cultural studies and historical approaches

RSS feed

***DEADLINE EXTENDED***Intersectionality, Immigration, and the Humanities in Contemporary Discourses and Narratives

updated: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025 - 10:45am
CERSHO, Mohammed I University, Oujda
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

In these turbulent times of global conflict and wars, and with the world witnessing human rights violations, scholars and individuals alike are grappling with the evolving definitions of fundamental issues such as human rights, international law, justice, and community peaceful coexistence. The crises challenge long-held assumptions on the so- called post-colonialist discourses, neocolonialism, systemic oppression, and cultural conflict, especially in transnational and diasporic encounters. Images of destruction and the continuous lurking waves of international sociopolitical plights inflicting the world raise urgent ethical questions that call upon the humanities to critically engage with these contemporary struggles of the human experience.

Panel for 2025 PAMLA (San Francisco): Modern Hispanic Queer Cultures

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 6:47pm
Jeffrey Zamostny, Kansas State University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

This accepted PAMLA special session panel explores memory and oblivion as they relate to queer culture and literature of the modern Hispanic world. Focusing on Latin America, Spain, and the global Hispanophone in the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, the panel explores practices of remembrance, commemoration, censorship, and forgetting both in queer culture (i.e., as practiced by queer individuals and groups) and of queer culture (in a broader cultural ecosystem). How have queer people sought to memorialize their predecessors and bequeath their legacy to future generations? How have these practices interacted with more expansive societal forces that alternately commemorate, silence or marginalize queer culture?

(CFP: PAMLA 2025) Haunted Belonging: Memory, Erasure, and Identity in Diasporic Literatures

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 2:53pm
Wenyuan Wang / / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025

This session explores how postcolonial and diasporic literatures grapple with memory, trauma, and cultural haunting. Rather than thinking of identity as fixed or linear, selfhood is complex and palimpsestic due to colonial violence, migration, and historical erasure. This session invites papers that analyze how characters or narratives navigate misremembering, inherited trauma, or overwritten histories to reclaim belonging and agency. Topics may include narrative voice, transgenerational memory, silence, storytelling, and archival gaps in multiethnic and immigrant literatures. This session welcomes interdisciplinary approaches and encourages work on Asian American, Black, Indigenous, and other diasporic communities.

[Extended Deadline CFP]: 122nd Annual PAMLA Conference (San Francisco, CA) – November 20-23, 2025

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 10:38am
Craig Svonkin / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

The PAMLA 2025 Conference (https://www.pamla.org/pamla2025/) will be held at the elegant InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference will begin on Thursday, November 20, and continue through November 23, 2025.

The 2025 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person at the InterContinental. There will be no virtual or hybrid sessions or papers–the entire conference is being held in-person.

Medusa: Essay on Modern Drama

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 11:07pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

This call for papers seeks one specific chapter on Medusa for a volume intended for the series, Villains and Creatures.

Each chapter of the volume is intended to be an overview of depictions of Medusa in specific kinds of media; nevertheless, the arguments/theses of each chapter should still be original, using past works and research to develop a current (new) perspective on Medusa.

The chapter needed involves Modern Drama.

Chapters will be due in October 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 6,500 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Call for Papers for Vol 4 of IJLS

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 12:21pm
Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

Politics and Leadership, Leadership Studies and Politics

Politics and leadership: two subjects that are commonly known, yet also deeply misunderstood. Politics is not merely the activities of official decision-makers and the ideas (and people) that give rise to them, but also, more broadly, how human groups determine who gets what (and under what circumstances—by consent or coercion). What if leadership is not entirely a person or position? Perhaps, leadership is a negotiation— a complex moral relationship between people that is predicated on role agreement. We might say, then, that leadership is a dynamic process that cannot be separated from the politics of human groups. Leadership, in this way, is very fundamentally political.

Vulnerable Lives, Precarious Existence: Contemporary Narratives of Vulnerability from the Global South

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 4:53am
Dr.Chilkhe Ganesh Nagorao (VIT-Chennai), Dr.Minu Susan Koshy (Mar Thoma College for Women, Kerala), Mr.Rajkumar (Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Original, unpublished research papers are invited for an edited volume titled Vulnerable Lives, Precarious Existence: Contemporary Narratives of Vulnerability from the Global South, scheduled to be published in 2025.

 

Research Articles on Southeast Asia, East Asia and India's North-East Region

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 4:20am
Rising Asia Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 5, 2026

Rising Asia Journal invites Research Articles on Southeast Asia, East Asia (Japan, China, the Koreas, and Taiwan), and India's North-East Region, on all aspects of these Asian societies, in particular literature, poetry, music, art, society, as well as politics and diplomacy. We are interested in the use of diplomacy in the arts as well.

Articles should be between 5,000 to 10,000 words in length, with footnotes, and Works Cited.

Authors are urged to visit the journal's website at www.rajraf.org to read the submission guidelines. 

Articles should be original, and should offer a new and innovative perspective.

Film Studies: Research Articles focusing on Southeast Asia, China, East Asia, and India's Northeast

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 4:20am
Rising Asia Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Rising Asia Journal invites Research Articles on Film Studies in the geographical areas of Southeast Asia, East Asia (Japan, China, the Koreas, and Taiwan), and India's North-East Region, on all aspects of these Asian societies. Authors may use any thematic or theoretical discourse such as gender, race, colonialism and post-colonialism, and others.

Articles should be between 5,000 to 10,000 words in length, with footnotes, and Works Cited.

Authors are urged to visit the journal's website at www.rajraf.org to read the submission guidelines. 

Articles should be original, and should offer a new and innovative perspective.

REMINDER: “A Day”: 2nd Annual Goth Music and Subculture Conference

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 12:57am
Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 22, 2025

“A Day”: 2nd Annual Goth Music and Subculture Conference

 

Deadline: May 22, 2025 

Conference Date: August 16, 2025 

Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific)

Abstract: 150 words + 100 word biographical statement + Time Zone

Submit to: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University @ noahrgallego@gmail.com 

Contact: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com

 

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Call for Panels and Papers: "Sports, Recreation, Leisure, and All Manners of Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century"

updated: 
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - 3:31pm
South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCSECS)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Pinehurst, NC - February 19-21, 2026

The South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCSECS) looks forward to welcoming all to its 2026 meeting in Pinehurst, which is slated for February 19-21, 2026.  The incomparable 2026 SCSECS meeting will present a fabulous opportunity to engage in lively intellectual conversation centered on 18th-century topics while luxuriating in all the amenities of a vibrant resort, set in the heart of the Village of Pinehurst, a National Historic Landmark, designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and Warren Manning. Pinehurst offers a spa, history, golf, shopping, landscape, birding, croquet, watering holes, and more! You will not want to miss out on this opportunity.

Disability and the Archives: Access, Absences and Action

updated: 
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - 7:40am
Shakespeare's Globe
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

 Shakespeare’s Globe is inviting proposals for an interdisciplinary conference bringing together literary and performance scholars, historians, archivists, and disability scholars and activists around the theme ‘Disability and the Archives’. This two-day hybrid event will be held in London on 23 - 24 January 2026 and will explore how disabled lives have been­—and continue to be—recorded, erased or obscured.

Multisensuality and Language Across Media, Cultures, and Histories: International Scientific Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:05pm
Sprachenzentrum, University of Vienna; University of the National Education Commision, Kraków; Koszalin University of Technology; Pomeranian University in Słupsk
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Call for Papers 

Multisensuality and Language Across Media, Cultures, and Histories International Scientific Conference 

When: November 14–15, 2025 Where: Online 

“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words.” — Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments 

Special Session on African Literature and Abdulrazak Gurnah - 122nd PAMLA Conference 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:05pm
Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 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 - Thursday, May 15th 2025

Overview - 

Manuscripts and Textual Criticism

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:05pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Manuscripts and Textual Criticism (Panel / In-Person)Presiding Officer: Kathryn Vulic (Western Washington University)

Narratives of Nature: Representations of the Environment, Urban Ecology and Planetary Crisis in Indigenous and Postcolonial Literatures

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:04pm
Litinfinite Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Narratives of Nature: Representations of the Environment, Urban Ecology and Planetary Crisis in Indigenous and Postcolonial Literatures

E-ISSN: 2582-0400 | CODEN: LITIBR

www.litinfinite.com

All the manuscripts should be mailed to litinfinitejournal@gmail.com

Abstract (150-200 words), Keywords – (5-6), and Final research papers of 4000-6000 words (including citations) should be submitted by 15th June 2025.

(The Bengali research manuscripts should be accompanied by English title, author(s) details, keywords, abstracts, and references)

Travel and Tourism (Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Conference) 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:04pm
MAPACA (Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Assn)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Travel and Tourism Studies as a discipline continues to gain popularity in academia, in part because of its inter-disciplinary nature. The Travel and Tourism area seeks papers that discuss and explore any aspect of travel and/or tourism. Topics for this area include, but are not limited to, the following:-

- travel and gender/race/class
- personal travel narratives
- heritage tourism
- material culture and tourism
- travel in 2025: how has politics changed travel?

Marginal Infrastructures

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:04pm
University of Pittsburgh
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Date: 19-20

September 2025

Keynote Speaker: Hatim El-Hibri, George Mason University

Mode: In Person

Call for Articles for L'Histoire Volume 4, Issue 1, a Biannual Magazine of the Social Sciences

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:03pm
Voyages into the Past
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

The history of "rights" as a concept is mired in complications. Regarded as the moral or legal recognition of interests or entitlements of individuals and communities, rights have been present in history in a variety of ways - both justiciable and not. This history of rights, and the securing of rights, is long and arduous, and has taken various forms along the way - with sudden victories and abrupt revocations all the same - resulting in the present that we find ourselves in now.

CFP Screening Women and/in Politics - Film Journal

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:02pm
Film Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Screening Women and/in Politics

Film Journal - special issue

Hélène Charlery and Anita Jorge

 

This special issue of Film Journal seeks papers on the representation of political women and women in institutional politics in audiovisual productions from and on the anglophone world, whether they be documentaries, fiction films (short, medium, feature-length, television or platform) films, series or mini-series.

Call for Chapters | Mapping the Trajectory of Indian Muslim Women’s Life-Writings: An Autoethnographical Approach

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:00pm
Dr. N. Safrine / CSMFL
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025

 

This edited book seeks to include quality works which provide new insights on the life-writings as an autoethnographical account of the lived experiences of Muslim women in India.

 EDITOR

Dr. N. Safrine, an Independent Researcher & Practitioner, Chennai, India


 

The chapters (abstracts/full-texts) should be submitted to the volume editor at safrine2017@gmail.com


 

 SCOPE & OBJECTIVES OF THE BOOK

'Theory Today' workshop with Todd McGowan

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:00pm
USC
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

‘Theory Today’ working group [USC] is organizing a two-day theory workshop with one of the preeminent and prolific theorists of our time, Prof. Todd McGowan1.  The workshop will take place on March 12-13, 2026, at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), and will have the following schedule:

………………………………………………

Day 1 : March 12, 2026

Session 1 | McGowan: Foundations of Thinking [10 am to 1 pm]

-          Workshop session focused on reading and discussing primary texts, including Hegel, Kant, Marx, and Lacan.

Special Issue of Early Popular Visual Culture: Teaching Silent Cinema Today

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:00pm
Carolyn Condon Jacobs, Central Connecticut State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 5, 2025

Call for Papers

 Special Issue of Early Popular Visual Culture: Teaching Silent Cinema Today

 Guest edited by Carolyn Condon Jacobs and Aurore Spiers

 

Silent films are critical teaching tools. In film and media studies classrooms, these films give students a crucial understanding of cinema’s emergence and development. Students  

Reminder - HFRN 2025 Online Summer Workshop: Transnational and Postnational Historical Fictions

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:59pm
Historical Fictions Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

The Historical Fictions Research Network invites you to its international, interdisciplinary online summer workshop on historical fiction. We invite scholars from all over the world to come and join us for this international conversation. We have yet to find a time zone we cannot accommodate, so do join us in June!

2025 Online Summer Workshop: Transnational and Postnational Historical Fictions

13 June 2025 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)

15 min talks

Transnational and Postnational Historical Fictions

Dialectics of Transformation

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:57pm
The Phenomenology of Spirit Reading Group at UC Irvine
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 8, 2025

Dialectics of Transformation

UC Irvine Graduate Student Conference
Oct. 9th and 10th, 2025
Keynote speaker: Prof. Andreja Novakovic (UC Berkeley)

Toleration and Cosmopolitanism II: English and European Literature in Global Contexts (RSA Paper Panel)

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:56pm
Rhema Hokama and Tom Clayton / Renaissance Society of America sponsored session for English Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Organizers: Rhema Hokama (University of Washington) and Tom Clayton (Colgate University)

This is a call for submissions for a guaranteed session in English Literature sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America for the 2026 RSA conference in San Francisco (February 19–21, 2026).

Pages