Calls
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Call for Contributions: Routledge Series on Contemporary Asian Societies
Deadline: ongoing
EASt is calling for book proposal submissions to publish in its Routledge series on Contemporary Asian Societies!
Created in 2018, the series aims at providing an original and distinctive contribution to current debates on evolutions shaping societies, cultures, politics and media across Northeast and Southeast Asia.
Currently, EASt’s Routledge Collection consists of six books: four edited volumes and two monographs, including EASt members and external collaborators. Another volume is under preparation.
We now invite proposals for book proposals and are open to submissions for single-authored, multi-authored and edited volumes.
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CFP: International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas Conference, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, November 4-6, 2025
Deadline: July 15, 2025
This conference will explore the dynamic interplay between global networks and local realities, examining how Chinese overseas communities have navigated transnational connections while adapting to the unique socio-political and cultural landscapes of their host societies.
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CFP: Between Two Oceans: Connected Histories of Labour, Race, and Gender in the Americas (16th–19th centuries), Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Deadline: May 31, 2025
In recent years, labour and its many worlds have once again occupied a central place in historiographical debates on the history of the Americas. This renewed interest has not only brought a critical lens to hierarchies, coercion, and violence—both past and present—but has also sought to examine the agency, negotiations, connections, and strategies of those who, from below, acted amid various forms of inequality. We are grounded in a tradition of social and cultural labour history that seeks to understand the heterogeneous labour realities across the Americas. This field of study has placed workers—men and women—their families, support networks, spaces of socialisation, and lives in movement at the centre of analysis, enriching the notion of "worlds of labour" by showing how labour experiences are deeply intertwined with cultural values, political identities, and racial and gender relations. This fertile historiography has pushed beyond the factory, the union, and the white male worker as the privileged historical subject and beyond the classic periodisations that defined labour as a by-product of capitalism and the industrial revolution.
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CFP: Society of Architectural Historians Conference, Mexico City, April 15-19, 2026
Deadline: June 5, 2025
The Society of Architectural Historians is now accepting abstracts for its 79th Annual International Conference in Mexico City, Mexico, April 15–19, 2026. Please submit an abstract no later than 11:59 p.m. CDT on June 5, 2025, to one of the 54 thematic sessions, the Graduate Student Lightning Talks or the Open Sessions for the Mexico City conference. A complete list and description of each session is given in the full Call, available to download above. SAH encourages submissions from architectural, landscape, and urban historians; museum curators; preservationists; independent scholars; architects; scholars in related fields; and members of SAH chapters, Affiliate Groups and partner organizations.
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Call for Contributions: 3rd Text Africa, "Worlding: Time, Space and Newness"
Deadline: June 30, 2025
3rd Text Africa invites abstracts for essays on the theme ‘Worlding: Time, Space and Newness,’ to be published in 2026. -
CFP: Universities Arts Association Canada Conference, October 16-18, Toronto, Canada
Deadline: May 30, 2025
Every fall, UAAC-AAUC hosts Canada’s professional conference for visual arts-based research by art historians, professors, artists, curators, and cultural workers. The conference is held at a different location each year, generally at a Canadian university or college. The sessions and panels address issues and subjects in art history, theory, and practice from various methodological approaches.
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Call for Contributions: Art in Translation: Art and Power
Deadline: May 30, 2025
The journal ART IN TRANSLATION publishes scholarly English-language translations of significant texts on the visual arts presently available only in their source languages. It seeks to widen perspectives on global art writing through the act of translation, covering all areas of the visual arts (including architecture and design). If you have a text in mind that deserves to be known to broader English-reading audiences, we would be delighted to hear from you. We are interested both in single articles and proposals for special issues on a specific topic. Recommendations of current scholarship, recent texts, and older archival sources are welcome from scholars at any level.
If the text that you recommended is selected for publication in English in AIT, you will be invited to write a short introduction, which will be published under your name together with the translated text. Scholars are asked not to recommend their own texts.
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Call for Editors: ARCHIVO PAPERS - Journal of Photography and Visual Culture.
Deadline: June 13, 2025
As its current term comes to an end, the Archivo Papers Journal is seeking new members for its Editorial Team and Editorial Board, offering an opportunity to engage with current research trends and contribute to shaping the journal’s future. These are voluntary, remote positions.
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CFP: Legacies: Why museum histories matter, Leiden University, Netherlands, January 13–15, 2026
Deadline: June 1, 2025
The 21st century is a particularly engaging moment to study the history of museums. Due to pressing concerns about new ways to make old art accessible, global art, decolonization, and the social, ecological and political responsibilities of culture, museums are sustaining great periods of self-reflection and debate. One could argue
that museums are renewing their 18th-century Enlightenment origins as institutions of civility and hope, although these values are also undergoing reevaluation and change, in a global world. -
CFP: Respecting the past, conserving the future. Methodologies, Narratives, and the Perspectives for the restitution of cultural heritage, University of Padua, Italy
Deadline: June 13, 2025
This meeting aims to promote discussions and sharing on the theme of restitution in its multiple perspectives of study, analysis and understanding of cultural heritage. Starting from disciplinary and interdisciplinary contributions in the fields of archaeology, history of art, music, film, and performance studies, the purpose is to reflect on the preservation of memories and identities, as well as on the respect and protection of human beings and their material and immaterial legacies, as essential tools for the conscious construction of both the present and the future.
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Call for Contributions: International Journal of Islam in Asia: Religion, Cultures, Histories, Connections (IJIA)
Deadline: continuous
The International Journal of Islam in Asia: Religion, Cultures, Histories, Connections (IJIA) is a peer-reviewed, academic journal that publishes scholarship on Islam and Muslims in Asia and the diaspora. The journal encourages exploration of the diverse expressions of Asian Islam and Muslim cultures, histories, and connections across Asia through multidisciplinary methods, bringing together fields including history, anthropology, religious studies, Islamic studies, material culture studies, art history, sociology, and gender studies.
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CFP: Annual Meeting of the Southwest Seminar, Providence, Rhode Island, November 13 & 14, 2025
Deadline: June 1, 2025
The Southwest Seminar on Colonial Latin America invites proposals for our annual meeting to be hosted at the John Carter Brown Library on November 13 and 14, 2025 in Providence, Rhode Island. For more than a decade, the Southwest Seminar has brought together scholars of all ranks and a variety of disciplines to share innovative works in progress on the Spanish and Portuguese colonial Americas. To date, more than 100 faculty, researchers, and graduate students have shared sample book chapters, journal articles, dissertation chapters, and other works of original research to a robust community of specialists on colonial Latin America.
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CFP: Global Histories of Cold War Cartography (Global South)
Deadline: June 1, 2025
This workshop and proposed edited volume will seek to define a transdisciplinary and global field of Cold War cartography by generating a new set of questions, debates, and theoretical frameworks for analyzing the history of cartographic technologies and maps during the Cold War.
We invite scholars to submit proposals (300 words) on any aspect of cartographic sciences and technologies during the Cold War. In particular, we are interested in scholars from diverse career stages, and who reside in the global south.
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Call for Contributions: The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Brill
Deadline: none specified
Brill is calling for scholars to join the team of our longstanding tradition of The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies.
We are looking for contributors who are motivated to keep up with the newest publications in their field of study and write an annual critical bibliographical survey on it. Your survey will be an invaluable resource for your fellow scholars to stay informed of what really matters and stands out.
We currently have the following list of vacancies in your research area. Would you like to write a survey on 2024 publications onwards?
Brazilian Literature 1500-1800
Brazilian 20th century Literature
Portuguese Language and Linguistics
Portuguese 16th and 17th century literature & culture
Portuguese 18th century literature & culture
Portuguese 20th century literature & culture
Lusophone Asia
Lusophone Africa
Brazilian Screen studies
Galician Language and Linguistics
Galician Literature
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Call for Contributions: e.g. Journal, Exploding Galaxies
Deadline: continuous
Exploding Galaxies press republishes lost classics of Philippine literature. In doing so, however, we realized that it is one thing to republish a novel, but quite another to revive it. Just because a work is reissued, doesn't mean that it gains new life.
We both commission writing—approaching the freshest, most interesting thinkers and writers— and consider submissions addressed to me, our Editor. It is in this vein that we ask if you may have anything lying around that you may wish to contribute to our journal, something that has not yet found a home. We aim to make it as easy as possible for the best writers to work with us, so we do not have any expectation of receiving completely new work, unless of course that may be something you wish to pursue with us. We'd be happy to explore your off-cuts, excised tangents, old drafts, extraneous miscellany, sketches, archival finds, field notes, and experiments, or anything else that you may be open to giving us.
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Call for Contributions: Questioning “Democracy” in Transnational Asia, Transnational Asia: An Online Interdisciplinary Journal
Deadline: May 31, 2025
President Donald Trump’s implausible second term has shaken the West’s faith in democracy, a bedrock principle of so-called liberal societies. Ongoing Pacific Century and rise of China discourses sustain Western admiration for, but also critiques of, East Asia. For example, recent social unrest under President Yoon Suk Yeol, coupled with the Korean public’s swift response, earned immediate praise from Western analysts. Accordingly, post-colonial, post-authoritarian South Korea had seemingly emerged as a rare bastion of democracy in a world increasingly under threat from anti-democratic, authoritarian governance. Likewise, continual anxieties over global AI arms race supremacy have led Western countries to predictably criticize China for its alleged abuses of democracy and human rights.
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Call for Contributions: "Cultura Visual de Puerto Rico y el Caribe", Nuevos Horizontes
Deadline: August 1, 2025
La revista Nuevos Horizontes anuncia una convocatoria para artículos académicos. Este tercer número de la revista tendrá su eje temático en la Cultura Visual de Puerto Rico y el Caribe. Concebimos la “Cultura Visual” como la disciplina que estudia cómo los seres humanos construyen imágenes, desde obras de arte, anuncios, cine, teatro, performance, danza y publicidad, hasta la ropa que llevamos y cómo nos presentamos ante otros seres humanos. La imagen, ya sea propia o construcción colectiva, refleja identidad, intereses, asuntos políticos, estéticos, históricos y sociales que nos interesa que se investiguen y difundan.
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Call for Contributions:"Art in the Amazon: Connecting Borderlands", H-ART. Revista de historia, teoría y crítica de arte
Deadline: July 31, 2025
H-ART. Revista de historia, teoría y crítica de arte opens a new call for papers for the dossier "Art in the Amazon: Connecting Borderlands". This dossier aims to gather articles that study the material and visual culture of the Amazon beyond national borders.
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Call for Contributions: The Construction of Latin-American Historiography: An Inter-Cultural Dialogue, Les Cahiers de la recherche architecturale, urbaine et paysagère (CRAUP) N° 25
Deadline: June 2, 2025
The journal Les Cahiers de la recherche architecturale, urbaine et paysagère is opening a call for issue n. 25 dedicated to the Construction of Latin-American Historiography: An Inter-Cultural Dialogue, coordinated by Anat Falbel and Patricia Mendéz.
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CFP: III Congreso de Cultura Visual Iberoamericana, Buenos Aires, Argentina October 14-16, 2025
Deadline: June 2, 2025
El Programa Quillca de estudios visuales sobre arte colonial sudamericano (Centro de Investigación en Arte, Materia y Cultura, IIAC/Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero) y el Max-Planck Partner Group 2022-2027 “Empires, environments, objects” (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz-Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) invitan a presentar propuestas para el 3° Congreso internacional sobre cultura visual iberoamericana (siglos XVI a XIX) que se realizará en Buenos Aires los días 14, 15 y 16 de octubre de 2025. El Congreso se convoca bajo la consigna De reinos y naturalezas: ecologías, saberes y visiones del territorio y cuenta como fecha límte para las presentaciones el próximo 2 de junio de 2025. Incluimos en la noticia la circular donde se establecen las premisas de la convocatoria, formas de participar y medio de contacto con los organizadores.
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Call for Publications: Encyclopedia of South American History since Independence, Bloomsbury Academic
Deadline: August 15, 2025
Project editors are seeking contributors to a forthcoming two-volume encyclopedia on South American history since independence, to be published by Bloomsbury Academic.
Under the editorship of Micheal Tarver and Francisco Soto Oraa, a headword list has been determined, with entries ranging from heroes and heroines of the independence movements to present-day Venezuelan opposition leaders. The work will be formatted in the traditional A-Z style, although the entries will represent various themes found within South American history. Interested contributors can find the list of remaining available entries at https://tarver.org/headwords. Suggestions for additional entry topics are welcomed.
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Call for Manuscripts: SubAtlantic book series. Latin American, Caribbean, and Luso-African Ecologies, De Gruyter
Deadline: continuous
We are looking for book proposals in English, Spanish and Portuguese for an exciting new series on environmental humanities in the Iberian South Atlantic. We welcome submissions spanning the field in its geographical and historical breadth, from the pre-Columbian and colonial period to the present, including approaches from Amerindian and Afrodescendent perspectives.
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Call for Publications: New Book Series on Southeast and South Asian Popular Culture
Deadline: continuous
To be launched by the world’s largest academic publisher, the Southeast and South Asian Popular Culture series focuses on the study of popular culture in Southeast Asia (referring to Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) and South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) to meet the increased interest in the subject among scholars of various disciplines in recent years. The series is the first of its kind in that, currently, there is no book series dedicated explicitly to Southeast and South Asian popular culture.