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Society for Cinema & Media Studies – Translation/Publication Committee
in collaboration with
JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
CALL FOR TRANSLATIONS, 2025-2026
DIBRUGARH – MINI-MELOW 2025
MELOW: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World has been in existence since 1997 and organizes an international Conference every year. To date, it has held twenty-five such conferences. Alongside these conferences, MELOW also conducts other activities from time to time, including mini-conferences that bring together smaller groups of delegates to focus on specific thematic concerns.
The next Mini-MELOW is proposed to be held at Dibrugarh, Assam, in November 2025.
Title: “The Colours of Pride: Queer Identities in Literature and Culture”
Proposed Dates: 20-21 November 2025
Chair: Sanjukta Banerjee, York University
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites participants in a panel at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, to be held March 12-14, 2026, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
The topic of the panel is “Emerson and Power.” Papers may consider topics such as power and moral virtue, power and solitude, power and society, power and agency or disposition, power and metaphysics, power and spirituality, power and democracy, and other related topics. The Society also welcomes proposals that view the term power globally, in moral, aesthetic, spiritual, or political terms.
This special issue of Critical Ethnic Studies is devoted to the transnational exploration of caste domination and anti-caste social movements and theories, with emphasis on the interrelation of caste and race in the history and geography of empire. Often portrayed by Hindu nationalists as a declining social category particular to South Asia and steeped in ancient religious tradition, the recent growth in critical scholarship on caste in both South Asian studies and among critical ethnic studies scholars has asserted the continuing and growing relevance of caste politics in the midst of rising fascisms globally.
This panel explores how immigrant and multiethnic writers in the U.S. (re)generate identity and cultural belonging through literature, language, and storytelling, focusing on experiences of (un)belonging, displacement, and fractured selfhood.
Call for Applications
2026 Penn State Global Asias Summer Institute
VITALIZING GLOBAL ASIAS: ARTIFACTS & ARCHIVES
Penn State University and the Global Asias Initiative invites applicants for its annual Global Asias Summer Institute, to be held June 8012, 2026. SI2026, co-directed by Neelima Jeychandran (VCUarts Qatar), Monica Merlin (VCUarts Qatar), and Tina Chen (Penn State), will focus on the topic of “Vitalizing Global Asias: Artifacts & Archives.”
Call for papers
"Green Tagore: Culture, Environment and Sustainability".
“For a colonized people, the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land,” writes Frantz Fanon in 1961. Postcolonial land inscripts imperial violence, anticolonial movements, and new extractivist regimes as it enmeshes human and nonhuman systems. Land, forests, oceans, rivers, and bush enter decolonial discourse as lush metaphors as their material counterparts shift and change in response to new economic and political realities. 19th-century imperial infrastructures regress to ruins as environments regenerate. Bush reclaims plantation, colonial bungalows shelter wildlife, decay and overgrowth mark the limits of empire.
CFP for a peer-reviewed volume: “Caring for the Other/ the particular others in 21st-century narratives”
Editors: Iwona Filipczak and Joanna Klara Teske
Publisher: BRILL | V&R unipress
Deadline for abstracts: November 10, 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS
‘“Verse with wings of skill”: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature’ 16-17th April 2026 | University of Sheffield
KEY DATES
Submission Deadline: 24 November, 2025
Decisions By: 30 December, 2025
Event Date: 16-17 April, 2026
This conference aims to explore the literary, artistic, and cultural reception of ancient Greece through the prism of the relationships between texts and images in Europe from the 14th to the 16th century. How are the different visual and textual forms associated in this context? How was the alliance between text and image integrated into the processes of reception of ancient Greece, in the broad sense defined by Lorna Hardwick i.e., both the reception of its knowledge and texts, and the development of representations of ancient Greece? What does the collaboration between literary and visual creation bring to the various forms of reception of ancient Greece?
(Re)Visiting the Reel/Un-Reel Middle Ages: Pathways to Furthering Research on Medievalisms on Screen (Roundtable) (Virtual)
61st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI), Thursday, 14 May, through Saturday, 16 May, 2026
Co-sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, International Arthurian Society-North American Branch, International Society for the Study of Medievalism
Co-organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College; Scott Manning, Independent Scholar; and Siân Echard, University of British Columbia
Background
American Academy of Religion-Western Region Annual Conference, University of Nevada, March 13-15, 2026
Jewish Studies
Roberta Sabbath, University of Nevada, roberta.sabbath@unlv.edu
Alexander Warren Marcus, University of Albeta, awmarcus@ualberta.ca
The International Society for the Study of Medievalism Annual ConferenceFully Online
November 14th and 15th, 2025
Hosted by Anita Obermeier and the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of New MexicoMedievalism is the reception of the Middle Ages in postmedieval times—as well as the ongoing invention, reinvention, construction, and reconstruction of the global medieval past, broadly defined.Just as Arthurian legend, Beowulf, Norse/Viking myth, and The Thousand and One Nights
In line with American Academy of Religion, Western Region's 2026 Conference Theme, Religion, Technology, and Innovation, the Religion and the Arts unit this year explores technology and the arts, as well as religion and artistic expression more broadly. We will also consider papers related to art, technology, religion, and politics taking place in the United States and abroad, including cases such as those of a US funded genocide in Palestine and ICE raids wreaking havoc across cities and towns in the United States. In these cases, we are interested in how artists use technology both as forms of resistance against human atrocity and as a means of artistic innovation to raise awareness. Topics of possible interest include:
Time: October 2025 (dates to be announced soon)
Place: Graduate Center, CUNY
Deadline for All Submissions: September 15th, 2025
The PhD Program in Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Center, CUNY invites proposals
for our 2-day graduate student conference under the theme Emerging/Emergent.
What does it mean to emerge?
In moments of political, ecological, and social precarity, the act of emerging is not simply a
To designate a space as “Southeast Asia” is already to engage a particular epistemology and toponym. Conveniently positioned as the marginal extension of both Indian and Chinese spheres, hence the colonial coinage of “Indochina,” the landscape of what we now call “Southeast Asia” (SEA) emerges from intersecting, if not competing, imperial imaginaries. A regional construct shaped by strategic demarcation and modern taxonomies, SEA (Đông Nam Á, Asia Tenggara, Asie du Sud-Est, Asia Selatan-Timur, Timog-Silangang Asya, Echia Tawan-ok Chiang Tai, Dōngnányà/Nányáng) has been translated into political discourse and variously reappropriated in local languages and scholarly traditions.
Call for Papers
Transimperial Encounters: Networks of Cultural and Literary Exchange Between India and Europe, 1870-1947
LEA special issue - https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-lea/about
Edited by Prof. Ujjwal Jana (University of Delhi, India) and Dr. Greta Perletti (University of Trento, Italy)
Submission call - Epitaphs Magazine - Issue 3
https://epitaphs-magazine.weebly.com/
For the third issue of Epitaphs, we invite writers, artists and academics and everything in between to submit their short-form Gothic or Horror work on the following theme: Rest.
The theme can be understood as literally or as figuratively as needed. We encourage contributors to think about the many meanings of rest within a Gothic/Horror context.
Works can relate to:
Final rest
Calm and relaxation
Rest in peace
CFP for a conference in Cairo, Egypt
(December 10-11, 2025)
Conference online (voa Zoom):
23-24 October 2025
CFP:
For The Record: Punk Histories and Archival Practices
Punk Scholars Network USA
March 6 & 7, 2026
The Punk Rock Museum
Las Vegas, Nevada
Conference online (via Zoom)
25-26 September 2025
Deadline for proposals: 7 September 2025
Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
All details: https://www.inmindsupport.com/loneliness-conference
CFP:
Conference online: (via Zoom)
9-10 October 2025
Deadline for proposals: 26 September 2025
Call for Papers
Asian Popular Culture / Asian American Experiences
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025
Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 47th annual SWPACA
The NJCEA is seeking scholars interested in serving as peer reviewers for their open-source academic and creative journal the Watchung Review. Watchung Review is a peer-reviewed journal focused on current trends and cutting edge literary writing and research including work on rhetoric and composition as well as digital humanities. The journal aims to foster opportunities for scholars and practitioners to engage in disciplinary conversations critical to the advancement of the humanities by promoting the critical nexus of literature, writing theory, pedagogy and technology. Watchung Review is supported by the New Jersey College English Association.
The Victorians Institute Journal (VIJ) is an award-winning scholarly journal of Victorian and Edwardian literary and cultural studies. The VIJ publishes a variety of pieces—including articles, reviews, and rare texts—and is accepting submissions for Volume 53 through February 1st. For further details on the Victorians Institute Journal, visit https://vijournal.org/.
Article submissions should be between 7K-9K words, and are welcome to address any aspect of Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and culture. If you would like to submit a review for consideration, contact us directly through our email: victoriansinstitutejournal@gmail.com.
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We invite proposals that explore themes of kinship and mediated differences for our dynamic book series!
Since 2021, we have published eight volumes which delve into a range of topics and use wide-ranging methods, with several more books scheduled for publication in the coming years. We invite monographs as well as edited collections and are excited to receive inquiries about completed projects as well as ideas that are still in development.
The reception of ancient Greece in Europe through the dialogue between texts et images inside and outside the book (14th-16th century)
International conference - ERC AGRELITA
June 18-19, 2026 at the University of Caen Normandie
Call for papers
Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Call for Proposals
A Virtual Conference
12–13 March 2026
Sponsored by the University Writing Program at the University of Florida
Details
Veterans Studies is a growing field of research that addresses the significant impact of military personnel and their families transitioning from active duty to civilian life with an emphasis on the veteran experience. This session invites papers that explore the many facets of military life exhibited in literature, theater, film, and poetry written by or about military veterans as well as scholarly explorations of the veteran experience.
Like stories themselves, forests have little respect for geopolitical boundaries. And like forests, stories have always played a crucial role in human imaginations around the world. The wide distribution of forests across most of the planet's biospheres suggests that stories about forests, as well as the stories that forests tell, should be understood in relation to literary and theoretical encounters both with plants and with the planet. While discourse on climate change focuses on deforestation and reforestation in relation to the problem of dangerously increased carbon dioxide levels, trees and forests are treated in large part instrumentally rather than as agents in their own right.
In recent years, publishers and children’s book professionals have registered a new enthusiasm for comic and graphic narrative forms. Graphic narratives as children’s literature offer an exciting new type of text for children and youth, providing important insights into the interests and capabilities of these youngsters as readers and as potential agents of change. Curiously, children’s literature criticism has tended to ignore or, at best, marginalize comics and graphic narratives for young people. This “blind spot” in children’s literature and comics criticism, as Charles Hatfield has called it on a number of occasions, is now being addressed.
In Poetics of Dislocation, Meena Alexander recalls her childhood migration as an experience of “unselving.” The ocean that makes her an immigrant also dissolves inherited identities. Yet this loss, for Alexander, is generative: a crucible of poetic vision, where the self, fluid as tidewater, reshapes itself from poem to poem, contouring itself to each new shore that it meets.
Call for Papers -- AAR Western Region, Pagan Studies Unit
Religion, Technology, and Innovation
See the full conference Call for Papers here: https://www.aarwr.com/
This is a call for papers for a hybrid session at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference in Pittsburgh, PA which will take place March 5-8, 2026. Please see this link for the CFP and to submit through the NeMLA site: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21963 .
The Dickens Society invites submissions for its sponsored hybrid panel at the 57th NeMLA convention, which takes as its theme the concept of “(Re)generation.” This event, which utilizes the conference app Whova and Zoom to promote accessibility and hybridity, will be held in Pittsburgh, PA at the Wyndham Grand Downtown, on the Point from March 5-8, 2026.
Edouard Glissant and Michael Wiedorn call us to “think” with or like a geography. Evolving out of cultural studies, island and archipelagic studies have spurred a conversation regarding the connection between geography and culture. While Glissant and Wiedorn were particularly preoccupied with thinking (like) an archipelago, it is possible yet to conceive of other modes of geographical thought. Transatlantic, island, and even aquatic matrices of culture and geography have been well documented and studied. This panel welcomes submissions in the field of archipelagic and island studies and is particularly interested in papers exploring methods of geographical thought, the relationship between geography and culture, in the US South.
International Faculty Development Program
We invite submissions for a paper panel themed “Non-Western Aesthetics: Rhetoric, Resistance, and Representation” – an exploration of aesthetics from diverse cultural perspectives, non-Western rhetorical traditions, and globalized literary theory. Our aim is to examine non-Western, non-hegemonic discourses from non-White nations that incorporate indigenous critical approaches and local theories within artistic and literary practices. We are particularly interested in South and Southeast Asian literary and cultural studies.
Broad areas of exploration may include, but are certainly not limited to, the following literary and cultural theoretical perspectives:
Innovations in Psychology and Wellbeing of New Generation
The 21st century has brought unprecedented transformations in society, technology, and education. With these changes, the psychological wellbeing of the new generation has become a matter of urgent attention. Young people today face unique challenges—digital overload, academic pressures, identity conflicts, mental health issues, and social inequalities—while also benefiting from extraordinary opportunities enabled by technology, AI, and global connectivity.
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for its 2026–2027 research fellowship program. Up to 50 fellowships will be awarded to support projects that require substantial on-site use of the Center’s internationally renowned collections in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history.
This panel invites submissions that explore how Francophone African and Caribbean writers, filmmakers, and artists use their creative works, personal experiences, spiritual beliefs, and the power of imagination to offer new or alternative ways of seeing/saying, knowing, and experiencing the world. In what way(s) do their works seek to disrupt, challenge, or reimagine old power structures and commonly accepted Eurocentric knowledge systems within a postcolonial framework? Whether in terms of identity, culture, or history, how do these writers, filmmakers, and artists provoke us to rethink our individual or collective existence? What alternative realities or new ways of being-in-the-world do they envision as Africans or Caribbeans?
Second Conference of the European Children’s Literature Research Network.
Munich, Schloss Blutenburg, International Youth Library
19-21 October 2026
US Drama & Theatre Conference
Of Mutability and Malleability:
Re-imagining the Contours of US Theatre and Drama
10-13 June, 2026
University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France
The Other Sophie Treadwell
Concept Note
The rapidly escalating planetary crisis has precipitated a profound epistemic rupture, compelling the humanities to reconfigure their disciplinary coordinates in dialogue with the ecological. The evolving domain of ecological humanities has taken on the task of interrogating not only the material devastation wrought by extractive capitalism, militarised modernities, and petrochemical globalisation, but also the conceptual frameworks—ontological, epistemological, and ethical—that have historically sustained such devastation.
International Faculty Development Program