Deadline: February 1, 2026

The project is situated within the context of growing and democratizing the field of Islamic art history, which includes an expansion of geographies, a stretching of chronological brackets, a diversification of artistic and creative expression, and an unrestricted experimentation with various theoretical approaches, intellectual models, and technological tools to disseminate knowledge in a free and open manner. It places the engagement with previously overlooked materials--such as women’s embroideries, amulets and gems of various tribes and nomadic groups, photographs, posters, and prints, and diminutive coins and other ephemera--at its center.

We invite applications from graduate students and early- to mid-career scholars of Islamic art—including curators, conservators, and practicing artists—to participate in all three seminars in Istanbul, Kuwait City, and Kuala Lumpur. We especially welcome applications from students and scholars based in the region. The project will cover travel costs, including airfare, ground transportation, and accommodation.

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Deadline: November 8, 2025

Proposals are invited for classical panels, roundtable discussions, laboratories that would develop cross-disciplinary collaboration, and for screenings with academic discussion of documentaries or artistic movies on various topics from Southeast Asia. More experimental formats are also welcome (see also 5. Alternative panel formats). In any regard, we ask all the convenors to briefly name, describe and explain their choice of format in their proposal.

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Deadline: January 20, 2026

The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce a call for submissions for the next issue of Asia Pacific Perspectives. This issue will be an open issue that showcases the creative and diverse research being produced in the field today. 

Asia Pacific Perspectives welcomes submissions from all fields of the social sciences and the humanities (sociology, anthropology, history, etc.) that focus on the Asia Pacific region, and especially those adopting a comparative, interdisciplinary approach to issues and topics in the Asia Pacific region.

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Deadline: December 1, 2025

The Program Committee of the 35th Annual Meeting of the World History Association, to be held in Incheon, Korea in 2026, invites proposals that explore this new terrain. We ask: how can we write, teach, and think about world history in a moment characterized both by global entanglement and anti-globalist politics ? What historical precedents —such as empires, invasions, epidemics, diasporas, trade routes, or cross-cultural encounters—might help us imagine a world that is connected but not necessarily globalized in the modern sense? What models of both interconnection and interdiction have emerged or persisted outside the framework of globalization? And how might the changing present force us to rethink historiographical frameworks about the past?

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Deadline: continuous

We are pleased to announce the launch of the South and Southeast Asian Popular Culture Series, published by Palgrave Macmillan. This groundbreaking series addresses the growing scholarly interest in popular culture across South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) and Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam).

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Deadline: December 1, 2025

This conference aims to bring together and foster new research into the roles that classical and neoclassical art (broadly defined) fulfilled for European colonial powers and post-colonial elites globally, seeking critical exploration and assessment of the ways classical visual culture has been reused, redefined and also contested. The conference seeks to investigate classical visual culture in the service of self-presentation among competing nations and as a means to “civilize” and / or dominate indigenous, subaltern and settler populations. We encourage examination of the social, political and racial implications of engagement with the European classical tradition in both colonial and post-colonial contexts worldwide. We invite contributions on works including neo-classical sculpture, plaster casts after the antique, and works such as ethnographic life-casts, the creation and use of which amplified and illuminated concepts of race and evolution that underpinned notions of Greco-Roman cultural supremacy. While the principal focus of the conference is on sculptural works, proposals on other arts and/or the interaction of the visual and literary are also welcome.

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Deadline: December 1, 2025

This special issue of Public Art Dialogue invites scholarly contributions (research articles, short essays, and artists’ projects) that examine the enduring visual, spatial, and ideological legacies of colonialism in public spaces across the Pacific world. It seeks to explore how imperial legacies forged transoceanic connections that continue to shape the public sphere through means including but not limited to monuments, architecture, civic rituals, theater, dance, street art, and performative acts.

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Deadline: November 1, 2025

We also encourage contributions that consider how curators, filmmakers and other creative producers employ intermedial and transmedial strategies to reconfigure prevalent understandings of the status quo, critically analyzing the disruption of binaries and margins as method or metaphor, that uncover neglected narratives or highlight experiences of the intersectional and disenfranchised. Subjects of inquiry need not be limited to the human; it may encompass complex human and multispecies interactions, particularly in relation to ethical cohabitation in the natural environment. Analyses that go beyond the anthropocentric, taking into account multispecies coexistence and entanglements, and the evolving ecologies of urban and natural environments, are especially relevant. Ethical cohabitation, climate justice, and eco-critical perspectives on the Southeast Asian region — both within and beyond the gallery space — are central to this issue’s concerns.

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Deadline: January 15, 2026

Authors are invited to submit papers on the following fields of interest:
- Provenance research on individual objects or object groups
- Collections, History of collection
- Translocation of art and cultural assets
- Art and cultural property law
- Culture of remembrance, Cultural identity, Collective memory
- Art trade, Art market studies
- Art policy, Sociology of art, Cultural sociology
- Restitution, Return, Repatriation

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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