The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (LCH) is accepting submissions for the 2025 Julien Mezey Dissertation Award. This annual prize is awarded to the dissertation that most promises to enrich and advance interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law, culture, and the humanities.

While the EAAS’ "West of the Rest" research network will be represented with a total of three panels at the the 28th Biennial Conference of AISNA Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord Americani, we are specifically looking for contributions to our panel dedicated to video games: "Videogame Wests: Playing (at) the Frontier". Since there is the opportunity to have fresh research on video game Wests published as part of this venture, we invite everyone interested to pitch a paper. Please feel free to (re)share the enclosed cfp with interested parties. The panel is coordinated by Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck) and Stefan "Steve" Rabitsch (University of Oslo). Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa writer N.

Dear all,
We invite potential contributors for a Government of India-sponsored SPARC project
titled "Translations in Colonial India, 1800-1947: Paradigms, Networks, and
Practices." The overall goals of the project are as follows:
 
1. To trace the networks of translations between modern Indian languages in the
period under consideration;
2. To trace the impact of European languages such as French, German,
Russian, Italian, and Spanish, on modern Indian languages and literatures,
either in the original or mediated through English translations; and
3. To trace how translational activities helped the establishment of modern

Call For Papers: 

AfroNordic Feminisms

This special issue of  Scandinavian Studies explores and questions what it means to theorize, articulate, and practice a Black/Afrofeminism from a distinctly Nordic standpoint. 

We invite submissions engaging with questions such as: 

• What are the continuities, departures, or specificities that characterize AfroNordic feminisms in comparison and relation to Black/Afrofeminisms rooted in e.g. U.S., African, and other AfroEuropean contexts?

This proposed panel will address intersections between carceral studies and literary studies, with a focus on modernist literature and art and their contemporary legacies.

Call for Papers

2025 EALA Annual Conference

Disease and Death

Conference Co-organizers:

English and American Literature Association (EALA, Taiwan), National Taipei University of Education and University of Taipei

Date: October 18, 2025

Venue: National Taipei University of Education

The deadline for abstract submission is extended to February 25, 2025

The Council of Editors of Learned Journals is pleased to host its inaugural conference to expand the knowledge sharing CELJ provides through its listserv, mentoring workshops, and Modern Language Association convention sessions. The online format offers a space where more of our members, and potential new members, can be included. The conference will be virtual and recorded for CELJ members who are not able to attend. 

Call For Papers 

The conference theme is Open Dialogues, and the organizers encourage submissions of roundtable-based discussions specific to editorial and publishing topics of conversation including, but not limited to: 

CFP: Solitude and loneliness in Nordic Cinema

Special Issue of Journal of Scandinavian Cinema

To submit visit our website here>>

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

We hereby invite proposals of original articles related to the general theme of Cultural Intertexts, an academic journal of Literature and Cultural Studies, ISSN 2393-0624, E-ISSN 2393-1078.

The editors will consider for publication papers which tackle strategies of representation and of (inter)textual construction emerging from the dialogic relation between:

-       literature and the historical and cultural context of text production;

-       distribution and consumption;

-       literature and other arts (music, film, visual arts, etc.) or sciences (linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology, history, sociology and political sciences, internet and new technologies, etc.);

Abstract

I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by May 1, 2025. Chapters will be due by September 15, 2025.

All topics will be considered.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

This collection seeks essays on paleontologists in film, literature, and contemporary media. The Jurassic Park franchise solidified the presence of paleontology in the pop cultural imagination, but there have been other media and portrayals that have captured the public's imagination. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

-Studies of specific films

-Studies of specific novels

-Studies of fictional and/or real-life paleontologists in modern media

Chapters will be due in September 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Beyond Green: Intersections of Ecology, Culture and Conservation

(Proposed as part of Bloomsbury’s Environment and Society series)

Editors: Dr. Rajkumar Bera and Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash

Introduction

Call for Papers
International Seminar on Indigenous Studies: Envisioning Janjatiya Gaurav: The Legacy of Birsa Munda and the Decolonisation of ‘Global’ Indigenous Studies
Date: March 26-27, 2025 (IST)
Venue: Durgapur Women’s College, Durgapur, West Bengal, India

Organised by the IQAC, Durgapur Women's College in collaboration with Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

Event URL: https://durgapurwomenscollege.ac.in/seminars/