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Titlle: Storied Seas, Blue Humanities and the Mediterranean Imagination

This special session invites proposals that explore the field of blue humanities through a Mediterranean lens. Proposals investigating the multifaceted dimensions of water and waterscapes  in literary texts, films, television series, comics, theatrical performances are welcome.

A 250-word abstract along with a 100-word bio.

Kierkegaard and Incarceration

American Academy of Religion

 In-person Annual Meeting, November 22-25 in Boston, MA

Following the 2025 American Academy of Religion Presidential Theme focused on “Freedom,” the Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Unit invites papers on the topic of “Kierkegaard and Incarceration.” 

SAMLA 97: Knowledge -- Atlanta, GA -- November 6th - 8th, 2025 -- Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center

To submit a call, please use this link https://samla.ballastacademic.com/ to first make an account and then submit your CFP. (You do not have to be a member to submit a Call for Proposals). The final deadline for submissions is June 28.

Please also make sure to visit our new website at southatlanticmla.org!

The general call for this year, inviting “papers that explore the value of the Humanities in relation to a more hopeful future” in areas including but not limited to “languages, literature, pedagogy, writing studies, linguistics, folklore, film studies, the digital humanities, and library studies”, has broad possibilities within the languages, literatures, histories, and cultures related to Old and Middle English.

Postcolonial Interventions invites scholarly articles for an OPEN ISSUE to be published in June 2025. As this call is being circulated, older territorial imperial aggression is threatening to bare its fangs across the world, right-wing forces of xenophobia, discrimination and intolerance continue to gather momentum across the world, inequality and ecological crisis continue to escalate and new forms of precarity are being constantly negotiated. The next issue of Postcolonial Interventions seeks to explore such issues and more based on postcolonial experiences across the world.

Submission Guidelines:

Money Talks: Futures for the Economic Humanities

University of Edinburgh, 28–29 May 2025

Keynote Speakers:

Dr Devin Singh (Dartmouth College)

Dr Rachel O’Dwyer (National College of Art and Design, Dublin)

Over the past decade, growing numbers of researchers in the arts and humanities have turned their attention to questions of money, finance, and the economy. At the same time, social scientists have increasingly drawn on humanities-based methodologies in their analyses of economic phenomena. “Money Talks: Futures for the Economic Humanities” is a landmark conference dedicated to mapping this emerging interdisciplinary space and charting its multiple potential futures.

Literature and Taxonomy

Taxonomy is a fraught word in literary studies. As a regime of classification descended from the Euro-American scientific tradition, taxonomy encourages the organization of biological life on earth based on hard distinctions or similarities between groups. This practice appears to endorse essentialist and deterministic paradigms that scholars in literary and cultural studies typically eschew—and for good reason. Taxonomic modes of thinking are allied with racial, medical, and sexual ideologies that have fueled historical and contemporary efforts to police the categories of race, gender, ability, and desire.

Sacred Arts 2025:
Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Artistic Expression and Ritual

University of Oxford (and online)

May 10-11, 2025

Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/sacred-arts-2025/

“Whatever his personal beliefs, Shakespeare is in the most important sense of the word a religious writer: not a proponent of any particular religion, but a writer who is aware, and makes his spectators aware, of the mystery of things.”

-Stanley Wells, Shakespeare: For All Time 

Contemporary African literature is an effective medium through which the continent’s dynamic realities are articulated. From postcolonial identity crises and political disillusionment to gender dynamics, migration, and the impact of globalization, African writers and creatives continue to provide nuanced explorations of the African condition. These narratives do not merely reflect societal issues but also challenge stereotypes, redefine cultural identities, and contribute to global literary discourse. The diversity of voices in African literature—ranging from established authors to emerging voices—offers rich analytical opportunities to understand how literature and arts engage with evolving African realities.

CFP From the European South, 19, Fall 2026

Special Issue: Dark Tourism in Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Contexts: Topographies of Suffering, Narrative Constructions and the Consumption of Place(s) 

Guest Editors: Eleonora Federici (University of Ferrara) and Marilena Parlati (University of Padova)

https://www.uprm.edu/nuevoshorizontes/2025/02/21/convocatoria-para-artic...

Cultura Visual de Puerto Rico y el Caribe
Fecha límite: 1 de agosto de 2025

Call for Papers: The Atomic Age in 1950s Literature and Culture

International Network of Nineteen-Fifties Culture (INNC) 3rd Annual Symposium

Call for Papers: The Atomic Age in 1950s Literature and Culture

Date: 19 September 2025

Location: Online

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr Gabrielle Decamous, Kyushu University, Japan, author of Invisible Colors: The Arts of the Atomic Age (2019)

Call for Papers:  

The Interdisciplinary Witch Conference: Witches in Culture, History, and Society 

Friday 20th June 2025 

York St. John University 

Submission Deadline: 1st April 2025