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CALL FOR PAPERSBetter MenHealing Masculinity and Dismantling Patriarchy From Within

What would it mean for a man to come home to himself?

Not the patriarchal self shaped by silence and performance, but the divine masculine. Patriarchy teaches men that strength has no needs, that manhood means enduring and providing. What does it look like to reclaim a masculine self that knows how to grieve and how to celebrate, how to ask for help and how to offer it, how to listen and how to share?

Social Inclusion, peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index and Scopus, welcomes new and exciting research papers for its upcoming issue "Legal Perspectives on Balancing Life and Work in the 21st Century," edited by Melanie Hack (University of Bergen) and Lisa Waddington (University of Maastricht).

• Submission of Abstracts: 1-15 December 2026
• Submission of Full Papers: 1-15 May 2027
• Publication of the Issue: June/December 2027

About the issue:

As mass movements and resistance struggles from Reconstruction and Indigenous sovereignty through women’s liberation and civil rights activism make clear, American history has been indelibly shaped by divergent, contradictory, and deeply contested understandings of a common political language centered on “freedom.”  Far from a static, settled, or predetermined concept, Eric Foner contends that “freedom” has proved “a terrain of conflict, open to very different and sometimes contradictory interpretations.” The story of the United States is, in no small part, a contest over what it means to be free.

The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature invites essay proposals for a forthcoming issue of the peer-reviewed journal Midwestern Miscellany on the topic of Comics and the Midwest, to be guest-edited by Rachael Price (rprice@abac.edu), Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.

The American Midwest has served as a key locale in comics and graphic novels, both as a setting for some of the most famous stories in this format and as an important center of newspaper and comic-book publishing. This volume seeks to explore the importance of the Midwest in comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels, from the early twentieth century to the present. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Special Issue: Climate Adaptation

Adaptation (OUP)

Deadline for papers: 30 January 2028

Submit: https://academic.oup.com/adaptation

(early papers accepted for continuous publication) 

Ed. Robert Geal and Deborah Cartmell

Since the widespread emergence of Generative AI a few years ago, educators across disciplines have been reconsidering how technology shapes teaching, learning, writing, and assessment. While some departments and faculty have leaned into these new Large Language Models and the technological "advances" they offer, others have worked just as diligently to keep AI out of their classrooms.

Call for Submissions: The Pocket Poet (JANUARY 2027 Issue) deadline for submissions: December 25, 2026 Website: https://thepocketpoetjourn.wixsite.com/the-pocket-poet-1 
 contact email: thepocketpoetjournal@yahoo.com 

Call for Submissions: The Pocket Poet (JANUARY 2027 Issue)

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — Mini Plays Review | December 2026 Issue 

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/the-mini-plays-magazine/submit 

Submission email: miniplaysmag@gmail.com

Theme: Borrowed Time

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS  Tiny Revolutions: A Flash Fiction Anthology

Small acts. Quiet rebellions. Lives changed one choice at a time.

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2026

Acceptance Notifications: October 05, 2026

Submissions: specialanthologyfreshwordsmag@gmail.com

Website:https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/announcements

The Editorial Board of the History and Art Journal officially invites original and unpublished research articles for its upcoming Volume 2.

We welcome interdisciplinary submissions in English and Spanish across history, art history, and museology. Our main thematic tracks include Early Modern and Modern History, Visual Culture, Archival Research, Material Culture, and Digital Humanities.

“Shit Matters: The Politics and Poetics of Faecality in Anglophone Postcolonial and Decolonial Literatures and Arts” 

University of Lille, 29–30 April, 2027  Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Pr. Stephanie Newell (Yale University)

At many universities, learning communities foster connectedness and belonging among students.  Learning communities are typically composed of cohorts of students taking aligned first-year classes, but they take many other forms as well.  At their best, they promote the perspective that learning is a collective activity in which knowledge is constructed through relationships with peers, professors, and communities, bringing together diverse voices and interdisciplinary perspectives. They provide a welcoming environment that eases the transition to college and provides a foundation for a peer network of academic support (Schreiber & Valle, 2013).

Since the widespread emergence of Generative AI a few years ago, educators across disciplines have been reconsidering how technology shapes teaching, learning, writing, and assessment. While some departments and faculty have leaned into these new Large Language Models and the technological "advances" they offer, others have worked just as diligently to keep AI out of their classrooms.

Call for SubmissionsMusicTheatreDance: The Journal of the Music Theatre Dance AssociationIssue 1 (2027) “Imagine it”Editors: Stephanie Lim, Kathryn Edney, Hye Won Kim, Vicki Hoskins, Shiraz Biggie, and Adrienne Oehlers Imagine it: Scholarship as performance. Performance as practice. Practice as inquiry. Inquiry as pedagogy. Join us in imagining what MusicTheatreDance Journal can be. We call upon you, the scholars, educators, and practitioners in and across the performing arts, to help us envision how to break down the barriers in traditional scholarship and the communities in which we co-exist.