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EXTENDED DEADLINE: The Handbook of Trans Cinema

updated: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 1:11am
Douglas Vakoch
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 17, 2025

We warmly invite additional chapters for The Handbook of Trans Cinema, with high priority for chapters exploring transgender films from Africa, Latin America, Asia, Oceania, and Europe. Proposals are due April 17, 2025. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters exploring trans films from 6 continents. After the following list of confirmed chapters, you will find details about how to submit your proposal for additional chapters. The handbook will include only one chapter for each topic, so please do not send proposals for any of the confirmed chapters listed here:

African Films with Transgender Themes

updated: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 1:11am
The Handbook of Trans Cinema
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Seeking chapters about African films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents, including chapters devoted to films from Cape Verde, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda. We welcome the following high-priority chapters on African films:

Asian Films with Transgender Themes

updated: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 1:10am
The Handbook of Trans Cinema
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Seeking chapters about Asian films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents, including chapters devoted to Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Japan, Mainland China, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. We welcome the following high-priority chapters on Asian films: 

Latin American Films with Transgender Themes

updated: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 1:10am
The Handbook of Trans Cinema
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Seeking chapters about Latin American films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents, including chapters devoted to ArgentinaBrazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. We welcome the following high-priority chapters on Latin American films:

CFP:International Young Researchers' Conference on Planet, Text and Context: Perspectives on Ecology

updated: 
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 2:38pm
Surya Sen Mahavidyalaya
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

International Multidisciplinary Young Researcher’s Seminar (Hybrid Mode)

on

Planet, Text and Context: Perspectives on Ecology

Organised by

PG Department of English & Research and Development Cell

In collaboration with

IQAC

Surya Sen Mahavidyalaya, Siliguri, India

5th April, 2025

 

 

Concept Note

Call for Papers: Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre *Deadline: 31 July 2025*

updated: 
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 1:10am
Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

We invite submissions for the sixth issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in September. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography, ERIH Plus and DOAJ.

* Deadline is the end of July but we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.

* Original works, not published elsewhere or related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication.

* Please note that all manuscripts will be closely examined through Turnitin once they are received by the journal.

Mapping Body Space Continuum in Urbanscapes

updated: 
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 12:26am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Space is not defined objectively, but in relation to bodies, as it is a manifestation of their needs, intentions, and desires. It is not a container in which objects exist but is intertwined with the body’s orientation in the world and its movements within the space. Human body, therefore, is at the centre of all spaces, which are more than a geometrical concept in abstraction. Individual bodies apprehend and appropriate space differently and give meaning to embedded systems and institutions through established and evolving associations. Any assumption of personalised space, whether private or public, is embedded with historical, cultural, and social meanings which help curate embodied experiences.

The Problem of Social Justice: Global Perspectives and Personal Narratives

updated: 
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 12:25am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Social justice is the virtue which guides us in creating those organized human interactions we call institutions. In turn, social institutions, when justly organized, provide us with access to what is good for the person, both individually and in our associations with others. Social justice also imposes on each of us a personal responsibility to work with others to design and continually perfect our institutions as tools for personal and social development.

–             The Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ), Washington, D.C., USA

Power in Urbanscapes: Rethinking Spatiality and Sociality

updated: 
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 12:25am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025

The second Issue of Volume 7 of LLIDS examines how structures of power constitute and shape urban spaces. It proposes to explore their influence in determining social values wherein varied social groups—marked by religion, class, race, gender, etc.—negotiate the power dynamics that constitute life in urban spaces. The modern, bustling city carries within itself a continuous sense of becoming. The urban dwellers, inhabiting segregated parts of the city, shape the lived experience of these spaces through their socio-cultural interactions and relationships.

PAMLA 2025 Special Session CFP

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 12:18pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

PAMLA 2025 San Francisco: “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion”

The 122nd annual PAMLA Conference will be held between November 20-23, 2025 at the InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California.

PAMLA welcomes special session proposals for the 2025 PAMLA conference in San Francisco, California on topics of scholarly interest that are not too close to the topics of our general (standing) sessions (see below to find a list of PAMLA’s general/standing sessions).

MLA Special Session: Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish Writers from the Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey (Online Session)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 10:13am
2026 MLA Convetion
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 21, 2025

Special Session Title: Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish Writers from the Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey (Online Session)

This panel explores Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish writers through various theoretical frameworks, spanning all historical periods. We welcome interdisciplinary perspectives and comparative works that examine authors who have produced literature, memoirs, travelogues, journalistic writings, or any other form of textual production in English.

Papers focusing on lesser-known writers and works are particularly encouraged.

Two-Day International Seminar & Workshop On Indian Drama: Society-Culture, Tradition and Heritage

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 9:15am
Ateswartala Sanskritik Manch, Radhakantapur, Raidighi, South 24 Parganas In collaboration with Department of Bengali, Vidyasagar University, Paschim Medinipur and Jana Sanskriti, Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed (Publication Partner: Peter Lang)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Call for Papers

  Mode: Blended (Online & Offline)

Two-Day International Seminar & Workshop On

Indian Drama: Society-Culture, Tradition and Heritage Organized by

Ateswartala Sanskritik Manch, Radhakantapur, Raidighi, South 24 Parganas

In collaboration with

Department of Bengali, Vidyasagar University, Paschim Medinipur

and

Jana Sanskriti, Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed

The Boundaries of US Identity and the African American Experience

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:25am
REDEN journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Special thematic dossier 7.1 | The Boundaries of US Identity and the African American Experience

Editor: Beatriz Hermida Ramos (Universidad de Salamanca)

 

CFP - International Conference On "Labouring Bodies in South Asian Films and Filmmaking: From Beginning to Now."

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:25am
CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 11, 2025

An International Conference

On

Labouring Bodies in South Asian Films and Filmmaking: From Beginning to Now.

Organized by

The Cultural Studies Cell, School of Arts and Humanities, Christ University, Bengaluru

Conference Dates: 19 & 20 June 2025

 

“Pause to think a hundred times, a thousand times, on the doorstep of the film factory.”

Viktor Shklovsky: The Film Factory (1927)

"Memory, Affects and Emotions" 7th International Interdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:25am
InMind Support
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 6, 2025

Conference online (via Zoom): 24-25 April 2025

CFP:​

Affects, emotions and perceptions have always been at the center of philosophical discussion. Yet the so-called “Affective turn” in social studies and humanities is a relatively new phenomenon inspired by Deleuze and Guattari´s influential works among others. Affective turn challenges the still dominant representational approach in semiotics, discourse analysis and text analyses of all kinds.

Call for Papers – Feminist Mappings: Art, Literature and Films by Indian Women

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:24am
University School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indraprastha University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Spanning distances between bequeathed social identities and quests towards becoming, Indian women have documented the many shapes that such striving takes. They have traversed distances between equality and freedom; sifted nostalgia and futuristic imaginations; and mediated ideas of collectivization and autonomy. The upcoming issue of Indraprasth – A Journal of Culture and Communication Studies, investigates the ways in which Indian women writers and artists have perceived and shaped the world in literature and art.

Culinary Expeditions – Media, Food, and Halal Tourism in the Global South

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:24am
Dr Tamilselvi Natarajan / Bayan College
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Culinary Expeditions: Media, Food, and Halal Tourism in the Global South, to be published by Peter Lang International Academic Publisher as part of the book series Food and Cultures from the Global South.

This book will explore the intersection of media, halal tourism, and gastronomy in the Global South, examining how food storytelling, digital media, and travel narratives influence Muslim tourist experiences and cultural representation.

Resistance and Defiance in Francophone World(s)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:24am
Midwest Modern Language Conference - French Cultural Issues Panel
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

We invite papers for an in-person panel, “French: Cultural Issues,” at the 2025 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference themed “The Humanities is Where Hope Lives," which will take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at Marquette University, 14-16 November 2025. 

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