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Medieval Times in Early Modern Texts

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:57pm
SAS Institute of History and the Scientiae
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Medieval Times in Early Modern Texts

Tuesday, April 8, 2025  

 

The Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the international research group Scientiae are pleased to invite you to participate in the conference:

Medieval Times in Early Modern Texts

that will take place on 3–5 December 2025 in Bratislava, Slovakia.

THE CULTURE OF ATTRACTIONS: PAST AND PRESENT International Scholarly Conference 10–12 September 2025

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:57pm
Nicolaus Copernicus Univeristy in Torun
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 4, 2025

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

Art, Architecture, and Culture of Odisha: Bridging Traditions and Global Narratives

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:57pm
S.C.S. (A) COLLEGE
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

 

National Seminar

on
"Art, Architecture, and Culture of Odisha: Bridging Traditions and Global Narratives"

18th and 19th September, 2025

Organised By 

POST GRADUATE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, 

S.C.S. AUTONOMOUS COLLEGE, PURI, ODISHA, INDIA

Virtual Crime and Detection

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:56pm
Virtual Crime and Detection, a special issue of Crime Fiction Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

CFP: Virtual Crime and Detection

Multi-Ethnic Queer Literature & Culture

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:56pm
PAMLA 2025 - San Francisco
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

122nd PAMLA ConferenceThursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23, 2025San Francisco, California  |  InterContinental Hotel San Francisco

 

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

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:55pm
Dr. Amany Alseify ; Dr. Yesmina Khedhir
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

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

Accessibility and Difficulty in Feminist Modernist Studies

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:51pm
Karen Weingarten
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

We invite proposals for short articles to complete a cluster on “Accessibility in Feminist Modernist Studies.” The papers in this cluster will consider how feminist methods and considerations of structural access help us understand and re-examine the concept of “modernist difficulty.”

Hitchcock's America; PAMLA (November 20-23, 2025)

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:50pm
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. 

 

Hitchcock's America 

 

Exploring The Murderbot Diaries; PAMLA (Nov. 20-23, 2025)

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:50pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

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

Exploring The Murderbot Diaries:

Since the publication of All Systems Red in 2017, Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series has come to include seven books, three related short stories, and an upcoming Apple TV+ adaptation starring Alexander Skarsgard. The series has won four Hugo Awards, two Nebulas, and four Locus Awards, with Wells often turning down subsequent award nominations.

Aesthetics of Fluidity

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:47pm
Department of Spanish and Portuguese University of Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 6, 2025

Fluidity is a complex state of being in the world that exists in the realm of the aesthetic. To be fluid means to be continuously shifting and morphing, calling attention to embodiment and its materiality in relation to spaces and each other. As an identitarian characteristic, fluidity challenges the spatio-temporal logics that impose rigid taxonomy through the hetero-patriarchy and, instead, offers resistance. As a spatial condition, fluidity may offer malleable or blurry boundaries to help form alternative ways of being and connecting in the world. As a process, fluidity means to reimagine bodies and spaces as watery.

 

K-Pop Reader

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:33pm
Min Ji Kang/Denison University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 12, 2025

We invite additional chapters for a K-pop reader for publication with Routledge. We especially welcome scholars who can contribute to Part I from global perspectives situated outside the U.S. (particularly in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Europe), as well as contributors for Parts II and III from wide ranging fields.

The abstract, table of contents for the reader, and submission details can be found below.

Abstract

Queer(Ing) Early Modern Art

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:32pm
Iraboty Kazi, Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Conference 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Conference 2025 October 16–18, 2025 - York University, Toronto, ON Queer(Ing) Early Modern Art [Panel Session]This session seeks to bring together scholars interested in the representations of trans and queer desires, bodies, identities, performances, cultures, and resistances in early modern visual works and texts. The aim is to investigate: 1. the intersections of gender and sexuality with race, class, religion, and ability in early modern art and how these intersections complicate our understanding of trans and queerness. 2.

Spanish and Portuguese / Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:32pm
RakhelVillamil-Acera/PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 10, 2025

This session delves into the rich and multifaceted landscape of Spanish and Portuguese literature, film, and cultural studies within the Iberian Peninsula. We invite submissions that engage with a broad spectrum of topics, particularly those that foreground the experiences of traditionally marginalized communities, including (but not limited to) the Gypsy/Romani and Afro-Hispanic populations. Areas of interest may also encompass gender studies, migration and exile, political ideologies, poverty, violence, motherhood, masculinity, memory, and the dynamics of remembrance and forgetting.

SAMLA 97: Speculative Fiction

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:20pm
Lisa Wenger Bro / Middle Georgia State University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

SAMLA’s 97th annual conference, Knowledge, will be held at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, GA this year from November 6-8.  Those accepted must be members of SAMLA to present. You can find more information at: https://southatlanticmla.org/  

 

Speculative Fiction Panel

Call for Chapters - Archipelago of Extremity: Fragmentation and Renovation in Puerto Rico

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:20pm
Daniel Nevárez
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

TWO MORE WEEKS - DEADLINE 4/30/25

 

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

 

Archipelago of Extremity:  

Fragmentation and Renovation in Puerto Rico

 

Editors 

Daniel Nevárez Araújo, PhD

University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras

 

Nelson Varas-Díaz, PhD

Florida International University

 

Description

 

CFP - the eTEXTS 15: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:19pm
Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Since 2014, the eTEXTS: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference has served as a platform for the examination and exploration of diverse "texts" from English-speaking countries of Ango-Saxon heritage. By bringing together scholars, doctoral students, and early-career professionals, the conference fosters scientific debates and critical discussions that drive forward our understanding of literature and culture. Our sessions facilitate development and dissemination of original research, encouraging participants to engage in critical analysis of a wide array of social, cultural, philosophical, and historical issues.

Las guerras del cuerpo: ataques, resiliencia, colaboración

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:18pm
Diane Marting, President, Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades (AEGS)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 19, 2025

Las guerras del cuerpo: ataques, resiliencia, colaboración 
XXXIII Congreso de la Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades (AEGS)  June 4-5, 2025
The University of Mississippi (EEUU)
Oxford, MS

Hybrid Conference of the Association for Gender and Sexuality Studies (AEGS) 

 

Abstract Deadline: April 19, 2025. Contact:  aegsoxford@gmail.com
Congress themes: 

Call For Papers for The Renaissance Conference of Southern California 67th Annual Conference

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:05pm
THE RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA67th Annual ConferenceSaturday, 01 November 2025We are pleased to announce a call for papers for our 67th Annual Conference, to be held at Chapman University, in conjunction with the Ferrucci Institute for Italian Experience and Research, and the Bernardino Telesio Professorship in Italian Studies CALL FOR PAPERS:RENAISSANCE ADAPTATIONS The RCSC, a regional affiliate of the Renaissance Society of America, welcomes proposals for both papers and complete panels on the full range of Renaissance disciplines (including Art, Architecture, History, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Theater, Language and L

Bryher's Influence on Modernist Writing

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:05pm
Kristina Marie Darling, Editor
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

This volume, under contract with Bloomsbury, will focus on the intersection of Bryher’s work as a writer and filmmaker/critic. Although her contemporaries, particularly H.D., are widely known, Bryher’s far-reaching influence is largely overlooked by scholars of Modernism.  With that in mind, I'm thrilled to invite essays that explore Bryher's writings, letters, and films, as well as her influence on other creative practitioners.  Please send essays by June 30th, 2025 to Kristina Marie Darling, the volume's editor.  Essays of any length are welcome for consideration.  

“Queer Journeys in North American Literature and Culture”

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 6:37am
Department of American Studies, University of Innsbruck
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 16, 2025

“Queer Journeys in North American Literature and Culture”

University of Innsbruck (Austria), November 14-15, 2025  

CFP: Journal of American Studies of Turkey (JAST), Fall 2025 General Issue

updated: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 4:41pm
Journal of American Studies of Turkey
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

 

An international biannual print and online publication of the American Studies Association of Turkey, the Journal of American Studies of Turkey operates with a double-blind peer review system and publishes work (in English) on American literature, history, art, music, film, popular culture, institutions, politics, economics, geography and related subjects.

(Deadline Is Today!) Call For Book Chapters: Don’t Get Lost in Their Sauce: Navigating Academic Identity, the Creative Self, and Reductive Practices

updated: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 1:59pm
Amir Gilmore, Washington State University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Call For Book Chapters

Don’t Get Lost in Their Sauce:

Navigating Academic Identity, the Creative Self, and Reductive Practices

Edited by

Amir A. Gilmore, Washington State University

Adrianne Mitchell, Washington State University

 

“See, when I had no money, I still had sauce. See if you don’t got no sauce, then ya lost. But you can also get lost in the sauce.” –Gucci Mane (2013) 

Special Issue: AppleTV+ and Science Fiction--EXTENDED DEADLINE

updated: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 10:04am
Science Fiction Film and Television
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Special Issue: AppleTV+ and Science Fiction 

Guest Editors: Burcu Kuheylan, Milt Moise, Nicholas Orlando

contact email: projectscifi.appletv@gmail.com

EXTENDED DEADLINE—Abstracts due May 21, 2025 

In this special issue of the journal, editors seek scholarly articles that contextualize and critique AppleTV+ and its production of science fiction television against the tumultuous Zeitgeist of post-2016.   

EXTENDED: Queer Cripping, Art, and Resistance

updated: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - 8:04pm
Canadian Journal of Disability Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

We are seeking submissions for a special issue (titled: Queer Cripping, Art, and Resistance) for the peer-reviewed journal, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.  
  
As disability scholar Tobin Siebers states, “Disability is properly speaking an aesthetic value, which is to say, it participates in a system of knowledge that provides materials for and increases critical consciousness about the way that some bodies make other bodies feel.” (1)   

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