Laughter and Medicine

We invite proposals for contributions to an edited volume exploring the interfaces between laughter and medicine. Developing from a British Academy/Wellcome Trust-funded conference held at the University of Birmingham in November 2024, this volume will put the medical humanities in dialogue with healthcare provision and the medical sciences so as to bridge the divides between the clinic, the laboratory, cultural history, literature, and the arts in Western cultures from the classical period to the present day. 

The Nagoya Gifu Chapter of JALT (Japan Association for Language Teaching) is seeking papers on EFL (English as a foreign language) topics. We are a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal.

See past issues of our journal here:

https://sites.google.com/view/nagoyajaltpublication2020/the-jalt-nagoya-...

See the submission guidelines page and link for submissions here:

https://sites.google.com/view/nagoyajaltpublication2020/the-jalt-nagoya-...

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Retelling and Representation in the Ramakatha Tradition: Critical Perspectives
[ISBN: 978-81-952119-4-4]

Editor: Dr. Pallavi Mishra, Assistant Professor of English, SDM Govt PG College, Doiwala, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Manuscripts in MS Word (4,000–8,000 words) adhering to MLA 9th edition formatting guidelines should be sent to pallavi.engdhe@gmail.com by 31 December 2024.

Creativitas, an annual online double-blind peer-reviewed journal in English Studies, is extending an invitation to distinguished scholars, researchers, and academics to join our growing editorial community as reviewers. Published on a yearly basis, our journal is committed to advancing critical scholarship in literary studies through rigorous academic discourse and interdisciplinary exploration.

Journal Overview

“Teaching Women Writers’ Edited Texts:

New Pedagogical Approaches to Feminist, Anti-Racist Recovery Work”

sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Society

American Literature Association Conference | May 21–24, 2025, Boston

American Literature Association
36th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2025
Boston, MA

The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society welcomes proposals for two guaranteed panels at the forthcoming American Literature Association Conference.

We invite presentations on any topic related to the life and work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 

Please submit one-page abstracts to andrew_ball@emerson.edu by January 20.

The editors of Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning are pleased to announce an open call for papers for our Summer 2025 issue. 

Impact is a peer-reviewed biannual online journal devoted to interdisciplinary teaching, learning, and scholarship. 

If you would like to submit a paper for consideration, please go to: https://impact.scholasticahq.com/for-authors

If you would like to propose a paper for this issue, please send an abstract, your CV, and a cover letter to citl@bu.edu no later than 15 January 2025. 

Faculty of Foreign Languages is pleased to announce that its 14th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies will be held on 30 and 31 May 2025. The topic for this edition of our annual conference is

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND EMPATHY

Conference online: 27-28 February 2025

​CFP: 

Coined by Marianne Hirsch in the 1990s, the term postmemory by now entered various disciplines who search to understand how memory form our identity and how we position, articulate or just make sense of our place in the society and our relations with it. The term postmemory problematizes the concept of memory by bringing attention to the memories that are not exactly personal but that keep on shaping one’s life and one’s  way of seeing the world.

Dialogues and Dissonances: The Environmental Humanities from North-South Perspectives 

NOVA University of Lisbon - School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH) |

Campolide Campus - Colégio Almada Negreiros (25-27 September, 2025)

Concept Note

In recent decades, the term Global South has come to signify the distinctions between the industrialised nations of the “North” and the comparatively less developed nations of the “South.” The Global North-South designation, however, is not strictly geographical but instead reflects various geopolitical, economic, and ecological commonalities between countries.

Intraspection publishes academic work that exhibits compelling prose, captivating arguments,
and rhetorical flair. The journal seeks to meld academic writing with evolving forms and writing
styles. Intraspection invites submissions that explore and inquire in ways that mesh with our aim
to blend scholarship and creativity, emphasizing style and rhetorical flair to highlight content and
the development of provocative ideas.

New Perspectives on Creature Features

Edited by

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

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.

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.