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Call for papers: Global thinking and regional acting: From eco-aesthetics to cultural discourses of the Asian natural environment

updated: 
Saturday, March 29, 2025 - 12:25am
Critical Arts: south-north cultural and media studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Critical Arts: south-north cultural and media studies 

Special IssueGlobal thinking and regional acting: From eco-aesthetics to cultural discourses of the Asian natural environment

Guest editor

Goutam KarmakarUniversity of Hyderabad, India; Durban University of Technology, South Africa
GoutamK@dut.ac.za

CALL FOR PAPERS

An Archipelagic Turn and the “Other Asias”: Planetary Care in Literature, Politics, Culture

updated: 
Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 6:10am
The Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Call for Papers

 

 

An Archipelagic Turn and the “Other Asias”: Planetary Care in Literature, Politics, Culture

 

August 4-6, 2025

Jeju National University

South Korea

 

 

Keynote: Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University, US

 

 

 

The Critical Island Studies Consortium announces a conference that aims to fundamentally challenge and reconceptualize our understanding of “Asia” by privileging an archipelagic perspective

(De)Constructions of the Future

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:04am
Word and Text
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Call for Articles:

Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, XVI (2026)

Edited by Stefan Herbrechter and Ivan Callus

(De)Constructions of the Future

 

Call for Papers - Special Issue: The Marriage Plot, 'Post'-Marriage

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:03am
Studies in the Novel
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

In a 2023 piece in the London Review of Books,Maylin Hays asks,“In the post-marriage era, what happens to the marriage plot?” Despite being in the midst of this alleged “post-marriage era,” conversations about marriage seem to be animating public discourse more than ever—from wildly popular “trad wife” influencers on social media, to the increasing frequency of conversations about gendered household labor in marriage self-help books like Eve Rodsky’s Fair Play (2019) and Kate Mangino’s Equal Partners (2022), to the recent rise in divorce memoirs like Lyz Lenz’s This American Ex-Wife (2024).

Queer Palimpsests

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:03am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association Conference 2025 in San Francisco
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Abstract

Queer palimpsests are texts from which queerness has been erased – but only on the surface. Scholars, therefore, are invited to reinvestigate these texts and their underlying queerness. This project includes books, movies, songs, fashion, artifacts, architecture, archives… a queer excavation in order to indicate the traces, specters, echoes, or presences of the past that remain even as many past narrative elements, structures, or tropes are forgotten.

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Comics and Graphic Novels Permanent Section [MMLA 25]

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:02am
Midwest Modern Language Association [MMLA]
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

CFP Comics and Graphic Novels Permanent Section
Chair: Keegan Lannon, University of Illinois – Chicago.

Conference: Nov 14-16, 2025
Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI

What Does Hope Look Like?

If it is true, as the CFP for this conference notes, that “hope can be found in the Humanities,” then comics and graphic novels offer a unique glimpse into that hope by drawing on the media affordances of prose and the visual arts. Comics let us “see” hope and optimism is ways other media are unable to.

CfP: Research Network “Ephemeral Epistemologies and Encounters”

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 6:42am
Dr. Tanja Kapp (University of Tübingen)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 11, 2025

We are currently seeking contributions from the humanities and social sciences for a scientific network that explores ephemerality in both its material forms and theoretical conceptualizations. This interdisciplinary network aims to bring into dialogue various questions about ephemerality, specifically examining how different fleeting forms of expression are implicated in the continual making and unmaking of proximities, both human and non-human, producing “a matter of temporary intensities and pacts amongst people” and other entities (Vélez-Serna, 14).

THE SOUTHERN GOTHIC AT PCAS / ACAS 2025

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Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:54am
Popular Culture / American Culture Association in the South
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: THE SOUTHERN GOTHIC AT PCAS/ ACAS 2025

 

Cultural History; PAMLA (November 20-23, 2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:54am
Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

The 122nd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in San Francisco at the InterContinental Hotel San Francisco, from Thursday, November 20, to Sunday, November 23, 2025. 

 

Cultural History 

 

Do Animals Hope?

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:54am
Midwestern Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 14, 2025

MMLA 2025 Animal Studies Panel

“Do Animals Hope?” 

 

Although many books have been written on hope for non-human animals, their collective or individual survival, this session invites proposals on hope by non-human animals, or representations of such hope. Many different approaches are welcome—literary critical, ethnographic (human or animal), environmental studies, affect studies, thought experiments. Please submit a 1-2 page abstract to Lucinda Cole (lcol@illinois.edu) by April 14, 2025.

 

 

Virtual session

Here and There: Reflections on Place-Based Photography

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:54am
University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

 

All photography takes place somewhere, but only some photography makes that place the focal point. From its conception, photographers have used the medium to document places, ranging from specific sites to regional and national landscapes, with the aim to educate, archive, preserve, and critique. Photographs of home and the local allow for reflections on belonging, community, and personal identity, whereas images taken elsewhere, perhaps in foreign lands, suggest an anthropological drive to capture (the essence of) the unfamiliar.

 

Caleidoscopio journal, series 2, vol. 1, no. 1: “In Media-Making:  Start-on-and-go-over-Media”

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:53am
Joana Bicacro, Lusófona University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Caleidoscopio invites you to submit papers for its series 2, vol. 1, no. 1: under the topic “In Media-Making:  Start-on-and-go-over-Media”

 

Archives, while carrying out the operation of the gaze, function like a mirror: they point to a spectral exteriority. The archive is of the order of the phantasmagorical and, by definition, they are phantasmatic. This approach points out to what Harun Farocki’s stressed as the definition of a phantom or operational image, images that are built from a non-human perspective, although they call-in human agency.

Why should humans be witnessing and/or scrutinizing images productions? Is that still a need? Are there any ethical or aesthetical motives or meanings to it?

Adaptation and Innovation: Linguistic, Cultural and Literary Responses to a Changing World (Journal Special Issue CFP)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:53am
The Academic Association for Doctoral Students & Students of English at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

The Academic Association for Doctoral Students & Students of English (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń) is pleased to announce the call for papers for the 11th issue of Currents, on the themes of adaptation and innovation within Anglophone language, culture and literature.

 

 

‘Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.’~ H.G. Wells Mind at the End of Its Tether

 

Adaptation and Innovation: Linguistic, Cultural and Literary Responses to a Changing World (online conference for early career scholars)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:53am
The Academic Association for Doctoral Students & Students of English at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

The Academic Association for Doctoral Students & Students of English (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń) is pleased to announce the call for papers for the online young researchers’ conference to be held on 22 May 2025 and the journal issue (Currents No 11) on the themes of adaptation and innovation within Anglophone language, culture and literature.

  ‘Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.’

~ H.G. Wells Mind at the End of Its Tether

PAMLA: Queer Temporalities, Memory, and Resistance in Asia

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:53am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

PAMLA 2025 Annual Conference

We invite paper proposals for an accpetd panel titled “Queer Temporalities, Memory, and Resistance in Asia,” to be held at the 2025 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Convention in San Francisco (November 20–23, 2025), complementing the broader conference theme of “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion.”

This panel explores how non-normative experiences of embodiment, temporality, spatiality, and memory practices intersect with acts of resistance across diverse Asian contexts. We invite submissions that examine these themes across Asia and its diasporas. 

CFP - JOCPC now accepting papers

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:51am
JOCPC: Journal of Children in Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 29, 2025

The Journal of Children in Popular Culture is an open-access, online, international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for scholars and professionals to interrogate  representations of the child in popular culture. JOCPC facilitates an international dialogue among scholars and professionals through vigorous discussion of the intersections between the child, the conception of childhood, children's material culture, children and politics, the child body, and any other interactions with the child in the context of popular culture.   

 

Diverse Francophonie

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:51am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Diverse Francophonie

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference

Thursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23

San Francisco, California  |  InterContinental Hotel San Francisco

Abstracts due May 15, 2025

Student Conference: Perspectives on the Media in American Culture and Society

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:50am
American Studies Program, University of Bucharest
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 26, 2025

The American Studies Program at the University of Bucharest

invites proposals for its annual student conference on the topic

Perspectives on the Media in American Culture and Society

to be held in person and online

 on May 17, 2025.

In-person panels will be held in Martin Luther King Hall

1st floor, 7-13 Pitar Moș St., Sector 1, Bucharest.

Detecting New Paradigms: The Detective Genre in Contemporary Chinese Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 3:59am
Panel Proposal for the American Association for Chinese Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Call for panelists for a paper at the American Association for Chinese Studies (AACS)

67nd Annual Conference, hosted by Adelphi University, Garden City, New York on October 24-26, 2025. According to the AACS conference description: the theme of the conference is “Charting New Paradigms: China and the Chinese Diaspora in a Changing World Order” in multiple aspects of culture, diplomacy, economy, education, health, history, literature, politics, and society.

Detecting New Paradigms: The Detective Genre in Contemporary Chinese Culture

Feeling Contemporary War: How Global Regimes of Sensing and Emotion Facilitate and Resist Military Power

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:24am
Amy Gaeta, University of Cambridge & Alex Adams, Independent Scholar
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 19, 2025

In some ways, war does not change. In others, it is constantly in flux. Contemporary warfare is aided, disrupted, and mediated by ever-developing digital technologies, semi-autonomous and autonomous weapons and equipment, deepfake AI propaganda, mediation through social media, and much more. These shifts suggest that contemporary warfare is in some sense a ‘new’ modality of conflict, or at least that it has new and distinctive characteristics that are in urgent need of analysis and critique. What is clear is that we must scrutinize the utility of the central binaries that structure our knowledge of war—wartime and peacetime, battlefield and safe zone, innocence and complicity—in order to understand the state of contemporary armed conflict.

The Body, Anatomy, and Aesthetics: Special Issue: Art & the Public Sphere

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:24am
Linda Roland Danil
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

In a 2022 article, one of a number of related works, and drawing on the work of Didier Deleule and François Guéry (2014)– the late art theorist Marina Vishmidt critiqued the manner in which an analysis of ‘bodies’ seemed to be overly focused on the register of vulnerability, or the post-structuralist, discursive, or psychoanalytic dimensions, thus relegating bodies excessively to the realm of the abstract, to the exclusion of the concrete. Anatomy, with regards to both its aesthetic and scientific purposes, also has abstract and concrete dimensions – as innovative recent works analyzing anatomy within its broader social and historical contexts demonstrate.

Un siglo de Mrs. Dalloway y The Common Reader

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:23am
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 28, 2025

Spanish----

“The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?”

PAMLA 2025 session: Seriality, Repetition, and Adaptation in 21st-Century Storytelling

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:23am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

CFP: PAMLA 2025 

Seriality, Repetition, and Adaptation in 21st-Century Storytelling  

Special Session for Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association

Location: San Francisco, California at the InterContinental San Francisco Hotel

Conference: Thursday, November 20 through Sunday, November 23, 2025. 

Abstract Submission Deadline: May 15, 2025

 

Presiding officer: 

Mavis Tseng, 

Associate Professor, Director of the Language Center

Taipei Medical University

mavistseng@tmu.edu.tw

 

Abstract

Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, volume 12: Dreams, Visions, and Utopias

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:23am
Ceræ - An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

We at Ceræ are pleased to announce that the theme for Volume 12 of the journal is Dreams, Visions, and Utopias, and we invite submissions that contemplate what is the arguably most ubiquitous and diverse literary genre of the medieval and early modern centuries.

Dreams and visions could be personal or communal. They could be of the past, present, or future. Some touched on real events or people, while others were entirely imaginary, and most were somewhere in between. They can encompass the horrors of nightmares to the bliss of salvation, or calls for political freedom and mobilisation as much as an afternoon daydreaming in the sunshine.

First Films and Early Style

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:21am
Film Journal, Special Issue Proposal
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Film Journal Thematic Issue Proposal: First Films and Early Style

Co-editors: Omid Bagherli and Charline Jao

We are seeking prospective contributers for a special issue of Film Journal on the topic of early style.

Two-Day International Seminar & Workshop On Indian Drama: Society-Culture, Tradition and Heritage

updated: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 2:48pm
Ateswartala Sanskritik Manch, Radhakantapur, Raidighi, South 24 Parganas In collaboration with Department of Bengali, Vidyasagar University, Paschim Medinipur and Jana Sanskriti, Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed (Publication Partner: Peter Lang)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 23, 2025

Call for Papers

  Mode: Blended (Online & Offline)

Two-Day International Seminar & Workshop On

Indian Drama: Society-Culture, Tradition and Heritage Organized by

Ateswartala Sanskritik Manch, Radhakantapur, Raidighi, South 24 Parganas

In collaboration with

Department of Bengali, Vidyasagar University, Paschim Medinipur

and

Jana Sanskriti, Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed

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