The International Congress of Videogames, Virtual Environments and Interactive Creation is an event of scientific and academic dissemination whose objective is the diffusion of studies related to the field of videogames, digital art and online and virtual environments, in its wide range of topics and media: development of ludic and interactive platforms; video game studies (Game Studies); initiatives around eSports; expressions of Digital Art, Virtual and Augmented Reality, and Artificial Intelligence applied to ludic or plastic creation; projects in networked communities and mobile devices; e-learning platforms; games and digital artistic works and their imbrications with cinema, animation, music, comics, etc. 

Call for Submissions – Woman Scream Cause For fifteen years, the international Woman Scream (Grito de Mujer) cause has united voices from around the globe through poetry, art, and storytelling, amplifying awareness for women’s and girls’ rights. We now invite poets, short story writers, and visual artists to submit original work for our upcoming printed volume. This is an opportunity to contribute your creativity to a global movement that uses art as a form of activism, solidarity, and change.Participation is open worldwide to creators over 18.

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners (2025) was released by the director’s production company, Proximity Media, to massive fanfare. According to The Tennessee Tribune, Sinners is the first horror film in thirty-five years to earn a grade of ‘A’ on CinemaScore exit polls and boasts “nearly unanimous rave reviews” (April 24-30, 2025). A massive box office success, Sinners raked in a stunning $45.6 million during its debut weekend. This figure, as well as other factors, have invited comparisons to Jordan Peele’s Us (2019), the current record holder for biggest debut of an original film ($71 million).

37th Annual Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Conference

DeLand, Florida

April 17-18, 2026

Call for Papers

The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society, an organization of over 200 members worldwide, invites paper proposals on topics related to Rawlings’s life and works.  

Topics might include the following:

Embracing Glocality:

New Perspectives on Arab and Anglophone Arab Literature and Film

Glocalization—the simultaneous presence of global and local dynamics—offers a critical lens through which to examine Arab and Anglophone Arab cultural production. This special issue invites papers that explore how literary and cinematic texts from or about the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region reflect, negotiate, or resist the pressures of global cultural flows while rooted in specific local contexts.

This Seminar Session for the Renaissance Society of America 2026 Conference in San Francisco, CA is still seeking participants! This session is sponsored by ACMRS. 

Panel: International Congress for Medieval Studies, University of Western Michigan, Kalamzoo (May 14-16 2026)

Call for Creative Pieces (Issue III)Thing-Poetry 

Things bear world, World grants things.
Poetry, Language, Thought, Martin Heidegger1

We seek panelists for Northeast MLA 2026, "The Name of the Witch." 

Conference Details

57th NeMLA Annual Convention, March 5 - 8, 2026, Pittsburgh, PA. Visit https://www.nemla.org/convention/future.html for more details about the conference. 

Modality 

Panel / In Person Only: The session will be held fully in person at the hotel. No remote presentations will be included.

Submissions and Deadline

Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Symbiosis International
(Deemed University), Pune, India, is delighted to announce the
International Conference on Media and Communication (ICMAC 2026), from
February 17–19, 2026.

ICMAC 2026, themed ‘Media Industries in the Platformisation Landscape:
Introspections, Iterations & Interventions’, invites critical
reflections on how digital platforms are reshaping media
industries—reconfiguring production, labour, circulation, and audience
engagement, particularly in the Global South.

Keynote Speakers

The Royal Heraldry Society of Canada invites proposals for our roundtable, "Beyond the Blazon: Materializing Medieval Heraldry." Coats of arms are defined not by their physical representations but by the words of their blazons. Yet armorial objects, as interactive, material things, played a prominent role in shaping the arts, literature, and popular culture of the Middle Ages. This interdisciplinary session will explore object-based approaches to medieval heraldry, including investigations into the materiality and "lives" of armorial objects and their significance in medieval artistic expressions, literary portrayals, material culture, and historical accounts. 

Potential topics may include but are not limited to:

Call for Papers

Session ID: 7516

This session seeks to explore how the historiography of medieval India was reimagined during the nineteenth century by a range of intellectual actors—including colonial scholars, nationalist thinkers, Dalit reformers, Hindu revivalists, and Muslim scholars. Moving beyond Eurocentric or nationalist binaries, the session investigates how India’s medieval past, from the emergence of the Delhi Sultanate to the decline of the Mughal Empire was actively constructed, contested, and institutionalized in this period.

Studies in American Humor, the journal of the American Humor Studies Association, invites submissions of scholarly papers for a special issue of the journal to appear in fall 2027, edited by Wesley Scott McMasters and Todd Nathan Thompson. The topic of this special issue is “Periodicals, Period: Humor and Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers and Magazines.” This special issue will be an extension of a well-received panel on this topic (co-sponsored by the American Humor Studies Association and the Research Society for American Periodicals) at the 2025 American Literature Association conference.

Migration stories from the Global South are rarely neutral, since they are often born of struggle, shaped by colonial history, economic precarity, or climate collapse, and told in defiance of imposed silences. This panel proposes to examine how writers, scholars, and creative artists across the Global South turn to cultural production to challenge the hegemonic knowledge systems that structure how migration is seen, narrated, and understood, particularly in the Global North. From refugee testimonies and borderland fiction to diasporic films and grassroots media, these works assert the validity of local ways of knowing, remembering, and imagining movement. 

Simon J James was a prolific scholar and a pioneer of Victorian and Edwardian studies. He passed away on 11 June 2025 and this issue is dedicated to his memory. Simon wrote on H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Sherlock Holmes. His monograph, Maps of Utopia: H. G. Wells, Modernity and the End of Culture (Oxford University Press, 2012), remains the finest and most comprehensive study of Wells’s aesthetics to date.

"The Imagined Woman: The Phantasmic 'Woman' in the Middle Ages"In-Person Panel, sponsored by Magistra: A Journal of Women's Spirituality in History.Organized by Dr. Anne Crafton, Kristina Kummerer, and Dr.

Type: Paper Session

Special Issue of the William Carlos Williams Review: Williams’s Latin American and Caribbean Heritage

The Richard D. Gooder Essay Prize
This prize, named in memory of Richard Gooder (1934-2017), one of the journal’s founding editors, is aimed at doctoral students.

The Cambridge Quarterly is a journal of literary and cultural criticism with a broad remit. Our focus is largely on scholarship on Anglophone literature, but we also welcome work on writing in languages other than English.

To submit an abstract, visit the ICMS website. All abstracts are due on September 15.  

Boccaccio and Boccaccian Medievalisms: Representations of Gender in Medieval Storytelling

“Hush! Practicing Silence in Literature and Culture”

University of Freiburg, Germany | April 15-17, 2026

Deadline for Submission: September 15, 2025

Please note the extended deadline of September 1, 2025, for proposals

CFP: Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America, Vol. 2

Edited by Cathy Rex (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire: rexcj@uwec.edu)

and Shevaun Watson (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: watsonse@uwm.edu)

We are soliciting scholarly essays (5,000-8,000 words) for inclusion in a follow-up volume to

our edited collection, Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America, published

Over the past decade, as the opioid epidemic turned into an even deadlier fentanyl epidemic, many colleges developed and implemented collegiate recovery programs “designed to provide an educational opportunity alongside other recovery supports to ensure that students do not have to sacrifice one for the other” (ARHE, 2024). As Nichols et al. (2025) relate, “Descriptive and observational research suggests that CRPs tend to reach the most at-risk students.”