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SAMLA’s 97th annual conference, Knowledge, will be held at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, GA this year from November 6-8. Those accepted must be members of SAMLA to present. You can find more information at: https://southatlanticmla.org/
Speculative Fiction Panel
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
Since 2014, the eTEXTS: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference has served as a platform for the examination and exploration of diverse "texts" from English-speaking countries of Ango-Saxon heritage. By bringing together scholars, doctoral students, and early-career professionals, the conference fosters scientific debates and critical discussions that drive forward our understanding of literature and culture. Our sessions facilitate development and dissemination of original research, encouraging participants to engage in critical analysis of a wide array of social, cultural, philosophical, and historical issues.
Call for Papers
International and Interdisciplinary Conference "Games & Game Studies Beyond Postmodernism"
4-5 September, 2025
The World of Warcraft Handbook: Twenty Years in Azeroth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)
Edited by David John Boyd (University of Glasgow) & Russell McDermott (Dickinson College)
Abstract
Any proposals dealing with British literature and culture of the long 19th century are welcome. Of particular interest are proposals focusing on authors or works not typically discussed, and proposals that connect to the conference theme of "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion."
Description
While any proposals dealing with British literature and culture from this period are welcome, these topics are of particular interest:
• The remembered and the forgotten
• Photography
• Romantic memory
Seeking additional chapters for the book Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series. This collection showcases the breadth of languages and regional differences within Indian cinema that explores transgender themes. Proposals are due May 4, 2025. Chapters may focus on a single film or multiple films.
Call for Contributors:
We Came on a Spaceship: Examining Pseudoarchaeology’s Place in and Out of this World
Editors:
Stephanie Halmhofer (halmhofe@ualberta.ca); Robert Spinelli (rspinelli@ncis.org)
Abstract:
Screen Bodies invites submissions to be considered for our Winter issue. We are particularly interested in research on:
Feminist New Wave Cinema
Trans Cinema
Health Humanities
We also welcome exhibition reviews and book reviews (1k-5k words).
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.”
Title: TBD, but potentials include:
Editors (Collaborators): Elizabeth Sanders, Daniel M. Look
Description / Call for Papers:
We are soliciting chapters/articles for an edited academic book on topics relating to the Transformers franchise and gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression.Proposals from academics and independent scholars covering official continuity/properties, fanfiction, the fandom, and content creators will be considered. Proposals should be for new essays, not republications of previous works.
Special Issue: AppleTV+ and Science Fiction
Guest Editors: Burcu Kuheylan, Milt Moise, Nicholas Orlando
contact email: projectscifi.appletv@gmail.com
EXTENDED DEADLINE—Abstracts due May 21, 2025
In this special issue of the journal, editors seek scholarly articles that contextualize and critique AppleTV+ and its production of science fiction television against the tumultuous Zeitgeist of post-2016.
Call for Papers
The book is part of the Scholarly Collection Series and seeks to include quality works which provide new insights into cultural memory studies and further uncover the dimensions of translation and transmission of cultural memory through various media.
EDITORS
Dr. Ananta Geetey Uppal, Professor of English and Business Communication, School of Liberal Arts and Management Studies, P P Savani University, India
Dhairya Barot, Assistant Professor of English, School of Liberal Arts and Management Studies, P P Savani University, India
Quality unpublished works as chapters are invited to the book. The chapters should strictly be according to the coverage scope of the book.
We warmly invite additional chapters for The Handbook of Trans Cinema, with high priority for chapters exploring transgender films from Africa, Latin America, Asia, Oceania, and Europe. Proposals are due April 17, 2025. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters exploring trans films from 6 continents. After the following list of confirmed chapters, you will find details about how to submit your proposal for additional chapters. The handbook will include only one chapter for each topic, so please do not send proposals for any of the confirmed chapters listed here:
Seeking chapters about African films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents, including chapters devoted to films from Cape Verde, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda. We welcome the following high-priority chapters on African films for the handbook's Part II (National Overviews of Trans Cinema):
Call for Papers – DEADLINE EXTENDED!
ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, and MAGIC
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2025 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 26-28, 2025
Virtual Conference
NEW Proposal submission deadline: April 22, 2025
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
We invite contributons to an edited volume that delves into the complex and often nuanced villains of the Spider-Man universe. We are specifically looking for chapters about the following villains: Kraven the Hunter, Carnage, Black Cat, Lizard, Sandman, Scorpion, Shocker, and Tombstone. Other submissions may be accepted, but we are not looking for chapters on Mysterio, Doc Ock, Electro, Vulture, Venom, Punisher, Green Goblin, Rhino, Kingpin, Jackal, Sinister Six, Spidey Super Stories, Spider-Man's War on Drugs, or J. Jonah Jameson.
This volume is being published by the University of Mississippi Press. We welcome a diverse range of scholarly analyses, including but not limited to:
Children’s Literature and Young Adult Literature Permanent Sections
Session Coordinator: Dr. Amberyl Malkovich
Dept. of English, Concord University
“Hope and the Humanities” in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Cultures
Eighty Years of the Moomins: Approaches to Tove Jansson’s Life and Her Work
“It all began with the first Moomin tale, The Moomins and the Great Flood, published in 1945” (https://www.moomin.com/en/moomin80/). To celebrate the 80-year-old Moomins, FinnFest USA is organizing a panel on Tove Jansson as part of the Moomin conference theme during this year’s FinnFest in Duluth, Minnesota, July 31–August 3, 2025.
As editors of the planned Palgrave Handbook on Fungal Horror in Popular Culture, which has 33 commissioned chapters, Dr Katarina Gregersdotter and Dr Berit Åström, Umeå University, Sweden seek approximately 10 additional original essays.
We are primarily looking for chapters on fungal horror in non-Anglophone material, but also welcome studies of less mainstream Anglophone texts.
English:
Alma Mater – Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, an anonymous double-blind peer-reviewed international journal published by Maurer Press in Germany and indexed by DNB, ZDB, EZB, and ERIH+, is currently welcoming cultural and social contributions from scholars around the world for its upcoming issue in September 2025. The journal publishes articles in German and English. Submissions can be made via the journal platform at https://jics.ejournal.gen.tr/ or by email to habib.tekin@hotmail.com. For further information, please visit: www.almamaterjics.com
Higher, faster, more expensive: At the latest since the era of the insurgent streaming wars, excess has become a leitmotif of modern television culture (cf. Maeder 2021, 11–14). As an "oversized audiovisual narrative" (Bandirali/Terrone 2021, 14), series indulge in dramatic opulence, preferably becoming entangled in a dynamic of exposed exaggeration, trying to compete not only with other shows but also with themselves (cf. Sudmann 2017). In this context, excess seems inevitably linked to the discourse of narrative quality, which increasingly demonstrates that "size matters" (Jahn-Sudmann/Kelleter 2012, 209).
A Duel Between Memories: (Special Session) at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference 2025
Jewish Israelis and Palestinian Arabs have, through literature, songs, poetry, film, and other media, constructed two very different understandings of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict's history. This session invites papers that address any aspect of the role that literature and/or other media have played in creating, maintaining, and disseminating two distinct narratives. Proposals related to the conference theme of "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion" are preferred but not required.
Potential topics include:
Beyond the Comic Strip: Exploring Graphic Narratives, Creative Inquiry, and Arts-Based Research
A Transdisciplinary Conference
Online, June 24-26, 2025
Proposal deadline: May 15, 2025
Fees:
£100 (for both presenters and attendees)
Prices exclude eventbrite fees
Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/beyond-the-comic-strip-2025/
Call for Papers:
Humanities Bulletin Journal - Call for papers
Submission Deadline: April 25, 2025
Vol. 8, No. 1 - May, 2025
ISSN 2517-4266
Humanities Bulletin is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed Journal which features original studies and reviews in the various branches of Humanities, including History, Literature, Philosophy, Arts.
This journal is not allied with any specific school of thinking or cultural tradition; instead, it encourages dialogue between ideas and people with different points of view. Our aim is to bring together different international scholars, in order to promote the dialogue between cultures, ideas and new academic researches.
The Journal is hosted by London Academic Publishing, London, UK.
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
Everything Fab Four Fest: RUBBER SOULNovember 6-8, 2025, Asbury Park, NJBerkeley Oceanfront Hotel
You are cordially invited to submit abstracts and/or panel suggestions for an international symposium devoted to the life, work, and influence of the Beatles, particularly in relation to their legendary album RUBBER SOUL (1965). The festivities will include a host of well-known speakers, journalists, and musicians.
Femspec seeks both scholarly and creative submissions for its upcoming Issue 25.2
Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist academic journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres. Femspec publishes both academic scholarship and creative writing.
Creative writing submissions could include short fiction, poetry, or experimental forms.
Chênière journal call-for-papers
Volume 9
Chênière, an online, interdisciplinary undergraduate journal based at Nicholls State University, invites papers for its ninth volume. Chênière is an MLA-indexed journal that welcomes submissions from any humanities field, broadly speaking, from history, communication, English, religion, art, music, and everything in between. The journal welcomes submissions from any undergraduate work but particularly caters to students from the Gulf Coast and the American South, broadly speaking. The subject matter for this issue is completely open topic.