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The Gore Gore Film Book
Edited by
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Kevin Wetmore (Loyola Marymount University)
The workshop aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and domain experts to exchange knowledge, address challenges, and outline future directions for developing explainable, interpretable, and transparent AI systems. It focuses on advancing Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) by incorporating knowledge and semantics as core components. Contributions will address “demystifying the black-box” nature of AI and tailoring explanations to diverse user expertise levels, supporting equitable and fair decision-making for long-term sustainability. The workshop seeks to overcome the challenges of embedding semantic abstractions into intelligent information systems.
Call for Conference Papers: All Together Different: Reading Willa Cather Across Regions
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 25-27, 2025
Conference Co-Directors: Melissa J. Homestead, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Kelsey Squire, Ohio Dominican University
The concept of subalternity, rooted in Antonio Gramsci’s theoretical framework and later expanded in postcolonial studies by thinkers like Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, has been central to understanding the dynamics of power, representation, and marginalization. Subalternity refers to those groups and individuals excluded from hegemonic structures of power, whose voices are systematically silenced by dominant discourses. In contemporary literature, the subaltern is no more a passive subject of marginalization but an active agent of resistance, contestation, and self-articulation. Contemporary literature has become a critical space for the articulation of subaltern experiences, foregrounding the voices of those who have historically been denied agency.
Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference
24-25 July 2025, University of Queensland, Australia
Keynote Speaker: Professor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford)
Performance ResearchVolume 30, Issue 6 - On Scores
Deadline: 13 January 2025
Issue Editors: Kevin Egan, Michael Pinchbeck, Rachel Rimmer-Piekarczyk and Jane Turner
Thoreau Annual Gathering
July 9 – 13, 2025
Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
Emersonian Revolutions Today
Theatre Topics Special Issue Call for Papers: Whose Story? Resisting and Reimagining Master Narratives
Theatre tells stories; and theatre historically have been telling certain stories more than others. Examining several larger factors such as classicization, canonization, colonialism, racism and sexism, this special issue of Theatre Topics invites inquiries into ways in which theatre classics and canons may have formed historically, and the ways in which we are grappling with epistemic violence of erasure in our contemporary relationship with master narratives across the world.
The (post)memory working group provides a platform to the scholars of memory studies to engage with the thematic and theoretical interventions in (post)memory studies. It also offers an opportunity to the scholars to embrace the complexity of (post)memory; navigate the intersections of identity; and explore the nuances of belonging in a world marked by division. The group invites the scholars to examine the ways (post)memory reflects the analogical nature of memory in postmodern world that triangulates the dominant forms including prosthetic, polyphonic and transcultural memories by revisiting the reconstruction of violence, identity, and cultural displacement.
Graduate Journal of Food StudiesSpecial Issue: Food and Loss
Loss permeates our lives, shaping our relationships with food, culture, and each other. How does the experience of loss transform our food systems, traditions, and identities? From ecological devastation to personal grief, food is inextricably tied to how we process and remember what has been lost.
10-12th June 2025, University of Stirling
BACLS are delighted to open for proposals for their 2025 conference which, for the first time, will be held in Scotland at the University of Stirling.
Cadernos de Fraseoloxía Galega (CFG), an international journal on phraseological and paremiological research edited by Centro Ramón Piñeiro para a Investigación en Humanidades (Xunta de Galicia), is seeking submissions of contributions for its twenty-seventh issue, concerning the topics covered in the Imago Mundi. An Overview of Metaphor: Creativity, Phraseology and Discourse conference held in Cagliari in 2024, that is, metaphor and imagery, but also subjects related to phraseology or paremiology: for instance, idiomatic, metaphorical, graphic, conceptual and cultural phraseology.
Image, Imagination, Communication: Exploring the Ethical as Natural or Artificial, Real or Surreal
May 28-30, 2025
Duquesne University
Working Title - Planet Flanagan: Essays on the Netflix Series of Mike Flanagan
Mike Flanagan has steadily made a significant name for himself in horror, garnering praise for his originality in films such as Oculus (2013) and Hush (2016), and further critical acclaim for works like Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Gerald’s Game (2017) and especially his adaptation of Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep (2019).
A conference reverberates. Sometimes as an echo chamber, things recapitulated. But a conference is also an unruly density—a format for waves of circulation, a temporary structuring of materials and hunches, nerves and notebooks, modes of listening or distraction. A conference is an ordinary nesting of interiors that shapes how thought resonates (the ways we transduce and echo each other, how an idea resounds or fails). STS is attentive to matters of knowledge work in labs and fieldsites: objects, networks, technics. But sometimes it forgets the mundane, the felt, what is improvised or patched together in scenes of knowing. After all, a panel is a fifteen-minute interval that consolidates and performs all the hard work of living that precedes.
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Call for Papers: IEEE QSW 2025
2025 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON QUANTUM SOFTWARE (QSW 2025)
PART OF THE 2025 IEEE WORLD CONGRESS ON SERVICES (SERVICES 2025)
When and Where: July 7-12, 2025 in Helsinki, Finland
Website: https://services.conferences.computer.org/2025/qsw/
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ABOUT IEEE QSW 2025 AND IEEE SERVICES CONGRESS
Literatures and Medicines Online Symposium April 23 2025.
Hosted by the Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre at Bournemouth University, UK.
The Journal of Historical Fictions is currently looking for submissions.
Call for Submissions
CAMINO REAL. Estudios de las Hispanidades Norteamericanas
El universo de Los Bros Hernández
Guest editors: Ana Merino and Francisco Sáez de Adana
Deadline extended until January 15th, 2025
The new issue of CAMINO REAL. Estudios de las Hispanidades Norteamericanas journal (Year 2025, Issue 20), edited by Ana Merino and Francisco Sáez de Adana, is seeking essays and creative writings that focus on the Universe of The Bros Hernández from all possible perspectives.
CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS BIBLIOTECA BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 2024-2025
1. Nature
The Instituto Franklin-UAH awards two grants, valued at €3,500, for the publication of works in the Colección Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin, published by the Editorial Universidad de Alcalá. With these grants, expenses of design, edition, layout, coordination, revision and printing of the publication are covered on the condition that the manuscript obtains two positive anonymous reviews.
“Hawthorne and Food: A Tasty Affair”
CFP for the American Literature Association Conference, May, 2025 in Boston
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Reinventing The Witch: Witchcraft and Sorcery in 21st Century Fiction and Film
“Under Strong Interest” by McFarland’s "Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy" Series
-CFP CLOSED-
THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST!
Editors’ Introduction
Call for papers
Frauds & Fakes in Words and Music
University of Richmond, Virginia, May 29–31, 2025
Russell Crowe’s talents were globally recognized in the early 2000s after he appeared in a slate of well-received films – L.A. Confidential, Gladiator, and A Beautiful Mind, among others – that earned him critical acclaim. Nevertheless, in the years following these productions, he has continued to be a part of numerous projects with international and creative appeal. Alongside his films are his associations with Roman soccer teams – established in Spera’s (2023) chapter in my recent volume on Gladiator (https://vernonpress.com/book/1213) – his social media presence, and his musical performances.
This call for papers seeks one specific chapter on Medusa for a volume intended for the series, Villains and Creatures.
Each chapter of the volume is intended to be an overview of depictions of Medusa in specific kinds of media; nevertheless, the arguments/theses of each chapter should still be original, using past works and research to develop a current (new) perspective on Medusa.
The chapter needed involves Modern Drama.
Chapters will be due in June 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 6,500 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.
The twentieth anniversary of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000) was an important moment in film history, for it not only marked a great film and work of art, but it also reminded audiences how peplum and historical epics still mattered. The edited collection “A Hero Will Endure”: Essays at the Twentieth Anniversary of ‘Gladiator’ (2023) provided insights on the film two decades after its release.
Yet now there is a sequel with a November 2024 release. This CFP therefore serves to build on the work done in the 2023 essays and provide a further avenue of exploration for connections between the two films as well as innovative readings of Gladiator 2 on its own.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
Call for Book Proposals
Peter Lang Book Series
Theatre of the Marginalised: Dalit and Adivasi Performance Traditions in South Asia
REVISED DEADLINE: Special Issue of Surveillance & Society on Literature and Surveillance now accepting submissions until 12 January 2025.
Call for Papers: Surveillance and Literature
Special Issue of Surveillance & Society
Edited by Steph Brown, University of Arizona
Submission deadline: January 12, 2025 for publication September 2025
This special issue asks: what does literature, and the study of literature, offer our shared understanding of surveillance? And what can literature tell us about surveillance and its entanglement with the arts?
CALL FOR PAPERS
NEW ACADEMIA: An International Journal of English Language, Literature and Literary Theory (Online ISSN 2347-2073)
Vol. 14 Issue 1 Jan. 2025
New Academia is a peer reviewed and refereed journal published quarterly by Interactions Forum. The Journal strives to publish research work of high quality related to Literature written in English Language across the World, English language and literary theory. The aim of the journal is to give space to scholars and researchers to publish their works.
We are always keen to receive submissions from scholars, academicians and researchers in the form of Research Papers, Articles, Poems, Short Stories, Interviews and Book Reviews.