general announcements

Climate change is often discussed as an environmental emergency, but its most profound consequences are social, political, economic, and deeply gendered. The climate crisis does not operate in isolation from existing systems of inequality; rather, it intensifies historically entrenched hierarchies of gender, caste, class, race, labour, sexuality, and power. Women and gender minorities, frequently experience climate change not as a distant ecological abstraction but as everyday reality lived through food insecurity, water scarcity, displacement, unpaid labour, agrarian distress, and precarious working conditions.

Hogg’s Worlds Now

The 2026 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 15th through Saturday October 17th.
We are looking forward to another engaging and rewarding conference for new and seasoned members alike. We are seeking proposals for panels and presentations for this year’s conference, including proposals for the Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Area.

We invite submissions for the upcoming issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in SEPTEMBER. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography, ERIH Plus, DOAJ, EBSCO and Gale Cengage.

* Deadline is the end of JULY but we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.

* Original works, not published elsewhere or related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication.

* Please note that all manuscripts will be closely examined through Turnitin once they are received by the journal.

The Triumph of the Therapeutic Revisited: The Politics of Self-Care and Self-Improvement in Contemporary American Culture

Guest editors: Alexandra Bacalu & Dragoș Manea

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

Call for Papers: Social Work & Society, Special Issue 2/2027
“Constructing time - Temporalities of transition processes in the welfare state”
Guest-Editors: Anemari Karacic, Ariana Kellmer, Daniela Böhringer (University of Duisburg-Essen)

2026 Dress and Body Association Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Dress and Body Association invites submissions for the organization’s seventh annual conference, which will be held on November 7-8, 2026. Consistent with our long-term goals for inclusivity and sustainability, all activities will be 100% online.

Join our Google Group to learn about opportunities and converse with members of the DBA year-round! Email to request membership: dress.body.assoc@gmail.com.

Opening the Archives of Dress and the Body

“Rhetorical Theory” (Standing Session)
Seattle, WA, Nov. 20-23
Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack (USC)
Email: leack@usc.edu

Abstract

This panel will explore recent movements in rhetorical theory writ large, either in connection with or apart from composition theory and practice. Special attention will be given to proposals that engage with the conference's theme.

Description

This is a call for papers for an international edited volume tentatively titled ‘Visual Propaganda in an Era of Instability’. Based on distinct case studies explored in a wide range of book chapters, the main objective of the volume is to analyse the role of the image in driving public opinion and perception. The main historical period under investigation is from 2020 onwards: a time that is marked by significant social, cultural, political and ideological tensions. Whilst visual propaganda is not a new phenomenon, and contributors are very welcome to reference historical precedents, the main focus of the volume will be on the growing impact of visual propaganda since 2020.

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.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Displaced Dialogues: Performance and Identity in Dalit and Tribal South Asian Diaspora

Introduction

TYCA Northeast

61st Annual Conference

2026 Call for Proposals

October 2 - 3, 2026

Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square

25 S Queen St, Lancaster, PA 17603

Proposal Deadline: Monday, June 1, 2026

Submission Link: https://www.tycanortheast.org/

Conference Theme: Meeting the Moment: Connecting the Past, Present, and Future in English Studies

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.