interdisciplinary

Architectures of Deceit provides a timely analysis of how and why imposture has emerged as a shared media logic across cinema, television, streaming platforms, and networked culture.

The volume offers a new critical lens for examining how contemporary screen culture negotiates identity, class mobility, institutional legitimacy, technological change, and the erosion of social and public trust. It traces a trajectory from fictional impostors and narratives of real-world fraud to deceptive media infrastructures and machine-generated images.

 The volume is organized into four parts:

Part I — Constructing a Legible Self: Class, Identity, and Recognition

Call for Papers

“A Golden Age? Global Historical Fictions and Political Nostalgia” 

One-Day Online Workshop of the Historical Fictions Research Network

28 November 2026 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)

15 min talks

The Journal for the New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (JNNHP) invites submissions for its special on Derrick Bell and the History of Africana Philosophy, to be published in Fall 2028. Derrick Bell, the founder of Critical Race Theory, produced one of the most innovative, insightful, and transformative ideas in the 20th century. His philosophical insights continue to challenge how western liberal nations contend with questions of civil rights, human rights, immigration, policing, and education.

About the Event 

The Michigan State University (MSU) Comics Forum is a triennial gathering of scholars, creators, librarians, and fans committed to exploring comics culture. The Forum reflects MSU's sustained investment in comics as an area of research, teaching, digital humanities, and public engagement. The Forum welcomes proposals from across disciplines. All presentations must focus on the medium of comics, broadly understood — including graphic novels, serial comics, webcomics, experimental and hybrid forms, zines, and related graphic practices. 

2027 Themes 

This year's Forum invites scholarship organized around the following thematic and methodological priorities 

                                                       Animal Studies Across Disciplines Symposium
                                                                     April 7th-April 9th 2027
                                                                     Arizona State University
                                                                        Polytechnic Campus

Yale 6th Annual Symposium for Accessibility and Disability: Call for Proposals

Crip Translations: Access, Technology, Context

CALL FOR PAPERS

Zora Neale Hurston Society & The Zora Neale Hurston Forum
International Conference 2027

“Jump at de Sun: Zora Neale Hurston’s Global Legacy, Scholarship & Future”

January 7, 2027 | Virtual International Conference

In celebration of Zora Neale Hurston’s 136th birthday, the Zora Neale Hurston Society, in connection with its scholarly journal, The Zora Neale Hurston Forum, invites scholars, educators, graduate students, independent scholars, writers, artists, and interdisciplinary thinkers from around the world to participate in its 2027 International Conference.

Editors Introduction:

While John Carpenter’s Halloween catapulted the slasher subgenre to the front of popular culture, Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th (1980) cemented the formula with a higher body count and an increased focus on sex, violence, and gore. Alongside Black Christmas, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Halloween, the Friday the 13th series helped establish many of the conventions that fans are now accustomed to, and its first sequel introduced an iconic killer with Jason Voorhees. The success of the original film led to a franchise comprised of twelve theatrical films as of 2026, in addition to a short film released in 2025 and a 2026 television series.

Call For Papers: ASLE 2027, “Territory, Terroir, Terror” 22-24 June 2027. University of Maryland, College Park. 

Seminar Title: Extraterrestrial Evolutions: Posthuman Subjectivity and Alien Ecologies

 Contact: D.E. St. John, University of Alabama in Huntsville, dej0009@uah.edu

INAUGURAL INTER-HUMANITIES SYMPOSIUM AT FSU 

“Borderless World: Text, Image, and Sound” 

Florida State University, Tallahassee 

April 1-2, 2027 

Call for Chapters

Architectures of Deceit: Fraud, Imposture, and Deception in Contemporary Screen Culture

(under consideration byEdinburgh University Press)

Call For Papers

The Game Studies area of the National Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association Conference invites proposals for papers and panels on games and game studies for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference to be held on March 24-27, in Boston. The deadline for proposals is October 31. Please note this is earlier than previous years.

I. Topics of Interest

The organizers seek proposals and papers covering all aspects of gaming, gaming culture and game studies. Proposals can address any game medium (computer, social, console, tabletop, etc.) and all theoretical and methodological approaches are welcome.

Art and/as Knowledge in American Contexts
Special Issue of the Polish Journal for American Studies

This special issue asks what American art knows – and how that knowledge is produced.

We would like to invite you to join and contribute to the 2nd Shapeshifters Symposium: Plasticity – Here, There, and Everywhere. This symposium brings together people interested in plasticity from a broad range of perspectives, from the natural and formal sciences to the social sciences, humanities, and art. During the symposium, we hope to further expand the concept of plasticity across disciplines.

Who are we? We are a group of interdisciplinary researchers working on the concept of plasticity, sponsored by the DutchCentre for Unusual Collaborations.

Date & Venue

19th – 21st November 2026, Utrecht, The Netherlands