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Culture, Food, and Literature in the New Millennium (Hybrid)
March 25-26, 2026
School of Liberal Arts
University of Management and Technology, Lahore
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
1725 to 2025: Historical & Contemporary Links Between Scotland and South Asia
Symposium date: 14 April 2026
Organisers: Dr Sheelalipi Sahana, Dr Fatima Z. Naveed
Symposium venue: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
"The Scottish connection with India really began in and around 1725…It is only from the 1720s that a remarkable number of Scots begin to appear abroad as servants of the East India Company.” (McGilvary 2011)
MICHIGAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, ARTS & LETTERS 614 Superior Street, Alma College, Alma, MI 48801 - Fax: 989-463-7970 - michiganacademy@alma.edu Call for Papers Women's & Gender Studies
INVITATION 2026 conference: Friday, March 27, 2026, virtual conference held via Zoom.
You are invited to submit a 200-word abstract of the paper you wish to present at the conference.
PROCEDURES Abstract submission deadline is 1/23/26.
Presentations are up to 20 minutes each, followed by discussion.
Undergraduates may present faculty co-authored or sponsored papers (section leaders may require proof that paper/research was reviewed by a faculty sponsor).
Call for Papers: Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture
Special Issue: ‘Black Migrant Musicking in Contemporary Brazil’
Editors: Rose Satiko Hikiji, Jasper Chalcraft and Caetano Maschio Santos
Submissions due: 30 April 2026
View the full call here>>
Call for PapersCaliban Speaks: International Conference on Recentering Indigenous Thought in the Age of Decolonialism and Technology
April 21–22, 2026 | International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI)
Conference Rationale
In the contemporary intellectual landscape, postcolonial theory has illuminated important questions of empire, identity, and resistance. Yet, its limits are increasingly visible: while interrogating colonial legacies, it has too often re-centered Eurocentric epistemologies and sidelined Indigenous thought.
MLA Annual Convention 2027
Los Angeles, California | 7–10 January 2027
Empathy in Action: Critical Perspectives from the Arts and Humanities
ARTS & HUMANITIES INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLOQUIUM
(Please read the full CfP before sending a proposal)
Deadline for abstract submissions: 20 March 2026
Notifications of acceptance: by 01 April 2026
Analog Game Studies and Game in Lab are proud to announce Generation Analog 2026. This year’s online conference will take place July 16-17, 2026. The online event is free and open to the public with registration. All presentations will be recorded and made available after the event. Check out the presentations from previous years via AGS’s YouTube channel (like and subscribe).
Translators, Texts, and Contexts: Reclaiming Human Agency in the Age of AIHosted by the Department of Translation, Lingnan University, Hong Kong11-12 December 2026 | M+, Kowloon, Hong Kong
As artificial intelligence (AI) sweeps through the landscape of language mediation, the classical trio of Translators, Texts, and Contexts remains central to understanding the art, ethics, and politics of translation. While AI tools offer unprecedented efficiencies in text processing, they often lack the human capacity for nuanced judgment and cultural contextualisation that remain essential to traditional translation studies scholarship.
Queer Ecologies Across Socialisms
15-16 October 2026
University of Regensburg, October 15-16, 2026 | CfP deadline: Feb 15, 2026
Organizers: Martyna Miernecka, Paweł Matusz
In literary and arts research on socialist worlds, both queer studies and environmental histories have been expanding – yet we still lack approaches that would systematically integrate these strands across global state socialisms. This conference responds to that gap by inviting work that reads queer practices alongside institutional and environmental policies and traces the queer ecological impulses emerging from socialist contexts across the globe.
Food& (https://foodand.eu/) is an experimental publishing project based in Berlin that examines encounters between food and wider social, cultural and political contexts. Previous issues have addressed themes such as Food & Bathrooms, Food & Nuclear War, Food & Gravity and Fast Food & Patents. Food& invites contributions for its upcoming themed issue on Food and Censorship. The issue explores how questions of restriction, regulation, visibility, silence and control shape the production, circulation and mediation of food, food knowledge and food cultures.
The International Congress on Narrative and Aesthetics in Film, Series, TV, and Audiovisual Experimentation is a platform for discussion and dissemination of studies and projects related to audiovisual creation in its various areas of production and distribution. It encompasses research related to cinematography and film history across a wide range of fields (sociology, industry, aesthetics, etc.), formats (fiction, documentary, animation, music videos, etc.), and genres (from thrillers and comedies to the connections between film and comics or video games).
ATRAS Journal is now inviting scholars from around the globe to submit their unpublished manuscripts for publication. The journal aims to contribute to the body of knowledge by publishing original papers in the fields of literature, gender studies, cultural studies, linguistics, education, language studies, translation, social sciences, and the arts. Researchers are invited to submit their manuscripts in English, Arabic, and French.
Presentation
ATRAS Journal is inviting researchers from the international academic community to submit their unpublished manuscripts for publication.
Accepted papers after review will be published for volume 7, issue 2 on July 15th, 2026
Osgood Perkins is emerging as one of the most significant directors of horror in the 21st century. His films are wildly diverse and have elicited an equally wild diversity of response from viewers and critics. Perkins has thought a lot about horror, has frequently spoken about its larger meanings in interviews, and is committed to its centrality as a genre – something he articulates in this 2025 conversation with Interview Magazine:
“Meaning emerges in the encounter — in the relations between bodies, images, and the world,” wrote Vivian Sobchack in her Carnal Thoughts (68); and it is precisely these shifting relations that shape contemporary — digital — American identity. In the digital environment, such relations do not stabilise; they reconfigure themselves, recalibrate, and adjust across platforms, archives, sensors, and interfaces.
The journal Studies in Popular Culture publishes reviews of books in the field. If you are interested in reviewing a book submitted to the journal or would like to suggest one to review, please contact the Book Reviews Editor, Caesar Perkowski, at cperkowski@gordonstate.edu. If you have not already reviewed a book for the journal, please include either a CV or a brief description of your interests and qualifications in the email.
Members of the Popular Culture Association in the South who have published a book are encouraged to inform the Book Reviews Editor of that fact.
The Department of English and Cultural Studies, School of Humanities and Performing Arts, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Delhi NCR Campus, is hosting its 3rd International Conference on Global Digital Cultures: Texts, Technologies, and Audiences (Hybrid Mode).
Date: 23 - 24 February, 2026
In the era of rapid technological change, digitalization, globalization, and platformization are reshaping film, media, and creative industries. This conference critically explores the intersections of texts, technologies, and audiences in global digital cultures, with a focus on South Asia and the Global South.
Welcome to Hawkins: A Special Issue on Stranger Things
Slayage plans a special issue on Stranger Things for publication in late June 2026. Slayage is an international and interdisciplinary refereed scholarly journal concerned with the “fuzzy set” with Buffy the Vampire Slayer at its center, and Stranger Things, a multi-season television series with kick-ass heroines, the irruption of the supernatural into the mundane, high-stakes action, strong characterizations, snarky humor, and an emphasis on relationships and the complexities of queerness and race, fits our definition nicely. It’s even got a Hellmouth in a library!
Call for Papers: Perspectives on Netflix’s Ripley
I am pleased to announce a call for papers for the first edited volume devoted to the Netflix limited series Ripley (Zaillian, 2024). Perspectives on Netflix’s Ripley seeks to explore the myriad ways in which this striking adaptation reimagines Patricia Highsmith’s iconic character for a new era of streaming television. I invite proposals from scholars, practitioners, and critics whose work engages with adaptation, media studies, sexuality, and screen cultures.
About the Volume
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 23RD!!
Bridges and Borders: Material Actualities
March 19-21, 2026 | Proposals Due by FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 2026
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) and on Zoom
Bridges and Borders is an annual, interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference presented by the Carnegie Mellon University Department of English in collaboration with the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Applied Linguistics.
CONTACT: bridgesandborders@andrew.cmu.edu
DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL THE 29TH, JANUARY 2026
“Violence in the Medieval and Early Modern North”
Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern North Conference
University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Graduate Students in English Interdisciplinary Conference 2026
Call for Papers on the Theme: “Transformation”
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville – March 14-15, 2026
The Graduate Students in English at University of Arkansas at Fayetteville invite proposals on the theme “Transformation,” a topic as broad as the literary and academic canons themselves. As we bear witness to changes in higher education landscapes across disciplines, we might consider how our own perceptions have evolved, what has been reliable in scholarship historically, and what needs to adapt.
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
The Final Frontier: Race, Ecology & Colonialism in Space Opera
Edited by Mikail Boz & Cenk Tan
Editors’ Introduction
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS - DEADLINE EXTENDED!
REIMAGINING FRANKENSTEIN IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Cross-Cultural Adaptations in Visual Culture
Edited by Cenk Tan & Defne Ersin Tutan
Editors’ Introduction
Since September of 2025 the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University has housed a new publication called The Pittsburgh Review of Books (or PRoB), available at http://www.pghrev.com
Edited by author and Public Humanities Special Faculty Ed Simon, PRoB is a home for engaged, creative, and interdisciplinary cultural criticism and analysis across the humanities. The tone of the publication is similar to other para-academic publications intended for both specialists and a general audience. Currently we are particularly interested in analysis that intersects with breaking news that can be produced by scholars quickly.
Studiolo is a series of essays on objects, books, and early technologies, written in the spirit of the chockablock Renaissance study from which it takes its name and published monthly at the Pittsburgh Review of Books (http://www.pghrev.com)
Call for Papers (proposals)
CONTRIBUTION TO EDITED VOLUME (Please read the full CfP before sending a proposal)
Mediated Masculinities in European networks: Discourse and performativity in the Information Age
Deadline for abstract submissions: February 15, 2026
Notifications of acceptance: March 1, 2026
Deadline for first draft after notification of acceptance: April 15, 2026
The paradigmatic scene in a Western – witnessed in numerous movies, such as High Noon (1952), The Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957), or Tombstone (1993), as well as in classic western novels, such as Louis L’Amour’s The Lonesome Gods (1983) or Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove (1985) – is that of a confrontation between a sheriff and a bandit: it suggests the forces of civilization taking hold on the frontier, even if tentatively, and ultimately a triumph of the order imposed to protect those in need of protection.
CALL FOR PAPERS
TWO DAY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on “CINEMA: A WAY OF LIFE ? ” (Virtual)
Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds
Special Issue 3/2026
“Save State: Ethics, Politics, and Poetics of Game Preservation”
Guest Editors: Paweł Frelik (University of Warsaw), Magdalena Kozyra (SWPS University), Tomasz Z. Majkowski (Jagiellonian University)
International Journal of Digital Humanities (IJDHS)
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJDHS/Home.html
*** January Issue***
Scope
Latina/o/x Literature and Culture Society, ALA, Chicago, Illinois, May 20-23, 2026
This year, the Latina/o/x Literature & Culture Society welcomes submissions focusing on diverse topics, including literary genre, single authors, children’s literature, speculative fiction, comparative analyses, as well as cultural studies approaches. The society also encourages a variety of theoretical and interdisciplinary prisms, and a variety of panel types, including traditional paper sessions, roundtable discussions, and sessions dedicated to the teaching of Latina/o/x literature and culture.
August 3-5, 2026
Southern Utah University - Utah Shakespeare Festival
The Wooden O Symposium is a cross-disciplinary conference exploring the impact of Shakespeare's plays on culture and history, from his time to the present. This face-to-face conference aims to foster research in the field of Shakespeare Studies and to provide connections between academia and professional theatre productions through our partnership with the Utah Shakespeare Festival. The Wooden O Symposium limits participation to 25 presenters to ensure robust conversation and feedback as we strive to create a community of scholars engaged with the work of Shakespeare.
February, 26-28, 2026 at Freed-Hardeman University
The Tennessee Philological Association (TPA) is now accepting submissions for the 2026 Conference to be held at Freed-Hardeman University February 26-28, 2026.
The organizers the University of South Carolina Beaufort's Interdisciplinary Studies Conference, "Balm: Binding Art, Life, Medicine," invite proposals for this year's event. This interdisciplinary conference on Narrative Medicine and Health Humanities will be held virtually on Thursday, March 26th and on the Bluffton campus on Friday, March 27th. We are extending the submission deadline from February 1st to February 15th to allow undergraduate scholars to generate potential contributions. Topics of Interest
We welcome interdisciplinary proposals that explore, interrogate, or illuminate the central theme, including but not limited to:
Joyce Studies Annual Call for Papers.
JAMES JOYCE; OR, THE IMITATION MACHINE
The development of Large Language Models (LLM) that can output language resembling human-made work have reinvigorated questions regarding the machine in literary production and scholarship.
Crossroads of Literary Creation:
Fact, Fiction, and Everything In-between
A Transdisciplinary Conference
Online, February 11-12, 2026
Conference page: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/12/06/crossroads-of-literary-creation/
Participation fee: £100
Prices exclude eventbrite fees
Call for Papers:
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie” – Stephen King
“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.” – Doris Lessing
Call for Papers and Workshops: “History up for Debate: Literature, Storytelling and the Imagined Past”
1-2 July 2026, University of Salzburg, Department of English and American Studies, Unipark Nonntal
Conference within the Framework of the Salzburg Conferences on English Literature and Culture (SEC)
Organisers: Dorothea Flothow, Julia Hartinger, Sarah Herbe, Christopher Herzog, Eva-Maria Kubin, Markus Oppolzer, and Elisabeth Schober
Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture is seeking reviews for upcoming issues. The journal welcomes reviews of a wide range of queer media and cultural artefacts. Like other academic journals, Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture publishes reviews of recently released books on queer subject matter. Consistent with the journal's overall focus, however, we also strongly encourage the submission and publication of reviews pertaining to significant films, musical recordings, plays, television series, video games, exhibitions, and related cultural artefacts that are of relevance to queerness in its various forms.
***DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JAN. 15th 2026***
Medieval Engagements with Disability
This edited volume aims to explore the concept of veleno, that is poison, in its material and symbolic
dimensions, examining how it functions as a cultural construct and/or a discursive category within
Italian literature—considered in dialogue with cultural practices and discursive uses of language—
from the Middle Ages to the contemporary period.
Across Italian cultural history, poison operates on a threshold between pharmakon (in its Derridean
sense) and toxin, between language that heals or contaminates, between scientific knowledge and
moral accountability. Far from being confined to medical or chemical meanings, poison emerges as a
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 interest (sign-up below) in a Society for the Study of Unconventional Prose Fiction from the US, 1950-2001.
We're creating a scholarly society for studying unconventional US fiction from the era usually called "postmodern" - sign up here - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_n10FmXmaJ1fNmIfzTlozM7udW4RgEMZcpWu4lGWIzs/ - and see below for more details...
Proposing a panel or panels on postmodern-era US Fiction for this year’s American Literature Association Conference, which will happen in Chicago from May 20-23.
ALA 2026: Society for the Study of American Travel Writing CFP
CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline, January 21, 2026
Society for the Study of American Travel Writing
American Literature Association 37th Annual Conference
May 20-23, 2026, in Chicago, IL.
A one-day symposium hosted by the Contemporary Intimacies, Sexualities and Genders (CISG) Research Group at Manchester Metropolitan University.
22 April 2026 10-4, Manchester Metropolitan University, Oxford Road, Manchester, M15 6EB.
Special Issue on Brutalism in the Global Novel
Guest Editors: Om Prakash Dwivedi, om_dwivedi2003@yahoo.com and Madhurima Nayak, madhurimanayak@gmail.com, both of Chandigarh University, India
Critical Studies on Bianca Pitzorno, edited by Anna Finozzi and Dalila Forni
Reminder: CFP due soon. Please reach out with any questions!
Special Issue, Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film Call for Papers:
Adapting Thackeray