15 Apr 2025

CfP | “International Pynchon Week 2026”

TU Dortmund, June 15-19, 2026 Deadline: November 15, 2025 Call for PapersInternational Pynchon Week 2026June 15-19, 2026TU Dortmund University, Germanywww.internationalpynchonweek.org “Consider coal and steel. There is a place where they meet.” (Gravity’s Rainbow) Indeed there is, and this is also the place where the international community of Pynchon scholars meets next: the Ruhrgebiet, the heart…

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15 Apr 2025

CfP | “Playing the Field VI: Video Games and Labour”

International conference at the University of Bucharest, Romania, March 19-21, 2026 Deadline: September 10, 2025 Call for PapersPlaying the Field VI: Video Games and LabourUniversity of Bucharest, Romania19-21 March 2026(in-person)www.playingthefield.eu The proposed sixth instalment of the international Playing the Field conference series focuses on the multifaceted relationship between video games and labour. Such a topic…

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10 Apr 2025

CfP | “Representations of Reproductive Justice in the United States: Past, Present, Future(s)”

International conference at University Erlangen-Nürnberg, July 3-4, 2025 Deadline: May 15, 2025 Call for Papers International Conference: Representations of Reproductive Justice in the United States: Past, Present, Future(s) July 3-4, 2025 Keynote: Alys E. Weinbaum (University of Washington) Venue: Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Organizers: Dr. Ina Batzke (Augsburg) and Dr. Isabel Kalous (Erlangen) This international conference invites…

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28 Mar 2025

CfP | “Humanities Bulletin 8.2, November 2025”

Special issue: “Reading to Know, Learning to Hear, Engaging in Respect and Love within an Intercultural Frame” Deadline: September 20, 2025 CFP: Humanities Bulletin 8.2, November 2025 Special Issue: Reading to Know, Learning to Hear, Engaging in Respect and Love within an Intercultural Frame Editors:  Prof. Dr. Carla Locatelli and Dr. Victor Pricopi Humanities Bulletin, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal…

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20 Mar 2025

CfP | “AmLit – American Literatures – Diamond Open Access Journal”

Call for proposals within the fields of U.S. American, Canadian, and Latin American literary studies Deadline: April 14, 2025 Dear German Association for American Studies, We invite proposals from prospective guest editors interested in curating a special issue for AmLit – American Literatures, a Diamond Open Access journal dedicated to publishing cutting-edge scholarship on contemporary developments in American literatures.…

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16 Feb 2025

CfP | “AlterNative Intelligences: Forms and Practices of Global Indigenous Resurgences”

Upcoming issue of ECHO: Interdisciplinary journal Extendend Deadline: March 10, 2025 Call for papers AlterNative Intelligences Forms and Practices of Global Indigenous Resurgences  This process is collectively individual, creating islands of radical resurgence. Simpson 2017, p. 194 “I am interested in freedom, not survival” (Simpson 2017: 45). With these words, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg artist and…

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25 Jan 2025

CfP | “Maps in American Literature, 15th–21st Century”

International Symposium at Lyons University (France), April 1–3, 2026 Deadline: June 15, 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS Maps in American Literature, 15th-21st c. International symposium April 1-3, 2026ENS 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…

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24 Jan 2025

CfP | “‘Monarch of All I Survey:’ Literary Posterity and Cultural Legacies”

International conference at Lyon University (France), November 20-21, 2025 Deadline: April 15, 2025 We invite submissions for an international conference exploring the literary posterity of the phrase “I am monarch of all I survey” from William Cowper’s 1782 poem. Cowper’s lines have echoed through centuries of literature and criticism, embodying themes of imperial control, sight, and…

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22 Nov 2024

CfP | “The Gendered Anthropocene”

Sixth Biennial Women’s Network Symposium at Karlstadt University (Sweden), April 10-11, 2025 Deadline: November 29, 2024 The Sixth Biennial Women’s Network Symposium, to be held at Karlstad University, Sweden (April 10-11, 2025), will explore the theme of “The Gendered Anthropocene.” This symposium will engage in a critical interrogation of feminist and gender theory within the…

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21 Oct 2024

CfP | “The Campus and Beyond: Higher Education and Social Inequalities in Europe and North America, 1850s-2000s” 

International conference at the German Historical Institute, Washington DC, October 9-10, 2025 Deadline: December 8, 2024 Event – GHI Washington (ghi-dc.org) International Conference at the German Historical Institute Washington | Conveners: Raphael Rössel (GHI Washington), Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (Loyola University Chicago), and Stefanie Coché (Gießen University) Call for Papers This conference aims to bring scholars of…

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21 Oct 2024

CfP | “Humanities Bulletin Journal”

Deadline: October 25, 2024 Humanities Bulletin Journal – Call for papersSubmission Deadline: October 25, 2024Vol. 7, No. 2 – November, 2024 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…

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21 Oct 2024

CfP | “Human/Nature – Entanglements in Cultural History”

2025 ISCH conference on cultural history in Rovaniemi, Finland, June 16–19, 2025   Deadline: November 15, 2024 Call for Panels  2025 ISCH conference: ‘Human/Nature – Entanglements in Cultural History’   16–19 June 2025, Rovaniemi, Finland   Cultural history has mainly studied humans: their actions, experiences, and ways of thinking. Yet the past is not shaped by only human actions…

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26 Sep 2024

CfP | “Universities and the Public Good: Research, Education, and Democracy since 1945”

Workshop and Young Scholars Forum at Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, Germany, September 10-12, 2025 Deadline: January 19, 2025 Workshop and Young Scholars Forum at Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, Germany | Conveners: Charles Dorn (Bowdoin College, Maine), Axel Jansen (German Historical Institute Washington), Charlotte Lerg (Amerika-Institut, LMU München), Till van Rahden (Centre canadien d’études allemandes et européennes, Université…

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4 Sep 2024

CfP | “The Uncanny States of America: Encountering the Planetary (EJAS Special Issue)”

Special issue of The European Journal of American Studies Deadline: December 31, 2024 The Uncanny States of America: Encountering the Planetary (EJAS Special Issue) Taking into consideration recent developments toward a Planetary Cultural and Literary Studies, this special issue of The European Journal of American Studies aims to rethink and recontextualize the American project not…

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25 Aug 2024

CfP | “Heidelberg Center for American Studies 22nd Annual Spring Academy Conference”

Heidelberg, Germany, March 24-28, 2025 Deadline: November 1, 2024 The twenty-second HCA Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion will be held from March 24-28, 2025. The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for this annual one-week conference that provides twenty international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to…

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22 Aug 2024

CfP for book project | “Bridging Cultures: Transnational Travel Writing to, from (and in) the Americas”

Deadline: September 15, 2024 Call for Papers for Book Publication “Bridging Cultures: Transnational Travel Writing to, from (and in) the Americas” Stefan Brandt (University of Graz) and Saptarshi Mallick (University of Graz) Travel is an intimate part of human existence, involving cultural exchange through observation and interaction. It requires us to recognize that, beyond our…

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17 Jul 2024

CfP | “Academia on Screen: The World of Higher Education in Film and TV Series Across Cultures”

International conference at Passau University, March 20-21, 2025 Deadline: November 4, 2024 Academia on Screen: The World of Higher Education in Film and TV Series Across Cultures (March 20 & 21, 2025) This conference aims to explore the multifaceted portrayals of academia and academics in films and TV series, in both fictional and documentary modes,…

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16 Jul 2024

CfP | “American (Anti-)Heroes”

18th issue of aspeers, the graduate-level peer-reviewed American studies journal Deadline: October 20, 2024 Call for Papers: aspeers, graduate-level peer-reviewed American studies journal Deadline: October 20, 2024 aspeers, the first and currently only peer-reviewed print journal for MA-level American studies scholars in Europe, calls for papers for its eighteenth issue by October 20, 2024. As…

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16 Jul 2024

CfP | “The Beats, Radicalism, and the Bipolar World”

13th Annual Conference of the European Beat Studies Network at Hildesheim University, September 15-17, 2025 Deadline: October 15, 2024 Call for Papers The Beats, Radicalism, and the Bipolar World European Beat Studies Network 13th Annual Conference University of Hildesheim September 15-17, 2025 Organizers: Heike Mlakar, Florian Zappe, Tomasz Stompor, Alexander Greiffenstern Location: University of Hildesheim,…

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21 Jun 2024

Call for Contributions | “The New American Antiquarian”

A new double-blind peer-reviewed (and fully indexed) journal in the field of early American studies Editors: Peter Jakob Olsen-Harbich and Simeon Simeonov Website: The New American Antiquarian The New American Antiquarian is a new double-blind peer-reviewed (and fully indexed) journal in the field of early American studies. The mission of TheNew American Antiquarian (NAA), in brief, is to publish scholarship concerned…

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13 Jun 2024

CfP | Metropolitan Museum Journal 

The Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed Metropolitan Museum Journal invites submissions of original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection Deadline: September 15, 2024 The Journal publishes Articles and Research Notes. Works of art from The Met collection should be central to the discussion. Articles contribute extensive and thoroughly argued scholarship—art historical, technical, and scientific—whereas Research Notes are narrower in scope, focusing on a specific…

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27 May 2024

CfP | “Cineture: Cultural Negotiation Between Iran and the US Through Intermediality and Transmediality”

Special issue of CLCWeb Deadline: June 15, 2024 Cineture: Cultural Negotiation between Iran and the USthrough Intermediality and Transmediality Amid the current global pandemic, literature and film continue to serve as influential socio-cultural mediums connecting nations and their cultures. This special issue aims to foster cultural exchange between Iran and the United States, highlighting their…

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20 May 2024

CfP | “Towards Global Public Literary Humanities”

Special issue of Public Humanities (Cambridge University Press) Deadline: August 1, 2024 Call for Papers Special Issue: Towards Global Public Literary Humanities For Public Humanities (Cambridge UP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-humanities Edited by Tim Lanzendörfer and Pavan Malreddy (Goethe University, Frankfurt) The ongoing crisis of the humanities (Reitter and Wellmon 2021) has produced what Rachel Arteaga calls “an…

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25 Apr 2024

CfP | Blackness and the Knowledges of Intersectionality

Special issue of RIAS Vol. 18, Fall-Winter (2/2025) Deadline: December 30, 2024 Blackness and the Knowledges of Intersectionality — RIAS Vol. 18, Fall-Winter (2/2025) (us.edu.pl) Blackness and the Knowledges of Intersectionalityedited by Nathalie Aghoro and Julia FaisstRIAS Vol. 18, Fall-Winter (2/2025)(Call open until December 30th 2024) As the Black Lives Matter movement has laid bare…

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29 Mar 2024

CfP | “Humanities Bulletin Journal”

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 Deadline: April 25, 2024 Humanities Bulletin Journal – Call for papersSubmission Deadline: April 25, 2024Vol. 7, No. 1 – May, 2024 ISSN 2517-4266 Humanities Bulletin is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed Journal which…

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5 Mar 2024

CfP | “Representations of the New Right in Contemporary European and American Fiction”

Special issue of Comparative Literature Studies, guest edited by Lena Seauve (Freie Universität Berlin) Deadline: March 30, 2024 New Right movements have moved in recent years from society’s outer fringes into the political mainstream. Disciplines like political science and sociology have given extensive attention to the phenomenon of the New Right, but its representation in…

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14 Feb 2024

CfP | The Ruins of Empire: Postcolonial Hauntings

2024 Conference of the Postcolonial Narrations Postgraduate Forum | Augsburg, September 6-7, 2024 Deadline: May 19, 2024 Augsburg 2024: The Ruins of Empire: Postcolonial Hauntings 6th & 7th September 2024 The notion of ‘haunting’ connotes windswept houses tormented by ghosts and specters, forging a connection between an unresolved past, the troubled present, and imagined futures.…

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18 Dec 2023

CfP | Unveiling Untold Narratives: Rediscovering the Literary Legacy of Jewish Female Writers and Representations of Jewish Women by Female Writers from the 1700s to the 1920s

Special issue of Women’s Writing (Taylor & Francis), Guest-edited by Irina Rabinovich and Brygida Gasztold Deadline: February 28, 2024 Special issue of Women’s Writing (Taylor & Francis) Unveiling Untold Narratives: Rediscovering the Literary Legacy of Jewish Female Writers and Representations of Jewish Women by Female Writers from the 1700s to the 1920s Guest Edited by Irina Rabinovich and Brygida…

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