RE-CFP: ReFocus: The International Directors Series: David Cronenberg

Edinburgh University Press

Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg is widely regarded as one of the finest proprietors of the body-horror genre. Cronenberg’s filmography traverses the realm of the corporeal beyond its bare form, testing the limits of what a body can do. His films explore the intricate relations between the market, science, and desire. Cronenberg also examines disease and illness, situating their grotesque ramifications in the soma and the psyche, while many other later film narratives diverge from Cronenberg’s earlier focus on body horror to exhibit a wide spectrum of directorial capabilities.

Call for Papers

During our sixth annual online event, we will discuss 'making, remaking, and limitations' in festive, celebratory, and ritual cultures. Our questions are: How and why do people continue to make and remake culture? In what ways do they experience limitations when making and remaking culture, if any? What is the significance of the making and remaking of culture and whom is it for?

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Contesting Place: Practices of (Un)Doing

26th - 27th June 2025 

Deadline for Submissions: March 10th 2025

Call for Papers - IEEE AI Test 2025

"6th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Testing"

July 21-24, 2025 | Tucson, Arizona, United States

As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies continue to evolve and integrate into various applications, ensuring their reliability, robustness, and security is critical. The 6th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Testing (AI TEST 2025) serves as a premier venue for researchers, practitioners, and industry leaders to exchange insights, methodologies, and innovations in AI testing and validation.

Call For Papers - IEEE BigDataService 2025
"The 11th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Machine Learning Applications"

July 21-24, 2025 | Tucson, Arizona, USA

As computing systems grow increasingly complex, distributed, and integrated, Big Data technologies and services are more critical than ever. IEEE BigDataService 2025 serves as a premier international venue for researchers and practitioners in academia and industry to exchange innovative ideas and share cutting-edge research findings, experiences, and lessons learned.

Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society is a quarterly journal that includes papers read at the American Philosophical Society’s biannual meetings, independent, peer-reviewed essays by outside scholars, and biographical memoirs of APS Members. The journal also captures talks by today’s prominent professionals, scholars, and scientists that will not be published elsewhere. Recent topics include Abraham Lincoln and Marfan Syndrome, the philosophical problem of uncertainty in Hitchcock’s Vertigo, old phrenology versus new phrenology, the fascination with twins, and what makes a genuine Picasso.

We are looking for submissions for our JUNE 2025 anthology.

1. The theme of the June 2025 issue is 'LOVE'. Please send us mini plays and monologues on this theme.

2. The length of a mini play or monologue should not exceed 2 pages of text.

3. Last date of submission: June 15th, 2025

4. Please send your work to  miniplaysmag@gmail.com 

5. Submit your high definition photo in JPEG format for publication with your work.

The peer-reviewed, online and open access journal Studies in Testimony is currently accepting submissions on an on-going basis. The call for submissions is intentionally broad in nature, allowing for submissions that look at emerging areas of academic interest, in addition to those of continued and lasting relevance from a wide range of academic disciplines including, but certainly not limited to, literature, critical theory, history and psychoanalysis.

Subject areas could include, but are not limited to:

EXTENDED DEADLINE: MARCH 14, 2025

Call for Papers

Special Issue on: Eco-Narratives and Climate Fiction

New Literaria: An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Humanities

“Not to be made happy is to refuse the promise of this conversion. Not to cheer is to withdraw from the situation. Not being in the mood for happiness becomes a political action. And you know what: I am not in the mood.” – Sara Ahmed, “Too Much and Not in the Mood” 

“I laughed a little. I didn’t mean to, but unsure of what kind of face I should be making, I started laughing, in an odd way that betrayed the fact that I was used to living my life in a daze, without giving anything much thought.” Meiko Kawakami All the Lovers in the Night

Lost Girls & New Women: Woolf, Conrad, & the Regendering of Empire

 Comparative panel considering Conrad’s and Woolf’s female characters as challenging imperial gender norms.  Papers might range from Conrad’s often biracial colonial feminine roles to Woolf on threatening sexualities or “New Women.”  Short bio, 300wd proposals.

 Deadline for submissions: Saturday, 15 March 2025

Ben Leubner, Montana State University < leubnerb@montana.edu >

Mark Deggan, Simon Fraser University < mark_deggan@sfu.ca >

Joseph Conrad: False Truth & the Absurd

 Panel on Conrad’s critique of false or misleading “truths” in a world without set meanings.  Papers considered on national/imperial truisms, or the “absurd” as a mode of actuality or critique.  Short bio, 250wd proposals.

 Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 16 March 2025

Mark Deggan, Simon Fraser University < mark_deggan@sfu.ca >

“Margaret Fuller and 19C American Women Writers Observing Nature, Engaging Science”

Margaret Fuller’s “Entertainments of the Past Winter,” published in the July 1842 issue of the Dial, relays, “Wherever we went, there was Lyell’s Geology on the table, and many of the suggestions made by these lectures lingered in conversation throughout the winter.” She is referencing Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology, which made the then relatively new concept of deep time palatable to a wide audience. Lyell aided Fuller’s understanding of how past and present are connected, and helped her to see the long and ongoing processes of nature.