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Call for Papers from the Carson McCullers Society
American Literature Association Annual Convention
May 21-24, 2025, Boston, MA
New Directions in Carson McCullers Scholarship:
An open topic roundtable session focused on new scholarship on the works of Carson McCullers
The Board of Board Game Academics (BGA) is pleased to announce our call for papers for the 2025 conference and journal. BGA is dedicated to the exploration of critical issues within the distinct yet overlapping communities of tabletop board and role-playing games.
While these communities are expanding, players, creators, and scholars of tabletop board and role-playing games have traditionally been late to addressing and including diverse representations and perspectives.
For instance, production companies such as Wizards of the Coast (best known for Dungeons & Dragons) have been criticized for their continued celebration of oppressive ideological perspectives, systems, and governments.
Soap Opera and Serialized Storytelling
NEH Medical Humanities Conference
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, Texas
October 2-3, 2025
Call for Panel and Paper Proposals
Call for Individual Proposals:
Dear Comparative Literature scholars/students,
Now the 2025 ICLA Congress (https://icla2025-seoul.kr/en) call for individual proposal submission is out.
You can search for the cfp here:
https://www.conftool.pro/icla2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&presentations=hide
I. Individual Proposal Submission Guidelines:
Following successful conferences in Seoul (2004), Cape Town (2006), Melbourne (2009), Belfast (2012), Belo Horizonte (2015), Hong Kong (2018) and Barcelona, (2021), IATIS is pleased to announce its call for panel, paper, roundtable, workshop, and artistic initiative proposals for its eighth conference to be held at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, 10 – 13 Dec 2025.
Conference Theme
Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.
Call for Papers
2025 Texas Association for Asian American Diaspora Studies (TAAADS) Annual Symposium
"Rethinking Asian American Diaspora Studies: Relationality, Interconnected Struggles, Shared Histories"
Feb 28-March 1, 2025 at College Station, Texas A&M University
Submission: Please visit our website at tinyurl.com/taaads for the submission form
Abstract Deadline: Dec 31st, 2024
Contemporary Indigenous Horror
Edited by Dr. Naomi Simone Borwein and Dr. Krista Collier-Jarvis
PASE 2025/Crossroads 5 Conference
Voices of the Earth: literary and linguistic perspectives in environmental humanities
June 4-6, 2025
University of Białystok, Poland
Suddenly, we became aware that humans could destroy the livability of the planet—whether
intentionally or otherwise. This awareness only increased as we learned about pollution, mass
extinction, and climate change. One half of current precarity is the fate of the earth: what kinds
of human disturbances can we live with? Despite talk of sustainability, how much chance do
we have for passing a habitable environment to our multispecies descendants?
Anna Tsing
The Journal of Critical Race Inquiry (JCRI) is currently soliciting submissions for our 2025 open issue. We invite interdisciplinary work with critical and intersectional approaches to race and racialization. In addition to scholarly essays, JCRI welcomes the submission of visual, literary, digital, and audio art and performance documentation relevant to our mandate, as well as activist roundtables, interviews, and shorter essays.
We publish work that features
ALA 2025 May 21-25 Boston
Edith Wharton and Popular Culture
ALA 2025 May 21-25 Boston
Edith Wharton is regularly the question or answer on Jeopardy! these days. She’s also the heroine of a 2024 murder mystery by Mariah Fredericks. The indie band The Magnetic Fields penned a love-letter to the “masterpiece of catastrophic love” that is Wharton’s 1911 Ethan Frome, and a diverse range of voices cite Wharton as an influence or a favorite: Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Beth Nguyen, and Francis Ford Coppola—whose adaptation of The Glimpses of the Moon is currently underway. A novel that, in fact, also inspired Tavi Gevinson’s 2024 audio series.
Speakers are invited to share experiences, insights, and expertise on a roundtable exploring how neurodivergence shapes and intersects with professional academic life. This session will examine the nuanced realities of neurodivergence within academia and related spaces, particularly for faculty, researchers, and academic staff. Speakers will give a short presentation (5-10 minutes), followed by a moderated discussion. This format is envisioned as an opportunity to share ideas and experiences in a less formal way than traditional research panels.
We welcome presentations that explore, but are not limited to, the following topics:
Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi – Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur
(E-ISSN: 2619-9890)
Call for Papers
Issue 53 (2025/1)
Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi – Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur (Journal of German Language and Literature) is a peer-reviewed international academic journal founded in 1954 by Istanbul University’s Department of German Language and Literature. It is published biannually (June & December).
The College of Arts and Humanities at Bethune-Cookman University welcomes proposals for the annual Zora Neale Hurston Conference, which will be held virtually on February 13-14, 2025. Zora Rebooted: AI, Language, and Literature celebrates Hurston in the age of artificial intelligence and acknowledges the parallels between Hurston and AI in challenging and expanding our understanding of human creativity and identity. Noted Hurston scholar, literary critic, and writer Dr. Deborah Plant is the scheduled keynote speaker.
Call for Papers: International Journal of Community Music
Special Issue: ‘Thinking More About Community Music’
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-community-music#call-for-papers
The Adolescence in Film and Television Area invites paper proposals for presentation at the annual Popular Culture Association Conference, to be held April 16-19, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The official deadline for online submission of presentation abstracts (see below for additional information) is November 30, 2024.
Submissions that explore noteworthy coverage patterns, representations, and themes pertaining to the portrayal of adolescence/adolescents in film and television, during any historical era, are desired from scholars, educators, and graduate students.
In this special issue we will look at environmental aspects of Fantasy. Since its very earliest manifestations, in taproot texts such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Beowulf, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Fantasy has been entangled with the natural and supernatural world.
‘The force that through the green fuse drives the flower.’
Dylan Thomas
Murder Media Symposium
Call For Papers:
Liverpool John Moores University, 11th April 2025.
The recent Dahmer: Monster (Netflix, 2022), The Long Shadow (ITV, 2023), No Man of God (Sealey, 2021), and Beyond Reasonable Doubt (BBC Sounds, 2017), stand as some of the latest examples of the long and rich history of true crime content. The Murder Media Symposium will explore approaches to contemporary true crime and murder media texts, and the industrial, production, and fan cultures that surround such material.
Rajpath: Journal of Creative Arts and English Language
Rajpath: Journal of Creative Arts and English Language invites researchers, scholars, and practitioners to submit their original manuscripts for consideration in our upcoming issues. We welcome contributions that explore the intersection of creative arts and the English language from a diverse range of perspectives and disciplines.
We invite submissions on topics including, but not limited to:
The existence of a sense of contact within a particular culture remains inherently interdisciplinary and intersectional in terms of literature, the performative arts, and the social sciences. Contact essentially entails a continuity, one that consciously evolves from the preceding line of thought to facilitate the production of the interiority of further signification. As human societies evolved, diverse communities established distinct cultural, social, and literary traditions. The resultant intersections foster and foreground the ‘unconforming’, resulting in the emergence of new socio-cultural utterances.
Paper jam: Nonhuman Animal Cultures
To what extent have ecocriticism and the environmental humanities taken up the call to consider nonhuman cultures or reconsider the idea of culture itself in light of their existence? Contributions from many disciplines are welcome, including literary studies, cultural histories, animal studies, history, philosophy, anthropology, and more.
Please submit an abstract, 250 to 300 words on any example or aspect of the following:
Nonhuman avian culture(s)
Nonhuman oceanic culture(s)
Insect culture(s)
transcultural work of Sue SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH
Nonhuman cultures and PAR (participatory action research)
We are seeking chapters to include in an edited book with the provisional title: Storied Citizenship: Reimagining Civic Encounters Among Children and Youth in the Post-Digital Age. This text will be an interdisciplinary, open access volume that will explore existing and emerging ideas about storied citizenship among children and youth in the post-digital age. Rather than defining citizenship or civic engagement in traditional ways, we see it as a process in which young people participate in arts-based, embodied, lived, and spatialized ways across cultural contexts.
Call for papers for the special issue of English Language Notes (published by Duke University Press)
Special issue editors
Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India
Eunice NgongKum, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon
Onyemaechi Udumukwu, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Environmental Injustice, Resistance and African Literature
Humanitarianism and Hunger
2025 Famine Summer School, National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, Ireland.
May 29—June 1, 2025
Call for Papers:The 2025 Famine Summer School will take place at the National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, County Roscommon, Ireland on May 29—June 1, 2025. The theme of the 2025 Famine Summer School is “Humanitarianism and Hunger”.
Submissions are invited for the Richard D. Gooder Essay Prize, offered by Cambridge Quarterly, a journal published by Oxford University Press. The Prize is open to doctoral students and those who have submitted their thesis within the last calendar year, and offers a prize of £300 and publication in the journal.
The Cambridge Quarterly is a journal of literary and cultural criticism with a broad remit. Our focus is largely on scholarship on Anglophone literature, but we also welcome work on writing in languages other than English, as well as on film, music, theatre, television, dance, the visual arts and other cultural and artistic forms, singly or in comparison.
The Uncanny States of America: Encountering the Planetary
https://eaas.eu/eaas-news/call-for-papers-ejas-special-issue-the-uncanny...
Living With Water:
Agency, Materiality, Narratives
Online seminar series 2025