SexViolHist Bib: Announcements: Calls for Papers

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L e c t u r e s

Conferences

Conference: 2026 MLA Convention
Session: Comparative Comfort Women Studies
Chair: Seon-Myung Yoo and Min Ji Kang
Date: Toronto, Canada
Date: January 8-11, 2026
Deadline for abstracts: March 1, 2025
Excerpt: »This panel seeks to address this limitation by suggesting a comparative approach to Comfort Women studies. We invite proposals for presentations that explore the question of how to develop a comparative Comfort Women studies framework that incorporates an intersectional critique of imperialism, militarism, and global patriarchy. We are interested in work that moves beyond the national and historical boundaries that often limit discussions of this issue. Works that employ intersectional approaches to highlight how multiple systems of power—imperialism, militarism, and patriarchy—intersected to create the conditions for the exploitation of women in the comfort system will particularly be appreciated.«
More information: CFP website

Conference: 2026 MLA Convention
Session: Sexual Violence and Power: Sexual Assault As a Metaphor for Political Culture
Chair: Ana I. Simón-Alegre
Date: Toronto, Canada
Date: January 8-11, 2026
Deadline for abstracts: March 20, 2025
Excerpt: »This call for contributions seeks to explore the political uses of the representation of sexual violence in various cultural manifestations, such as literature, film, visual arts, and other cultural products, across different historical periods and especially those produced in the Global Hispanic contexts.«
More information: CFP website

P u b l i c a t i o n s

1. Book Chapters

Series: HBO’s Oz at 30
Editor: Abel F. Fenwick
Publisher: unknown
Deadline for short expression of interest: April 30, 2025
Excerpt: »From originating the one-hour episode format to being the first series to ever air full-frontal male nudity, Oz broke televisual ground which paved the way for modern television. Although most commonly associated with the graphic incidents of physical and sexual violence it depicted, the show has since been commended by critics for the reverent discussions of organized religion it screened, an unflinching and exploratory ethos which also informed the depictions of complex topics such race, gender, and sexuality featured throughout its six seasons.«
More information: CFP website

2. Books

Series: Crime, Violence and Justice
Series Editor: Bianca Fileborn
Publisher: Trivent Publishing
Submission deadline for proposals: Ongoing
Excerpt: »This series aims to canvas innovative and critical debates across the field of criminology. We welcome proposals based on empirical research, as well as conceptual and theoretical work. 'Crime', 'violence' and' justice are conceptualized broadly in this series, and proposals may address behaviors which are within the remit of the criminal law, as well as those considered 'deviant', anti-social', or otherwise outside the scope of criminal law. Likewise, justice encompasses both formal institutional responses to crime and violence, as well as informal, innovative, and social justice.
We invite proposals for monographs, handbooks, or edited collections on a broad range of topics relating to crime, violence and justice broadly defined.«
More information: Trivent Publishing

Series: Gender and Culture in the Romantic Era
Series Editor: Ben P. Robertson
Publisher: Anthem Press
Submission deadline for proposals: Ongoing
Excerpt: »Gender and Culture in the Romantic Era is a series of scholarly monographs and edited collections devoted to the topics of gender and culture in British poetry, fiction, and drama from roughly 1780 to 1830. In terms of gender, the series encompasses scholarship related to the lives and works of women writers but also includes studies that address broader constructions of gender identity and sexuality. In cultural terms, the volumes in the series engage broadly with the interconnections between literature and such topics as book history and print culture, politics, science and medicine, travel writing, visual and auditory art, religion, the periodical press, the environment, revolution, exploration, theory, and transatlantic and other transnational connections.«
More information: Anthem Press

Series: Women and Gender in German Studies
Series Editor: Elisabeth Krimmer
Publisher: Camden House
Submission deadline for proposals: Ongoing
Excerpt: »This series seeks to publish monographs and edited collections dedicated to women and gender in German Studies. We are particularly interested in critical analyses that reflect the strength and diversity of works by German-speaking women authors from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, but we also welcome feminist approaches to canonical literature as well as scholarly contributions on women's history.
We invite submissions on women and gender in literature, history, film, and the visual arts in connection with a wide range of topics, including politics, economics, religion and spirituality, race and nationality, migration and transnationality, aesthetics, violence and war, and sexuality and the body.«
More information: Boydell & Brewer

3. Journals

Journal: Journal of Human Trafficking, Enslavement and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Editor:
Submission deadline for abstracts: December 15, 2024, for articles: April 4, 2025
Excerpt: »welcomes articles on the nexus between human trafficking, enslavement and conflict-related sexual violence or on one or two of these crimes individually«
More information: Uitgeverij Paris

Journal: Women's History: The Journal of the Women's History Network
Editor: Catherine Lee
Submission deadline for articles: Ongoing
Excerpt: »Women's History, the journal of the Women's History Network, is seeking submissions of up to 8,000 words. The journal encourages rigorous and fresh examination of any aspect of women's history from any period.«
More information: H-Announce