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Call for Papers
THE AMERICAN WEST
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024
The Victorians Institute Journal is still accepting submissions for Volume 52, which is expected to be published in 2025. We accept manuscripts between 7k-9k words on any aspect of Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and culture.
For complete submission instructions and to upload your manuscript for consideration, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/vij and follow the steps given by the online system.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at victoriansinstitutejournal@gmail.com
Call for Papers: Film International: Journal of World Cinema
Aims & Scope
Film International is devoted to the study of world cinemas, focusing on films within international and transnational contexts. The Journal offers insights into the broader scope of cinema practices across the globe, both feature length and otherwise, including by way of cultural comparison. It not only encourages attention to underrepresented regions such as the Global South, small-nation and minor cinemas, but also to how aesthetic choices have been made in these contexts.
Topic:Expressivity, Bodies and Language in the Twenty-First Century
Venue: University of Montpellier – Paul Valéry, France
Date: 20-21 November 2025
Conference organizers: Sandrine Sorlin (University of Montpellier – Paul-Valéry /IUF - EMMA) and Julie Neveux (Sorbonne University - CeLiSo)
Dear Colleagues,
We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for Volume 23 of Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric, an international peer-reviewed journal. We invite undergraduates from all majors and academic years to submit research and theoretical articles on topics related to rhetoric, writing, discourse, and language.
This year, we are also accepting multilingual submissions that explore Spanish-English bilingualism, translation studies, and writing across languages. Submissions fall into three categories:
China has long been exoticized and marginalized by the West, partly due to its unique culture and geographic distance. However, since the "Westernization Movement" in the 19th century, modernity of China has been influenced by the West in various ways, which has made profound changes and impacts Chinese people’s life and fostered rapid urbanization.
In the contemporary era, China’s progress in modernity and urbanization continues to reshape not only its economic landscape but also people’s living environments and cultural practices. These transformations have reflected the influence of Westernization and globalization, yet contributing to new tensions and paradoxes within Chinese society.
Adaptation, Restoration, Rebirth
Association of Adaptation Studies Conference
1-4 June 2025, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Türkiye
Keynotes (CONFIRMED):
Dr. Ahmet Gürata, Department of Cinema and Digital Media, İzmir University of Economics, Türkiye
Dr. Iain Robert Smith, Department of Film Studies, King’s College London, UK
How old are you? How do you feel about getting older? And how will you still be able to carry out your responsibilities as you age? Most people had reservations asking these questions of anyone but their closest friends and family members until the recent Presidential election season in the United States threw them into sharp relief.
On his way to the Temple of the Grail Knights, Parsifal says: I move only a little, yet already I seem to have gone far. The all-knowing Gurnemanz replies: You see, my son, here time turns into space. - Wagner’s “Parsifal”
The Department of Religions and Cultures at Concordia University is pleased to announce the 30th Annual Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference (AGIC). In part commemorating AGIC’s 30th year of existence and coinciding with Concordia University’s 50th anniversary, we invite both academic and creative submissions (research papers, short films, visual arts/media, short stories, poems, etc.) that engage with this year’s theme,“Journeying”.
Vagantes 2025 Call for Papers
The 24th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies co-hosted by Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will take place at Duke University in Durham, NC from April 3-5, 2025. Vagantes is an interdisciplinary community of junior and early career scholars that offers an ideal opportunity for sharing new research from across the disciplines. Please submit abstracts of 300 words, a title, and a 1-page CV including your name and pronouns as a PDF to vagantesboard@gmail.com by December 9th, 2024.
INTERDISCIPLINARY; COMPARATIVE; GRADUATE - PROFESSIONAL DEVLOPMENT
Graduate students are invited to present on Dress and Fashion of Baroque Spain at the Boca Raton Museum of Art on March 27, 2025. The conference will be held in the Museum’s Wolgin Education Center, 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, FL 33432.
Calling all artists, essayists, and creative writers!
The editorial board of Unearthed, the environmental art and literary journal published by SUNY College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry, is thrilled to announce that we're now accepting submissions.
We invite essayists, creative writers, poets, artists, photographers, and creatives of all kinds to submit to our upcoming issue, exploring the themes of Transition & Transformation. We're excited to publish your work!
The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, Linda Peterson. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to support one scholar for four full-time months to enable him or her to conduct a research project on the British periodical and newspaper press of the long nineteenth century. It was created with funds from a generous bequest to RSVP by the late Eileen Curran, pioneering researcher and Emerita Professor of English at Colby College.
Since ancient times, narratives about the end of the world have given voice to the anxieties and crises of the societies that have produced them. The forms of the apocalypse are thematically and diachronically broad and diverse (Pharr, Clark and Firestone 2016; De Cristofaro 2020). Already at the dawn of the nineteenth century, in her The Last Man (1826), Mary Shelley, the brilliant inventor of this genre, reflected on the condition of the single survivor of a lethal virus. While, for obvious chronological reasons, the anguish for a wasted environment is still absent in Shelley, many twentieth-century narratives reflect on the annihilating potential of humans’ actions on ecosystems.
Within Cli-Fi, Anthropocene Literature, Speculative Futurism, and visual cultures of the Anthropocene, increasing attention and sympathy have been given to the non-humans in narratives of climate crisis. From films like 20th Century Fox’s Planet of the Apes reboot to texts such as Ted Chaing’s Parrots of The Great Silence, The Strange Bird of Jeff VanderMeer’s same-named Novella, and the Elk-Headed Woman of Stephen Graham Jones’ The Only Good Indians, to visual works like Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s The Substitute, Animal perspectives have never been more prevalent in narratives of human-driven climate catastrophe.
The Oswald Review is an international, refereed journal of undergraduate criticism and research in the discipline of English. Published annually, The Oswald Review accepts submissions from undergraduates in this country and abroad (with a professor’s endorsement).
Call for Proposals
Masculinities and Men’s Studies
(formerly known as Men and Men’s Studies)
National Popular/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) Conference
April 16-19, 2025
New Orleans, LA
Proposals on any aspect of masculinities and/or men’s studies are welcome; however, the following topics are of particular interest:
For the American Literature Association (ALA) Conference in Boston, 21-24 May 2025 (https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-con...)
The Saul Bellow Society will host one session at the American Literature Association Annual Conference in Boston, on May 21-24, 2025. Proposals are welcome for paper presentations of 15-20 minutes in length concerning any aspect of Saul Bellow's work or life, including comparisons with other authors. We welcome proposals from graduate students, newer scholars, independent scholars, and established scholars alike.
The 16th Annual Research, Art, Writing Conference
March 1, 2025, University of Texas at Dallas
Call For Papers: RAW 2025
BAIT, PROMPTS, and AID: The Power and Poetics of Engagement
in Art, Technology, History, and Human Nature/Nurture
Call for Papers
Proposals due Monday, December 2, 2024
Asian Cinemas Encounter the Cold War
Friday, March 28, 2025 – Saturday, March 29, 2025
FedEx Global Education Center, UNC-Chapel Hill
“That’s for the future to say”: Eudora Welty in the 21st Century
Eudora Welty Society International Conference
Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi, April 9-13, 2025
Call for Papers
The Good Life beyond Optimism and Pessimism:
Philosophy –– Ideology –– Affective Materialities
International Conference
University of Augsburg, 9-11 October 2025
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Joshua Foa Dienstag (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Katrin Röder (TU Dortmund)
In 2008, the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) released its 70th anniversary manifesto reaffirming film’s status as the “optimal archival storage” of the moving image. “Don’t throw film away!” they urged, for unlike its digital successors, film elements tangibly embody traces of their own material history alongside a bygone cultural heritage. “No matter what technologies may emerge,” they write, existing film elements “connect us to the certainties of the past.”
#IFM2025 Resonances Conference
June 10-13, 2025, via Zoom
The 7th Interactive Film and Media Annual Conference invites you to engage with the theme "Resonances," exploring how media fosters deep, meaningful connections in our daily lives. This year’s conference delves into how personal and communal experiences shape our interactions and understanding of the world. We encourage submissions that critically engage with the theme and its subtopics, including:
Response: How do we form thoughtful responses to crises in an unstable world?
In On Revolution, Hannah Arendt celebrated what she called “the revolutionary spirit”: a set of political principles that combines a commitment to invent new institutions with a concern for those institutions’ durability. Arendt believed that all genuine revolutions in the modern world had been inspired by the revolutionary spirit, though “the failure of thought and remembrance” had, time and again, led to its disappearance. Indeed, a focus on the act of collective foundation—and a grave worry about the disappearance of the conditions under which such founding can take place—can be found across Arendt’s oeuvre, from Origins of Totalitarianism to her writings on American politics in the 1970s.
Call for paper for a Special issue of Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
Educators in Popular Culture: Educational Settings as Sites of Intersectional Struggle
Special Issue Editors: Jennifer Esposito and Tanja Burkhard
Popular culture is an educative space and, as such, we learn about ourselves and others
through our engagement with popular culture forms (Edwards & Esposito, 2020).
Expressions of popular culture that highlight educational settings, specifically schools and
Antonym Magazine invites contributions of English translations from any language for its quarterly print magazine and its online version in the following categories.
The magazine also invites critical essays that engage with various aspects of translations and interviews with translators.
In case you have queries please mail for clarifications.
Contributions are invited on a rolling basis. For the February issue, contributions should reach the magazine by the 30th of November 2024. Please mail contributions to submissionmag@antonymcollection.com
Special Issue: Reconceptualizing Sustainability Literacies
Action on behalf of life transforms…as we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Call for Papers
Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024