cultural studies and historical approaches

CFP Neo-Victorian Criminalities, Detection, and Punishment

University of Wolverhampton, 23rd-24th June 2025

Keynote speakers: Professor Claire Nally, Lee Jackson, and Nat Reeve

Organisers: Dr Helen Davies, University of Wolverhampton, and Dr Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz, University of Malaga

Call For Papers
Religion & Theatre Focus Group – Emerging Scholars Panel
Association for Theater in Higher Education (ATHE) 2025 Conference
This years conference is virtual
July 28 – Aug. 1, 2025 General Conference
The ATHE Religion and Theatre Focus group invites current graduate students and/or independent scholars who have not presented at a major national conference to submit papers for the 2025 Emerging Scholars Panel.
The 2025 Conference Theme:
The Real
The binary opposition between “real” and “virtual” is ever more outdated and unnecessary. Theatre and performance has always been both real and representation. ATHE 2025: The Real invites us to consider the real effects of a virtual conference.

The intersection between crises and selves has long been a fertile ground across literary and artistic explorations. This CFP invites papers that examine how individual and collective crises—ranging from pandemics, ecological disasters, and political upheavals to personal and generational trauma—have shaped the articulation of selfhood across literature, film, visual art, and other media. Through this topic, we urge scholars to explore how various identity positions and orientations interact with crises to produce unique modes of writing the self. 

Conference online: 20-21 March 2025

All details: 8th "TRAUMA AND NIGHTMARE" Conference

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In commemoration of the centennial of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids (1925-2025), led by labor organizer and civil rights activist A. Phillip Randolph, Morgan State University, the Benjamin A. Quarles Humanities and Social Science Institute, the Department of English and Language Arts, The James H. Gilliam, Jr. College of Liberal Arts, and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGST) Program proudly announce the second one-day WGST Graduate Symposium (WGST-GS). This symposium will take place at The National Treasure, Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 3, 2025, from 8 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Archives are valuable sites of memory and knowledge, as well as sites of violence and power. In a hyper-saturated world of post-truth and fake news, archives provide a powerful tool to understand the past, interpret the present and imagine better futures. Following Walter Benjamin’s saying, scholars have a responsibility to “brush history against the grain” when delving into archival documents, to find what is absent or hidden and make it speak again. This conference presents scholars with the opportunity to explore various questions that arise when facing archives as dynamic sites of memory: How do we challenge and deal with archives as sites of power? How can queer and marginal subjects be found or salvaged in archives that erase their presence?

The American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) invites paper proposals for its 2025 Annual Conference, to be held in Honolulu, Hawai`i from 14–18 May 2025. We invite papers addressing any aspect of literature, film, and other cultural narratives of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.

In light of this year’s conference location, we are also inviting papers on literature, film, and cultural narratives of the Pacific Islands. We are especially interested in papers examining transnational or oceanic intersections of literatures and cultures, as well as papers on Aboriginal, Māori, or other Indigenous topics.

The International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference is presented by the Women’s Research Center and the BGLTQ+ Student Center at the University of Central Oklahoma with assistance from the UCO chapter of the National Organization for Women. In tandem, these organizations promote engagement with Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies issues.

Call for Proposals  The World at a Glance — Panoramic and Peep Technologies

Book proposals are invited for a series called Gender and Culture in the Romantic Era, published by Anthem Press (http://www.anthempress.com/). Gender and Culture in the Romantic Era is a series of scholarly monographs and edited collections devoted to the topics of gender and culture in British poetry, fiction, and drama from roughly 1780 to 1830. In terms of gender, the series encompasses scholarship related to the lives and works of women writers but also includes studies that address broader constructions of gender identity and sexuality.

For full CFP and registration information see: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/home

20th Ernest Hemingway International Colloquium

2026 MLA Convention in Toronto, Canada, January 8-11, 2026

Special Session Title: Women and Physical Objects

We invite proposals exploring women’s encounters and interactions with physical objects in all literary and cultural products across history and regions. Comparative, interdisciplinary, and transnational approaches are welcome.

Email your 250-word proposal and a 150-word cv to Haihong Yang, hyang@udel.edu and Wanming Wang, wanming.wang@mail.mcgill.ca, by 3/15.

Deadline for submission: March 15, 2025.

As the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence drives increased interest in the founding of the United States, this conference, co-hosted by the American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum and the Science History Institute aims to widen the scope of such conversations. Inspired in part by the APS’s 2025 exhibition, Philadelphia: The Revolutionary City and “America’s Scientific Revolutionaries,” a multiyear project funded by the Lounsbery Foundation we invite proposals from scholars from all disciplines whose research illuminates the intersections of science and society in the Atlantic World between 1764 and 1804. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

Call For Papers

Special issue:        Faravid – Journal for Historical and Archaeological Studies

Publication date:    Spring 2026

Guest editors:        Moussa Pourya Asl, Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, and Johanna Leinonen

Language:              Finnish, English, German or Swedish

Migration Histories to Finland: Global Movements, Local Impacts