Conference Overview

The International Center for Ethno-Religious Mediation (ICERMediation) is pleased to announce the 10th Annual International Conference on Ethnic and Religious Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding. The 10th conference will explore the crucial role of identity in contemporary conflicts, emphasizing the importance of historical context, collective memory, and transformative learning in understanding and addressing these issues.

Contributions of 4000 words are invited for the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Doctor Who. Under contract with Routledge and edited by Catriona Mills, Russell Sandberg and Marcus Harmes, this large-scale Handbook will be a generational work encompassing all aspects of the global phenomenon Doctor Who. The purpose of the work is to further academic research and the interdisciplinary approach that fuses the exploration of the official and the fan made.

The below table of contents indicates which chapters still require contributors. Please also review the notes below on what the overall focus of each section will be and tailor your abstract to this focus.

CALL FOR PAPERS:

The 23rd Annual UAlbany English Graduate Conference:

Back To the Future: Historical Reflections on Contemporary issues

April 11th, 2025 / 9 am - 4 pm EST 

Official site: https://egsoalbany.weebly.com/conference.html

This conference explores haunted modernities and spectral futures of all sorts. Looking back to the past as a haunted space and forward to the ‘spectres’ of the future, we want ‘Haunted Modernities’ to be indicative of wide open spaces and fruitful intersections in scholarship and practice. Whether work is hyper-local, global, or interstellar we welcome imaginative, creative, ethical, and diverse discussions from all disciplines and subject areas. As well as traditional papers, creative practice work is also invited in whatever form - written, film, audio, performance, exhibitions etc. 

Stories shape the way that we view the world and understand our relationship with it. One of the oldest and most universal kind of story features the hero. The hero is an inspirational and aspirational figure who saves individuals or communities from hostile forces, misfortune, or ruin. Some heroes do this by means of supernatural powers, while others rely on strength, courage, wisdom, or cunning.

DEADLINE EXTENDED THROUGH DECEMBER 15!

              “To be neurodivergent is to reclaim the pathologizing aspects of a long-term cognitive diagnosis and to reclaim one’s neuro-status as a possible position from which to claim resources, representation and recognition” (Stenning and Bertisldottir Rosqvist 1535).

CFP - Postcolonial coming-of-age novels in the Indian and Pacific Ocean worlds

Open Group Session at the 2025 ICLA Conference

Call for Papers: Journal of Illustration

Special Issue: ‘ILLUSTRATION & HERITAGE: Sharing Histories to Draw Out Futures’

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-illustration#call-for-papers

On 22 and 23 November 2024, the 14th Annual International Illustration Research Symposium explored the role that illustration plays in cultural heritage: Illustration & Heritage: Sharing Histories to Draw Out Futures.

Iperstoria no. 26 Call for Papers

Special Issue: Parties, Luxury and American Celebrity: From Gatsby to Instagram

Guest editors: Alessandro Clericuzio, University of Perugia (alessandro.clericuzio@unipg.it); Cinzia Schiavini, University of Milan (cinzia.schiavini@unimi.it)

Wednesday 18th June 2025 to Friday 20th June 2025

Falmouth University, UK

The Contemporary Women’s Writing Association’s 2025 conference will be an interdisciplinary and global exploration of the role and impact of women’s writing. This conference is dedicated to the discussion of a broad range of women’s writing, including the popular and the literary; bestsellers and genres; poetry and prose; screen and script; writing for games and digital spaces; creative non-fiction; life-writing, biography, and memoir; and journalism and other forms of cultural production.

The study and analysis of creative fan production (e.g., fanfiction, fanart, cosplay, etc.) is a cornerstone of fandom studies. These practices enable fans to assert a level of authorship over their favorite media – to reimagine, recontextualize, and reconceptualize their canons to better reflect their desires, wants, interests, and demands. They provide voice to individuals who cannot necessarily shape source texts directly (Vinney & Dill-Shackleford, 2018), allowing fans to carve out space for themselves within the pop-culture landscape that celebrates/embraces their identities. This is particularly poignant for marginalized fans.

Eco-environmental criticism has now become a staple presence in the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary landscape, calling for ongoing reflections on the human impact on the environment. A distinct aspect of these conversations has been the growing focus on the concern of ecological destruction for the planet, with all the inevitable consequences that this entails.  Within changing contexts that feel increasingly more precarious, conceptualisations of the ‘eco-futures’ have become central to our cultural discourses,  from film to television series, from literature to comics, from animation and video games to digital narratives, from architecture to design, from socio-ecology to animal studies. 

Late submissions being accepted until 15 December 2024.

Call for Paper for the Monsters, Monstrosities, & the Monstrous area of the PCA for the 2025 PCA Conference in New Orleans

 CFP: 59th Annual Comparative World Literature Conference 

Ecocriticism and Popular Culture: Cool Trends in a Warming ClimateVenue: California State University, Long Beach. Hybrid Dates: 23-25 April 2025; two days of in-person and one day of Zoom panelsKeynote Speaker: Kaniehtiio Horn.