Our present conjuncture demands urgent engagement with the now of gender. Authoritarian resurgence, border militarization, algorithmic
governance, climate precarity, and uneven recoveries from overlapping pandemics shape how gender is lived, and resisted across diverse contexts: from settler colonial democracies to postcolonial nation-states and stateless territories. Anti-trans legislation, family policing, and reproductive surveillance intensify biopolitical control, while migration regimes, humanitarian aid economies, and asylum adjudication render certain genders and kinship forms precariously provisional.

“Global Early Modern Environmental Crises: Modes of Extraction, Settler Colonialism, and Empire” 

The Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) is putting together a guaranteed MLA panel for the 2027 Annual Convention in Los Angeles, CA, USA (7-10 January) on global early modern environmental crises with a focus on human interactions with the earth tied to imperial pursuits, settler colonialism, conflicts in worldviews, and methods of extraction. We hope to feature scholars with expertise in different linguistic traditions to foster cross-cultural discussions. 

Possible topics include but are not limited to: 

The intersection of Rhetoric and Communication continues to attract the interest of many scholars, particularly within the fields of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The scope of analysis is wide-ranging, encompassing literature and culture, language studies and advertising, communication studies and politics, among other domains.

Inspired by the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s 2025 exhibition From Haworth to Eternity,

Brontë Studies invites new and original articles of no more than 7,500 words that respond to the theme of ‘the Brontës and adaptation’ across film, screen, and the visual and performing arts—including digital, transmedia, and other emerging media forms. The special issue will be published in 2027.

Evolutions in Cinematic Virtual Reality  

Symposium at The University of Hong Kong 

18. – 19. May 2026

Call for Papers – Lucius Annaeus Seneca: International Journal of Senecan Studies (LAS)

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (LAS), an open-access, peer-reviewed annual journal devoted to Senecan studies and published by Sapienza Università Editrice, invites submissions for its upcoming volume. LAS welcomes high-quality, original research on all aspects of the life, works, reception, and philosophical, literary, and historical impact of Lucius Annaeus Seneca 

Personhood is having a cultural moment. The ambiguous status of agency and rights animates compelling and diverse critical responses: from studies of animals, AI, and fetal protection laws (Kurki and Pietrzykowski, 2017), to Frankenstein as a model for corporate personhood (Atkinson, 2022), to anthropocentric ideas of personhood versus the environment (Rochford, 2024), to studies of  “potential people” including chatbots and embryos (Kalantry 2025).

“Feminist and Anti-Racist Citation”

sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Society

Modern Language Association 2027 | January 7–10, 2027, Los Angeles

Legal Research & Analysis (DOI Prefix: 10.69971; ISSN: 3007-6455 (Online), 3007-6447 (Print) publishes research papers, review papers, case comments and books reviews related to all aspects of laws including but not limited to legal issues, legal systems, and the legal profession. Legal Research & Analysis is a multidimensional legal research journal, seeking scholarly work on any topic of theoretical, interdisciplinary, comparative, and other conceptually oriented inquiries into law and law reforms.

For the 150th anniversary of Harriet Martineau’s death, the Martineau Society will be hosting its annual conference in conjunction with the University of Cumbria, Ambleside Campus, in Ambleside, England. The Martineau Society conference is an interdisciplinary conference that focuses on the lives, work, and contributions of the Martineau family, including its two most famous and influential members, Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) and James Martineau (1805-1900). Harriet Martineau resided in the Lake District for much of her later years, from 1845 until her death in 1876.

National Video Games: Cultures, Industries, Communities
international conference

10–12 September 2026
University of Warsaw, Poland

The end of history was cancelled years ago, and national ideas have been on the rise ever since. Game scholars, too, have been studying the relationships between national cultures, video games and game industries for about a decade. We now have a wealth of material about the game cultures of numerous different countries across the world; there are also publications that examine the national categorization of games itself.

For much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Italian Americans have occupied an uneasy position within U.S. racial, cultural, and national narratives—simultaneously marked as insiders and outsiders, assimilated and othered, white and not-quite-white. This call for papers invites scholars to revisit and re-theorize Italian American identity through the lens of Otherness, drawing on and expanding the concept of Italianità as articulated by Fred Gardaphé and Anthony Julian Tamburri.

DEADLINE EXTENDED to 15 February 2026

Conference: Contagion, Information, Territory

Leiden University (Leiden, the Netherlands), 17-19 June 2026

Keynote speakers:

Dr. Ramon Amaro (Design Academy Eindhoven)

Prof. Dr. Jasbir Puar (University of British Columbia)

Call for Papers

New European Trends in Ecocriticism and Climate Change Literatures

Conference Dates: 28-29 May 2026
Venue: Centre for European Studies (CEUROS), University of Limerick
Submission Deadline: 31 January 2026

Conference Overview

European literary and cultural studies are witnessing a significant shift as climate change reshapes how texts imagine and articulate human–environment relations. This conference focuses on new ecocritical directions emerging within European contexts, including innovative theoretical approaches, evolving narrative forms, and the growing integration of environmental justice into cultural analysis.

Call For Papers

The 3rd International Conference on Global Plant Humanities

Botanical Life in Art, Science, and Imagination

Conference Dates:     8–10 May 2026 (Fri–Sun)

Mode:                         Hybrid (Physical & Virtual)

Host:                           Department of English, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India

Final call! Submit by February 1st.BWWC 2026: Call for Papers

Call for Papers: Democracy and the Nature of Familial and Unaccompanied Mobilities in the 21st Century

Location: University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
Dates: April 24–26, 2026
Submission Deadline: March 1, 2026
Format: In-person (travel support available; honoraria provided)
Keynote: Dr. Lauren Heidbrink, author of Migranthood: Youth in a New Era of Deportation (Stanford University Press, 2020) and Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State: Care and Contested Interests (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)

Overview

The American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) and the Disability in Theatre and Performance focus group (DTaP) invite submissions of conference-length essays (8-10 pages) from current graduate students or early-career scholars, particularly those who have yet to present at a major conference. Accepted submissions will present at our emerging scholars joint debut panel during the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference held in Baltimore, MD from July 22nd-26th, 2026.

The call for papers is now open for the second volume of CJHS, scheduled for publication in December 2026.

Submission period:

January 1 to June 30, 2026

All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR VOLUME 19 OF
Katherine Mansfield Studies
THE PEER-REVIEWED YEARBOOK OF THE KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOCIETY
PUBLISHED BY EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
on the theme of
PLACING KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Editors
Dr Erika Baldt and Dr Gerri Kimber

Call for Papers: Film International: Journal of World Cinemas

Special Issue: ‘Diasporic Cinemas: Transnational Aesthetics’

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/film-international-journal-of-world-cinema#call-for-papers

(To be released in Dec 2026)

Event: University of Washington English Department Writing Programs’ Praxis Conference

Theme: Writing With

Date: Fri May 29, 2026

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States (University of Washington, Seattle campus)

CFP SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 13, 11:59pm PST

We are pleased to invite proposals for the University of Washington English Department Writing Programs’ sixth annual Praxis Conference, which will be held at the University of Washing, Seattle campus on Friday, May 29th, 2026.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos

Call for Contributions

Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos invites submissions for

its 30th volume (2026). The journal is an international, peer-reviewed, English- language publication dedicated to U.S. Studies in their broadest sense, including literary, cultural, historical, artistic, and critical perspectives. Published annually by the University of Seville and supported by the Spanish Association for American Studies, the journal has contributed to advancing U.S. Studies scholarship since 1992.

Scope and Review Process

On November 26, 1976, the Sex Pistols released “Anarchy in the UK” in Great Britain, the first single from what would become Never Mind the Bollocks, Here Comes the Sex Pistols the following year. This conference – part of a larger project involving a series of events in Bordeaux and a collaboration with the Lycée Magendie (Magendie high school) – takes as it starting point the 50th anniversary of the release, on November 26, 2026, while seeking to investigate the meaning of such a celebration.