interdisciplinary

CFP – “BLACK ESSAYSM: FORMAL EXPERIMENTATIONS IN BLACK CREATIVE/CRITICAL PRACTICES”

liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 12, no. 1, Spring 2028

Guest editor: Walton Muyumba

Submissions due: January 30, 2027

As more and more women's stereotypical images are distributed via digital networks, active counter-activism via digital networks is an urgent need in a post-truth media environment. In the age of audio-visual curation, the cultural narrative has been traditionally controlled by state and corporate power, while today, opaque automated content moderation, algorithmic sorting and filtering, and platform capitalism of transnational streaming networks dominate the scene.

2027 Imagining Human Worlds Online Symposium, 27–28 January 2027

We invite proposals for 2027 Imagining Human Worlds, an annual online symposium in the Common Ground Imagining Futures Series, taking place 27–28 January 2027, online on CGScholar.

The symposium brings together scholars, researchers, educators, humanities scholars, learning specialists, technologists, practitioners, and community-engaged professionals working across questions of culture, learning, identity, meaning, communication, ethics, and human development. We welcome proposals that explore how human worlds are formed, interpreted, taught, experienced, mediated, and transformed.

2027 Imagining Sustainable Worlds Online Symposium, 12–13 May 2027

We invite proposals for 2027 Imagining Sustainable Worlds, an annual online symposium in the Common Ground Imagining Futures Series, taking place 12–13 May 2027, online on CGScholar.

The symposium brings together scholars, researchers, designers, planners, educators, policy thinkers, practitioners, health and care professionals, environmental researchers, and community-engaged professionals working across questions of sustainability, climate, infrastructure, food systems, mobility, aging, health, wellbeing, and the built environment. We welcome proposals that explore how sustainable worlds are designed, inhabited, maintained, challenged, and transformed.

Conference Details

We are seeking papers for the "Kafka Studies" panel at the 57th annual Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), which will be held between March 6-9 in Newport, RI. You can find more information about the event on NeMLA's website: https://www.nemla.org/convention.html

Modality

Hybrid: The session will be held in-person but a few remote presentations may be included.

Panel Abstract

We invite you to submit an abstract and bio for the panel “Yesteryear: Cultural and Literary Possibilities”. We are seeking papers that address Caro Claire Burke’s breakout debut novel Yesteryear and its implications on literature and current American culture. How does Burke address established literary conventions? How might one conceive of the evocative narrative style of this novel? How does Burke conceptualize the conscription of motherhood, suppressed queerness, and conservative Christianity? How might the work fit into literary genealogies of sanity, purity, racial prejudice, and womanhood? Proposals should include a title, abstract,  your name, and affiliation.

Call for Papers

BROLLY. Journal of Social Sciences

Vol. 7, No. 2, August 2026 (General Topic)

Submission Deadline: August 15, 2026 

No processing or publication fees. 

Peer-reviewed.

#openaccess

ISSN 2516-869X (Print)

ISSN 2516-8703 (Online)

Web:https://www.journals.lapub.co.uk/index.php/Brolly

Email: brolly@journals.lapub.co.uk

Following Yiyun Li's May 2026 Pulitzer Prize win, this session is a critical reception of her memoir as an emancipatory narrative: a descriptive and agential act that represents the unrepresentable experience of maternal grief/trauma. Welcome papers that are interdisciplinary/inter-textual dealing with themes of maternal loss, grief, growth, birth/death, nature/unnatural, death by suicide. Mail 150-200 word abstracts to Dr. Anhiti Patnaik at apatnaik@cascadia.edu Submission Deadline:Monday, August 17, 2026Type:Just-in-Time Session, Modern Language Association Conference 2027Venue:Los Angeles

Panel Title: Supporting the Well-Being of Students and Instructors in a Transitional Time
Modality: Virtual Only: All presentations will be delivered via Zoom regardless of whether the presenters are in-person
Format: 3-4 presentations/papers, 15-20 minutes per presenter

The Southern Humanities Conference, 2027

Call for Papers

Conference Theme: Divergence, Convergence, Emergence

Knoxville, TN, January 28-31, 2027

The Southern Humanities Conference offers an opportunity for scholars, artists, writers, musicians, performers, and humanists of all kinds to share their knowledge, research, work, and experiences in an interdisciplinary, welcoming, and engaging intellectual space.

The phrase “Publish or perish” resonates for far too many faculty and staff in higher education. It’s all a matter of timing: finding the right topic, the right publication or publisher, and the right time. When it comes to the art of the edited collection, you can create an opportunity for yourself and other contributors to synthesize the collective’s ideas and expertise for the betterment of readers. This roundtable will provide a platform for contributors and editors to discuss how they synchronized diverse perspectives, managed the evolution of themes, and navigated the practicalities of peer review and publisher expectations.

Delta Ecologies asks how delta worlds are shaped by water’s movement, land’s instability, infrastructural promises, and the public stories through which communities remember loss, claim responsibility, and imagine survival. This issue begins from the Bengal-Gangetic world--especially the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta, where river systems meet the Bay of Bengal--but it treats the delta not simply as a vulnerable climate zone. It understands the delta as a public world where environmental change becomes a matter of shared interpretation, memory, and responsibility.

The 18th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference will be held September 12, 2026, at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The conference committee is now accepting presentation proposals for the upcoming conference. Presentation proposals on any aspect of the 2026 conference theme “Remembering Louisiana,” as well as creative texts by, about, and/or for Louisiana and Louisianans, are sought for this year’s conference.

The guiding thread of this panel develops around a curious remark by Jacques Rancière that would seem to amend a classically Aristotelian thesis: “man is a political animal because he is a literary animal,” the fundamental condition of which is the “excess of words” constitutive of the human animal’s politicalness. Literature (or poetry) has long been placed in close proximity to politics, as we find in Plato’s Republic, where philosophy and literature—and, more generally, philosophy and politics—turn out to be perennial adversaries.