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Marginal Voices on Stage: Documenting Dalit and Tribal Performance Traditions in South Asia

updated: 
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - 1:21am
Dr. Shubhendu Shekhar Naskar & Dr. Auritra Munshi
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 11, 2025

Call For Book Chapters

Marginal Voices on Stage: Documenting Dalit and Tribal Performance Traditions in South Asia

Editors:

 Dr. Shubhendu Shekhar Naskar, Assistant Professor, Department of English Literature, Language and Cultural Studies, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal

Dr. Auritra Munshi, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Raiganj University, West Bengal

Concept Note:

Mapping Body Space Continuum in Urbanscapes

updated: 
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - 12:26am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Space is not defined objectively, but in relation to bodies, as it is a manifestation of their needs, intentions, and desires. It is not a container in which objects exist but is intertwined with the body’s orientation in the world and its movements within the space. Human body, therefore, is at the centre of all spaces, which are more than a geometrical concept in abstraction. Individual bodies apprehend and appropriate space differently and give meaning to embedded systems and institutions through established and evolving associations. Any assumption of personalised space, whether private or public, is embedded with historical, cultural, and social meanings which help curate embodied experiences.

The Problem of Social Justice: Global Perspectives and Personal Narratives

updated: 
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - 12:26am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Social justice is the virtue which guides us in creating those organized human interactions we call institutions. In turn, social institutions, when justly organized, provide us with access to what is good for the person, both individually and in our associations with others. Social justice also imposes on each of us a personal responsibility to work with others to design and continually perfect our institutions as tools for personal and social development.

–             The Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ), Washington, D.C., USA

Power in Urbanscapes: Rethinking Spatiality and Sociality

updated: 
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - 12:25am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025

The second Issue of Volume 7 of LLIDS examines how structures of power constitute and shape urban spaces. It proposes to explore their influence in determining social values wherein varied social groups—marked by religion, class, race, gender, etc.—negotiate the power dynamics that constitute life in urban spaces. The modern, bustling city carries within itself a continuous sense of becoming. The urban dwellers, inhabiting segregated parts of the city, shape the lived experience of these spaces through their socio-cultural interactions and relationships.

Second Call for Chapters: Spider-Man's Villains - Specific Villains

updated: 
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - 12:23am
Matthew McEniry, Robert G. Weiner, and Kevin Scott
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

We invite contributons to an edited volume that delves into the complex and often nuanced villains of the Spider-Man universe. We are specifically looking for chapters about the following villains: Kraven the Hunter, Carnage, Black Cat, Lizard, Sandman, Scorpion, Shocker, and Tombstone. Other submissions may be accepted, but we are not looking for chapters on Mysterio, Doc Ock, Electro, Vulture, Venom, Punisher, Green Goblin, Rhino, Kingpin, Jackal, Sinister Six, Spidey Super Stories, Spider-Man's War on Drugs, or J. Jonah Jameson.

This volume is being published by the University of Mississippi Press. We welcome a diverse range of scholarly analyses, including but not limited to: 

Playing the Field VI: Video Games and Labour

updated: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 - 12:20pm
University of Bucharest
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Playing the Field VI: Video Games and Labour

University of Bucharest, Romania

19-21 March 2026

(in-person)

 

Keynote speakers:

Helen W Kennedy (University of Sheffield)

Emil Lundedal Hammar (University of Tromsø)

Maria Mandea

 

Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series Exploring Transgender Themes

updated: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 - 2:52am
Bloomsbury Publishing
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Seeking additional chapters for the book Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series. This collection showcases the breadth of languages and regional differences within Indian cinema that explores transgender themes. We already have over a dozen confirmed chapters. Proposals are due May 1, 2025. Chapters may focus on a single film or multiple films.

Call for Papers: Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre *Deadline: 31 July 2025*

updated: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 - 12:40am
Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

We invite submissions for the sixth issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in September. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography, ERIH Plus, DOAJ, and Gale Cengage.

* Deadline is the end of July but we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.

* Original works, not published elsewhere or related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication.

* Please note that all manuscripts will be closely examined through Turnitin once they are received by the journal.

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism

updated: 
Monday, April 14, 2025 - 4:32pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism 
A Transdisciplinary Conference

July 4-5, 2025 

July 4: In person participation at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park (and online)
July 5: Fully online

Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/ecopoetics-2025/

Fees** (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)

 

 

(Deadline Approaching) Call For Book Chapters: Don’t Get Lost in Their Sauce: Navigating Academic Identity, the Creative Self, and Reductive Practices

updated: 
Monday, April 14, 2025 - 3:23pm
Amir Gilmore, Washington State University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Call For Book Chapters

Don’t Get Lost in Their Sauce:

Navigating Academic Identity, the Creative Self, and Reductive Practices

Edited by

Amir A. Gilmore, Washington State University

Adrianne Mitchell, Washington State University

 

“See, when I had no money, I still had sauce. See if you don’t got no sauce, then ya lost. But you can also get lost in the sauce.” –Gucci Mane (2013) 

Stories and Sacredness: Reimagining Myth and Folklore Across Indian Cultures

updated: 
Monday, April 14, 2025 - 9:58am
Dr. Rajkumar Bera and Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Call for Papers: Stories and Sacredness: Reimagining Myth and Folklore Across Indian Cultures

(Proposed as Part of Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions)

Editors:

Dr. Rajkumar Bera, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Midnapore City College, West Bengal

Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash, Fellow of Social Science Research Council, USA

RABINDRANATH, GANDHI, AND THE ECOLOGY OF CHANGE

updated: 
Sunday, April 13, 2025 - 12:18am
Intersections: A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 20, 2025

RABINDRANATH, GANDHI, AND THE ECOLOGY OF CHANGE

Concept Note

“Hope and the Humanities” in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Cultures

updated: 
Saturday, April 12, 2025 - 9:40am
Dr. Amberyl Malkovich/Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 5, 2025

Children’s Literature and Young Adult Literature Permanent Sections

Session Coordinator: Dr. Amberyl Malkovich 

Dept. of English, Concord University

amalkovich@concord.edu

 

“Hope and the Humanities” in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Cultures

 

DEADLINE EXTENDED - Generative AI in the College Classroom (MMLA 2025, Milwaukee, WI)

updated: 
Friday, April 11, 2025 - 6:33pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 20, 2025

This panel seeks presentations on uses of generative AI in the college classroom, with a particular focus on approaches that combine theory and practice. Especially welcome are presentations that are built around transferable skills and activities/assignments in different disciplines including writing and literature.

The panel will take place during the MMLA's annual convention from November 14-16 on the campus of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For more informationa about the organization and the conference, see: https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/futureconventionplans/

DEADLINE EXTENDED - Technical and Professional Writing (MMLA 2025, Milwaukee, WI)

updated: 
Friday, April 11, 2025 - 6:33pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 20, 2025

This panel seeks presentations on Technical and Professional writing, whether in the college classroom or in the world at large. The panel will be interdiscplinary - we invite proposals from those working in business writing, engineering communication, health science writing, and other fields.

Topics can range from ethics to pedagogy to technologies including AI. The final panel will seek to comprise a cohesive but varied set of papers.

Eighty Years of the Moomins: Approaches to Tove Jansson's Life and Her Work

updated: 
Friday, April 11, 2025 - 2:51am
FinnFest USA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Eighty Years of the Moomins: Approaches to Tove Jansson’s Life and Her Work

 “It all began with the first Moomin tale, The Moomins and the Great Flood, published in 1945” (https://www.moomin.com/en/moomin80/). To celebrate the 80-year-old Moomins, FinnFest USA is organizing a panel on Tove Jansson as part of the Moomin conference theme during this year’s FinnFest in Duluth, Minnesota, July 31–August 3, 2025.

(Deadline Extended) Call for Papers – Feminist Mappings: Art, Literature and Films by Indian Women

updated: 
Friday, April 11, 2025 - 2:36am
University School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indraprastha University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 20, 2025

Spanning distances between bequeathed social identities and quests towards becoming, Indian women have documented the many shapes that such striving takes. They have traversed distances between equality and freedom; sifted nostalgia and futuristic imaginations; and mediated ideas of collectivization and autonomy. The upcoming issue of Indraprasth – A Journal of Culture and Communication Studies, investigates the ways in which Indian women writers and artists have perceived and shaped the world in literature and art.

"Bridging Creativity and Precision": Creative Writing and Technical Writing as inclusive disciplines

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 11:18pm
DepartmentofEnglish,BejoyNarayan Mahavidyalaya, Itachuna,Hooghly, in Collaboration with the Semimar Committee, Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalaya
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 12, 2025

Creative writing and technical writing are often seen as distinct disciplines , one rooted in imagination and artistic expression, the other in clarity, functionality, and precision. However, in today’s evolving communication landscape, these boundaries are increasingly blurred. From storytelling and spontaneous overflow of emotion to persuasive technical crafting, the fusion of creativity and technical accuracy is more relevant than ever. This conference seeks to explore how these disciplines can inform, inspire, and shape each other.

Sub-Themes: We invite original research papers and creative presentations on the following sub-themes, though not limited to:

● Narrative Techniques in Technical Writing

CFP: The 43rd Annual West Indian Literature Conference

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:47pm
West Indian Literature Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 14, 2025

CFP: The 43rd Annual West Indian Literature Conference

Call for Papers

Where: The University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
When: October 8-11, 2025
Abstracts: 250-300 words, via online submission form
Proposals Due:DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL APRIL 14, 2025

The Time of the “Bruggadung”:
States of EmUrgency

‘but leh murder start an’ bruggalungdung/ yu cahn fine a man to hole up de side’ (Kamau Brathwaite)

Fungal Horror and Popular Culture

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:47pm
Berit Åström, Umeå University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

As editors of the planned Palgrave Handbook on Fungal Horror in Popular Culture, which has 33 commissioned chapters, Dr Katarina Gregersdotter and Dr Berit Åström, Umeå University, Sweden seek approximately 10 additional original essays. 

We are primarily looking for chapters on fungal horror in non-Anglophone material, but also welcome studies of less mainstream Anglophone texts. 

CfP – September 2025 Issue "Alma Mater – Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies" (German/English), Frankfurt am Main

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:47pm
Marmara University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

English:
Alma Mater – Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, an anonymous double-blind peer-reviewed international journal published by Maurer Press in Germany and indexed by DNB, ZDB, EZB, and ERIH+, is currently welcoming cultural and social contributions from scholars around the world for its upcoming issue in September 2025. The journal publishes articles in German and English. Submissions can be made via the journal platform at https://jics.ejournal.gen.tr/ or by email to habib.tekin@hotmail.com. For further information, please visit: www.almamaterjics.com

CfP: "Serial Minimalism: Contemporary Strategies of Sparseness, Reduction and Condensation"

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:46pm
Eric Dewald (Saarland University)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Higher, faster, more expensive: At the latest since the era of the insurgent streaming wars, excess has become a leitmotif of modern television culture (cf. Maeder 2021, 11–14). As an "oversized audiovisual narrative" (Bandirali/Terrone 2021, 14), series indulge in dramatic opulence, preferably becoming entangled in a dynamic of exposed exaggeration, trying to compete not only with other shows but also with themselves (cf. Sudmann 2017). In this context, excess seems inevitably linked to the discourse of narrative quality, which increasingly demonstrates that "size matters" (Jahn-Sudmann/Kelleter 2012, 209).

From Experiences to Storytelling of Postmigration. Reinventing the Narratives of the Self and the World in Pluralistic European Societies

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:46pm
NarraMuse
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Developed and promoted by the German-speaking academic community, frequently mobilized by Anglophone and Scandinavian scholars, yet less used in Francophone and Italophone research, the concept of postmigration marks a significant shift in migration discourses. By dissolving the binary opposition between migrants and non-migrants, it allows immigration to be regarded as an intrinsic component of European societies. The conference “From Experiences to Storytelling of Postmigration” aligns with this ongoing epistemological and analytical transformation. It aims to explore how postmigration thinking is reshaping the narratives that can be written, spoken, or reconstructed from migration-related experiences.

A Duel Between Memories: Israel and Palestine

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:46pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

A Duel Between Memories: (Special Session) at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference 2025

Jewish Israelis and Palestinian Arabs have, through literature, songs, poetry, film, and other media, constructed two very different understandings of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict's history. This session invites papers that address any aspect of the role that literature and/or other media have played in creating, maintaining, and disseminating two distinct narratives. Proposals related to the conference theme of "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion" are preferred but not required.

Potential topics include:

Workshop: The Companies We Keep – Figurations, Narratives, and Practices of Co-Living in Common Spaces in 21st-Century British and Anglophone Literatures”

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:46pm
Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

CFP: “The Companies We Keep – Figurations, Narratives, and Practices of Co-Living in Common Spaces in 21st-Century British and Anglophone Literatures”

 

Workshop, 31. October – 1. November 2025, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

 

Confirmed Keynote speaker: Ben Highmore (University of Sussex)

 

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