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Survive and Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine
A forthcoming special issue of Survive and Thrive will feature stories written by survivors of perinatal loss, their loved ones, their healthcare providers and other support workers, and scholars from interdisciplinary fields.
PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the 1950s in popular culture. Held online on Thursday 28th and Friday 29th of March 2025.
The 1950s was the decade where the world began to recover from the tragedy of the Second World War. This conference aims to explore both the popular culture of the 1950s, and how the 1950s have been depicted in the popular culture of other eras.
PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is back with a virtual conference exploring all things Disney, to be held online on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th of September 2025.
Since the Walt Disney was founded his eponymous film studio in 1923, the Disney brand has been a mainstay of popular entertainment. The iconic Micky and Minnie Mouse head the line-up of an impressive array of characters and actors that have become cultural icons. Today Disney is a conglomerate of entertainment businesses, investing in theme parks, sports television, a cruise line, resort destinations, National Geographic Expeditions, clothing, games, and publishing.
Sydney, Australia and Zoom 25-26 September 2025
PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free conference in Sydney and online exploring representations of food in popular cultures in history and today, on 25 and 26 September 2025.
Delicious, Nutritious and Fictitious: Food in Popular Culture is asymposium that aims to interrogate the ways that food, recipes, cooking, eating and nutrition are evident in popular culture. This may be representations of food in television, film, literature, art, music, as text, narrative, discourse or any other scholarly form or genre.
Call for book chapters: Speech strategies and discourse analysis:the powerful and the oppressed (edited volume)
Co-editors: Manuel Macías (URJC) and Carmen Gómez-Galisteo (UNED)
We are currently seeking contributions from the humanities and social sciences for a scientific network that explores ephemerality in both its material forms and theoretical conceptualizations. This interdisciplinary network aims to bring into dialogue various questions about ephemerality, specifically examining how different fleeting forms of expression are implicated in the continual making and unmaking of proximities, both human and non-human, producing “a matter of temporary intensities and pacts amongst people” and other entities (Vélez-Serna, 14).
Call for Chapters: The Dissertation Research Guide for the Doctoral Scholar
See details: https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/8370
February 1, 2025: Proposal Submission Deadline
Boy Not There is a newly established fellowship, advocating for collaboration between scholars and lived-experience advocates regarding sexual violence against men and boys.
We aim to amplify voices that confront the challenges of male sexual violence, reckoning with social stigmas that often become barriers to disclosure. We work with survivors, researchers, educators and professional clinicians to create supportive frameworks for histories to be shared and eventually overcome.
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Psychoanalyzing the Post-Apocalypse:
Psychoanalytic Approaches to 21st Century Fiction and Film
“Under Strong Interest” by McFarland’s Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy series
Editors’ Introduction
CFP for ALA 2025 Panel
In the 2005 article, “A Narrative of the Interesting Origins and (Somewhat) Surprising Developments of African-American Print Culture,” Frances Smith Foster observed that “the definitions and assumptions with which one begins have a significant influence upon the story one finds” (735).
Food and Foodways is an interdisciplinary journal, and we're expanding our coverage of book reviews in the months ahead. If you are interested in writing a review of an interdisciplinary food studies book published in recent years, we invite you to express interest by contacting our new collective of book review editors at FandFbookreviews@gmail.com
Please include the author and title of the book, its publisher and publication date, and your credentials for writing this review. Additionally, if you would like to suggest a book for consideration, we welcome your recommendations.
Cornell EGSO Conference 2025: Sound—Systems
Deadline for Submissions: January 15th
Conference: March 14-15, 2025
Call for Academic and Creative Proposals
Making Visible: Disability Representations in Popular Culture
Department of Englishi n collaboration with IQAC
Gargi College, University of Delhi
21-22 February, 2025
Conference in Hybrid Mode for participants residing outside Delhi
Registration link for Abstracts/ Fees for Successful Applicants/ Participants:
Concept Note
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.
We are pleased to announce that the 41st International Conference on Psychology and the Arts will be held at Amsterdam University College (AUC), Science Park 113, 1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 27-June 30, 2025. With a commitment to excellence, diversity and the global perspective, AUC is a modern, public liberal arts college founded in 2009 as a joint initiative of the University of Amsterdam (auc.nl) and VU Amsterdam (vu.nl).
“Decolonial Utopia and the War to Be Human”
Critical Survey Journal
Guest Editor: Dr. Om Prakash Dwivedi, Bennett University, India
One Short Day: An Online Symposium Celebrating Wicked
Deadline: May 30, 2025
Conference Date: June 27, 2025
Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific Time)
Abstract: 150 words + 50 word biographical statement + Time Zone
Submit to: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com
Organizers: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona & Layal Dahi, California State Polytechnic University
Digital Studies in Language and Literature (DSLL), a new Open-Access journal co-launched by De Gruyter and Chongqing University, cordially invites submissions for its 2025 Issue 1.
DSLL is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary publication committed to promoting research at the intersection of digital technology, language, and literature. Accepted articles will be published under a fully sponsored Open Access via a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY-4.0) License, ensuring that your research is freely accessible for reading and downloading by all.
“Beyond Labels”: International Conference
on Disability, Different Ability and Neurodiversity
London/Online: 13-14 September 2025
Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2025
Conference website: https://diversity.lcir.co.uk
Disability, different ability and neurodiversity are concepts that traverse boundaries, challenging disciplines to rethink foundational assumptions about identity, culture and power. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring together scholars from different fields to critically examine the shifting narratives, representations and lived experiences surrounding ability and difference.
“The Uncanny in Language, Literature and Culture”
International Conference
Malta/Online: 22-23 August 2025
Deadline for proposals: 20 March 2025
Conference website: https://uncanny.lcir.co.uk
The uncanny captures the unsettling and the eerie—a feeling that defies boundaries between the familiar and the strange. Rooted in Freud’s exploration, the uncanny reveals how what is known and intimate can suddenly become alien, evoking dread and unease. Everyday objects, spaces, and experiences that once offered comfort transform into symbols of danger, disrupting not only our external environments but also the landscapes of our inner selves.
International Conference on Food Studies:
"Culinary Evolutions"
London/Online: 9-10 August 2025
Deadline for proposals: 30 April 2025
Conference website: https://food.lcir.co.uk
Food is a basic foundation of culture and society, it is vital to our health and well-being and it plays a significant role in our everyday creative engagement with nature. The shifts in activities surrounding food acquisition, preparation and consumption are not only essential for learning a culinary tradition but for examining a broader societal change.
International Conference on Postcolonial Studies:
"Trajectories and Transitions of (Post)Colonialism"
London/Online: 26-27 July 2025
Deadline for proposals: 30 April 2025
Conference website: https://postcolonialism.lcir.co.uk
The conference will explore the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies and it will focus on the impact colonialism had on political, social, economic and cultural domains. It will examine various forms of colonial domination and control as well as theories and practices of resistance.
“Money Beyond Numbers”:
International Conference on Money, Markets and Meaning
London/Online: 19-20 July 2025
Deadline for proposals: 15 April 2025
Conference website: https://money.lcir.co.uk
Money holds immense power — not just as a medium of exchange but as a cultural symbol, a psychological force, and a social construct. How do we ascribe meaning to money, and how does it shape our identities, relationships and values? What narratives and myths surround its use, accumulation and distribution? From its role in consumer culture to its depiction in literature, art and media, money permeates every aspect of human life, embodying ideals of wealth, power and morality.
“The Politics of Emotion: Affect, Identity and Power”
International Conference
London/Online: 12-13 July 2025
Deadline for proposals: 15 April 2025
Conference website: https://emotions.lcir.co.uk
“Migrating World”: International Conference
on Migration, Identity and Belonging
London/Online: 5-6 July 2025
Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2025
Conference website: https://integration.lcir.co.uk
"Discourses on Motherhood" International Conference
London/Online: 28-29 June 2025
Deadline for proposals: 20 January 2025
Conference website: https://genderstudies.lcir.co.uk
This conference aims at exploring motherhood and its diverse cultural representations, while interrogating the ways in which such representations impact on individual and collective experiences of motherhood. Thus, we attempt at examining motherhood both as a personal experience and as an institution, as well as observing the nuances involved in the interaction between both.
"The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place"
International Conference
London/Online: 21-22 June 2025
Deadline for proposals: 1 March 2025
Conference website: https://memory.lcir.co.uk
"Digital Dilemmas: Technology, Identity and Society"
International Conference
London/Online: 14-15 June 2025
Deadline for proposals: 20 March 2025
Conference website: https://digital-dilemmas.lcir.co.uk