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: