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FINAL DEADLINE - 11/30 - NEURODIVERGENT STUDIES - PCA 2025

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:21am
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

“To be neurodivergent is to reclaim the pathologizing aspects of a long-term cognitive diagnosis and to reclaim one’s neuro-status as a possible position from which to claim resources, representation and recognition” (Stenning and Bertisldottir Rosqvist 1535).

Conference on Creativity, Creative Arts, and Neurodivergence, June 2025

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:20am
Open University - Falmouth University - Northwestern University Qatar
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Call for Proposals: Conference on Creativity, Creative Arts, and Neurodivergence, June 2025

Hybrid in-person/Online: June 18 - 20, 2025 (dates tentative at this stage, will be confirmed)

Online pre-sessional: Thursday, June 18 (2 - 6pm GMT)

In person: Friday & Saturday, June 19-20 (2 - 5pm and 9am - 5pm)

 

Call for submissions/Appel à propositions: Sustainable Publishing Special Issue

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:18am
Imaginations/The Goose/Engaged Scholar Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

Appel à propositions / Call for Submissions : Numéro spécial pour une édition pérenne

Sous la direction de Rachel Webb Jekanowski (The Goose : revue pour les arts, l’environnement, et la culture au Canada); Abigail Fields (The Goose : revue pour les arts, l’environnement, et la culture au Canada); Brent Ryan Bellamy (Imaginations: revue d’études interculturelles de l’image); Markus Reisenleitner (Imaginations: revue d’études interculturelles de l’image); Margot Mellet (Imaginations: revue d’études interculturelles de l’image), et Lori Bradford (Engaged Scholar Journal : Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning)

Échéance : 10 janvier 2025

An Edited Collection- Green Memories

updated: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024 - 1:25pm
Green Memories: The Temporal and Sensory Landscapes of Plant Life in Cultural Narratives
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Call for Papers

Title of the proposed edited collection:

Green Memories: The Temporal and Sensory Landscapes of Plant Life in Cultural Narratives

 

The 2nd International Conference on Global Plant Humanities (2–3 May 2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 2:28pm
Global Plant Humanities Network
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Call For Papers

The 2nd International Conference on Global Plant Humanities

 

Date of Conference: 2–3 May 2025 (Friday-Saturday)

Mode:                         Hybrid

Host:                           Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Partners:                    Nulungu Institute, University of Notre Dame, Australia

Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya (affiliated with the University of Calcutta)

Gifts from the Sentient Forest (project supported by the Kone Foundation, Finland)

Location:                    Kathmandu, Nepal

Science Fiction & Disabilities (deadline extension)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 1:34pm
Stella Incognita Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

 

 

The 13th Stella Incognita Symposium

April 2, 3 and 4, 2025

 

Room Jacques Cartier - Campus Saint Martin d'Hères

Université Grenoble Alpes (France)

 

 

Science Fiction & Disabilities

 

Organizers: Clément Pélissier, Filippo Fonio

 

 

 

Call for Papers

 

 

Linda Hall Library, 2025-26 Fellowships

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 10:30am
Linda Hall Library
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 17, 2025

The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for our 2025-26 fellowship program. These fellowships provide graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars in the history of science and related humanities fields with financial support to explore the Library’s outstanding science and engineering collections. Fellows also participate in a dynamic intellectual community alongside in-house experts and scholars from other Kansas City cultural and educational institutions.

The 9th Annual Global Souths Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 10:30am
Department of English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Call For Papers
Conference Theme: 
“The World at a Crossroads”
Conference Date: March 27-29, 2025
Location: In-Person, the Student Union at The University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette, Louisiana
Submissions Due: January 30, 2025

Website: ulglobalsouths.wordpress.com

Failure: Special issue of The Comparatist

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:59am
The Comparatist
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Call for Papers: Special Issue, The Comparatist

Topic: Failure

General Editor: Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College)

 

Call for Papers - Humanities Education and Research Association

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:47am
Humanities Education and Research Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

HERA

Call for Papers

        Humanities Education and Research Association

Annual Conference, 12-15 March 2025

University of Houston-Downtown

Houston, Texas

 

"Humanities 2.0: Traditions & Technology"

 

Call for Chapters: Interdisciplinary Communication Studies from the Periphery: Ways of Being and Doing

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:46am
Edited Book Project - Istanbul Bilgi University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 20, 2025

This edited volume seeks contributions from scholars whose subject matter, methods, or researcher

identities resonate with what might be considered peripheral in communication studies. We aim to

explore how diverse perspectives—often shaped by specific contexts, marginalized identities or

cases, or alternative approaches—can challenge, expand or be an alternative to traditional

paradigms, perspectives and cases in the field. The concept of the periphery is not defined here as a

rigid geographic or socio-political category, nor is it a simple counterpoint to the North or Western

paradigms. Instead, we understand the periphery as a space where various ‘ways of being’ and ‘ways

Extended Deadline: The Marilynne Robinson Society at ALA

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:44am
American Literature Association Conference (ALA); May 21-24, 2025; Boston, MA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 6, 2025

The Marilynne Robinson Society will be hosting two panels at the annual American Literature Association Conference (May 21-24, 2025; Boston, MA).  The first panel will focus on a wide variety of topics connected to Robinson’s essays and novels.

Please submit a 350-word proposal and short bio to haein.park@biola.edu by November 15, 2024.

Call for Applications: RSVP's Curran Fellowships

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:42am
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival sources. Made possible through the generosity of the late Eileen Curran, Professor Emerita of English, Colby College, and inspired by her pioneering research on Victorian periodicals, the Fellowships are awarded annually.

SCSECS 2025

updated: 
Sunday, November 24, 2024 - 8:33pm
South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

The South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies invites you to present papers and organize conference panels on being lost and found in the long eighteenth century. Whether one is lost at sea or lost in thought, finding one's bearings can bring about new insights and inspirations. Discovering the answers to the mysteries of existence has led to whole new understandings of the world around and within us -- and whole new speculations about the unseen and unknown. We look forward to hearing your guiding perspectives.

PCA True Crime Area CFP - Special Topics 2025

updated: 
Friday, November 22, 2024 - 3:04pm
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

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

Call for Cooperators: Academic Forms: Thinking the Ways We Do Our Work

updated: 
Friday, November 22, 2024 - 3:23am
Tim Lanzendörfer, Goethe University, Frankfurt
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Call for Cooperators

Academic Forms: Thinking the Ways We* Do Our Work

(*Where “We” Names, Specifically, Humanities Scholars)

Preliminaries Towards Some Academic Product

Call for Proposals for a Special Issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL)

updated: 
Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 9:35am
Texas Studies in Literature and Language
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Call for Proposals for a Special Issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL)

Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2025

Full name / name of organization: Texas Studies in Literature and Language

Prospective publication: September 2026

Contact email: TSLL@austin.utexas.edu

Special Issue Proposals

THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF FANTASY LITERATURE STUDIES MAGIC FARE: GASTRONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF FANTASY WORLDBUILDING

updated: 
Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 6:29am
Centre for Fantasy Literature Studies Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

hosted online on 15–16 January 2025, at 11 am (+2 GMT)

 

Anyone, then, who has tasted fairy fruit walks through life beside other people to a different tune from theirs.

Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

 

Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions (book series)

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 11:16am
Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures an Religions
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions Series

Series Editor: Heather Ostman

 

The Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religion Series invites book proposals for essay collections or monographs that align with the Series’s intention:

 

Call for Chapters - Qualitative Research and Justice Education

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 6:30am
Co-Edited Volume
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

The editors invite scholars and practitioners with interests and/or experience in justice studies to contribute chapters to Research Methods for Qualitative Justice Studies. We are seeking originally authored chapters that focus on specific qualitative research approaches aligned with justice studies-oriented research. Each chapter should cover one primary method of qualitative research. 

See full CFP at link for further details. 

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

 

Call for Papers: Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine Issue on the History of Medicine (September 2025)

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:16am
Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Call for Papers: Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine Issue on the History of Medicine (September 2025)

Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025

Publication Date: September 2025

Subject: Call for Papers: Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine Issue on the History of Medicine (September 2025)

On the 250th anniversary of Brillat-Savarin’s La Physiologie du Goût (The Physiology of Taste)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 - 4:41pm
Journal of Franco-Irish Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies (JOFIS) ISSN: 2009-7395

 

In honour of the 250th anniversary of the publication of La Physiologie du Goût (The Physiology of Taste), the editorial team of JOFIS is pleased to announce its next call for papers for the spring 2025 issue dedicated to the legacy and influence of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, one of the most renowned figures in the history of food writing and gastronomy.

Mission Shakti : Thoughts on Women Empowerment

updated: 
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 - 4:40pm
DR ALKA SINGH
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 30, 2024

Mission Shakti

Thoughts on Women Empowerment

 

Sub Themes :

Here are some sub-themes for the  call for papers on the book titled  Mission Shakti: Thoughts on Women Empowerment. These are just indicative points . The book is not limited to these themes only . The authors can select any appropriate theme in commensurate with the main topic.

 

1. Education and Empowerment: Exploring the role of education in empowering women and promoting gender equality.

 

2. Breaking Gender Stereotypes: Challenging traditional gender norms and stereotypes that hinder women's empowerment.

 

Call for Presentations: Sea Music Symposium 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 - 4:39pm
Maritime Music and Tradition Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

For the 2025 Symposium on Music of the Sea, we are seeking proposals for papers in Music, Ethnomusicology, History, Literature, Folklore, or other appropriate disciplines that address any aspect of music or verse of the sea, rivers, or inland waters from the Age of Sail until the present. 

2025 First Book Institute

updated: 
Sunday, November 17, 2024 - 2:29pm
Center for American Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Announcing 

The 2025 First Book Institute

June 1-7, 2025

Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University

Co-Directors 

Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature

John Marsh, Professor of English and Director of the Center for American Literary Studies

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