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Lagos Studies Association Conference 2025
Nigerian Digital Entertainment: The Cultural and Social Implications of Drama Skits
The 9th Annual Lagos Studies Association Conference
Conference Theme: Continuities and Discontinuities in African Studies
Date: June 17-21, 2025
Format: Hybrid (In Person, University of Lagos/Zoom)
Abstract Deadline: January 1, 2025.
Panel Organizers & Chair: Kolawole Olaiya, Anderson University, South Carolina (Email: woleolami@yahoo.com) and Anthony Adah, Minnesota State University, (Email: tony.adah@gmail.com)
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.
The Willa Cather Foundation seeks proposals for 1-2 panels at the 36th annual conference of the American Literature Association, held at the Westin Copley in Boston from May 21-24, 2025.
Topics could include (but are by no means limited to) race and ethnicity, indigeneity, settler colonialism, Queer histories, labor and leisure, Cather and other writers, teaching Cather, urban/rural spaces, philosophy and religion, approaches to Cather’s letters, ecological issues, and material culture.
While proposals on any topic pertaining to Cather’s life and writing are welcome, 2025 marks the centennial of the publication of The Professor’s House, so papers on that novel would be of particular interest.
Third Floor is a peer-reviewed journal of graduate student writing on art and art history at Concordia University in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Quebec. Third Floor aims to amplify emerging authors and art historians across all disciplines. In addition to conventional scholarly essays, the journal welcomes experimental forms of writing and storytelling including first person perspective, poetry, fragments, and arts production.
This area focuses on reproductive justice issues as they appear in popular culture (film, television, social media, music, literature, etc.). Reproductive justice is a term that goes beyond the term reproductive rights, something that typically focuses on contraception and abortion. According to the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, “it’s ‘the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities” (Abrams).
REANIMATING HERESIES
JUNE 8-10, 2025BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/
Webs of Wonder
37th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 28, 2025
Keynote Speaker:
Kyla Wazana Tompkins
University at Buffalo
CALL FOR PAPERS
Mutations and Permutations of Care
Graduate Student Conference
Hybrid modality
Hosted By: Graduate students of French and Francophone World Studies
Department of French & Italian, The University of Iowa
Conference Dates: Friday, April 4 through Saturday, April 5, 2025
Location: University of Iowa campus (Iowa City, Iowa) and on Zoom
Abstracts Due: Sunday, December 15, 2024 ** EXTENDED TO SUNDAY, JANUARY 05, 2025 ****
While we received a high volume of truly exciting submissions for the conference Irresistible Decay: Discourses of Death in Life from the 18th Century to Today, we are extending the deadline to further the interdisciplinarity of the event! As such, we are encouraging abstracts analysing contemporary discourses or intermedial representations of death in life across fields including (but not limited to): queer and sex studies, human rights, criminology, sociology, and medical humanities.
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:
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.
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.
We seek original contributions in English or Spanish from scholars across disciplines for the
forthcoming De Gruyter volume Spanish Identity and Eurovision: Media, Politics, and Cultural
Performance. Please submit a 300–500-word abstract in English or Spanish to editors Marina
Cuzovic-Severn (mcuzovi@calstatela.edu) and José Eduardo Villalobos Graillet
(eduardovgraillet@isu.edu) by February 28, 2025.
Summary
Wednesday 18th June 2025 to Friday 20th June 2025
Falmouth University, UK
The Contemporary Women’s Writing Association’s 2025 conference will be an interdisciplinary and global exploration of the role and impact of women’s writing. This conference is dedicated to the discussion of a broad range of women’s writing, including the popular and the literary; bestsellers and genres; poetry and prose; screen and script; writing for games and digital spaces; creative non-fiction; life-writing, biography, and memoir; and journalism and other forms of cultural production.
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
In a world marked by fluctuating borders, diverse identities, and global interconnectedness, the concepts of hospitality and hostility present complex meanings and challenges. This conference invites scholars and researchers to explore the diverse manifestations of hospitality and hostility across linguistics, literature, culture, social sciences, and political discourse. From acts of welcoming to experiences of exclusion, from cultural exchange to conflict, this theme highlights the delicate balance between openness and resistance, friendship and enmity, inclusion and exclusion.
Call For Papers: RAW 2025
BAIT, PROMPTS, andAID: The Power and Poetics of Engagement
in Art, Technology, History, and Human Nature/Nurture
Representing Bridgerton:
Intersectional Perspectives on the Popular Phenomenon
Edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Lisa J Hackett, Jo Coghlan and Huw Nolan
Editors:
contact email:
Presentation
Deadline now extended to December 14, 2024.
[W]e need to contest this understanding of emotion as ‘the unthought’, just as we need to contest the assumption that ‘rational thought’ is unemotional…
Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion
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.
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.
The Octavia E. Butler Literary Society invites prospective participants to submit proposals on any aspect of Butler’s life and work. This year, we especially encourage papers and panels that engage with her any of her work and/or her archives. We welcome both full panel proposals and individual papers.
Submit proposals to:
Kendra R. Parker
Email: oebliterarysociety@gmail.com
Proposal Deadlines:
Please include the following in your submission:
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
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.
Chimeras: Text/Image History, Transformations and Future
(Hybrid Format)
University of Glasgow, UK
Conference Dates: Feb. 2025
Location: University of Glasgow
CALL FOR PAPERS
Emotions in Turmoil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Painful Emotions
16th -17th June 2025
The University of Western Australia, Perth
Keynote speakers:
Daniel M. Gross (University of California Irvine)
Robbert Boddice (Tampere University)
PCA True Crime CFP – Special Topics 2025
Abstract Submission Deadline: December 7th, 2024
PCA/ACA will be held from April 16-19th, 2025 in New Orleans, LA
Where: The Australian National University, Acton campus, ACT
When: Friday 11 April, 2025