Calls for Papers, Events and Job Announcements relating to cultural studies and related fields worldwide
Conferences
CfPs for upcoming conferences
Rethinking Music Heritage
Dates: October 15–17, 2025
Institution: University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland
Abstract deadline: February 28, 2025
Email: Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words to music.heritage@uniarts.fi
Young Researchers Colloquium:
“From Japan to Brazil and Vice-versa: Historical and Aesthetic Perspectives of a Diasporic Cinema” (hybrid)
Dates: June 24–25, 2025
Institution: ENS Lyon, France
Abstract deadline: March 10, 2025
Email: Individual paper proposals, in English or in French, are to be sent to lucie.rydzek@univ-lorraine.fr, romane.carriere@ens-lyon.fr and emmanuel.dayre@ens.fr . The proposal for 20 min presentations should include name(s), affilition(s), email address, presentation on-site or online, title, abstract (up to 3000 characters including spaces) and bio-bibliography (up to 500 characters including spaces)
CfPs
Calls for book proposals, papers and book chapters in the field of cultural studies and related fields
Call for Book Proposals: Brill Research Perspectives in Critical Theory
Editor: Peggy Karpouzou
Publisher: Brill
Email: Please submit the Manuscript Questionnaire as a book proposal, as well as further queries, to Nikoleta Zampaki (nikzamp@phil.uoa.gr) and Erika Mandarino (Erika.Mandarino@brill.com)
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Call for Book Proposals: Queering China: Transnational Genders and Sexualities
Editors: Hongwei Bao and Jamie J. Zhao
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Email: Please contact the series coeditors directly for discussing and submitting proposals at hongwei.bao@nottingham.ac.uk and jingjamiezhao@gmail.com
More information: How to propose a book
Call for Proposals for Book Series: Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies
Editors: Jian Xu and Sean Redmond
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Email: Please submit 750-word abstract proposals, along with a 2-page research CV, to the book series editors Jian Xu (j.xu@deakin.edu.au) and Sean Redmond (s.redmond@deakin.edu.au)
More information: manuscript length 60,000 to 100,000 words, proposal and selection process is open and ongoing
Call for Book Proposals: Performance Studies & Cultural Discourse in South Asia
Editor: Manujendra Kundu
Publisher: Springer
Email: For queries and submissions, please contact manujendra@gmail.com
Call for Book Proposals: Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures Series
Editors: Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Email: if you are interested in submitting a proposal, please contact Peggy Karpouzou (pkarpouzou@phil.uoa.gr), Nikoleta Zampaki (nikzamp@phil.uoa.gr), or Courtney Morales (cmorales@rowman.com)
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Call for Book Proposals: Exeter Studies in Environmental Humanities. Past, Present and Future Econarratives
Editors:Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Email: if you are interested in submitting a proposal, please contact Peggy Karpouzou (pkarpouzou@phil.uoa.gr) and Nikoleta Zampaki (nikzamp@phil.uoa.gr)
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(Re)Imagining AI Interventions///Intervening (into) AI Imaginaries
Journal: Imaginations Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies
Abstract deadline: January 15, 2025
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Call for Chapters: ‘Fantasy geographies: Tourism, worldbuilding, heritage, meaning-making, ecologies and futures’
Editors: Jane Lovell, Stijn Reijnders, Nitasha Sharma, Nicola MacLeod, Evgenia Amey
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Abstract deadline: January 31, 2025
Full paper deadline: July 31, 2025
Email: Please send submissions (max 1000 words) as well as questions to both Jane.Lovell@Canterbury.ac.uk and Evgenia.Amey@gmail.com
Special Issue CFP: Stand-up Comedy in the Global South
Journal: Comedy Studies
Abstract deadline: March 30, 2025
Email: Please submit proposals (250-300 words) to richa.chilana@ddn.upes.ac.in or rbhargava168@gmail.com
Special Issue CFP: Challenging Nihilism: An Exploration of Culture and Hope
Journal: Open Cultural Studies
Full paper deadline: April 30, 2025
Email: Please send questions to the guest editor Juan A. Tarancón (juantar@unizar.es)
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Positions
Job Announcements in the field of cultural studies and related fields
Assistant Professor in Feminist Media Studies
Institution: The Department of Communication, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
Application period: Review of applications will begin October 21 and will continue until the position is filled
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Full-Time Faculty Position at the Assistant Professor Level (or Higher)
Institution: Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Application deadline: January 31, 2025
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Doctoral positions in Research Training Group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures“
Institution: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Application deadline: May 1, 2025
Application: Please submit your application (English or German) electronically as one single PDF file (plus writing sample in a separate PDF file) to kontakt-grk2806@fau.de. Documents to include in the application: cover letter, CV, research proposal (ca. 8-10 pages), degree certificates (MA, State Exam, or equivalent degree), certificate(s) of language skills (may be submitted within the first year if necessary), work sample (e.g. master thesis)
More information: research program; If you have any content-related questions, please contact the speakers of the research
training group: dirk.niefanger@fau.de and antje.kley@fau.de, for organizational matters please address the coordinators: grk2806-koordination@fau.de