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Environment and Society, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. Learn more about the 30 books already in the series at: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXES
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Submission Guidelines:
“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
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.
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.
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
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 (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
E-ISSN: 2582-0400 | CODEN: LITIBR
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 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?
Marxism and the Coercive Forces of Capital: Today’s Implications and Critical Perspectives
“[The state] power rises out of society, placing itself above it, and alienating itself more and more from it.”
–Frederick Engels
Date: 19-20
September 2025
Keynote Speaker: Hatim El-Hibri, George Mason University
Mode: In Person
MAPACA 2025 Summer Virtual Symposium Call for Proposals
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.
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.
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’ 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:
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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.
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
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
UC Irvine Graduate Student Conference
Oct. 9th and 10th, 2025
Keynote speaker: Prof. Andreja Novakovic (UC Berkeley)
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).