Media in Full Bloom

A Central Valley Interdisciplinary Conference for Graduate and Undergraduate Students on Film, Television, and Media Studies

Sponsored by the Warrior Bookworms & Wordsmiths, the English Club at Stan State

Contact Email: Warriorwordsmiths@gmail.com

Conference Date: March 13th, 2026

Location: Stanislaus State University, Turlock, CA

Deadline for Submissions: December 15th, 2025

Call for Submissions

The Arthur Miller Online Teaching and Learning Center www.amotlc.com  warmly welcomes contributions that reflect diverse perspectives on teaching Arthur Miller’s works. Submissions may include, but are not limited to:

Divination, Witchcraft & the Occult *SPECIAL TOPIC*

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
Popular Culture Association Conference
8-11 April 2026
Atlanta, GA, US

The broad interest in divination, witchcraft, and the occult has been part of popular culture for centuries. Scholars’ discomfort with the topic is often palpable: they tend to focus on intersections that feel more legitimate, e.g. legal ramifications (laws against occult practice, witch trials etc), or archival documents, or simply sticking to fictional accounts.

57th NeMLA Annual Convention, March 5-8, 2026 in Pittsburgh, PA

We have come twenty-five years ahead in the 21st century. Wars have been an ongoing phenomenon contributing to the precarious nature of the world. Communicating has become challenging and mired by distractions in all phases of wars. The seminar invites critical interactions with the history of war, the ongoing scenarios of war globally and the mediums approaches for communication (and lack thereof) arising from wars on national and international frontiers across the globe.
Some of the themes that participants could explore are:
- The War in Ukraine and Communications
- The Great World Wars and the Communication Crisis
- The Ethics of War and Communication
- AI and Communication in the Age of War

This edited volume seeks to provide a comprehensive and multidisciplinary analysis of the profound and often overlooked impacts of climate change on children in India. As highlighted According to UNICEF, India ranks among the most vulnerable countries to climate shocks, with Millions of children are affected by extreme weather events annually. This volume aims to move beyond a general understanding, and delve into the specific mechanisms through which Climate change threatens the health, safety, education, and long-term well-being of India's children.

Editors: Arpan Mitra (Ph.D. Research Scholar, St. Xavier’s University) and Dr. Bidisha Kantha (Assistant Professor of English, Xavier Law School, St.  Xavier’s University, Kolkata)

Publisher: DeGruyter Brill has expressed initial interest in this collection

DEADLINE EXTENDED TILL NOVEMBER 5, 2025.

250 word abstracts and 2-page CVs should be submitted to organizers by  September 26, 2025 . Please find the individual panel statements and the organizers' contact information below.

Please note: these panels will be submitted for the in-person AAAS conference in Honolulu, Hawai’i, April 2-4, 2026.

Submission Deadline |September 26, 2023.

Archipelagic (Re)Formations of Global Southeast Asias

Submit 250 word abstracts and

2-page CV by September 26, 2025 to

Call for Abstracts for book chapters

Media and Outer Space: Communication, Media Studies and Understanding the Cosmos 

Following recent confirmation of firm interest from Palgrave Macmillan, we are seeking contributions to a forthcoming volume, titled Media and Outer Space: Communication, Media Studies and Understanding the Cosmos, intended to explore the role of media and communications studies as a way of understanding humanity’s current and future explorations of outer space.  

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of the most adapted, parodied, and referenced works of Gothic fiction. Even those who have never read the novella know the “story,” or at least the twist: Henry Jekyll becomes Edward Hyde to live a double life, disconnected from societal pressures and expectations. Many, if not all, of these media adaptations add, edit, or remove elements from the story, making it a hybrid narrative, one part Stevenson’s and one part the adapter’s. 

CFP: Humanities Bulletin 8.2, November 2025

Special Issue: Reading to Know, Learning to Hear, Engaging in Respect and Love within an Intercultural Frame

Editors:  Prof. Dr. Carla Locatelli and Dr. Victor Pricopi

Humanities Bulletin, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal in the field of Arts and Humanities, invites submissions of paper proposals for its Special Issue scheduled for November 2025.

Call for Book Chapters

Future Spectralities: Raising Ghosts, Conjuring Black Futurity

Edited by Viola Marchi (University of Bern) and Marco Petrelli (University of Pisa)

If, as Dionne Brand writes, “Black experience in any modern city or town in the Americas is a haunting” (25), what does it mean to be haunted—and to haunt—in African American literature and thought? The aim of the proposed collection is to explore the many ghosts and forms of spectrality that populate twenty-first century Black literary, artistic, and theoretical production, their functions, and the relation they entertain with the dimension of the future. 

Call for Papers

Deadline:
15 September 2025

Organizers
Grace Catherine Greiner
g.c.greiner@uu.nl

Jennifer Rabedeau
jbr263@cornell.edu

Session title: Watery Landscapes, Systems, and Bodies

Medieval Ecocriticisms seeks papers offering ecocritical, historical, archaeological, and other interdisciplinary approaches to water in the medieval world. Presenters may addresses questions such as: How did medieval peoples encounter / engineer water in their communities and bodies? What meanings did water accrue in religious, literary, or historical contexts? How do medieval histories of water connect with modern marine studies? And, finally, what new approaches to water studies or blue humanities might we offer?

The CUNY Graduate Center French Department invites submissions for our Spring 2026 student conference on the theme of “étrangeté.”

Étrangeté evades easy translation. It encompasses "strangeness," "foreignness," and "otherness," offering expansive variability. Etrangeté inhabits both the self and the other. It arises through external judgment and internal reflection alike. It can be unsettling, absurd, and beautiful.

Roundtable: 'Companion Texts' and Regenerated Feminist Pedagogy (NEMLA 2026 Pittsburgh)

Annual conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), February 26 - March 1, 2026, Montreal, Canada.

Proposal submissions are welcome through the ACLA website: https://www.acla.org/seminar/14147d29-1e1d-440c-981a-0d7a9b022666  

The 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association will be held in person at the Palais des congrès de Montréal, February 26 - March 1, 2026.

In moments of rupture—whether personal, political, or planetary—narratives frequently stage ethical crises that challenge and destabilize established frameworks of responsibility, relationality, and judgment. How do literature and film illuminate the fragile, often invisible networks of moral obligation that bind us to one another, particularly when these ties are strained by trauma, contingency, or crisis?

Literature/Film Quarterly (LFQ) is an internationally recognized, open-access journal specializing in adaptation studies. Published entirely online, LFQ makes all content freely available to readers worldwide. We publish quarterly and manuscripts often progress from initial submission through peer review to publication in less than one year. 2023 marked our 50th year of continuous publication. Visit our website for current issues, online archives (dating to 2017), and complete submission guidelines: https://lfq.salisbury.edu/

 UPDATE: Owing to international travel complications, the organizers--Jake Abell and Michael Overstreet--have decided to open up our roundtable to both virtual and in-person presenters. Please also note that we have been encouraged by the editor of one of Bloomsbury Academic's series to publish an edited volume based on the fruits of this roundtable. While acceptance to the roundtable does not guarantee inclusion in the volume, all participants will be warmly invited to submit a chapter proposal for review before the deadline of June 1st, 2026. Please find the details for our hybrid roundtable below, set to take place at the 

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

CALL FOR TRANSLATIONS, 2025-2026 

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.