PULSE – the Journal of Science and Culture

VOL 12 (2025)

CALL FOR PAPERS AND BOOK REVIEWS

Accent: Music and Sound in Australian Cinema

The University of Western Australia (UWA) Conservatorium of Music is pleased to announce a call for papers for a conference on sound and music in Australian cinema. The conference will be held on the 29th-30th November 2025 at UWA. This event will bring together scholars, practitioners, filmmakers, and sound/musicology theorists to interrogate the ways in which Australian cinema’s soundscapes serve as sites for political, historical, and cultural theorisation.

Possible papers may explore, but are not limited to:

2025 marks the 35th year since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Though ADA advances have often been celebrated in mainstream media and the rights they support taken as secured, it has come under attack through rollbacks since 2016, and most recently by removing DEIA initiatives within the Department of Education. At the same time, national and international discourse community efforts through conferences and other open forums have grown more diffuse.  With this in mind, this conference, “New Directions in Disability Studies,” will reflect on where disability studies has come from and what it will be in the future.  

As readers of Milton know, Milton’s writings are often humorous, titillating, outrageous – extra in today’s colloquial parlance. Of course, they are also challenging, but this too can be pleasurable. Studying Milton involves, simply put, serious fun. How might we rethink our affective approaches to Milton’s poetry and prose to spotlight not only their difficulty but also their recreation? What is at stake for Milton and for us in the pleasures derived from, for example, an over-the-top invective or a sarcastic God? What are sustaining and enlivening potentials in critical and creative practices, such as speculation, auto-criticism, and parody? And how might we mobilize these potentials in our writing and teaching to engage new audiences?

Main theme: “Listening to Each Other’s Voices”

In his work AI Ethics, Mark Coeckelbergh describes humans as “meaning-making, conscious, embodied, and living beings whose nature, mind, and knowledge cannot be explained away by comparisons to machines” (36). Machine-assistant writing tools and other technologies have become increasingly prevalent as teaching tools in humanities classrooms, which means it is more imperative than ever we find ways to differentiate human and non-human meaning making and knowledge creation. Our panel is interested in exploring and mapping potential futures for the humanities as technology becomes an increasingly significant presence in how we teach and present our work in the classroom. 

Description: 

I would like to organize a session at the AWP Conference, March 4-7. I would like to present the research I am currently developing for a book called "Writing Erudite Speculative Fiction". I hope to find other presenters who would like to discuss strategies about formulaic, genre-based, or other types of fiction writing strategies, especially aimed at the literary or sophisticated marketplace. This session is tailored for professors of creative writing who want unique approaches to teaching. The rules are: 

Greetings everyone!

We are excited to announce the commencement of abstract submissions for the fourth volume of Sophia Luminous.

Sophia Luminous ( ISSN: 3048-6211) is a national-level, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary online research journal for students, published by Sophia College for Women (Autonomous), Mumbai, India. It is devoted to the discussion of the innovative, novel, and contemporary areas of research by undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and early researchers from an array of disciplines.

This issue is not thematically restricted, and we invite previously unpublished research papers that are written by students ranging from undergraduate to MPhil degree.

Emerson, Memory, and Oblivion

liquid blackness ISSUE 11.1 CFP – “FOR THE RECORD”CFPs

liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 11, no. 1, Spring 2027

Submissions due January 15, 2026

Aims and Scope

Chenkaantal (E-ISSN: 2583-0481) is a pioneer Diamond Open Access Journal for Tamil studies. The journal is dedicated to the academic research of Tamil language, Tamil Literature, Tamil Culture, Tamil Linguistics and other modern trends in Tamil studies.

Call for

Call for - Literary Musings Online - 2584-1459 - July 2025
Academic Journal
Research Academy

The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia (JEASA) was founded and has been maintained by the European Association for Studies of Australia (EASA) since 2009. It is a double blind peer-reviewed, open-access online journal published twice a year, intended to showcase both European and Australian scholarhip in the field of Australian studies.

Call for Papers

dialog, No. 45, Spring 2025

dialog, a Peer-reviewed, Bi-annual International Journal of the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India is open to submissions for its next issue, No. 45, Spring 2025 (ISSN: 0975 - 4881). dialog provides a forum for interdisciplinary research on diverse aspects of culture, society and literature. For its forthcoming issue, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University specifically invites: