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Er(r)go. Theory – Literature – Culture
Next Issue – 55 (2/2027) – game/play/idleness
submission deadline: 15 September 2026
CFP: German Romantic Humor across the Disciplines (9/30/2026; NeMLA; Sat March 6 - Tuesday March 9, 2027)
To be held at the 2027 Northeastern Modern Language Association (NeMLA) convention in Newport, Rhode Island.
This panel seeks to bring together scholars of literature, philosophy, history, art history, theology, musicology and/or related humanistic disciplines to discuss how humor shaped, and was shaped by, German Romanticism.
CfP- Speculative Fiction and Criticism in Precarious Times
‘Speculative Fiction and Criticism in Precarious Times’ is a conference celebrating a rich network of postgraduate research students working with speculative fiction and criticism across the United Kingdom. Taking place on Friday 18th September at Lancaster University, the conference will feature an array of diverse papers along with a plenary lecture (tbc) and a roundtable discussion from world-leading academics including Dr. Anna McFarlane and Dr. Oliver Langmead. This event is proudly funded by the NWCDTP Cohort Development Fund.
GERMAN
Die Germanistikabteilung der Philologischen Fakultät an der Lucian-Blaga-Universität Hermannstadt führt ihre Tagungsreihe mit dem Schwerpunkt Deutsche Literatur, Sprache und Kultur im südosteuropäischen Raum fort.
Queer as Method:
Transdisciplinary Approaches to Art, Research and Resistance
an online transdisciplinary conference
September 11-12, 2026
Online, Via Zoom
Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/06/15/queer-as-method/
Proposal deadline: August 15, 2026
"Making Trouble: Subversions and Reclamations in American Imaginaries"
RIAS Vol. 21, Fall-Winter (2/2028)
This issue of RIAS invites contributions on the theme of “Making Trouble: Subversions and Reclamations in American Imaginaries.” Engaging ongoing debates in global American Studies on power, representation, dissent, and cultural transformation, the issue seeks contributions that examine how American cultural, political, and social imaginaries are challenged, reworked, and reclaimed across diverse historical and geographical contexts. It invites interdisciplinary perspectives from the global field of American Studies and welcomes submissions from scholars worldwide.
“Science and Sensibility: Method Meets Art”
A Transdisciplinary Conference
Date: October 17-18, 2026
Location: University of Oxford, UK and online
Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/06/15/science-and-sensibility-2026/
International Conference
The Artificial Mind: Art and Philosophy after AI
24-25 September 2026
National Gallery of Art
22 Konstitucijos Ave.
Vilnius, Lithuania
The title “Artificial Mind” references Claude Lévi-Strauss’ The Savage Mind (La Pensée sauvage (1962), a foundational work in anthropology, in which he argues that “savage” and “civilized” thought share the same epistemological architecture – differing not in structure but in mode of operations. While the “civilized” engineer works with purpose-built concepts and tools toward a specific end, the “savage” bricoleur thinks with whatever is at hand, constructing new meanings from fragments.
Call for Contributors:Death and the Chatbot: The Thanatology of Artificial IntelligenceEditors:
Robert Spinelli (rspinelli@ncis.org); Kaylee Alexander (kaylee.alexander@utah.edu); Justina Sumilova (justina.sumilova@protonmail.com)
Abstract:
Friendship occupies a central place in children’s and young adult literature, film, and television. It functions as a key site through which processes of Bildung, selfhood, community, and belonging are imagined and negotiated. However, despite its centrality to narratives for young audiences, friendship has received comparatively limited sustained attention as a distinct object of study within children's literature and media scholarship.
“The American Literary Studies Periodical as Form”
Special Issue of American Periodicals
Ed. Tim Lanzendörfer, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
Plastic and Cinema
Aesthetic, Materiality and Philosophy (Tentative Title)
Debarshi Arathdar and Jayjit Sarkar
Soapbox 8.0: call for papers
Ways of Structuring
peer reviewed; open to critical and artistic work.
If structures are determinate and determining, as they have come to seem through the interventions of poststructuralist theory, then ‘ways of structuring’ names a contradiction. The plurality of ‘ways’ sits in tension with the fixity of ‘structure,’ evoking the very qualities of contingency and flexibility that the concept seems to negate. For this upcoming issue, we welcome academic and artistic contributions that explore this tension.
The Forum Section invites scholars to reflect on the different ways that their research and/or pedagogy has intertwined with their lives in relation to the theme of the Volume. It is a more immediate exploration of how one’s research is shaped out of one’s personal experiences and positionalities. This section was introduced in 2023, encouraging contributors to experiment with styles outside academic writing to tease out the intricacies of pedagogy, research, and lived experience. Forum pieces can be more personal and self-reflective, and can include open ended enquiries. There are aspects of research that never make it to the research paper.
Keynote speaker: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Central Michigan University)
May 20-21st 2027, University of Zadar (Zadar, Croatia)
5th Annual UC Irvine Global Asias International Conference
February 18–19, 2027
UC Irvine
Keynote Speaker:
Paul Nadal, Princeton University
Early Career Publishing Workshop:
Tina Chen, Penn State
CFP: https://sites.uci.edu/globalasias/ga27/
Proposal Form: https://bit.ly/ga27cfp/
CALL FOR PAPERS
Keynote Speaker: Prof Soumhya Venkatesan with Lydia Donohue (University of Manchester)
Call for abstracts - Forward Thinking: New Voices for the Future
In an era marked by ecological breakdown, epistemic instability, and widening global precarity, the very notion of “the future” has become a site of intense conceptual struggle. We invite scholars carrying out visionary work across the humanities — philosophy, literary theory, political thought, cultural studies, and related fields — to articulate bold and innovative interventions on what it means to think futurity today.
Just a quick update regarding the Society for Utopian Studies conference, November 12-14, 2026, in Portland, Oregon. Please see the following link for further information: https://utopian-studies.org/conference2026/.
-The deadline has been extended to July 15, 2026. -We are thrilled to announce our two keynote speakers:
Christian Writers Conference 2027
“Restoring Creativity”
April 9-10, 2027, Grove City College, PA
The Eastern Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature
and Third Annual meeting of the Holy Moot
Featuring Daniel McInerny, philosopher of art, novelist, and dramatist
Call for Papers
Workshop at the Renaissaince Society of America's annual meeting (Philadelphia. March 11-13, 2027)
Theme: Is it a Wonderful Life?
Wonder (n.): a feeling of surprise or awe, caused by something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable
Wonder (v.): to feel some doubt or curiosity; to be desirous to know or learn.
Wondrous (adj.): marvelous; wonderful.
Often, when thinking of academia, the ideas of books, writing, and theory are what make up the idea of the scholar. Many scholars who speak about activism, liberation, mutual aid, living in a collective community, and many other topics of concern for the JOAA team, do not always live the practice they write. This year, we are hoping to disrupt this focus on the blueprints of freedom and look into the way folks are working in the world to build, support, create, and live praxis in their lives.
Climate change is often discussed as an environmental emergency, but its most profound consequences are social, political, economic, and deeply gendered. The climate crisis does not operate in isolation from existing systems of inequality; rather, it intensifies historically entrenched hierarchies of gender, caste, class, race, labour, sexuality, and power. Women and gender minorities, frequently experience climate change not as a distant ecological abstraction but as everyday reality lived through food insecurity, water scarcity, displacement, unpaid labour, agrarian distress, and precarious working conditions.
India is poised to press home its civilisational charisma and unique advantages in the quest to realise its goals under the mission Viksit Bharat 2047. Fuelled by conceptual, imaginative and practical inputs derived from the continuously preserved Indian Knowledge Systems (Bharatiya Jñāna Paramparā), India’s developmental mission is not for its own exclusive benefit; rather, it is to guide the world in its anxious search for an alternative holistic paradigm of growth that preserves the universal core of human life and values, restores our vital spiritual connections with natural environments and rejuvenates an organic sense of community even as global enterprise prospers and enables a sense of economic well-being and security in people.
The First Global Algorithmacy Conference
Acronym
ALGOCON 2026
Web page
https://algorithmacy.com
Location
La Brea Pitch Lake, Trinidad and Tobago
Submission deadline
15 August 2026
Notification due
Rolling (public review on the PR thread, typically within ~5 business days of submission); final decisions by September 1 2026
Final version due
At acceptance — accepted papers are published with their full review history on the public repository
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the literatures of the Spanish State have witnessed a remarkable proliferation of Bildungsroman-inflected narratives, testimonial accounts, and coming-of-age fictions that fundamentally interrogate received models of subjectivity, identity formation, and social progress. This international congress invites critical engagement with a corpus of works — spanning authors such as Najat El Hachmi, Marta Sanz, Belén Gopegui, and Alana S. Portero — that contest hegemonic discourses of selfhood and becoming from positions of social, gendered, and cultural marginality.
Call for Papers
The Playful Monster
24–25 September 2026
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 annual graduate student conference organized by the Division of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California is now accepting applications. EXTENDED submission deadline is June 15, 2026.
This year’s conference invites proposals that engage broadly with the theme, Delirium.
It will take place on October 23–24, 2026, at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, with Professor Eugenie Brinkema joining for the Keynote.
We welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplines and methodological approaches, including creative works.