The special issue of the SOPHIA journal invites abstract submissions dedicated to exploring philosophical approaches to Precarity. This special issue will engage with the concept of precarity from a variety of philosophical discussions and frameworks, addressing its ethical, existential, political, and social dimensions. The special issue seeks contributions that critically examine the conditions of precarity in contemporary life and reflect on how philosophical frameworks can illuminate, challenge, and potentially offer solutions to the issues it raises. This special issue will come out in March 2026. Abstracts of 300-400 words are invited by January 31, 2025.

CALL FOR PAPERSCROSSINGS: A JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES (ISSN 2071-1107; E-ISSN 2958-3179) is inviting scholarly articles for its Volume 16 to be published in 2025. Submission Deadline: March 31, 2025 Crossings: A Journal of English Studies is an annual double-blind peer-reviewed journal of scholarly articles and book reviews. The articles involve, but are not limited to, issues related to language, literature, culture, and pedagogy.

Keynote speakers: Dr Shellie McMurdo (University of Hertfordshire) and Prof Louise Peacock (De Montfort University)

Theorizing Zombiism IV: Fast Zombie/SLO Zombie

 DEADLINE EXTENSION

California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly)

Department of English

San Luis Obispo (SLO)

California

Provisional Date: 18-19 July, 2025

Chapter submissions are invited for an edited collection, Marlowe X Theory.  

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

The Postwar Area Literature Group invites submissions on the following postwar and contemporary topics for the 2025 American Literature Association Conference, which will be held in Boston, MA from May 21-24, 2025 (information about the annual conference can be found at the ALA conference page website). The Postwar Literature Group has three guaranteed panels this year, two in postwar studies and one in contemporary studies. Please review our calls for papers below, and email Jacqueline.Foertsch@unt.edu with any questions.

Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (ISSN 2993-1053) is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective. It provides a unique, international forum for innovative critical approaches to cosmopolitanism emerging from literatures, cultures, media, and the arts in dialogue with other areas of the humanities and social sciences, across temporal, spatial, and linguistic boundaries.

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Survive and Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine 

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the 1950s in popular culture. Held online on Thursday 28th and Friday 29th of March 2025.

The 1950s was the decade where the world began to recover from the tragedy of the Second World War. This conference aims to explore both the popular culture of the 1950s, and how the 1950s have been depicted in the popular culture of other eras.

Sydney, Australia and Zoom 25-26 September 2025

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free conference in Sydney and online exploring representations of food in popular cultures in history and today, on 25 and 26 September 2025.

Delicious, Nutritious and Fictitious: Food in Popular Culture is asymposium that aims to interrogate the ways that food, recipes, cooking, eating and nutrition are evident in popular culture. This may be representations of food in television, film, literature, art, music, as text, narrative, discourse or any other scholarly form or genre.

We are currently seeking contributions from the humanities and social sciences for a scientific network that explores ephemerality in both its material forms and theoretical conceptualizations. This interdisciplinary network aims to bring into dialogue various questions about ephemerality, specifically examining how different fleeting forms of expression are implicated in the continual making and unmaking of proximities, both human and non-human, producing “a matter of temporary intensities and pacts amongst people” and other entities (Vélez-Serna, 14).

Boy Not There is a newly established fellowship, advocating for collaboration between scholars and lived-experience advocates regarding sexual violence against men and boys.

We aim to amplify voices that confront the challenges of male sexual violence, reckoning with social stigmas that often become barriers to disclosure. We work with survivors, researchers, educators and professional clinicians to create supportive frameworks for histories to be shared and eventually overcome.

Food and Foodways is an interdisciplinary journal, and we're expanding our coverage of book reviews in the months ahead. If you are interested in writing a review of an interdisciplinary food studies book published in recent years, we invite you to express interest by contacting our new collective of book review editors at FandFbookreviews@gmail.com

Please include the author and title of the book, its publisher and publication date, and your credentials for writing this review. Additionally, if you would like to suggest a book for consideration, we welcome your recommendations.

  Making Visible: Disability Representations in Popular Culture

  Department of Englishi n collaboration with IQAC

  Gargi College, University of Delhi 

  21-22 February,  2025

Conference in Hybrid Mode for participants residing outside Delhi 

Registration link for Abstracts/  Fees for Successful Applicants/ Participants:

 https://forms.gle/aCXeZ4SErSJC7r9v7