ethnicity and national identity

Call for Panel Participants

College Art Association Annual Conference

18-21 February 2026   |   Chicago, IL  USA

https://caa.confex.com/caa/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Session16720.html

“Dissent Nearby: Diasporic & LGBTQ+ Resistance”*

*guaranteed session with Sponsorship from the Society of Contemporary Art Historians

Dalit and Adivasi Ecologies:

Representations in Literature and Culture

Call for SubmissionsRoots of Change: The Power and Promise of Black Men in EducationEditors: Emily Allen Williams, Ph.D. & Kendrick Johnson, Ph.D.

About the Anthology

In education, we often hear that teachers are the heartbeat of our schools. But within that heartbeat, there is a specific, often overlooked rhythm—the voices of Black men who shape the minds of future generations.

Roots of Change: The Power and Promise of Black Men in Education is an anthology that seeks to amplify the diverse and powerful voices of Black male educators who have long been silenced in educational spaces.

Journalism and Mass Communication Department of Sister Nivedita University, based out of Kolkata, has put up this inter-disciplinary theme to invite research papers/articles from faculties, researchers, professionals, technocrats, and industry experts from the fields of Mass Communication, Political Science, Sociology, Psychology, English and Cultural Studies to discuss the role of media in representing the marginal voice in the contemporary society, its changing narratives and its effects on human lives. General outlines have been given above, with papers invited on topics and realms on the broader understanding of the theme and beyond the mentioned topics.

TRACKS

Victorian Review is currently accepting submissions for a forum on George Eliot’s final novel, Daniel Deronda, to mark the 150th anniversary of its publication. Guest edited by Eliot scholar Ilana Blumberg, “Daniel Deronda at 150 Years” will appear in VR 51.2. We seek readable, engaging, and focused pieces of 1200-1500 words, inclusive of notes and works cited, and we welcome a wide range of themes, styles, and approaches, both personal and academic. 

Possible topics include but are not limited to: 

C19 Conference, Cincinnati, OH

March 12-14, 2026

Conference online (via Zoom): 28-29 July 2025

CFP:

          It is widely known that ideologies of racism, nationalism, and xenophobia are dangerous and spread all over the world. We want to examine these terms as much as possible, from many perspectives and variable aspects: in politics, society, psychology, culture, and many more. We also want to devote considerable attention to how the phenomena of racism, nationalism and xenophobia are represented in artistic practices: in literature, film, theatre or visual arts.​         

Concept Note:

This panel explores how cultural genealogies—artistic, intellectual, political, and linguistic—are constructed, resisted, and reimagined across French and Francophone spaces. Far from being fixed or linear, inheritance often manifests through discontinuities, silences, and contested claims. Artists and thinkers engage with prior figures, movements, and traditions in ways that may reaffirm legacies, subvert them, or create entirely new configurations of belonging and dissent. Whether through homage, revision, irony, or deliberate omission, these acts of (dis)inheritance speak to larger dynamics of memory, power, and transformation.

An urgent focus on ecocriticism in the humanities has developed in parallel to increased cultural engagement with folklore studies, particularly as such areas relate to the relationships between human communities and ecosystems. The application of folklore studies in ecocriticism facilitates the incorporation of previously marginalized perspectives and identities in order to speak to a global reality, building on the 'past' while responding to potential, and potentially unstable, 'futures'.

Sinners (2025): Critical Approaches to Ryan Coogler’s Groundbreaking Black Vampiric Horror Film

This roundtable explores how literature and allied forms of cultural expression regenerate acts of resistance across generations and geopolitical contexts. Centering on comparative studies of marginalized communities including Dalit, Black, Indigenous, and diasporic voices, this session interrogates how storytelling practices evolve to challenge hegemonic narratives and recover erased or silenced histories. Participants are invited to reflect on how forms such as autofiction, digital narratives, performance art, eco-poetics, or oral testimony function as regenerative tools that produce continuity between past traumas and present struggles.

This virtual panel will discuss and argue how reality shows such as RuPaul’s Drag Race, We’re Here, Survivor, The Rehearsal, and Nathan for You challenge expectations and limitations of narrative and media, and how these shows impact social and cultural understanding of underrepresented communities through spectacle, queerness, race, and gender.

This panel welcomes papers, presentations, and works-in-progress (?!) on reality television and how this genre intersects with critical race and gender studies, critical media studies, fan studies, and digital fandom subcultures.

https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21837

‘Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Black British Man of Letters and His World’ 

13-14  March, 2026

Northeastern University London