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Deadline Extended for ASLE 2025

updated: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 8:55pm
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

We have good news to share:  the deadline for proposal submissions to ASLE 2025 has been extended to January 10, 2025

 

ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference

Collective Atmospheres: Air, Intimacy, and Inequality

July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park, ancestral lands of the Piscataway People

Virtual panels held on July 17-18, 2025

Femspec - Call for Scholarly and Creative Submissions for Issue 25.1

updated: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 8:55pm
Femspec
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Femspec seeks both scholarly and creative submissions for its upcoming Issue 25.1

Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist academic journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.  Femspec publishes both academic scholarship and creative writing.

Creative writing submissions could include short fiction, poetry, or experimental forms.

To submit work for consideration, please review Femspec’s submission guidelines at the following link: SUBMISSION GUIDELINES | Femspec

Vision of a Viksit Bharat: Challenges, Initiatives, Strategies

updated: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 8:54pm
Dr. K. R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 26, 2025

Dr. K. R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

Call for Papers

National Conference of Research Scholars

Vision of a Viksit Bharat: Challenges, Initiatives, Strategies

24-25 February, 2025

Theme: Society, Citizens, Development

Eligibility: PhD Scholars registered in any University or Research Institution

Comics Arts Conference San Diego

updated: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 8:53pm
Comics Arts Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100 to 200 word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at Comic-Con International, in San Diego, CA, July 24–27, 2025.  We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars.  We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists.  The CAC is presently scheduled to take place in person and does not accept virtual presentations.  The CAC is designed to bring together

Hotels, Motels and Inns : Transient Spaces of Hospitality in English-Speaking Cultures

updated: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 8:51pm
University of Toulouse, France
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 20, 2025

The “Hotels, Inns and Motels” International Conference in Toulouse invites scholars to reflect upon the way places of temporary hospitality have structured space and displacements in English-speaking countries and therefore reveal the stakes and forms of hospitality. From medieval inns to the motel chains dotting the endless US interstate landscapes, these spaces offer a temporary home to their dwellers, and perform commercial, social, political and symbolic functions that so far have not been studied thoroughly.

The aim of the conference is to explore how these places, and the people who designed them, work or live there, can reflect or create conceptions of hospitality that provide insight into a given society or a period.

Call for English as a foreign language papers - Nagoya Gifu JALT Journal

updated: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 8:49pm
Nagoya Gifu JALT Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

The Nagoya Gifu Chapter of JALT (Japan Association for Language Teaching) is seeking papers on EFL (English as a foreign language) topics. We are a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal.

 

See past issues of our journal here:

https://sites.google.com/view/nagoyajaltpublication2020/the-jalt-nagoya-...

 

See the submission guidelines page and link for submissions here:

https://sites.google.com/view/nagoyajaltpublication2020/the-jalt-nagoya-...

 

INIRE 2025: “Abrahamic Religions and Religious Others”

updated: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 8:47pm
International Network for Interreligious Research and Education
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 20, 2025

“Abrahamic Religions and Religious Others”  - Call for Papers

International Network for Interreligious Research and Education |
Date:  July 21–25, 2024
Location: Katholische Akademie Berlin

Call for Reviewers

updated: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 8:47pm
Creativitas: Critical Explorations in Literary Studies (eISSN: 3048-8575)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025

Creativitas, an annual online double-blind peer-reviewed journal in English Studies, is extending an invitation to distinguished scholars, researchers, and academics to join our growing editorial community as reviewers. Published on a yearly basis, our journal is committed to advancing critical scholarship in literary studies through rigorous academic discourse and interdisciplinary exploration.

Journal Overview

Théâtre et femmes au Québec et au Canada francophone

updated: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 8:35pm
Jimmy Thibeault
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Théâtre et femmes au Québec et au Canada francophone

Dossier thématique de la revue Nouvelles études francophones (printemps/été 2026)

dirigé par Sandrine Duval, Nicole Nolette et Jimmy Thibeault

 

 Un appel à articles est lancé pour un dossier thématique de la revue Nouvelles études francophones (NÉF) sur le sujet de “Théâtre et femmes au Québec et au Canada francophone.”

Cadernos de Fraseoloxía Galega, issue 27

updated: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 7:48pm
Cadernos de Fraseoloxía Galega
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 24, 2025

Cadernos de Fraseoloxía Galega (CFG), an international journal on phraseological and paremiological research edited by Centro Ramón Piñeiro para a Investigación en Humanidades (Xunta de Galicia), is seeking submissions of contributions for its twenty-seventh issue, concerning the topics covered in the Imago Mundi. An Overview of Metaphor: Creativity, Phraseology and Discourse conference held in Cagliari in 2024, that is, metaphor and imagery, but also subjects related to phraseology or paremiology: for instance, idiomatic, metaphorical, graphic, conceptual and cultural phraseology.

Journal of Historical Fictions - Call for Articles

updated: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 7:46pm
Historical Fictions Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

The Journal of Historical Fictions is currently looking for submissions.

Rejoinder Call for Submissions -- Dissenting Feminisms -- Deadline Extended to January 15

updated: 
Monday, December 16, 2024 - 11:12am
Rejoinder Journal/Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

From campaigns against disenfranchisement to protests against sexual and gender-based violence, feminism has historically combined dissent—against exclusion, subordination, and prevailing power structures—with a focus on the imperative for social and political transformation. This issue of Rejoinder explores the history of feminist dissent and how it has shifted through the decades, both for activists and academics. In addition to a historical focus, we seek to address contemporary manifestations of dissent within feminism, exploring who successfully forges narratives that challenge feminism’s dominant iteration(s)—and what accounts for their success.

2025 SSAG Award for Best Scholarly Article or Book Chapter on the American Gothic

updated: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024 - 4:18pm
Society for the Study of the American Gothic
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 5, 2025

Call for Nominations:

 

2025 Award for Best Scholarly Article or Book Chapter on the American Gothic

 

The Society for the Study of the American Gothic (SSAG) invites nominations for its inaugural Award for Best Scholarly Article or Book Chapter. This award is open to all scholarly articles and book chapters published in the past two years that focus on some aspect of the American Gothic. The winner of the award will be announced at the Society for the Study of the American Gothic business meeting at the American Literature Association conference in May 2025 (exact date TBA).

 

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS - AI Innovations for Language Education and Communication

updated: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024 - 4:18pm
RUDN University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS - AI Innovations for Language Education and Communication

The Edited Volume will be published by CRC Press (Taylor and Francis Group) Indexed by SCOPUS

Important Deadlines

Abstract Submission (Approximately 150-200 words) : 31st January 2025

Full Chapter Submission : 25th May 2025

Acceptance Notification : 31st July 2025

Camera ready submission : 15th August 2025

Scope of the Book

International Conference on Media and Marginality: “Framing the Margins: Media and the Construction of Voice and Identity"

updated: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024 - 4:15pm
Department of English, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025

                                                                                        Department of English, Lady Shri Ram College for Women

                                                                                                                (University of Delhi)      

                                                                                                                  CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Media and Marginality

“Framing the Margins: Media and the Construction of Voice and Identity”

24-25 March 2025

 

Reproductive Justice in Popular Culture National PCA Conference Apr. 16-19. 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 - 8:09pm
Brenda Boudreau
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

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).

Connections beyond Humanities: Understanding Relatedness in a Changing World

updated: 
Tuesday, December 10, 2024 - 9:10am
Annual MCLS Graduate Conference, University of Alberta
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 19, 2025

    In the Anthropocene, the pace of human development outpaces that of natural evolution, disrupting ecological balance

and transforming humans from a biological existence into a potent geological force. The superiority of humans often leads to

simplifying and exploiting other forms of natural entities as mere resources, neglecting long-term impacts on our planet. This

mindset further creates a divide between humans and non-humans. However, the advancements in science and technology have

blurred the line between nature and culture. Nature is no longer an external backdrop but deeply intertwined with human

“A Song Called Teaching”: CWC Annual Conference, 10-11 April 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, December 10, 2024 - 9:08am
Centre for Writing and Communication (CWC)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 6, 2025

 

Call for Papers

 

A Song Called Teaching”: CWC Annual Conference, 10-11 April 2025

 

Organized by Centre for Writing & Communication, Ashoka University, Sonepat, India

 

Extended Deadline #IFM2025 Resonances Conference: December 16th!

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:17pm
Hudson Moura / IFM Network
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 16, 2024

#IFM2025 Resonances Conference – Extended CFP Deadline: December 16th!

Join us for the 7th Interactive Film and Media Annual Conference from June 10-13, 2025, via Zoom.

This year’s theme, Resonances, invites you to explore how media fosters deep, meaningful connections in our daily lives, shaping how we engage with the world.

  • Response: How do we form thoughtful responses to crises in an unstable world?

  • Resilience: How can media practices adapt and resist in the face of 21st-century challenges?

Dictionaries and disability for special issue of journal Dictionaries

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:15pm
Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North AmericaDictionary Society of North America
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America invites submissions for a special issue on “Dictionaries and Disability: Ideologies, Definitions, and Depictions.”

DEADLINE EXTENDED - PCA 2025 NEURODIVERGENT STUDIES

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:00pm
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED THROUGH DECEMBER 15!

              “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).

Social Media and the Medieval - TSW Special Issue

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 11:57am
The So What (Arthuriana's Public Humanities Project)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The So What welcomes proposals for short, public-facing pieces — whether critical, pedagogical, or creative — on social media accounts that engage with the medieval period for a special issue of TSW planned for on-line publication in 2025 or early 2026. 

 

Gaming Fandom - Transformative Works and Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 - 1:18pm
Hayley McCullough - New Mexico Tech; Ashley P. Jones - Wartburg College
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

The study and analysis of creative fan production (e.g., fanfiction, fanart, cosplay, etc.) is a cornerstone of fandom studies. These practices enable fans to assert a level of authorship over their favorite media – to reimagine, recontextualize, and reconceptualize their canons to better reflect their desires, wants, interests, and demands. They provide voice to individuals who cannot necessarily shape source texts directly (Vinney & Dill-Shackleford, 2018), allowing fans to carve out space for themselves within the pop-culture landscape that celebrates/embraces their identities. This is particularly poignant for marginalized fans.

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