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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

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

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.

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).

Books That Teach Us About Character - Free Literary Conference

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:11pm
LitFest in the Dena 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

What can books teach us about character? The people in literary works face moral dilemmas—choosing between personal gain and doing the right thing, whatever the consequences. Fictional heroes often explore the boundaries of character, asking us which traits we deem noble. The same choices and internal struggles appear in nonfiction works such as biographies or histories, deepened by the impact of character on the real world. Looking at character in books helps us stay true to our values, even in the most threatening of circumstances. By immersing ourselves in the stories of others—be they true or imagined—we develop a stronger moral compass and a deeper understanding of how to live with character.

Bridging Realms: Exploring Intersections in Humanities and Social Sciences

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 9:08am
New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities in collaboration with Department of History, Humanities and Society, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy & Department of English, Central University of Karnataka, India
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Call for Papers for 5th International e-Conference

Bridging Realms: Exploring Intersections in Humanities and Social Sciences

Conference Dates: 4th October – 05th October, 2024 (Friday & Saturday)

To be Organized by

New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

in collaboration with

Waters: Fluidity and Crossing in Shakespeare and Early Modern Texts

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:31am
IASEMS Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 24, 2025

The Fifteenth IASEMS Conference

University of Salento (Lecce), 16-17 May 2025
Convenors: Maria Luisa De Rinaldis, Maria Renata Dolce and the IASEMS Executive Board

The Fifteenth IASEMS Conference in Lecce, University of Salento, 16-17 May 2025, will investigate the imaginary of waters in Shakespeare and early modern texts, aiming at the exploration of notions of fluidity and crossing. The conference wishes to investigate what meanings, both personal and collective, circulated around ‘water’ in early modern culture, but also to discuss the water-related relevance and value of the ideas of shapelessness and transformation, mutability and sea change as opposed to fixity, solidity, and normativity.

“Landscapes of the Mind: Narratives of Cultural Encounters” - Anda International Conference, 25-26 SEPTEMBER 2025

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:31am
Università del Salento, Lecce - Italy
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 2, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Landscapes Of the Mind: Narratives of Cultural Encounters

Anda International Conference

Università del Salento, Lecce – Italy

25-26 September 2025

 

 

Landscapes of the Mind: Narratives of Cultural Encounters explores how different cultures perceive, interpret, and narrate their experiences and interactions. Possible topics related to the conference include:

 

Reinventing the Western Literary Canon

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:30am
Postcolonial Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Reinventing the Western Literary Canon

deBlock 2025 : deBlock; Blockchain and Crypto Academic Conference

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:29am
Blockchain Research Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 7, 2025

 

Call For PapersWe are pleased to invite experts, students, and researchers interested in blockchain and crypto assets to the First International deBlock Conference, which will take place in Tehran in May 2025.

CFP: Maps in American Literature, 15th–21st Century (International Symposium, Lyon, France)

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:28am
Julien Negre / ENS de Lyon
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Maps in American Literature, 15th-21st c.

 International symposium

April 1-3, 2026
ENS de Lyon, France

 

Organized by Aurore Clavier (Université Paris Cité), Monica Manolescu (University of Strasbourg, USIAS), Julien Nègre (ENS de Lyon, IUF) and Pauline Pilote (Université Bretagne Sud).

 

Keynote speaker: Martin Brückner, Professor at the University of Delaware and Director of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture (WPAMC).

 

Open Panel: "Desperate Media"

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:28am
Society for the Social Study of Science
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Open Panel #171: "Desperate Media"

When all else fails, we are left with desperation: extravagant recklessness, scrappy desire, a call to create new worlds through inventive forms, even as temperatures rise.

Founders Fellowship

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:27am
The Hemingway Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Each year the Hemingway Society accepts applications for its Lewis-Reynolds-Smith Founders Fellowship grant, and typically makes two awards of $1,000 each to support the development of a Hemingway-related project.

Art and Smoke: Morris, Ruskin, Art, and Industrialism

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:27am
Jude V. Nixon/Salem State University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

MLA Toronto (January 8-11, 2026). Both John Ruskin and William Morris decried the evil effects of industrial blight on the environment, citing the impossibility of authentic art in the context of poverty and pollution. We seek papers that treat all aspects of this topic as reflected in literature, art, and social theory: broadened definitions of art, late-Victorian and modernist responses to urban industrialism, art for the masses, eco-socialism, utopian otherworlds, and the rise of urban design. Contributions on Canadian-related and contemporary material are also welcome. Please send abstracts and a brief c. v.

Panel CFP at 4S 2025: Infrastructure as the Boundary Media/Medium

updated: 
Sunday, January 19, 2025 - 9:34am
4S (Society of Science and Society Studies) Seattle 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

We are looking for papers for the panel Infrastructure as the Boundary Media/Medium at the coming 4S (Society of Science and Society Studies) conference at Seattle, WA, United States, September 3-7, 2025. We hope to encourage submissions from different disciplines including media studies, critical infrastructure studies, urban planning, and history of STS. Submission (~250 words abstract) processes should be completed via official website of 4S below.

Rin Huang (they/she)

Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Washington, Seattle

Tianren Luo (He/him)

Department of Comparative Literature, Brown University

4S Open Panel (No. 12): Infrastructure as the Boundary Media/Medium

 

FACULTY OF HUMANITIES FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (ON-SITE & ONLINE)

updated: 
Sunday, January 19, 2025 - 9:34am
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OTUOKE
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OTUOKE, BAYELSA STATE, NIGERIA
www.fuotuoke.edu.ng

FACULTY OF HUMANITIES FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
(ON-SITE & ONLINE)
13-16 May, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS
THEME: ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) AND THE FUTURE OF THE HUMANITIES

C19 Podcast: Call for Proposals

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 4:10am
C19 Podcast
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

The C19 Podcast invites proposals from individuals and collaborators of all ranks for single podcast episodes that offer creative, story-driven analysis of topical events that spark connections to nineteenth-century America. We are especially interested in episodes that help make both the nineteenth-century and the specific disciplinary knowledge of our scholarly community legible and exciting to a wide audience.  As our podcast grows, we seek to expand its potential to engage diverse publics in the civic and cultural life of the past.

Ecocriticism: Old and New Challenges

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 4:08am
East-West Cultural Passage Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

 Physical landscapes and human-environment interactions have long been portrayed in literature and the arts. The modern environmentalist movement, which first appeared in the late nineteenth century and which gained traction in the 1960s, has resulted in a wide variety of fictional and nonfiction works addressing the evolving interaction between humans and the natural world. However, it was only in the early 1990s that “ecocriticism” emerged as a self-conscious critical practice, one that has gone through a variety of designations: environmental criticism, literary-environmental studies, literary ecology, literary environmentalism, green cultural studies or, more recently, environmental humanities.

Women in World-Literature: Climate, Crisis, and Contagion - DEADLINE EXTENDED

updated: 
Tuesday, January 14, 2025 - 7:04am
The Institute of Advanced Studies, The University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Women in World-Literature: Climate, Crisis, and Contagion
Conference dates: 19th and 20th June 2025

Abstract deadline
31st January 2025
Email to:womeninworldlitconference@gmail.com

This hybrid conference follows 2022's ‘Women in World(-)Literature’ which was also held at the University of Warwick.

CfP Reflections and Refractions: Contemporary Anglophone Fiction and the Atlantic Poetics of Water

updated: 
Monday, January 13, 2025 - 9:20am
Atlantic Studies: Global Currents
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Reflections and Refractions: Contemporary Anglophone Fiction and the Atlantic Poetics of WaterJournal: Atlantic Studies: Global CurrentsGuest Editors: Andrea Carosso and Valentina Romanzi (University of Torino)  We are inviting proposals for a limited number of contributions to a Special Issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, titled “Reflections and Refractions: Contemporary Anglophone Fiction and the Atlantic Poetics of Water.” The issue focuses on the new directions that anglophone fiction is exploring to express its “aquatic” imagination.We seek articles addressing new trends and currents of anglophone narratives focusing on the

Brutalism, Remaindered Life and World-making in the Precarious Global South: Representations in Fiction and Film

updated: 
Monday, January 13, 2025 - 3:12am
Bennett University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

Special Issue Call for Papers Bandung: Journal of the Global South Brutalism, Remaindered Life and World-making in the Precarious Global South: Representations in Fiction and Film

 

Objective

This special issue focuses on the critical practices that give rise to the notion of ‘brutalism’ and ‘remaindered life’ in the global South. Tied centrally to the militarized nature of neoliberalism, the concept of brutalism and remaindered life will be analyzed to understand how the divisive nature of neoliberalism is not only exploitative but aims to retain, even heighten the cultural supremacy, economic superstructure, and political power of the global North.

The Poetics of Landscape

updated: 
Friday, January 10, 2025 - 7:43am
The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

The Poetics of Landscape, The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP), Houston, TX, October 22-25, 2025.

SLSA 2025 "Risk" in Corvallis, OR

updated: 
Friday, January 10, 2025 - 7:39am
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 17, 2025

To think in terms of risk is to imagine the future as a set of foreseeable possibilities and to ameliorate the potentially hazardous ones through action in the present. Distinct from danger, which is seen as inchoate and incalculable, risk carries with it the notion of statistical, probabilistic, or otherwise enumerated legibility, and the costs and benefits of prospective courses of action are given the narrative authority of mathematical language. But even as risk posits itself as a rational approach to considerations of the future, it ignores the mythology of its own construction: risk is, as its critics note, always a process of storytelling.

Call for Poems and Nonfiction Writing: "Through my Eyes" -- How we perceive world issues, crises or maybe even beauty

updated: 
Monday, January 6, 2025 - 3:15pm
Duluth Publishing Project
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

Students in Writing Studies 4200, “Writing and Cultures,” will edit a collection of creative writing (visual art, poems and nonfiction writing) entitled "Through my Eyes" -- How we perceive world issues, crises or maybe even beauty. As such, they solicit writings from everyone (students, alumni, and the broader community) on this topic for inclusion in the collection.
Submissions could address the ways that we use our own experience to think about local, global, international or interpersonal issues.  Or, they could address the ways that local, global, international or interpersonal issues change the ways that we understand our own experiences.  

Raymond Williams Society Postgraduate Essay Prize 2025

updated: 
Monday, January 6, 2025 - 3:13pm
Raymond Williams Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Raymond Williams Society Postgrad Essay Prize 2025

We are delighted to announce the return of the Raymond Williams Society postgraduate essay competition for its 11th year. It’s open to anyone studying for a higher degree (master’s or doctoral) in the UK or elsewhere, or who graduated no earlier than 31st January 2024. The deadline for entries is Friday 28 February 2025.

CFP: 29th Annual IAEP Meeting

updated: 
Monday, January 6, 2025 - 3:13pm
International Association for Environmental Philosophy
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

29th Meeting of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy

“Justice Centering Marginal Voices” 

 

May 22–24, 2025 in person at Denison University
(with hybrid online access by Zoom)

Hiding Behind Trees: Anthropomorphism in Children’s Literature and Culture

updated: 
Monday, January 6, 2025 - 3:12pm
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Hiding Behind Trees: Anthropomorphism in Children’s Literature and Culture

Guaranteed Session at MLA 2026 (Toronto, Jan. 8-11), sponsored by the Children's Literature Association

This panel seeks papers that consider the role of anthropomorphism in children’s literature and culture.

Humans have long believed we are distinct from other animals in our rationality, self-consciousness, and use of language. Why, then, do writers, artists, and even scientists so often use anthropomorphism to interpret the behaviors of animals, plants, and even nonliving things such as trains, teapots, and toys? What are the repercussions of this tendency to understand the world in terms of human social and cultural identities?

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