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This MLA just-in-time panel explores the evolving status of non-binariness in trans studies and beyond. Following Marquis Bey’s Nonbinary Life, we ask: Is non-binariness an emancipatory narrative? What are its critical potentialities and limitations? Send 150-200 word abstracts + bio to m.stekl@colostate.edu by 8/21. (The MLA will take place in Los Angeles from 7 to 10 January 2027.)

How was the concept of “hospitality” and “leisure” conceived by early American writers? Travelogues, whether from William Bartram, Sara Kemble Knight, or others, served as a major genre type during the period. Topics may include stays at early American hotels, the way that leisure was/is linked to social class, and the Caribbean and European vacation in the early American imagination. What regional places of leisure figured heavily in the early American cultural imaginary? How did Black writers and Native American writers conceive of entertainment and visitation? This panel seeks contributors who can speak to leisure and travel from writings that span the early part of American culture and history into the nineteenth century.

CALL FOR PAPERS / Mid-twentieth-century American Women’s Crime Writing
(theme issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection)
Guest editors: Erin A. Smith (University of Texas at Dallas) and Clare Rolens (Palomar College)

PAEDEIA: NSU Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences, and LawCall for Papers

Vol. 2, 2026

*"Online First" publication upon acceptance

*Expected print publication in December 2026

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RSAJournal, no. 38 (2027) - Call For Papers: Contested Meanings of Freedom in the United States

Guest editors: Dr. Janine Giordano Drake (Indiana University Bloomington) and Dr. Matthew E. Stanley (University of Arkansas)

The Journal of Humanities publishes original research articles, scholarly opinions, and reviews in classics, fine and performing arts, communication, literature, linguistics, theology, and philosophy.  While maintaining a pluralistic and non-partisan approach, the journal prioritises studies focused on Southern, Central, and Eastern Africa, aiming to foster critical and theoretical debates within the humanities across the region. (part of the African Journals Initiative AJI by Pluto Journals and the African Books Collective)

ISSN: 1016-0728 (print)  |  ISSN: 2948-0094 (online)

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Panel on the rewards, risks, and ethics of public humanities approaches in the undergraduate classroom. Some possible topics: public project assignments, public writing, community-engaged learning, university/humanities in current political climate, faculty-student collaboration.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, August 15, 2026