Call for Papers: International Journal of Fashion Studies

Special Issue: 'Clothing and Dress in Times of Mass Violence'

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The figure of the witch (both real and imagined) is inherently political and potentially contentious. Each wave of feminism has reflected on shifting considerations of the witch as evocative of issues around gender, power and, more recently, intersectional aspects of identity. More recent critical engagement with witches and witchcraft reflects a transition, transcending disciplinary boundaries and positioning the witch in line with shifting contemporary debates. This shift moves the witch beyond the symbolic or the individual to consider both the interconnected and disparate nature of the witch. We can, instead, see the witch as a key component in movements of political change, as activist alongside the spiritual expl

Though getting it together may signal a practice of spontaneous collectivity, “get it together” is also a gendered command—one which affiliates a performance of femininity with certain aesthetic expectations and demands the unbounded work of love, care, and social reproduction. How do we understand the aesthetics of femininity in a moment where feminism has been defanged of its oppositionality, when it functions as an alibi for the tide of fascism in the form of TERFs and girlbosses? Everyday injunctions toward norms of femininity appear in the form of “Get Ready With Me” videos, Planned Parenthood’s decision to offer Botox, ceaseless trend cycles, and the normalization of weight loss medication, with Serena Williams as its icon.

Short Stories (Fiction/Non-fiction) INVITED for

Climate Change, Disasters, and Global Narratives: Collection of Short Stories

Edited by:

Dr. Gurpreet Kaur

Assistant Professor & Head

Post Graduate Department of English

Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Khalsa College

Sri Anandpur Sahib, Punjab, India

and

Jacobus Bracker

Hamburg University of Technology,

Call for Papers // Society of Early Americanists // 2027

“Queer Humors”

CALLING ALL 2SLGBTQ+ WRITERS WHO EXPERIENCED RELIGIOUS TRAUMA. I am excited to announce this Call for Submissions for my new anthology of creative nonfiction narratives! Entitled Queer and Trembling: Stories of LGBTQ+ Religious Trauma, this anthology will bring together a collection of stories about 2SLGBTQ+ religious trauma from Christian contexts, whether they be evangelical, fundamentalist, Pentecostal, Catholic, Mormon, Jehovah's Witness, Orthodox, etc. The collection is under contract with Jessica Kingsley Publishers (an imprint of Hachette UK) and will likely be released in 2028. 

This special issue brings together innovative and interdisciplinary comics scholarship that rethinks the epistemic, aesthetic, political, material, and decolonial aspects of comics across the Global South. These forms prompt renewed reflection and inquiry into what it means to draw knowledge, memory, community, dissent, and futurity, while simultaneously interrogating the foundational categories of representation, authorship, narrative form, and colonial epistemology.

The MISH UJ Academic Society and the Student Council of the Interfaculty Individual Studies in the Humanities at the Jagiellonian University cordially invite both active and passive participation in the International Academic Conference Science and Humanities: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Bioethics.The conference will be held on site on 29–30 May 2026 at Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian University. Call for Papers
Submissions are accepted until 16 April 2026, 11:59 p.m.
Presentations should not exceed 15 minutes.Submission form: 

Twenty-Fifth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of Split, Croatia, 30 June - 2 July 2027

Founded in 2003, the New Directions in the Humanities Research Network is brought together by a common interest in established traditions in the humanities while at the same time developing innovative practices and setting a renewed agenda for their future. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

Editors: Elise Boxer (Dakota), University of South Dakota and Travis Franks, Utah State University, Department of English

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Call for Papers for Volume 9

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual is the leading venue for the critical reassessment of Eliot’s life and work in light of the ongoing publication of his letters, critical volumes of his complete prose, the 2015 edition of his complete poems, and the forthcoming critical edition of his plays.

All critical approaches are welcome, as are essays pertaining to any aspect of Eliot’s work as a poet, critic, playwright, editor, foremost exemplar of modernism, or his influence on twentieth-century and contemporary literature and culture.

Abstract

The Maritime Literature and Culture special session at PAMLA 2026 seeks papers that engage broadly with human activity at sea, particularly as they relate to the conference theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict.” Who rules the sea? How should we navigate and care for our oceans and waterways? What changes—social, ecological, political, cultural—have naval conflicts, commercial ventures, and other maritime activity brought about? How does a ship crew grapple with problems of leadership, mutiny, and internal conflict? This session encourages papers on maritime literatures and media that engage with these and other related questions.

Potential topics include:

- Naval conflict

- Ocean borders and maritime law

The Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis, explores Caribbean and /or South American Culture and Education.

Obtaining a deeper understanding of Caribbean and South American festivities, rituals, and celebratory culture informs and impacts people's lives and vice versa.

Our goal is to gain a deeper understanding of Caribbean/South American cultural practices, traditions, and heritage, and how they have changed or sustained themselves and how they influence festivals, rituals, celebrations, etc.

Sovereignties in Crisis: Human, Environment, Technology, and the Pharmakon

2026 Situations International Conference

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, October 22-23, 2026

Latin Asian Entanglements: Critical and Creative Responses to Mass Deportation Today This is a CFP for two special sessions at the PAMLA conference in Seattle from November 12-15, 2026. Critical and creative proposals for these linked roundtables can be submitted at the links below

Plant Pedagogy: Words Beyond Walls

Series Editor— Prof. Douglas Vakoch

Editors—  Dr Subhashis Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Nagaland University, India and Dr Tanmoy Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Women’s Christian College, Kolkata, India

Prospective Publisher— Bloomsbury (Critical Plant Studies Series)

The Lamar Journal of the Humanities is an interdisciplinary journal published annually by the College of Arts and Sciences of Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. Papers of interdisciplinary or general interest in the fields of literature, history, contemporary culture, and the fine arts are appropriate for submission. Languages accepted are English, Spanish, German, and French. Detailed studies of highly specialized topics, literary explications which do not elucidate broader historical or ideological issues, and statistical essays in the social sciences are not encouraged but will be considered. Manuscripts, normally not to exceed 6,000 words, should conform to the MLA Handbook or the Chicago Manual of Style.

A two-day conference to be held online by the University of Liverpool, in partnership with the Science Fiction Foundation and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, 12-13 December 2026

Keynote Speaker: Andrew M. Butler (non-voting chair of the Arthur C. Clarke Award)

Roundtable discussion with Clarke Award-winning authors Anne Charnock, Adrian Tchaikovsky and Tade Thompson

Korean Literature, Language, and Culture at MMLA invites proposals exploring Korean literary studies, language pedagogy, film and media, translation studies, diaspora studies, and cultural production across historical and contemporary contexts. For the 2026 MMLA Convention, we especially invite proposals that engage with the conference theme, “After the Archive.”

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PAMLA 2026 Seattle: “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict”; Venue- Seattle, Washington, Nove 12-15, 2026.

This session invites papers that examine how contemporary climate fiction (cli-fi) reimagines ruling classes, leadership, and social hierarchy under conditions of ecological crisis. In line with PAMLA 2026’s theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” the panel explores how environmental breakdown reshapes the distribution of power, producing new elites and intensifying conflicts over authority, survival, and governance.

The 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference will take place this November in Seattle, Washington, from November 12-15.

The 2026 general article submission window will be open until the beginning of June 2026. Book review queries and submissions remain open throughout the year. If you passed your accessibility screening and are already in process of working with us for a creative think piece or essay, please remain in touch with the editor with whom you have been working.If you are submitting to JFA Presents: The Ruthven Literary Bulletin, follow issue-specific guidelines here or at the bottom of this page. Submissions for the focused issue will be open until June 2026 and acceptances will go out by September 2026.