ecocriticism and environmental studies

Call for Papers: International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles

Special Issue: ‘Sustainable Fashion and Textile Futures: Intersections of Heritage, Craft and Innovation’

Special Issue Guest Editors
Pratibha Mishra
Professor & HoD, Department of Fashion Design & Department of Interior Design, School of Architecture & Design, Manipal University Jaipur, India
pratibha.mishra@jaipur.manipal.edu

Deepshikha Sharma

Indigenous Worlds in Transition: Society, Ecology, and Justice Among Tribal and Marginalised Communities

deadline for submission: 20 December, 2026

full name/ name of organization
Dr. Sarita Pandey, Jananayak Chandrashekhar University, Ballia; Prof. Prabha Shankar Dwivedi, Banaras Hindu University

contact email: indigenousworldscfp@gmail.com

Call for Papers for the Edited Volume: Indigenous Worlds in Transition: Society, Ecology, and Justice Among Tribal and Marginalised Communities

In light of challenges posed by the rapidly changing world, including the environmental crisis, accelerated digitalization, and the implementation of AI technologies, media researchers and intermedial scholars have increasingly turned their attention to questions of ecology, material processes, and nonhuman agency. This shift reflects a growing recognition of the need to reconsider and expand media-centred approaches and to engage critically with broader questions that extend beyond mediation itself.

The Graduate Journal of Food Studies invites submissions for a special issue exploring the theme Food as Joy.

Food is and will always be a source of pleasure, celebration, creativity, and connection. This issue seeks contributions that examine the intersections, tensions, and possibilities of food as a source of joy. We welcome interdisciplinary perspectives and encourage submissions that engage with food's social, cultural, political, environmental, and emotional dimensions.

Call for Papers | International Conference on Canadian Studies

The Centre for Canadian Studies, Jadavpur University is delighted to invite papers for its upcoming International Conference:

"Medical Humanities in the Anthropocene: Indigeneity, Borders and Justice through Indo-Canadian Perspectives"

 3–4 February 2027

Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 November 2026

This conference explores decay as a transformative, liminal state that bridges the physical, the political, and the conceptual. During the process of decomposition, systems and objects start to break down, existing in a precarious limbo that simultaneously signals contamination to the surrounding environment. As theorized by Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror, the abject corpse and the decaying material remind us of the fragility of our own boundaries, confronting us with what must be cast off to constitute a stable self. This fear of bodily disintegration and abjection mirrors the anxieties we project onto broader cultural and institutional structures.

Environmental racism predates its own name. The term entered public discourse in 1982, but the conditions behind it, namely exposure to hazard and unequal claim to safety, go back to slavery itself. Historian Carl Zimring traces this to a basic split in American thought: white meant clean, Black meant dirty. That split decided who did the dirtiest, most dangerous work, and who lived closest to pollution, for generations. In 1968, Memphis sanitation workers went on strike over exactly that: unsafe, degrading labour shaped by the same racial split. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis while there in support of the very strike. That split still operates today.

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Eating for a Green Future

Literature, Culture, and the Politics of Food in Contemporary India

Edited by

Dr. Manisha Mohanty (Assistant Professor, S'O'A University & Fulbright-Nehru Fellow)

Dr. Shashibhusan Nayak (MLA Bibliography Fellow, MLA)

Dr. Sonali Das (Assistant Professor, S’O’A University)

European Comic Art invites proposals for a special issue on ‘Francophone Graphic Narratives/Bande dessinée: Authority and Resistance’. This issue will examine how francophone graphic narratives engage with, challenge, and reimagine authority in its many forms – political, cultural, institutional, and aesthetic – and how they forge practices of resistance and dissent.

This panel will explore Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and related texts at MLA 2027 Convention in Los Angeles. Please send your 250 word abstract on relevant themes like homecoming and the oceanic by August 30, to Ennuri Jo (she/her) at ennurijo@upenn.edu. 

Christopher Nolan’s much-awaited film The Odyssey was released in IMAX on July 17, 2027.

Concept Note for Call for Papers LAW, LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND CULTURE: EPISTEMOLOGIES OF JUSTICE 
Background

New Perspectives on Creature Features (additional chapters)

Edited by

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

                                     The Age of Brutalism: Sacrificial Modernity and the Contemporary Novel
                                          (The edited volume has received an expression of interest from Springer)

Volume Editors:

● Om Prakash Dwivedi, Professor, School of Liberal Arts and Behavioral Sciences, Chandigarh University Uttar Pradesh.

● Madhurima Nayak, Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Arts and Behavioral Sciences, Chandigarh University Uttar Pradesh.

● Arunima Moitra, Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Arts and Behavioral Sciences, Chandigarh University Uttar Pradesh.

The advancement of artificial intelligence has transformed humanities research and education, deepening computation’s influence on scholarly practice and everyday life. From the early era of “humanities computing” in the 1970s to the rise of “computational humanities” over the past decade, this trajectory highlights the enduring—and expanding—role of computation in shaping inquiry across the humanities. These intersections are especially visible in interdisciplinary work. As T. S. Eliot observes, “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” The same spirit can illuminate how methods and tools migrate across fields.