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The Corporate Uncanny
Edited Collection | Vernon Press
Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2026
Vernon Press has accepted the proposal for The Corporate Uncanny, an interdisciplinary edited collection examining how contemporary media represent—and make experiential—the strange familiarity of corporate power.
CONFERENCE IN BOSTON, MA - March 24-27, 2027
Adaptations and retellings, much like nostalgia, are deeply tied to the past. They confront the challenges of integrating past elements into the present and often engage with each other in this process.
"Speculative Souths"
The Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
June 10-12, 2027
CFP Deadline: November 2, 2026
Keynote Speaker: Kiese Laymon, Rice University, author of Long Division and Heavy
Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes remains a beloved classic novel among readers, many of whom first encountered this book during their adolescent years.
This forthcoming essay collection seeks to deepen high school and undergraduate reader engagement with Something Wicked This Way Comes and contribute to ongoing studies of Bradbury’s work.
Although all essay proposals will be considered and additional proposed topics are highly encouraged, some possibilities include:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Neohelicon Special Issue: Aesthetics, Forms, Readers: New Directions in Science Fiction Studies
Neohelicon invites article submissions for a special issue on “Aesthetics, Forms, Readers: New Directions in Science Fiction Studies.”
Call for Papers | Chronologies
The Velvet Light Trap, Volume 100 (to be published fall 2027)
Submission deadline: October 11, 2026
Abstract
This seminar proposes to examine Italian and Italian American food studies through the comparative frameworks of transnational circulation, intermedial representation, and cultural translation. Rather than approaching food as a stable marker of heritage or authenticity, the seminar treats it as a mobile signifying practice through which texts, images, commodities, and affects travel across linguistic, national, and medial boundaries. Food thus becomes a privileged comparative object: it links literature to film, advertising to visual culture, and national discourse to diasporic rearticulation.
The Visual Cultures of YA Romance: Seeing Desire, Reading Relationships - The International Journal of Young Adult Literature 8/2027
Guest editors:
Dalila Forni (Università dell’Aquila - IT)
Alessandra Mazzini (Università di Bergamo - IT)
Valentina Baeli (Università di Catania - IT)
Coaching, Psychology and the Art of Leadership
A Transdisciplinary Conference Inspired by Ted Lasso
Conference page: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/08/17/coaching-psychology/
Date: November 27-28, 2026
Location: Nov 27: Duke Street Church Richmond, London, United Kingdom (and online)
Nov 28: Online
Fees (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)
Prices exclude Eventbrite fees
Graphic Narratives has become part of an expanding literary field, absorbing and redirecting the ideological, formal, and creative energies of contemporary fiction.
(Chute and DeKoven768)
PopCRN Online Conference 26-27 August 2027
Popular culture dances. Across stages and screens, ballrooms and nightclubs, streets and stadiums, dance has produced some of popular culture’s most enduring images of bodies in motion. From musicals and music videos to television, theatre, popular music and sport, dance crosses cultural forms and national boundaries, continually reinventing how bodies move, perform and become visible.
Online Conference 26-27 November 2027
Punk has never stayed where it was put. Emerging from the economic, political and cultural upheavals of the 1970s, punk became music, style, attitude, subculture, political language and cultural mythology. From London, New York, Sydney, Belfast, Berlin, Tokyo and Jakarta, punk travelled rapidly while taking radically different local forms. It transformed music and fashion, challenged conventions of gender and sexuality, generated distinctive visual and material cultures, and provided a language through which alienation, anger, resistance and belonging could be expressed.
This panel seeks papers that interrogate Asian American injury as a recurring motif and rhetoric in literature and media. Recent Asian American scholarship and aesthetic/cultural production have promoted the political utility of minor affects (Sianne Ngai, Cathy Park Hong), new discourses and praxes of collectivity and community (“cut fruit diaspora”; the emergence of “Wasia” and “Wasian meetups”), and sentimental identification through commodities and commodification in the current moment of late-stage capitalism (Crying in HMart; Ocean Vuong’s inclusion in Oprah’s Book Club).
CFP: DLC+ Presents Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture Mini-Conference: "Trope" and "Maxxing"
We are excited to announce the third installment of our Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture series, mini-conferences devoted to studying the most pressing and emerging concepts actively shaping digital literary culture.
The Historical Fictions Research Conference 2027 will take place at Amsterdam University from 4th February to 5th February.
For the 2027 conference the HFRN will engage in scholarly discussions on the topic of ‘Power and Politics in Historical Fictions’
The 2027 conference in Amsterdam will continue to critically interrogate one of HFRN’s longstanding lines of enquiry: that historical fictions are anything but a banal engagement with the past, but explicitly and implicitly shape and propel political claims, identities and agendas.
Call for Papers
Digital & Analog Cultures
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026
CFP “Troubler of the Poor World’s Peace?”
An International Symposium on Global Richard III
University of Murcia (Spain)
16-18 February, 2027
Keynote speakers:
Nicoletta Caputo (University of Pisa)
Genevieve Love (Colorado College)
Sonia Massai (University of Rome/KCL)
Erica Sheen (University of York)
Jeffrey R. Wilson (University of Harvard)
British Scene, British Scenes ?
The Local Worlds of Rock Music in the United Kingdom
Call for articles for a special issue of the
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique - French Journal of British Studies: https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/
Matt Dinniman’s LitRPG series Dungeon Crawler Carl (DCC) offers a complex narrative and somewhat unconventional rise to popularity, sparking academic and popular interest across disciplines, including media studies, narrative and genre studies, sociological studies, and fan studies. As such, we seek chapters exploring a range of interests. Of specific interest are chapter proposals addressing:
The Erotica, Sexuality, Pornography, & Kink Area of the National Popular Culture Association (PCA) invites scholars to participate in the PCA’s annual conference. Details of the conference can be found at pcaaca.org.
Call for Papers
ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, AND MAGIC
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026
In Spring of 2026, the first stage of NASA’s Artemis mission captured photographs of the Earth from space, a collective earthling selfie that momentarily transcended the squalor and congestion of the daily news cycle. While satellite imagery, Google maps, and weather forecasting technology have made representations of the global scale relatively commonplace, the astronaut photos have a human presence that allows them to capture something of the sublimity of what it means to live on a planet.
Call for Papers
Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, and Personal Narrative
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026
Call For Papers
Popular Culture Association
Animals in Popular Culture Area
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
March 24-27, 2027
Call for Papers
MATHEMATICS AND ENGINEERING
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026
This seminar will convene a chorus of new approaches to the study of poetry and global pop music, sister arts dynamized by dizzying asymmetries. Where and when they are practiced as distinct or differently mediated forms of cultural expression, poetry and popular song are linked by histories both long and recent, by subject matter, by patterns of figural and prosodic design, and by their shared claims to those effects some call “lyric.” At the same time, the trajectories of literary modernism and commercial music refract this common ground beyond recognition. In 1939, Clement Greenberg could decry a self-evident chasm of cultural difference between “a poem by T. S.
Texas Association for Asian American Diaspora Studies (TAAADS) contact email: taaadscollab@gmail.com
The Call for Papers for the Texas Association for Asian American Diaspora Studies (TAAADS) 2027 conference, taking place February 19-20 2027 at the University of Texas, Austin, is now live!
The full CFP is available at https://tinyurl.com/TAAADS-2027.
Call for Papers
SHONDALAND
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
https://swpaca.org
Submissions open: September 1, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026
Call for Papers
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026
Call for Papers
Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026