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Call for Papers:
Cluster on Refusal in Migrant and Refugee Lifemaking
Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
Convener: Monisha Das Gupta
Submission length: 6,000-8,000 words, including the list of references
SESSION DESCRIPTION
Afrofuturism, Latinx altermundos, Indigenous futurisms, solarpunk, cli-fi — the speculative modes through which BIPOC writers have imagined, contested, and survived the present are not marginal subgenres. They are among the most politically urgent literary formations of the last half-century, and among the least fully mapped by existing scholarship. This special session invites papers that read across these formations to ask: what does speculative fiction do when it is written from the borderlands, from the barrio, from the reservation, from the maquiladora corridor, from communities that have been made to inhabit the dystopian present that other traditions only project?
We invite proposals for individual papers for the critical mixed race studies panel at the annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) in Seattle, Washington, from November 12-15, 2026.
Paper proposals are due by June 6, 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.
The 123rd Annual PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) Conference will be held in person, November 12–15, 2026, in Seattle, Washington.
20th Century Southern Women Writers Conference
presented by the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society
October 15-18, 2026Springfield, Kentucky
Extended deadline for chapter proposals: 10 June 2026.
Click here to submit your abstract and bio using SAMLA's internal platform: https://samla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19584
The Flannery O’Connor Society invites abstracts (of no more than 300 words) for open topic presentations at SAMLA 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia, November 5-7. We will accept proposals for a wide variety of topics about and/or related to Flannery O’Connor’s oeuvre, and submissions from graduate students and emerging scholars are encouraged.
Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to:
For PAMLA 2026 123rd Annual Conference (Seattle, WA) – Nov. 12-15, 2026
As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence,
at a time of perceived challenges to its promises of freedom and equality, this symposium
invites a multidisciplinary reflection on the narrative strategies used to represent past and
contemporary interpretations of experienced scenarios of crises, resistance and change.
The Symposium is particularly interested in the connections between contemporary
political, social and cultural fractures and previous experiences of confrontation of
opposing visions of the collective national project, which also tested the fulfillment of the
--- DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL 25 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
Howard University | March 17–18, 2027
Hosted by the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and the Black Press Research Collective
In March 1827, just over fifty years after the United States Declaration of Independence, Freedom’s Journal, the first Black newspaper in North America, declared: “We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us.”
In March 2027, we mark the bicentennial of the Black Press, celebrating 200 years of Black journalism as one of the most vital and enduring institutions in American public life.
PAMLA Panel Proposal, November 2026: Mourning as Social Protest, Andrea Fishman, Presiding Officer
CALL FOR PAPERS
Displaced Dialogues: Performance and Identity in Dalit and Tribal South Asian Diaspora
Introduction
LFA 2026: ADAPTATION/NATION
LITERATURE/FILM ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
Elon University, Elon, NC
October 1st – 3rd 2026
SEEKING BOOK CHAPTER AUTHORS: Women and social media through a global lens - edited collection (under contract)
We are seeking authors for an interdisciplinary edited volume examining women’s roles in social media as both producers and consumers across global contexts. This collection explores the personal, political, social, and economic dimensions of this digital activity through the examination of global regions.
Chapters are organized by region. Remaining regions include:
Each chapter will contain the following sections:
Dear Colleague, We invite you to contribute to a forthcoming edited volume, A Global Companion for Anti-Racist Education and Solidarity Work. This volume brings together educators, researchers, and community practitioners engaged in the everyday work of confronting racism and cultivating more just educational environments. Rather than treating anti-racist education as abstract or purely theoretical, this volume centers practice. We begin from the premise that some of the most generative forms of anti-racist work are already unfolding in classrooms, schools, community organizations, and local movements.
This panel title borrows from the article "Granola and Guns: The Rise of Conspirituality" hosted on McGill University's Office for Science and Society that attempts to define and locate in American society a perplexing mindset that blends countercultural mystical thinking and conservative paranoia. "Conspirituality," which PennState defines as "a belief system that blends new age spiritual beliefs and conspiracy theorizing," has also been branded the "crunchy-to-fascism" pipeline, demonstrating how an openness to crystal healing, chakra opening, sonic baths, and celestial alignment has led many—often well-to-do white women—towards "Pastel QAnon," anti-vaxx, and an embrace of alt-right beliefs.
Names of Proposed Editor(s) and academic affiliation:
Prof. Om Prakash Dwivedi, Director, Faculty of Humanities & Liberal Arts Chandigarh University Uttar Pradesh, India
Dr. Madhurima Nayak, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Chandigarh University Uttar Pradesh, India
Prof. Debajyoti Biswas, Department of English, Bodoland University, India
Aim & Intellectual Scope of Issue
Please see here for full details: https://www.wethecivic.org/submit
Scroll to the bottom of this page for submission form: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/wtc/
Essays, Reported Pieces, Criticism, Art & Visual, Video & Hybrid Forms
In 2026, the United States marks 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence—a document that promised liberty and justice for all and delivered them to very few.
This anniversary will be loud. It will be choreographed.
And Nonprofit Quarterly, in community with nonprofit and media partners, will contest it.
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
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.
As Section Editor for The Latinx and Hispanic Experience, I am reaching out to invite you to submit a chapter to this section of the forthcoming volume, The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, edited by Dr. James S. Bridgeforth, Dr. Jamie Penven, and Dr. Theodore Ransaw.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Green Wall: Narrating Ethnicity, Belonging, and Environmental Nativism in South Asian Cultural Production
Guest Editors
Dr. Mansi Bose, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India
&
Dr. Pratyusha Pramanik, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India
Rationale
Call for Submissions: Invisibility & The Raft of Hope: A 75th-Anniversary Reflection on Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
Deadline: June 15, 2026
Contact: qal0815@utulsa.edu
Call for Papers
SMU’s ERAH Graduate Conference
English | History | Anthropology
Date: October 10-11, 2026
Location: SMU Main Campus, Dallas, TX
Theme: Movement & Borderlands
Submission Deadline: September 7, 2026
Keynotes: Dr. Tim Bowman | Dr. Elda María Román
Indian Knowledge System Cell,
Post Graduate Department of English,
And
Post Graduate Department of Economics,
SRI GURU TEG BAHADUR KHALSA COLLEGE,
SRI ANANDPUR SAHIB-140118,
PUNJAB, INDIA
organizes
Two-days International Conference
On
Indian Knowledge System: Perspectives and Imperatives
(6-7 August, 2026)
You are invited to submit a paper to the session "Passing Novels Now and Then:Gender, Class" at the 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Languagae Association (PAMLA) conference in Seatlle, WA from Nov. 12-15, 2026.
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You are invited to submit a paper proposal to the session "(Almost) Fifty Tears Later: Reception of Octavia Butler's Kindred" at the 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Languagae Association (PAMLA) conference in Seatlle, WA from Nov. 12-15, 2026.