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“History provides numerous examples of people who were convinced that they were doing the right thing and committed terrible crimes because of it.”
---Christopher Paolini
Chapter proposals are invited for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. Join confirmed contributors like Cáel M. Keegan, author of Lana and Lilly Wachowski: Sensing Transgender. We seek a broadly international group of scholarly contributors.
We're seeking PEER REVIEWERS for monographs for Lexington Books:
Contact: lilatailor595@gmail.com
Monograph info:
Transmedia Explorations of Cannibalism: Dehumanizing Accusations and Empowering Rebuttals (Lexington Books: Monsters and Villains series)
This transmedia monograph takes the theoretical perspective of “cannibalism as discourse.” It includes ten chapters that focus on an accusation of cannibalism and then a counter-culture pushback that uses cannibalism as a source of contemplation, empowerment, and/or returns the accusation of cannibalism back to the hegemonic culture.
This is a call for chapter proposals on the late Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days reality TV series (2005-08) on the FX Channel for the FX Reader, an anthology of FX's best original TV series, which is under a two-volume book contract with Syracuse University Press. In each 30 Days episode, Spurlock, or some other person or group of people, would spend 30 days immersing themselves in a particular lifestyle or environment with which they are not familiar, which include such topics as working for minimum wage, being in prison, a Christian living as a Muslim, and others.
Beyond Green: Intersections of Ecology, Culture and Conservation
(Proposed as part of Bloomsbury’s Environment and Society series)
Editors: Dr. Rajkumar Bera and Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash
Introduction
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (IJAISC) ISSN : 2819 - 101N 2974-5962 (Print)
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International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies (IJHAS)
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
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A TWO-DAY ONLINE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND NATION BUILDING THROUGH LITERATURE (YDNBL) on MARCH 4 & 5, 2025
ORGANIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, RGNIYD
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Department of English in RGNIYD hosts a two-day online conference on Youth Development and Nation Building through Literature (YDNBL), exploring the role of literature in youth empowerment and nation-building. The conference aims to foster collaborations that can lead to actionable outcomes in promoting youth empowerment through literature and cultural studies.
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention 2025 (RMMLA)
Women in French
Call for Papers
Representation of Repression in Contemporary Francophone Women Writings.
Romance, Revolution and Reform, Issue 8Play in the Long Nineteenth Century Call for Submissions
2026 MLA Convention in Toronto, Canada, January 8-11, 2026
Special Session Title: Women and Physical Objects
We invite proposals exploring women’s encounters and interactions with physical objects in all literary and cultural products across history and regions. Comparative, interdisciplinary, and transnational approaches are welcome.
Email your 250-word proposal and a 150-word cv to Haihong Yang, hyang@udel.edu and Wanming Wang, wanming.wang@mail.mcgill.ca, by 3/15.
Deadline for submission: March 15, 2025.
The scholarly research on Comfort Women studies has grown significantly over the past three decades, focusing on the experiences of women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. Early works primarily centered on the historical and legal aspects, analyzing the testimonies of survivors and the geopolitical ramifications of Japan's wartime actions. Studies such as Yoshimi Yoshiaki's Comfort Women (1995) and the testimonies collected by organizations like the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery highlighted the widespread nature of the system and the ongoing struggles for justice.
Call for Papers
Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics
SPECIAL ISSUE – Translation & Philosophy: Disciplines in Need of Dialogue
Guest Editor: Byron Byrne-Taylor, Shanghai International Studies University, China
Enthusiasm: A Political Affect?
Keynote Speaker: Avital Ronell
24-25 April 2025
As the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence drives increased interest in the founding of the United States, this conference, co-hosted by the American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum and the Science History Institute aims to widen the scope of such conversations. Inspired in part by the APS’s 2025 exhibition, Philadelphia: The Revolutionary City and “America’s Scientific Revolutionaries,” a multiyear project funded by the Lounsbery Foundation we invite proposals from scholars from all disciplines whose research illuminates the intersections of science and society in the Atlantic World between 1764 and 1804. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):
American, British and Canadian Studies
Special Issue
American Narratives and Video Games
December 2025
Call for Papers
Guest Editors
Francesca Razzi, “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara (francesca.razzi@unich.it)
Valentina Romanzi, University of Torino and University of Verona (valentina.romanzi@unito.it)
The Sixteenth IASEMS Conference
Tuscia University (Viterbo), 29-30 September 2025 Convenors: Alba Graziano and the IASEMS Executive Board
The Fifteenth IASEMS Conference
University of Salento (Lecce), 16-17 May 2025
Convenors: Maria Luisa De Rinaldis, Maria Renata Dolce and the IASEMS Executive Board
The Fifteenth IASEMS Conference in Lecce, University of Salento, 16-17 May 2025, will investigate the imaginary of waters in Shakespeare and early modern texts, aiming at the exploration of notions of fluidity and crossing. The conference wishes to investigate what meanings, both personal and collective, circulated around ‘water’ in early modern culture, but also to discuss the water-related relevance and value of the ideas of shapelessness and transformation, mutability and sea change as opposed to fixity, solidity, and normativity.
The issue’s topic revolves around Education and will challenge our anthropogenic philosophies.
It will be an exploration into what education actually means and what alternative philosophies could replace the current, education is for getting a good job and becoming a productive worker, expanding the economy, to something more holistic, more socially beneficial and more forward thinking.
All of this can be answered with fictional stories, philosophical papers, poems or personal essays.
The Anthropocene has a deficit of philosophy that looks at the world from a different point of view, instead of the one prescribed, centralised, accepted narrative.
Call For Papers - CFP
Call for Papers: Engaging the Local Public Humanities in St. Louis Colloquium & Workshop
Colloquium Date: April 18, 2025
Location: Washington University in St. Louis
Deadline for Submissions: March 1, 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS
Landscapes Of the Mind: Narratives of Cultural Encounters
Anda International Conference
Università del Salento, Lecce – Italy
25-26 September 2025
Landscapes of the Mind: Narratives of Cultural Encounters explores how different cultures perceive, interpret, and narrate their experiences and interactions. Possible topics related to the conference include:
Our third annual conference on May 2-3 via Zoom! This online conference is free to attend. Please use this link to register to present or attend: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeSiuxTNYFJPUPxF1gAdfH1pQthfjig...
Submissions may cover any aspect of literature, film, or art related to science fiction, fantasy, or fairy tale in the Long Nineteenth Century (approximately 1789 to 1918). Also welcome are presentations on tv, film, and video game adaptations of nineteenth-century texts, or on works that re-envision the nineteenth century through science fiction or fantasy. Submissions to present are due by March 28.
CFP: Dracula: A Companion
Matthew Crofts & Maddy Potter
Dracula: A Companion is intended to both be an essential guide to interpreting Bram Stoker’s Dracula and a collection of new perspectives supporting a reshaping of the way the text is taught and engaged with by students.
Are Greek myths, as Charlotte Higgins argued for The Guardian in 2021, ‘relevant for all time’? This question relates to the widespread influence of ancient Greek myth in contemporary culture, especially in areas such as literature. The classical stories of Homer and Sophocles, amongst others, are frequently being revised to offer a modern entry point to ancient myth. In recent years, publishing has seen a sharp rise in re-imaginings of Greek myth, and works by Pat Barker, Margaret Atwood, Madeline Miller, Natalie Haynes, Jennifer Saint, Bea Fitzgerald, and Jessie Burton, have all appeared on bestseller lists.
We are looking for submissions to a symposium as part of the 2025 Brazilian Association for Comparative Literature Conference "Redes, Margens et Rios," held June 23-28 in Manaus, Brazil. The symposium format is designed to allow for a several day working period over the course of the conference's days (depending on number of submissions). We are looking for 250 words abstracts for 20 minute presentations on the below topic. We expect to combine presentations, working periods, and discussion elements over the course of two to three days.
Call for Contributions: Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
In Focus section on: 'Art and film interrelations on Nordic Screens'
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-scandinavian-cinema#call-for-papers
Call For Papers
Special issue: Faravid – Journal for Historical and Archaeological Studies
Publication date: Spring 2026
Guest editors: Moussa Pourya Asl, Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, and Johanna Leinonen
Language: Finnish, English, German or Swedish
Migration Histories to Finland: Global Movements, Local Impacts
We are very pleased to announce that the 2025 Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association Conference will take place in person from Wednesday, 2 July to Friday, 4 July, hosted by the University of Queensland in its Queen Street campus in the Brisbane CBD (https://about.uq.edu.au/campuses-facilities/brisbane-city), conveniently located close to local hotels, cafes, and restaurants.
Keynote speakers will be Dennis Britton of the University of British Columbia, and Brandon Chua of the University of Hong Kong.
Indie Lens Pop-Up, WBGU-PBS, the Popular Culture Program, and the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio are proud to announce the Funk Music in Popular Culture Conference to be held on Friday, April 25 and Saturday, April 26, 2025. The Funk Music in Popular Culture Conference will serve as a celebration and screening of the Independent Lens film We Want the Funk.
Reinventing the Western Literary Canon