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Call for Papers: Sonic Palimpsests: Sound, History, and Speculative Listening PAMLA 2025 Conference | San Francisco, November 20–23

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:18pm
Andrew Brooks / University of Massachusetts Amherst
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

This panel invites scholarship that explores how sound—broadly understood as an aesthetic, material, and theoretical force—functions within and shapes literature, music, performance, and visual media to riff on history and modulate experience. We seek contributions that investigate how sound operates both as a method and a site of creative invention—where dominant narratives are unsettled and histories that resist closure come into audible presence. Sonic form becomes a space where the unfinished, the fugitive, and the refused emerge through rhythm, echo, distortion, repetition, and resonance.

CFP (Conference): Terminal Futures: JG Ballard In The 21st Century

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:15pm
Kingston University, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

 

Conference Call for Papers

 

Kingston University, UK, 28th and 29th October 2025

 

Terminal Futures: JG Ballard In The 21st Century

 

Kingston School of Art, Kingston University

 

#Kingston2025

 

October 28th and 29th 2025

 

Call For Papers

 

Call for Papers: ‘The Tyranny of Truth: The Cinema of Gillo Pontecorvo’

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:15pm
Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Call for Papers: Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies

Special Issue: ‘The Tyranny of Truth: The Cinema of Gillo Pontecorvo’

CFP for a guest-edited issue of the Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies

Guest-editor Fabio Pezzetti Tonion

Museo Nazionale del Cinema

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-italian-cinema-media-studies#call-for-papers

Experimental Archives Conference: call for Papers

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:15pm
Kingston University, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

 

Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, September 11th and 12th September, 2025

 

 

Indigeneity in the Global South

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:15pm
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Mandi
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 6, 2025

Indigeneity is a complex and dynamic concept that encapsulates the identities, cultures, and rights of Indigenous peoples worldwide. It (Indigeneity) has historically been defined through rigid legal and anthropological frameworks established by nation-states and colonial powers. These frameworks often rely on lineage, territorial ties, and historical continuity to grant recognition, land rights, and resource access. Such definitions create fixed distinctions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities, reducing indigeneity to static identity markers (Perreault, Bridge, & McCarthy, 2015).

NEPCA 2025 - Storytelling and Narrative (Virtual Conference!)

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:15pm
Kristi Gatto
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

 

The 2025 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.

Virtual sessions will take place via Zoom throughout the day on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Registration will open up in mid-July. 

The Storytelling & Narrative area explores the multifaceted nature and role of storytelling and narrative. We invite submissions from all theoretical and methodological perspectives. Submissions should have a connection to how storytelling and narrative plays a role in popular culture including, but not limited to, topics such as:

Return to the South: The Complexities of Southern Culture in Ryan Coogler's film Sinners

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:15pm
Journal of American Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Return to the South: The Complexities of Southern Culture in Ryan Coogler’s film Sinners. 

On April 18, Warner Brothers released Ryan Coogler’s long anticipated film Sinners. Since its release, the film has achieved both critical acclaim and popular resonance, marking a significant entry in contemporary Southern cinema. Critics and audiences praise Sinners for its nuanced treatment of inter/intra-racial dynamics, spirituality, and regional identity. In addition, the film has prompted sustained cultural discourse, and now, academic interest in the South. Its layered narrative and atmospheric rendering of the South position Sinners as a vital text for examining the complexities of Southern culture and history.

RSA 2026 Roundtable: Our Minor Poets

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:14pm
Arya Sureshbabu; Margaux Delaney
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

“[Minor poets are poets] who may have a strong personal appeal to certain readers. . . This poet may not be very important, you should say defiantly, but his work is good for me.” –T. S. Eliot

 

Femspec - Call for Scholarly and Creative Submissions for Issue 25.2

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:14pm
Femspec
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

 

Femspec seeks both scholarly and creative submissions for its upcoming Issue 25.2

Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist academic journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.  Femspec publishes both academic scholarship and creative writing.

Creative writing submissions could include short fiction, poetry, or experimental forms.

Birthing Stories: Silence, Trauma, and The Power of Narratives in Clinical Care

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:14pm
Devaleena Das University of Minnesota Medical School
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 20, 2025

Birthing Stories:  Silence, Trauma, and The Power of Narratives in Clinical Care

                                                                              Devaleena Das and Jessica Gildersleeve

when we speak we are afraid

our words will not be heard

nor welcomed

but when we are silent

we are still afraid

 

So it is better to speak

remembering

we were never meant to survive.— Audre Lorde

                   

Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers—strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and believe in their inner strength.— Barbara Katz Rothman

Call for Papers - Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2025)

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:14pm
Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (JCLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

We are now accepting submissions for our next regular issue.

Manuscripts in MS Word (5,000–10,000 words) adhering to the MLA formatting guidelines should be sent to editor@jcla.in by 31 July 2025.

Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Comparative_Literature_and_Aesthetics
Website: www.jcla.in
Current Issues: https://jcla.in/journal-of-comparative-literature-and-aesthetics/current...

La révision/Revision

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:14pm
Université Bordeaux Montaigne
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 8, 2025

Appel à communications/Call for papers

 

Climas (EA 4196) 

Université Bordeaux Montaigne

26-27 février 2026 / February 26-27, 2026

 

La révision/Revision

 

Organisateurs/organizers : 

Véronique Béghain, Hannah Champion, Juliette Pochelu, Joël Richard 

(with the collaboration of Guillaume Desagulier)

 

 

“Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea”

VOL 12 (2025) CALL FOR PAPERS AND BOOK REVIEWS

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:13pm
Pulse: the Journal of Science and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

PULSE – the Journal of Science and Culture

VOL 12 (2025)

CALL FOR PAPERS AND BOOK REVIEWS

 

Historical Fictions Research Conference 2026

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:13pm
Historical Fictions Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

 

Historical Fictions Research Conference, Erlangen (Germany),

19th-20th February 2026

 

Call for Papers

Deadline: 1st September 2025

Submission Form

 

Accent: Music and Sound in Australian Cinema

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:12pm
University of Western Australia
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025


Accent: Music and Sound in Australian Cinema

The University of Western Australia (UWA) Conservatorium of Music is pleased to announce a call for papers for a conference on sound and music in Australian cinema. The conference will be held on the 29th-30th November 2025 at UWA. This event will bring together scholars, practitioners, filmmakers, and sound/musicology theorists to interrogate the ways in which Australian cinema’s soundscapes serve as sites for political, historical, and cultural theorisation.

Possible papers may explore, but are not limited to:

New Directions in Disability Studies Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:12pm
University of Cincinnati
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

2025 marks the 35th year since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Though ADA advances have often been celebrated in mainstream media and the rights they support taken as secured, it has come under attack through rollbacks since 2016, and most recently by removing DEIA initiatives within the Department of Education. At the same time, national and international discourse community efforts through conferences and other open forums have grown more diffuse.  With this in mind, this conference, “New Directions in Disability Studies,” will reflect on where disability studies has come from and what it will be in the future.  

Who's Afraid of Areopagitica?: Milton and the Revolutionary Reader, Once More (RSA2026)

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:12pm
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The premise of this anticipated panel is that Areopagitica is a critical text for our age, so it’s time to reconsider it. John Milton’s 1644 argument against pre-publication censorship is lauded by some as an absolute defense of freedom of speech. But Areopagitica also advocates suppression of Catholic writings and allows for destruction of most everything else after its publication. Scholars have long considered whether this text provides a resource for advocates of freedom of expression and the press, a model of totalitarianism, or something else entirely. How might our own age of media revolution and debates about intellectual freedom recast our understanding of Areopagitica and its legacies?

Pleasure Regained: Having Fun with Milton (RSA2026)

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:12pm
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

As readers of Milton know, Milton’s writings are often humorous, titillating, outrageous – extra in today’s colloquial parlance. Of course, they are also challenging, but this too can be pleasurable. Studying Milton involves, simply put, serious fun. How might we rethink our affective approaches to Milton’s poetry and prose to spotlight not only their difficulty but also their recreation? What is at stake for Milton and for us in the pleasures derived from, for example, an over-the-top invective or a sarcastic God? What are sustaining and enlivening potentials in critical and creative practices, such as speculation, auto-criticism, and parody? And how might we mobilize these potentials in our writing and teaching to engage new audiences?

John Milton: A General Session (RSA2026)

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:12pm
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The Milton Society of America invites proposals for 15-minute papers considering any aspect of John Milton’s writings, their reception, and their significance for a proposed panel at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in San Francisco, held February 19-21, 2026. In the spirit of the RSA, we also welcome papers that bring into dialogue Milton Studies and areas of research across the Renaissance world, including literature, philosophy, art and music. Send your paper title (15-word maximum), 200-word abstract, and resume (.pdf or .doc) to MSA Secretary, Marissa Greenberg, at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com no later than July 1, 2025.

Southeastern Renaissance Conference Annual Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:11pm
Southeastern Renaissance Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The Southeastern Renaissance Conference (SRC) invites submissions for presentation at our 82nd Annual Meeting, which will be hosted by the University of South Carolina-Columbia and held from Friday, September 19 to Saturday, September 20, 2025. 

 

The organizers will consider papers on any topic related to the Early Modern / Renaissance period.

 

How to Submit

“New Ways of Creating Knowledge in the Technologically Integrated Classroom”

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:10pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association / SAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

In his work AI Ethics, Mark Coeckelbergh describes humans as “meaning-making, conscious, embodied, and living beings whose nature, mind, and knowledge cannot be explained away by comparisons to machines” (36). Machine-assistant writing tools and other technologies have become increasingly prevalent as teaching tools in humanities classrooms, which means it is more imperative than ever we find ways to differentiate human and non-human meaning making and knowledge creation. Our panel is interested in exploring and mapping potential futures for the humanities as technology becomes an increasingly significant presence in how we teach and present our work in the classroom. 

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CFP Between Journal_XVI.31 (May 2026). “Sympoetry: Morphologies of Global Romanticism”

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:08pm
Between Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

CfP Between XVI.31 (May 2026). “Sympoetry: Morphologies of Global Romanticism” 

Edited by:
Simona Beccone (University of Pisa), Sofia Morabito (University of Pisa), Daniela Pierucci (University of Pisa), Matteo Zupancic (University of Pisa).

Submission deadline: 30 November 2025.
Peer-review (est.): February 2026.
Publication Date: 30 May 2026.

Erudite Creative Writing Techniques: 2026 AWP Conference Session

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:08pm
Anna Faktorovich / Anaphora Literary Press
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 14, 2025

I would like to organize a session at the AWP Conference, March 4-7. I would like to present the research I am currently developing for a book called "Writing Erudite Speculative Fiction". I hope to find other presenters who would like to discuss strategies about formulaic, genre-based, or other types of fiction writing strategies, especially aimed at the literary or sophisticated marketplace. This session is tailored for professors of creative writing who want unique approaches to teaching. The rules are: 

Luminous Call for Papers

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:06pm
Sophia Luminous
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Greetings everyone!

We are excited to announce the commencement of abstract submissions for the fourth volume of Sophia Luminous.

Sophia Luminous ( ISSN: 3048-6211) is a national-level, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary online research journal for students, published by Sophia College for Women (Autonomous), Mumbai, India. It is devoted to the discussion of the innovative, novel, and contemporary areas of research by undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and early researchers from an array of disciplines.

This issue is not thematically restricted, and we invite previously unpublished research papers that are written by students ranging from undergraduate to MPhil degree.

Emerson, Memory, and Oblivion

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:06pm
PAMLA / Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Emerson, Memory, and Oblivion

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