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"Knowledge from the Cracks"

updated: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 - 4:43pm
Patience Odeh/ University of Connecticut
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

SAMLA 97: Knowledges

Atlanta, GA | November 6th - 8th, 2025 | Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center

Knowledge from the cracks

Call for Chapters: Critical Sociocultural Examinations of Gender Discrimination and Persecution

updated: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 - 12:11pm
Robin Throne, PhD
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 23, 2025

Call for Chapters: Critical Sociocultural Examinations of Gender Discrimination and Persecution

The history of gender discrimination and persecution is as ancient as human civilization itself, rooted in societal structures, cultural norms, and institutional practices that have perpetuated inequality. This critical examination seeks to uncover the deeply entrenched dynamics of gender-based oppression, its evolution across epochs, and the persistent struggle for equality.

See for details and submission https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/9088

REVISED DEADLINE Call for Book Chapters - Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia

updated: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 - 4:15am
Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 28, 2026

(REVISED DEADLINE)

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

 

Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia

Food is never just about sustenance. It is a charged cultural text, a site of memory and mourning, a marker of identity, a terrain of negotiation, and often, a weapon of exclusion or resistance. In South Asia—a region defined by deep pluralities, histories of colonialism, persistent socio-economic inequalities, and enduring spiritual traditions—food emerges not merely as a necessity, but as a powerful index of social structure, affective life, and ideological formation.

Coaching, Kindness, and Culture: Psychology, Sports, the Arts, Leadership…& Ted Lasso

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 3:30pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

Coaching, Kindness, and Culture:
Psychology, Sports, the Arts, Leadership…& Ted Lasso
A Transdisciplinary conference

Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/07/09/coaching-kindness-and-culture/

Date: November 15-16, 2025
November 15: In person participation in Richmond, London (and online)
November 16:  Fully online
Proposal Submission Deadline: September 15, 2025

 

Psychoanalysis in Transition: New Queer Approaches in 21st-Century France

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 3:30pm
Benoît Loiseau (NYU)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Psychoanalysis in Transition: New Queer Approaches in 21st-Century France2026 NeMLA ConventionMarch 5-8, 2026, Pittsburgh, PA Since the 1970s, LGBTQ+ Francophone authors and scholars have produced an expansive critique of psychoanalytic practices and thought. Despite their differing views, Guy Hocquenghem, Michel Foucault, Monique Wittig, Didier Eribon, Sam Bourcier, and Paul B.

Critical Intersex Futures

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 3:20pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

This hybrid panel will consider interdisciplinary work in the slowly expanding field of critical intersex studies.

Children's Literature and Graphic Narrative

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 3:19pm
Routledge
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

In recent years, publishers and children’s book professionals have registered a new enthusiasm for comic and graphic narrative forms. Graphic narratives as children’s literature offer an exciting new type of text for children and youth, providing important insights into the interests and capabilities of these youngsters as readers and as potential agents of change. Curiously, children’s literature criticism has tended to ignore or, at best, marginalize comics and graphic narratives for young people. This “blind spot” in children’s literature and comics criticism, as Charles Hatfield has called it on a number of occasions, is now being addressed.

Rethinking the Human: Artificial Intelligence, Dystopia, and Dismantling Power Structures

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 10:50am
Ruma Sinha/Rider University and Billie Thoidingjam Guarino/Saint Anselm College
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

A few days before the Independence Day of India in 2023, the Special Police Unit for North-Eastern Region (SPUNER) under the Delhi police circulated a Google form to collect information on “North-Eastern People, Ladakhis & Gorkhas of Darjeeling residing in Delhi” for “better policing Safety & Security.” This incident raises serious concerns due to its discriminatory nature against these marginalized communities and poses security risks involved with the storage and ethical use of such data. This aspect of collecting information becomes even more pertinent during critical moments such as elections or the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan in Kashmir.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (English or Spanish, with focus on the Spanish-speaking world): Polifonía Scholarly Journal

updated: 
Friday, July 11, 2025 - 7:22am
Polifonía Scholarly Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

Convocatoria POLIFONIA, Revista de estudios hispánicos Volumen XV, Año 2025Representaciones de la resistencia en la literatura y el cine (el mundo hispanohablante)

El consejo editorial de Polifonía se complace en hacer pública su nueva convocatoria para su decimoquinto volumen, “Representaciones de la resistencia en la literatura y el cine,” que se publicará de forma electrónica e impresa en el 2025.

Este volumen consta de dos partes: la primera aborda la resistencia en la literatura y el cine en el mundo hispanohablante (ver abajo), mientras la segunda es de tema misceláneo - es decir, abierto. 

NEW DEADLINE: Mad Max Franchise: An Edited Collection

updated: 
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 - 9:27am
Sarah Gawronski / University of Louisiana at Lafayette
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

Call for papers:  Essays for an edited collection about the Mad Max franchise 

Sarah Gawronski, University of Louisiana at Lafayette 

 

Name / Organization (or Independent Scholar)

Contact info: sarahmgawronski@gmail.com

 

Folk Songs in 21st Century: Ritual, Ceremony, and Euphoria

updated: 
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - 9:32am
Prof Shuchi Sharma, Ms. Shubhangi Srivastava and Ms Mitali Bhattacharya
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Folk Songs in 21st Century: Ritual, Ceremony, and Euphoria 

Deadline for Submissions: 

4th August 2025

full name / name of organization: 

Prof Shuchi Sharma
(Professor, Department of English, USHSS, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University)

Ms. Shubhangi Srivastava
(Research Scholar, Department of English, USHSS, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University)

Ms. Mitali Bhattacharya
(Research Scholar, Department of English, USHSS, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University)

contact email: 
folk.songs.2026@gmail.com

 

Last Days for Submission – Call for Papers | I Cine Bárbaras – International Conference on Cinema and Audiovisual

updated: 
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - 8:57am
XX Element Project Associação Cultural
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 11, 2025

We would like to remind you that there are only a few days left to submit proposals for the I Cine Bárbaras – International Conference on Cinema and Audiovisual, which will take place on October 23–24, 2025, at Universidade Lusófona – Centro Universitário do Porto.

Naturing Bodies, Embodying Nature (ICMS 2026)

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 5:04pm
International Congress on Medieval Studies 2026 / Sponsored by Medieval Ecocriticisms
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

This session seeks to explore the intersections of embodiment and environment in the Middle Ages, considering how bodies—organic and inorganic, human and non-human, material and immaterial—constitute, shape, and envelop one another. By “naturing” bodies, we seek to erode neat divisions between humans and the natural world to uncover the earthy entanglements linking humans to the environments they shape and are shaped by. Attuning to John Scotus Eriugena’s claim that nature is the name “for all things, for those that are, and those that are not,” we invite papers that reflect on the fundamentally relational ontology of humans, non-humans, and environments.

The Zeitgeist in Toys & Games

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:20pm
International Toy Research Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

The International Toy Research Association (ITRA) invites proposals for the 10th ITRA World Conference to be held in Augsburg Germany 5-7 August, 2026.  The overarching conference theme is The Zeitgeist in Toys & Games.

Proposal Submission Deadline:  31 December, 2025

Throughout recorded history, toys and games have shaped and reflected who we are. They inspire our play and fuel our development, both as individuals and members of society.   As both carriers and changemakers of culture, toys represent and influence the collective spirit of their times – the Zeitgeist. 

Quilting and Women’s Storytelling

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:20pm
Hairong Chen(Guest Editor, Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Call for papers: Women’s Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal (A&HCI)

Special Issue: Quilting and Women's Storytelling

Guest Editor: Hairong Chen

 

Digital Intimacies 11: The Love of Machines

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:16pm
University of Sydney
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 29, 2025

Digital Intimacies 11: The Love of Machines (Dec 3 to 5, 2025)

 

In the contemporary intimacy landscape, machines have emerged not merely as mediators but as potential objects of desire. From sophisticated dating apps that claim to decode compatibility, to conversational agents scripting our seductions, to synthetic lovers rendering human connection obsolete—machines don’t just shape digital intimacies; they reconfigure the terrain upon which intimacy itself is constructed. 

[Taller] Electric Marronaege Call for Submissions

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 3:08pm
[Taller] Electric Marronage | DSL
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Established in 2018 and revealed in 2020, TALLER ELECTRIC MARRONAGE (EM) began when a group of Black/Latina, queer, writers, and artists decided to plot points across their escape matrix. Inspired by the petit marronage of our ancestors, we steal away on the electric platform, share our journeys and offer what we find along the way. EM now invites submissions pertaining to the key theme: “In the time of war”.

 

Inheritance and Rupture: Writing Genealogies across French and Francophone Contexts (NeMLA 2026)

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 3:05pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This panel explores how cultural genealogies—artistic, intellectual, political, and linguistic—are constructed, resisted, and reimagined across French and Francophone spaces. Far from being fixed or linear, inheritance often manifests through discontinuities, silences, and contested claims. Artists and thinkers engage with prior figures, movements, and traditions in ways that may reaffirm legacies, subvert them, or create entirely new configurations of belonging and dissent. Whether through homage, revision, irony, or deliberate omission, these acts of (dis)inheritance speak to larger dynamics of memory, power, and transformation.

The Fourth “Connections and Human Aspects of Urban Space” International Conference

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 3:05pm
FES Acatlan, Universidad Nacional utónoma de México
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The FES Acatlán through its Research Program, its  Department of Humanities, the Humanities Program and the Hispanic Language and Literature Section, have the honor of convening the 4th International Conference "Connections and Human Aspects of Urban Space" which will be held from November the 17th to the 19th in a hybrid format via Zoom and at the FES Acatlán campus facilities.

UUSN Journal seeks Articles and Book reviews

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 2:57pm
Unitarian Universalist Studies Network Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

The Unitarian Universalist Studies Network – founded in 2021 via a merger of the UU History and Heritage Society and UU Collegium – is committed to encouraging valuable original research done to investigate our UU and liberal religious past and to integrate findings gained from serious exploration of ethics and theology. Our work is informed by our commitment to countering oppression in all of its intersecting forms in the belief that such study will critically challenge our sense of who we have been as a religious movement, and deepen our aspiration to be a just, inclusive, and beloved community as Unitarian Universalists today.

An edited collection on the WNBA

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 2:56pm
Georgia Munro-Cook, Łukasz Muniowski
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

Abstracts are sought for an edited collection on the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA).

African Cosmologies across the Atlantic: Literary, Linguistic, Artistic and Cultural Representations

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 2:19pm
University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Recent years have seen an upsurge of narratives from the Global South that engage in the representation of various African cosmologies. In contrast with Western traditions, these narratives are contributing to an epistemological shift from “the study of African religion as object [to] the study of African religion as subject” (Olupona 2013: xix). 

The (Re)Generational Potential of the Orphan Figure in Literature

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 2:17pm
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The concept of orphanhood may reveal a liminal yet productive state between figures, identities, homes, cultures and languages, exposing fertile spaces for crafting (re)generative views of self and other through literary texts. As characters, orphans may become queered figures, pointing back to the vulnerable state of childhood itself; as protagonists, orphans have also been connected to the concept of the hero (Rose-Emily Rothenberg), the role of the laborer, and the emotional “regeneration” of adults (Claudia Nelson).

Aemilia Lanyer - Open Call (RSA 2026)

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 12:49pm
Brice Peterson
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

This is an open-CFP for one or more panel session(s) on Aemilia Lanyer. Lanyer has received a resurgence of attention in the last ten years from literary critics as well as popular dramatists and novelists. This panel aims to continue the scholarly conversation by seeking papers that examine new courses of inquiry or reevaluate established topics of Lanyer scholarship. Paper topics might include but are not limited to:

The Handbook of Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series Exploring Transgender Themes

updated: 
Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - 12:38am
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

As of July 1, 2025, we are still seeking additional chapters for The Handbook of Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series to complement the 50+ confirmed chapters. Proposals are due July 1, 2025.

While most chapters examine Indian cinema with clearly transgender characters, we also welcome chapters for the handbook’s first theme, “Transing Cinema with No Transgender Characters,” showing how trans theories provoke new interpretations of film and television that don’t explicitly address transgender topics. For example, Dr. Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi’s chapter “Transing the Lens in Hindi Cinema” studies the following films:

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