
October 2–4, 2025
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) at Willamette University
511 NW Broadway, Portland, Oregon
European Journal of American Culture *Open Call for Papers*
The European Journal of American Culture (EJAC) is an academic, peer-reviewed journal for scholars, academics and students from many disciplines with a common involvement in the interdisciplinary study of America and American culture, drawing on a variety of approaches and encompassing the whole evolution of the country.
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Songs in ShakespeareProposing a special issue of Cahiers Élisabéthains for July 2027 We are seeking abstracts to include in our proposal for a special issue of Cahiers Élisabéthains on the topic of songs in Shakespeare. If the proposal is accepted, the issue will be published in print in July 2027. Proposals on any aspect of songs in Shakespeare will be considered, but we are particularly interested in the dramatic questions, “What can songs do in Shakespeare?” and “What can singing mean to characters in Shakespeare?”. Topics might include analysis of the songs in one play or across various plays; songs and sonnets; meter and music; birdsong; singers’ voice changes; non-English songs; missing songs; performance history.
Please direct any general inquiries to Erica Tortolani at etort.phd@gmail.com.
Dr Conner McAleese invites proposals on representations of motherhood in any of Stephen King’s fiction.
Over the past fifty years, King’s works have been adapted, discussed, academically investigated, and, of course, read to an extent that few authors have ever been before. However, one aspect of King’s writing has yet to be given scholastic attention – the mothers of Stephen King’s fiction.
Call for Papers: Journal of Digital Media & Policy (JDMP)
Special Issue: ‘Metaverse Futures: Policy, Power, and the Digital Media Landscape’
#JDMPJournal
Guest Editors:
Brighton Nyagadza, York St John University, London Campus, United Kingdom
Abu Bashar, Gulf University, Kingdom of Bahrain
Eugine Tafadzwa Maziriri, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Tamer M. Alkadash, Gulf University, Kingdom of Bahrain
View the full call here>>
The Department of Languages and Literature and the College of Liberal Arts at Northeastern State University will be hosting the Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature annual regional meeting on October 24-25, 2025 at Northeastern State University’s campus in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
The general theme of this year’s conference is “Anger in Literature.” Negative emotions are everywhere in literature and popular culture, but are not always directly addressed. Anger can be both righteous and shameful, redemptive and crippling. Part of the theme is to explore the uses of anger (and associated emotions) in terms of a Christian worldview.
Call For Proposals AMERICAN NIGHTMARES II: RETURN TO SALEMTHE BIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAN GOTHIC March 19th – 21st, 2026Salem, Massachusetts Keynote Speaker: Victor LavalleKeynote Speaker: Siân Silyn Roberts Conference co-director: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan UniversityConference co-director: Jennifer Schell, University of Alaska FairbanksWith the kind support of the American Literature Association Please join the Society for the Study of the American Gothic for our second biennial symposium!
Call for Papers: Studies in Comics
Special Issue: ‘Disney Across the Globe’
Special Issue Editors:
Edited by Katja Kontturi (University of Jyväskylä)
Eva Van de Wiele (University of Ghent and Antwerp)
The word apocalypse contains a paradox. In common usage, it means, “a disaster resulting in drastic, irreversible damage to human society or the environment, esp. on a global scale; a cataclysm” (OED); but the word’s roots come from the ancient Greek for “unveiling."
Apocalypse contains both end and beginning, annihilation and exaltation. The apocalyptic promises death and destruction, yes, but also, knowledge and transformation. The apocalypse is above all a threshold. Thus, as an object of inquiry, apocalypse calls for the examination of perspective and perception, as much as of semiotics and the historical.
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A JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE SEXUALITIES
IN ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE AND THE ARTS
Issue 3 – 2025
Call for Papers
This panel invites scholarship that explores how sound—broadly understood as an aesthetic, material, and theoretical force—functions within and shapes literature, music, performance, and visual media to riff on history and modulate experience. We seek contributions that investigate how sound operates both as a method and a site of creative invention—where dominant narratives are unsettled and histories that resist closure come into audible presence. Sonic form becomes a space where the unfinished, the fugitive, and the refused emerge through rhythm, echo, distortion, repetition, and resonance.
Conference Call for Papers
Kingston University, UK, 28th and 29th October 2025
Terminal Futures: JG Ballard In The 21st Century
Kingston School of Art, Kingston University
#Kingston2025
October 28th and 29th 2025
Call For Papers
Call for Papers: Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies
Special Issue: ‘The Tyranny of Truth: The Cinema of Gillo Pontecorvo’
CFP for a guest-edited issue of the Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies
Guest-editor Fabio Pezzetti Tonion
Museo Nazionale del Cinema
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-italian-cinema-media-studies#call-for-papers
Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, September 11th and 12th September, 2025
Indigeneity is a complex and dynamic concept that encapsulates the identities, cultures, and rights of Indigenous peoples worldwide. It (Indigeneity) has historically been defined through rigid legal and anthropological frameworks established by nation-states and colonial powers. These frameworks often rely on lineage, territorial ties, and historical continuity to grant recognition, land rights, and resource access. Such definitions create fixed distinctions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities, reducing indigeneity to static identity markers (Perreault, Bridge, & McCarthy, 2015).