The UC Davis English Department is hosting its third annual student-led Connections conference under the wide-ranging theme of “Landscapes.” Organized by the English Graduate Student Association (EGSA), the Connections 2025 in-person conference examines the concept of landscape in its broadest sense—not only as a physical terrain but also as a cultural, social, political, and literary construct.

Chapter proposals are invited for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We seek a broadly international group of scholarly contributors. 

Ecocritical Theory and Practice, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books, is seeking proposals at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment.

***Extended Deadline*** 

Nothing on Leila (1997) please!!!

ReFocus: The International Directors Series, published by Edinburgh University Press invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit papers for a title dedicated to the influential works of Dariush Mehrjui (1939-2023), a seminal figure in Iranian cinema. Known for his profound impact on the New Wave of Iranian cinema, Mehrjui’s films blend social commentary, philosophical inquiry, and aesthetic innovation. This title aims to explore the multifaceted dimensions of Mehrjui’s oeuvre, examining his contributions to film art and his role in shaping Iranian and global cinema.

Topics of Interest

 International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies (IJHAS)

ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)

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

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The August Wilson Society

at the

American Literature Association

announces its

CALL FOR PAPERS

for the

36th Annual ALA Conference

May 21–24, 2025 

The Westin Copley Place

10 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02116

Webs of Wonder
37th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 28, 2025

Keynote Speaker:
Kyla Wazana Tompkins
University at Buffalo

ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025

University of Maryland, College Park

Panel: National Cinemas of Agriculture

This proposed panel at ASLE 2025 seeks proposals that explore ideal of national cinema in the global landscape, with specific emphasis on the cinematic representations of agriculture, rural life, and their connections to (post)colonial and Indigenous foodways.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Mutations and Permutations of Care

Graduate Student Conference

Hybrid modality

Hosted By: Graduate students of French and Francophone World Studies

Department of French & Italian, The University of Iowa

Conference Dates: Friday, April 4 through Saturday, April 5, 2025

Location: University of Iowa campus (Iowa City, Iowa) and on Zoom

Abstracts Due: Sunday, December 15, 2024 ** EXTENDED TO SUNDAY, JANUARY 05, 2025 **** 

The Jonathan Bayliss Society invites proposals for a roundtable on American experimental fiction. Beginning at least as early as Moby-Dick, American experimental fiction flourishes in the work of Stein, Burroughs, Pynchon, Gass, and Bayliss, and continues today with such writers as Giannina Braschi, Karen Russell, Colson Whitehead, Lance Olsen, and Mark Danielewski. Such writers disrupt conventions of genre, style, syntax, diction, propriety, narrative form, page layout, and much more. We are interested in papers devoted to particular works or authors as well as more wide-ranging or theoretical approaches to the topic.

Terrifier 3 (in cinemas at the time of sharing this call) has defied all expectations, attracting widespread commercial and critical success, and becoming the number one film in the USA. Since the creation of Art the Clown in the short film The 9th Circle in 2008, the Terrifier franchise has gone from strength to strength, challenging some of the fundamental assumptions underpinning Hollywood filmmaking over this period. Damien Leone’s films, boasting low budgets, a grindhouse aesthetic and an impressive level of envelope-pushing gore (bolstered explicitly by practical effects), have turned Art and Sienna into modern horror icons and continued to unashamedly appeal to genre fans.

Ex-position Feature Topic Call for Papers

Mosaic Outlooks: New Directions in Studies of Scottish Literature, Culture, and Society

Guest Editors: Kang-yen Chiu, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Shu-fang Lai, National Sun Yat-sen University

Publication Date: June 2026 (Issue No. 55)

Submission Deadline: October 31, 2025

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Edgar Allan Poe worked for a double audience (the popular and the critical), in double tones and manners (grim and mocking, metaphysical and pseudo-scientific). Whether he strove for alternance or interdependence between the terms “grotesque” and “arabesque” which he used to categorize his own narratives, critics such as G. R. Thompson and Dennis Eddings have argued that the former – more visible in tales such as “King Pest,” “Some Words with a Mummy,” “Lionizing,” and “Loss of Breath” -  underscored the carnivalesque, the satirical, and the hoaxical.

#IFM2025 Resonances Conference – Extended CFP Deadline: December 16th!

Join us for the 7th Interactive Film and Media Annual Conference from June 10-13, 2025, via Zoom.

This year’s theme, Resonances, invites you to explore how media fosters deep, meaningful connections in our daily lives, shaping how we engage with the world.

• Response: How do we form thoughtful responses to crises in an unstable world?

• Resilience: How can media practices adapt and resist in the face of 21st-century challenges?