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CFP:
We are seeking participants for a roundtable for the American Literature Association’s 2025 Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, May 21-24, 2025. This roundtable aims to further our understanding of the Federal Writers’ Project’s (FWP) literary legacy.
Hiding Behind Trees: Anthropomorphism in Children’s Literature and Culture
Guaranteed Session at MLA 2026 (Toronto, Jan. 8-11), sponsored by the Children's Literature Association
This panel seeks papers that consider the role of anthropomorphism in children’s literature and culture.
Humans have long believed we are distinct from other animals in our rationality, self-consciousness, and use of language. Why, then, do writers, artists, and even scientists so often use anthropomorphism to interpret the behaviors of animals, plants, and even nonliving things such as trains, teapots, and toys? What are the repercussions of this tendency to understand the world in terms of human social and cultural identities?
The special issue of the SOPHIA journal invites abstract submissions dedicated to exploring philosophical approaches to Precarity. This special issue will engage with the concept of precarity from a variety of philosophical discussions and frameworks, addressing its ethical, existential, political, and social dimensions. The special issue seeks contributions that critically examine the conditions of precarity in contemporary life and reflect on how philosophical frameworks can illuminate, challenge, and potentially offer solutions to the issues it raises. This special issue will come out in March 2026. Abstracts of 300-400 words are invited by January 31, 2025.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is the most financially successful franchise in film history. Between 2008 and 2019 not only did it become a commercial behemoth, redefining the landscape of blockbuster cinema, but also a cultural phenomenon, delighting fans all around the globe. Yet post-Avengers: Endgame (2019) and the conclusion of “The Infinity Saga,” the MCU has struggled to maintain the same level of success and no longer resonates with audiences the way it once did. The MCU, and the wider superhero genre, has faced mounting criticism from fans, critics and even notable industry professionals on a wide range of issues.
CALL FOR PAPERSCROSSINGS: A JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES (ISSN 2071-1107; E-ISSN 2958-3179) is inviting scholarly articles for its Volume 16 to be published in 2025. Submission Deadline: March 31, 2025 Crossings: A Journal of English Studies is an annual double-blind peer-reviewed journal of scholarly articles and book reviews. The articles involve, but are not limited to, issues related to language, literature, culture, and pedagogy.
Keynote speakers: Dr Shellie McMurdo (University of Hertfordshire) and Prof Louise Peacock (De Montfort University)
Call for papers: “Failing Media”
Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Student Conference
University of Chicago, April 25–26, 2025
Keynote: Nicholas Baer (UC Berkeley)
Theorizing Zombiism IV: Fast Zombie/SLO Zombie
DEADLINE EXTENSION
California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly)
Department of English
San Luis Obispo (SLO)
California
Provisional Date: 18-19 July, 2025
American Literature Association
36th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2025
Boston, MA
The Postwar Area Literature Group invites submissions on the following postwar and contemporary topics for the 2025 American Literature Association Conference, which will be held in Boston, MA from May 21-24, 2025 (information about the annual conference can be found at the ALA conference page website). The Postwar Literature Group has three guaranteed panels this year, two in postwar studies and one in contemporary studies. Please review our calls for papers below, and email Jacqueline.Foertsch@unt.edu with any questions.
Call for Papers, ALA 2025, Boston
The American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) plans to offer three panels.
One panel, “New Directions,” will provide an opportunity for innovative thinking on new and old topics.
This first panel will give priority to early career scholars—untenured faculty, newly-minted PhDs, and graduate students writing dissertations.
The second panel will be open-ended, but we will be especially interested in papers focusing on comic artifacts in digital formats, e. g. texts and images produced by generative AI, memes, viral videos, comment threads in social media platforms or websites.
Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (ISSN 2993-1053) is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective. It provides a unique, international forum for innovative critical approaches to cosmopolitanism emerging from literatures, cultures, media, and the arts in dialogue with other areas of the humanities and social sciences, across temporal, spatial, and linguistic boundaries.
Acta Ludologica (ISSN 2585-8599, e-ISSN 2585-9218) is a double-blind peer-reviewed scientific journal published twice a year in both online and print versions. It focuses on the comprehensive discourse of games and digital games, including theoretical and empirical studies, research results, and their implementation into practice, as well as professional publication reviews and scientific reviews of digital games.
Acta Ludologica is inviting manuscripts for Vol. 8, No. 1, scheduled to be published in June 2025. The deadline for submissions has been extended to January 31, 2025.
Submitted by:
Survive and Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine
A forthcoming special issue of Survive and Thrive will feature stories written by survivors of perinatal loss, their loved ones, their healthcare providers and other support workers, and scholars from interdisciplinary fields.
Call for Chapters: The Dissertation Research Guide for the Doctoral Scholar
See details: https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/8370
February 1, 2025: Proposal Submission Deadline
Boy Not There is a newly established fellowship, advocating for collaboration between scholars and lived-experience advocates regarding sexual violence against men and boys.
We aim to amplify voices that confront the challenges of male sexual violence, reckoning with social stigmas that often become barriers to disclosure. We work with survivors, researchers, educators and professional clinicians to create supportive frameworks for histories to be shared and eventually overcome.
CFP for ALA 2025 Panel
In the 2005 article, “A Narrative of the Interesting Origins and (Somewhat) Surprising Developments of African-American Print Culture,” Frances Smith Foster observed that “the definitions and assumptions with which one begins have a significant influence upon the story one finds” (735).
Cornell EGSO Conference 2025: Sound—Systems
Deadline for Submissions: January 15th
Conference: March 14-15, 2025
Call for Academic and Creative Proposals
Making Visible: Disability Representations in Popular Culture
Department of Englishi n collaboration with IQAC
Gargi College, University of Delhi
21-22 February, 2025
Conference in Hybrid Mode for participants residing outside Delhi
Registration link for Abstracts/ Fees for Successful Applicants/ Participants:
Concept Note
We are pleased to announce that the 41st International Conference on Psychology and the Arts will be held at Amsterdam University College (AUC), Science Park 113, 1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 27-June 30, 2025. With a commitment to excellence, diversity and the global perspective, AUC is a modern, public liberal arts college founded in 2009 as a joint initiative of the University of Amsterdam (auc.nl) and VU Amsterdam (vu.nl).
“Decolonial Utopia and the War to Be Human”
Critical Survey Journal
Guest Editor: Dr. Om Prakash Dwivedi, Bennett University, India
Digital Studies in Language and Literature (DSLL), a new Open-Access journal co-launched by De Gruyter and Chongqing University, cordially invites submissions for its 2025 Issue 1.
DSLL is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary publication committed to promoting research at the intersection of digital technology, language, and literature. Accepted articles will be published under a fully sponsored Open Access via a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY-4.0) License, ensuring that your research is freely accessible for reading and downloading by all.
“Beyond Labels”: International Conference
on Disability, Different Ability and Neurodiversity
London/Online: 13-14 September 2025
Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2025
Conference website: https://diversity.lcir.co.uk
Disability, different ability and neurodiversity are concepts that traverse boundaries, challenging disciplines to rethink foundational assumptions about identity, culture and power. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring together scholars from different fields to critically examine the shifting narratives, representations and lived experiences surrounding ability and difference.
“The Uncanny in Language, Literature and Culture”
International Conference
Malta/Online: 22-23 August 2025
Deadline for proposals: 20 March 2025
Conference website: https://uncanny.lcir.co.uk
The uncanny captures the unsettling and the eerie—a feeling that defies boundaries between the familiar and the strange. Rooted in Freud’s exploration, the uncanny reveals how what is known and intimate can suddenly become alien, evoking dread and unease. Everyday objects, spaces, and experiences that once offered comfort transform into symbols of danger, disrupting not only our external environments but also the landscapes of our inner selves.
International Conference on Postcolonial Studies:
"Trajectories and Transitions of (Post)Colonialism"
London/Online: 26-27 July 2025
Deadline for proposals: 30 April 2025
Conference website: https://postcolonialism.lcir.co.uk
The conference will explore the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies and it will focus on the impact colonialism had on political, social, economic and cultural domains. It will examine various forms of colonial domination and control as well as theories and practices of resistance.
“Money Beyond Numbers”:
International Conference on Money, Markets and Meaning
London/Online: 19-20 July 2025
Deadline for proposals: 15 April 2025
Conference website: https://money.lcir.co.uk
Money holds immense power — not just as a medium of exchange but as a cultural symbol, a psychological force, and a social construct. How do we ascribe meaning to money, and how does it shape our identities, relationships and values? What narratives and myths surround its use, accumulation and distribution? From its role in consumer culture to its depiction in literature, art and media, money permeates every aspect of human life, embodying ideals of wealth, power and morality.
“The Politics of Emotion: Affect, Identity and Power”
International Conference
London/Online: 12-13 July 2025
Deadline for proposals: 15 April 2025
Conference website: https://emotions.lcir.co.uk
“Migrating World”: International Conference
on Migration, Identity and Belonging
London/Online: 5-6 July 2025
Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2025
Conference website: https://integration.lcir.co.uk
"Discourses on Motherhood" International Conference
London/Online: 28-29 June 2025
Deadline for proposals: 20 January 2025
Conference website: https://genderstudies.lcir.co.uk
This conference aims at exploring motherhood and its diverse cultural representations, while interrogating the ways in which such representations impact on individual and collective experiences of motherhood. Thus, we attempt at examining motherhood both as a personal experience and as an institution, as well as observing the nuances involved in the interaction between both.