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Marxism and the Coercive Forces of Capital: Today’s Implications and Critical Perspectives
“[The state] power rises out of society, placing itself above it, and alienating itself more and more from it.”
–Frederick Engels
Date: 19-20
September 2025
Keynote Speaker: Hatim El-Hibri, George Mason University
Mode: In Person
The history of "rights" as a concept is mired in complications. Regarded as the moral or legal recognition of interests or entitlements of individuals and communities, rights have been present in history in a variety of ways - both justiciable and not. This history of rights, and the securing of rights, is long and arduous, and has taken various forms along the way - with sudden victories and abrupt revocations all the same - resulting in the present that we find ourselves in now.
Postcolonial Interventions (ISSN 2455-6564) Call for Papers Vol. X, Issue 2 (June 2025)
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:
Call for Papers for a Special Issue
Vernacular City-Narratives from Postcolonial South Asia
We are inviting short abstracts (100 words) of papers on “Vernacular City-Narratives from Postcolonial South Asia”, to be published in a special issue for a Scopus-indexed journal (Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Taylor and Francis, Q1). The deadline for the abstract submission is June 14, 2025.
Special thematic dossier 7.2 | Native American Visibility and Representations in Contemporary USA: Between Cultural Belonging and Activism
Editor: María Elena Serrano Moya (Universidad de Alcalá)
【Call for Papers】
The Sixth International Conference on the Film Histories of Taiwan and Asia Cinema, 2025
Wars in films and films during war time
Date: August 23-24, 2025
Venue: College of Communication, National Chengchi University
July 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. This central moment in American history has shaped our national self-perception for 250 years even as writers and scholars have debated the origins and meaning of the events of 1776 from the time they occurred until today. Inspired by these discussions and the national commemoration of independence, the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society is convening a conference in June 2026. What beliefs turned a diffuse movement protesting imperial policy into a radical republican revolution in 1776? How did the events of 1776 play out in the communities that experienced them? How did independence change American society?
The second Issue of Volume 7 of LLIDS examines how structures of power constitute and shape urban spaces. It proposes to explore their influence in determining social values wherein varied social groups—marked by religion, class, race, gender, etc.—negotiate the power dynamics that constitute life in urban spaces. The modern, bustling city carries within itself a continuous sense of becoming. The urban dwellers, inhabiting segregated parts of the city, shape the lived experience of these spaces through their socio-cultural interactions and relationships.
Call for Chapters
Springer Nature Contracted Volume
Series Title: Shifting Borders, Emerging Voices: Narratives of Change in Global South Asia
Edited by Moussa Pourya Asl and Manju Jaidka
A symposium on Darkness
Call for Book Chapters: “Matrilineal Family Saga Beyond Western Modernity”
We are excited to invite researchers, writers, and practitioners to contribute a chapter to an upcoming book entitled Matrilineal Family Saga Beyond Western Modernity. This interdisciplinary collection aims to explore diverse perspectives on matrilineal family structures across cultures, examining how they challenge and expand beyond the frameworks of secular Western modernity.
Focus and Themes
Call for Papers
Journal of Research in Contemporary World Literature
(Indexed in Scopus, ISC, and SJR | Published by the University of Tehran)
Scope: Cutting-Edge Research in World Literature (Post-1945)
Publication Date: autumn-winter 2025-2026
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025
The Journal of Research in Contemporary World Literature invites scholarly contributions for its forthcoming autumn-winter 2025-2026 issue, devoted to pioneering research on global literary production after 1945. As of autumn 2025, the journal now accepts submissions in both Persian and English, reflecting its commitment to multilingual and cross-cultural engagement.
National Identities (T&F)
Special Issue Editors:
Debajyoti Biswas, Department of English, Bodoland University.
Email: deb61594@gmail.com
Parvin Sultana, Department of Political Science, Pramathesh Barua College (Affiliated to Gauhati University)
Email: parvin.jnu@gmail.com
Xenophobia and Violence in Asia
Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Conference 2025 October 16–18, 2025 - York University, Toronto, ON Queer(Ing) Early Modern Art [Panel Session]This session seeks to bring together scholars interested in the representations of trans and queer desires, bodies, identities, performances, cultures, and resistances in early modern visual works and texts. The aim is to investigate: 1. the intersections of gender and sexuality with race, class, religion, and ability in early modern art and how these intersections complicate our understanding of trans and queerness. 2.
This panel will consider the spy fiction of John Le Carré in relation to the SAMLA conference theme of "Knowledge." Possible topics: intelligence and information; secrets and secrecy; the security state; surveillance; paranoia; moles; betrayal and treason.
This panel will consider the spy fiction of John Le Carré. Proposals are welcome on a wide range of topics related to Le Carré’s fiction and adaptations for film and television. Some possible topics: intelligence and information; secrets and secrecy; the security state; surveillance; paranoia; moles; treason.
Send a proposal of 200-250 words to Adam Parkes, University of Georgia, at aparkes@uga.edu. Deadline: June 1, 2025.
Film Production in the 21st Century
16th International Small Cinemas Conference
October 13-15, 2025
Lodz, Poland
Decolonial Philosophies Collaboratory
presents the conference
Decolonization & Global Justice
22nd, 23rd, 24th of January, 2026
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Call For Participation
Decolonization and Global Justice will be a three-day, transdisciplinary conference that brings together decolonial, postcolonial, anticolonial, Indigenous and anti-imperial feminist perspectives on contemporary global crises.
TWO MORE WEEKS - DEADLINE 4/30/25
CALL FOR CHAPTERS
Archipelago of Extremity:
Fragmentation and Renovation in Puerto Rico
Editors
Daniel Nevárez Araújo, PhD
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Nelson Varas-Díaz, PhD
Florida International University
Description
Call for Papers: Latinx Voices in the South/ Voces Latinx en el Sur
What do you learn in a classroom that you didn’t already know from your neighborhood?
This roundtable invites Latinx undergraduate students to speak from experience—your own or your community’s—and reflect on how southern education can hold space for Latinx people.
Call for Papers: Variations 28 – Environment, Science, Memory
The balsam fir tree also remembers. If caterpillars or moose browse its needles, the nibbling assault lodges itself in the chemical makeup of the tree, in a manner analogous to the changes in a chickadee’s nerve cells after a near miss with a predator. The tree’s subsequent growth is more heavily defended by unpalatable resins, like a bird turned jumpy by its bad experience with a hawk. The fir also remembers air temperatures dating back nearly a year, a memory that helps the tree to know when to winterize its cells. […]
Roots and twigs have memories of light, gravity, heat, and minerals. (Haskell 2017: 37)
Prospero, Rivista di Letterature e culture straniere (A Journal of Foreign Literatures and cultures)
University of Trieste, Italy, invites contributions for the forthcoming general issue, volume XXX
(2025). Prospero is a double-blind peer reviewed, printed and entirely open access journal, published
annually by EUT, Trieste University Press. It is indexed by MLA, Erih+, DoAJ, ProQuest. It publishes
articles and essays in the field of literary studies which consider texts and textual analysis from a wide
hermeneutic, philological and historical perspective. It specifically focuses on literary studies considered
Modernist Studies in the 21st century has rigorously adapted itself to bridge the gap between the narrowly periodized referent of “modernism” and the much broader range of literary-critical interests that the term encompasses. This trend is heralded by Douglas Mao and Rebecca Walkowitz’s 2008 call for a spatio-temporally and “vertically” expanded “New Modernist Studies,” and it reaches its logical extreme in Susan Stanford Friedman’s Planetary Modernisms (2015), which locates discrete modernisms both throughout and beyond the scope of recorded human history.
The IATIS - International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies invites papers on “Sustainable Translation in the Age of Knowledge Extraction, Generation, and (Re)Creation” for its 8th International Conference to be held at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman on December 10-13, 2025.
We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “Translation, Speculative Justice and Sustainability in the Global South.”
Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities (Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities (uwi.edu) is a new, open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of cultural and social issues related to complex cosmopolitan identities arising from mobile global childhoods which transcend conventional categories of migrancy and diaspora.
Call For Book Chapters
Don’t Get Lost in Their Sauce:
Navigating Academic Identity, the Creative Self, and Reductive Practices
Edited by
Amir A. Gilmore, Washington State University
Adrianne Mitchell, Washington State University
“See, when I had no money, I still had sauce. See if you don’t got no sauce, then ya lost. But you can also get lost in the sauce.” –Gucci Mane (2013)
The amplification of right-wing, fascist rhetoric in 2025 is manifesting material effects on the lives of women, trans and queer communities, disabled persons, and Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC). It is a system being visibly re-organised to undo the work of feminists and other activists and exacerbate structural and systemic racism so as to dictate who will serve and whose interests will be served. In their treatise, Camilla Hawthorne and Jovan Scott Lewis (2023, p. 2) write that in spaces of continued “colonialism, fascism, and violent nationalisms”, developing the “theoretical tools necessary to engage with the ongoing production of race and racisms” is a necessary and urgent task.
The Politics of the Archive: Reimagining Visual Histories of Asian Diasporas
Special Issue of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas
Guest Editors: Stephanie Kang (University of Denver) and Eunice Uhm (San Diego State University)
Call for Abstracts - Due May 1, 2025
Conference online: 5-6 June 2025
CFP:
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How do we remember and represent our migration experiences? Who is involved in these processes? How does history remember these events? What helps migrants and societies to adapt? The significance of these and related questions have made their way into our daily lives, from the refugee crisis to policy decisions, individual psychotherapy to (re)building identities, communities, and memories.
Archipelago of Extremity:
Fragmentation and Renovation in Puerto Rico
Editors
Daniel Nevárez Araújo, PhD, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Nelson Varas-Díaz, PhD, Florida International University
Description