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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: NEPCA 2025's Philosophy, Belief, and Pop Culture Area

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:57pm
Northeast Popular & American Culture Assoication
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 – Saturday, October 11th. We are seeking proposals for panels and presentations for this year’s conference, including proposals for the Philosophy, Belief, and Pop Culture Area.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: NEPCA 2025's Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Area

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:56pm
Northeast Popular & American Culture Assoication
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 – Saturday, October 11th. We are looking forward to another engaging and rewarding conference for new and seasoned members alike. We are seeking proposals for panels and presentations for this year’s conference, including proposals for the Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Area.

Southern Humanities Conference 2026

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:56pm
Southern Humanities Council
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

The Southern Humanities Conference, 2026

Call for Papers

 

Conference Theme: Tides and Time, Ebbs and Flows

Annapolis, MD, January 29- February 1, 2026

Historic Inns of Annapolis

 

The Southern Humanities Conference offers an opportunity for scholars, artists, writers, musicians, performers, and humanists of all kinds to share their knowledge, research, work, and experiences in an interdisciplinary, welcoming, and engaging intellectual space.

 

I Cine Bárbaras – Conferência Internacional de Cinema e Audiovisual

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:56pm
XX Element Project Associação Cultural
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 11, 2025

Encontra-se aberta a chamada de trabalhos para o I Cine Bárbaras – Congresso Internacional de Cinema e Artes Audiovisuais , que decorrerá nos dias 23 e 24 de outubro de 2025 , na Universidade Lusófona – Centro Universitário do Porto , reunindo investigadores e profissionais que trabalham nas áreas do cinema e dos estudos audiovisuais.

PAMLA Session on African Literature and Abdulrazak Gurnah

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:56pm
Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Conference Dates - November 20th to 23rd 2025

Location - San Francisco, California - The InterContinental San Francisco Hotel - U.S.A.

Topic - Reclaiming History: Trauma, Memory and Resilience in the Narratives from Africa

Deadline for Abstract/Proposal Submission - June 30th 2025

Overview - 

PAMLA 2025: "Teaching Texts Remotely: Challenges and Strategies for Teaching Asynchronously."

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:54pm
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 20, 2025

"Teaching Texts Remotely: Challenges and Strategies for Teaching Asynchronously"

 

This roundtable encourages classroom narratives of successful moments teaching texts in a virtual learning management system (LMS) space. Considerations for using open educational resources (OER), novels, short stories, poems, graphic novels, readers, articles, films, or other texts are welcome. Classes can be composition- or literature-based and presentations may focus on the strategy, challenge, or the selection of texts.

Languages of the Future – Think Pieces

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 12:16pm
UCL – Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 23, 2025

Call for Papers - Following the recent success of our 'Languages of the Future' conference, we are delighted to announce a call for papers for a special issue of UCL online journal Think Pieces: https://thinkpieces-review.co.uk/

Think Pieces provides a host of different format opportunities. We are inviting academic essays of up to 3,000 words, but are also open to more create pieces such as narrative non-fiction and poetry. 

Rewriting the Victorian Imagination: Fables, Flesh, and Fluidity in Nineteenth-Century Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 10:43am
Peter Lang
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

 

(Call for Paper & Podcast ) - Peter Lang

Victorian literature is being fundamentally reimagined. What was once read through the lens of industrial realism, imperial narration, and bourgeois decorum is now being reassessed through new critical modes such as Animal Studies, Environmental Humanities, Food history, Ecocriticism, and Postcolonial re-readings. The aim of Rewriting the Victorian Imagination: Fables, Flesh, and Fluidity in Nineteenth-Century Literature is to consolidate and advance these reconfigurations by drawing together new research that unsettles the stable categories through which the “Victorian” has traditionally been understood.

EAPSU 2025: Threat Assessments

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 10:20am
English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Hosted in-person and online at Slippery Rock University October 23-24 (online) and 25 (at Slippery Rock University’s main campus)

Presenters must be instructional faculty or students at a PASSHE institution - proposals from outside the PASSHE system cannot be accepted

Langston Hughes’s Blues Vision in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners: A Special Issue of The Langston Hughes Review

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 10:19am
Tony Bolden
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 4, 2025

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is a quintessential blues narrative composed for the twenty-first century. The film embodies perspectives commonly found in blues-oriented expression, including songs, autobiographies, and interviews, not to mention Black fiction and poetry that thematizes and/or reflects blues-oriented music and blues criticism as well. But before academic scholars considered blues worthy of analysis, Langston Hughes wrote critically and creatively about blues music and the suffusion of its principles throughout much of Black expressive culture. In fact, he first observed a blues performance in his early teens, well before Mamie Smith’s recording “Crazy Blues” (1920) launched the classic blues era.

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 10:19am
Bodoland University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

International Seminar

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus

16 & 17 October 2025

Venue: Bodoland University, Kokrajhar

A Special Issue will be published in Bandung: Journal of the Global South (De Gruyter Brill)

 

Organiser: The Department of English, and Department of History, Bodoland University in

Collaboration with Birangana Sati Sadhani Rajyik Vishwavidyalaya, Bhattadev University is

An International Conference Event: “All That Melts into Air Is Solid: World of Change”

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 8:58am
Saint Louis University--Madrid, Spain Campus
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Bulletin on 10 June 2025: Final Week to Send Abstracts! Second Keynote Speaker Confirmed.

The Department of Communication at Saint Louis University’s Madrid, Spain campus announces an upcoming international, interdisciplinary conference that examines change from a wide panorama of angles.

The conference will take place across Thursday and Friday, 2-3 October 2025 on the SLU-Madrid Campus, close to central Madrid (seven metro stops from Puerta del Sol).

We invite abstracts of 250 words, plus up to six key words, by 15 June 2025. Decisions to invite candidates will happen shortly after the due date to assure adequate time for participants to make travel plans as needed.

CfP: Sensing Euphoric and Dysphoric Atmospheres (JFCIA)

updated: 
Monday, June 9, 2025 - 6:56am
Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

 Call for Journal Articles Now Open  Sensing Euphoric and Dysphoric Atmospheres (Volume 4) Following our symposium, we invite authors to submit papers for publication consideration. 

 

Our fifth annual online event addressed the theme of ‘sensing euphoric and dysphoric atmospheres’ in festive, celebratory, and ritual cultures. Taking an embodied perspective, we seek journal articles that focus on the role of corporeal perception in making sense of lived experience.

Call for Reviews (JFCIA)

updated: 
Monday, June 9, 2025 - 6:25am
Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Call for Reviews

 

For 2025 Journal Publication

We are pleased to announce a call for reviews for Volume 4 of our journal to be published in 2025.

 

Making, Remaking, and Limitations (JFCIA)

updated: 
Monday, June 9, 2025 - 6:21am
Festival Culture Research and Education
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Journal Articles(Volume 5)Call for PapersMaking, Remaking, and Limitations  Following our symposium, we invite authors to submit papers for publication consideration. 

 

During our sixth annual online event, we discussed 'making, remaking, and limitations' in festive, celebratory, and ritual cultures. Our questions focused on: How and why do people continue to make and remake culture? In what ways do they experience limitations when making and remaking culture, if any? What is the significance of the making and remaking of culture and whom is it for?

CfP: Food Fest, Feasts, and Gatherings

updated: 
Monday, June 9, 2025 - 6:05am
Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 30, 2026

Food fests, feasts, and gatherings address the role of food in events, gatherings, celebrations, and ceremonies. Exploring how people incorporate ideas about food into festival culture, including history, heritage, tradition, creativity, and social and political factors. 

In addition, it examines festivals in which food is not the main focus, yet contributes significantly to the atmosphere, memory, and tradition. It also looks at people's fascination with taste. In addition to examining these notions, we will also examine trends in the consumption and production of food.

Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People

updated: 
Monday, June 9, 2025 - 4:56am
University of Münster
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People An online conference hosted by the University of Münster
11-12 February 2026

In January 2025, just four days into the new Trump administration, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced that they had ended the so-called “Book Ban Hoax” by dismissing 11 pending civil rights complaints related to book bans in public schools and eliminating the position of Book Ban Coordinator – a position created by the Biden administration to address intellectual freedom violations in schools and federally-funded institutions.

Adaptation and Terry Pratchett--Essay Collection

updated: 
Sunday, June 8, 2025 - 3:07pm
Anne Hiebert Alton & William C. Spruiell
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

We invite proposals for an edited collection of essays on Adaptation and the work of Terry Pratchett. The book proposal will be submitted to Palgrave Macmillan or Bloomsbury Academic’s Perspectives on Fantasy series in the Spring of 2026. 

Call for paper: Research in Contemporary World Literature

updated: 
Sunday, June 8, 2025 - 11:58am
Dr. Ali Salami, University of Tehran
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Research in Contemporary World Literature (RCWL) invites submissions for upcoming issues. As a leading international journal committed to cutting-edge scholarship published by the University of Tehran, RCWL publishes double-blind, peer-reviewed research on modern and contemporary literary production across global contexts, with a primary focus on literature emerging after 1945.

Originally founded in 1994 as Journal of Foreign Languages and reconstituted in its current form, RCWL has evolved into a vital platform for the exploration of literary texts, movements, and theories that traverse cultural, linguistic, and disciplinary boundaries.

Body,Time and Digital Technology

updated: 
Saturday, June 7, 2025 - 10:45am
University of Cyprus, Department of English Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 23, 2025

Call for Papers

Body, Time, and Digital Technology

2-3 October 2025, Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus

Call for Papers on "Confinement and Freedom"

updated: 
Friday, June 6, 2025 - 2:16pm
Arkansas Philological Association Conference 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

 

Call for Papers: “Confinement and Freedom”

2025 Arkansas Philological Association Conference

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Nov. 14-15, 2025

 

Critical Thinking and Writing

updated: 
Friday, June 6, 2025 - 9:21am
Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing has moved to a rolling publication model and is now inviting submissions for Volume 13 (2025). DH publishes a range of scholarly work--from research articles to notes--on writing and critical thinking pedagogy. For more information about DH, please visit the journal at the WAC Clearinghouse of Colorado State University: https://wac.colostate.edu/double-helix/.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Refocus: The Films of Leos Carax

updated: 
Friday, June 6, 2025 - 6:49am
James Slaymaker (Trinity College Dublin), Edinburgh University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Across a career spanning over 40 years, French-born filmmaker Leos Carax has firmly established himself as one of the most unique and innovative voices in modern European cinema. After a period writing criticism for Cahiers du Cinéma while he was still a teenager, Carax released his debut film Boy Meets Girl (1984) at age 23 to international acclaim. Carax followed up on this early promise with the futuristic neo-noir Mauvais Sang (1986), the romantic drama Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), and the Herman Melville adaptation Pola X (1999).

Global K-Culture Conference

updated: 
Friday, June 6, 2025 - 5:34am
Chungbuk National University, Korea
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Global K-Culture Conference

August 28 (Thu) ~ August 29 (Fri), 2025 (2 days)

Chungbuk National University, Korea

https://kculture.chungbuk.ac.kr/

 

Keynote Speakers

 

Hyung-jin Lee (Sookmyung Women’s University)

Topic: “K-culture and Translation“ (TBA)

 

Ji Hyeon Kim (Hanyang University)

Topic: “K-culture and Media Platform” (TBA)

 


 

50th Anniversary of Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon: A New Collection of Essays

updated: 
Thursday, June 5, 2025 - 5:31pm
Jericho Williams / University of Alaska Fairbanks
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 11, 2025

2027 will be the 50th anniversary of Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison’s third novel and one of the author’s more popular books alongside The Bluest Eye and Beloved.

This forthcoming volume of essays will provide new readings of the novel for high school and undergraduate readers just in time to celebrate Song of Solomon’s 50th anniversary. 

It seeks to advance Morrison studies and foster critical appreciation of the novel, especially in light of new directions in literary criticism since 2010.

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