online conferences

Welcoming submissions for a free scholarly conference on scary literature to be hosted online from October 22nd-24th, 2026 by graduate student, Anais Shelley.

Research may draw inspiration from (but is not limited to) these prompts:

• Supernatural themes

• Domestic horror

• The role of setting within scary stories

• Frightening myths and folklore

• The gothic novel and short story

• Monsters and the monstrous

• Multicultural superstition and regional ghost stories

The 2026 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 15th through Saturday October 17th.

We are looking forward to another engaging and rewarding conference for new and seasoned members alike. We are seeking proposals for panels and presentations for this year’s conference, including proposals for the Philosophy, Belief, and Pop Culture Area.

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online Thursday, October 15th through Saturday October 17th 2026.

I am pleased to announce that registration is open for the 18th annual hybrid conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) on the topic of 'The Victorians and Their Publics'. You can access the VPFA conference registration page here.

The Cultures of Philosophy team at the University of Exeter invites proposals for the online workshop Teaching Early Modern Women’s Writing Between Literature and Philosophy: Pedagogy and Practice. The aim of this workshop is to share case studies and best practice regarding the teaching of early modern women’s philosophical writing in HE, across languages, disciplines and national settings. We intend to bring together teachers and researchers in HE with members of subject organisations to reflect on what’s working and what could be changed to improve the visibility of and engagement with early modern women’s philosophical writing, broadly conceived.

CFP NEPCA Monsters & the Montrous Area 2026

The Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (a.k.a. NEPCA) seeks proposals for inclusion in NEPCA’s 2026 annual conference.

The event will run as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 15th, through Saturday, October 17th. Virtual sessions will take place via Zoom throughout the day on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Registration will open up in mid-July. The registration fee is expected to be around 50 USD.

Date of conference: 28-29 August, 2026

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 5 July 2026

Online, international, interdisciplinary conference titled:

A Letter to Video Games:The Mechanisms of Emotions

International Conference for Student Researchers:

Organizer:

AAB College

In partnership: 

Department of Journalism and Communication, University of Tirana
Algebra Bernays University, Zagreb
Communication Institute of Greece, Athens
Faculty of Massmedia Communication, University of SS. Cyrila and Methodius, Trnava, Slovakia

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Making Futures Flash. Hacer refulgir el futuro.
Artes, medios y tecnologías de las digitopías a las contranarrativas.
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Departamento de Historia del Arte, 17 de junio 2026

[English version below]

"Se está creando una sutil oscilación entre la predicción y el control, en la que las descripciones acertadas o poderosas del futuro tienen una capacidad cada vez mayor para atraernos hacia ellas, para forzarnos a hacerlas refulgir"
-Kodwo Eshun, “Further Considerations on Afrofuturism” 2003

The Fan Studies Network North America Conference is currently open for proposal submissions for our October 2026 conference..

Call for Papers

Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2026 SWPACA Summer Salon

June 25-27, 2026

Virtual Conference

https://swpaca.org/

Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026 

1st DL2 International Workshop

• Date: 3-4 December 2026

• Venue: Hybrid - University of Alicante (campus) and online 

• Paper submission deadline: 30th September 2026

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 1st DL2 International Workshop, which will be held in hybrid format on 3rd and 4th December 2026 at the University of Alicante and online. We kindly ask you to distribute this invitation among your colleagues and staff.

The East Asian Translation Studies conference aims to provide a platform for translators and researchers working in the East Asian context to exchange ideas on issues related to translation. 

Previous EATS conferences have been held at the University of East Anglia, UK (2014); Meiji University, Japan (2016); Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (2019); Université Paris Cité, France (2022); and the University of Queensland, Australia (2024). They have centered on questions of the circulation of translation within East Asia, constructing/deconstructing East Asia, changing identities of East Asia observed in translation, universals in East Asian translation, and negotiating the borders of translation and East Asia.

Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2026 Virtual Summer Symposium, July 26, 2026

This one-day virtual event on July 26, 2026 is in addition to our 3-day conference in November to accommodate scholars outside the Mid-Atlantic region and those for whom an in-person event is otherwise inaccessible. We greatly encourage international scholars to submit for this dynamic, one-day event!