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Bloomsbury's Environment and Society Book Series

updated: 
Monday, February 10, 2025 - 11:07am
Bloomsbury Publishing
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Environment and Society, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, 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 on the publisher’s websitehttps://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXES

ASAP-16 (2025) -- Rethinking Justice “Where Life is Precious…”

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:37pm
Jennie Snow
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

In recounting how she introduces prison abolition work to skeptics, Ruth Wilson Gilmore shares the principle, “where life is precious, life is precious.” This life-affirming axiom grounds a praxis that is about changing everything, breaking with oppressive power systems and making worlds that reduce harm by investing in care. At the same time, the ongoing climate crisis reinforces a horizon of extinction that reorients the relationships between more-than-human and human lives, demanding more radical conceptions of our collective world(s). A. Naomi Paik, for instance, develops the idea of “abolitionist sanctuary” out of the movement for immigrant rights.

Ecocritical perspectives on literature and other media

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:36pm
Istanbul University & Marmara University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

This call for papers seeks contributions examining the relationship between narratives and ecological issues, focusing on the ways storytelling addresses ecological challenges. Narratives – whether literary, cinematic, or multimodal – have the potential to critique environmental exploitation, envision sustainable futures, and explore human and non-human interconnections. The intersection of ecocriticism and storytelling offers fertile ground for discussions about the role of culture in shaping ecological consciousness and practices.

**DEADLINE EXTENDED**University of Southern Mississippi CFP - Mississippi Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 11:02am
University of Southern Mississippi English Graduate Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 7, 2025

The University of Southern Mississippi’s English Graduate Organization (EGO) invites abstracts and proposals from Mississippi and Gulf States graduate students for its annual spring conference, a two-day, in-person event on April 4th and 5th at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, MS. 

John Clare Panel at MLA Convention in Toronto

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:36am
John Clare Society of North America
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

The John Clare Society of North America invites proposals for its annual session at the MLA Convention in Toronto, January 8-11, 2026. Abstracts (250-300 words) are invited on any aspect of John Clare's writings, his life and times, and the work of his contemporaries. Please submit abstract and short bio by March 15, 2025, by email to Erica McAlpine (erica.mcalpine@ell.ox.ac.uk).

Environmental Injustice, Resistance and African Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 1:50pm
English Language Notes
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Call for papers for the special issue of English Language Notes (published by Duke University Press)

 

Special issue editors

Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India

Eunice NgongKum, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon

 

Environmental Injustice, Resistance and African Literature

Stories and Sacredness: Reimagining Myth and Folklore Across Indian Cultures

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 9:33am
Dr. Rajkumar Bera and Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Call for Papers: Stories and Sacredness: Reimagining Myth and Folklore Across Indian Cultures

(Proposed as Part of Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions)

Editors:

Dr. Rajkumar Bera, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Midnapore City College, West Bengal

Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash, Fellow of Social Science Research Council, USA

Blue Victorian - Call For Book Chapters 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 7:57am
Shaonli Bhowmik (JNU) / Ritam Dutta (JU)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

The Victorian era (1837–1901) was a period marked by industrial revolution, scattered religious beliefs and technological advancements. In the midst of everything, the ocean played a central role in shaping the cultural, economic, and ecological landscapes of the time. The British Empire’s reliance on maritime trade routes and naval power made the ocean a key site of economic and political activity. The expansion of global trade, driven by steamships and colonial ventures, brought the ocean into the everyday lives of Victorians.

CfP: Ecocritical Perspectives on Literature and Other Media (Lexington Books, U.K.)

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:38am
Habib Tekin / Istanbul and Marmara Universities
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

This call for papers seeks contributions examining the relationship between narratives and ecological issues, focusing on the ways storytelling addresses ecological challenges. Narratives – whether literary, cinematic, or multimodal – have the potential to critique environmental exploitation, envision sustainable futures, and explore human and non-human interconnections. The intersection of ecocriticism and storytelling offers fertile ground for discussions about the role of culture in shaping ecological consciousness and practices.

Taiwan in the Anthropocene: Essays from the Edge of a Planetary Epoch

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:18am
Taiwan in the Anthropocene Network
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Taiwan in the Anthropocene Network

Call for papers

Taiwan in the Anthropocene: Essays from the Edge of a Planetary Epoch

 

Abstract Deadline: March 1, 2025

Edited by Hannes Bergthaller, Jean-Yves Heurtebise,
Kuang-chi Hong, and Li-hsin Hsu

 

Conference on Domestic Cats in Literature (EXTENDED DEADLINE)

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:18am
Ben P. Robertson / Troy University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15 FEBRUARY 2025.

Submissions are invited for a scholarly conference on domestic cats in literature to be hosted online 13-15 March 2025 by the Troy University Department of English.  

Papers may address any aspect of the subject, including—but not limited to—the following:

MLA 2026 / Guaranteed Session Mapping the Futures of Children’s Literature Scholarship: Where Do We Go from Here (DEADLINE MARCH 5, 2025)

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:17am
Gabrielle (Brie) Owen on behalf of GS Children's and Young Adult Literature Forum
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

This is a guaranteed roundtable sponsored by the GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum for the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, January 8-11 in Toronto, ON. In the spirit of the conference theme “Family Resemblances” and the call to resist categorizations and exclusionary boundaries, this roundtable assumes an expansive understanding of children’s literature scholarship in mapping its potential futures.

General Call for Papers

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 11:00pm
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished, interdisciplinary, research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.

The Problem of Social Justice: Global Perspectives and Personal Narratives

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 11:00pm
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

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 papers: Indigenous ecologies and literary responses: Knowledge and rethinking sustainable development

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 2:25am
Environment, Space, Place (University of Minnesota Press)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Call for Papers for the special issue of Environment, Space, Place (University of Minnesota Press)

Indigenous ecologies and literary responses: Knowledge and rethinking sustainable development

Special issue editor: Goutam KarmakarUniversity of Hyderabad, India; Durban University of Technology, South Africa

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

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 2:23am
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

Endnotes 2025: Solidarity and Spaces

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 7:23pm
University of British Columbia - Vancouver
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 14, 2025

Endnotes is the annual graduate conference of the Department of English Language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, which is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam First Nation. The English Graduate Caucus invites proposal submissions for presentations, panels, and creative or multidisciplinary works on the theme of Solidarity and Spaces.

Panel 16: Towards a Sustainable Translation Curriculum: Integrating the SDGs into Translation Education

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 12:55pm
IATIS / Sultan Qaboos University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025

IATIS 8th International Conference: Sustainable Translation in the Age of Knowledge Extraction, Generation, and (Re)Creation

الترجمة المستدامة في عصر استخلاص المعرفة وتوليدها وإعادة إنتاجها

Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

10 – 13 December 2025

Panel 16: Towards a Sustainable Translation Curriculum: Integrating the SDGs into Translation Education

Geoanthropology: Metabolism, Legal Imagination, and Geopraxis

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 2:55am
Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Geoanthropology: Metabolism, Legal Imagination, and Geopraxis

Conference Call
9–11 June 2025
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Theme

Geoanthropology aims to integrate concepts from Earth system science and the Anthropocene debate, such as planetary boundaries, synchronic geological markers, and earth states, with the theory and history of phenomena such as extractivism and technology, biopolitics and exploitation, and modernity and legal thought. This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the utility of three concepts for the geoanthropological framework: metabolism, legal imagination, and geopraxis.

Dates

Edited Collection: Haunted by Hydrocarbons: Petrogothic and Petrohorror in the Contemporary Imagination

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 2:53am
Jennifer Schell (University of Alaska, Fairbanks)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Edited Collection: Haunted by Hydrocarbons: Petrogothic and Petrohorror in the Contemporary Imagination

 

Deadline for proposal submission: August 31, 2025

 

Editors: Madalynn L. Madigar (Cherokee Nation, University of Oregon), Jennifer Schell (University of Alaska, Fairbanks)

 

Contact Email: mmadigar@uoregon.edu, jschell5@alaska.edu

 

For this edited collection, we invite proposals for essays that focus on and engage with petrogothic and petrohorror, emerging fields that examine the textual artifacts of hydrocarbon cultures through the lens of gothic and horror studies.

 

CFP: "Approaching Dystopia" Interdisciplinary Conference FINAL DAY TO SUBMIT

updated: 
Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 1:50pm
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville - Graduate Students in English Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 2, 2025

“Approaching Dystopia”

Call for Papers

Graduate Students in English Interdisciplinary Conference 2025

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, April 5 - 6, 2025

Beyond Green: Intersections of Ecology, Culture and Conservation

updated: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025 - 8:42pm
Dr. Rajkumar Bera and Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Beyond Green: Intersections of Ecology, Culture and Conservation

(Proposed as part of Bloomsbury’s Environment and Society series)

Editors: Dr. Rajkumar Bera and Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash

Introduction

Refugee Crises in Literature, Film and Mass Media: Balancing Humanitarian Obligation with Ethical Standards

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:16pm
Department of English, University of Calgary Graduate Students’ Free Exchange Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 10, 2025

The formation of the United Nations in 1945 was intended to forestall global wars and inaugurate global peace. Despite its efforts and those of other international and regional organizations, wars have persisted in the 21st century. For instance, in Africa, countries are engulfed in the vortex of armed conflicts from the struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to the farmers-herders conflict in Nigeria and the Somali government/Al-Shabab Islamist militant group conflict. This violence is echoed in the post-election tensions between the military and insurgents (Allied Democratic Forces) in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, just like the post-Tigray War conflicts in Ethiopia.

'Contesting Place: Practices of (Un)Doing' 26-27 June, Conf. CfP

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:15pm
'Practicing Place'/KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 3, 2025

Contesting Place: Practices of (Un)Doing

26th - 27th June 2025 

In the context of new political confrontations, ecological challenges, and heightened social polarizations, conflicts in practices of place are intensifying. Encounters with place across the humanities and social sciences often focus on matters of identification and delineation: that is, on making and doing place. Yet, every emplacement entails displacement. Understanding places as configurations of conflict raises questions on the entanglements of (un)doing that this conference seeks to centre, by exploring de-stabilisation, dis-location, and de-identification as practicing place. 

Extinction and Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts (Conference Panel)

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:13pm
47th Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS) Conference: Oulu, Finland
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 14, 2025

In Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations, Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren, and Matthew Chrulew insist that capturing the breadth of a disaster of this scale is “an inherently interdisciplinary task, one that draws us into conversation with a host of different ways of making sense of others’ world” (4). To portray this polycrisis as too large to be contained to one discipline is apt, with credible estimates designating between one- and two-thirds of species on earth as “likely to disappear within the foreseeable future” (Myers et al., 856).

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