science and culture

CFP: SCALE

Imagined Theatres

Physical Scale - Conceptual Scale - Relational Scale - Collaborative Scale - Cultural Scale - Historical Scale - Performance Scale - Spatial Scale - Durational Scale

The “Collecting and Collectibles Area” of the Popular Culture Association invites papers on “AI in Collecting” for the National PCA/ACA Conference to be held April 16-19, 2025 in New Orleans, USA. We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “AI in Collecting” and particularly address how collections/collectibles and their galleries/museums respond to the recent digital shifts and the tectonic evolution of AI technologies.

Possible topics for presentations include but are not limited to:

Eco-environmental criticism has now become a staple presence in the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary landscape, calling for ongoing reflections on the human impact on the environment. A distinct aspect of these conversations has been the growing focus on the concern of ecological destruction for the planet, with all the inevitable consequences that this entails.  Within changing contexts that feel increasingly more precarious, conceptualisations of the ‘eco-futures’ have become central to our cultural discourses,  from film to television series, from literature to comics, from animation and video games to digital narratives, from architecture to design, from socio-ecology to animal studies. 

Unquiet Shores: coastal acoustics and the terpsichorean ocean

18-20 June 2025, Edinburgh Napier University, Craiglockhart Campus, and Online

https://haunted-shores.com/unquiet-shores-conference-2025/  

                                           INSAP 2025 – Celestial Connections Across Time and Space  

Dates: 8-13 June 2025  
Location: Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK  

Subject Fields: Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Environmental History / Studies, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Humanities, Literature, Anthropology, Cartography, Geography

Abstract Deadline: 22 December 2024

WHAT IS RESEARCH?
University of Oregon Portland
April 3–5, 2025

whatis.uoregon.edu

Acta Ludologica is inviting manuscripts for its Special Issue: Games and Monetisation.

Guest editor: assoc. prof. PhDr. Jana Radošinská, PhD.

Call for Cooperators

Academic Forms: Thinking the Ways We* Do Our Work

(*Where “We” Names, Specifically, Humanities Scholars)

Preliminaries Towards Some Academic Product

A Bigger Boat: The Resurgence and Evolution of Sharksploitation Movies in the 21st Century  

Call for Papers

Methodological Approaches to Digital Spaces (MADS)

MADS (Methodological Approaches to Digital Spaces) is a FREE interdisciplinary symposium launched under the guidance and funding of NWCDTP to promote methodological and ontological advancements in the studies of digital spaces. MADS aims to explore diverse academic approaches to increasingly complex digital spaces, specifically focused on:

• new methods for exploring and preserving digital archives

• novel approaches to the collection and analysis of digital data

Paper jam: Nonhuman Animal Cultures 

 To what extent have ecocriticism and the environmental humanities taken up the call to consider nonhuman cultures or reconsider the idea of culture itself in light of their existence? Contributions from many disciplines are welcome, including literary studies, cultural histories, animal studies, history, philosophy, anthropology, and more.

Please submit an abstract, 250 to 300 words on any example or aspect of the following:

Nonhuman avian culture(s)

Nonhuman oceanic culture(s)

Insect culture(s)

transcultural work of Sue SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH

Nonhuman cultures and PAR (participatory action research)

Adaptation is the leading international, peer-reviewed journal of adaptation studies. The journal actively contributes to the development and visibility of adaptation studies as a field of academic enquiry and seeks to advance methodological approaches to the process.

Special Issue Editor: Reto Winckler (City University of Hong Kong)

Deadline for Submissions: 31 August 2025

Scope

Skenographia: Rethinking Design

Yale University Department of Comparative Literature Graduate Conference

March 28th, 2025

Keynote Speaker: Spyros Papapetros (Princeton University)

What sets a scene apart from a mere place or setting? Etymologically, the term resists simplification to a physical location or continuous action. It encompasses both the material apparatus of the stage and the events unfolding upon it. This oscillation— between object and subject, exterior and interior, self and world—forms a conceptual framework that this conference seeks to apply to the study of design.

Sacred Journeys 12th Global Conference: Canberra, Australia

June 3-6, 2025. Venue: Australian Center for Christianity and Culture, Ngunnawal Country. Sponsored by the Indiana University Events and Tourism Institute (ETI), in partnership with the Sacred Journeys Project, and Réseau québécois pour les études pèlerines/ Quebec Network for Pilgrimage Studies, Laval University. Hosted by Rev’d Cameron West, Defence Anglicans, Australia.

Call for Papers