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This VIRTUAL panel invites papers on “Narrative Medicine and Community Empowerment in Asian and Arab Graphic Narratives” for NeMLA 58th Annual Convention to be held on March 6-9, 2027.
PCA Annual Conference, March 24-27, 2027: Boston, Massachusetts
The Collecting and Collectibles Area invites proposals exploring how “collecting” has become an embodiment of the economic, political, environmental, and digital precarities that shape contemporary popular culture. Collecting now operates as a dynamic source for epistemic production, constantly redefining how popular culture is constructed, construed, mediated, valorized, historicized, and even contested.
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
The Black Sitcom: A Comprehensive Survey with Critical Essays
1950 – 2000
The figure of the woman traveler has long occupied a distinctive place in the cultural imagination. At once celebrated and contested, she has been represented as explorer, observer, adventurer, ethnographer, journalist, tourist, and pilgrim—but nearly always an antidote to feminine domesticity.
We are currently seeking contributors from across the disciplines for a proposed collection of essays on “the woman traveler.” This volume will explore the enduring and evolving cultural figure across genres and media—from travel writing and photography to film, blogs, Instagram, and TikTok.
March 6-9, 2027
Newport, RI
Convention Site: Salve Regina University
Procedural Poetry Now: Precedents, Tools, Goals
ACLA 2027 Annual Meeting
University of Houston: May 20–23, 2027
Proposal deadline: September 22, 2026
We are excited to share a CFP for a roundtable we are chairing at NeMLA 2027: “Creating Community in the AI Age: Empowerment in English Classrooms.”The more we talk about AI in education, the more I find myself thinking about what we don’t want to lose. What happens to connection and a sense of belonging in our classrooms? How can literature and writing still bring people together, encourage empathy where students feel that their voices matter?
NeMLA: March 6-9, 2027
Location: Newport, RI
Session Type: Roundtable (this is a hybrid roundtable with in-person and virtual presentations allowed)
Full Call and Submission: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/22319
TIDEL Scholarly Symposium Faith, Ethics, and Digital Transformation
Join TIDEL for a two-day convening exploring the ethical, theological, social, and institutional implications of technological change in an era of rapid innovation and profound social transformation.
Founded in 2022, TIDEL is a Union Theological Seminary–based initiative that brings together faith leaders, scholars, technologists, nonprofit practitioners, and public leaders to explore ethical, justice-centered, and collaborative approaches to technology, innovation, and digital engagement.
Thursday, October 1, 2026 Union Theological Seminary
1:45 PM -- 5:45 PM Boxed lunch available at 12:45 PM
$100 until September 1 $150 after
Although internet culture may have brought about the hashtag #WeirdGirlLit,” women authors have long used writing to explore taboo and forbidden topics deemed beyond the purview of polite/patriarchal society. While Heather Colley of Writers Digest has noted that “Women in literary fiction are becoming murderers, cannibals, psychopaths, and stalkers,” we contend that female protagonists have long been unhinged both across time and space. Historically, freaky (anti)heroines have served as a release through which women readers could escape the restrictive confines of ideal femininity and instead probe hidden desires and other illicit aspects of their identities.
On the occasion of the 135th birth anniversary of Pearl S. Buck, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1938), this international symposium seeks to revisit her life and writings from the perspective of exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations. Hailed as “the most influential Westerner to write about China since the 13th century’s Marco Polo”, Pearl S. Buck not only introduced Chinese literature and culture to global readers through her literary writings, but also participated actively in transnational cultural dialogue, humanitarian engagement, and the shaping of international understandings of China.
Folklore is having a moment in South Asian writing, and it isn't a nostalgic one. Novelists, poets, memoirists, playwrights, and graphic novelists across the region and its diaspora keep returning to myth, oral narrative, legend, and vernacular ritual, not to decorate their work with the past, but to think through the pressures of the present: ecological collapse, historical trauma, gendered violence, migration, and a digital, algorithmic world the old tales never anticipated and somehow still speak to.
In an era characterized by unprecedented technological advancements and escalating ecological crises, the fundamental assumptions of what it means to be human are undergoing a radical reassessment. The traditional framework of humanism, predicated on a singular, anthropocentric worldview, is increasingly challenged by the rise of artificial intelligence, biotechnologies, and global ecological interdependence. This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore how various forms of cultural production, including literature, film, and digital media, function not merely as reflections of the posthuman turn but as active agents in shaping and articulating it.
Dear Fellow Writers and Thinkers,
The Windhover Writers' Festival (February 18-19, 2027) promises to be a vibrant gathering to explore the intersection of faith and creativity, with a central theme of Narrative Beauty.
The Windhover Writers' Festival has long been a cherished space for writers, scholars, and readers to connect, share their work, and delve into the power of words. We invite you to be a part of this exciting event by submitting a proposal for an individual or a panel discussion.
Proposals:
We are seeking proposals for engaging and thought-provoking discussions that explore the theme. Here are some potential areas of focus:
Submission linkhttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fidn26Submission deadlineSeptember 19, 2026Notification of AcceptanceOctober 3, 2026Presentation SubmissionOctober 31, 2026 The interdisciplinary field of Interactive Digital Narratives (IDNs) combines immersive technologies with the timeless art of storytelling. IDN offers transformative ways to engage audiences, preserve cultural heritage and address social and educational challenges. From branching narratives in video games, to immersive virtual reality experiences and interactive installations, IDNs push the boundaries of how stories can be created and experienced.
James Baldwin and the Work of Witnessing, Teaching, and Public Intellectualism
I am seeking James Baldwin scholars and contributors to a forthcoming/newly completed Baldwin anthology who are interested in participating as virtual guest lecturers in my Fall 2026 course, ENG 393: Special Topics: James Baldwin, at Philander Smith University, an HBCU in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The graduate students of the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, are organising an interdisciplinary conference on the theme
of Cracks & Crossovers, exploring their presence and reflection in visual
culture, performances and media practices. The theme responds to the
urgency of living in a time when systemic limits become visible through cracks.
It asks how we register the differences between categories such as crisis,
fragment and fracture. Do these terms signal a definitive rupture or an ongoing
change? Or do our times demand a new perspective that allows the cracks to
speak? Taking a cue from The Cracked Mirror (2012), the conference seeks to
The 2027 Conference of the Popular Culture Association (PCA) will host a special topic area on UFOs, Cryptids, Conspiracies, and the Paranormal.
Mushrooms & Acorns & Herbs, Oh My!: Plants and Foraging Across the Humanities
This roundtable investigates the art of wild food gathering across the humanities, including literature, ecology, and multimedia. It seeks to encompass representations of the art of foraging as survival, mutual aid, environmental stewardship, and reciprocity.
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)
The editorial board of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT), a Whitestone Publication, is pleased to announce the relaunch of its book review program. Effective immediately, JCRT is soliciting single-title reviews and cluster reviews from scholars working across religious studies, theology, philosophy of religion, critical theory, and adjacent fields.
Concept Note:
Call For Papers: 2027 ALA Symposium
“Music and the American Literary Imagination”
January 28 – January 30, 2027
Hyatt Centric Downtown Nashville
210 Molloy Street
Nashville, TN 37201
Call for Papers
Volume 3 Number 2
“Empires’ Echo: Colonial Legacies in Postcolonial South Asia”
Seminar at the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
University of Houston, Houston, Texas
20–23 May 2027 — in person
Marginalised women in South Asia are read for what was done to them, far less often for what they made. This seminar asks what comparative literature can do about that.
CFP: Football and Performance
Editors: Eero Laine, Noe Montez, and Shannon Walsh
We are currently seeking chapter abstracts for an edited volume on football and performance. Theatre and performance studies allow us a unique view towards the ways that sports extend into civic space, politics, and daily life. How can the disciplines of theatre, dance, and performance studies serve as an analytic for sport, generally, and American football, in particular?
War does not end; it migrates even after the guns fall silent, crawling into bodies, landscapes, archives, and the grammar of storytelling itself. This seminar inquires into how societies of South Asia and the Middle East, so often positioned as sites of conflicts rather than as theorists of their aftermath, have produced their own vocabularies for narrating what survives war. Michael Rothberg (2009) argues that memories of distinct historical violence do not compete for scarce recognition but can be mutually constitutive.
Captivating Criminality 14: Methods of Murder The International Crime Fiction Association is delighted to announce the fourteenth Captivating Criminality conference, to be held at the conference’s home venue, Bath Spa University, Corsham Court, UK, from 24-26th June 2027. There will also be an Early Career and Postgraduate Research workshop on the afternoon of 23rd June – which this year is open to all. This conference marks ten years since the inception of the journal Crime Fiction Studies (Edinburgh University Press).
Special Call for Book Chapters
We are pleased to announce a Special Call for Book Chapters for the forthcoming edited volume Beyond Pathology: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Dementia Studies in Humanities, which brings together interdisciplinary humanities scholarship that reconceptualises dementia through diverse representations of lived, narrated, and mediated experiences of the condition.