The 53rd annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 (LCLC) invites submissions of critical, creative, and hybrid work exploring 20th- and 21st-century literature and culture. We welcome submissions in English, Spanish, French, and, occasionally, other languages. We encourage group proposals that cross institutional, disciplinary, and/or experiential boundaries.

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.

We encourage panel proposals as well as individual submissions.

Papers are generally 15–20 minutes in length. We also encourage works in progress, and informal presentations. 

This area considers the intersection of politics, civic life, and popular culture. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

• Political actions that involve pop culture, including banning or attacking elements of pop culture

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This session at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA 2025) annual conference explores the relationship between queer and trans cultural productions and the politics of censorship and obscenity.

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DEADLINE: PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT BY JULY 15, 2025.

Demeter collection on Trans Parenting edited by Charlotte Beyer, Liana Cusmano, and Allie Robbins

We have had a couple of spaces open up in our collection on trans parenting. As such, we are seeking contributors who are keen to engage critically and/or creatively with this topic and invite further chapter proposals.

CONGIST’26Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis 

Date:  13-15 May 2026

Venue: Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Istanbul, Turkey

https://congist.istanbul.edu.tr/en/content/congist-2026/call-for-papers

Call for Proposals
Beyond Boundaries: Visions of Ecological Futures
2025 PNCA Symposium
October 2–4, 2025
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) at Willamette University
511 NW Broadway, Portland, Oregon

Songs in ShakespeareProposing a special issue of Cahiers Élisabéthains for July 2027 We are seeking abstracts to include in our proposal for a special issue of Cahiers Élisabéthains on the topic of songs in Shakespeare. If the proposal is accepted, the issue will be published in print in July 2027. Proposals on any aspect of songs in Shakespeare will be considered, but we are particularly interested in the dramatic questions, “What can songs do in Shakespeare?” and “What can singing mean to characters in Shakespeare?”. Topics might include analysis of the songs in one play or across various plays; songs and sonnets; meter and music; birdsong; singers’ voice changes; non-English songs; missing songs; performance history.

Dr Conner McAleese invites proposals on representations of motherhood in any of Stephen King’s fiction.

Over the past fifty years, King’s works have been adapted, discussed, academically investigated, and, of course, read to an extent that few authors have ever been before. However, one aspect of King’s writing has yet to be given scholastic attention – the mothers of Stephen King’s fiction.

The Department of Languages and Literature and the College of Liberal Arts at Northeastern State University will be hosting the Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature annual regional meeting on October 24-25, 2025 at Northeastern State University’s campus in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

The general theme of this year’s conference is “Anger in Literature.” Negative emotions are everywhere in literature and popular culture, but are not always directly addressed. Anger can be both righteous and shameful, redemptive and crippling. Part of the theme is to explore the uses of anger (and associated emotions) in terms of a Christian worldview.

Call for Papers: Studies in Comics

Special Issue: ‘Disney Across the Globe’

Special Issue Editors:

Edited by Katja Kontturi (University of Jyväskylä)

katja.j.kontturi@jyu.fi

Eva Van de Wiele (University of Ghent and Antwerp)

eva.vandewiele@ugent.be 

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A JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE SEXUALITIES

IN ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE AND THE ARTS

Issue 3 – 2025

Call for Papers

Call for Papers: Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies

Special Issue: ‘The Tyranny of Truth: The Cinema of Gillo Pontecorvo’

CFP for a guest-edited issue of the Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies

Guest-editor Fabio Pezzetti Tonion

Museo Nazionale del Cinema

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-italian-cinema-media-studies#call-for-papers

Indigeneity is a complex and dynamic concept that encapsulates the identities, cultures, and rights of Indigenous peoples worldwide. It (Indigeneity) has historically been defined through rigid legal and anthropological frameworks established by nation-states and colonial powers. These frameworks often rely on lineage, territorial ties, and historical continuity to grant recognition, land rights, and resource access. Such definitions create fixed distinctions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities, reducing indigeneity to static identity markers (Perreault, Bridge, & McCarthy, 2015).