cultural studies and historical approaches

Call for Papers

Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics

SPECIAL ISSUE – Translation & Philosophy: Disciplines in Need of Dialogue

Guest Editor: Byron Byrne-Taylor, Shanghai International Studies University, China

The issue’s topic revolves around Education and will challenge our anthropogenic philosophies.

It will be an exploration into what education actually means and what alternative philosophies could replace the current, education is for getting a good job and becoming a productive worker, expanding the economy, to something more holistic, more socially beneficial and more forward thinking.

All of this can be answered with fictional stories, philosophical papers, poems or personal essays.

The Anthropocene has a deficit of philosophy that looks at the world from a different point of view, instead of the one prescribed, centralised, accepted narrative.

Call For Papers - CFP

We are very pleased to announce that the 2025 Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association Conference will take place in person from Wednesday, 2 July to Friday, 4 July, hosted by the University of Queensland in its Queen Street campus in the Brisbane CBD (https://about.uq.edu.au/campuses-facilities/brisbane-city), conveniently located close to local hotels, cafes, and restaurants.

Keynote speakers will be Dennis Britton of the University of British Columbia, and Brandon Chua of the University of Hong Kong.

This proposed panel for ASA 2025 seeks scholarly papers that explore David Lynch’s work through the lens of American Empire. In keeping with the conference theme (“Late-Stage American Empire”), this panel will explore Lynch’s work in political, historical, and geographic terms, building upon and departing from the psychological framework so frequently evoked in Lynch criticism and scholarship. What can be gained from investigating Lynch’s work as a reflection and interrogation of American empire? How might his depictions of the Harkonnens in Dune, for instance, represent the global avarice of post-war America?

This is a Call for Papers for a special issue of the online open-access double-blind peer-reviewed journal [Inter]sections,titled Laughing in the Face of Evil: Humorous Perspectives on Perpetrators in Contemporary American Literature and Popular Culture. We invite papers that ask what humor can contribute to our understanding of perpetrators by examining a selection of works from contemporary American literature and popular culture. Does humor help demythologize certain perpetrators whose international fame turned them into quasi-mythical figures? Can the ownership of humorous content about a traumatic situation or process endured by a specific marginalized community be transferred to other communities?

We hereby invite proposals of original articles related to the general theme of Cultural Intertexts, an academic journal of Literature and Cultural Studies, ISSN 2393-0624, E-ISSN 2393-1078.

The editors will consider for publication papers which tackle strategies of representation and of (inter)textual construction emerging from the dialogic relation between:

-       literature and the historical and cultural context of text production;

-       distribution and consumption;

-       literature and other arts (music, film, visual arts, etc.) or sciences (linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology, history, sociology and political sciences, internet and new technologies, etc.);

(What’s the story) Reunion glory?

Assessing Oasis’s legacy as Morning Glory turns 30.

Université Rennes 2 (France), 27 November 2025

Organisation committee: Aurore Caignet, Guillaume Clément, David Haigron

It is estimated that nearly 14 million people tried to get tickets for this year’s Oasis’s UK tour following the announcement of their reunion in 2024. This staggering figure echoes the band’s one-off concert at Knebworth in 1996, when 4% of the British population had applied for tickets. Such statistics confirm Oasis’s special status within British popular culture and the band’s ability to allow people to come together.

Epistolography, knowledge, and the Ancient World

Conference, University of Bucharest, October 3-4, 2025 (hybrid) 

CFP deadline: February 28, 2025

The edited volume aims to explore the portrayal of contemporary women’s issues as depicted in Indian regional literature. The focus of the volume is to explore how cultural, social, economic, and political issues affecting women are reflected and represented across various Indian languages and regions. This book seeks to bridge the gap between literary studies and gender discourse, emphasizing how literature acts as a mirror to societal transformations and the challenges women face today. The volume will cover diverse genres, including fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiographies, while also addressing regional variations in themes and representations.

The thematic objectives of this edited volume are as follows:

Call for Papers Home: The Space We Claim March 14-16, 2025

University of Ottawa, English Graduate Student Association 2025 Conference

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition” - James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room.

Chapter proposals are invited for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. Join confirmed contributors like Cáel M. Keegan, author of Lana and Lilly Wachowski: Sensing Transgender. We seek a broadly international group of scholarly contributors. 

Latinx Marxisms: Revolutionary Nationalism, Socialism and Communism in Latina/o/x History, Politics & Culture, edited by Jaime Acosta Gonzalez, Ben Valdez Olguín, Jennifer Ponce de León.

Two-Day International Conclave (in Blended Mode)
                                 on

 “Transcultural Linguistic, Literary & Cultural Aspects of the Indian Knowledge System (IKS)” [15-16 February, 2025]

 Organized by Centre for Foreign Languages, Bankura University

The London Arts-Based Research Centre
Modernism Remodelled 2025
A Transdisciplinary Conference

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/modernism-remodelled-2025/

Date: March 8-10, 2025

Where:
March 8-9: In person participation at Cambridge University & online
March 10: Fully online

Call for Papers
Cost:        185 GBP (in person)
100 GBP (Online)
Abstract: Deadline February 5, 2025
Abstract form on: https://forms.gle/9TWGPbStYzTTqEvD9