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Colloque international : Regards croisés sur la question de l'égalité femmes-hommes au Maroc et ailleurs

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Monday, February 3, 2025 - 2:56am
Laboratoire de recherche Genre, Éducation, Littérature et Médias
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 2, 2025

La Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines Aïn Chock, l’Université Hassan II de Casablanca, le Laboratoire de recherche Genre, Éducation, Littérature et Médias et le Master Genre, Sociétés et Cultures organisent un

Colloque international :

Regards croisés sur la question de l'égalité femmes-hommes au Maroc et ailleurs

Les 22 et 23 mai 2025

 

ARGUMENTAIRE

Geoanthropology: Metabolism, Legal Imagination, and Geopraxis

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 2:55am
Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Geoanthropology: Metabolism, Legal Imagination, and Geopraxis

Conference Call
9–11 June 2025
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Theme

Geoanthropology aims to integrate concepts from Earth system science and the Anthropocene debate, such as planetary boundaries, synchronic geological markers, and earth states, with the theory and history of phenomena such as extractivism and technology, biopolitics and exploitation, and modernity and legal thought. This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the utility of three concepts for the geoanthropological framework: metabolism, legal imagination, and geopraxis.

Dates

Call for Papers: IEEE International Conference On Quantum Software 2025

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 2:55am
2025 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON QUANTUM SOFTWARE (QSW 2025)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 24, 2025

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Call for Papers: IEEE QSW 2025
2025 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON QUANTUM SOFTWARE (QSW 2025)
PART OF THE 2025 IEEE WORLD CONGRESS ON SERVICES (SERVICES 2025)

When and Where: July 7-12, 2025 in Helsinki, Finland
Website: https://services.conferences.computer.org/2025/qsw/
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ABOUT IEEE QSW 2025 AND IEEE SERVICES CONGRESS

MSA 2025 Boston: CFP Modernist Mind Science

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:16pm
Modernist Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

CFP for proposed panel, “Modernist Mind Sciences”

 

Inviting proposals for papers to be included on a panel on the “modernist mind sciences” that consider the cognitive, neuroscientific, and psychological contexts for modernist creative practice: fiction and nonfiction, manifestoes, poetry, material culture, and experimental media. Papers might address the “infrastructures” of mind contemporaneous with the “modernist” literary and artistic historical period; papers may also consider contemporary cognitive and neuroscientific frameworks for understanding modernist aesthetics, modernist institutions, and broader cultural systems.

 

Technology and Late-19th- and Early-20th-century American Literature

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:10pm
MLA forum on Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

This call seeks paper proposals for a panel at the 2026 MLA convention that explores the intersections between American literature and various emergent or developing technologies during the period of the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. The panel is sponsored by the MLA Forum on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature.

Participants with accepted papers must be members of the MLA by April 7, 2025.

The 2026 MLA Convention will be held in Toronto, Canada, on January 8-11, 2026.

Please send a 250-word abstract and brief bio to Heather.Ostman@sunywcc.edu by March 15, 2025.

[CfP] IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems (COINS) - University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA | August 4-6, 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 8:15am
Nicola Dall'Ora
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE COINS 2025

IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems (COINS)

University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA | August 4-6, 2025

Conference website: https://coinsconf.com

Important Dates:

Abstract submission: 1 April 2025

Full paper submission: 8 April 2025

Special session, workshop, tutorial proposal submission: 8 April 2025

Acceptance notification: 31 May 2025

Camera-ready submission: 21 June 2025

Science and Society in the Age of Revolutions

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:32am
American Philosophical Society - Science History Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 3, 2025

As the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence drives increased interest in the founding of the United States, this conference, co-hosted by the American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum and the Science History Institute aims to widen the scope of such conversations. Inspired in part by the APS’s 2025 exhibition, Philadelphia: The Revolutionary City and “America’s Scientific Revolutionaries,” a multiyear project funded by the Lounsbery Foundation we invite proposals from scholars from all disciplines whose research illuminates the intersections of science and society in the Atlantic World between 1764 and 1804. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

Symphonies of Imagination - Issue #4 - Education - Print

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:31am
Symphonies of Imagination
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 6, 2025

The issue’s topic revolves around Education and will challenge our anthropogenic philosophies.

It will be an exploration into what education actually means and what alternative philosophies could replace the current, education is for getting a good job and becoming a productive worker, expanding the economy, to something more holistic, more socially beneficial and more forward thinking.

All of this can be answered with fictional stories, philosophical papers, poems or personal essays.

The Anthropocene has a deficit of philosophy that looks at the world from a different point of view, instead of the one prescribed, centralised, accepted narrative.

Call For Papers - CFP

CFP: Maps in American Literature, 15th–21st Century (International Symposium, Lyon, France)

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:28am
Julien Negre / ENS de Lyon
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Maps in American Literature, 15th-21st c.

 International symposium

April 1-3, 2026
ENS de Lyon, France

 

Organized by Aurore Clavier (Université Paris Cité), Monica Manolescu (University of Strasbourg, USIAS), Julien Nègre (ENS de Lyon, IUF) and Pauline Pilote (Université Bretagne Sud).

 

Keynote speaker: Martin Brückner, Professor at the University of Delaware and Director of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture (WPAMC).

 

Open Panel: "Desperate Media"

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:28am
Society for the Social Study of Science
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Open Panel #171: "Desperate Media"

When all else fails, we are left with desperation: extravagant recklessness, scrappy desire, a call to create new worlds through inventive forms, even as temperatures rise.

Genealogies and Futurities of AI in Speculative Fiction

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:27am
Modern Language Association (MLA) 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

Speculative Fiction forum (guaranteed session)

MLA Call for Papers #29768 

 

Description & Requirements:

Inviting proposals examining AI’s historical and futuristic representations in speculative fiction. How have speculative narratives anticipated, shaped, and reflected current developments in AI or imagined AIs that diverge from present realities? 250-word abstract, short cv

Submit proposals to:  Rachel Haywood, Iowa State University (rhaywood@iastate.edu)

CFP “Experimental Interfaces: The Invention of the Digital Body”

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:27am
Galactica Media: Journal of Media Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Description

We live in a world where interfaces play an increasingly central role. Interfaces are our means of engaging with both technical and social realities; gradually, they become not only conditions of access to the world of technology but also intrinsic structures of our experience. The interfaces designed by major corporations, game developers, and social application creators set standards of perception and self-awareness, disciplining us and determining the measure of control. This makes it all the more crucial to continue experimenting with interfaces, developing a new semiotic, symbolic, and bodily grammar—a challenge embraced by digital artists, gamers, science fiction writers, and neuromancers of media reality.

Art and Smoke: Morris, Ruskin, Art, and Industrialism

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:27am
Jude V. Nixon/Salem State University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

MLA Toronto (January 8-11, 2026). Both John Ruskin and William Morris decried the evil effects of industrial blight on the environment, citing the impossibility of authentic art in the context of poverty and pollution. We seek papers that treat all aspects of this topic as reflected in literature, art, and social theory: broadened definitions of art, late-Victorian and modernist responses to urban industrialism, art for the masses, eco-socialism, utopian otherworlds, and the rise of urban design. Contributions on Canadian-related and contemporary material are also welcome. Please send abstracts and a brief c. v.

Literatures & Medicines Online Symposium April 23 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 - 9:59am
Dr Rebecca Mills / Bournemouth University NCCR centre
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Literatures and Medicines Online Symposium April 23 2025.

Hosted by the Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre at Bournemouth University, UK.

Late-Stage American Medicine

updated: 
Monday, January 20, 2025 - 9:59am
American Studies Association (ASA) 2025, San Juan PR
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

This panel will examine the ongoing catastrophe and accelerating devolution of medicine and its attendant practices in contemporary America. How late-stage America undermines health humanities keywords such as empathy, care, healing and the like are appreciated. What ways of "doing otherwise" are becoming evident in terms of medicine and health systems? What does this moment reveal in larger discussions of medicine, national affiliation, individual survival, and neoliberal, anti-democratic empire?

Panel CFP at 4S 2025: Infrastructure as the Boundary Media/Medium

updated: 
Sunday, January 19, 2025 - 9:34am
4S (Society of Science and Society Studies) Seattle 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

We are looking for papers for the panel Infrastructure as the Boundary Media/Medium at the coming 4S (Society of Science and Society Studies) conference at Seattle, WA, United States, September 3-7, 2025. We hope to encourage submissions from different disciplines including media studies, critical infrastructure studies, urban planning, and history of STS. Submission (~250 words abstract) processes should be completed via official website of 4S below.

Rin Huang (they/she)

Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Washington, Seattle

Tianren Luo (He/him)

Department of Comparative Literature, Brown University

4S Open Panel (No. 12): Infrastructure as the Boundary Media/Medium

 

Healing Narratives, Embodied Histories: Medical Humanities in South Asia

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 11:04am
Animesh Roy and Bosudha Bandyopadhyay
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Call for Papers

Healing Narratives, Embodied Histories: Medical Humanities in South Asia

Animesh Roy and Bosudha Bandyopadhyay

 

  

 

 

Medical Humanities is an interdisciplinary field that examines the human dimensions of health, illness, and healthcare through the lens of literature, arts, humanities, and social sciences. It seeks to deepen understanding of medical practices by exploring how cultural, historical, ethical, and literary contexts shape healthcare experiences.

Network Imaginaries: Past, Present, and Future (4S 2025 Seattle)

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 8:29am
4S 2025 Seattle Panel
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Dear colleagues,

We are seeking presenters for the panel, Network Imaginaries: Past, Present, and Future, at the next 4S conference (September 3-7, 2025, Seattle, WA, USA). We welcome papers of varying approaches that consider the origins, mobilizations, endurances, and evolutions of the network imaginaries underlying technologies and systems from the 19th Century through to contemporary transformations and promises. (See below for the full call and submission details.)

Proposals consisting of a short abstract (up to 250 words) will be accepted until January 31 via the official website of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).

The Document in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 4:09am
ALA, Boston, MA, May 21-24, 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025

The emergence of modern documentary poetics is often attributed to twentieth-century writers who were interested in redefining the purpose and limits of artistic expression, a redefinition that occurred in the context of labor exploitation, racial violence, and ethnic cleansing. This panel asks participants to consider the nineteenth-century precursors of modern documentary literature. How and to what ends do documents and literature intersect throughout the long nineteenth century? What constitutes a document and how might this definition enable new ways of interrogating issues of race, gender, class, indigeneity, and ethnicity? What formal features and aesthetic innovations emerge during the nineteenth century?

Call for chapters: The Post/Colonial Eye: Visual Discourses of Empire

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 4:07am
TU Dresden / University of Newcastle, Australia
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

The Post/Colonial Eye: Visual Discourses of Empire

 

With expressed interest from Routledge

 

Please note: At this point, we are only looking for additional chapters focussing on the second part of this volume as highlighted below. To expand our geographical scope, we are, unfortunately, not able to include more contributions studying postcolonial India.  

 

In examining the intersections of (post)colonial studies and visual culture, the proposed volume employs a dual approach. 

 

CURE—Beyond Remedy

updated: 
Friday, January 10, 2025 - 7:44am
UC Irvine Department of Comparative Literature Graduate Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

UC Irvine Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference 2025 

Conference Date: April 3 & 4, 2025

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Tracy McNulty (Cornell)

AI & Cultural Production

updated: 
Friday, January 10, 2025 - 7:40am
Ege University, 20th Cultural Studies Conference (CSS)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

Ege University 20th Cultural Studies Symposium

AI & Cultural Production

6-8 May 2026

Blackness as Onto-Epistemological Departure and Arrival

updated: 
Friday, January 10, 2025 - 7:39am
Kristen Reynolds
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

We invite submissions to our panel at 4S 2025 in Seattle, Washington (September 3 – 7, 2025). Please see details below:

Blackness as Onto-Epistemological Departure and Arrival*

SLSA 2025 "Risk" in Corvallis, OR

updated: 
Friday, January 10, 2025 - 7:39am
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 17, 2025

To think in terms of risk is to imagine the future as a set of foreseeable possibilities and to ameliorate the potentially hazardous ones through action in the present. Distinct from danger, which is seen as inchoate and incalculable, risk carries with it the notion of statistical, probabilistic, or otherwise enumerated legibility, and the costs and benefits of prospective courses of action are given the narrative authority of mathematical language. But even as risk posits itself as a rational approach to considerations of the future, it ignores the mythology of its own construction: risk is, as its critics note, always a process of storytelling.

Aesthetics of the Clinic

updated: 
Friday, January 10, 2025 - 7:37am
University of Cambridge
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Aesthetics of the Clinic

 

ICSSR-Sponsored National Seminar on "Craft Culture of Odisha: Handicraft Heritage through Oral History"

updated: 
Friday, January 10, 2025 - 7:32am
Sri Sri Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies, Sri Sri University, Cuttack, and Sikshasandhan, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 17, 2025

The crafts of India are varied and illustrate the economy, history, culture, religious beliefs, politics, material culture, societal formations and creative faculties of a civilization. The craftsmanship of many states of India reflects diverse cultural influences and has a significant narrative relating to its origins. For ages, crafts have served as an archive of culture and heritage in various communities in India. Every state of India narrates its tales of handicrafts. The wonderful artistry of handcrafted artifacts, the traditions woven in time, get eroded by automation and accuracy, which draw us towards the ‘sophistication’ of repetitive mass production in a capitalist society.

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