interdisciplinary

The Memory and Representation area of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association invites submissions on any pertinent topic (see description below) for the 2025 National Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, on April 16-19, 2025.

Memory and Representation: Area Description

Literature, Popular Culture, and Bisexuality (edited collection; print)

ed. Ian Kinane (University of Roehampton)

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 WonderCon, in Anaheim, CA, March 28–30, 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 at WonderCon does not accept virtual submissions.  The CAC is designed to bring together comics scholars, professionals, critics, and historian

The Department of Liberal Arts at IIT Bhilai is excited to announce the second Graduate Research Meet (GRM) on (Re)imagining ‘Progress’. Conventionally the idea of progress is understood as a linear trajectory towards improvement, scientific advancements, and socio-economic and technological developments. Progress, in contemporary times, can be seen as a holistic concept pertaining to not only societal but also individual betterment — more as a cultural, economic and psychological reality.

For a generation, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter franchise was emblematic of heroism, fighting against adversity, and inclusion of outsiders. This is why Rowling’s arguable alignment of herself, in 2020 and since, with transphobic and trans-exclusionary rhetoric felt like such a betrayal to many of her readers, prompting a revaluation of her work and what it means to them now. With the co-edited collection Potions, Powers, and Prejudice: Reassessing Harry Potter, we intend for contributors to explore the matter of what we collectively do with Harry Potter in the wake of its creator’s very public turn. Some readers have favored a careful delineation between author and work; others have regretfully concluded that no such delineation is possible.

Call for Papers

The Conference of the International Walter Pater Society:

 Trans/Pater 

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

September  5-7, 2025

Organizers:      Barbara Black, Skidmore College

Call for Papers

The 32nd Annual Midwest Conference on Literature, Language and Media (MCLLM)

April 5th & 6th 2025

Theme: “Trouble” - Confronting Bigotry in Higher Education and Academic Scholarship

The Black Performing Arts Area provides a scholarly forum to share and disseminate research pertaining to the Black performing arts across expressive forms.  Broadly defined, the area focuses on all forms of performing and visual arts, including jazz, blues, gospel, hip-hop, rhythm and blues, Caribbean music, dance, poetry, drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and acting.  In all these contexts we are interested in investigating the merger of aesthetic technique and embodiment across Black diasporic expressivity.

The Victorians Institute Journal is still accepting submissions for Volume 52, which is expected to be published in 2025. We accept manuscripts between 7k-9k words on any aspect of Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and culture.

For complete submission instructions and to upload your manuscript for consideration, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/vij and follow the steps given by the online system.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at victoriansinstitutejournal@gmail.com

Dear Colleagues,

We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for Volume 23 of Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric, an international peer-reviewed journal. We invite undergraduates from all majors and academic years to submit research and theoretical articles on topics related to rhetoric, writing, discourse, and language.

This year, we are also accepting multilingual submissions that explore Spanish-English bilingualism, translation studies, and writing across languages. Submissions fall into three categories:

On his way to the Temple of the Grail Knights, Parsifal says: I move only a little, yet already I seem to have gone far. The all-knowing Gurnemanz replies: You see, my son, here time turns into space. - Wagner’s “Parsifal”

The Department of Religions and Cultures at Concordia University is pleased to announce the 30th Annual Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference (AGIC). In part commemorating AGIC’s 30th year of existence and coinciding with Concordia University’s 50th anniversary, we invite both academic and creative submissions (research papers, short films, visual arts/media, short stories, poems, etc.) that engage with this year’s theme,“Journeying”. 

INTERDISCIPLINARY; COMPARATIVE; GRADUATE - PROFESSIONAL DEVLOPMENT

Graduate students are invited to present on Dress and Fashion of Baroque Spain at the Boca Raton Museum of Art on March 27, 2025. The conference will be held in the Museum’s Wolgin Education Center, 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, FL 33432.

The 16th Annual Research, Art, Writing Conference
March 1, 2025, University of Texas at Dallas

Call For Papers: RAW 2025

BAIT, PROMPTS, and AID: The Power and Poetics of Engagement

in Art, Technology, History, and Human Nature/Nurture

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

#IFM2025 Resonances Conference

June 10-13, 2025, via Zoom

The 7th Interactive Film and Media Annual Conference invites you to engage with the theme "Resonances," exploring how media fosters deep, meaningful connections in our daily lives. This year’s conference delves into how personal and communal experiences shape our interactions and understanding of the world. We encourage submissions that critically engage with the theme and its subtopics, including:

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