5th International Conference on the Philosophy of Language, Literature, and Linguistics (ICPL 2025)

This is a hybrid event and in-person event will be held at Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China from May 8 to 10, 2025.

Romantic-era approaches to popular belief, from the philosophical to the sociological, had different ways of framing the “common.” Common beliefs might be framed as ordinary, intuitive, or rooted in common sentiment; or might in contrast suggest vulgar or popular belief, as in the category of “popular superstitions.” This panel will look at Romantic-era constructions of common or popular belief, with topics that might include (but are not limited to): “Common Sense” philosophy and intuitive belief; popular religion; folklore and supernatural beliefs; cultures of popular magic; or other approaches to “traditional” belief.

Deep Time in Irish Literature, Culture, Media, and the Arts

In considering the ecocritical urgency of Irish texts, past and present—including characters such as the geographer-protagonist of Caoilinn Hughes’s 2024 novel The Alternatives—we invite papers that consider deep time and its uses in Irish literature, culture, media, and the arts. Topics across genres and time periods may include the human and nonhuman, periodization and cosmic/ancestral time, Irish legend and folklore in deep time, traditions of prehistory, seeds, agriculture, stones, gems, the bog and bog bodies, fossils, climate change, and the anthropocene.

Femspec seeks both scholarly and creative submissions for its upcoming Issue 25.1

Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist academic journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.  Femspec publishes both academic scholarship and creative writing.

Creative writing submissions could include short fiction, poetry, or experimental forms.

To submit work for consideration, please review Femspec’s submission guidelines at the following link: SUBMISSION GUIDELINES | Femspec

Dr. K. R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

Call for Papers

National Conference of Research Scholars

Vision of a Viksit Bharat: Challenges, Initiatives, Strategies

24-25 February, 2025

Theme: Society, Citizens, Development

Eligibility: PhD Scholars registered in any University or Research Institution

Call for papers

We invite paper proposals for Panel 36: Margins of edibility: Non-food in South Asian literatures at the upcoming 28th European Conference for South Asian Studies (ECSAS 2025) hosted by University of Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany) from October 1-4, 2025.

Panel description:

The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100 to 200 word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at Comic-Con International, in San Diego, CA, July 24–27, 2025.  We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars.  We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists.  The CAC is presently scheduled to take place in person and does not accept virtual presentations.  The CAC is designed to bring together

Mary Shelley Today: Frankenstein in the Twenty-First Century seeks to reevaluate the influence of Mary Shelley, and particularly her most prominent novel, on literature and imaginative work of the last quarter century (defined as 1999-2024). This project engages with works and authors on whom little has been written to date in the hope of providing exciting new resources for Romanticists and general readers alike.

The Sea and the World

The “Hotels, Inns and Motels” International Conference in Toulouse invites scholars to reflect upon the way places of temporary hospitality have structured space and displacements in English-speaking countries and therefore reveal the stakes and forms of hospitality. From medieval inns to the motel chains dotting the endless US interstate landscapes, these spaces offer a temporary home to their dwellers, and perform commercial, social, political and symbolic functions that so far have not been studied thoroughly.

The aim of the conference is to explore how these places, and the people who designed them, work or live there, can reflect or create conceptions of hospitality that provide insight into a given society or a period.

Laughter and Medicine

We invite proposals for contributions to an edited volume exploring the interfaces between laughter and medicine. Developing from a British Academy/Wellcome Trust-funded conference held at the University of Birmingham in November 2024, this volume will put the medical humanities in dialogue with healthcare provision and the medical sciences so as to bridge the divides between the clinic, the laboratory, cultural history, literature, and the arts in Western cultures from the classical period to the present day. 

The Nagoya Gifu Chapter of JALT (Japan Association for Language Teaching) is seeking papers on EFL (English as a foreign language) topics. We are a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal.

See past issues of our journal here:

https://sites.google.com/view/nagoyajaltpublication2020/the-jalt-nagoya-...

See the submission guidelines page and link for submissions here:

https://sites.google.com/view/nagoyajaltpublication2020/the-jalt-nagoya-...

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Retelling and Representation in the Ramakatha Tradition: Critical Perspectives
[ISBN: 978-81-952119-4-4]

Editor: Dr. Pallavi Mishra, Assistant Professor of English, SDM Govt PG College, Doiwala, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Manuscripts in MS Word (4,000–8,000 words) adhering to MLA 9th edition formatting guidelines should be sent to pallavi.engdhe@gmail.com by 31 December 2024.

Creativitas, an annual online double-blind peer-reviewed journal in English Studies, is extending an invitation to distinguished scholars, researchers, and academics to join our growing editorial community as reviewers. Published on a yearly basis, our journal is committed to advancing critical scholarship in literary studies through rigorous academic discourse and interdisciplinary exploration.

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