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: October 31, 2025

We invite contributions to an edited volume that will explore the histories, meanings, and trajectories of Mexican art in European contexts, from the early modern period to the present day. Building on the discussions initiated at the international conference Mexican Art and Its Collections in Europe (16th–21st Centuries): Interwoven Histories (2025), this book seeks to highlight the complexities of artistic transfer, collection, display, and reception of Mexican art across the continent.

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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: October 20, 2025

For its inaugural issue, scheduled for publication in 2026, the journal invites contributions to a thematic volume titled “Building Art Collections: Global Perspectives in the 20th and 21st Centuries.” This issue explores the histories, strategies, and evolving contexts of art collecting. Its focus is on practices grounded in the Middle East and North Africa region, examining their entanglements with global networks and institutions, and their connection to narratives beyond a Western-centric framework.

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Deadline: October 15, 2025

The 1950s to the 1970s was a transformative period marked by anticolonial struggles, national independences, and non-aligned solidarities across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. These groundbreaking political shifts went hand-in-hand with profound cultural and ideological exchanges across continents. Central to these exchanges were translation networks—dynamic, often informal systems through which ideas filtered across linguistic and national boundaries. These networks not only facilitated the dissemination of anticolonial and more broadly revolutionary thought, but also helped forge new identities and solidarities in a bipolarised world. From clandestine literature, revolutionary manifestos, political speeches, to broadcasting and print journalism, translation operated as an essential tool for decolonisation. Yet, despite their significance, these translation networks remain underexplored. This conference seeks to shed light on the multifaceted role of translation in the decolonising world between the 1950s and 1970s. It seeks to examine how translation—whether cultural or linguistic, diplomatic or political—served as a bridge for ideas, theories, and strategies that fueled anticolonial struggles, fostered regional solidarities, and contributed to the dissemination of counterhegemonic discourses. This conference seeks to redress narratives that often overlook translation’s role in shaping political and cultural transformation by foregrounding the networks of translation that enabled dialogue between communities, intellectuals, and revolutionary movements. It aims to explore how translation practices facilitated the circulation of anti-colonial ideas, shaped notions of identity and sovereignty, and influenced the formation of new political and cultural realities in the decolonising world.

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Deadline: October 1, 2025

We are happy to announce that the XXIIst Biennial Symposium of the American Council for Southern Asian Art (ACSAA) will be held in Washington, DC, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art.

We invite Individual Paper proposals and Pre-formed Panel proposals. We especially encourage submissions related to the following themes:

Caste and race / Gender / Ecology (especially water) / Intermediality / Temples and sacred spaces / Southeast Asia-South Asia relations / Trade networks / Cosmos / Beauty

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Deadline: September 30, 2025

El objetivo del Foro/Congreso México y España. Cinco siglos de arquitectura para una historia en común es la investigación sobre aspectos que permitan enriquecer una historia de la arquitectura entre México y España para una historia en común. El evento une los encuentros científicos de la Asociación de historiadores de la Arquitectura y el Urbanismo, desde España, y el Foro de Historia y Crítica de la Arquitectura Moderna, radicado en México, organizados en común por primera vez.

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Deadline: September 30, 2025

This panel offers an exploration of cultural expressions from diasporic people of African descent situated globally, and in various places and spaces and that situate a Caribbean, Latin American, African, the United States, or European context. The panel welcomes papers that engage claimed or unclaimed notions of cultural intersections or cross ties of multiple social groupings as perceived and represented in film, history, art, music, politics, or the social, gender, sex, and class.

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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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