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6th International Conference Reframing the Archive
Online event
HAUNTED ARCHIVES OF LIVINGNESS
Visual Culture and the Politics of Care in the Age of Ecological Entanglement
Entanglements: Journal of PosthumanitiesEntanglements: Journal of Posthumanities is an international, double-blind, peer-reviewed, open-access, bi-annual, transdisciplinary journal dedicated to critically interrogating and dismantling the overarching human social contract that largely underpins existing disciplines of the humanities and social sciences.
Call for Papers
Call for Papers
Litinfinite Journal
July 2025
(Vol 7 Issue I)
On
Narratives of Nature: Representations of the Environment, Urban Ecology and Planetary Crisis in Indigenous and Postcolonial Literatures
E-ISSN: 2582-0400 | CODEN: LITIBR
All the manuscripts should be mailed to litinfinitejournal@gmail.com
Abstract (150-200 words), Keywords – (5-6), and Final research papers of 4000-6000 words (including citations) should be submitted by 15th June 2025.
The history of "rights" as a concept is mired in complications. Regarded as the moral or legal recognition of interests or entitlements of individuals and communities, rights have been present in history in a variety of ways - both justiciable and not. This history of rights, and the securing of rights, is long and arduous, and has taken various forms along the way - with sudden victories and abrupt revocations all the same - resulting in the present that we find ourselves in now.
ESO at SAMLA 97: Non-Traditional Souths
Two-day Early Career Researchers’ Conclave & Colloquium 2025
Institute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR), kolkata
Department of Higher Education, Goverment of West Bengal
Academic partner - British Council
South Asia Research at the Crossroads: Current World Order, New Horizons and Theorisations
0n 23rd and 24th June, 2025
Francesca Orsini, SOAS, University of London
Justin Jones, University of Oxford
Concept Note:
Electricdreams - Between fiction and society IV
VISIONS OF CONTROL: POWER AND TECHNOLOGY IN SPECULATIVE FICTION
Call for papers for an international in-person conference on speculative fiction, organized and hosted by IULM University of Milan (Italy) in collaboration with Complutense University of Madrid and the HISTOPIA research group, taking place from October 15 to 17, 2025.
Areas of interest: literature, cinema, television, comics, games/videogames, new media, performative arts, cultural studies.
Set writing goals & get feedback!
Applications due: May 25, 2025
NEW DIRECTIONS IN VICTORIAN STUDIES
Ah, May! When writing goals are full of promises to ourselves, and summer is full of time... MVSA Summer Seminars can help you reach that goal, with an end-of-summer draft deadline and feedback in a collaborative and congenial seminar group just as the next academic year is gearing up.
Environment and Society, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. Learn more about the 30 books already in the series at: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXES
Ecocritical Theory and Practice, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment. Learn more about the 100+ books already published at: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/ETAP/Ecocritical-Theory-and-Practice
Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books that re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:
International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHSS/Home.html
*** May Issue***
Scope
The 122nd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA 2025) will be held at InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference will begin on Thursday, November 20, and continue through November 23, 2025.
Gothic writers embrace the genre for its inclusive and representational nature. The genre is, in effect, a palimpsest as it prominently features both the past and memory. The creators in the genre continue to create plots that center on women, queer, transgender, and racialized characters and create stories that address societal inequalities. The environment (the Ecogothic) also continues to be a prominent character in the genre.
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:
Space is not defined objectively, but in relation to bodies, as it is a manifestation of their needs, intentions, and desires. It is not a container in which objects exist but is intertwined with the body’s orientation in the world and its movements within the space. Human body, therefore, is at the centre of all spaces, which are more than a geometrical concept in abstraction. Individual bodies apprehend and appropriate space differently and give meaning to embedded systems and institutions through established and evolving associations. Any assumption of personalised space, whether private or public, is embedded with historical, cultural, and social meanings which help curate embodied experiences.
Social justice is the virtue which guides us in creating those organized human interactions we call institutions. In turn, social institutions, when justly organized, provide us with access to what is good for the person, both individually and in our associations with others. Social justice also imposes on each of us a personal responsibility to work with others to design and continually perfect our institutions as tools for personal and social development.
– The Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ), Washington, D.C., USA
Call for Chapters
Springer Nature Contracted Volume
Series Title: Shifting Borders, Emerging Voices: Narratives of Change in Global South Asia
Edited by Moussa Pourya Asl and Manju Jaidka
FEMSPEC announces an open call for theoretical and creative speculative texts, as well as film and television reviews.
Here are texts that we have available:
STRANGELOVE COUNTRY by Harlan Wilson
THE BLACK UTOPIANS by Aaron Robertson
THE FEMALE HYPNOTIST: STORIES from the VICTORIAN & EDWARDIAN ERAS, ed. Donald K. Hartman
KINSHIP IN THE FICTION OF N.K. JEMISON, edited by Berit Astrom & Jenny Bonnevier
DISCOVERING CLASSIC FANTASY FICTION, edited by Darrel Schweitzer
CRAWDADDY, film by Kassandra Voss
We will consider other 2024-2025 publications and releases and will consider longer, comparative reviews of important fantasy, sci-fi, and horror films released since 2020; please inquire.
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.
Decolonial Philosophies Collaboratory
presents the conference
Decolonization & Global Justice
22nd, 23rd, 24th of January, 2026
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Call For Participation
Decolonization and Global Justice will be a three-day, transdisciplinary conference that brings together decolonial, postcolonial, anticolonial, Indigenous and anti-imperial feminist perspectives on contemporary global crises.
Call for Papers: Variations 28 – Environment, Science, Memory
The balsam fir tree also remembers. If caterpillars or moose browse its needles, the nibbling assault lodges itself in the chemical makeup of the tree, in a manner analogous to the changes in a chickadee’s nerve cells after a near miss with a predator. The tree’s subsequent growth is more heavily defended by unpalatable resins, like a bird turned jumpy by its bad experience with a hawk. The fir also remembers air temperatures dating back nearly a year, a memory that helps the tree to know when to winterize its cells. […]
Roots and twigs have memories of light, gravity, heat, and minerals. (Haskell 2017: 37)
We invite contributions for an upcoming edited volume on Yaşar Kemal, one of the most influential figures in Turkish literature and world literature. Despite Kemal’s international acclaim and extensive literary output, no comprehensive edited volume in English has yet been published. This book aims to fill that gap by offering critical perspectives on Kemal’s literary aesthetics, social engagement, and cultural legacy.
Scope and Themes
We welcome contributions from diverse methodological and theoretical approaches, addressing (but not limited to) the following themes:
• Yaşar Kemal’s Literary Style and Aesthetics
o Narrative structures, use of folklore, and oral storytelling traditions
Call for Papers:
Special Issue on Radical Kinship in the Capitalocene:
Interspecies Ontologies and Biopolitical Resistance
Editors: Elizabeth (Eli) Tavella & Cagatay Emre Dogan
Publisher: TRACE ∴ Journal for Human-Animal Studies
Call for Papers - We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 'Languages of the Future' Conference (5-6 June 2025), Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS), University College London, London.
First day in-person (5th June 2025), second day online (6th June 2025).
We invite submission related but not limited to the following topics:
Call for Papers
Submission Deadline for Abstracts: April 30, 2025
Contact Email: cfp.inclusive@gmail.com
Edited by: Dr. Soumik Sakar, Dr. Ashraf Pulikkamath, VIT-AP University (School of Social Sciences & Humanities) & Dr.
In Blue Ecocriticism, Sydney I. Dobrin provocatively calls for viewing “oceanic deficit” as form of “disciplinary critique” (9) in order to open up the epistemic realm of ecocriticism which primarily deals with the representation of ecological substance in literary and cultural works.
Playing the Field VI: Video Games and Labour
University of Bucharest, Romania
19-21 March 2026
(in-person)
Keynote speakers:
Helen W Kennedy (University of Sheffield)
Emil Lundedal Hammar (University of Tromsø)
Maria Mandea