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Sharks in the Korean Wave: Race and Inequality in South Korea's Pop Culture

updated: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024 - 4:22pm
Chinyere Osuji
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Papers for an edited volume on how Korean dramas and other forms of Korean popular culture reflect, reproduce, and challenge social inequities. We are particularly interested in South Korea’s use of ethnic and racial others in its media with a particular focus on Blackness, Islam, and immigration as well as class/capitalism, gender, and sexualities. Intersectional approaches appreciated.

"Existence Precedes Essence": (Post)Colonial Reconciliations

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Friday, December 6, 2024 - 2:50pm
International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) - In-person, Seoul, Korea, 28th July 2025 - 1st August 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

In the Humanities, notions of coloniality and postcoloniality are usually entangled with nation states that are, by nature, multilingual and multicultural. The societies of each of these nations are further stratified based on hierarchies of economic and social-political classifications. In other words, motivated and maintained by and through power and notions of telos, differences of race, sexuality, caste, and religion exist in differing ways. Literatures of these differences then occupy their space(s) under the larger category of ‘postcolonial literature(s)’.

Mosaic Outlooks: New Directions in Studies of Scottish Literature, Culture, and Society

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 9:40pm
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

 

Ex-position Feature Topic Call for Papers

Mosaic Outlooks: New Directions in Studies of Scottish Literature, Culture, and Society

Guest Editors: Kang-yen Chiu, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Shu-fang Lai, National Sun Yat-sen University

 

Publication Date: June 2026 (Issue No. 55)

Submission Deadline: October 31, 2025

 

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CFPs for Pauline Hopkins sessions at ALA 2025 Conference

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Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:17pm
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society will host two sessions at the upcoming ALA Conference in Boston, May 21-24, 2025. The PEHS is collaborating with the Research Society of American Periodicals (RSAP) on one of these two sessions. You can find the two CFPs below. Please consider submitting a proposal. The deadline is January 15, 2025. 

PEHS CFP One:

Call for Papers: The Identity Factor in Contemporary Wars and Violent Conflicts

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Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:03pm
International Center for Ethno-Religious Mediation (ICERMediation)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Conference Overview

The International Center for Ethno-Religious Mediation (ICERMediation) is pleased to announce the 10th Annual International Conference on Ethnic and Religious Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding. The 10th conference will explore the crucial role of identity in contemporary conflicts, emphasizing the importance of historical context, collective memory, and transformative learning in understanding and addressing these issues.

MLA 2026 (Toronto, Canada) Special Session: "Food Representation in the Hispanic World"

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Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:03pm
Jose Eduardo Villalobos Graillet, Idaho State University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Food transcends its role as sustenance, serving as a powerful lens through which to examine identity, memory, and power dynamics. From hunger-driven narratives to the celebratory and symbolic depictions of meals in contemporary cinema and television, food occupies a central place in Hispanic cultural productions. It can represent tradition and identity, critique societal norms, or even subvert power structures.

CFP: 2025 SSAWW Conference "Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW"

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Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:02pm
Society for the Study of American Women Writers
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

CFP: 2025 SSAWW Conference“Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW”November 6-9, 2025 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Marriott Old City

For the 2025 SSAWW Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, we invite proposals on the theme “Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures” as we commemorate twenty-five years of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers.

Haunted Modernities

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Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:02pm
Falmouth University, 16-18 July 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 17, 2025

This conference explores haunted modernities and spectral futures of all sorts. Looking back to the past as a haunted space and forward to the ‘spectres’ of the future, we want ‘Haunted Modernities’ to be indicative of wide open spaces and fruitful intersections in scholarship and practice. Whether work is hyper-local, global, or interstellar we welcome imaginative, creative, ethical, and diverse discussions from all disciplines and subject areas. As well as traditional papers, creative practice work is also invited in whatever form - written, film, audio, performance, exhibitions etc. 

 

DIFFERENCE, DIASPORA, AND THE NATION: THE POLITICS AND AESTHETICS OF MINORITARIAN PERFORMANCE IN 20th AND 21st CENTURY ITALY

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 11:54am
Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Performance and Politics, University of Milan
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

DIFFERENCE, DIASPORA, AND THE NATION: THE POLITICS AND AESTHETICS OF MINORITARIAN PERFORMANCE IN 20th AND 21st CENTURY ITALY 

7-8 February 2025 

A two-day hybrid conference organized by the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Performance and Politics, Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage, University of Milan, Italy 

War & Media Studies 2025 Graduate Student Writing Award Competition

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Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:18am
Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) War & Media Studies SIG
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

2025 WAR AND MEDIA STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT WRITING AWARD 

The War and Media Studies SIG is holding its annual graduate student writing award competition to showcase innovative work in the field by our graduate student members. We will again be partnering with the Sage journal Media, War & Conflictand the winning author will have the opportunity to be published in the journal in addition to receiving a $100 cash prize.  

4th Annual Beverly Lyon Clark Children’s Literature Symposium

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Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 10:29am
Wheaton College MA English Department
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

4th Annual Beverly Lyon Clark Children’s Literature Symposium

12 April 2025Contact: bevlclarksymposium@gmail.com 

 

We are pleased to invite you to the 4th Annual Beverly Lyon Clark Children’s Literature Symposium, which will be held at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts on April 12th, 2025. 

 

International Seminar on “Literatures of and from Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan: History, Politics and Storytelling” (8-9 April 2025)

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Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 10:24am
Department of English, Gauhati University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 18, 2025

The Department of English, Gauhati University, in collaboration with IACLALS, is happy to announce the fourth and final seminar of the series International Seminars on Contemporary South Asian Fictions in English. This time the focus is on literatures in English of and from the three nations- Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh- and the idea is to encourage an inter-/multi-disciplinary perspectives to bear on literary and cinematic texts along with other art forms in understanding their contexts, cultural discourses, myths and legends.

Anviksha: A Research Scholars’ Conference on theme of "Identities"

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:49am
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur presents 
Anviksha: A Research Scholars’ Conference
8th and 9th February, 2025
Conference Theme: Identities

Worlding Beyond the End of the World

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Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:45am
University of Western Ontario
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 6, 2025

We are pleased to announce the in-person 2025 Theory & Criticism conference at Western University from April 25th-26th. This conference aims to look beyond visions of the future that are confined to the utopian-dystopian binary. To do so, it will feature theoretically rich work from decolonial, queer, trans, and crip-futurism(s) and their intersections. 

Rethinking Race, Nation and Empire: Charles Dickens, Slavery, and the American Civil War

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Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:43am
Salem State University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Rethinking Race, Nation and Empire: Charles Dickens, Slavery, and the American Civil War considers how the writings of Charles Dickens are shaped by—and contribute to—Victorian discourses of race, nation, and empire in the middle of the nineteenth century. The “discursive roots of modern racism lie in British, European, and colonial writings,” writes Patrick Brantlinger. But often unacknowledged is the “extent to which racism informed virtually all aspects of Romantic and Victorian culture” (Taming Cannibals 6-7).

Updated-39th Annual MELUS 2025 Conference: MELUS Outside

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:21am
Linda Greenberg/Cal State LA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 6, 2024

Call for Papers

 

Join us in Los Angeles for the 39th annual MELUS conference!

 

April 3-6, 2025

Hosted by Cal State LA

 

Conference Theme: MELUS Outside

 

Deadline for Abstracts: December 6, 2024

 

Freedom: 2025 CEA-MAG Conference

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Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:19am
College English Association - Mid-Atlantic Group
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025

College English Association - Mid-Atlantic Group
67th Annual Conference – 14 March 2025 – Call for Papers

Conference Location:The University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC

Airborne Gothic

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:16am
Associate for the Study of Literature and Environment
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

AIRBORNE GOTHIC

ASLE 2025 Panel Organized by the Society for the Study of American Gothic

July 8-11, 2025

University of Maryland, College Park

Conference: Status Quo and Besides: The State of South African Literary and Cultural Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 - 4:40pm
The Literature Association of South Africa (LASA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Status Quo and Besides

The State of South African Literary and Cultural Studies

8 to 9 May 2025

26 Degrees South, Muldersdrift, Gauteng, South Africa

 

The Literature Association of South Africa (LASA) invites literary scholars and postgraduate students to submit abstracts for its 2025 conference, to be hosted at 26 Degrees South, Muldersdrift, Gauteng, South Africa, from 8 to 9 May 2025.

 

Zora Rebooted: AI, Language, and Literature

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Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:20pm
Bethune-Cookman University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

The College of Arts and Humanities at Bethune-Cookman University welcomes proposals for the annual Zora Neale Hurston Conference, which will be held virtually on February 13-14, 2025. Zora Rebooted: AI, Language, and Literature celebrates Hurston in the age of artificial intelligence and acknowledges the parallels between Hurston and AI in challenging and expanding our understanding of human creativity and identity. Noted Hurston scholar, literary critic, and writer Dr. Deborah Plant is the scheduled keynote speaker.

Call for Chapters on "Storied Citizenship"

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Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 6:03am
Storied Citizenship: Reimagining Civic Encounters Among Children and Youth in the Post-Digital Age
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 20, 2025

We are seeking chapters to include in an edited book with the provisional title: Storied Citizenship: Reimagining Civic Encounters Among Children and Youth in the Post-Digital Age. This text will be an interdisciplinary, open access volume that will explore existing and emerging ideas about storied citizenship among children and youth in the post-digital age. Rather than defining citizenship or civic engagement in traditional ways, we see it as a process in which young people participate in arts-based, embodied, lived, and spatialized ways across cultural contexts.

Sapienza Summer School 2025: "The Cultural Heritage and Memory of Totalitarianism", IV Edition.

updated: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 5:41am
Alessandra Crotti
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 7, 2025

The Summer School The Cultural Heritage and Memory of Totalitarianism explores the legacy of Fascism in Italy blending unique in situ visits to art, architecture and historical monuments led by international experts and classes on literature, film and culture led by Sapienza faculty. The goal is to broaden the scholarly assessment of the period and to suggest innovative curricula for students in the humanities, who are also interested in working in museums and cultural institutes in Italy and abroad. The heritage of Fascism in Rome and Italy will be approached in the context of Nazism and Stalinism, and framed within the broader scenario of European colonialism.

Edited Collection: Henry V in the World

updated: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 5:40am
Philip Goldfarb Styrt / St. Ambrose University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

This collection of essays seeks to explore the many new and cutting-edge directions surrounding the scholarship of Henry V, especially related to global, transnational, and other approaches that connect the play to wider contexts than those in which it has been traditionally read. Henry V is a play that has long been read in terms of internal self-fashioning: both England’s and Henry’s own. What happens to the play as we look outwards from it towards the wider world, both early modern and contemporary, with which it engages? This collection looks to explore how we read Henry V now, both as an artifact of the past and as a living work still available for adaptation, interpretation, and re-use.

ReFocus: The Films of Guru Dutt

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Monday, November 11, 2024 - 9:23pm
Edinburgh University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Guru Dutt’s films are integral to the golden age of Hindi cinema as they were both critical and commercial successes. In a short career spanning twenty years, Dutt has served as an actor, a director, and a producer. His versatility is testament to a deep understanding of every aspect of filmmaking. Critics contend that contradictory ideas coalesced in his movies. A prominent theme of nationalism is at the heart of Dutt’s oeuvre. While he set out to refashion Indian national identity, Dutt envisioned a utopia for the new nation. Ideologically, Dutt was influenced by Nehruvian socialism, which finds its expression in his selection of subjects and themes. His movies also critiqued the new nation’s failure to afford equal opportunities to every citizen.

Undead Souths at 10: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture

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Monday, November 11, 2024 - 6:54pm
American Literature Association Annual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 17, 2025

American Literature Association / Boston / May 21-24, 2025

This roundtable celebrates the ten-year anniversary of the edited collection Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture. Panelists are invited to reflect on the book's impact and/or to explore the presence and pervasiveness of "undead souths" beyond what the book discusses.

TCR 2025 : The Cordillera Review, Journal of Philippine Culture and Society 2025 Volume

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:34am
The Cordillera Review, University of the Philippines Baguio
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

The Cordillera Review is an open-access internationally refereed electronic journal published biannually by the University of the Philippines through its research arm, the Cordillera Studies Center. It is a multidisciplinary journal devoted to the publication of both local and international studies on Philippine culture and society. Given the geographical location and research thrust of the University of the Philippines Baguio, The Cordillera Review puts an emphasis on research about the Cordillera Region and other parts of Northern Luzon, Philippines.

Reinventing the Western Literary Canon

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Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:32am
Postcolonial Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

This new issue takes as its starting point Joy Harjo (Creek Muscogee)’s observation that “‘reinventing’ in the colonizer’s tongue and turning those images around to mirror an image of the colonized to the colonizers as a process of decolonization indicates that something is happening, something is emerging and coming into focus that will politicize as well as transform literary expression” (Harjo et al. 1998, 22). Postcolonial and Indigenous authors often appropriate the Western Literary canon, both in terms of form, language, and cultural elements in order to foreground their epistemologies and histories.

Minority Identities and Vernacular Visual Culture. Interdisciplinary symposium

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Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:28am
University of Chicago
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Minority groups are often underrepresented in official archives, which has resulted in their continuing marginalization in historiography. Critical archive scholars argue for empowering such groups by developing and investigating archival collections. This symposium intends to expand this approach by demonstrating how the visual practices of underrepresented groups can be studied through underutilized data sources. To this end, the symposium will focus on indigenous, black, and diaspora communities seen through their visual production, with the presumption that the vernacular representations of everyday life can provide substantial insights into evolving minority identities.

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