CALL FOR PAPERS
Minding the Present: Bodies, Places, Matter in and between Australia and Europe    
17-19 September 2025    
Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies, University of Padova
(Via Vendramini, 13, Padova, Italy)

Inviting papers on 21st century reconstructions of the HIV/AIDS crisis. What is created/erased in these productions? Possible topics: teaching the HIV/AIDS crisis to a post-covid generation; reading race in the HIV/AIDS archive; recent literature/film/tv productions. 250-word abstracts.

The Journal of Sanātana Dharma hereby announces the Call for Submissions for its inaugural issue as we look forward to contributions from academicians, traditional scholars, and all kinds of Indic seekers. For further details, check our website: https://josd.info

CALL FOR PAPERS: James Baldwin Review

Modern Language Association

2026 MLA Convention

January 8-11, 2026

James Baldwin and the Reproduction of Racial Capitalism

Social domination, as exerted and felt through the categories of race, class, sex, and gender, finds itself expressed in and through James Baldwin’s work, often unevenly, subject to the peculiarities of his historical moments. Both Baldwin and his interpreters can be seen to elevate one vector of domination in racial capitalist modernity over the others, or forget one at the others’ expense, obscuring our vision of such domination and our capacities for struggling against it. 

Sponsored by the Adaptation Studies Forum, this guaranteed panel in the upcoming 2026 Modern Language Association conference will explore the intersection of race and adaptation, focusing particularly on film. The panel will engage in dialogue about how filmic adaptations convey, obscure, and transform racial meanings. They will also connect this conversation about racial representations in filmic adaptations to the theoretical question of how race, racism, and antiracism adapt to changing conditions, manifesting in new forms in new social contexts. We will pay particular attention to the dynamic of racial representation in film, a medium that critics such as Richard Dyer have shown to be influential in creating racial imaginaries. 

We welcome papers and performances from scholars, artists, and activists interested in exploring this theme in broad theoretical, practical, and cultural terms. We will consider the predicaments and possibilities of “Land” in the context of Maroon and Indigenous histories and cultures worldwide. Presentations from all fields and genres are welcome, including history, geography, political science, anthropology, ethnography, law & criminal justice, ethnomusicology, education, literature, film, art, sustainability studies, Indigenous studies, economics, spirituality, religion, and ecocriticism.

Call for Papers:  

The Interdisciplinary Witch Conference: Witches in Culture, History, and Society 

Friday 20th June 2025 

York St. John University 

Submission Deadline: 1st April 2025 

MLA 2026 – Toronto

Early American Literature LLC

Declaring Dependence

Short Description: 

What happens when we center dependence, interconnection, and shattered subjectivities in the literary cultures that have been used to mark or substantiate figments of agency surrounding the early United States? 

Long Description: 

Dear Researchers,

We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for IEEE AI-Standard 2025 – The IEEE Conference on AI Standardization and Quality Assurance. This conference provides a global platform for AI researchers, industry leaders, policymakers, and technology developers to discuss and shape the future of AI standardization, governance, and quality assurance.

Conference Details

CFP Contemporary Feminism and the Politics of Emotion

Proposed Panel Submission for NWSA 2025    Conference dates: Nov. 13th-16th, 2025

Submission Deadline: March 15th

The Department of English at Mahatma Gandhi Central University is pleased to announce a Two-Day International Conference titled:

"Age Cannot Wither Him, Nor Custom Stale His Infinite Variety: Shakespeare Adaptation up to the 21st Century"

This conference will be held in a hybrid mode on 10-11 March 2025.

Concept Note

For the first time since its inception in 1993, the Lesbian Lives Conference is crossing the Atlantic to New York City! The conference is hosted by the Journal of Lesbian Studies, Sinister Wisdom, and CLAGS: the Center for LGBT Studies at the City University of New York. Lesbian Lives brings together academics, artists, writers, and activists to showcase, enjoy, and critically analyze lesbian culture.

Rooted in an ethos of inclusivity, dialogue, diversity, and accessibility, the conference welcomes people of all sexualities and genders.

Lesbian Lives 2025 will be held on October 24 and 25 at the Graduate Center CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY 10016.

Deadline for submissions: May 5th 2025 

Date of seminar: November 19th 2025 

Full name/name of organizations 

Contact email:masculinitieseurope@gmail.com  

Planned platform: MS Teams 

Concept Art and Character Design – Critical and Creative Perspectives

University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Surrey, UK

18 July 2025

The School of Games & Creative Technology at UCA, Farnham, is hosting a one-day conference, examining the role of concept art and character design across the culture industries.