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Bloomsbury's Critical Plant Studies Book Series

updated: 
Sunday, July 20, 2025 - 10:05am
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 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

ROUTLEDGE BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus

updated: 
Sunday, July 20, 2025 - 6:08am
ROUTLEDGE, Taylor & Francis, Informa, Informa UK Limited
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 31, 2026

BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus (Routledge, Global Edition) 

Series Editors: Goutam Karmakar, Puspa Damai, Payel Pal, and Deimantas Valančiūnas

(Neo)Colonial Images and Literature: The Construction of the Other

updated: 
Saturday, July 19, 2025 - 6:18pm
University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 30, 2026

(Neo)Colonial Images and Literature: The Construction of the Other

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Aristoteles Barcelos Neto (University of East Anglia)

 

May 30th, 2026 (Saturday).

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

 

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted between July 7th, 2025, and October 15th, 2025.

Please include a short biography (100 words) and institutional affiliation with your submission.

Approved abstracts will be informed by December 2025.

NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION, Virtual, October 9 to October 11, 2025 CFP for ROMANCE/POPULAR ROMANCE FICTION

updated: 
Saturday, July 19, 2025 - 4:10pm
Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Deadline Extended NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION, Virtual, October 9 to October 11, 2025 AREA: ROMANCE/POPULAR ROMANCE FICTION Deadline: Tuesday, July 31st by 5pm EST

 Contact email: Wendy Wagner wwagner@jwu.edu

 The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its 2025 annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.

[NeMLA 2026] Touching the World at the Speed of Light: Community and Conflict in the Global Village

updated: 
Saturday, July 19, 2025 - 2:01pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

NeMLA’s 57th Annual Convention

Conference Date: March 5-8, 2026

Abstract Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025

All presentations will be delivered via Zoom.

 


 

Session Title: Touching the World at the Speed of Light: Community and Conflict in the Global Village

 

Reproducing Worlds: Structures, Fractures, Futures - NeMLA 2026 Panel

updated: 
Friday, July 18, 2025 - 4:36pm
Shwetha Chandrashekhar / NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 20, 2025

This panel will trace the connections between production, reproduction, and world-making in twentieth and twenty-first century literary, cinematic, legal, and medical texts. Scholars of biopolitics, nationalism, and reproduction such as Tanika Sarkar, Banu Subramaniam, and Kalindi Vora have noted that reproduction is fundamentally a postcolonial problem in that it sheds light on the anxieties entrenched in imperial and postcolonial nationalisms. That said, when seen from the perspectives of capital, labor, and affect, we know that reproduction happens in quiet and banal fashions—reproduction of feelings, of habits, of desires, of work, of cultures, and of ideas.

CFP: Man-Hating in Cinema, Literature, Media, and Society

updated: 
Friday, July 18, 2025 - 12:11pm
Gilad Padva
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 10, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS:  Man-Hating in Cinema, Literature, Media, and Society  Editors Gilad Padva, scholar in cinema, culture, men's studies, and queer theory Yair Koren Maimon, Chair of the Department of Literature, GordonAcademic College When a legitimate and crucial criticism of patriarchy is transformedinto a bigoted, ruthless misandry/man-hating? When resistance toandrocentric systems that focus on men's interests stimulatesgynocentric attitudes that disrespect, misrepresent, and diminish men'shuman dignity? How does resistance to the objectification of women'sbodies involve mocking and grotesque representations of men's bodiesand, particularly, their genitalia?

CFP-The Text: Vol.8 No.1-January 2026 Issue

updated: 
Friday, July 18, 2025 - 12:04pm
The Text (ISSN: 2581-9526)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

The Text, an International Peer Reviewed Online Journal of Language, Literature and Critical Theory (ISSN: 2581-9526)invites original, unpublished research papers for January 2026 issue.

Indexed in:

1.     ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)

2.     IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research)

3.     Citefactor (Directory Indexing of International Research Journals)

4.     DRJI (The Directory of Research Journal Indexing)

5.     ResearchBib (Research Bible)

Adaptation Special Issue: Adaptation Machines/Machine Adaptation: Adaptation Studies and Generative AI

updated: 
Friday, July 18, 2025 - 12:04pm
Adaptation (Journal)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

Adaptation is the leading international, peer-reviewed journal of adaptation studies. The journal actively contributes to the development and visibility of adaptation studies as a field of academic enquiry and seeks to advance methodological approaches to the process.

Special Issue Editor: Reto Winckler (City University of Hong Kong)

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Roundtable: The Krewe de Jeanne d'Arc in New Orleans

updated: 
Friday, July 18, 2025 - 12:04pm
International Joan of Arc Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

This roundtable will explore the development and impact of a yearly Joan of Arc themed Carnival parade and affiliated activities on understandings of Joan of Arc and carnival, itself.  The roundtable has alread been approved for inclusion at the International Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan from May 14-16 2026.

Panel: Sound, Silence, Voice, and Ventriloquism in Joan of Arc's Life and Legacy

updated: 
Friday, July 18, 2025 - 12:04pm
International Joan of Arc Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

Joan of Arc has long been a muse to musicians, inspiring operas (Verdi, Tchaikovsky) musicals (Goodtime Charley) sung mystery plays (Claudel & Honneger), ballads (Leonard Cohen, Arcade Fire) and pop culture parodies such as the rap battle between Miley Cyrus and the Maid. Her story has also been powerfully related en muet in early silent films. This panel investigates the “sound effects” of Joan’s story, considering the roles of music, speech, silence, voices, and voiceover.

 

Questions may be directed to panel organizers Tara Smithson (tsmithson@saintmarys.edu) and Scott Manning (smanning@gmail.com).

NeMLA Virtual Panel/Dismantling the Neocolonial Maritime Archive: Indigenous Oceanic Epistemologies

updated: 
Friday, July 18, 2025 - 11:56am
The 57th Annual Convention for Northeast Modern Language Association/NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

 This VIRTUAL panel invites papers on “Dismantling the Neocolonial Maritime Archive:  Indigenous Oceanic Epistemologies” for NeMLA 57th Annual Convention to be held on March 5-8, 2026.

 

The panel addresses how West Asian, South Asian, and Gulf literatures regenerate the power of oceanic precarity that propels newer modes of decolonial resistance and resilience to interrogate and distrust the rigid structures that propagate epistemic violence and archival control. 

Call for paper : International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

updated: 
Friday, July 18, 2025 - 8:26am
USA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 18, 2025

International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

                                                                                                                                                   https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHSS/Home.htmlISSN : 2349 - 219N

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International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology

updated: 
Friday, July 18, 2025 - 7:41am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 18, 2025

International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology 

  ISSN: 0975-3826(online); 0975-4660 (Print)

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

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Panel: On the Path of Joan of Arc: Tracing Johannic Itineraries through Art, War, and Tourism (Panel at International Conference for Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI)

updated: 
Friday, July 18, 2025 - 7:15am
International Joan of Arc Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

 Key cities in Joan of Arc’s history often emphasize associations with the Maid as important parts of their cultural identities and contributors to their economies. Catholic and secular organizations alike propose tours for those who wish to “live” some dimension of Joan’s history by visiting the sites where she was born, fought, and died.

International Conference "East - West: Synergy of Scientific Knowledge"

updated: 
Friday, July 18, 2025 - 7:15am
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

The conference is co-organized by Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Samarkand State University "Sharof Rashidov" and Bukhara State University.
The main goal of the international forum is to give a new impetus to the development of science and education through a new reading of the scientific heritage of ancient philosophical treatises from the perspective of modern discussions and dialogue between the East and the West.
Main thematic areas:
1. Historical context and cultural influences - Eastern and Western perceptions
2. Contemporary problems and future prospects. East-West interdisciplinary approaches.
3. Classification of sciences - synergy of scientific knowledge

Nineteenth-Century Medievalisms

updated: 
Friday, July 18, 2025 - 7:15am
ICMS Kalamazoo
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

Nineteenth-Century Medievalisms (61st International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 14-16, 2026 in Kalamazoo)For this session, we seek proposals that acknowledge the broader concept of medievalism(s), which not only invokes the cultural and global dimensions of the Middle Ages but also includes traditional historical and philological critical approaches as well as creative, interpretive approaches.

(Re)defining and (Re)imagining Ethnicity in 20th and 21st Century Multi-ethnic Literature

updated: 
Friday, July 18, 2025 - 7:15am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Multiethnic literature of the United States has a history of rethinking, reimagining, and redefining race and racism through the study of non-white and ethnic Euro-American literature, narratives, and experiences. Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, ethnic American writers have written on what seemed to have been bleak, harsh, dystopian presents, and even apocalyptic futures. Writers who write of their personal, communal, or cultural lived experiences that are outside the norms of the dominant society know and understand that a harsh past and present can still bring about renewal and a bright future. And they have used their voices to represent a broad array of experiences in the U.S.

Strange Bedfellows? Digital Games and Mental Health Revisited

updated: 
Friday, July 18, 2025 - 7:14am
Ronja R Bodola, PhD/Dept of Psychiatry, LSUHSC New Orleans
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 24, 2025

This is a Call for Papers for a panel at the annual SAMLA conference (November 2025, Atlanta, GA). The conference will be in person. 

Strange Bedfellows? Digital Games and Mental Health Revisited

Until recently, video games had a bad reputation regarding mental health. From the 1976 arcade game “Death Race”, the dominant rhetoric claimed that certain games promoted violence and caused behavioral issues. Neuroscientific research tried to underscore the adverse cultural impact by investigating brain activity involved in game-play, and addiction psychiatry looked into correlations between games and gambling addiction.

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