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Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon: A New Collection of Essays

updated: 
Friday, May 23, 2025 - 6:23pm
Jericho Williams / University of Alaska Fairbanks
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 11, 2025

2027 will be the 50th anniversary of Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison’s third novel and one of the author’s more popular books alongside The Bluest Eye and Beloved.

This forthcoming volume of essays will provide new readings of the novel for high school and undergraduate readers just in time for Song of Solomon’s 50th anniversary. 

It seeks to advance Morrison studies and foster critical appreciation of the novel, especially in light of new directions in literary criticism since 2010.

Bloomsbury's Critical Plant Studies Book Series

updated: 
Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 3:56pm
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books that re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:

Teaching Twenty-First Century Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 - 11:32am
Mitch R. Murray
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Edited Collection: Teaching Twenty First Century Literature

Transatlantic Mobilities: Migration, Memory, and the Making of Modernity

updated: 
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 - 12:52pm
Faravid – Journal for Historical and Archaeological Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Call For Papers

Special issue:        Faravid – Journal for Historical and Archaeological Studies

Abstracts deadline:15 June 2025.

Publication date:    Summer 2026

Guest editors:        Moussa Pourya Asl, Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, and Johanna Leinonen

Language:              English, or Finnish

 

Transatlantic Mobilities: Migration, Memory, and the Making of Modernity

Extended Deadline! - “Fiction, Time, and the Quantum World” - PAMLA 2025, Nov. 20-23

updated: 
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 - 8:40am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association - Nov. 20-23, 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 30, 2025

Extended Deadline! There's still time to submit to this conference panel. Please submit by May 30, 2025 for full consideration.

The 122nd annual PAMLA Conference will be held between November 20-23, 2025 at the InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. This special response responds directly to PAMLA's 2025 conference theme, “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” seeking presentations on fictions that present and respond to physical phenomena that defy understanding, specifically phenomena represented in theoretical physics and quantum mechanics.     

PAMLA: Queer Romance Panel, 11/20-11/23, San Francisco

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:41pm
Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 20, 2025

This panel aims to showcase current work on "queer romance," a subject that describes the enfolding of queer sexualities and genders within the popular romance genre. While we welcome careful close readings of specific texts, we are most interested in papers that help to theorize and historicize what it means that a genre once defined in terms of its heteronormative imaginary now openly features queer and trans-identified characters and holds considerable appeal for similarly identified publics of readers and viewers. We are also particularly interested in work that helps us to think queer romance across forms of media, in relation to deep histories of the romance genre, and in transnational and global contexts.

Trans Joy in Latin American Cinema

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:41pm
William R Benner Texas Woman's University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Call for Papers

Trans Joy in Latin American Cinema

Joy is a fundamental element of human life, yet its depiction in media and academic discourse— especially in relation to marginalized communities—remains limited. Representations of the trans* community, in particular, often center narratives of exclusion, violence, and trauma. As Shuster and Westbrook (2022) note, this tendency reflects a broader “joy deficit” in the sociological study of marginalized people, overshadowing the transformative power of joy and solidarity.

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.

Culinary Crossovers: Authenticity and Ambiguity in Reimagining Food Heritage in South Asia

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:40pm
Journal of Food,Culture & Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

We are inviting abstracts of papers on “Culinary Crossovers: Authenticity and Ambiguity in Reimagining Food Heritage in South Asia”, to be published in a special issue for the Journal of Food, Culture & Society (Taylor and Francis, Scopus Q1). In this special issue, we aim to probe into culinary histories and practices as appended to cultural/collective memory, where the idealised and marketable concept of “authenticity” emerges as a “palimpsest” conditioned by competing ideologies of nostalgia and privilege afforded by the ability to relocate.

Flux and Flow in Irish and Scottish Literatures (late 19th century to present)

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:37pm
ULCO, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Call for Papers: International conference

                 

                    Flux and Flow in Irish and Scottish Literatures (late-19th century to present)

                            9-10 April 2026 Boulogne-sur-Mer, France

                      Keynote Speaker: John Brannigan, University College Dublin 

 

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. 

 

Henri Bergson: Memory and Intuition

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 2:32pm
PAMLA: Special Session
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 18, 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.

Muslims in American

updated: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025 - 7:22pm
SAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

SAMLA 97 – Knowledge – Atlanta, GA | November 6th - 8th, 2025, https://samla.ballastacademic.com  

This panel intends to examine the works of Muslim American poets, novelists, playwrights, musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists. Papers are invited that explore the diverse compositions of Muslim American identities in cultural texts as they challenge and engage with the canonical codes and sociopolitical norms of national, theoretical, literary, and aesthetic spaces.

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 6:30am
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 2, 2025

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism 
A Transdisciplinary Conference

July 4-5, 2025 

July 4: In person participation at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park (and online)
July 5: Fully online

Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/ecopoetics-2025/

Fees** (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)

 

 

Call for Book Chapters - Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 2:30am
Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 28, 2025

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

 

Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia

Food is never just about sustenance. It is a charged cultural text, a site of memory and mourning, a marker of identity, a terrain of negotiation, and often, a weapon of exclusion or resistance. In South Asia—a region defined by deep pluralities, histories of colonialism, persistent socio-economic inequalities, and enduring spiritual traditions—food emerges not merely as a necessity, but as a powerful index of social structure, affective life, and ideological formation.

Call for Chapters - Voices of Change: Women in 19th and 20th Century Indian Print Culture

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 2:30am
Voices of Change: Women in 19th and 20th Century Indian Print Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 30, 2025

The narrative of women in Indian print culture reflects a dynamic interplay of struggle and achievement, where, despite significant contributions, women's voices were frequently marginalized, and societal expectations and institutional barriers often constrained their roles. This complex history underscores the ongoing need for a more inclusive historical narrative that fully acknowledges the diverse and critical roles women have played
in shaping print culture in India.

Call for Papers for Vol 4 of IJLS

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 12:21pm
Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

Politics and Leadership, Leadership Studies and Politics

Politics and leadership: two subjects that are commonly known, yet also deeply misunderstood. Politics is not merely the activities of official decision-makers and the ideas (and people) that give rise to them, but also, more broadly, how human groups determine who gets what (and under what circumstances—by consent or coercion). What if leadership is not entirely a person or position? Perhaps, leadership is a negotiation— a complex moral relationship between people that is predicated on role agreement. We might say, then, that leadership is a dynamic process that cannot be separated from the politics of human groups. Leadership, in this way, is very fundamentally political.

CONSTRUCTIONS OF IDENTITY 12 – LITERARY FUTURES: CONFLICTS OF TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE, AND GLOBALIZATION

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 3:08am
Department of English Language and Literature; Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

EXTENDED DEADLINE 15 JUNE 2025

Conference dates: 16-18 October 2025
Conference venue: Faculty of Letters, 31 Horea St., Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Conference website: https://consid.conference.ubbcluj.ro 

LITERARY FUTURES: CONFLICTS OF TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE, AND GLOBALIZATION

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?

Call for Submissions: Poetry Anthology Titled "Alone Together: Echoes of Existence in the Modern Abyss"

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:05pm
Fresh Words-An International Literary Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 7, 2025

Call for Submissions: Poetry Anthology Titled "Alone Together: Echoes of Existence in the Modern Abyss"

Overview:

Fresh Words-An International Literary Journal is thrilled to invite submissions for an international poetry anthology titled "Alone Together: Echoes of Existence in the Modern Abyss". 

Call for Review Essays - C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:04pm
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

C21 are excited to be commissioning a series of new review essays! This would be a 3,000-word essay putting 2–3 academic books in conversation. Check out the suggestion of topics and titles below and get in touch with our review editors via email (c21literature.reviews@gmail.com) if you’d like to review any of these recent publications. You’re welcome to run with a topic we’ve proposed or tweak it to your research interests and we’d be happy to develop your ideas with you!

Coercive Forces in the Contemporary World

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:04pm
University of Southern California
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

We invite website submissions of poems and creative essays that engage with coercive forces in capitalist and imperialist states based on  Marxist thought, particularly in the Global South. We are especially interested in poems and essays that critically address contemporary global issues, including but not limited to race, gender, environment, decolonization, and imperialism.

Our Blog section features poetry, creative and analytical essays. 

Submissions: https://www.thelocomotive.org/submission

Due Date: 06/30/2025

CfP Culture and Dialogue, Special Issue: GEORGE ORWELL, THE PHILOSOPHER

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:01pm
Culture and Dialogue
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Editor-in-Chief: Martin Ovens

This international, peer-reviewed journal seeks to encourage and promote research in non-western and cross-cultural philosophy. This may include scholarship typically identified, defined or characterised as comparative philosophy, intercultural philosophy or global philosophy. In addition, the journal offers opportunities to publish research that explores or analyses relations between philosophy, culture and dialogue. In this way Culture and Dialogue provides a forum for scholars in many subfields of philosophical studies.

CfP Culture and Dialogue, Special Issue: THE PHILOSOPHY AND INFLUENCE OF GILLES DELEUZE

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:01pm
Culture and Dialogue
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Editor-in-Chief: Martin Ovens

This international, peer-reviewed journal seeks to encourage and promote research in non-western and cross-cultural philosophy. This may include scholarship typically identified, defined or characterised as comparative philosophy, intercultural philosophy or global philosophy. In addition, the journal offers opportunities to publish research that explores or analyses relations between philosophy, culture and dialogue. In this way Culture and Dialogue provides a forum for scholars in many subfields of philosophical studies.

Call to Host the 2026 Post45 Graduate Symposium

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:00pm
Post45
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Submission deadline: August 5, 2025

We are pleased to announce an open call for bids to host the 2026 Post45 Graduate Symposium. The Post45 Graduate Symposium is a two-day event, typically held in Spring, which brings together graduate students and faculty members working on post-1945 arts, literature, media, and culture. Around fifteen graduate students each submit a work-in-progress and convene in a workshop-style setting along with faculty respondents to discuss each participant's work. 

Dialectics of Transformation

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:57pm
The Phenomenology of Spirit Reading Group at UC Irvine
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 8, 2025

Dialectics of Transformation

UC Irvine Graduate Student Conference
Oct. 9th and 10th, 2025
Keynote speaker: Prof. Andreja Novakovic (UC Berkeley)

Motherhood's Cultural Artifacts in American Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:56pm
Wendy Whelan-Stewart / McNeese State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 25, 2025

Collection Editor: Wendy Whelan-Stewart, McNeese State University

Contact Email: wwhelanstewart@mcneese.edu

Book Proposal: Edited Collection

Abstracts are invited for chapter proposals for an edited collection titled Motherhood and Its Cultural Artifacts in American Literature.

Description:

Nineteenth-Century Gothic Spiritualisms: Looking Under the Table

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:56pm
Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 30, 2025

In 1892, the satirical magazine Moonshine published “The Commission on Ghosts,” a mock-article recounting the “first sitting” of the Society for General Psychology’s Royal Commission on spirits. Those present are “The Chairman, the Editor of Light, Mrs. Annie Besant, Miss Florence Marryat, Mr. W. Eglinton, Mr. Dawson Rogers, Mr. C. N. Williamson, and Mr. W. T. Stead” (315). Each member was a public supporter/purveyor of spiritualist belief at the fin de siècle.

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