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Call for Papers
MATHEMATICS AND ENGINEERING
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025
The Mind and the Machine: Mental Disability and Technology
George Washington University (GWU) English Graduate Student Association Symposium
Friday, 20 March, 2026
This virtual symposium invites papers that explore how mental disability and technology intersect in literature, film, and media.
By mental disability, we include conditions such as mental illness, neurodivergence, emotional distress, and psychological differences as represented across cultures.
By technology, we refer broadly to scientific, digital, or mechanical systems (such as medical instruments, typewriters, social media, surveillance systems, and artificial intelligence).
AI and Shakespeare: A British Shakespeare Association Virtual Conference: CFP
The Mind and the Machine: Mental Disability and Technology
George Washington University (GWU) English Graduate Student Association Symposium
Friday, 20 March, 2026
This virtual symposium invites papers that explore how mental disability and technology intersect in literature, film, and media.
By mental disability, we include conditions such as mental illness, neurodivergence, emotional distress, and psychological differences as represented across cultures.
By technology, we refer broadly to scientific, digital, or mechanical systems (such as medical instruments, typewriters, social media, surveillance systems, and artificial intelligence).
The Medievalism in Popular Culture Area (including Early to Later Middle Ages, Robin Hood, Arthurian Legend, Chaucer, Norse, and other materials connected to medieval studies) accepts papers on all topics that explore either popular culture during the Middle Ages or transcribe some aspect of the Middle Ages into the popular culture of later periods. These representations can occur in any genre, including film, television, novels, graphic novels, gaming, advertising, art, etc. For this year’s conference, I would like to encourage submissions on some of the following topics:
Call for Papers for a in person panel on 21st Century Latinx Children’s Literature and Media at the 2026 Annual MELUS Conference scheduled for Thursday, April 30 - Saturday, May 2, 2026.
According to the last three U.S. Census reports, the demographic of Latinx/Hispanic children has grown. Most recently, Latinx children account for about 1 in 4 of all children in the United States.
Co-editors Heather M. Porter and Michael Starr invite proposals or completed essays for an edited collection of scholarly works that explore the ground-breaking HBO series Sex and the City(1998 -2004) along with shows that came before and after, including the divisive …And Just Like That (2022-2025) which has just finished its three-season run. Proposals should demonstrate a clear methodology and strong thesis and a familiarity with prior and current conversations and publications concerning the series, and any incorporated series. The collection seeks to showcase a range of theoretical lenses; we are hence interested in diverse disciplinary approaches concerning a wide variety of topics.
We live in a time marked by uncertainty, yet such historical junctures are not unprecedented. The 1980s likewise represented a period of profound instability and transition across multiple regions. In Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, this decade culminated in the fall of socialism, while in China it witnessed the transformation of Maoism into what became known as “socialism with Chinese characteristics.” These developments reoriented all the societies in question from relative cultural isolation to increasingly market-oriented and globally integrated economies in the 1990s.
The Routledge Handbook to Star Wars
Edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Angelique Nairn, and Justin Matthews
The Editors invite abstract submissions for The Routledge Handbook to Star Wars. Contributions are encouraged from scholars across disciplines, including film and media studies, cultural studies, sociology, history, gender studies, literature, and related fields, as well as from those engaging with interdisciplinary approaches.
Building Spaces of Freedom
Society for the Study of Southern Literature 2026 CFP
Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, March 28-31, 2026
The Society for the Study of Southern Literature seeks submissions for our biennial conference, which will take place March 28-31, 2026, at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Keynote Speakers: Michele Aaron (University of Warwick) and Jean-Baptiste Thoret (Université
de Poitiers)
How has the future of the United Kingdom and its various components been imagined, conceived and projected at all periods, including the present day?
“Neurodivergent just means a brain that diverges.” – Kassiane Asasumasu, Radical Neurodivergence Speaking
The first year of Neurodivergent Studies at the PCA, in New Orleans in 2025, showed that there was marked interest in developing this field and expanding conversations. Neurodivergent Studies, a field that has long been relegated to more scientific study, is ready to move into different spaces as we start conversations about how neurodivergent approaches to popular culture, fandom, academia, and our own experiences can shape the way we approach the world.
The online issue of Negotiations: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, the bi-annual journal of the Department of English, University of North Bengal, has been published. The journal is now inviting submissions for its December, 2025 issue. The details of the journal can be found at https://negotiations.nbu.ac.in . All details regarding the submission procedure, processes of free registration, current issue, style sheet can be obtained from the journal website.
Conference:
Children’s Literature Association Annual Conference
“Won’t You Be My Neighbor”
May 28–30, 2026
Omni William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA
Roundtable Format:
This will be proposed as a roundtable.
I am looking for 4–6 participants to give short (5–10 minute) provocations or reflections that will spark an open discussion.
Organiser Contact Info:
Samira Abdur-Rahman, Assistant Professor of Literature and the Environment, The College of New Jersey (TCNJ)
Roundtable Description:
The Western genre has been widely read within the confines of a national cinema and culture of the United States. However, the field of Film Studies has increasingly sought to emancipate the Western genre from discourses of American myth and identity, instead exploring its ongoing production, circulation, and reception beyond the borders of the United States (including Miller 2013; Higgins 2015; Mayer 2022, among many more). This body of work has significantly expanded our understanding of the Western’s transnational dimensions by highlighting the genre’s local rewritings on a global scale, and unpacking the complex transcultural negotiations involved in appropriating what is often considered an inherently American genre.
Joan is Awful is the first episode of season six of Netflix’s Black Mirror that talks about the impact of artificially generated content on the lives of citizens, taking their mundane lives and turning them into a streaming special on ‘Streamberry’ for everyone to watch. The titular character Joan (played by Annie Murphy), is subjected to this midway through the episode when she sits to watch a curiously titled episode on the Streamberry streaming service that uses her name, Joan is Awful and has the actress Salma Hayek playing re-enacting her life.
Call for Papers:
Rendering Violence in Textual and Visual Media
24-25 April, 2026
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
Keynote Speakers:
Seth Kim, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, Colby College
Pedro Inock, Filmmaker and PhD candidate, NOVA University of Lisbon
Special Call for Papers, Issue 11.1 (Sprıng 2026)
For its forthcoming issue, Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration (MSJ)
Shakespeare exists across and between multiple worlds today. After centuries of circulation in Asia, Shakespeare inhabits all locales and cultural formations in ever-changing forms, but is contained by none. Neither completely virtual nor concretely embodied, long dead yet very much alive, inhabiting past, present and future in equal measure, Shakespeare continues to thrive in the act of playing, teaching and thinking. Recent Asian Shakespeare scholarship has critically reflected upon, yet ultimately celebrated such cross-cultural, international, world-wide flourishing, bringing together new arrangements, forms and collaborations of Shakespeare’s work across art, performance and cultures.
ContactZone (http://www.aisff-starfiction.com/journal) Special Issue "Unruly Bodies and Astral Corporealities in Science Fiction Cinema and Television Series"
Edited by Giuseppe Balirano and Oriana Palusci
Call for Articles - The Politics of Emotion: Affect, Identity and Power
IDEA – Interdisciplinary Discourses, Education and Analysis launches its new issue on the topic The Politics of Emotion: Affect, Identity and Power.
Emotions shape the way individuals and communities navigate their personal and collective lives, influencing decisions, relationships and the structures that govern societies. They are deeply embedded in social, cultural and political contexts, acting as both a personal experience and a force that drives public action.
Call for Papers
Emily Thomas
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025
International Conference
Women Filmmakers and New Feminist Cinemas in France, Great Britain, and the USA in the 21st Century
21-22-23 October 2026, Université Toulouse 2 Jean-Jaurès, France
Deadline: Submissions due has been extended to October 15, 2025 to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu.
It feels only appropriate, given the recent UR graduate worker strike, that Issue 41 of InVisible Culture focus on the problem of labor. Amid the erosion of labor protections in academia, increasing challenges faced by immigrant workers in the US, and global labor conflicts in fields like healthcare and agriculture, this moment calls for a reconsideration of what labor is and how its value is structured.
CRS Graduate Student Conference 2026
April 3rd - 4th, 2026
Sprockets/Selvage/Shores
Human-Animal Studies and Literary Animal Studies in German Narratives
Book Series: Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology
About the Series
The book series Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology (Istanbul University Press) explores intersections of German literature, culture, and society with broader interdisciplinary fields.
Projecting Belief: Cinema and the Re-enchanted World
King’s College London – May 21-23 2026
Conference Organizers – Rachata Sasnanand and Benjamin Y Goff
Call for Papers:
Call for Papers for the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) · Please distribute · Apologies for cross-posting
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The 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) will take place on 8–10 April 2026, in Toulouse, France, as part of the evo* event.
Representation matters – but to whom? And how?
This iteration of the Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture conference considers the ongoing significance of representational analysis as well as the critical possibilities enabled by the turn to resonance in Black media and cultural studies. Our theme, Representation and Resonance, invites original research into images and storytelling, circulation and flows, and reception practices.
While we especially invite papers on this topic, we are open to any and all critical inquiry into Black media culture, broadly defined. Our hope is to bring together any and all scholars interested and invested in Black media culture, regardless of discipline or method.