Call For Papers: “Steinbeck in Times of Crisis”

March 11-13th, 2026
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

The International Society of Steinbeck Scholars invites proposals related to the ways in which John Steinbeck’s work offers insights into human experience during moments of crisis—including personal, social, cultural, political, or ecological. We seek contributions that broaden understanding of how Steinbeck's writing addresses such themes as conflict, collaboration, resolution, resilience, and survival, and how these resonate in today's world.

Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing invites scholarly notes for its next volume. Up to 2,500 words, notes may include preliminary results of a study, responses to recent content in DH, comments on a current issue of concern, or other brief insights related to critical thinking and writing.

DH publishes, on a rolling basis, a range of scholarly work--from research articles to notes--on writing and critical thinking pedagogy. For more information about DH, please visit the journal at the WAC Clearinghouse of Colorado State University: https://wac.colostate.edu/double-helix/.

VOLUNTEER POSITION OPENINGS

Femspec needs volunteers to fill the following positions:

• Peer Review Coordinator - This person would be in charge of coordinating the scholarly peer review process for the journal. The Coordinator would liaise with authors who submit to the journal, would pass their submissions on to peer reviewers, and would return reviewers' comments to the authors.

• Book Review Editor - This person would coordinate book reviews for the journal. The Editor would be in charge of obtaining books to review, distributing books to volunteer reviewers, and coordinating the submission of book reviews.

The Object(s) of Literature

July 15-17, 2026

Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL), Unicamp

Call for Papers: Historical Fiction in / and the Anthropocene

One-Day Online Workshop of the Historical Fictions Research Network

29 November 2025 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)

15 min talks

The Historical Fictions Research Network, an interdisciplinary and international network of scholars examining historical fictions, i.e. narratives of the past in a variety of popular media, is happy to organise its third one-day winter workshop on the topic of “Historical Fiction in / and the Anthropocene”.

This HYBRID session seeks papers that explore the ways ecocriticism intersects with, informs, or is expanded by other critical approaches, orientations, and disciplines. We encourage analyses that merge ecocritical frameworks with studies of gender/sexuality, queer identities, race/ethnicity, religion, dis/ability status, postcolonialism, Indigenous studies, or from methodologies outside of the humanities. What can dialogue across these intersections of medieval and modern temporal and spatial ecologies teach us and how can we think anew with them? We encourage proposals from graduate students and early career as well as more established researchers.

Call for Papers

Adaptations and Retellings 2026

 Adaptations and retellings, much like nostalgia, are deeply tied to the past. They confront the challenges of integrating past elements into the present and often engage with each other in this process.

https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/apocalyptica/apocalypoetics

Apocalyptica is an international, interdisciplinary, open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at Heidelberg University.

Dear Colleagues,

Call for articles for the English Record's 2026 issue!

How do ELA teachers create moments of joy for their students, their communities, and themselves? How do ELA teachers support learning that centers justice in today’s classrooms, especially in this current political climate? What other questions, insights, and ideas about joy and justice do you have as an ELA teacher? We enthusiastically invite classroom teachers, department leaders, building and district administrators, teacher educators, preservice teachers, and students to submit manuscripts.

More info here: www.nysecteach.org/news/the-english-record/

Society for Cinema & Media Studies – Translation/Publication Committee
in collaboration with
JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies

CALL FOR TRANSLATIONS, 2025-2026 

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 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 papers
"Green Tagore: Culture, Environment and Sustainability".

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

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?

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

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:

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.

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 

Conference online (voa Zoom):

23-24 October 2025

CFP:

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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: 

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

https://www.southwestpca.org

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 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.