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EXTENDED DEADLINE: The Handbook of Trans Cinema

updated: 
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 - 3:35pm
Douglas Vakoch
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Deadline extended for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We warmly invite additional chapters, with high priority for chapters exploring transgender films from Africa, Latin America, Asia, Oceania, and Europe. Proposals due March 6. We already have 40+ confirmed chapters exploring trans films from 6 continents. Following this list of confirmed chapters, you will find details about how to submit your proposal for additional chapters. The handbook will include only one chapter for each topic, so please do not send proposals for any of the confirmed chapters listed here:

MLA 2026-Laboring Mothers, Motherlands, and the Nation: Literary Constructions of Maternal Identity, Work, and Belonging

updated: 
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 - 2:22pm
MLA Convention 2026/ Toronto Canada/ 8 to 11 January 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 10, 2025

The maternal figure has long been central to literary imaginings of the nation-state, shaping narratives of belonging, exile, and inheritance. As both metaphor and material reality, motherhood is entwined with national reproduction, kinship structures, and the regulation of bodies, often reinforcing but sometimes resisting dominant ideologies. At the same time, motherhood is a site of labor—both reproductive and economic—raising questions about care work, migration, and the feminization of labor within and across borders. Maternal grief, loss, and displacement further complicate the imagined continuity between mother and motherland, exposing fractures in nationalist and colonial narratives.

Bloomsbury's Environment and Society Book Series

updated: 
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 - 2:16pm
Bloomsbury Publishing
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Environment and Society, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. Learn more about the 30 books already in the series on the publisher’s websitehttps://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXES

Call for Chapters: Bengali Periodicals in the Long Nineteenth Century

updated: 
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 - 1:58pm
Madhumita Roy and Soumyarup Bhattacharjee
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Call for Chapters: Edited collection of essays on Bengali periodicals in the long nineteenth century

The editors, Dr Madhumita Roy and Mr Soumyarup Bhattacharjee, are inviting abstracts for proposed chapters in a collection of essays on Bengali periodicals and the construction(s) of the “bhadrasamaj” in the long nineteenth century.

Extended Deadline: Call for Chapter on Morgan Spurlock's "30 Days" Reality Series on the FX Channel

updated: 
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 - 10:55am
David Pierson, University of Southern Maine & Brian Faucette, Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute USA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

This is a call for chapter proposals on the late Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days reality TV series (2005-08) on the FX Channel for the FX Reader, an anthology of FX's best original TV series, which is under a two-volume book contract with Syracuse University Press.  In each 30 Days episode, Spurlock, or some other person or group of people, would spend 30 days immersing themselves in a particular lifestyle or environment with which they are not familiar, which include such topics as working for minimum wage, being in prison, a Christian living as a Muslim, and others.

Apply for Editorial Positions

updated: 
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 - 8:10am
Chitrolekha Journal on Art and Design
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The Chitrolekha Journal on Art and Design (indexed by ProQuest Arts Premium Database, EBSCO Art & Architecture Core Source Database, Index Islamicus (Brill), Dimensions) is looking for dynamic editorial board members.

Apply here: https://forms.gle/he8jbmzMj9h1AmVk9

Please complete the following form and indicate your choices. Working for the journal is voluntary, and no remuneration is paid. The information collected here will be kept confidential.

See our Board: https://chitrolekha.com/board/

About the Journal

Apply for Editorial Positions

updated: 
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 - 8:10am
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, Journal Impact Factor (JIF)™ 2023: 0.2, 5 Year JIF: 0.2, Category Quartile: Q2) is now inviting dynamic board members. Apply HERE>>

Please complete the following form and indicate your choices. Working for the journal is voluntary, and no remuneration is paid. The information collected here will be kept confidential.

CFP: Future of Global Indigenous Literature and Arts

updated: 
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 - 8:10am
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

 

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, Journal Impact Factor (JIF)™ 2023: 0.2, 5 Year JIF: 0.2, Category Quartile: Q2, is now inviting papers on Future of Global Indigenous Literature and Arts. 

Call for Papershttps://rupkatha.com/cfp-indigenous-2025

John Fante: Thirty Years After

updated: 
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 - 5:40am
Elisa Bordin and Enrico Mariani
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

December 12, 2025

Aula Baratto, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice - Dorsoduro, 3246, Venice

 

 

Enhanced Human Bodies in Literature and Cinema

updated: 
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 - 3:44am
Aqib Javid / Psau, KSA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

We live in an age of optimization. Norms of beauty and performance are relentlessly getting harder to achieve without modifying the psychophysiology of human beings. Humans are faced with choices and demands regarding increasing and reducing the size, mass, and weight of different body parts and the modification of the way they function. The normal no longer means the common, it means the optimal. From special diets and extreme workouts to silicon injections and from plastic surgery to brain chips, the human body is transforming into a workshop for different arts and technologies. The cosmetic surgery market, for example, is worth more than 57 billion dollars and is expected to continue to grow very fast.

International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 10:32pm
University of Cambridge
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

                                                                                                                                                                             https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHSS/Home.html

*** February issue***

                                                                    Submission System

Scope

Mapping Body Space Continuum in Urbanscapes

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 10:28pm
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

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.

General Call for Papers

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 10:28pm
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished, interdisciplinary, research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.

The Problem of Social Justice: Global Perspectives and Personal Narratives

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 10:27pm
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Social justice is the virtue which guides us in creating those organized human interactions we call institutions. In turn, social institutions, when justly organized, provide us with access to what is good for the person, both individually and in our associations with others. Social justice also imposes on each of us a personal responsibility to work with others to design and continually perfect our institutions as tools for personal and social development.

–             The Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ), Washington, D.C., USA

FRAME 38.2 “Paper Pills: A Medical Humanities Issue”

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 5:25pm
FRAME, Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 21, 2025

‘Body horror,’ a subgenre devoted to corporeal transgressions, is undergoing a rebirth with films like Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (2024)—a cautionary tale challenging the beauty industry and the gendered double standards of ageing. This emerging biopolitical discourse concerned with body dysmorphia, loss of control, abjection, susceptibility to illness and mutation is not limited to film. From classics like Frankenstein to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the Grand Guignol ghastly extends its arms to the literary sphere with emerging works like Mona Awad’s Rouge or Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation.

Translation, Speculative Justice and Sustainability in the Global South

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 5:10pm
IATIS; Sultan Qaboos University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025

 

 

The IATIS - International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies invites papers on  “Sustainable Translation in the Age of Knowledge Extraction, Generation, and (Re)Creation” for its 8th International Conference to be held at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman on December 10-13, 2025.

We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “Translation, Speculative Justice and Sustainability in the Global South.”

Memory and Materiality in Contemporary Art

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 3:12pm
SECAC
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Conference Dates: October 22-25, 2025
Venue: Hilton Cincinnati 

This panel examines how contemporary artistic practices—including monumental, visual, and performing arts—engage with memory-making processes. By focusing on the interconnection between material experiences and memory, the panel explores how artists embody and reimagine memory while challenging traditional approaches. For instance, activist artists push the boundaries of memory work by challenging conventional notions of archives and historical narratives, positioning artists as critical contributors to understanding how societies remember and forget.

Migration Mythologies

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:14pm
MELUS-Society for the Study of Multiethnic Literatures of the United States
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

MELUS Call for Papers

Modern Language Association 2026

January 8-11, 2026

Toronto, ON (Canada)

Description:

Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes: Literary and Cultural Responses to Racial and Migratory Politics

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:14pm
University of Kent
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

** UPCOMING DEADLINE: 28 FEBRUARY 2025 **

If you'd like to submit an abstract but cannot make the deadline, please get in touch at r.gregory-fox@kent.ac.uk to discuss an extension.


 

Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes

Literary and Cultural Responses to Racial and Migratory Politics

University of Kent

23 – 24 June 2025

 

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF DELEUZE(NESS)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:14pm
Lithuanian Culture Research Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF DELEUZE(NESS)

 

International symposium

18-19 September 2025

National Gallery of Art, Konstitucijos pr. 22, Vilnius

        

Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:05pm
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Sibiu, Romania | 1-3.07. 2025                                    

Lucian Blaga University is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the upcoming international conference, “Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond,” to be held between July 1-3 in Sibiu, Romania. The conference aims to explore tragedy as it is reflected in literature, theater, and other cultural forms from antiquity to the present day, with a focus on European (semi)peripheries and non-European cultural spaces. 

Special Issue on Contingency, Precarity, and Jeopardy: Labor in the Space Between

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:05pm
The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

CFP Special Issue, Volume 22 (2026) : Contingency, Precarity, and Jeopardy: Labor in the Space Between

Abstract Submission Due Date: April 1, 2025.
Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2025.
Accepted Essays Due Date: January 1, 2026.

MLA 2026 CFP: Masters of Whose House?: Haunted Spaces and Immigrant Narratives in Contemporary Literature and Film

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:05pm
MLA 2026 - Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 16, 2025

For MLA 2026 - Toronto, we invite papers that examine how contemporary literature and film reimagine haunted space narratives through the lens of immigrant experiences and displaced families. Please e-mail a 250-word abstract, title, and short bio by March 16th, 2025 to Ibrahim and Laura.

Panel organizers:Ibrahim Williams, The University of Mississippi (iawillia@go.olemiss.edu )Laura Evers, Washington University in St Louis (e.laura@wustl.edu )

Epitaphs Magazine Issue 2

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:05pm
Epitaphs
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 17, 2025

Submission call:  

https://epitaphs-magazine.weebly.com/

For the second issue of Epitaphs, we invite writers, artists and academics to submit their short form Gothic or Horror work on the following theme: 

Beaten Hearts. 

The theme can be understood as literally or as figuratively as needed. We encourage contributors to think about the many meanings of hearts within a Gothic/Horror context. Works can relate to:  

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