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Embodied Experience, Emotions, and Creativity

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 9:25am
Interface -Journal of European Languages and Literatures
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Dear Colleagues,"Interface" calls for papers for a conference on the topic: Embodied Experience, Emotions, and CreativityConference Date: September  17-19, 2025Conference Place: Doğuş University, Istanbul, TurkeyAbstract Submission Deadline: July 30, 2025 "Interface" would like to thank Trier University (Centre for Advanced Studies "Poetry in Transition”), Kobe University (Graduate School of Humanities), and Seoul National University (Institute of Classical Studies) for their kind support and co-operation in organizing this conference. 

Art as resistance: protest as art, art as protest

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 9:24am
Meredith Martin / NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

An online panel on the art of protest and political dissent. This includes artists who engage in socio-political protest through their work, or protestors who use art to disseminate their message.

The Politics of Pessimism

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 8:39am
Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

 

“Decolonization, which sets out to change the order of the world, is, obviously, a programmeof complete disorder” (27) 
 
—Frantz Fanon, The Wretched OfThe Earth 

 

Playing the Field VI: Video Games and Labour

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 7:27am
University of Bucharest
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Playing the Field VI: Video Games and Labour

University of Bucharest, Romania

19-21 March 2026

(in-person)

 

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Helen W Kennedy (University of Sheffield)

Emil Lundedal Hammar (University of Tromsø)

Maria Mandea

 

Call for Book Chapter_Green Humanities: Eco-Diaspora, Indigenous Resilience & Literary Cartographies

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 5:20am
Shrabanti Kundu
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 25, 2025

Selected Papers will be published in an edited Book with an ISBN from AuthorsPress (International Publication), New Delhi, India

Submission Guidelines:

  • Abstracts should be no more than 300 words and include a clear outline of the proposed paper’s objectives, methodology, and relevance.

 

  • Bio-note: A separate bio-note (maximum 100 words) should include your title (Dr/Prof.), affiliation, contact information, and research interests.

 

  • Submissions must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere. A signed self-declaration of originality is required. AI-generated content is strictly prohibited.

 

Call for papers: An Awkward Marriage: Considering the serial killer’s social standing in a changing British culture

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 3:57am
University of Worcester
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 29, 2025

Great Britain has a rich and varied history when it comes to true crime. This statement applies as much to the crimes themselves as it does to media producers’ coverage of them. While a global canon of true crime is forming, there has to date still been an emphasis placed on Western narratives according to American culture, with crimes from this region dominating media attention. However, Britain itself has a long history of true crime that warrants further critical attention, to include some of the most prolific serial killers within the genre: Fred and Rose West; Harold Shipman; John Christie; Dennis Nilsen; and, more recently, and controversially, Lucy Letby.

Call for Book Chapters - Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 12:35am
Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 28, 2025

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

 

Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia

Food is never just about sustenance. It is a charged cultural text, a site of memory and mourning, a marker of identity, a terrain of negotiation, and often, a weapon of exclusion or resistance. In South Asia—a region defined by deep pluralities, histories of colonialism, persistent socio-economic inequalities, and enduring spiritual traditions—food emerges not merely as a necessity, but as a powerful index of social structure, affective life, and ideological formation.

The Handbook of Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series Exploring Transgender Themes

updated: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025 - 8:04pm
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The response to our CFP for Indian Trans Cinema has been so strong that we have expanded it into The Handbook of Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series. Proposals are due July 1, 2025.

We seek a diverse group of contributors from countries around the world.

We especially welcome additional chapters on the following 16 themes, for which we already have 50 confirmed chapters:

Theme 1. Historical Cinema

Seeking the chapters "Trans Cinema from the United States" and "Trans Cinema from the United Kingdom" for The Handbook of Trans Cinema

updated: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025 - 11:33am
The Handbook of Trans Cinema
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Seeking the chapters "Trans Cinema from the United States" and "Trans Cinema from the United Kingdom" for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. These are the final chapters needed to complete the handbook.

We have over 70 confirmed chapters exploring trans films from 6 continents.

Your chapter "Trans Cinema from the United States" or "Trans Cinema from the United Kingdom" should provide a broad survey and analysis of films with transgender themes from the respective country, while also examining at least three films in depth. 

Bloomsbury's Ecocritical Theory and Practice Book Series

updated: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025 - 11:33am
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Ecocritical Theory and Practice, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment. More than 100 books have already appeared in the series.

Works that explore environmental issues through literatures, oral traditions, and cultural/media practices around the world are welcome. The series features books by established ecocritics that examine the intersection of theory and practice, including both monographs and edited volumes. Contemporary and historical works are equally appropriate.

Proposals are invited in the range of topics covered by ecocriticism, including but not limited to works informed by

Bloomsbury's Critical Plant Studies Book Series

updated: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025 - 11:33am
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books that re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:

Bloomsbury's Environment and Society Book Series

updated: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025 - 11:33am
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Environment and Society, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. More than 30 books have already appeared in the series.

Embodied Spaces: Digital Reconfigurations of Experience

updated: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025 - 8:37am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Virtual interventions have become permanently embedded in our spaces, and play a major role not only in how a space is constituted but also in how our bodies exist in, encounter, and co-constitute space. Physical space and virtual networks are inextricably intertwined today, such that a space is never purely physical.

Planned, Unplanned, and the In-between: Interactions of Architecture, Space, and Experience

updated: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025 - 8:36am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

For the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas in twenty-first century. Urbanization is understood as the mass movement of human population from rural to urban areas. The trend of urbanization is increasing at an unprecedented pace, especially in developing countries of the world. Now considered as an irreversible phenomenon, the imperative of urbanization necessitates a rethinking of how we imagine cities and rural areas of tomorrow to provide a meaningful and sustainable lifeworld. The challenges that come with such a dramatic shift are multifold and complex. It involves envisioning a way of life that is dignified, a society that is sustainable and equitable. 

Power in Urbanscapes: Rethinking Spatiality and Sociality

updated: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025 - 8:36am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

The second Issue of Volume 7 of LLIDS examines how structures of power constitute and shape urban spaces. It proposes to explore their influence in determining social values wherein varied social groups—marked by religion, class, race, gender, etc.—negotiate the power dynamics that constitute life in urban spaces. The modern, bustling city carries within itself a continuous sense of becoming. The urban dwellers, inhabiting segregated parts of the city, shape the lived experience of these spaces through their socio-cultural interactions and relationships.

General Call for Papers

updated: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025 - 8:35am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 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.

Haunted Cities: Spaces, Spectres, and Urban Hauntologies

updated: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025 - 7:00am
Editors - Marko Lukic and Irena Jurkovic/University of Zadar
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Reminder:

Call for Papers

Haunted Cities: Spaces, Spectres, and Urban Hauntologies

Edited Collection

New Perspectives on Bob Dylan (NeMLA 2026)

updated: 
Saturday, June 14, 2025 - 5:26pm
David Polanski (Independent Scholar) & Robert Reginio (Alfred University)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

New Perspectives on Bob Dylan (NeMLA 2026)

Deadline for abstract submission: September 30 2025

Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement

updated: 
Saturday, June 14, 2025 - 4:52pm
Louisiana State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 25, 2025

Comparative Woman Journal – Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Comparative Woman is an online journal affiliated with LSU’s Department of Comparative Literature that explores topics related to comparative literature and women/gender studies through art and academic essays.Comparative Woman Journal is inviting papers for Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025) on Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement.

THEME

Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement

SUB-THEMES (including but not limited to):

Call for Journal Articles

updated: 
Saturday, June 14, 2025 - 3:43am
Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, a peer-reviewed international journal published by Çankaya University in Ankara, is currently accepting submissions of articles and book reviews for its forthcoming issues. Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences is listed or indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, the MLA Directory of Periodicals, Index Copernicus Master List, ERIH Plus, and TR Index. 

Journal article submissions for William Carlos Williams Review

updated: 
Friday, June 13, 2025 - 6:31pm
Williamm Carlos Williams Review
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 28, 2025

Call for submission of academic articles on William Carlos Williams for consideration by the William Carlos Williams Review. Articles must be between 20 to 30 pages in length. All topics welcome. Queries to the editor at copers@gmail.com. Deadline for submissions: July 28, 2025. To submit, register as an author and upload your article here: https://www.editorialmanager.com/wcwr/default.aspx

Early Modern Women: Figures, Labors, Afterlives (RSA 2026)

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:59pm
Renaissance Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

This panel invites papers that examine how early modern women were imagined and represented across genres and cultural contexts. From historical figures to literary characters, how were women positioned in relation to authority, virtue, sexuality, or empire?  How were women written, circulated, obscured, or celebrated in early modern texts? What roles did women play in shaping narratives of gender, race, and power? This panel welcomes work that attends to both the forms of representation and the structures that produced or obscured women’s presence in the early modern world. What kinds of authority or ambivalence did gendered figures carry, and how did race, class, and empire shape their depiction or erasure?

Pulse vol 13 (2026) CFP - Zines and STS: The Remix

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:59pm
Pulse: the Journal of Science and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 31, 2026

PULSE – the Journal of Science and Culture

ISSN 2416-111X

 

VOL 13 (2026) CALL FOR PAPERS

Zines and STS: The Remix

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Foreclosure, a Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:59pm
Chloe Ashbridge (Newcastle University) and Owain Burrell (Warwick University)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 18, 2025

British cultural production has a long history of foreclosure. Understood as a premature abandonment, or an abortive failure, of radical political projects, foreclosure has an imaginative and material register in working-class writing, which has been read since the 1930s as failing to experiment, relying on realism without meaningful engagement with questions of literary form. This view has been challenged by literary scholars, who have demonstrated that formal experimentation did exist, though not in ways that comfortably align with the usual reading of middle-class modernism (Clarke Working Class Writing, 2018).

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