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Enhanced Human Bodies in Literature and Cinema

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:22am
Aqib Javid / Psau, KSA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

We live in an age of optimization. Norms of beauty and performance are relentlessly getting harder to achieve without modifying the psychophysiology of human beings. Humans are faced with choices and demands regarding increasing and reducing the size, mass, and weight of different body parts and the modification of the way they function. The normal no longer means the common, it means the optimal. From special diets and extreme workouts to silicon injections and from plastic surgery to brain chips, the human body is transforming into a workshop for different arts and technologies. The cosmetic surgery market, for example, is worth more than 57 billion dollars and is expected to continue to grow very fast.

MLA26: Milton's Afterlives

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:22am
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

The Milton Society of America invites proposals for a sponsored panel at the 2026 MLA Convention being held in Toronto, Canada. Papers (15 minutes in length) should examine Milton’s writings through a lens of adaptation studies, media studies, or reception studies, or their appropriation (social, legal, or political). Send 150-word abstract and brief cv to MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com.

The Sun Also Rises at 100

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:22am
The Hemingway Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION

TORONTO
JANUARY 8-11, 2026

The Ernest Hemingway Society will sponsor a panel at the upcoming MLA Conference:

The Sun Also Rises at 100

Heights, Depths, and Extremes: The 17th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:22am
Victorian Popular Fiction Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

The 17th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association

Heights, Depths, and Extremes

The Birmingham & Midland Institute, Birmingham UK

14th-16th July 2025

The Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) is delighted to announce its 17th annual conference for 2025, inviting scholars, researchers, and enthusiasts of Victorian literature to explore this year’s theme, Heights, Depths, and Extremes. This theme encourages an examination of the limits, boundaries, and expanses of Victorian popular fiction, encompassing everything from physical and metaphorical heights to the extremities of human emotion, imagination, and social structures.

MLA26: New Voices, New Directions in Milton Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:05am
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

The Milton Society of America invites proposals for a sponsored panel at the 2026 MLA Convention being held in Toronto, Canada. Papers (15 minutes in length) should bring attention to new work in Milton studies by early career scholars and to innovative approaches by scholars of any rank. Send 150-word abstract and brief cv to MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com.

CFP Conference "Contemporary Art & Extractivist Culture"

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:03am
Dr. Christian Alonso / VIGEO Universitat de Barcelona
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 3, 2025

1st International Conference
Contemporary Art & Extractivist Culture
14 May 2025: Facultat de Lletres, Universitat de Lleida
15 May 2025: Facultat de Geografia i Història, Universitat de Barcelona

Keynote Speakers: Dr. Juan Martín Prada (Universidad de Cádiz), Dr. Rick Dolphijn (Utrecht University), Dr. Joaquín Barriendos (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey), Dra. Bárbara Fluxá (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Dra. Paula Bruna (artist and researcher), Gabriela Bettini (artist and researcher)

Asian Feminisms and Contemporary Cultural Production

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:03am
Korean Association for Feminist Studies in English Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 10, 2025

The Korean Association for Feminist Studies in English Literature (KAFSEL, fsel.org) will host a one-day international conference on “Asian Feminisms and Contemporary Cultural Production” on May 10, 2025. The bi-lingual (Korean and English) conference will be held at Seoul National University. We hope to promote a wide-ranging and inclusive discussion on contemporary women writers and artists in and around Asia, the varieties of feminist and queer interventions in Asian contexts, and new challenges in contemporary feminist theory. We welcome proposals for 15-20 minute papers related to the topics above. Graduate students are also welcome to submit proposals. Keynote speakers TBA shortly.

 

Selling Scary Movies: Horror Film Marketing & the American Market

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:02am
Richard Nowell, FAMU (The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Hi folks,

I hope everyone is happy and well.

 

I would like to announce that I am putting together a new edited collection on horror film promotion in the US. At present, I am sketching out a due date for chapter submissions of January 2027, but obviously this can only really be provisional at this point. For the record, once a line-up is in place, I will be approaching Anthem Press about including the book in its "Series on Exploitation and Industry in World Cinema", of which I am a board member.

 

Selling Scary Movies: Horror Film Promotion & the American Market

Edited by Richard Nowell

 

The Solarpunk Conference 2025: Collective Care, Collective Power: Call for Conference Presentations

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:02am
The Solarpunk Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 17, 2025

Call for Presentations – The Solarpunk Conference 2025: Collective Care, Collective Power

Solarpunk is a growing subculture, existing across various veins of human endeavors, such as fiction, media, politics, technology, agriculture and urban planning and development. Solarpunk imagines an accessible, equitable world either without systemic barriers, or with those barriers in the process of disassembly, while championing intersectional social and climate justice. Drawing on ideas from permaculture, post- and trans-humanism, social ecology, and anarcho-socialism, while reacting against late stage capitalism, Solarpunk declares that our world is worth saving, and that saving it is possible.

Buddhism and Literary Nonfiction

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:01am
Religion and the Arts Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

Religion and the Arts is issuing a call for papers on the theme “Buddhism and Literary Nonfiction” for a special issue to be published in March, 2026. We are looking articles on the topic of Buddhism and literary nonfiction: including memoir, biography, the essay,  literary and art criticism, the diary, the handbook, and the sermon or dharma talk. Articles should be roughly 5,000-10,000 words long. Color and black and white Images are also welcome, and should be 300 dpi for the size they are to be reproduced for photography/ 600 for linework.

 

Articles are due 1 September 2025.  For inquiries, please contact James Najarian, editor, at relarts@bc.edu

 

Stories and Sacredness: Reimagining Myth and Folklore Across Indian Cultures

updated: 
Monday, February 10, 2025 - 8:51pm
Dr. Rajkumar Bera and Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Call for Papers: Stories and Sacredness: Reimagining Myth and Folklore Across Indian Cultures

(Proposed as Part of Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions)

Editors:

Dr. Rajkumar Bera, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Midnapore City College, West Bengal

Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash, Fellow of Social Science Research Council, USA

Articles on American Literary Archives / Bibliography

updated: 
Monday, February 10, 2025 - 11:43am
Resources for American Literary Study (Penn State UP) Extended Deadline
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Resources for American Literary Study (Penn State UP), a peer-reviewed journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship in American literature, invites submissions for our upcoming 2025 issues. Covering all periods of American literature, RALS welcomes both traditional and digital approaches to archival and bibliographical analysis. We also welcome proposals for our "Prospects" series in which scholars forecast future developments (and identify scholarly gaps) in the study of major authors.

Instructions for submissions may be found @ http://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_rals.html

Current Research in Speculative Fiction Conference 2025

updated: 
Monday, February 10, 2025 - 11:35am
CRSF
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 24, 2025

Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2025

15th Annual Conference

Boundaries: transgression, subversion, deconstruction

July 3rd & 4th 2025

University of Liverpool (Hybrid)

All bodies are, in some sense; engines driven by the health or disease of their owners, jackets of flesh that are the physical sum of their wearers. But to become your disease? To become the consumption itself? (Kathe Koja, The Cipher)

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live inits reality. (Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation)

Japanese Video Games and Critiques of the Western Aesthetic Tradition

updated: 
Monday, February 10, 2025 - 9:34am
Austin Anderson, Howard University / DA Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Nintendo was founded just three years after the beginning of the Meiji era in 1889; 100 years later, the company dominated the global game market, having rescued the U.S. video game market in the wake of the 1983 crash. Considering Japanese cultural identity as isolated from a global context misunderstands a long history of active construction of that identity as global and globalizing. Yet, Video Game Studies has often come from a decidedly Euro-centric perspective that regularly frames Japan as an isolated monoculture rather than acknowledging the global existence of Japan and its cultural products.

Popular Arts Conference (PAC) 18th Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, August 28 – September 1, 2025

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 3:44pm
Popular Arts Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The Popular Arts Conference (PAC) invites submissions for our 18th Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, August 28 – September 1, 2025.

PAC is an annual academic conference for the studies of comics and the popular arts, including science/speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and other media; comic books; manga; graphic novels; anime; gaming; etc., presented to a mixed audience of scholars and fans. The mission of PAC is to promote scholarship on popular culture and to encourage the engagement between scholars and fans in order to deepen our understanding of the popular arts. PAC presentations are peer reviewed, based on scholarly research.

ASA 2025: Trans Studies Under Trump 2.0

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 3:20pm
Míša Stekl / Stanford University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025

I would like to (co)organize a panel on trans studies under Trump 2.0 for the 2025 meeting of the American Studies Association, which will take place in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from November 20-22. This is, obviously, a fraught and rapidly evolving subject, but here are some of the topics I would like to broach: 

28th Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 2:23pm
English Graduate Student Body, University of Mississippi
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

28th Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference 

University of Mississippi

July 26th-27th, 2025

Call for Submissions

Intersecting Ecologies: Environmental Studies in the U.S. and Global South

 

The Southern Writers/Southern Writing Conference (SW/SW) is an interdisciplinary conference, welcoming graduate students, creative writers, activists, and community members with interest in the U.S. or Global South from all departments and fields of study. The 28th edition of SW/SW will be held at the University of Mississippi from July 26th-27th, 2025.

 

Refugees and Borders: Life, Law, and Limits

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 2:14pm
Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England's Refugee Justice Network for a Borderless World
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 22, 2025

Call for Papers for the inaugural event of CHASE's newly established Refugee Justice Network for a Borderless World: Borders proliferate and refugeehood expands at the present time. Borders follow us everywhere, they are not just physical; they are as much digital, institutional, social,  imaginative. Bordering methods that exert their force on human lives and experiences by ordering statehood, stagnation and citizenship regimes have for long been in discussion. However, the nuances and challenges of the problem are yet to be re-evaluated and re-thought. While discussions of certain geographical areas and lives affected by borders have been in the spotlight, many remained unanalysed and, as a result, invisible.

CFP: Understanding Medieval Race-Making

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:40pm
Canadian Society of Medievalists
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

We are currently putting together a plenary roundtable on ‘Understanding Medieval Race-Making’ for the June 9-11 conference in Waterloo, ON.

CFP: Cultural Circulations, Global Mobilities, and Knowledge Translations: Turning Points in the Nineteenth Century

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:40pm
Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Cultural Circulations, Global Mobilities, and Knowledge Translations: Turning Points in the Nineteenth Century

The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented acceleration and densification of human movements that generated, perhaps for the first time, cultural circulations on a global scale. With the world more interconnected than it had ever been, the need to classify, translate and hierarchise knowledge became more pressing than ever.

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:39pm
University of Siedlce
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

CFP - Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature , vol. 6/2025

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature is an international multidisciplinary periodical that welcomes for review any innovative and challenging research article encroaching upon the fields of literature, linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies.

The editorial board encourages researchers and young scholars to submit their article proposals that  comprise with the profile of the journal. The proposals can be sent in English, German, French, Spanish, Catalan and Polish. The manuscript submitted for publication is to be original and unpublished. It should not have been simultaneously submitted for review in any other journal.

CFP: Lit-Treat: Edition V, a National Conference on “Language, Literature, and Beyond: Exploring New Frontiers in English Studies”

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:38pm
Department of Languages & Literature - English, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Andhra Pradesh, India
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Call for Paper Presentations – Lit-Treat: Edition V

The Department of Languages and Literature – English at SSSIHL invites research scholars and postgraduate students to submit unpublished papers for Lit-Treat: Edition V, a National Conference on “Language, Literature, and Beyond: Exploring New Frontiers in English Studies” to be held on 14 & 15 March 2025 at the Prasanthi Nilayam Campus, Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh. The event will feature plenary talks by eminent academicians & writers and a panel discussion.

Writing Human: Post-Chatbot Approaches to College Writing [Call for Chapters for an edited volume]

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:38pm
University of Bridgeport - Bridgeport, CT
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Writing Human: Post-Chatbot Approaches to College Writing

We are seeking short, first-person narratives (2,000-3,000 words) from college instructors in any discipline who use writing activities and assignments in ways that foster engagement, enhance learning, and stimulate creativity.  We are compiling a book of stories that affirm the educational value of human writing at a time when more of our writing is being done for us by generative AI.        

ASALH Conference Panel - Death and Grief Among Black Communities

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:37pm
Robin Brooks
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 7, 2025

The proposed panel dovetails with this year’s conference theme for ASALH "African American labor." While it is true that “Black labor has been central to political, economic, social, cultural, and technological transformations,” the hardships of that labor and the intricacies of Black lived experiences have also led to all types of death. As people of African descent continue to be accosted on multiple fronts, examining both our historical and present-day experiences around the subject of death is an undertaking worth engaging. In recent years, conversations about the uncomfortable subject of death were facilitated by the pandemic, and several studies have documented the disproportionate mortality rate from COVID-19 for Black people in the United States.

SJSU Department of English and Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:37pm
San José State University Department of English and Comparative Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

The Department of English and Comparative Literature at San José State University welcomes proposals for 15-20 minute paper presentations on any topic related to literary studies or creative writing for a one-day conference just for graduate students. 

We will form panels based on the topics/categories of the abstracts that students submit. For one of the panels, we are particularly interested in papers on or related to decolonizing literary studies. The conference will take place on April 25th from 12:30-3pm.

To apply to become a presenter, please send a 250-word abstract of your paper to sjsugradconference@gmail.com by March 25, 2025.

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