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Madness in Literature
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: January 9, 2026
International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
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International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Call for Papers:
Conventions and Subversions in Sino-Western Theatrical Settings
Edited by Kelly Kar Yue CHAN, Chi Sum Garfield LAU and Chi Chun CHAN
We are soliciting chapter proposals for an edited volume that contains 8-10 chapters of research articles which represent the efforts from both members of the academia and practitioners of theatre to sustain the tradition of Sino-Western theatrics, while demonstrating the evolving aspects of contemporary performances under the inexorable trends of digitalization and globalization.
Please consider submitting an abstract for the edited collection, Reconfiguring Critical Thinking in Higher Education for the 21st Century (Springer, Education).
We welcome research on critical thinking in higher education in Southeast Asia. The first section of the collection endeavours to define critical thinking in the current climate. The essays of the second section share classroom activities and curriculum design that aim to teach critical thinking. And the final section considers how LLMs can both facilitate and inhibit the cultivation of critical thinking in student learners.
We aim to have completed articles ready for submission by August, 2026.
This call invites the submission of proposals for a dossier that will be submitted for consideration to A Contracorriente: A Journal of Latin American Studies. The dossier will focus on the following theme:
Material Plots: Commodity, Capitalism, and National Imaginaries in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Hispanic American Literature
FOR LANCELOT ANDREWES
September 25th 2026 marks the 400th anniversary of Lancelot Andrewes’ death. It also marks the 100th anniversary of an essay by T. S. Eliot which appeared first in the TLS and was later collected into the volume named after it: For Lancelot Andrewes. This essay instigated modern critical interest in Andrewes’ intellectual and imaginative legacy, and is a significant event not just for sermon studies but for the conjunction of modernism and early modernism, and the influence of the renaissance period on the poets and thinkers of the twentieth century and beyond.
Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies invites submissions for its 10th issue (April 2026) and 12th issue (April 2027), dedicated to the twin special issues “Theoretical Inquiries, Critical Dialogues I–II.”
These issues welcome original research articles that explore classical or contemporary literary theories, modes of interpretation, textual analysis, narrative studies, world literature, comparative approaches, and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Prioritizing conceptual depth and metaphorical dynamism, Nesir seeks contributions that move beyond descriptive analysis of a single work, period, or national context. We encourage articles that:
Queering food in the 21st Century
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS / ÉTUDES IRLANDAISES (French Journal of Irish Studies)
Fall/Winter 2026 issue
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: March 1st, 2026
The Editorial Board of Études Irlandaises is currently seeking submissions for its Fall/Winter 2026 issue.
Proposed Panel at the International Seminar, "Cultures of Body, Bodies of Culture: Thinking Plurality Today" organised by the Department of English, University of North Bengal on 17th and 18th January, 2026 with opportunity for publication
Panel Theme and Rationale
This panel seeks to rethink the seminar’s guiding concerns—body, culture, and plurality—through the prism of urban studies, architectural philosophy, infrastructure theory, and contemporary cultural production. We invite proposals that examine how bodies (human, non-human, machinic, ecological) are shaped, transformed, and regulated by the architectural, infrastructural, and cultural dynamics of contemporary global cities.
Generally, the notion of identity is misinterpreted to be something concrete or even an inherited attribute and hence resistant to changes. However, as we delve deeper into the idea of self and the factors that constitute it, a fact becomes evident: that an individual’s identity is in fact not very rigid but rather fluid and dynamic in nature. A number of societal factors influence the construction of the character that an individual identifies themselves with. Through a close textual analysis of The Last White Man (2022) by Mohsin Hamid, this paper aims to explore the concept of identity in contrast to its conventional definition of something unalterable, and rather look at it as an idea that is constantly in motion.
Women and the Body: Interdisciplinary PerspectivesInterdisciplinary Studies on Philology – Volume (forthcoming)
The edited volume Women and the Body will appear as part of the peer-reviewed book series Interdisciplinary Studies on Philology, published by Maurer Press (Germany). The series explores cutting-edge research across literary studies, cultural studies, linguistics, philosophy, and related fields, with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary and theoretically innovative approaches.
The Black Theatre Association (BTA), a focus group of the Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), invites submissions for our upcoming 2026 Summer Conference in Baltimore, MD, from July 22-26, 2026.
Theme: Revival and Rejuvenation
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY “REWIRING ECOLOGIES: GROWTH, DEGROWTH, AND TECHNOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURES” Thirtieth Annual Meeting 21–23 May 2026 ONLINE ONLY
The IAEP Executive Committee is excited to announce our 2026 online annual meeting. To reduce the
environmental impact of our environmental philosophy, we hold conferences in-person/hybrid in
odd-numbered years, and fully remotely in even-numbered years.
Call for papers
XIV Global IABA Conference 2026
International Auto/Biography Association
RESIST TO EXIST:
Life writing, democracy, and conceivable futures
State University of Bahia (UNEB)
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
July 21-24, 2026
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS--January 30, 2026
Call for Papers for an Anthology
“The Colours of Pride: Queer Identities in Literature and Culture”
Submit to minimelow@gmail.com
Submissions close on 15 January 2026
Submit your paper to: minimelow@gmail.com
Papers are invited for an anthology to be brought out by a reputed international publisher on the theme, “The Colours of Pride: Queer Identities in Literature and Culture.”
Concept Note
Journal “Temas de Integração”
2026 – n.º 46
30th Anniversary Commemorative Edition
The Journal of Research in Contemporary World Literature (indexed in Scopus) invites original, unpublished research articles for a special issue dedicated to Contemporary African and Arabic Literature. This issue seeks contributions that explore literary production, cross-cultural encounters, postcolonial and decolonial aesthetics, migration and diaspora, oral and performance traditions, and new media literatures within African and Arabic-speaking contexts. The journal is a peer-reviewed, open-access quarterly that publishes in English.
Themes and Topics
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The University of British Columbia is currently seeking educational materials to populate our Pop Pedagogies Archive page. This will be an open-access resource library for educators teaching students at a variety of levels. We are looking for contributions of teaching materials relevant to the intersection of popular culture and education. Submissions can range from course syllabi to individual lesson plans and unit outlines. All contributors will retain the rights to their submitted materials.
Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2026
16th Annual Conference
Systems and Entanglement
July 16th-17th 2026
University of Liverpool and Online
Nobody lives everywhere; everybody lives somewhere. Nothing is connected to everything; everything is connected to something.
(Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene)
We are pleased to announce that the 42nd International Conference on Psychology and the Arts will be held at University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, England, UK, June 23-June 26, 2026. The University of Essex, with three campuses, was founded as a research university by public charter in 1965, and is one of the original plate glass universities. With a commitment to academic excellence and diversity, The University of Essex’s Colchester campus is “a world in one place,” home to 15,000 students from over 130 countries.
The peer-reviewed e-journal Otherness: Essays and Studies is now accepting submissions for its 2026 general issue.
Otherness: Essays and Studies publishes research articles from and across different scholarly disciplines that examine, in as many ways as possible, the concepts of otherness and alterity. We particularly appreciate dynamic cross-disciplinary study.
RMMLA 2026 – Call for Papers
Asian Drama and Performance Panel
REVOLUTIONARY BODIES
Staging Thought and Affect on the Asian Stage
How do bodies on Asian stages think, feel, and make worlds?
This panel explores the performing body as a site where concepts are articulated and affects are distributed. Inspired by Emily Wilcox’s Revolutionary Bodies and theoretical work by Bruno Latour, Rita Felski, Susan Leigh Foster, André Lepecki, among others, we consider the body not as a mute vehicle for meaning, but as an interface that negotiates power, history, and desire.
“The beyond is not a new horizon, but a sense of the transition that takes place in the interstices” — Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture (1994)
Call for Papers to the special issue “Dalit Studies in India: Interrogating Epistemological Injuries and Silences” for Global South Literary Studies
Special issue editors:
Arunima Ray, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, India
Milind E. Awad, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Special Call for Prearranged American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) Panels at the Comparative Drama Conference (CDC), Madison, Wisconsin, July 9-11, 2026
Special extended deadline for these prearranged ATDS panels (only): January 10, 2026
Austerity
April 10-11, 2026
The 2026 edition of the Equinoxes graduate student conference at Brown University
Perennially understudied, Eurasia – as both a geographical and conceptual constellation – opens up a novel and fertile space for scholarly contributions. This call for papers invites submissions that engage with the region’s alternative media, information, and communications histories, bridging past and future frameworks, methodologies and forms.
Communication in the age of digital spaces has transformed rapidly. The advent of social media platforms has led to a transition in the manner and extent of information circulation online, making communication a more collaborative and democratised form of participation. Participatory culture, as defined by Henry Jenkins, is a space that enables the audience to become active participants rather than passive consumers of the texts. The meaning of participation especially evolves with the exposure to social media platforms that allow individual members to find a space for their expression.
Plant Lives: Sacred Interdependencies in the Arts of the Americas
A planting event and conference hosted by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music
April 11, 2026
“Violence in the Medieval and Early Modern North”
Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern North Conference
University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Call for Papers
Spark: HKCAL Postgraduate Lightning Talks
Theme: Emerging Voices – Testing Ideas in Research on Hong Kong
Date: 5-6 June 2026 (online)
The Hong Kong Cultures, Arts and Languages (HKCAL) Research Network invites submissions for Spark: HKCAL Postgraduate Lightning Talks, to be held on 12-13 June 2026.
We are happy to announce that the Department of English Studies at the University of Zadar is organizing an international scientific conference titled Contemporary Horizons in English Studies (CHES). The conference theme, Contemporary Horizons in English Studies, casts a wide net, encompassing diverse areas and perspectives within the field. As we reflect on decades of growth in English studies and the 70-year history of our department, we also look toward the new horizons that continue to expand the boundaries of our discipline. Inspired by our department’s interdisciplinary spirit, the theme highlights a variety of research, teaching, and creative work taking place across English studies.
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Special Sub Call!Issue 8’s theme is: CollageOpen: Dec 1, 2025 - Jan. 31, 2026
Seeking Poetry and artworks!
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We’re inviting you to take scissors to much of our Archive!
Call for Papers | Society of Early Americanists
American Literature Association | 37th Annual Conference | May 20–23, 2026 | Chicago, IL
Errand into the Wilderness at 70
Upon the 70th anniversary of his Errand into the Wilderness, this panel invites papers and presentations that offer critical examinations and new interpretations of work by the intellectual historian (and Chicago native) Perry Miller. Topics might include (but are not limited to):
Call for Papers | Society of Early Americanists
American Literature Association | 37th Annual Conference | May 20–23, 2026 | Chicago, IL
Teaching Early American Literature Outside the Survey Course
While recent decades have seen significant shifts in pedagogical approaches to early American literature, most undergraduate students (including many English majors) still obtain the bulk of their early American literary knowledge from some version of a broad survey course. Recognizing the potential limitations of such encounters, then, this roundtable asks: Where else in our curricula are we (or should we be) teaching early American literary texts?
Call for Papers | Society of Early Americanists
American Literature Association | 37th Annual Conference | May 20–23, 2026 | Chicago, IL
Placing Chicago in Early American Studies
Acknowledging our conference setting and anticipating the 2027 SEA Biennial, this panel invites papers and presentations that explore the literature, culture, and history of Chicago prior to its March 1837 incorporation. What is (or should be) Chicago’s place within the field of early American studies? Topics might include (but are not limited to):
Call for Papers | Society of Early Americanists
American Literature Association | 37th Annual Conference | May 20–23, 2026 | Chicago, IL
New Directions in Early American Poetry Studies
This panel will develop and expand upon conversations about new directions in early American poetry studies begun at the SEA-sponsored panel on this topic to be convened during the ALA’s “American Poetry: A Symposium” (March 26–28, 2026).
Papers and presentations are invited that highlight new directions and recent developments in the study of early American poetry and poetics. Topics might include (but are not limited to):
The British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) is pleased to announce our first graduate conference, New Work in Contemporary Literary Studies, which will take place at the University of Leeds on May 20th 2026. This will be a hybrid conference.
Participants will be invited to contribute to a special issue of the soon-to-be relaunched journal Alluvium, to be published after the symposium.
Game Studies - PCA/ACA National Conference
Call For Papers
The Game Studies area of the National Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association Conference invites proposals for papers and panels on games and game studies for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference to be held on April 8-11, 2026 in Atlanta, GA. The deadline for proposals is November 30th.
I. Topics of Interest
Proposed Panel (in-person) at International Seminar on Cultures of Body, Bodies of Culture: Thinking Plurality Today, organised by the Department of English, University of North Bengal.
International Conference on Interstices, Relationality and Sense-making: Navigating Peace, Ethics and AI in the 21st Century
Organised by the Centre for Peace and Ethics in the Age of AI under the aegis of Swami Vivekananda University, Barrackpore, West Bengal, India.
19th-20th January, 2026 (Hybrid Mode)
“ One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.”
- J. Krishnamurti
“No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it’s doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.” - Marvin Minsky
Concorde: Literary, Linguistic and Sustainability Studies Conference
Date: 22-23 April, 2026
Venue: Department of English, Netrokona University, Netrokona, Bangladesh
Keynote speakers:
Day-1: Professor Dr Shamsad Mortuza, Department of English, University of Dhaka
Day-2: Professor Dr Sabiha Huq, English Discipline, Khulna University
Call for Abstracts: 12th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education
Dates: May 18 - 19, 2026
Venue: ARCOTEL Wimberger Wien, Neubaugürte, 34-36, 1070, Vienna, Austria
CPD Accreditation
As a Certified CPD Accredited Provider (Provider Number #785414), this conference offers 18 CPD credit hours, providing attendees with valuable recognition for their professional development. Verification is available at https://thecpdregister.com/view/eurasia-conferences-816429.
The inconclusive debates, the conflict of opinion, that this seminar aims to initiate and proliferate are about how body, culture, and plurality – three expansive and yet profound concepts – constellate, collapse and collide in varying registers that are both founded and unpredictable. The frames of our studies across disciplines are left in motion; the figures of understanding about how culture and the body and the bodies of culture in relation to plurality struggle to stay entrenched, occupy and distract us.
A Two-Day International Conference on
Beyond Binaries: Interrogating the Multiplicity of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Society
21st and 22nd January, 2026
Organized by
Centre for Gender Studies
And
Department of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies
Swami Vivekananda University
Concept Note:
Concept Note:
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:
The University of Iowa
Department of English
Graduate Student Conference 2026
Elaborating Labor
Conference date: Friday, April 10, 2026
Location: Richey Ballroom, Iowa Memorial Union, University of Iowa
Abstract due date: Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Please email abstracts to c3conf@uiowa.edu