cultural studies and historical approaches

Small Screens, Big Stories: Storytelling, Seriality and Mobile Screen Culture

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Monday, May 11, 2026 - 11:54am
Dr Roy Hanney, University of Nottingham Ningbo China
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 1, 2026

Small Screens, Big Stories: Storytelling, Seriality and Mobile Screen Culture

Evolution of Story IV

Deadline for chapter-track abstracts: 1 June 2026
Online symposium-only track open until March 2027

Gastronomy in Transition

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Monday, May 11, 2026 - 11:53am
Aarhus University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Important info

Deadline for proposals is 15 May 2026. You will receive a decision no later that 1 July 2026. 

The conference runs from 29 September - 1 October. On-site attendance only. The conference is held in Aarhus, Denmark. 

See full programme here: https://conferences.au.dk/gastro/programme 

Read more about contributions and send your paper proposal: https://conferences.au.dk/gastro/call-for-contributions 

 

About the conference

Panel 4: EAST MEETS WEST ACROSS BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES

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Monday, May 11, 2026 - 11:50am
Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Dept. of Modern Languages
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Over the last years, there has been a burgeoning debate about the Eastern multicultural space, ranging from Eastern Europe, Middle East and South Asian countries to the Far East, which has been intrinsically coupled with significant cultural and economic dynamism; however, such diverse and multi-layered areas have also been the subject of all sorts of misrepresentations and misinterpretations. Future trajectory of the Eastern mind-set might provide a basis for the emergence of new civilizations in this new century and new millennium. This section attempts to explore the outcomes of the various encounters between Eastern and Western cultural conventions in relation to literature, arts, social sciences, media studies and other fields, by carefully examining

PAEDEIA: NSU Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Law

updated: 
Monday, May 11, 2026 - 11:50am
North South University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 31, 2026

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

 

[DEADLINE EXTENDED] Call for Book Chapters (Springer): Handbook of Religions and Migration: Global and Multi-Tradition Perspectives

updated: 
Monday, May 11, 2026 - 11:50am
University of California, Riverside
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Handbook of Religions and Migration: Global and Multi-Tradition Perspectives (Springer)

 

Editors:

İhsan Çapcıoğlu, Ankara University

Fadime Apaydın, University of California, Riverside

Nevfel Akyar, Manisa Celal Bayar University

 

Editorial Note: In line with our editorial commitment to developing a major reference handbook comparable to leading works in the field, the submission deadline has been extended briefly in order to further strengthen the volume’s global, multi-religious, and cross-traditional comparative dimensions.

 

Indian Diaspora in the 21st Century: Migration, Policy, Identity and Transnational Politics

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Monday, May 11, 2026 - 11:44am
Seth Soorajmull Jalan Girls' College (Affiliated to the University of Calcutta), Kolkata, India.
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

The Indian diaspora is the largest diaspora community in the world, with an approximate population of 35.4 million. From the migration of the indentured labour force during the colonial period to the mass immigration of educated Indians to overseas countries in the late twentieth century, the Indian diaspora has indeed become a global phenomenon. Expanding migration circuits, job and business opportunities, shifting lifestyles, skilled and semi-skilled labour force, among others, have resulted in significant socioeconomic mobility, especially over the last 25 years. Besides making significant contributions to varied fields, the Indian diaspora has also arguably brought changes in how others have traditionally seen India.

Setting the stage: a theatre and performance dissertation writing group

updated: 
Monday, May 11, 2026 - 11:43am
Program in Theatre and Performance, Columbia University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Setting the stage: a theatre and performance dissertation writing group

 

 

Writing a dissertation can be lonely: we want to change that. Many of us first fell in love with theater because — through exploratory rehearsals, late-night tech runs, and joyful opening nights — we found camaraderie and connection, both of which can feel distant in graduate school. If theater is best practiced with others, how can our research and writing processes be shaped by the same commitment to community-building? 

Call for Edited Book Chapter: Disability and Addiction in Japanese Literature (Springer Nature, Metzler)

updated: 
Monday, May 11, 2026 - 11:43am
Marmara University and Kansai University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

This edited volume explores the interrelations between disability and addiction within Japanese literary literature. By focusing strictly on literary representations—and excluding media studies—this collection aims to examine how embodiment, social normativity, and deviance are negotiated through culturally specific frameworks.

The editors invite contributions for the following four sections

1. Disability in Japanese Literature (3 Articles)

Indigeneity and Sustainable Foodways: Planetary Challenges from the Global South

updated: 
Monday, May 11, 2026 - 11:43am
Peter Lang Book Series- Environmental Humanities and Indigeneity
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Call For Papers

Indigeneity and Sustainable Foodways: Planetary Challenges

from the Global South

Editors:

Shreyasi Dasgupta, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur

University

Sayan Mazumder, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur

University

Debashree Dattaray, Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University

MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Conference 2026- Media & Sustainability

updated: 
Monday, May 11, 2026 - 6:19am
MeCCSA PGN & Film, Theatre & Television, University of Reading
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Call for Papers

MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Conference 2026

Media and Sustainability

University of Reading,

Minghella Studios, Whiteknights Campus

Reading RG6 6BT

9th September 2026

Organising committee: Babsie Keulemans, Emir Anday and Elizabeth Heaney

Any questions about the conference or the submission process can be directed to:

Babsie Keulemans – e.l.keulemans@pgr.reading.ac.uk 

2026 Global K-Culture Conference

updated: 
Sunday, May 10, 2026 - 9:11pm
Chungbuk National University, Korea
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

2026 Global K-Culture Conference

August 20 (Thu.) ~ August 22 (Sat.), 2026 (3 days)

Chungbuk National University, Korea

Korean, English, or the presenter’s preferred language

 

Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2026

 

The Department of Global K-Culture at Chungbuk National University is pleased to invite submissions for the upcoming Global K-Culture Conference, aimed at fostering meaningful dialogue and the exchange of ideas among instructors and researchers working across diverse educational and cultural contexts.

Synchronicity and Intuition: Exploring Meaningful Coincidences and Inner Knowing

updated: 
Saturday, May 9, 2026 - 5:31pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Synchronicity and Intuition: Exploring Meaningful Coincidences and Inner Knowing
an online transdisciplinary conference

 

June 15-16, 2026

Online, Via Zoom

 

Proposal deadline: May 15, 2026

 

Fees:
£100 (for both presenters and attendees)
Prices exclude booking fees

 

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/03/16/synchronicity/ 

STILL, A RACE FOR THEORY: THE INFUSIVE PRAXTICE OF BLACK AND BROWN POET-SCHOLARS

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:34pm
Dr. Kendra N. Bryant Aya / BOMBS Publishing
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 31, 2026

In April 2026, I attended Shauna M. Morgan, Angel Dye, and Madison (Mocha) Hunter's College Language Association panel discussion: “Scripting Soul Work: The Infusive Praxis of Poet-Scholars.” In their talk, each panelist discussed—in prose like fashion—her relationship with her creative and scholarly self, and, in the spirit of Barbara Christian's 1987 “The Race for Theory,” they argued the significance of creative writing to Black and brown folk scholarship and being, which they supported with a reading of their selected poetic works.

True Crime CFP - MAPACA Annual Conference

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:34pm
Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2026 Annual Conference, November 5-7, 2026 in Baltimore, MD

12th International Language, Literature and Culture Conference “Human, Environment and Ecology”

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Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:34pm
12th International Language, Literature and Culture Conference “Human, Environment and Ecology”
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 20, 2026

Continuing the interdisciplinary tradition of the International Language, Literature and Culture (LLC) Conference Series, the 12th International Language, Literature and Culture Conference, jointly organized by Çankaya University and Bournemouth University, will be hosted by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Süleyman Demirel University on 21–24 October 2026. Scholars and researchers are cordially invited to contribute to the conference under the theme “Human, Environment and Ecology.”

Manuscripts and Textual Criticism

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Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:34pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

Manuscripts and Textual Criticism (Panel / In-Person)Presiding Officer: Kathryn Vulic (Western Washington University)

Special Issue: Vocality in the Americas

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:33pm
American Music
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

Call for Papers: American Music Special Issue on Vocality in the Americas

Deadline to indicate interest: May 15

Deadline to send preliminary submission information: June 15

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL ISSUE ON VOCALITY IN THE AMERICAS

 

The editorial team at American Music invites submissions for a special issue exploring vocality in the Americas. Considering vocality as an ontological and epistemological process—a vocal way of knowing the world and of being in the world, constructed intersubjectively by both singers/speakers and listeners—we encourage contributions that engage with one or more of the following themes:

Call for Book Chapters

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:33pm
Multani Mal Modi College, Patiala, Punjab, India
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 5, 2026

Call for Book Chapters

Theme: Prisms of Interpretation: Analysing Literature in English

Multani Mal Modi College is pleased to announce a call for chapter contributions for an upcoming book publication. The theme of the proposed volume is:

Prisms of Interpretation: Analysing Literature in English

Testimony, Silence, and Authority: Narratives of Sexual Violence

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:32pm
PAMLA (Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

This panel examines how writers challenge dominant structures of authority in/through narratives of sexual violence. Legal and cultural frameworks often dictate how sexual violence is recognized, narrated, and believed, shaping whose stories are legible and whose are dismissed. This session explores how survivors and writers resist these constraints through alternative narrative strategies, fragmentation, silence, poetic form, visual storytelling and more. It attends to how narrative operates as a site of power, shaping not only representation but the conditions under which sexual violence is acknowledged, legitimized, or denied.

Call for Papers for dialog-Special Issue No. 47

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:32pm
Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR DIALOG JOURNAL

Special Issue No. 47

Theme: Creative Afterlives of Texts

dialog, a fully peer-reviewed, bi-annual international journal of the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, invites submissions for its forthcoming special issue (No. 47) on “Creative Afterlives of Texts.” The journal provides a forum for interdisciplinary research engaging literature, culture, and critical theory.

iterature/Film Quarterly: General Call for Manuscripts

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:28pm
Literature Film/Quarterly
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 1, 2027

Literature/Film Quarterly (LFQ) is an internationally recognized, open-access journal specializing in adaptation studies. Published entirely online, LFQ makes all content freely available to readers worldwide. We publish quarterly and manuscripts often progress from initial submission through peer review to publication in less than one year. 2023 marked our 50th year of continuous publication. Visit our website for current issues, online archives (dating to 2017), and complete submission guidelines: https://lfq.salisbury.edu/

Travel and Tourism (Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Conference) 2026

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:24pm
MAPACA (Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Assn)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Travel and Tourism Studies as a discipline continues to gain popularity in academia, in part because of its inter-disciplinary nature. The Travel and Tourism area seeks papers that discuss and explore any aspect of travel and/or tourism. Topics for this area include, but are not limited to, the following:

- travel and gender/race/class
- personal travel narratives
- heritage tourism
- material culture and tourism
- the impacts of the political climate on travel

Call for Papers: Edited Volume on Adoption in Popular Media

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:24pm
Stacy Fowler / St. Mary's University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

Call for Papers: Edited Volume on Adoption in Popular Media

 

deadline for submissions: 

June 15, 2026

full name / name of organization: 

Stacy Fowler / St. Mary’s University

contact email: 

sfowler@stmarytx.edu

 

Hand to Mouth: Southern Writers on Poverty

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:23pm
Dr. Monic Ductan
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Poverty in the South is too often discussed at a distance. Flattened into stereotype, policy language, nostalgia, or shame, it is rarely given the complexity, dignity, and literary force it deserves.

Hand to Mouth seeks new work by Southern writers whose lives have been shaped by poverty. We are interested in writing that reflects on poverty as lived experience, inherited condition, social structure, class passage, stigma, kinship, resourcefulness, hunger, desire, labor, and survival.

First Forum Conference / Delirium

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:22pm
Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Southern California
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 1, 2026

The annual graduate student conference organized by the Division of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California is now accepting applications. Submission deadline is June 1, 2026.

This year’s conference invites proposals that engage broadly with the theme, Delirium. 

It will take place on October 23–24, 2026, at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, with Professor Eugenie Brinkema joining for the Keynote. 

We welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplines and methodological approaches, including creative works.

Brandeis Novel Symposium 2026: Human Acts (2014)

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:22pm
Brandeis Novel Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

The tenth annual Brandeis Novel Symposium (BNS), which will take place on Friday, October 23, 2026, invites proposals for papers on Han Kang’s 2014 novel Human Acts (original title: 소년이 온다, or A Boy Comes; English translation by Deborah Smith). The Brandeis Novel Symposium is a one-day conference that chooses a single novel as a point of focus for salient theoretical, historical, political, and narratological questions about the novel as a genre. (See the 2025 BNS websiteand this archive for more information about the BNS.)

Star Wars at 50: Forces, Forms, Legacies

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:21pm
Dr Sam Thomas / Durham University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 1, 2026

2027 marks the 50th anniversary of the film now generally known as Episode IV: A New Hope, the first instalment in the hugely successful Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas. As beloved as it is divisive, Star Wars now straddles multiple decades and generations while proliferating across narrative media (novels, comics, games, animation, TV). It provides a series of compelling case studies in the relationship between creativity and commerce, from the foundation of Lucasfilm during the New Hollywood period to the 21st century Disney-era, and it has developed via a complex interplay between cutting-edge technological innovation, nostalgia, and mythmaking.

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