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"Spatiality and Temporality" International Conference

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:38pm
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the upcoming "Spatiality and Temporality" International Conference. The conference is addressed to academics, researchers and professionals with a particular interest related to the conference topic. We invite proposals from various disciplines including philosophy, history, sociology, anthropology, culture studies, literature and architecture.

International Conference on Film Studies: "Identity and Otherness in Film"

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:38pm
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Over the course of the 20th century and into the 21st, cinema, television, and related media have become increasingly central both to individual lives and to the lives of peoples, groups, and nations. Cinema has become a major form of cultural expression and films both reflect and influence the attitudes and behaviour of people, representing their tensions and anxieties, hopes and desires and incarnating social and cultural determinants of the era in which they were made. 

"Memory and Trauma" International Conference

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:38pm
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Memory and trauma are two deeply interconnected phenomena that have captivated the attention of scholars and professionals across various disciplines. Understanding the complex interplay between these two elements is essential for comprehending how individuals, communities, and societies cope with and recover from traumatic experiences.

The International Conference on "Memory and Trauma" provides a platform for in-depth exploration of these and other aspects of memory and trauma. Through interdisciplinary dialogue, we aim to advance our understanding of how memory influences and is influenced by traumatic experiences, fostering resilience, healing, and justice for individuals and communities affected by trauma.

International Conference “The Aesthetics of Decay: Creative Modes of Destruction”

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Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:37pm
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Decay and destruction have long been sources of fascination, inspiration and contemplation in artistic and cultural contexts. From the crumbling ruins of ancient civilizations to the ravages of time on natural landscapes, from the haunting beauty of abandoned spaces to the transformative power of decay in artistic expression, this conference aims to explore the creative potential of decay and destruction across diverse disciplines and perspectives.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

Flux and Flow in Irish and Scottish Literatures (late 19th century to present)

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:37pm
ULCO, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Call for Papers: International conference

                 

                    Flux and Flow in Irish and Scottish Literatures (late-19th century to present)

                            9-10 April 2026 Boulogne-sur-Mer, France

                      Keynote Speaker: John Brannigan, University College Dublin 

 

"Narratives of Displacement" International Conference

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:37pm
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 20, 2025

The conference seeks to explore the narratives of displacement and to demonstrate the validity of a cross-disciplinary approach which brings together the historical, cultural, social and literary expertise in the handling of text. The conference will particularly focus on time and space representations and on treatment of the theme of cultural ambivalence and identity conflict. The subject of displacement will be regarded as both a migration, voluntary or forced, and a sense of being socially or culturally “out of place”.

Papers are invited on topics related, but not limited, to:

International Conference on Ecocriticism and Environmental Studies

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:37pm
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 20, 2025

Multiple environmental crises are increasingly inescapable at both transnational and local levels and the role of the humanities in addition to technology and politics is more and more recognized as central for exploring and finding solutions. Representations of nature’s agency have become central to many studies conducted in literature, culture studies, philosophy, history, sociology or political science. This conference aims to explore the relationship between the physical environment and text in its broader meaning as well as analyse the social concerns raised by environmental crises.

International Conference on Myths, Archetypes and Symbols: "Models and Alternatives"

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:37pm
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Humankind has always sought to explain its origins and the mysteries of life to map personal and collective boundaries, and to secure its sense of identity through the power of everyday events and occurrences. Exemplary accounts of imaginary happenings and supernatural creatures from a time beyond history and memory explain the genesis of the universe, the making of a living thing, the formation of an attitude or the inception of an institution. The essence of these traditional narratives reflects a certain system of values and code of self-conduct of a group of individuals bound together by social and cultural ties, and the cardinal virtues and vices of human nature captured in a conventional configuration.

International Conference on Poetry Studies: "Poetry Between Creation and Interpretation"

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:37pm
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Poetry is a constant, being produced by all known civilisations from ancient to modern times. Throughout its extensive history, the individual art of high emotions sublimated into perfect language has approached a vast array of subject matters, including love, war, social issues, the beauty of nature, etc. A particular exercise of the mind and soul, and a unique way of apprehending reality, poetry is a self-sufficient universe that intensifies and enlarges life experience. Pointing to inner knowledge rather than real circumstance, it activates different layers of perception, sweeps away human thoughts, feeds emotions and soothes suffering.

International Conference on Gender Studies: "Que(e)rying Gender"

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:36pm
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 30, 2025

The conference invites academics, researchers and professionals to critically examine the evolving concept of gender in its many forms and contexts. The conference seeks to explore the past and present dimensions of gender identity across the globe, analyse how societal structures are shaped by and shape gender and consider the role of gender in the broad spectrum of human experience.The theme, Que(e)rying Gender, highlights the importance of questioning, expanding and disrupting conventional understandings of gender. It emphasises the intersections between gender, power, identity and culture, encouraging innovative approaches to understanding how gender influences lived experiences and societal norms.

Rewriting the Victorian Imagination: Fables, Flesh, and Fluidity in Nineteenth-Century Literature

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:36pm
Peter Lang
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 23, 2025

(Call for Paper & Podcast ) - Peter Lang

Victorian literature is being fundamentally reimagined. What was once read through the lens of industrial realism, imperial narration, and bourgeois decorum is now being reassessed through new critical modes such as Animal Studies, Environmental Humanities, Food history, Ecocriticism, and Postcolonial re-readings. The aim of Rewriting the Victorian Imagination: Fables, Flesh, and Fluidity in Nineteenth-Century Literature is to consolidate and advance these reconfigurations by drawing together new research that unsettles the stable categories through which the “Victorian” has traditionally been understood.

Between Text and Paratext: The Prefatory Poem in the Early Printed Book (RSA 2026)

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:36pm
Hayley Cotter, University of Massachusetts Amherst
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

This panel seeks papers for the Renaissance Society of America’s annual meeting (February 19–21, 2026, San Franscico, California). It explores an overlooked poetic genre: the prefatory poem of the early printed book for the It considers such appendages as simultaneously occupying the niches of text and paratext: discrete units which both conform to the structural and aesthetic constraints of poetry and adorn a corresponding, substantive text. These poems are at once ubiquitous and neglected, appearing in books of nearly all genres: from the luxury atlas to the sailing manual; from the personal devotional to the folio Bible; from the illustrated epic poem to the clinical legal handbook.

Special Issue of Scopus Indexed Journal Dia-noesis ISSN: 2459-413X (print) ISSN: 2732-7507 (on-line)

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:36pm
Special Guest Editor- Dr. Shikha Sharma Assistant Professor, Department of English , SRM University, Delhi NCR , India
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

This call for papers seeks to explore the rich and complex intersection of philosophical inquiry and narrative accounts of trauma and exile. Moving beyond disciplinary boundaries, it aims to investigate how philosophical concepts – such as subjectivity, time, memory, ethics, and belonging – are challenged, reshaped, and illuminated through the lived experiences and narrative expressions of those who have endured trauma and/or forced displacement.

CFP: 2025 Dress and Body Association Conference, 1-2 Nov (Abstracts due: July 1)

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:36pm
Dress and Body Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

2025 Dress and Body Association Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Dress and Body Association invites submissions for the organization’s sixth annual conference, which will be held on November 1-2, 2025. Consistent with our long-term goals for inclusivity and sustainability, all activities will be 100% online.

Join our Google Group to learn about opportunities and converse with members of the DBA year-round! Email to request membership: dress.body.assoc@gmail.com.

Comfort and Joy: Locating Hope in Dress and the Body

XXVIII Generative Art Conference

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:36pm
XXVIII Generative Art Conference / ARGENIA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

XXVIII Generative Art conference.
topics: Human Culture & AI in GA worthiness. The theme of this conference focuses on how to preserve human complexity, with Generative Art and AI.
Art, poetry, music, architecture, and historical cities need generative ideas to adapt to the deep new demands of our fast-changing times.
Our field of interest is to identify these possibilities and relate the most advanced creative approaches of Generative Art and AI.
We will be happy to present your generative approach. This can be done through generative ideas that could safeguard specific identities of Art, Nature, Environments, and History.

VIRTUAL GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM ON PREGNANCY LOSS

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Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:35pm
he Department of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, The College of fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, The Sasso Corbaro Foundation for the Medical Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

This virtual global symposium invites presentations that explore all aspects of pregnancy loss: abortion—elective, forced, spontaneous, and therapeutic—as well as stillbirth, highlighting its complexity and diversity.Pregnancy loss is a complex and contentious issue that is garnering increasing public and political scrutiny. Access to abortion—whether available or restricted—entails numerous personal, medical, legal, and ethical considerations related to reproductive justice, women’s autonomy, health, human rights, feminism, and motherhood.

World LGBTQIA2S+ Memorialisation and Remembrance in the 21st Century: Call for Chapter Proposals

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:35pm
Thomas Houlton (University of York)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

LGBTQIA2S+ public memorialisation and remembrance have become an increasingly visible and contested part of public debate throughout the 21st century. At the sharp end of the “new culture wars”, memorial and remembrance projects engaging with queer subjects or themes often find themselves at the forefront of the ongoing question of who or what should be commemorated in our public spaces, and how. As such, memorialisation across the world is witnessing a re-configuring of its frameworks, with nation-states and their opposing counter-narratives in a sometimes bitterly-contested dialogue.

Global K-Culture Conference

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:35pm
Chungbuk National University, Korea
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Global K-Culture Conference

August 28 (Thu) ~ August 29 (Fri), 2025 (2 days)

Chungbuk National University, Korea

https://kculture.chungbuk.ac.kr/

 

The Department of Global Korean Culture at Chungbuk National University is pleased to invite submissions for the upcoming Global K-Culture Conference, which brings together Korean language educators and Korean Studies scholars from around the world. This conference aims to foster meaningful dialogue and the exchange of ideas among instructors and researchers working across diverse educational and cultural settings.

(Im)politeness on Stage

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:35pm
University of Naples
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

(Im)politeness on Stage

Monday 15  – Tuesday 16  December, 2025

University of Naples L’Orientale

 

“Henry James and Family” Forum

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:34pm
Henry James Review
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026

In chapter 4 of The Ambassadors, following a scene that few who have read could ever forget,Strether’s dinner with Maria Gostrey, “whose dress was ‘cut down,’ . . . in respect to shoulders and bosom,” “face to face over a small table on which the lighted candles had rose-colored shades,” and after attending a play in London, Strether outlines the nature of his journey to Paris to Miss Gostrey, who asks whether Mamie Pocock is Chad Newsome’s “own niece.” Strether tries to clarify: 

“Oh, you must yourself find a name for the relation. His brother-in-law’s sister. Mrs. Jim’s sister-in-law.”

It seemed to have on Miss Gostrey a certain hardening effect. “And who in the world’s Mrs. Jim?”

Leon Edel Prize

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:34pm
Henry James Review
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 1, 2025

The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar.  The prize carries with it an award of $300, and the prize-winning essay will be published in HJR.

The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic appointment for more than four years. Independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to apply.

Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under submission elsewhere or previously published.  Please send electronic submssions in Microsoft Word format and a current CV to hjamesr@creighton.edu.

Performance and Black Mountain Poetics

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:34pm
The Charles Olson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 20, 2025

The Charles Olson Society will sponsor a session at the upcoming Re-Viewing Black Mountain College Conference, to be held in Asheville, NC, September 25-27, 2025. In keeping with this year’s conference theme of “Performance at Black Mountain College,” we are especially interested in abstracts that address aspects of performativity in relation to Black Mountain poetics, though more general proposals focused on broader topics within the work of Black Mountain poets, projective verse, or the New American Poetry more broadly construed will also be considered.

JFA Submission Window Open Through June 30, 2025

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:34pm
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, published since 1988, is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of the fantastic in Literature, Art, Drama, Film, and Popular Media. It is published three times a year by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.

For Authors – Submissions2025 Article SubmissionWindow will open Monday, March 24, 2025,and will close Monday, June 30, 2025.

Virtual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts 4: Embodied Spirits

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Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:30pm
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Submissions to VICFA 4: Embodied Spirits

Scholarly and creative proposals are welcome and are handled through the same process.

This season, Academic and Creative Proposals will submit via the same portal.

 

Submit your proposal here: https://form.jotform.com/251195173129154

 

The dimensions of conflict in political discourse: deliberation, polarization, identity, media, global balances

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:30pm
"Guglielmo Marconi" University of Rome
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

CALL FOR PROPOSALS – DEADLINE JULY 15TH 2025

THE DIMENSION OF CONFLICT IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE: DELIBERATION, POLARIZATION, IDENTITY, MEDIA, GLOBAL BALANCES

2nd PhD and early-career scholars transdisciplinary seminar

October 9th-10th 2025

“Guglielmo Marconi” University – Via Plinio, 44 – Rome, Italy

Backyard Texts and Junkyard Epistemes

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:29pm
Postcolonial Studies Association of the Global South (PSAGS), India
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

 

Postcolonial Studies Association of the Global South (PSAGS)

Annual Conference 2025

“Backyard Texts and Junkyard Epistemes”

19-20 December 2025

Concept Note

The current conjuncture is marked by the clash of axioms, metaphorically represented by the

backyard/junkyard and the fore-yard. While the junkyard/ backyard relates to the obscure, the

unconscious, the leftover; the fore-yard, the screened and the hyper-projected or hyper-

narrativized stand for the accepted, the normative, the light and show, the conscious, the

progressed and the advanced. The dominant intellectual leitmotif of our time is a fore-yard

Contributions to Wilderness and Performance volume

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:28pm
Michelle Liu Carriger
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 10, 2025

CFP Performing Wilderness Volume

 

The wilderness appears to be a place devoid of theatre. As perhaps the most social of artistic forms, theatre and performance seem to sit in opposition to the solitude of wilderness, natural areas supposedly untouched by human activity. That is, wilderness and the performing arts are often thought as part of separate spheres, opposites even, situated firmly on either side of the imaginary divides between “nature” and “culture.” 

 

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