cultural studies and historical approaches

Organizer: Rhema Hokama (University of Washington) and Yangyou Fang (Princeton)

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).

In 1892, the satirical magazine Moonshine published “The Commission on Ghosts,” a mock-article recounting the “first sitting” of the Society for General Psychology’s Royal Commission on spirits. Those present are “The Chairman, the Editor of Light, Mrs. Annie Besant, Miss Florence Marryat, Mr. W. Eglinton, Mr. Dawson Rogers, Mr. C. N. Williamson, and Mr. W. T. Stead” (315). Each member was a public supporter/purveyor of spiritualist belief at the fin de siècle.

Poetry & Poetry Studies at MAPACA 2025

November 6-8, 2025

Philadelphia, PA

The Poetry and Poetry Studies area at the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) seeks creative and critical proposals for this year’s annual conference.

This session invites proposals on topics that will (as a session as a whole) embrace the plurality of Feminisms, enlivening current critical practice across languages, literatures, time periods, and genres. In particular, we welcome proposals that approach Feminisms through a transhistorical and/or global lens. We welcome proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related.In their 2022 book Public Feminism in Times of Crisis: From Sappho’s Fragments to Viral Hashtags, Leila Easa and Jennifer Stager “examine the public practice of feminism in the age of social media and analyze the deep histories threaded through this new(er) enactment” (2).

MORE PRIDE, LESS PREJUDICE: JANE AUSTEN AT 250

Faculty of Arts and Humanities I University of Porto

2-3 October 2025

Keynote Speakers

Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford) 

John Mullan (University College London)

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, DOAJ, and Gale Cengage.

* 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.

Please note that this call has expired! Thank you! 

This is a limited and urgent call for chapters in the Art Volume (part of the Routledge series Oceans, Seas, and Shorelines: Cultural, Environmental, and Natural Histories). Since some of the previous contributors were unable to complete their manuscripts, I am reaching out to those of you who have a fitting concept for a chapter within the already themed structure of the book and are able to complete the chapter by June 30. The volume is currently under contract with Routledge.

In the words of the series editors:

Drawing on the theme “Underground,” this proposed panel considers the hidden, unearthed role of nineteenth-century forms of education. We think of education broadly here, including textbooks, expositions, World’s Fairs, newspapers, public history, and other print and material culture with didactic purpose. The panel will consider how these forms of education challenge or uphold prevailing nineteenth-century historiographies, as well as how they engage with counternarratives, reveal buried histories, reshape public memory, or critically construct belonging.

THE CULTURE OF ATTRACTIONS: PAST AND PRESENT

International Scholarly Conference

10–12 September 2025

Faculty of Humanities, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń,

Collegium Maius, Fosa Staromiejska 3, Toruń, Poland

We cordially invite scholars specializing in various disciplines such as cultural studies, cultural

anthropology, theatre and performance studies, film and media studies, and related disciplines, to

participate in an international, transdisciplinary research conference. This conference, organized by the

Research Group on Performance Studies and Drama Translation at Nicolaus Copernicus University

In Living Color:

 Exploring the Complexities of Colorism in the Twenty-First Century

Under Contract with Bloomsbury Publishing

Edited by

Amir A. Gilmore, Washington State University

Vikki Carpenter, Heritage University

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, the question as to how far differences of race-which show themselves chiefly in the color of the skin and the texture of the hair

CFP: Virtual Crime and Detection

Living in Languages

       traversing borders, disciplines, and mediums.

Call for Submissions: Living in Languages Journal

Call for Book Chapters: “Matrilineal Family Saga Beyond Western Modernity”

We are excited to invite researchers, writers, and practitioners to contribute a chapter to an upcoming book entitled Matrilineal Family Saga Beyond Western Modernity. This interdisciplinary collection aims to explore diverse perspectives on matrilineal family structures across cultures, examining how they challenge and expand beyond the frameworks of secular Western modernity.

Focus and Themes

Call for Papers

Journal of Research in Contemporary World Literature

(Indexed in Scopus, ISC, and SJR | Published by the University of Tehran)

Scope: Cutting-Edge Research in World Literature (Post-1945)

Publication Date: autumn-winter 2025-2026

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025

The Journal of Research in Contemporary World Literature invites scholarly contributions for its forthcoming autumn-winter 2025-2026 issue, devoted to pioneering research on global literary production after 1945. As of autumn 2025, the journal now accepts submissions in both Persian and English, reflecting its commitment to multilingual and cross-cultural engagement.