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Special issue of Canadian Literature — seeking work by new, graduate, and/or early-career scholars
Submission length: 5,000-8,000 words (including works cited and notes)
Guest Editors: Z. N. Dylan Jackson, amanda wan, Emma Gilroy (University of British Columbia)
Abstract
The University of Tehran English Language Scientific Student Association (UTELSSA) presents:
Decolonizing the Mind: A Journey through
Scholars and students are invited to engage in a series of thought-provoking dialogues that examine the process of decolonizing the mind. This series aims to critically explore and challenge the pervasive influences of colonialism on knowledge, culture, and society. Through interactive discussions, we will delve into the complexities of colonial and postcolonial studies, the significance of decolonial theories, and engage directly with a remarkable author in the field.
I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by May 1, 2025. Chapters will be due by September 15, 2025.
All topics will be considered.
Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu
Dragons in Gaming and Online Culture
I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by May 1, 2025. Chapters will be due by September 15, 2025.
All topics about dragons will be considered.
Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu
This collection seeks essays on dinosaurs in film, literature, and the arts. The Jurassic Park franchise solidified the presence of dinosaurs in the pop cultural imagination, but there have been other media and dinosaur portrayals that have captured the public's imagination. Topics can include, but are not limited to:
-Studies of specific films
-Studies of specific novels
-Studies of special effects renderings of dinosaurs
-Artwork with dinosaurs
Chapters will be due in September 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.
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.
Call for Papers
ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies
ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies invites submissions for the New issue of the journal - a general issue on literature, theatre and culture studies.
WRITING THE MIDWEST: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers
The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)
May 29-30, 2025. Kellogg Hotel and Convention Center, East Lansing, Michigan
About SSML and The Writing the Midwest Symposium: The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML), founded in 1971, exists to support the study and dissemination of work in Midwestern literature, art, film, and scholarly study.
CALL FOR PAPERS
MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION
TORONTO
JANUARY 8-11, 2026
The Ernest Hemingway Society will sponsor a panel at the upcoming MLA Conference:
The Sun Also Rises at 100
The Milton Society of America invites proposals for a sponsored panel at the 2026 MLA Convention being held in Toronto, Canada. Papers (15 minutes in length) should bring attention to new work in Milton studies by early career scholars and to innovative approaches by scholars of any rank. Send 150-word abstract and brief cv to MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com.
1st International Conference
Contemporary Art & Extractivist Culture
14 May 2025: Facultat de Lletres, Universitat de Lleida
15 May 2025: Facultat de Geografia i Història, Universitat de Barcelona
Keynote Speakers: Dr. Juan Martín Prada (Universidad de Cádiz), Dr. Rick Dolphijn (Utrecht University), Dr. Joaquín Barriendos (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey), Dra. Bárbara Fluxá (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Dra. Paula Bruna (artist and researcher), Gabriela Bettini (artist and researcher)
Hi folks,
I hope everyone is happy and well.
I would like to announce that I am putting together a new edited collection on horror film promotion in the US. At present, I am sketching out a due date for chapter submissions of January 2027, but obviously this can only really be provisional at this point. For the record, once a line-up is in place, I will be approaching Anthem Press about including the book in its "Series on Exploitation and Industry in World Cinema", of which I am a board member.
Selling Scary Movies: Horror Film Promotion & the American Market
Edited by Richard Nowell
Call for Papers5th Spiral Film and Philosophy Conference “Rise of the Machines”Toronto, Canada
May 23-24, 2025
Theorizing (Sub)peripheries: Strategies of Synchronization
in Southeast European Literary and Cultural Criticism
(1821–2025)
Dates: May 9–10, 2025
Location: Sibiu, Romania
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
I would like to (co)organize a panel on trans studies under Trump 2.0 for the 2025 meeting of the American Studies Association, which will take place in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from November 20-22. This is, obviously, a fraught and rapidly evolving subject, but here are some of the topics I would like to broach:
Call for Papers for the inaugural event of CHASE's newly established Refugee Justice Network for a Borderless World: Borders proliferate and refugeehood expands at the present time. Borders follow us everywhere, they are not just physical; they are as much digital, institutional, social, imaginative. Bordering methods that exert their force on human lives and experiences by ordering statehood, stagnation and citizenship regimes have for long been in discussion. However, the nuances and challenges of the problem are yet to be re-evaluated and re-thought. While discussions of certain geographical areas and lives affected by borders have been in the spotlight, many remained unanalysed and, as a result, invisible.
The proposed panel dovetails with this year’s conference theme for ASALH "African American labor." While it is true that “Black labor has been central to political, economic, social, cultural, and technological transformations,” the hardships of that labor and the intricacies of Black lived experiences have also led to all types of death. As people of African descent continue to be accosted on multiple fronts, examining both our historical and present-day experiences around the subject of death is an undertaking worth engaging. In recent years, conversations about the uncomfortable subject of death were facilitated by the pandemic, and several studies have documented the disproportionate mortality rate from COVID-19 for Black people in the United States.
The Department of English and Comparative Literature at San José State University welcomes proposals for 15-20 minute paper presentations on any topic related to literary studies or creative writing for a one-day conference just for graduate students.
We will form panels based on the topics/categories of the abstracts that students submit. For one of the panels, we are particularly interested in papers on or related to decolonizing literary studies. The conference will take place on April 25th from 12:30-3pm.
To apply to become a presenter, please send a 250-word abstract of your paper to sjsugradconference@gmail.com by March 25, 2025.
Everywhere Below Canada: The Black South Outside the South
SSSL-Affiliated Session
MLA 2026, Toronto, Canada
January 8-11
Abstract: Feministas Unidas invites interdisciplinary contributions for its non-guaranteed session in online format for MLA 2026 (Toronto, January 8-11, 2026). Proposals can be submitted even if you are not a member of Feministas Unidas. Now, if accepted, they must register for the periods 2025 and 2026. This call for contributions seeks proposals that examine literatures written by women in the transatlantic orbit, from the Middle Ages to the present, focusing on experiences of exile, displacement, and the difficulties faced by both the women and their texts in entering archives.
ODIOUS COMPARISONS
... ACROSS & BEYOND THE EARLY GLOBAL WORLD
April 17-April 18 2026 [In Person]
CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, UCLA
Organized by Basil Arnould Price (John W. Baldwin Postdoctoral Fellow, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, UCLA)
and Nancy Alicia Martínez (Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, UCLA)
English version below
La colección Terror. Estudios críticos, dirigida por Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns y localizada en la Universidad de Cádiz (España)busca manuscrito (monografia o colección editada) para año 2026/2027. Las propuestas y los manuscritos deben ser en español. Estamos interesados en un estudio académico (no meramente divulgativo) sobre los films de terror de Jacinto Molina (más conocido como Paul Naschy) realizados en España durante la década de oro del “Fantaterror” (1967-1976). Interesadas/os por favor mandar propuesta junto con CV completo al email de la colección: coleccion.terror@uca.es hasta el 30 de marzo 2025.
Call for Book Proposals: Endangered Language Studies Collection
Are you interested in writing a book on an endangered language? Lived Places Publishing invites proposals for its Endangered Language Studies Collection, a series designed to provide engaging and accessible supplementary materials for academic programs.
International Society for Philosophy in Film (ISPiF) Fourth Annual Symposium
Call for Abstracts August 28-30, 2025 London, England
https://www.philosophyliterature.com/ispif
Theme: Comedy: Darkness and Light
Abstract Deadline April 15, 2025
Completed papers due July 30, 2025
EXTENDED DEADLINE
CFP SPECIAL ISSUE OF ANGLES - NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE ANGLOPHONE WORLD
PUBLICATION DATE: APRIL 2027
THE LIVES AND AFTERLIVES OF COOKIE MUELLER: TALES, KINSHIPS, PERSISTENCE
Russell Crowe’s talents were globally recognized in the early 2000s after he appeared in a slate of well-received films – L.A. Confidential, Gladiator, and A Beautiful Mind, among others – that earned him critical acclaim. Nevertheless, in the years following these productions, he has continued to be a part of numerous projects with international and creative appeal. Alongside his films are his associations with Roman soccer teams – established in Spera’s (2023) chapter in my recent volume on Gladiator (https://vernonpress.com/book/1213) – his social media presence, and his musical performances.
The twentieth anniversary of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000) was an important moment in film history, for it not only marked a great film and work of art, but it also reminded audiences how peplum and historical epics still mattered. The edited collection “A Hero Will Endure”: Essays at the Twentieth Anniversary of ‘Gladiator’ (2023) provided insights on the film two decades after its release.
Yet now there is a sequel. This CFP therefore serves to build on the work done in the 2023 essays and provide a further avenue of exploration for connections between the two films as well as innovative readings of Gladiator 2 on its own.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
Call for Individual Proposals:
Dear Comparative Literature scholars/students,
Now the 2025 ICLA Congress (https://icla2025-seoul.kr/en) call for individual proposal submission is out.
You can search for the cfp here:
https://www.conftool.pro/icla2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&presentations=hide
I. Individual Proposal Submission Guidelines:
Modernity in Translation
Guest Editors
Professor Mustafa Riad, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Professor Tarek Shamma, Binghamton University, New York, USA
Journal: Encounters in translation – Rencontres en traduction
Diamond open access:
free for authors, free for readers
Languages of submission
Proposals may be submitted in French or English. Submissions in other languages may also be considered, subject to confirmation by the editors
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