16th EURAMAL CONFERENCE hosted by the University of St Andrews, School of Modern Languages, Department of Arabic & Persian (June 2026, St Andrews, Scotland, UK)
Arab modernity has been marked by the traumas caused by the material and epistemic violence exercised on Arab societies. In the postcolonial era, violence has been a feature of numerous watershed events that have shaped Arab politics, moulded Arab time (defining both historical and cultural taxonomies), impacted Arab cultu
Today, as we navigate increasingly polarized discussions about science’s role in society, the scientific community must address the complicated history of scientific triumphalism. The long twentieth century undeniably saw science transform societies and deliver significant improvements in human welfare. This success story has fostered a pervasive belief that every question and problem can be solved through the continued expansion of scientific knowledge.
The First Workshop on Multimedia Analytics with Multimodal Large Language Models at ACM Multimedia 2025 aims to explore the potential and pitfalls of bringing Multimodal Large Language Models into multimedia analytics, and the new forms of interaction between system and experts that emerge from this. To guide this exploration we invite original research and position papers on (but not limited to) the following topics:
2027 marks 40 years since the release of Stanley Kubrick’s penultimate film, Full Metal Jacket. Long regarded as one of the lesser entries in Kubrick’s filmography—especially when compared to his critically re-evaluated final work Eyes Wide Shut (now recognized as both a major film of the 1990s and a cult classic, Full Metal Jacket has received relatively limited scholarly attention compared to the director’s other work. This is surprising, given the film’s rich
Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, September 11th and 12th September, 2025
For more than a decade now researchers and practitioners of all kinds have been turning to the Archive itself as a source of investigation, asking questions like what sort of a space is it? How can it be redefined? How has its meaning, role and purpose changed? How can power within the archive be decentred and destabilised? Can we now speak of ‘post-digital’ archives focused on
Kingston University, UK, 28th and 29th October 2025
Terminal Futures: JG Ballard In The 21st Century
Kingston School of Art, Kingston University
#Kingston2025
October 28th and 29th 2025
Call For Papers
2025 is an apt time to celebrate the work of the writer and essayist JG Ballard as it sees 50 years since the publication of one of his seminal novels High Rise (1975) as well as nearly 20 years since his
The Mediterranean Life Sciences Union organizes the 2nd MedLIFE at the Centro Congressi Federico II of the University of Naples Federico II (Italy) in collaboration with other universities in the Mediterranean region and several publishing partners. The proceedings will be published in the Springer/IEREK ASTI Book Series (indexed in Scopus and SCImago) and extended papers will be published in Special Issues of journals (indexed in Scopus and Web of Science). Visit our website (www.m
The family is often conceived in terms of exclusivity, closeness and intimacy. The word ‘intimate’ — intimus, or ‘most interior’, in the Latin — suggests that this relationship touches our innermost part, that which is deepest and hidden from view. Familial ties are further corporealized in terms of blood, or the physical proximity of shared space, resources, and memories, and acts of care. Broader ethnic, linguistic, cultural and national communities may b
Scientific Committee: Professor Wojciech Owczarski — University of Gdansk, Poland Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora — NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Professor Ryan Habermeyer - Salisbury University, USA
CFP:
In our postmodern world there are a lot of questions that should be re-considered and re-defined. What does it mean to
Return to the South: The Complexities of Southern Culture in Ryan Coogler’s film Sinners.
On April 18, Warner Bros. released Ryan Coogler’s long-awaited film Sinners. Since its release, the film has achieved critical acclaim and popular resonance, marking a significant entry in contemporary Southern cinema. Critics and audiences praise Sinners for its nuanced treatment of inter/intra-racial dynamics, spirituality, and regional identity. In addition, the film has prom
Considering the white masculine neoliberal realities of the modern “gay rights movement, Roderick A. Ferguson recalls the “multidimensional roots of gay liberation in his groundbreaking monograph One Dimensional Queer. He writes that revisionist histories of the gay liberation that position white, cisgender men as the face of the movement elide "the ways in which queer politics were emerging as ways to engage anti-poverty and anti-racism (Ferguson 44). He
We are now accepting submissions for our next regular issue. Manuscripts in MS Word (5,000—10,000 words) adhering to the MLA formatting guidelines should be sent to editor@jcla.in by 31 July 2025.
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Call for Papers: AI and Global Challenges Topic: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Meet Global Challenges Journal: Emerging Media
Emerging Media is a SAGE open access peer-reviewed scholarly journal. The journal focuses on the exploration of the emerging issues and future development in the field of media and communication, both theoretically and practically. This journal will publish interdisciplin
Call for Papers: Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales
In honor of the 650th year of Giovanni Boccaccio’s passing, the Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales project is accepting papers on individual tales of The Decameron. We welcome papers and proposals from students!
About the project
The Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales project was started in 2020 as a part of the Teaching the Middle Ages through Novel Studies
The Education Department at the Boca Raton Museum of Art invites papers on Alphonse Mucha to coincide with the upcoming exhibition of Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line, from November 19, 2025- March 1, 2026. Graduate students and upper-division undergraduate students are invited to present at a conference on Alphonse Mucha’s Line, Color, and Order: His Inspirations and His Lasting Impact at the Boca Raton Museum of Art on February 21, 2026. The conference will be held at the Museum at 5
In his work AI Ethics, Mark Coeckelbergh describes humans as “meaning-making, conscious, embodied, and living beings whose nature, mind, and knowledge cannot be explained away by comparisons to machines (36). Machine-assistant writing tools and other technologies have become increasingly prevalent as teaching tools in humanities classrooms, which means it is more imperative than ever we find ways to differentiate human and non-human meaning making and knowledge creation. Our pane
In her 1992 anthology, American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century, Cheryl Walker proposes that the poets whose verse she collects share the stigma of “broad recognition in their own time, followed by “almost total neglect. In the spirit of the PAMLA conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," this session will examine how this trajectory is not limited to Nineteenth Century U.S. women poets, but applies to Twentieth—and even Twenty-First?—Ce
“Licht senden in die Tiefe des menschlichen Herzens — des Künstlers Beruf! (Robert Schumann)
The annual conference of the German Studies Association of Ireland will take place on 5th and 6th December 2025 at Dublin City University. The theme of this year’s conference is:
Conference “Nothing to Remember? Politics, Practices, and Agents of Commemorating Peace
January 22—23, 2026 International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
In memory studies, scholarly attention has long been drawn to the remembrance of crises, wars, and periods of violence. These critical junctures have been explored as sites of trau
PORNOGRAPHY IN BABEL Translation, sexuality, obscenity
International bilingual conference
23—24 October 2025 University of Antwerp, Belgium
Time and again, “pornographic literature — from the ancient Greek πορνη (prostitute) and γραφω (writing/painting) — has been vilified for its brutal, tra
The increase in life expectancy and chronic disease prevalence has a high psychosocial and economic impact on patients, society, and health institutions. The development of integrated therapeutic strategies and multidisciplinary teams that allow the assessment and treatment of the patient in the physical, emotional, psychological, and social dimensions are crucial. There has been limited progress in the prevention and treatment of mental illnesses associated with chro
In the second conference of our recently established research network Transfictional and Transgeneric (Bremen — Coimbra), we deal with the question of contradiction, dissonance and discrepancy on an aesthetic level.
In the conference we will ask how texts of different kinds and media (such as novels, poems, plays, short stories, but also films, music and other audiovisual narratives) use the notion of contradiction and dissonance on the levels of form a
Call for abstracts: Edited volume: God loves kitsch Co-editors: Sarah Richter, PhD and Laura Elizabeth Shea, PhD
What kind of art does god like? Such a question begs another — which god? In the case of the Protestant Christian God of modern America, the answer would be kitsch, of course! Religion in the United States is intimately entwined with kitsch, from the chapel in Carthage, Missouri, adorned with murals reminiscent of Michelangelo’s Sistine Cha
