The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, published since 1988, is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of the fantastic in Literature, Art, Drama, Film, and Popular Media. It is published three times a year by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.

For Authors – Submissions2025 Article SubmissionWindow will open Monday, March 24, 2025,and will close Monday, June 30, 2025.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS – DEADLINE JULY 15TH 2025

THE DIMENSION OF CONFLICT IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE: DELIBERATION, POLARIZATION, IDENTITY, MEDIA, GLOBAL BALANCES

2nd PhD and early-career scholars transdisciplinary seminar

October 9th-10th 2025

“Guglielmo Marconi” University – Via Plinio, 44 – Rome, Italy

Call for Papers: Symposium at Utrecht University, 10 April 2026

Literature, Care, and the Ethics of Living in Southwest Asia and North Africa

Mediterranean Crossings: A Studia Mediterranea Conference

Location: The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Split, Croatia

Dates: September 19-20, 2025

Abstract submission date: June 25, 2025

Keynote speaker (virtual): Anna Kornbluh (University of Illinois at Chicago)

*note: this is a hybrid conference, but there will be no recording and the conference is only open to registered participants

Ann Arbor, Michigan / Zoom (Hybrid)
Deadline for abstracts: June 30th (up to 250 words)
Submission Form: https://forms.gle/9zENxMYi9i1Wotu67
Free and open to the public

IATIS Yearbook 2025

Type: Edited volume from Routledge UK (contract signed)

Title:

Exploring ‘Geo’ in Translation:

Redefining Territoriality of Translational Landscape in South Asia

1. Rationale:

Call for Papers

(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media (In-Person)

Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Annual Conference 

Sonesta Hotel Philadelphia (1800 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19103)

6-8 November 2025

The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture invites proposals for an in-person panel on the theme of "(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media" for the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Annual Conference, which will run from Thursday, 6 November, to Saturday, 8 November 2025. 

CFP: Thomas Nashe and Voice

St John’s College, Cambridge and Faculty of English, Cambridge

January 9-January 10, 2026

Entanglements: Journal of PosthumanitiesEntanglements: Journal of Posthumanities is an international, double-blind, peer-reviewed, open-access, bi-annual, transdisciplinary journal dedicated to critically interrogating and dismantling the overarching human social contract that largely underpins existing disciplines of the humanities and social sciences.

Conference Dates - November 20th to 23rd 2025

Location - San Francisco, California - The InterContinental San Francisco Hotel - U.S.A.

Topic - Reclaiming History: Trauma, Memory and Resilience in the Narratives from Africa

Deadline for Abstract/Proposal Submission - Thursday, May 15th 2025

Overview - 

Bible and Literature (Panel / In-Person)Presiding Officer: Kathryn Vulic (Western Washington University)

This session welcomes papers about the Bible and Literature that will ideally but not necessarily connect to the conference theme of “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” and touch on:

— Jewish biblical or post-biblical works

— Canonical or non-canonical Christian scriptures

— Post-biblical literary works that borrow from, adapt, translate, comment on, satirize, or allude to biblical stories, verses, characters, themes, or tropes

Research in Education Curriculum and Pedagogy: Global Perspectives (ISSN: 2977-1633) invites outstanding dissertations/papers from MA Early Childhood students and early career researchers to submit abstracts/ interests by 30th June 2025.

For this special issue, we seek to explore a wide range of early childhood studies content. We strive to build a bridge between theory and practice in early childhood, which not only reflects researcher interests but can also appeal to public understanding of relevant educational issues. For more detials visit the journal's website https://recap.at-journals.com/.

Proposed timeline:

30 June 2025: Abstract/Interest submission deadline

Narratives of Nature: Representations of the Environment, Urban Ecology and Planetary Crisis in Indigenous and Postcolonial Literatures

E-ISSN: 2582-0400 | CODEN: LITIBR

www.litinfinite.com

All the manuscripts should be mailed to litinfinitejournal@gmail.com

Abstract (150-200 words), Keywords – (5-6), and Final research papers of 4000-6000 words (including citations) should be submitted by 15th June 2025.

(The Bengali research manuscripts should be accompanied by English title, author(s) details, keywords, abstracts, and references)