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Call for Papers
Glocal Colloquies: An International Journal of World Literature and Cultures

ISSN : 2454-2423 

Glocal Colloquies (https://glocalcolloquies.com/) invites scholarly submissions for its upcoming issues, focusing on two critical and contemporary themes:

• 2023 Issue: Literature and Environment
• 2024 Issue: Literature and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

We seek contributions that engage deeply with these topics, exploring intersections between literature and evolving global discourses.

2023 Issue: Literature and Environment

CALL FOR PAPERS

Conference at Al Al-Bayt University, 8-9 April 2025 

Languages in the Digital World

As part of this conference, several discussion topics will be open to contributors. The following list is not exhaustive, but its main axes will allow for the identification of assessments, the evaluation of ongoing data, and the outlining of perspectives for the future. 

In order to provide the broadest possible picture of the multiple dimensions of the interaction between living languages and the digital world, the debates will focus on these areas, which present as many opportunities as challenges for our societies. 

A conference reverberates. Sometimes as an echo chamber, things recapitulated. But a conference is also an unruly density—a format for waves of circulation, a temporary structuring of materials and hunches, nerves and notebooks, modes of listening or distraction. A conference is an ordinary nesting of interiors that shapes how thought resonates (the ways we transduce and echo each other, how an idea resounds or fails). STS is attentive to matters of knowledge work in labs and fieldsites: objects, networks, technics. But sometimes it forgets the mundane, the felt, what is improvised or patched together in scenes of knowing. After all, a panel is a fifteen-minute interval that consolidates and performs all the hard work of living that precedes.

CFP Convalescence in 19th- and 20th-century anglophone literature

26-27 June 2025, CRINI, Nantes Université & Daulat Ram College, Delhi University

Organisers: Leslie de Bont, Aude Petit-Marquis, Sanna Melin Schyllert, Deepshikha Mahanta Bortamuly, Violina Borah

Call for Papers: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers, Astronomy, and Gender

The recent development in Digital Humanities marks a transformative era in academia, where the humanities are increasingly integrating with digital technologies, computational methods, and AI, enhancing research, teaching, and creative outputs. This conference explores how DH sees such development and the evolving relationship between humanities and digital technologies. It focuses on topics that reshape humanities scholarship, from data analysis and pedagogy to creative production. This fosters interdisciplinary dialogues and examines innovations and implications in fields traditionally centered around humanistic inquiry.

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

The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for our 2025-26 fellowship program. These fellowships provide graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars in the history of science and related humanities fields with financial support to explore the Library’s outstanding science and engineering collections. Fellows also participate in a dynamic intellectual community alongside in-house experts and scholars from other Kansas City cultural and educational institutions.

ASLE Panel Topic: “Plant Humanities”

This is a call for papers for the ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) Panel at the American Literature Association Conference: May 21-24, 2025, The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA (in person - Wednesday through Saturday of Memorial Day weekend).

“Plant Humanities” will investigate how plants shape American literary and environmental landscapes, cultural narratives, and material practices. Please submit 300-word abstracts on any aspect of plant studies in American, transnational, or postcolonial literature and material culture related, but not limited to, the following topics:

The Conference on BIPOC Game Studies (C-BIPOC)

September 12-14, 2025

Strong Museum of Play

Rochester, NY

The Conference on BIPOC Game Studies (C-BIPOC) is a platform dedicated to exploring the intersection of gaming culture, technology, and the experiences of BIPOC communities worldwide. Our aim is to provide a space for scholars, game developers, industry professionals, and enthusiasts to engage in critical discussions, share research findings, and foster collaboration in the field. The conference is Sept 12-14, 2025 at the Strong Museum of Play .