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French Graduate Student Conference — Mutations (February 12-13, 2026)

updated: 
Friday, October 3, 2025 - 3:23pm
University of California, Berkeley — French Graduate Student Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 10, 2025

We are pleased to announce our upcoming graduate conference, Mutations, which will take place at the University of California, Berkeley on February 12–13, 2026, with our prestigious Keynote Speaker Prof. Christy Wampole from Princeton University. You’ll find the conference abstract and further details below.

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Ecocritiquing Graphic Narratives: Visual Representations of Nature in Global Comics

updated: 
Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 4:16am
Subashish Bhattacharjee, Indrajit Mukherjee, Soumyadeep Chakraborty
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 31, 2026

From Indigenous testimonies about extraction economies to eco-dystopian manga, comics across the world function as powerful visual laboratories for engaging with the natural world. The graphic form—with its unique interplay of word and image, its use of framing, juxtaposition, and sequentiality—stages ecological questions in ways prose often cannot. By dramatizing the temporality of both sudden catastrophes and slow processes of degradation, comics enable us to see environmental crises unfolding across multiple scales of time and space. They ask us to imagine multispecies entanglements, toxic futures, and alternative modes of dwelling, while also foregrounding human complicity in environmental collapse.

 

Bridging Caribbean Literature and Digital Humanities

updated: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025 - 1:52pm
Special issue editors: Gabrielle M. Jean-Louis, Michael Soriano, and Kelly Baker Josephs
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

Bridging Caribbean Literature and Digital Humanities

 

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 

Special issue editors: Gabrielle M. Jean-Louis, Michael Soriano, and Kelly Baker Josephs

 

Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2025

Full papers due: 15 March 2026

Issue to be published: Fall 2026

 

This special issue of Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal seeks articles, interviews, and digital project reviews on the critical use of digital humanities methodologies to deepen the study of Caribbean literary works. 

 

The Medieval in Museums: call for contributions

updated: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025 - 12:20pm
The Medieval In Museums (edited collection)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 3, 2025

We invite short abstracts (100-200 words) in response to our call for contributions for an edited volume, ‘The Medieval in Museums’. Please send abstracts by 5pm GMT on Monday 3 November to Fran Allfrey (University of York) and Maia Blumberg (QMUL) fran.allfrey@york.ac.uk ; m.blumberg@qmul.ac.uk. Please be in touch with us to discuss your idea more informally should you wish.

 

CFP: Colonial Afterlives: Public Art and the Trans-Pacific World - Public Art Dialogue Special Issue

updated: 
Monday, September 29, 2025 - 11:26am
Public Art Dialogue
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

This special issue of Public Art Dialogue invites scholarly contributions (research articles, short essays, and artists’ projects) that examine the enduring visual, spatial, and ideological legacies of colonialism in public spaces across the Pacific world. It seeks to explore how imperial legacies forged transoceanic connections that continue to shape the public sphere through means including but not limited to monuments, architecture, civic rituals, theater, dance, street art, and performative acts.

ACLA Seminar: Anti-Capitalist Critique and the Fetish

updated: 
Friday, September 26, 2025 - 9:14pm
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 2, 2025

This panel is interested in the close historical association between the discourse of fetishism in anti-capitalist critique, and representations of Indigenous peoples. William Pietz argues that, prior to the adoption of the fetish as an object of anthropological inquiry in the 19th century, the discourse of fetishism emerged as an offshoot of the Christian theory of idolatry. Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism, in turn, “was a vivid way of suggesting to his readers that the truth of capital was to be grasped from a perspective alien to that of bourgeois understanding, which knows capital exclusively through its own categories” (Pietz).

NeMLA Virtual Panel/Dismantling the Neocolonial Maritime Archive: Indigenous Oceanic Epistemologies

updated: 
Friday, September 26, 2025 - 5:07pm
The 57th Annual Convention for Northeast Modern Language Association/NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

 This VIRTUAL panel invites papers on “Dismantling the Neocolonial Maritime Archive:  Indigenous Oceanic Epistemologies” for NeMLA 57th Annual Convention to be held on March 5-8, 2026.

 

The panel addresses how West Asian, South Asian, and Gulf literatures regenerate the power of oceanic precarity that propels newer modes of decolonial resistance and resilience to interrogate and distrust the rigid structures that propagate epistemic violence and archival control. 

Black Matter(s): Opacity, Relation, Representation - ACLA 2026

updated: 
Friday, September 26, 2025 - 3:04pm
Matthew Molinaro + Pragati Sharma, University of Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 2, 2025

In recent decades, Black Studies has witnessed important work on the ways in which the overrepresentation of ‘man’ and the invisibilization of whiteness have functioned in service of a range of im/material violences. Our aesthetic and political investments, therefore, lie in arguments and examples that unsettle the imposed relationalities and the representational economy of what Saidiya Hartman calls the “racial calculus”, Katherine McKittrick considers as the “mathematics of unlivingness” and Christina Sharpe terms the “orthographies of the wake”.

[NEMLA 2026] Crossings: Across Racial and Oceanic Borders in Asian/American Literature

updated: 
Friday, September 26, 2025 - 1:32pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This panel invites papers that discuss transpacific, transnational, and cross-racial relations in Asian/American literature. How can literature facilitate the “(Re)generation” of solidarities and exchanges across identities and borders? How can it offer a site of intimacy, which Lisa Lowe defines as “the implied but less visible forms of alliance, affinity, and society among variously colonized peoples beyond the metropolitan national center”? How does literature generate discourses around cross-group tension, conflict, identifications, and disidentifications? How do literary and social forms reflect and reformulate each other, within and across nations? Where do Asian American studies and Global Asian studies meet and diverge?

Matrifocal Narratives in Indian Fiction

updated: 
Friday, September 26, 2025 - 1:32pm
Proposed for Routledge/ Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) South Asian Series
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 30, 2026

Call for Book Chapters

Proposed for Routledge/ Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) South Asian Series

Seeking submissions for a co-edited collection entitled:

Matrifocal Narratives in Indian Fiction

Co-Editors: Sushree Routray, Rashmi Gaur, and Rahul K. Gairola

 

Call for Chapter Proposals – A Companion to Marxist Aesthetics

updated: 
Thursday, September 25, 2025 - 1:07pm
Cittabhumi Academic Series
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Call for Chapter Proposals – A Companion to Marxist Aesthetics

Editor: Kishore Kumar K. P. (Department of Philosophy, University of Kerala)

We invite chapter proposals for contributions to A Companion to Marxist Aesthetics, a comprehensive and cutting-edge volume that explores the historical evolution, critical debates, and contemporary relevance of aesthetic theory grounded in the Marxian tradition.

This companion is intended to serve as a definitive reference work for scholars, students, and researchers working in philosophy, literary theory, political aesthetics, cultural studies, art history, and adjacent disciplines.

Scope and Aim

Global Bollywood: Cultural Appropriation, Streaming Media, and the Politics of Representation

updated: 
Thursday, September 25, 2025 - 1:16am
Tanima Kumari, Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Today, Bollywood is not merely an industry of Indian films representing the national cinema but also a global cultural phenomenon. From the singsong dance sequences on YouTube to its widespread circulation on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and regional streaming platforms, Bollywood redefines South Asian identities and how they are consumed, contested, and celebrated across the globe. Moreover, the intertwining of questions on cultural appropriation, culturalized representation, caste, gender, and diasporic negotiations emerges with renewed urgency and visibility.

Abstracts for NeMLA 2026 Panel - Creative and Forensic Accounting: Cultural and Corporate Continuity Beyond Weimar

updated: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 5:11pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Call for paper proposals - DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 30th

Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a short (ca. 50 words) bio to the NeMLA portal at this link: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21839.

In periods of economic and cultural crisis, cui bono? Who benefits? How are accounts kept, and gains accounted for? Who is accountable and who is not? What forms does the balance sheet take? What is its narrative and who gets to construct it? How is creative accounting investigated?

NeMLA Session on African Literature and Abdulrazak Gurnah

updated: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:04am
The Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The 57th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Conference Dates - March 5-8, 2026

Topic - Reclaiming History: Trauma, Memory and Resilience in the Narratives from Africa

Deadline for Abstract Submission - September 30th 2025

Modality - hybrid (in-person but accepting remote presentations)

 

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ICSSR- ERC Sponsored Two Day International Conference Food, Culture and Narrative in South Asia and Beyond: Realities and Representations (January 15-16, 2026, Kolkata, India)

updated: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:04am
Adamas University/ ICSSR-ERC, Kolkata, India
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

Call for Papers

The consolidation of food studies as a serious academic discipline has coincided with the extraordinary proliferation of food-related cultural forms—ranging from memoirs, cookbooks, and culinary novels to food documentaries, blogs, and digital platforms. These developments remind us that food is not merely a biological necessity, but a symbolic system that mediates between the material and the cultural, the everyday and the aesthetic, the policy and the political. Food operates simultaneously as a sensory artefact, an archive of memory, and a site of political contestation. As anthropologist Brillat-Savarin famously suggested in 1825, “Tell me what you eat, I will tell you what you are.”

SEXTANT Journal: Call for submissions

updated: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:03am
SEXTANT: masculinities, sexualities & decolonialities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 17, 2025

SEXTANT (ISSN 2990-8124) is an online journal which navigates the lenses of masculinities, sexualities, and decolonialities.

SEXTANT aims to shift our understanding of these subjects while looking at the ways they intersect, especially in areas that are often overlooked. 

SEXTANT features the work of researchers, activists, and artists, welcoming submissions in a wide variety of mediums, such as research papers, book reviews, creative writing, visual art, and digital projects.

Now accepting submissions for Volume 3, Issue 2. Deadline for submissions is November 17, 2025.

Transitional Justice? Representing Legacies of Violence in Asian and Transpacific Frames

updated: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:03am
Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies

Vol. 52 No. 2 | September 2026

Call for Papers

Transitional Justice?

Representing Legacies of Violence in Asian and Transpacific Frames

Guest Editors

Soo Yeon Kim (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)

Guy Beauregard (National Taiwan University)

ACLA 2026 Seminar: Reading Marx Beyond Western Europe

updated: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:03am
ACLA 2026 Annual Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 2, 2025

Marx and Marxism have always had a fraught relationship with geographies beyond Western Europe. In Orientalism, Edward Said famously argues that Marx’s writings on India express sympathy for the suffering of the colonized but ultimately reproduce Romantic Orientalist tropes through concepts like the “Asiatic Mode of Production” and “Oriental Despotism.” Cedric Robinson critiques Marx for severing the analysis of slavery from that of capitalism and argues that Marxism’s emphasis on the industrial working class sidelines other (racialized) actors in revolutionary struggles and proves ill-equipped to interrogate anti-imperialist movements in the 20th century.

Enmonsterisations in the Fantastic

updated: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:03am
German Inklings Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 10, 2026

Enmonsterisations in the Fantastic
Annual Symposium of the German Inklings Society

“Epochs throw up the monsters they need.”
— China Miéville, “Theses on Monsters”

SARGASSO Call for Contributions: Post-Narrative Futures in Caribbean Letters and Cultures

updated: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:03am
Sargasso A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language & Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

The editors of Sargasso invite submissions for a volume on post-narrative futures in Caribbean letters and cultures that will engage works of literature, art, and culture that challenge, subvert, reimagine, and transcend, dominant colonial, postcolonial, and traditional forms of narrative.

Fourteenth Biennial MESEA Conference, June 11-13, 2026, Ionian University, Zakynthos Island Campus, Greece - Cultural Environments: Spheres, Ethnicity, Corporeality

updated: 
Thursday, September 18, 2025 - 9:56am
The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

  • Professor Juan Ignacio Oliva (University of La Laguna)
  • Associate Professor Christos Karydis (Ionian University)
  • Atlantic Studies Lecture TBC

 

 

Boko Haram in Nigerian literature and cinema (panel at REAF 2026 — Aubervilliers, France — June 29-July 2, 2026)

updated: 
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 - 12:08pm
REAF 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 30, 2025

For more than a decade, the jihadist group Boko Haram—whose name roughly means “Western education is a sin”—has profoundly shaped Nigeria’s political, social, and cultural landscape. The violence perpetrated by the Islamist group—including the regular abduction of children—has caused thousands of deaths, forced population displacements, and a major humanitarian and security crisis, particularly in the northeast of the country.

Post-Truth and Indigenous Environmental Justice in Canada: Myths, Media, and Reality

updated: 
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 3:26pm
Open Cultural Studies (De Gruyter), Edited by Kamelia Talebian Sedehi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) and Paula Wieczorek (University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów, Poland)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

Open Cultural Studies (www.degruyter.com/culture) invites submissions for a special issue entitled Post-Truth and Indigenous Environmental Justice in Canada: Myths, Media, and Reality.

Abundant Silences: Artistic Strategies of Witness in Public Narratives

updated: 
Monday, September 15, 2025 - 4:17pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Abundant Silences: Artistic Strategies of Witness in Public Narratives    

This seminar builds on successful past seminars on the roles and limits of narrative silences in showing care toward  trauma and injustice. 

Student Conference: L'Étrangeté

updated: 
Monday, September 15, 2025 - 3:46pm
CUNY GC French Dept.
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 20, 2025

The CUNY Graduate Center French Department invites submissions for our Spring 2026 student conference on the theme of “étrangeté.”

Étrangeté evades easy translation. It encompasses "strangeness," "foreignness," and "otherness," offering expansive variability. Etrangeté inhabits both the self and the other. It arises through external judgment and internal reflection alike. It can be unsettling, absurd, and beautiful.

Literary Druid - Regular Issue October 2025

updated: 
Saturday, September 13, 2025 - 7:38pm
Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

 

Name of Organisation: Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)

Contact email: literarydruid@gmail.com  

 

Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.

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