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Dear Researchers,

We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for IEEE AI-Standard 2025 – The IEEE Conference on AI Standardization and Quality Assurance. This conference provides a global platform for AI researchers, industry leaders, policymakers, and technology developers to discuss and shape the future of AI standardization, governance, and quality assurance.

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The Stanford Initiative for Financial Decision-Making (IFDM) and the National Endowment for Financial Education are happy to announce the 2025 edition of the Stanford Financial Education Symposium (formerly Cherry Blossom Financial Education Institute). It will be held on April 10-11, 2025, during Financial Literacy Month in the U.

Last year marked the centenary of both the Republic of Turkey and James Baldwin, yet Baldwin’s time in Istanbul (1960–71) remains an understudied period in his literary and intellectual life. This panel seeks to explore Baldwin’s "Turkish decade" beyond exile narratives, and focuses on how his engagement with Istanbul’s artistic, literary, and queer communities shaped his work and political thought. How did Baldwin’s experiences in Turkey influence his evolving critique of race, sexuality, and transnational belonging? How might we rethink Baldwin’s literary and activist legacy through the lens of his Istanbul years?

Concept Art and Character Design – Critical and Creative Perspectives

University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Surrey, UK

18 July 2025

The School of Games & Creative Technology at UCA, Farnham, is hosting a one-day conference, examining the role of concept art and character design across the culture industries.

On behalf of the English Graduate Association at the University of Idaho, this is a reminder that all abstracts for the 2025 University of Idaho Graduate English Conference are due on February 24, 2025. All graduate students are invited to submit an abstract for work that is relevant to the conference theme, “What Fuels Feeling?: Multidisciplinary Studies of Emotions and the Elements”. While the English Department is hosting this conference, we are seeking work from graduate students of all disciplines. 

We are excited to host Nicole Seymour from California State University as our keynote speaker for this conference. 

IL PARLAGGIO

ISSN 2280-6849

This section of the academic journal “Sinestesieonline” is open to contributions about theatre and performing arts in all historical ages, forms and variations, in English, Italian and foreign languages. We use double blind peer review.

“Il Parlaggio” is the name created by Gabriele d’Annunzio for the amphitheatre in Vittoriale – a place of empathy, a cradle of emotions, a crossroads of cultures, a connection between antiquity and contemporaneity, an emblem of the “neverending show”.

The maternal figure has long been central to literary imaginings of the nation-state, shaping narratives of belonging, exile, and inheritance. As both metaphor and material reality, motherhood is entwined with national reproduction, kinship structures, and the regulation of bodies, often reinforcing but sometimes resisting dominant ideologies. At the same time, motherhood is a site of labor—both reproductive and economic—raising questions about care work, migration, and the feminization of labor within and across borders. Maternal grief, loss, and displacement further complicate the imagined continuity between mother and motherland, exposing fractures in nationalist and colonial narratives.

‘Body horror,’ a subgenre devoted to corporeal transgressions, is undergoing a rebirth with films like Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (2024)—a cautionary tale challenging the beauty industry and the gendered double standards of ageing. This emerging biopolitical discourse concerned with body dysmorphia, loss of control, abjection, susceptibility to illness and mutation is not limited to film. From classics like Frankenstein to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the Grand Guignol ghastly extends its arms to the literary sphere with emerging works like Mona Awad’s Rouge or Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation.

MELUS Call for Papers

Modern Language Association 2026

January 8-11, 2026

Toronto, ON (Canada)

Description:

 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF DELEUZE(NESS)

International symposium

18-19 September 2025

National Gallery of Art, Konstitucijos pr. 22, Vilnius

Submission call:  

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For the second issue of Epitaphs, we invite writers, artists and academics to submit their short form Gothic or Horror work on the following theme: 

Beaten Hearts. 

The theme can be understood as literally or as figuratively as needed. We encourage contributors to think about the many meanings of hearts within a Gothic/Horror context. Works can relate to:  

CFP: MLA 2026 Convention – Roundtable on "Bad Adaptations"

The Adaptation Studies Forum invites submissions for a roundtable discussion at the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto (January 8-11, 2026). In collaboration with the Screen Arts and Culture Group, this roundtable will engage in a critical exploration of what constitutes a “bad” adaptation and how these works can be understood and assessed both aesthetically and pedagogically.

Title: Bad Adaptations

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Porn Studies

Political Theory, Sexuality Studies, and the Politics of the Body: Honouring the Legacy of

Shannon Bell

300-word abstract and a bio by April 15, 2025

Porn Studies invites submissions for a special issue honouring the intellectual legacy of Shannon

Bell (Professor of Politics, York University)—a brazen feminist scholar whose work has

redefined feminist political theory, cyberpolitics, and sexuality studies. From her radical

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