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CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Fear as a Political Emotion: The Rise of New Violent Orders (Nova Science Publishers).
Maximiliano E Korstanje, University of Palermo, Argentina
Adrian Scribano, CONICET, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cultural Constellations: A Journal of Literature and Art
deadline for submissions:
September 30, 2025
full name / name of organization:
Cultural Constellations / University of Maryland Global Campus Europe
contact email:
CulturalConstellations-Europe@UMGC.edu
For Reference:
https://europe.umgc.edu/content/dam/umgc-europe/documents/upload/cultura...
Cultural Constellations: A Journal of Literature and Art
Starfish are echinoderms with a unique ability called autotomy where they can regenerate lost limbs. There are times when these creatures will even sacrifice a limb to save themselves. However, whether through natural causes or detriment, we learn that loss can equal a new beginning. These new appendages are not always exact matches. Nevertheless, these misshaped, Frankensteined pieces, marred by experience, can represent a new foundation that is more powerful, vigorous, efficient, and even healthier.
Call for Papers:
Global Committee Panel on
"Borders, Bridges and Belonging:
Neighborhoods in Global Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture"
Deadline: September 30, 2025
11:59 p.m. (Eastern US Standard Time)
Children's Literature Association Conference
May 28-30, 2026
Omni William Penn Hotel
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Global South is a phrase often heard in the academic parlance to categorise a group of nations which have been broadly classified in economic terms by the United Nations Trade and Development (UNCTAD) based on certain defining characteristics (socio-economic and political factors). The countries or continents which come under this category are Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia (excluding Australia and New Zealand). However, to classify economic grounds poses severe questions about factors contributing to the dissemination of this inequality. This unevenness as one suspects can be a major reason for armed conflicts often leading to tensions and permanent war zones.
The so-called “post-secular turn” in Victorian studies has helped produce a more accurate view of the Victorian period by acknowledging the religiosity of the time rather than privileging doubt and skepticism. However, so far the post-secular turn, understandably, has focused on religious movements and the role of the Bible in the literature of the time. This panel seeks to broaden that focus by examining ways in which a consideration of Victorian religiosity sheds new light on a range of scholarly debates – including but not limited to such topics as disability studies, eugenics, “scientific” racism, or animal rights, among many other possibilities. Interdisciplinary papers are welcome.
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
2026 Conference | 12–14 March 2026 | Cincinnati, Ohio
“To Give Them All A Welcome To Our Shores”:
Immigrant Voices and Advocates in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
organized by the Margaret Fuller Society
A trace evokes the marks, remnants, and residues of the past. Rather than static records, trace embodies the temporal and spatial dimensions of the actions that produced them, representing intersections of movement, perception, and interaction. A trace can be the smallest and subtlest thing–a memory knot, a mark left by animals, travelers, or strangers, or can be the space between the lines of historical texts. A trajectory, on the other hand, is the path of movement that implies direction, growth, narrative, discourse, coming into an account, taking shapes, and becoming present. What is the dynamic tension between trace and trajectory? How do trace and trajectory translate and communicate with each other?
Concept Note
While ancient Europe regarded India as a land of material wealth and proverbial wisdom, it also saw it as a land of man-like monkeys, banyan trees, and enormous elephants. Ancient Europeans perceived Indians as wearing bright colors, eating rice and meat, and lacking wine-drinking finesse. Today, portrayals of India in prose fiction, cinema, social media, and historiography have shifted from polarized images of Europe and India to narratives depicting a “Dark” and a “Shining” India. Characters in these texts strive to be part of an economically thriving “shining” India, even as they face social, cultural, and political challenges daily.
Living on the Edge: Chaos in Theatre, Film and Performance
5-7 December 2025 Online via ZOOM
Dates: December 5-7, 2025
Organisation: Theatre and Drama Network
Presentation Mode: Online
No Fees
Magics, Marvels, Metamorphoses, and Monsters: Horrors of the Medieval Past, Present, and Future (Virtual)
Co-sponsored by Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association, Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, International Society for the Study of Medievalism
Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College, and June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University
Please consider submitting an abstract for NeMLA 2026: (Re)generating Foreign Language Studies Through Cultural Competence Between the U.S. and Italy
The conference will take place in Pittsburg, PA, from March 5-March 8, 2026. The deadline for abstracts is September 30th, 2025.
Call for Articles
Special Issue: (Re)articulating an Old Ideal: Self-Care and Self-Help in Contemporary Culture
Guest Editors: Alexandra Bacalu (University of Bucharest) & Dragoș Manea (University of Bucharest)
Composition Studies invites proposals from potential guest editors for an open-access, digital, special issue to be published in summer 2026! This is an open call, and we are especially interested in special issues that would benefit from the ease of circulation afforded by open-access, digital publication.
The Charles Olson Society will sponsor panels at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, to take place in Louisville, Kentucky, February 16-21. 2026 marks the Centenary of poet Robert Creeley’s birth, and the Charles Olson Society will welcome abstracts pertaining to any aspect of Creeley’s life and work. Creeley was a central poet in the development of Black Mountain Poetry, and along with his life-long friend and companion in verse, Charles Olson, Creeley greatly influenced the development of American poetics after World War II. As he said, “I write to realize the world as one has come to live in it, thus to give testament. I write to move in words, a human delight. I write when no other act is possible.”
This year’s conference theme invites participants to reflect on “regeneration in the sense of bringing forth… a new entity that is more powerful, vigorous, efficient, and healthier.” This selection of terms immediately evokes vitalism—a philosophy of regeneration centered on dynamism, productivity, energy, life force, creativity, and strength. Vitalism emerged in response to mechanistic and materialist accounts of life; though often dismissed by the end of the nineteenth century as a pseudo-science, vitalism has endured as a complex and influential philosophical framework from the twentieth century to the present. Authoritarian regimes in the early twentieth century appropriated vitalist ideas and imagery in support of fascism.
Pasados Special Issue: Against the Past/Contra Pasados
Co-edited by Jesse Alemán (University of New Mexico) and Evelyn Soto (Rutgers University—New Brunswick)
Deadline: January 15, 2026
2026 marks the centenary of Hugo Gernsback’s Amazing Stories, the first anglophone magazine devoted to what Gernsback originally called ‘scientifiction’. To commemorate and critically explore what many regard as the birth of genre science fiction, the autumn 2026 issue of Foundation (no. 153) will present a series of articles that investigate and re-evaluate the history of the pulps.
Call for papers
Undisciplined Anthropologies: Practices, Trajectories, and Imaginations Beyond “Method”
Cultures and Societies Department, University of Palermo, Italy
Institut Français, Palermo, Italy
International Conference
30th, 31rst October 2025
Institut Français Palermo
Via Paolo Gili 4, 90138, Palermo
Deadline for abstracts: September 25th, 2025
Hello Tech Comm Colleagues,
We, the guest editors of a special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly, invite you to submit a proposal on the topic of "Responding to the Changing Landscape of the Technical Communication Workplace in the 21st Century." For convenience, the full text of the CFP is below. It is also attached. Please feel free to distribute widely. We are happy to take questions about the special issue. Our emails are included in the CFP. Proposals are due October 1, 2025. See the CFP for submission instructions.
All our best,
Laura Vernon and Diane Martinez
Call for Proposals: A Special Issue of Technical Communication Quarterly
Literary criticism is often treated as a secondary act, the intellectual afterimage of the work it addresses. This seminar proceeds from the opposite premise: criticism can be understood as a compositional art, a practice that gathers elements from different media, genres, and historical moments in order to propose a world in which the work might live. The critic does not merely interpret but constructs, weaving together forms, narratives and temporalities to re-situate a work within a newly configured cultural space, animated by the critical desire to imagine and construct more just and inhabitable worlds.
The forthcoming non-thematic issue proposes to engage in an interdisciplinary manner with the varied
ways in which women continue to face discrimination and marginalisation in the socio- economic, cultural
and political arena. Around the world, millions of women, irrespective of their age groups, social classes,
locations or cultures face a series of risk factors ranging from physical and psychological violence, sexual
abuse and coercion to human trafficking. Women’s vulnerability is little addressed in the developmental
policies of governments and the capitalist expansion of market economies. We invite papers that critically
NeMLA 2026 will be held in Pittsburgh, PA from March 5-8.
NeMLA 2026 will be held in Pittsburgh, PA from March 5-8
Book Series Title: Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature
Publisher: HJ Verlag Maurer – Maurer Press, Frankfurt, Germany
Website: www.maurer.press
We invite contributions for the next volume of our series, Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature. This volume is dedicated to exploring feminist perspectives in literature and culture, providing a platform for work that highlights the diverse ways feminism continues to shape literary scholarship.
Book Series Title: Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature
Publisher: HJ Verlag Maurer – Maurer Press, Frankfurt, Germany
Website: www.maurer.press
Book Series Title: Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature
Publisher: HJ Verlag Maurer – Maurer Press, Frankfurt, Germany
Website: www.maurer.press
Book Series Title: Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature**
Publisher: HJ Verlag Maurer – Maurer Press, Frankfurt, Germany
Website: www.maurer.press
We invite contributions for the next volume of our series, Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature. This volume will explore current directions in language and linguistic studies, language pedagogy, and applied linguistics, with the goal of highlighting innovative approaches to teaching, research, and practice.
Book Series Title: Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature
Publisher: HJ Verlag Maurer – Maurer Press, Frankfurt, Germany
Website: www.maurer.press
We are delighted to invite contributions for the upcoming third volume of our book series, Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature. This volume turns its focus to postcolonial approaches in literary studies, bringing together scholarship that explores the cultural, political, and historical dimensions of literature shaped by colonial encounters and their legacies.
JOIN CEA IN THE QUEEN CITY On May 20, 1775—a year before the signing of the Declaration of Independence—the citizens of North Carolina declared their own independence from Great Britain in the Mecklenberg Declaration. Today, more than 250 years later, North Carolinians continue to celebrate “Meck Dec” and their history as “a free and independent people.” In the spirit of public proclamation and historic resolve, the College English Association announces its 55th annual conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, and our theme, DECLARATIONS.
At a time when any strides that may have been made towards reproductive rights have been thrown into serious question, motherhood—its lived reality, its spectre, and its implications for theory—remains a fraught and undertheorized field. As Adrienne Rich put it in 1976, “we know more about the air we breathe, the seas we travel, than we do about the nature and meaning of motherhood”—and this statement continues to be true nearly fifty years later despite the proliferation of media, both fictional and nonfictional, that takes motherhood as its object. The very definition of “motherhood” continues to be contested even as its boundaries expand and encompass an increasing number of subject positions and relational modes.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Dime Novels and Juvenile Series Books area is accepting proposals for presentations at the next PCA/ACA annual conference, to be held in Atlanta, GA from April 8-11, 2026.
Panel Title: Queer Gothic as Resistance: Subverted Classed and Gendered Binaries in 21st-Century Fiction
Conference: Queer–Class Relations Conference
Dates: April 17–18, 2026
Venue: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York City
Presentation Mode: Online
Panel Chair: Faham Zeeshan (fahamzeeshan82@gmail.com)
Co-Chair & Convener: Dr. Muhammad Numan (UMT, Lahore) (muhammad.nauman@umt.edu.pk / nauman.sa18@gmail.com)
Call for Contributions and Book Reviews for PSA Newsletter #33:
The Decolonial Caribbean
Abstracts are sought for an edited collection on the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA).
Every recipe has an origin story. Much like a legendary superhero, cunning villain, or even the kernel of an idea behind a compelling pop culture conference paper or book chapter, each dish carries a narrative infused with creativity, nostalgia, or transformation. Reflecting this spirit, we ask you: what recipe mirrors your own unique PopCRN origin story?
Bureaucratic Modernism
Edited by Alexandra Irimia and Jonathan Foster
Both modernist literature and modern bureaucracy reshaped how societies imagined authority, individuality, and the written word. Modernist authors not only depicted bureaucracy—they absorbed and transformed its textual forms, procedural rhythms, and rationalized aesthetics. This volume takes that convergence as its starting point, asking how the rise of administrative culture in the early twentieth century influenced modernist style, and how modernist experimentation in turn reframed the experience of bureaucracy.
Stemming from the “How Not to Be a Misogynist” panel at the 2025 meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, we are soliciting chapters for an edited collection that engages with matters of gender, power, and misogyny. We are particularly interested in interrogations of how—perhaps unwittingly—misogyny is inscribed onto early modern texts and contexts by contemporary scholars and scholarship. Some of the questions we seek to answer in this collection include:
Translation Networks in the Decolonising World, 1950s–1970s
King's College, University of Cambridge | 24–25 April 2026
FIRST FORUM CONFERENCE 2025—CALL FOR PROPOSALS
DIVISION OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
OCTOBER 17TH AND 18TH 2025
This year’s keynote presentation will be given by Dr. Silpa Mukherjee (University of California, San Diego).
SPEED
Note: All abstracts must be submitted through the Annual Meeting and Membership portal at https://www.xcdsystem.com/asecs/member/
You do not need to be a member to submit an abstract through the portal; however, you must be a member of ASECS to present at the conference. The panel chair cannot submit the abstract on your behalf.
Call for Book Proposals
TP Open Books, an open-access initiative by Tarjomeh-Pazhouhan Publications, is currently seeking proposals for original scholarly works in the field of Translation Studies. As part of the broader Tarjomeh Pazhouhan publishing initiative, this Open Access series extends our long-standing commitment to advancing translation research by making knowledge freely accessible to all.
We welcome original book-length contributions that engage with a wide range of topics and methods in Translation Studies, including but not limited to:
With the increasing popularity of game studies, academic departments are striving to accommodate potential students. This panel is designed for participants to share their approaches to teaching game studies, either at the undergraduate or graduate level. This will be in roundtable format, and participants are encouraged to bring materials (syllabi, course packets, other media). A multiplicity of approaches is welcome, whether participants teach in game design, critical studies, or pedagogy/rhetoric.
To participate, submit a syllabus for a course you have taught recently or are about to teach in academic year 2025-2026. Also, note that this proposed panel needs to be approved in October by the Program Committee.
Call for Book ChapterTentative Title- The Naked Mic: Sexpectations & Punchlines in Indian Stand-up Comedy
This volume is currently under preparation for submission to Springer Nature, which has formally requested a detailed book proposal.
Book Overview
Remembering the Middle Ages: Memories of the Medieval Across Time and Space (Roundtable) (Hybrid)
61st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI), Thursday, 14 May, through Saturday, 16 May, 2026
Co-sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, International Arthurian Society-North American Branch, International Association for Robin Hood Studies
Co-organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College; Siân Echard, University of British Columbia; and Alexander L. Kaufman, Ball State University
https://samla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19446
This panel seeks papers that explore how American literature has shaped--and been shaped by--knowledge of the natural world, from the transcendental reflections of the 19th century to contemporary ecofeminst and ecocritical perspectives. How have authors translated environmental observation and ecological awareness into literary forms of knowledge? How does nature writing reflect evolving understandings of identity, power, science, and stewardship.
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Planet LangLit 2026: International Conference on Language, Literature and Cultural Studies
Theme: Language, Literature, Education and Ecology for Planetary Justice & Inclusive Future
Date & Venue: 15 – 16 January, 2026 |
Hybrid |Green University of Bangladesh, Dhaka,
Bangladesh
Pioneering Bangladesh’s Language and Literary Conference with Global Impact!
Do you want your research to shape the future of language, literature, culture, and the planet?
Planet LangLit 2026 is your chance to break boundaries and connect with researchers from around the globe.
For the first time in Bangladesh, an international conference is offering publication opportunities in four globally renowned outlets:
To bend a phrase by Fredric Jameson, narrative is a historically symbolic act. Literary
scholars and historians have long argued that not only are texts implicated in the time, place,
political events, and economic forces in which they get produced, but they also produce their
own ideas of and uses for history. Indeed, for Marxist, psychoanalytical, and deconstructive
critics (among other schools of thought), a text’s historical contingency needs to be rigorously
elaborated to determine how it works across varied sites (from social to political) and
contexts (from academic to public); moreover, to differing degrees, they all agree that it is
The 97th annual SAMLA Conference is taking place Thursday, November, 6, through Saturday, November, 8, 2025, at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, GA. For more information, see https://southatlanticmla.org/.