gender studies and sexuality

Bonkbusters and Soap Operas: Representing Sex, Glamour, and Melodrama on Screen 

Saturday 21st June 2025 

Falmouth University 

This freein-person symposium will be an interdisciplinary and global exploration of Bonkbusters, Soap Operas and Made-for-TV Melodramas. 

The Academic Association for Doctoral Students & Students of English (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń) is pleased to announce the call for papers for the online young researchers’ conference to be held on 22 May 2025 and the journal issue (Currents No 11) on the themes of adaptation and innovation within Anglophone language, culture and literature.

  ‘Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.’

~ H.G. Wells Mind at the End of Its Tether

Call for papers Heteroglossia 22, 2025

MSA 2025 Proposed Panel: Infrastructures of Hidden Labor

Deadline for Abstract Submission: May 15, 2025

Final Chapter Submission: December 30, 2025

Editors: Aswathi Velayathikode Anand (Visiting Assistant Professor, IIM Indore, India) & Swathi Krishna S. (Assistant Professor, IIT Bhubaneswar, India)

Contact Emails: aswathiv@iimidr.ac.in, swathi@iitbbs.ac.in

Stories of Strength and Survival: Resilient Women in Indian Fiction(Edited Collection) (With a strong publishing interest from Bloomsbury Publishing, USA)

1.“Femmes écrivains à la croisée des savoirs / Women Writers at The Crossroads of Knowledge” 

EGSS/EBSS 2025 Conference: Call for Papers

R/evolution: Radical Change and Gradual Transformation in Literature and Culture

Université de Montréal

April 11–13, 2025

Space and Culture, India (Q2 ranked Journal)

Guest Editors: Dr. Debajyoti Biswas and Professor Om Prakash Dwivedi

This panel calls for papers that examine theories and histories of the body alongside histories of fashion and modeling. In what ways do contemporary fashion studies or modeling studies build on or depart from foundational texts that interrogate the body? How do fashion and modeling embody or resist ableism, ageism, transphobia, fatphobia, and other forms of oppression that are mediated through the body? This panel is particularly interested in the role of the model, expansively defined as fashion modeling, artist's modeling, instagram modeling or other forms of model-like roles and embodied performances.

Multiverse Convention LEARN Track Call for Submissions

Event Date & Location: October 17 - October 19, 2025 at the Hilton Peachtree City, 2443 HWY 54 West, Peachtree City, Georgia, 30269

Deadline for Submissions: Friday, May 2, 2025

Name of Organization: Multiverse Convention Organization

Website: https://www.multiversecon.org

Contact Email: Kenneth Broome, Jr., Learn@Multiversecon.org

CONVENTION THEME:

The 2026 Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention will be held from January 8 to January 11 in Toronto. The past few years have highlighted death and the value of health, but there still remains a lack of knowledge and studies concerning the reality of these experiences for some people, especially marginalized groups. This panel session is open to all perspectives and seeks to explore death, health, and/or their intersections in the humanities and beyond. It also draws attention to health humanities. Some questions the panel addresses include: what are some ways literary and cultural texts broaden our understanding of health, mortality, grief, and wellness or living life well?

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Department of English, Igbinedion University Okada, Edo State, Nigeria, invites quality articles for inclusion in Volume 2 of the June/July and November/December editions of IUO Journal of English and Literary Studies. The journal publishes articles and compositions written in English and French in all areas of English Language and Literature, including African and non-African Studies, Canonical, Contemporary, and Comparative Studies, Linguistics Studies, Theatre Arts, Film/Home Video, conference proceedings, editorials, book reviews, interviews, creative works, and sketches. IUO Journal of English and Literary Studies is an online periodical which allows free and unrestricted access to its published material.

This conference aims to bring together Postgraduate students and Research Scholars to critically engage with the theme of “Popular Culture and the Politics of Representation.” Culture has always been the force to determine the course of human history, which has been sempiternally constituted by multitudinous and multidirectional fluxes of cultural exchanges, overlaps, and influences of various degrees. The aforementioned dynamics had not only been operative at collective levels but also at individual ones, ceaselessly permeating and turning us into its impacts and mouldings.

This session invites abstracts for papers that engage meaningfully with Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy. This session seeks to bring together a wide variety of approaches to and thematic interests in the novel. Papers might explore questions as diverse as possession/haunting, coloniality, race, the archive, gender, or theories of reading.

Please submit a 250-word abstract and a 150-word bio through the Google form below:

 https://forms.gle/kzYew6K7XLPEpiG6A