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NEPCA 2025 - Storytelling and Narrative (Virtual Conference!)

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:15pm
Kristi Gatto
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

 

The 2025 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.

Virtual sessions will take place via Zoom throughout the day on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Registration will open up in mid-July. 

The Storytelling & Narrative area explores the multifaceted nature and role of storytelling and narrative. We invite submissions from all theoretical and methodological perspectives. Submissions should have a connection to how storytelling and narrative plays a role in popular culture including, but not limited to, topics such as:

Femspec - Call for Scholarly and Creative Submissions for Issue 25.2

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:14pm
Femspec
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

 

Femspec seeks both scholarly and creative submissions for its upcoming Issue 25.2

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.

Call for Papers - Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2025)

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:14pm
Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (JCLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

We are now accepting submissions for our next regular issue.

Manuscripts in MS Word (5,000–10,000 words) adhering to the MLA formatting guidelines should be sent to editor@jcla.in by 31 July 2025.

Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Comparative_Literature_and_Aesthetics
Website: www.jcla.in
Current Issues: https://jcla.in/journal-of-comparative-literature-and-aesthetics/current...

La révision/Revision

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:14pm
Université Bordeaux Montaigne
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 8, 2025

Appel à communications/Call for papers

 

Climas (EA 4196) 

Université Bordeaux Montaigne

26-27 février 2026 / February 26-27, 2026

 

La révision/Revision

 

Organisateurs/organizers : 

Véronique Béghain, Hannah Champion, Juliette Pochelu, Joël Richard 

(with the collaboration of Guillaume Desagulier)

 

 

“Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea”

VOL 12 (2025) CALL FOR PAPERS AND BOOK REVIEWS

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:13pm
Pulse: the Journal of Science and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

PULSE – the Journal of Science and Culture

VOL 12 (2025)

CALL FOR PAPERS AND BOOK REVIEWS

 

Historical Fictions Research Conference 2026

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:13pm
Historical Fictions Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

 

Historical Fictions Research Conference, Erlangen (Germany),

19th-20th February 2026

 

Call for Papers

Deadline: 1st September 2025

Submission Form

 

Erudite Creative Writing Techniques: 2026 AWP Conference Session

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:08pm
Anna Faktorovich / Anaphora Literary Press
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 14, 2025

I would like to organize a session at the AWP Conference, March 4-7. I would like to present the research I am currently developing for a book called "Writing Erudite Speculative Fiction". I hope to find other presenters who would like to discuss strategies about formulaic, genre-based, or other types of fiction writing strategies, especially aimed at the literary or sophisticated marketplace. This session is tailored for professors of creative writing who want unique approaches to teaching. The rules are: 

CFP Blood and Bile: Perspectives from the humanities, art and gaming culture on Blasphemous

updated: 
Monday, May 26, 2025 - 4:38am
Jonas Müller-Laackman; Victoria Mummelthei / c:hum
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

In the fictional world of ‘Cvstodia’, a nameless ‘penitent’ traverses a world in which the ‘miracle’ - a divine entity - is worshipped through physical torment and suffering in a gloomy body horror style. In doing so, ‘Blasphemous’ transforms the established conventions of the ‘souls-like’ genre: the difficulty typical of the genre and the cyclical approach to failure are theologically charged. The progress made by defeating boss enemies is enhanced by sacred weapons and rituals, while the level design is recontextualised as a spiritual pilgrimage. These elements are embedded in an elaborate ecclesiastical infrastructure and open up multiple levels of analysis, e.g:

EXTENDED DEADLINE - Henri Bergson: Memory and Intuition

updated: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025 - 12:08pm
PAMLA: Special Session
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

In accordance with the conference theme, “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” the work of French philosopher Henri Bergson is more than relevant. Bergson’s Matter and Memory published in 1896 explores not only how memory functions in human activity, but the levels of memory and its importance to our lives.

Journal of European Popular Culture

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:41pm
Journal of European Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 7, 2025

 

Journal of European Popular Culture

Intellect Publishers

Next issue - call for article/s

JEPC 16.1 and JEPC 16.2 - 2025 

& JEPC 17.1 - 2026  

This peer-reviewed journal seeks lively submissions for its latest issues on any aspect of European cultural and creative activity.

The 2025 issues are open at present

This peer reviewed journal is interested in contemporary practices, but also in historical, contextual, biographical or theoretical analyses relating to past cultural activities in Europe.

(Im)politeness on Stage

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:35pm
University of Naples
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

(Im)politeness on Stage

Monday 15  – Tuesday 16  December, 2025

University of Naples L’Orientale

 

Contributions to Wilderness and Performance volume

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:28pm
Michelle Liu Carriger
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 10, 2025

CFP Performing Wilderness Volume

 

The wilderness appears to be a place devoid of theatre. As perhaps the most social of artistic forms, theatre and performance seem to sit in opposition to the solitude of wilderness, natural areas supposedly untouched by human activity. That is, wilderness and the performing arts are often thought as part of separate spheres, opposites even, situated firmly on either side of the imaginary divides between “nature” and “culture.” 

 

CFP: The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture – NEPCA Virtual Fall Conference 2025

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:24pm
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

CFP: The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture – NEPCA Virtual Fall Conference 2025

Deadline for submissions: July 15, 2025 5pm EST

 

Contact email: 

Hannah Sophie Schiffner, h.schiffner@zeppelin-university.net 

Protichi Chatterjee, protichichatterjee@gmail.com

 

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online October 9 – 11, 2025.

 

Edited Volume

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:24pm
Sri Sri Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies, Sri Sri University, Cuttack, Odisha
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Book Proposal for the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)

Type: Edited volume

Title (provisional)

Craft Culture of Odisha:

A Study of Handicraft Heritage and Changing Dynamics of Craft-making

 

Rationale:

Special Issue on Gendered Violence

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:20pm
Women's Studies Journal (Taylor and Francis)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (T&F)

Special issue on

Gendered Violence

Guest Editors: Debajyoti Biswas (Bodoland University) & Parvin Sultana (Pramathesh Barua College)

 

CFP (Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media (In-Person) (7/24/2025; MAPACA Philadelphia 11/6-8/2025)

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:00pm
Michael Torregrossa / e Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Call for Papers

(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media (In-Person)

Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Annual Conference 

Sonesta Hotel Philadelphia (1800 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19103)

6-8 November 2025

 

The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture invites proposals for an in-person panel on the theme of "(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media" for the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Annual Conference, which will run from Thursday, 6 November, to Saturday, 8 November 2025. 

 

Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 10:29am
University of Münster
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 2, 2025

In their introduction to Mothers in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism (2016), Karen Coats and Lisa Rowe Fraustino observe that “[w]hether living or dead, present or absent, sadly dysfunctional or happily good enough, the figure of the mother carries an enormous amount of freight across the emotional and intellectual life of a child” (3).

***DEADLINE EXTENDED*** 2025 Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Conference

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 10:51am
Cory Barker, MPCA/ACA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference

Friday-Sunday, 3–5, October 2025

The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Conference participants will be responsible for securing their own lodging.

Submit paper, abstract, or panel proposals (including the title of the presentation) with the appropriate keywords (formerly areas) on the submissions website at https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels

Individuals may only submit one paper.

ReFocus: The Films of Anurag Kashyap

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 12:28am
Edinburgh University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

 UPDATE: DEADLINE FOR ABATRACTS EXTENDED TILL 31ST OF DECEMBER.

 

NOTE: WE ARE NO LONGER LOOKING FOR PROPOSALS RELATING TO "MUKKABAAZ".

Medusa: Essay on Modern Drama

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 11:07pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

This call for papers seeks one specific chapter on Medusa for a volume intended for the series, Villains and Creatures.

Each chapter of the volume is intended to be an overview of depictions of Medusa in specific kinds of media; nevertheless, the arguments/theses of each chapter should still be original, using past works and research to develop a current (new) perspective on Medusa.

The chapter needed involves Modern Drama.

Chapters will be due in October 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 6,500 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Food Studies Panel at PAMLA 2025

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 1:04pm
Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Conference Dates - November 20th to 23rd 2025

Location - San Francisco, California - The InterContinental San Francisco Hotel - U.S.A.

Topic - Food Studies Research on Culture, Literature, and Media

Film Studies: Research Articles focusing on Southeast Asia, China, East Asia, and India's Northeast

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 4:20am
Rising Asia Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Rising Asia Journal invites Research Articles on Film Studies in the geographical areas of Southeast Asia, East Asia (Japan, China, the Koreas, and Taiwan), and India's North-East Region, on all aspects of these Asian societies. Authors may use any thematic or theoretical discourse such as gender, race, colonialism and post-colonialism, and others.

Articles should be between 5,000 to 10,000 words in length, with footnotes, and Works Cited.

Authors are urged to visit the journal's website at www.rajraf.org to read the submission guidelines. 

Articles should be original, and should offer a new and innovative perspective.

REMINDER: One Short Day: An Online Symposium Celebrating Wicked

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 12:56am
Noah Gallego and Layal Dahi
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 30, 2025

One Short Day: An Online Symposium Celebrating Wicked

 

Deadline: May 30, 2025

Conference Date: June 27, 2025

Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific Time)

Abstract: 150 words + 50 word biographical statement + Time Zone

Submit to: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com 

Organizers: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona & Layal Dahi, California State Polytechnic University 

 

Call for Additional Chapters - Postcolonial Hauntings: New Perspectives

updated: 
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - 2:54am
Nadine Ellinger, University of Augsburg & Danica Stojanovic-Schaffrath, University of Graz
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

We are looking for additional chapters for the upcoming edited volume, to be published in the Anglophone Postcolonial Studies series by HeiUP (2026), on the theme of haunting in postcolonial literatures and cultures as well as the endurance of Eurocentrism in academic practices and spaces. We are particularly interested in further contributions on the latter.

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Edited Collection CFP: "Killing It In The Classroom: Teaching the Young Adult Detective Genre"

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:05pm
Dr. Myers Enlow and Dr. Marla Harris
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

This edited collection, Killing It In The Classroom: Teaching the Young Adult Detective Genre aims to address the changes in young adult detective/mystery literature, television shows, movies, and video games from 2015 to the present. The time, we maintain, is ripe for a re-investigation: adolescent engagement with social media and technology, along with the psychological after-effects of the Covid years, have significantly impacted what it means to be a teen in 2025. How does the YA detective fiction genre offer ways to explore contemporary issues and anxieties relevant to teens today?

Travel and Tourism (Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Conference) 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:04pm
MAPACA (Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Assn)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Travel and Tourism Studies as a discipline continues to gain popularity in academia, in part because of its inter-disciplinary nature. The Travel and Tourism area seeks papers that discuss and explore any aspect of travel and/or tourism. Topics for this area include, but are not limited to, the following:-

- travel and gender/race/class
- personal travel narratives
- heritage tourism
- material culture and tourism
- travel in 2025: how has politics changed travel?

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