twentieth century and beyond

As Jacques Derrida asks in Of Hospitality, “Must we ask the foreigner to understand us, to speak our language, in all the senses of this term, in all its possible extensions, before being able… to welcome him into our country?” (15). Derrida’s question is rooted in the conception of the foreigner as the cultural, and important to this panel, the spatial other. Coming up on America’s 250th anniversary, this question is particularly fruitful when considering the environment of the United States; historically (i.e. Indigenous land theft and mistreatment, slavery, capitalist implementation) and contemporarily (i.e.

The Politics of Literary Form (deadline extended to August 22, 2026)
Graduate Student Conference at Johns Hopkins University
Date: November 13–15, 2026
Location: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Keynote Speaker: Oliver Simons, Columbia University

Drawing inspiration from Adrienne Rich's seminal book Of Woman Born (1976), in 2006, Andrea O'Reilly coined the term "Motherhood Studies" and established a new interdisciplinary academic field aimed at studying "motherhood" as an institution and "mothering" as an experience. O'Reilly emphasized the importance of adopting a feminist framework designed expressly for mothers: a "matricentric feminism" necessary for an intersectional exploration of motherhood. Within "Motherhood Studies," being or not being a mother matters, and the experience of motherhood is treated as a category alongside gender, class, and race.

Following the death of Marjane Satrapi, this session examines her legacy through the lens of graphic resistance, considering questions of form, memory, politics, religion, gender, and emancipation in her comics and their afterlives.

https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Paper36481.htm

Green Day has often been treated as a problem in the “longview” of punk: too popular, too melodic, too commercial, too successful. Green Day and the Politics of Pop-Punk starts from the opposite assumption. Green Day matters precisely because the band’s career makes it impossible to separate punk from the mass-cultural conditions it has so often claimed to resist.

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. 

In this CFP, we are looking for essays that take up the issues of the Speculative Genre (you can interpret this in many ways, though the sciences, technologies, and alternative social structures are usually instrumental in these realms) as it is manifest in the literary production of the Czechs and Slovaks, whether this was during the 1800s or it is a current manifestation.

We are interested in review essays, literary scholarship, and in translations of original works from Czech or Slovak.

You can submit essays and reviews for consideration here: https://astralcourier.subfolios.com/submit/578/essays-reviews

Call for Submissions: The Pocket Poet (Inaugural Autumn Issue 2026)

We are thrilled to announce the launch of The Pocket Poet, a new international poetry journal dedicated to powerful poems in small spaces. We are officially opening submissions for our Inaugural Autumn 2026 Issue and invite poets from every corner of the world to share their work with us. What We SeekWe are looking for original, engaging poetry that thrives in brevity. This includes: 

• Haiku, Senryu, & Tanka

• Micro Poetry & Short Free Verse

• Short Prose Poems

Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies

Vol. 53 No. 2 | September 2027

Call for Papers

Critical Agrarian Humanities:

Farming and World-Making in the Anthropocene

Guest Editors

Shiuhhuah Serena Chou (Academia Sinica)

Scott Slovic (Oregon Research Institute)

Deadline for Submissions: December 31, 2026

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Things Left Unsaid: A Flash Fiction Anthology

Silence. Regret. The conversation that never happened.

Submission Deadline: August 20, 2026
Acceptance Notifications: August 25, 2026
Submissions: specialanthologyfreshwordsmag@gmail.com
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/announcements

There are things we meant to say. Words swallowed before they could land. Letters never sent, calls never returned, confessions rehearsed in the dark and abandoned by morning.

We are seeking abstracts for chapters for The Routledge Companion to the Urban Wyrd. This volume has been contracted and we have commissioned in excess of 35 chapters. We are looking for abstracts which cover particular areas including, the Anglo-Saxon origins of the wyrd, the link between the Gothic and the wyrd city, Georgian and Victorian urban anxiety, global cities, theoretical approaches to the urban wyrd, urban ruin and photography, sound and music and the city, the environment and the urban future.

    Indraprasth: An International Journal of Culture & Communication Studies, (ISSN 2278-7208), the annual journal published by the University School of Humanities and Social Sciences (USHSS) at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University invites unpublished research papers for its upcoming issue, Volume XV (2026), titled “New Paradigms, New Epistemes: Literature and Criticality in the 21st Century.”  

Americana: Call for Submissions Deadline for submissions: Revolving submissions
Now reading through 06/20/2026 for next issue full name / name of organization: Americana contact email: editor@americanpopularculture.com 

Americana invites submissions in Film Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Women's Studies, and American history, and so on -- especially as it pertains to Americana popular culture, 1900 to present.

Agricultural and Rural Development in the Twentieth Century
Yearbook for the History of Global Development

Volume co-editors Leo Chu (University of New South Wales) and James Lin (University of Washington, Seattle)