Call for papers/Topics

Topics of interest for submission include any topics related to:

1. Literature and Cultural Studies

This area focuses on textual analysis, narrative, and the cultural context of artistic expression.

  • Contemporary & Comparative Literature:
    • Literature and Social Justice / Literature of the Oppressed.
    • Postcolonial and Decolonial Narratives (e.g., identity, displacement, diaspora).
    • World Literature and theories of transnationalism.
    • Reception Studies, Translation, and Adaptation of Texts (e.g., Poe in contemporary mass media).
  • Theory, Media, and Aesthetics:
  • Digital Humanities (DH): Computational Literary Analysis (Distant Reading), Text Mining, and corpus studies.
  • Media and Intermediality: Literature across platforms (e.g., gaming, film, graphic novels).
  • Trans-scriptions: Cultural codings and the poetics of the body (queer, trans, racialized, posthuman bodies).
  • Aesthetics of Contamination and bodily abjection in literature.
  • Historical Fictions and the deployment of emotions in political contexts.
  • Genre Studies and genealogy (e.g., weird fiction, horror, fantasy).
  • The Object(s) of Literature and Material Culture.
  • Renaissance Studies and Shakespearean scholarship.
  • Historical and Genre Studies:

 

2.  Languages and Linguistics

This theme explores the structure, evolution, social context, and application of human language.

  • Applied Linguistics and Communication:
    • Discourse Analysis and Figurative Language.
    • Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology (e.g., linguistic change, language revitalization).
    • Language and Advertising / Mass Media Communication.
    • Pragmatics and Philosophy of Language.
  • Digital and Computational Linguistics:
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP), Semantic Analysis, and Machine Translation.
  • The role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in language creation, learning, and analysis.
  • Terminology, Ontology, and their applications.
  • Language evolution, historical linguistics, and philology.
  • The study of constructed, artificial, and secret languages.
  • Historical and Evolutionary Linguistics:

 

3.  Social Sciences & Humanities (Interdisciplinary Focus)

These topics address broad societal challenges through combined disciplinary lenses, often with a focus on contemporary issues and ethical dimensions.

A. Global Challenges and Ethics

  • AI, Ethics, and Technology:
    • The intersection of AI, Art, and Ethics (e.g., copyright, creation, authenticity).
    • Digital Vigilantism and its legal and ethical implications.
    • Technology integration and ethical challenges in educational systems.
  • Civic, Political, and Global Studies:
  • Globalization Impacts and Border Studies.
  • Social Movements and their role in creating alternative futures.
  • Peace and Conflict Management / Conflict Zone Studies.
  • Political Sociology and the construction of narratives of belonging or otherness.
  • Ecology, Science, and Gender in literary/historical contexts.
  • Environmental Art Studies and the built environment.
  • Environmental Humanities:

 

B. Identity, Culture, and Society

  • Gender and Sexuality Studies:
    • Women and Gender Studies (e.g., feminism, equal pay, family research).
    • Sexuality Studies and gender issues across media and history.
  • Cultural Studies and History:
  • Popular Culture: Analyzing phenomena like fandoms, collecting, the 1980s, and Las Vegas representations.
  • Memory Studies: Historical fictions, memory, and forgetting.
  • Migration and Identity: Refugee studies, immigration, and issues of race, nation, and ethnicity.
  • Spatial Humanities: Using geospatial technologies (GIS) in historical, literary, and sociological research.
  • Digital Archives, digital curation, and the preservation of cultural heritage.
  • Spatial and Digital Humanities: