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PAMLA: A Gathering of Horrors, Terrors, and Monstrosities Panel, 11/20/25-11/23/25, San Francisco
Call for Proposals
Beyond Boundaries: Visions of Ecological Futures
2025 PNCA Symposium
October 2–4, 2025
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) at Willamette University
511 NW Broadway, Portland, Oregon
European Journal of American Culture *Open Call for Papers*
The European Journal of American Culture (EJAC) is an academic, peer-reviewed journal for scholars, academics and students from many disciplines with a common involvement in the interdisciplinary study of America and American culture, drawing on a variety of approaches and encompassing the whole evolution of the country.
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Songs in ShakespeareProposing a special issue of Cahiers Élisabéthains for July 2027 We are seeking abstracts to include in our proposal for a special issue of Cahiers Élisabéthains on the topic of songs in Shakespeare. If the proposal is accepted, the issue will be published in print in July 2027. Proposals on any aspect of songs in Shakespeare will be considered, but we are particularly interested in the dramatic questions, “What can songs do in Shakespeare?” and “What can singing mean to characters in Shakespeare?”. Topics might include analysis of the songs in one play or across various plays; songs and sonnets; meter and music; birdsong; singers’ voice changes; non-English songs; missing songs; performance history.
Please direct any general inquiries to Erica Tortolani at etort.phd@gmail.com.
Dr Conner McAleese invites proposals on representations of motherhood in any of Stephen King’s fiction.
Over the past fifty years, King’s works have been adapted, discussed, academically investigated, and, of course, read to an extent that few authors have ever been before. However, one aspect of King’s writing has yet to be given scholastic attention – the mothers of Stephen King’s fiction.
Call for Papers: Journal of Digital Media & Policy (JDMP)
Special Issue: ‘Metaverse Futures: Policy, Power, and the Digital Media Landscape’
#JDMPJournal
Guest Editors:
Brighton Nyagadza, York St John University, London Campus, United Kingdom
Abu Bashar, Gulf University, Kingdom of Bahrain
Eugine Tafadzwa Maziriri, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Tamer M. Alkadash, Gulf University, Kingdom of Bahrain
View the full call here>>
The Department of Languages and Literature and the College of Liberal Arts at Northeastern State University will be hosting the Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature annual regional meeting on October 24-25, 2025 at Northeastern State University’s campus in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
The general theme of this year’s conference is “Anger in Literature.” Negative emotions are everywhere in literature and popular culture, but are not always directly addressed. Anger can be both righteous and shameful, redemptive and crippling. Part of the theme is to explore the uses of anger (and associated emotions) in terms of a Christian worldview.
Call For Proposals AMERICAN NIGHTMARES II: RETURN TO SALEMTHE BIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAN GOTHIC March 19th – 21st, 2026Salem, Massachusetts Keynote Speaker: Victor LavalleKeynote Speaker: Siân Silyn Roberts Conference co-director: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan UniversityConference co-director: Jennifer Schell, University of Alaska FairbanksWith the kind support of the American Literature Association Please join the Society for the Study of the American Gothic for our second biennial symposium!
Call for Papers: Studies in Comics
Special Issue: ‘Disney Across the Globe’
Special Issue Editors:
Edited by Katja Kontturi (University of Jyväskylä)
Eva Van de Wiele (University of Ghent and Antwerp)
The word apocalypse contains a paradox. In common usage, it means, “a disaster resulting in drastic, irreversible damage to human society or the environment, esp. on a global scale; a cataclysm” (OED); but the word’s roots come from the ancient Greek for “unveiling."
Apocalypse contains both end and beginning, annihilation and exaltation. The apocalyptic promises death and destruction, yes, but also, knowledge and transformation. The apocalypse is above all a threshold. Thus, as an object of inquiry, apocalypse calls for the examination of perspective and perception, as much as of semiotics and the historical.
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A JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE SEXUALITIES
IN ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE AND THE ARTS
Issue 3 – 2025
Call for Papers
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.
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: 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
Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, September 11th and 12th September, 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).
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.
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.
“[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 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
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
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...
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”
PULSE – the Journal of Science and Culture
VOL 12 (2025)
CALL FOR PAPERS AND BOOK REVIEWS
Historical Fictions Research Conference, Erlangen (Germany),
19th-20th February 2026
Call for Papers
Deadline: 1st September 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:
CFP (edited volume): 13 Exigencies for Teaching the Essay
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.