postcolonial

Call for Papers: Post-Colonial Literature at CEA 2026

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:42am
College English Association (CEA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 1, 2025

Call for Papers, Post-Colonial Literature at CEA 2026

March 26-28, 2026, Charlotte, NC

Hilton Charlotte University Place

In the spirit of public proclamation and historic resolve, the College English Association announces its 55th annual conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, and our theme, DECLARATIONS. The CEA conference features papers, panels, and roundtables that address our discipline from multiple perspectives.

 

Submit your proposal electronically by November 1, 2025, at www.cea-web.org

Salem Meets the Noir 2026:First Conference on Hispanic Noir Literature, TV and Film

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:39am
Salem State University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 20, 2025

 

This interdisciplinary conference aims to bring together scholars, writers, filmmakers, and students to share the interest and passion for the fictional criminal genre through their participation in panels, roundtables, workshops, film screenings, and curated cultural events in historic Salem.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

PJAC 2026: Holocaust Memory in Central Europe - deadline extended

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:04am
The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 30, 2025

The “Central European Memory of the Holocaust in a Multicultural and Multidimensional Perspective” [CEMORY] project team at the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations (Jagiellonian University in Kraków) and the editorial team of The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series invite you to submit articles for 2/2026 thematic edition.

“Central European Memory of the Holocaust in a Multicultural and Multidimensional Perspective” [CEMORY] project is funded under Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV).

The topic of The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series 2/2026 is: Holocaust Memory in Central Europe.

Nourish | Fall 2025 Submissions Open

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:04am
Unearthed Journal of Environmental Literature & Art
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

It’s time again to submit your creative work to Unearthed, the literary and art journal produced by SUNY College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry. We invite writers, poets, artists, and creatives of all kinds to submit to our upcoming Fall 2025 issue. In this issue, we invite you to reflect on what it means to nourish—to feed, to sustain, to grow, to heal.

Cultures of violence and female resistance: receptions of ancient Greek myths from the 14th to the 21st century, in Europe and beyond

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:02am
University of Caen Normandy -ERC AGRELITA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Cultures of violence and female resistance: receptions of ancient Greek myths from the 14th to the 21st century, in Europe and beyond

 

International conference • ERC AGRELITA

June 10-12, 2026 at the University of Caen Normandie

 

Call for papers

 

Special Issue of Waves: Experiencing Environments

updated: 
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 - 4:14pm
Waves: An Undergraduate Journal / University of Florida Writing Program)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

The Waves team is excited to announce an upcoming special issue, “

Petrocultures 2026: Situating Energy

updated: 
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 - 4:13pm
TU Dresden
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Petrocultures 2026: Situating Energy

TUD Dresden University of Technology

Aug 26-28, 2026

 

Submission Deadline for Abstracts: December 31, 2025

 

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Alexander A. Dunlap (Boston University), Jordan B. Kinder (NYU Steinhardt), Kathryn Yusoff (Queen Mary University of London)

Targeted Call For Papers Routledge International Handbook of Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms

updated: 
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 - 4:13pm
Ela Przybyło and Yo-Ling Chen
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Targeted CFP: Routledge International Handbook of Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms

Targeted Call For Papers
Routledge International Handbook of Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms

Co-edited by: Ela Przybyło (Illinois State University) and Yo-Ling Chen (Independent Scholar)

 

Deadline for abstracts: November 15, 2025                    Contact email: globalacearo(at)gmail(dot)com

 

Journal of Critical Global Issues - April 2026 Roundtable

updated: 
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 - 4:01pm
Journal of Critical Global Issues
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

The School for International Training (SIT) invites proposals from researchers and scholars to contribute to a roundtable discussion focused on the following areas: climate and the environment; development and inequality; education and social change; geopolitics and power; global health and well-being; identity and human resilience; and peace and justice.

Deadline Extended - Eastern Noir: Soviet, Eastern European, and Chinese Cinema in the 1980s

updated: 
Friday, October 17, 2025 - 8:04am
National University of Singapore
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 14, 2025

We live in a time marked by uncertainty, yet such historical junctures are not unprecedented. The 1980s likewise represented a period of profound instability and transition across multiple regions. In Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, this decade culminated in the fall of socialism, while in China it witnessed the transformation of Maoism into what became known as “socialism with Chinese characteristics.” These developments reoriented all the societies in question from relative cultural isolation to increasingly market-oriented and globally integrated economies in the 1990s.

Call for Book Chapters

updated: 
Thursday, October 16, 2025 - 3:25pm
Sciences and Fictions: Human Futures Beyond Boundaries
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Call for Book Chapters

Editors:
Dr. Muhsin Yanar, Visiting Researcher, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
Dr. Grace Halden, Reader, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
Dr. Russell Kilbourn, Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

Sciences and Fictions: Human Futures Beyond Boundaries

We seek chapters for the forthcoming edited collection Sciences and Fictions: Human Futures Beyond Boundaries.

Verge Issue 14.1 Call for Papers

updated: 
Thursday, October 16, 2025 - 1:34pm
Global Asias Initiative
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Issue 14.1: Open issue

Deadlines | June 1, 2026 (Convergence proposals)

September 15, 2026 (Essay submissions)

 

CFP "Indigenous Studies in Relation" April 7 Symposium at Texas A&M

updated: 
Thursday, October 16, 2025 - 12:59pm
Ray Leonard, Texas A&M
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 17, 2025

Whether we acknowledge it or not, the academy exists in relation to Indigenous people, indigeneity, and structures of settler colonial power. Yet, for many disciplines across the humanities, Indigenous Studies remains marginalized and under-theorized. This symposium invites work that engages the relationality between Indigenous Studies – a discipline grounded in the knowledges, practices, politics, and lives of Indigenous peoples – and other fields, crafts, and disciplines that might see themselves as independent of the concerns of Indigenous peoples and histories. We welcome Indigenous Studies scholars as well as scholars working in connection with any of the historical concerns of Indigenous Studies.

 

Thicker than blood? Masculinities and Male Friendships in South Asia

updated: 
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 12:42pm
Debadrita Chakraborty GITAM University, Hyderabad
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

For the occident, a surprising cultural norm in India is that of men holding hands. Seen as unconventional and in sharp contrast to the West, the phenomenon symbolic of India (in particular) and South Asia at large became a project in 2018, whereby photographer Vincent Dolman created a series depicting an organic and intimate aspect of male friendship. Appreciating such uninhibitedness in a country given to rampant homophobia and toxic masculinity, Dolman, in one of his interviews, observes how such practices hold a mirror to society and societal conventions of masculine constructions and performances. 

Islamic Feminism and Decolonial Futures: Epistemology, Ethics and Praxis

updated: 
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 12:03pm
Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women's Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 20, 2025

Islamic feminism, far from being an oxymoron, has emerged as an intellectual and political movement reclaiming interpretive authority within the Islamic tradition while advancing gender justice. It builds upon the work of pioneering scholars such as amina wadud, Asma Barlas, Fatema Mernissi, Sa'diyya Shaikh, miriam cooke, and Aysha Hidayatullah, who have demonstrated that patriarchal interpretations of Qur n and Hadich are historically contingent rather than divinely mandated.

Duplicity/Duplicität. Betwixt intimates and strangers | An interdisciplinary symposium of the collaborative research project Studies in Remoteness

updated: 
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 12:03pm
Nordic Summer University | Freie Universität Berlin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

Duplicity/Duplicität: Betwixt intimates and strangers.

Opening Symposium of the collaborative research project Studies in Remoteness. Sensoria of Absence, Distance and Neglect.

https://userblogs.fu-berlin.de/remoteness/winter-symposium-2026/ 
https://www.nsuweb.org/circle-1-studies-in-remoteness-sensoria-of-absenc...

January 29-31 2026. 

Beyond Fracture: Reimagining Futures through Divergence and Convergence

updated: 
Sunday, October 12, 2025 - 6:23pm
7TH ANNUAL MODERN LITERATURES & LINGUISTICS INTERDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE CONFERENCE
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 17, 2025

 

7TH ANNUAL MODERN LITERATURES & LINGUISTICS INTERDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE CONFERENCE

“Beyond Fracture: Reimagining Futures through Divergence and Convergence”

Constructing New Paths Across Division, Resistance, and Solidarity

Florida State University, Tallahassee Campus

March 5-6, 2026

Submission Deadline: October 17, 2025

Submit Abstracts Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9Eg_pf3fbRWz-67bQY8DeLQ4tkIl-...

Negotiations: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies,

updated: 
Friday, October 10, 2025 - 11:20am
Department of English, University of North Bengal
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

The online issue of Negotiations: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, the bi-annual journal of the Department of English, University of North Bengal,  has been published. The journal is now inviting submissions for its December, 2025 issue. The details of the journal can be found at https://negotiations.nbu.ac.in . All details regarding the submission procedure, processes of free registration, current issue, style sheet can be obtained from the journal website.

Translating the Cold War

updated: 
Thursday, October 9, 2025 - 2:46pm
Polygraph Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 1, 2025

Today, the Cold War is theorized through the organizational structure of the nation state (political knowledge) and area studies (institutional knowledge). Yet, in this framework, the key role of language—in diplomacy, intelligence, interrogation, and more—is often underlooked. Indeed, the Cold War and the ongoing cold war of today as a cultural, diplomatic exchange relies fundamentally on translation. While language has been privileged within area studies, with its focus on literary translation (Okada 2002), the perforation of the concept of “language” itself as a tool and weapon during the Cold War deserves greater analysis (Martin-Nielsen 2010, Haddadian-Moghaddam & Scott-Smith 2020).

[Re]Frame Academia - Academic Blog Inaugural Call

updated: 
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 12:43pm
[re]frame academia, GAPS
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

[re]frame is an online academic space that aims to amplify and foster early career scholarship as well as provide space for academic dialogue in postcolonial studies and related fields of study. Our academic blog is committed to investigating and problematising the complexities of forms of colonial, anticolonial, and decolonial patterns, phenomena, and infrastructures, as well as how they manifest in literary and cultural studies. Formed under the aegis of the GAPS (Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies), [re]frame encourages investigations of academia and academic practices, such as the colonial legacies of universities and the coloniality of knowledge systems that inform epistemologies.

Call for Manuscripts: Digital Defoe

updated: 
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 12:42pm
Digital Defoe
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 19, 2026

Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries (https://cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/) is an open-access, mutually-anonymous peer-reviewed journal exploring the intersection of Defoe and/or his contemporaries and digital humanities.

We strongly encourage the submission of innovative digital and multimedia projects, as well as experimental essays and pedagogical approaches.

 Full submission guidelines and archived issues of the journal may be found on the website: https://cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/policies.html

Call For Papers: Rendering Violence in Textual and Visual Media (April 2026)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 12:36pm
The Liberal Arts Collective at Penn State
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 5, 2025

Call for Papers:  

Rendering Violence in Textual and Visual Media 
24-25 April, 2026
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 

Keynote Speakers: 
Seth Kim, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, Colby College 
Pedro Inock, Filmmaker and PhD candidate, NOVA University of Lisbon 

Panel CfP: Infrastructures of Feeling: The European City in Contemporary Literature and Visual Media /18th ESSE Conference, 31st August – 4th September 2026, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

updated: 
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 12:22pm
Ágnes Györke and Ana Cristina Mendes (ESSE panel)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 31, 2026

18th ESSE Conference (European Society for the Study of English)
31st August – 4th September 2026
Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Call for Contributions to the ESSE Panel "Infrastructures of Feeling: The European City in Contemporary Literature and Visual Media"

CFP for 60th annual Comp Lit Conference. Legacies: Nostalgia, Adaptation, and Reimaginings

updated: 
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 10:11am
Comparative World Literature, CSULB
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 1, 2026

How do we reimagine the past? How can we envision the future? In our present moment, how do we tell the story of a past that has become just as contentious as the many visions of where we want to go? The concept of legacies allows us to think through the continuum, the spectrum, and the sometimes-chaotic mishmash of the relationship of past, present, and future. The ideas of tradition, innovation, nostalgia, and refashionings can open up texts to consider their temporal, historical, and intertextual contexts.

CfP New issue: Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553)

updated: 
Monday, October 6, 2025 - 1:47am
Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

CfP New issue: Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553) deadline for submissions: November 15, 2025 full name / name of organization: Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553) contact email: essencecritiquejournal@gmail.com 

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies invites submissions for the New ssue of the journal - a general issue on Literature and Drama Studies. 

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