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Last Call: Abstracts for "Bodies of Culture: Somaesthetic Explorations" conference

updated: 
Thursday, March 5, 2026 - 1:30am
Center for Body Mind and Culture, FAU
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 18, 2026

This is the last call to submit abstracts for the Bodies of Culture: Somaesthetic Explorations conference, taking place at Florida Atlantic University on November 6–7, 2026.

Abstract submission deadline: August 18, 2026

We welcome proposals from scholars and practitioners across the humanities, social sciences, medical humanities, and the arts. Selected papers may be considered for publication in The Journal of Somaesthetics or an edited volume in Brill's Studies in Somaesthetics series.

Angelaki Theme Issue: Baudrillard Reconsidered (Call for Abstracts)

Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 15, 2026

 

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: BAUDRILLARD RECONSIDERED


This journal collection (c. 90,000 words) will be published as a theme issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities in January 2029 (34.1). Angelaki (established 1993, based in Oxford, UK) is an internationally known journal of European philosophy and literary and cultural theory and criticism published by Routledge. Since 2025 the journal is online only. Open access material allowing, all Angelaki theme issues are considered for publication as books in the Angelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities series.
2025: 160,000 full-article downloads.

Athena 2027 "Stories, Spaces, and Movement: Borders, Migration, Diaspora"

Vellore Institute of Technology-AP, India
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 31, 2026

How do people narrate movement, imagine home and negotiate belonging? This international conference brings literary inquiry into conversation with interdisciplinary perspectives on borders, migration and diaspora. Inviting academic researchers, artists and creators, independent researchers, policy makers, industry professionals and activists. Human movement across localities, regions, nations and oceans has long shaped societies and their stories. From the Great Depression and the Partition of India to the movement of workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, migration has generated literary, cinematic and media representations that illuminate relationships among individuals, communities and nation-states.

William Blake at 270

Northeast Modetn Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 11, 2026

Extended deadline for submissions: October 11, 2026 Northeast Modern Language Association Convention

Papers (in person only, Newport, RI, March 6-9, 2027) on any aspect of William Blake’s poetry and composite art are welcome on this 200th anniversary of his death

and the 270th of his birth. Some fruitful speculations might include: how the attempt to encompass Blake’s “indeterminate texts” (lack of a clearly definitive final edition) has led to

new approaches in criticism; how his combination of text and image that his self-devised and controlled “illuminated printing” allowed him to develop has broadened to encompass

Bharatiya Bhasha Pariwar

School of Social Sciences and Humanities VIT-AP University, Amaravati in collaboration with Bharatiya Bhasha Samiti, Ministry of Education, Government of India
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 10, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS (CFP)

Bharatiya Bhasha Pariwar: Indian Languages and Shared Expression in the Age of Digital Media and AI

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Special Issue of Study the South: Performed Plantations

Teresa Simone/ University of Mississippi Center for the Study of Southern Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 15, 2026

Call for Proposals

Special Issue of Study the South: Performed Plantations

Editors: Teresa Simone and Zayne Vance, University of Mississippi 

Contact email: tesimone@olemiss.edu

Deadline for proposals: December 15, 2026.  

We seek proposals for interdisciplinary creative works and papers for a special issue of Study the South, a peer-reviewed, multimedia, online journal by the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture.

Creative responses might include: videos, art, image galleries, scripts, animation, etc.  

Witness

Jo Coghlan/University of New England, Australia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 11, 2027

'witness'

We live in a media culture saturated with exposure: livestreamed violence, viral confession, algorithmic archives, state inquiries, surveillance footage, and ecological catastrophe rendered in real time. Testimony circulates rapidly, often before it can be contextualised or absorbed. Truth claims are asserted, contested, amplified, and undermined within institutional and digital infrastructures that shape what counts as evidence and who is recognised as credible.

Heidelberg Center for American Studies Spring Academy 2027

Heidelberg Center for American Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 15, 2026

Heidelberg Center for American Studies

Annual Interdisciplinary Spring Academy Conference

Heidelberg, Germany, April 5-9, 2027

 

Call for Papers

 

The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for its annual Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion to be held from April 5-9, 2027.

Imagining the Impossible Vol. 6: Immersion and Emergence in the Fantastic

Imagining the Impossible: international journal for the fantastic in contemporary media
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 11, 2026

Immersion is a key concept in the fantastic. From the 3D worlds of Avatar to the in-depth lore of The Lord of the Rings, fantastic narratives thrive on the idea of immersing us in worlds so detailed that we feel as if we are really there. Fantastic worlds often come with their own detailed maps, histories, languages, and cultures, creating the illusion of being a real place. Media industries invest heavily in producing technologies of immersion, such as 4D cinema or VR games. Immersion is one of Henry Jenkins’ “Seven Core Principles of Transmedia Storytelling”, while Mark J.P.

America is a Gun Culture: The Third Annual BRIDGS Guns in Society Symposium

Bringing Research and Innovation into the Debate on Guns in Society (BRIDGS)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 6, 2026

Housed in the Arizona State University Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Bringing Research and Innovation into the Debate on Guns in Society (BRIDGS) brings social science approaches to the gun debate to forge a forum for those across the debate to engage, learn, and elevate. America is a Gun Culture: The Third Annual BRIDGS Guns in Society Symposium February 25 - 26, 2027Arizona State University Downtown CampusPhoenix, Arizona America doesn’t have a gun culture. It is a gun culture. Framing gun culture in this way asks us to consider the pre-eminence of guns in US society as a shared–if also complex and contradictory–experience, even as our social worlds become ever-more fragmented.

Disasters and Apocalyptic Culture

Popular Culture Association (PCA) National Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 31, 2026

Boston  March 24-27, 2027

Subject Area:

Disasters and Apocalyptic Culture

Submission Deadline: Oct 31, 2026

Scope of the paper topics accepted under this area:

Haunted Landscapes III

Ruth Heholt, Falmouth University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 1, 2027

 

 In 2014 and 2023, Falmouth University hosted two of its most successful conferences: Haunted Landscapes. This conference is round three of that event, which will again be held in beautiful Cornwall on the Falmouth Campus, set in lush tropical gardens and only a few minutes’ walk away from its picturesque town and beaches.

 

Nocturnal Dissent: State Oppression, Control and Urban Resistance in Indian Literature and Cinema

University of North Bengal, India
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 31, 2026

Nocturnal Dissent: State Oppression, Control and Urban Resistance in Indian Literature and Cinema

(Call for Book Chapters)

 

Editors:

Subashish Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor, Munshi Premchand Mahavidyalaya, University of North Bengal, India

&

Saikat Pradhan, Senior Research Fellow, University of North Bengal, India

 

To be published under a Book Series by a reputed international publishing house (Our first choices are Routledge and Bloomsbury)

 

About the book:

Monstrous Dis/Junctions

University of Riverside English Graduate Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 20, 2026

“The monster is born only at this metaphoric crossroads, as an embodiment of a certain cultural moment—of a time, a feeling, and a place. The monster's body quite literally incorporates fear, desire, anxiety, and fantasy (ataractic or incendiary), giving them life and an uncanny independence. The monstrous body is pure culture.” 

  • Jeffrey Jerome Cohen. “Monster Culture (Seven Theses).”

Join us for 2027’s Dis/Junctions, a hybrid, graduate-run conference held March 4-5. The conference will feature both in-person and virtual panels and events. In-person programming will be hosted on the University of California, Riverside campus.

Post45 Graduate Symposium 2027

Post45
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 25, 2026
  • The relationship between fiscal forms of debt to aesthetic or social forms
  • The United States student debt crisis and its role in contemporary culture
  • Ungrievable, unpayable, or unlimited forms of debt
  • Social reproduction theory approaches to the labors transpiring under the category of debt
  • The form of credit and the loan (as well as the gift or the commodity)
  • Pedagogical, scholarly, and intellectual debts to traditions, genealogies, and mentors 
  • Narratives of aesthetic and cultural succession as those of indebtedness 
  • Reparations, racial violence, and debt as management of racialized populations

Call for Media

Kingston University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 30, 2026

Dear Colleagues, and friends

 

We are holding the conference 'Late Bowie: Legacy, Mortality and the Archival Impulse' at Kingston university, in our state of the art Visconti recording studio, Kingston Hill, on Nov 5th and 6th of this year.

We have a really exciting programme with some great speakers and guests. These include Harriet Reed (Project Lead, Bowie Archive, V&A Storehouse East; Clare Watt (Bowie fellow, V&A); Peter Carpenter (author of Bowieland: Walking in the Footsteps of David [Octopus Books, 2025]); British film and TV producer Kevin Loader and Jonathan Barnbrook, graphic designer of Bowie;s albums from Heathen (2002) to Blackstar (2016).

Urban Plantscapes: Cities, Working Landscape, and Botanical Life

The 4th Global Plant Humanities Network Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 1, 2027

The 4th Global Plant Humanities Network Conference

 

Urban Plantscapes: Cities, Working Landscape, and Botanical Life

 

30 June – 2 July 2027

 University of Rzeszów, Poland

 

Plenary speakers:

 

Michael Marder, the University of the Basque Country, Spain

Environmental Precarity and Planetary Aesthetics

Bodoland University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 29, 2026

International Conference on

 

Environmental Precarity and Planetary Aesthetics: Voices, Epistemologies, and Geopolitics of the Global South

 

25 & 26 February 2027

 

 

Organised by the Department of English, Bodoland University, Kokrajhar, India

 

Concept note

Renewed call for chapter proposals Off the Stage: Performance Practices in Postcolonial India (forthcoming in 2027)

Dr Pranab Kumar Mandal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 25, 2026

Renewed call for chapter proposals

Off the Stage: Performance Practices in Postcolonial India

(forthcoming in 2027)

The editor is pleased to issue a renewed call for chapter proposals for the edited volume Off the Stage: Performance Practices in Postcolonial India, scheduled for publication in 2027 by an internationally renowned UK-based publishing house. This renewed call has become necessary owing to a few last-minute withdrawals and the non-submission of some previously committed chapters.  

Urban Palimpsests: Indian Cities, Identity, and Modernity in Anglophone Literature

Md. Rakibul Islam, Aligarh Muslim University Centre, Murshidabad & Md Jakir Hossain, Murshidabad Maharaja Krishnanath University, Berhampore, Murshidabad, West Bengal, India.
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 15, 2026

Proposed Book Title

Urban Palimpsests: Indian Cities, Identity, and Modernity in Anglophone Literature

Editors: Md Rakibul Islam* & Md Jakir Hossain**

Imagining Italy: Transatlantic Encounters, Diaspora, and Cultural Belonging

Italian American Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 26, 2027

Call for Papers

Imagining Italy: Transatlantic Encounters, Diaspora, and Cultural Belonging

Date: June 24-27, 2027

Location: University of Macerata

Abstracts & Proposals Due: Friday, February 26, 2027

Notifications Sent Out by Monday, March 8, 2027

Submittable Link:

Deus et Machina: Technology, Politics, and Theology in the Age of AI

The Telos-Paul Piccone Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 30, 2026

The 2027 Telos-Paul Piccone Institute Annual Conference
March 19–20, 2027
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College/CUNY
New York, NY

Deus et Machina: Technology, Politics, and Theology in the Age of AI

2027 Law, Culture, and the Humanities Conference Call for Papers

Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 31, 2027

Every year, the Association holds it annual conference, usually a two-day affair, as well as a graduate student workshop, usually held the day before the annual conference. The 2027 annual meeting will be held at the University of California, Berkeley from May 27-28.

Discipline

Analog Activism and Its Digital Entanglements: Responsive Public Pedagogies of Resistance

Melissa Ames, Eastern Illinois University & Kristi McDuffie, University of Illinois
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 16, 2026

In the 2000s and 2010s, social networking facilitated citizen-based activism of enormous significance like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo. But in the 2020s, corporate enshittification and government surveillance have restricted the reach of social networking tools. For example, Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter meant that many users left X rather than adapt their activist practices to the restrictive corporate environment (Tenbarge & Collier 2024). Instances such as the Trump administration’s use of social media posts to target international students during the Gaza protests caused many users to avoid social media altogether (Lonas Cochran 2025).

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