Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Fall Conference October 15th to 17th - Online 

Call for Papers: Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies Area 

Please submit abstracts of 250–400 words and a short 100-word bio to the linked form below.

The Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies area, part of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Fall Online Conference (October 15–17, 2026), features the newly established conference area and Digital Swift Symposium, a curated space for interdisciplinary scholarship on popular music, fandom, gender, authorship, and digital culture.

In our current postdigital condition, digital technology is so deeply embedded in everyday life that the distinction between technical and natural is becoming increasingly blurred and images have become mere byproducts of our embodied co-existence with digital media. At the same time, we see that visual forms are continuously rendered obsolete by the rapidly evolving algorithmic processes. In new media, we are no longer even looking at “the image” any more, but rather always only at a version of an image that can be infinitely modified. Cameras are regularly used to connect the eye and the machine in a way that serves no aesthetic goal, creating purely “operational images” (Harun Farocki).

We’re delighted to announce a new online event to mark Dickens’s passing. On this occasion, our theme does not dwell on the Inimitable’s death, but focuses instead on his ever-expanding life on the big and small screen. Dickens was first adapted for silent cinema in 1901, and since then his work has appeared countless times on film and television. Since Dickens’s Bicentenary in 2012, a number of significant screen adaptations have appeared, including Armando Iannucci’s Personal History of David Copperfield (2019), Steven Knight’s Great Expectations (2023), two Artful Dodger character adaptations, and multiple versions of A Christmas Carol.

CFP: Special Issue of The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (15.2 2026) on K-Pop, deadline 15th June 2026.

This is a call for paper for an edited volume “(Re)Imagining Gender in Post-Covid Times: Transformations and Possibilities” which looks into the transformations that have occurred in gender relations in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic, which was a global crisis, had a considerable impact in different aspects and reinforced pre-existing inequalities across gender, sexuality, class, caste, and other spheres of marginality. This edited volume aims to closely examine these transformations through the lens of gender as the primary variable in understanding post-pandemic societies.

SEEKING BOOK CHAPTER AUTHORS: Women and social media through a global lens - edited collection (under contract)

We are seeking authors for an interdisciplinary edited volume examining women’s roles in social media as both producers and consumers across global contexts. This collection explores the personal, political, social, and economic dimensions of this digital activity through the examination of global regions.

Chapters are organized by region. Remaining regions include:

• Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands)

Each chapter will contain the following sections:

CALL FOR PAPERS

Platform Bengali: Digital Humanities and Digital Culture in the Bangla-Speaking World
A One-Day Hybrid Academic Conference

Conference Date: 18 July 2026
Venue: Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, Kolkata - 700103
Format: Hybrid (In-Person and Online)

Conference Convenor: Pranab K Mondal (Assistant Professor, RKMRC Narendrapur)
Volume Editors: Prithu Halder (Project Coordinator, Platform Bengali; IIT Tirupati), Debapriya Basu (Associate Professor, IIT Guwahati), Spandan Bhattacharya (Assistant Professor, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad)

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE