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Call for Papers: Dramatherapy
Special Issue: ‘Dramatherapy in Europe’
Deadline: 15 August 2025
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Greetings everyone!
We are excited to announce the commencement of abstract submissions for the fourth volume of Sophia Luminous.
Sophia Luminous ( ISSN: 3048-6211) is a national-level, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary online research journal for students, published by Sophia College for Women (Autonomous), Mumbai, India. It is devoted to the discussion of the innovative, novel, and contemporary areas of research by undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and early researchers from an array of disciplines.
This issue is not thematically restricted, and we invite previously unpublished research papers that are written by students ranging from undergraduate to MPhil degree.
Emerson, Memory, and Oblivion
Call for Papers for an Edited Volume
Gothic in Bengal: Literature and Culture
liquid blackness ISSUE 11.1 CFP – “FOR THE RECORD”CFPs
liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 11, no. 1, Spring 2027
Submissions due January 15, 2026
Call for Papers // Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature // Winter 2026 Special Issue: Reading Victorian Religion// Guest Editor, Amanda Vernon
Aims and Scope
Chenkaantal (E-ISSN: 2583-0481) is a pioneer Diamond Open Access Journal for Tamil studies. The journal is dedicated to the academic research of Tamil language, Tamil Literature, Tamil Culture, Tamil Linguistics and other modern trends in Tamil studies.
Call for
Aims and Scope of the Journal
Call for - Literary Musings Online - 2584-1459 - July 2025
Academic Journal
Research Academy
Sapphic Echoes: Representations of Female Desire in Litererature and the Visual Arts
This panel asks questions and invites responses that explore representations of female love and desire in literature and the visual arts. How have the complex poetics of female love and desire—the desire to have something, or escape something, or punish, or know—been represented over time? What strategies have been employed to subvert literary conventions defined predominantly by male perspectives on home, love, war, victory and loss? How have female characters navigated the interplay between things done (overtly) and thought (covertly) to reveal the inner web of desires, fears and conflicts that constitute a female poetics of love and longing?
The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia (JEASA) was founded and has been maintained by the European Association for Studies of Australia (EASA) since 2009. It is a double blind peer-reviewed, open-access online journal published twice a year, intended to showcase both European and Australian scholarhip in the field of Australian studies.
CFP From the European South, 19, Fall 2026
Special Issue: Dark Tourism in Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Contexts: Topographies of Suffering, Narrative Constructions and the Consumption of Place(s)
Guest Editors: Eleonora Federici (University of Ferrara) and Marilena Parlati (University of Padova)
In the fictional world of ‘Cvstodia’, a nameless ‘penitent’ traverses a world in which the ‘miracle’ - a divine entity - is worshipped through physical torment and suffering in a gloomy body horror style. In doing so, ‘Blasphemous’ transforms the established conventions of the ‘souls-like’ genre: the difficulty typical of the genre and the cyclical approach to failure are theologically charged. The progress made by defeating boss enemies is enhanced by sacred weapons and rituals, while the level design is recontextualised as a spiritual pilgrimage. These elements are embedded in an elaborate ecclesiastical infrastructure and open up multiple levels of analysis, e.g:
In accordance with the conference theme, “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” the work of French philosopher Henri Bergson is more than relevant. Bergson’s Matter and Memory published in 1896 explores not only how memory functions in human activity, but the levels of memory and its importance to our lives.
This call for papers seeks to explore the rich and complex intersection of philosophical inquiry and narrative accounts of trauma and exile. Moving beyond disciplinary boundaries, it aims to investigate how philosophical concepts – such as subjectivity, time, memory, ethics, and belonging – are challenged, reshaped, and illuminated through the lived experiences and narrative expressions of those who have endured trauma and/or forced displacement.
In the context of media hostility and panic, what are the challenges faced by new scholars, audiences and learners?
How should Shakespeare be positioned in the twenty-first century cultural landscape?
Following the success of WOKE SHAKESPEARE: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era ... this * new * edited volume aims to explore some of the most recent conversations about teaching and performing Shakespeare in the age of woke cultural politics, culture wars, and social justice debates.
Contributors are invited to consider:
Call for Papers: Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales
In honor of the 650th year of Giovanni Boccaccio’s passing, the Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales project is accepting papers on individual tales of The Decameron. We welcome papers and proposals from students!
About the project
Call for Papers
Trans Joy in Latin American Cinema
Joy is a fundamental element of human life, yet its depiction in media and academic discourse— especially in relation to marginalized communities—remains limited. Representations of the trans* community, in particular, often center narratives of exclusion, violence, and trauma. As Shuster and Westbrook (2022) note, this tendency reflects a broader “joy deficit” in the sociological study of marginalized people, overshadowing the transformative power of joy and solidarity.
The family is often conceived in terms of exclusivity, closeness and intimacy. The word ‘intimate’ – intimus, or ‘most interior’, in the Latin – suggests that this relationship touches our innermost part, that which is deepest and hidden from view. Familial ties are further corporealized in terms of blood, or the physical proximity of shared space, resources, and memories, and acts of care. Broader ethnic, linguistic, cultural and national communities may be framed as extensions of this familial ‘inner circle’, as the concept of the body politic suggests; the family, for Rousseau, is ‘the first model of political societies’ (The Social Contract).
JEASA (the Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia) is looking for other 3 papers to conclude its special issue on
Voicing Otherness: Reconfiguring Australia’s Postcoloniality?. This was originally a panel organized by professors Salhia Ben-Messahel
(Université de Toulon, France) and Marilena Parlati (University of Padova, Italy), but we would like to further open the discussion to other
scholars worldwide.
This is the call:
We are pleased to announce below CFP:
Following the first Τ Ε Κ Μ Η Ρ Ι Α Meeting, held in October 2023, and the publication of the Proceedings in December 2024 (https://shorturl.at/FQXE6), the initiative comes to its second edition, offering once again a space for exchange, confrontation and discussion in the wake of interdisciplinarity. Subject of this second Study and Research Meeting will be Greeks and Local Historiography.
The topics of the proposals may include:
Ekphrasis and the Music of Literature: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts
This roundtable invites proposals that explore the intersection of visual, aural, and verbal frontiers. Although ekphrasis and musical form mirror words, they directly affect the emotions at a primordial level not available to verbal articulation. Ekphrasis translates words into visual images, whereas musical form translates them into sounds and rhythms. What are the differences between these modes of expression and how they affect their audiences? Papers that focus on the relationship of music to literature, the visual arts to literature, or on the interrelations of all three art forms are invited.
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the upcoming "Spatiality and Temporality" International Conference. The conference is addressed to academics, researchers and professionals with a particular interest related to the conference topic. We invite proposals from various disciplines including philosophy, history, sociology, anthropology, culture studies, literature and architecture.
Over the course of the 20th century and into the 21st, cinema, television, and related media have become increasingly central both to individual lives and to the lives of peoples, groups, and nations. Cinema has become a major form of cultural expression and films both reflect and influence the attitudes and behaviour of people, representing their tensions and anxieties, hopes and desires and incarnating social and cultural determinants of the era in which they were made.
Memory and trauma are two deeply interconnected phenomena that have captivated the attention of scholars and professionals across various disciplines. Understanding the complex interplay between these two elements is essential for comprehending how individuals, communities, and societies cope with and recover from traumatic experiences.
The International Conference on "Memory and Trauma" provides a platform for in-depth exploration of these and other aspects of memory and trauma. Through interdisciplinary dialogue, we aim to advance our understanding of how memory influences and is influenced by traumatic experiences, fostering resilience, healing, and justice for individuals and communities affected by trauma.
Decay and destruction have long been sources of fascination, inspiration and contemplation in artistic and cultural contexts. From the crumbling ruins of ancient civilizations to the ravages of time on natural landscapes, from the haunting beauty of abandoned spaces to the transformative power of decay in artistic expression, this conference aims to explore the creative potential of decay and destruction across diverse disciplines and perspectives.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Call for Papers: International conference
Flux and Flow in Irish and Scottish Literatures (late-19th century to present)
9-10 April 2026 Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Keynote Speaker: John Brannigan, University College Dublin
The conference seeks to explore the narratives of displacement and to demonstrate the validity of a cross-disciplinary approach which brings together the historical, cultural, social and literary expertise in the handling of text. The conference will particularly focus on time and space representations and on treatment of the theme of cultural ambivalence and identity conflict. The subject of displacement will be regarded as both a migration, voluntary or forced, and a sense of being socially or culturally “out of place”.
Papers are invited on topics related, but not limited, to:
Multiple environmental crises are increasingly inescapable at both transnational and local levels and the role of the humanities in addition to technology and politics is more and more recognized as central for exploring and finding solutions. Representations of nature’s agency have become central to many studies conducted in literature, culture studies, philosophy, history, sociology or political science. This conference aims to explore the relationship between the physical environment and text in its broader meaning as well as analyse the social concerns raised by environmental crises.