The Editorial Team of Words & Silences | Palabras & Silencios is pleased to invite submissions for articles and reviews in our upcoming 2026 edition. 

Published by the International Oral History Association (IOHA), the journal is a peer-reviewed, open-access digital publication, freely available online, that welcomes contributions from all individuals engaged in oral history, whether in academia, community-based projects, creative practices, or activist contexts.

For this edition, we are accepting submissions in three sections:

1. Special Topic: (Re)Thinking Oral History

Abstracts are sought for an accepted panel titled "Leadership for Twenty-First-Century Language Programs: Strategies and Pitfalls" at the 2026 PAMLA Convention, to be held in Seattle, WA on November 12-15, 2026. For additional information and to submit an abstract by May 15, navigate to: 

https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19893

We are pleased to announce that the PAMLA 2026 Conference will be held at the lovely Hyatt Regency Seattle in Seattle, Washington! The conference will begin on Thursday morning, November 12, and continue through Sunday afternoon, November 15, 2026.

The 2026 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person at the Hyatt Regency. There will be no virtual or hybrid sessions or papers: the entire conference is being held in-person. So, please join us for an in-person intellectual, cultural, and social experience in the heart of one of the loveliest and most vibrant of cities: Seattle.

**Call for Papers for the 17th Annual Conference of the Association for Research in the Fantastic

Violence and the Fantastic
University of Cologne
September 17-19, 2026

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS 

35th International Conference Virginia Woolf 

Open Forum “Virginia Woolf: Sound and Rhythm in Translation”, Istambul, Jun 24-Jun 28, 2026

Update: We are currently working to transform this forum into a hybrid format. When submitting your proposal, please indicate whether you would prefer to participate in person or online.

Dear colleagues, 

Faculty of Foreign Languages is pleased to announce two confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. Danimir Mandić (Faculty of Education, University of Belgrade) and Prof. Jozef Štefčik (Bratislava University of Economics and Business).

Our 15th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies will be held on 29 and 30 May 2026. The topic for this edition of our annual conference is

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Late Diagnosis and Neurodivergence:Autoethnographies and Creative Narratives of Recognition

Edited by Tess Ezzy | University of New England Proposals due: 31 July 2026 | Final works due: 30 November 2026

Trans Studies, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books that provide leading-edge scholarship on transgender and nonbinary topics from any discipline in the humanities, social sciences, and biological sciences. Bloomsbury’s Gender & Sexuality Studies list pioneers the publishing of innovative scholarly research from the Global South, and from marginalized gender identities and sexualities across global and transnational contexts.

Date of Conference: 23-25 April, 2026

(EXTENDED) Deadline for Abstract Submission: 31 March 2026

Online, international, interdisciplinary conference titled:

(In-)Visible Wounds: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Discrimination and Violence

Concept Note

Two-Day International Conference (likely to be ICSSR Sponsored) on  “Loss of Indigenous Knowledge in the Age of Digital Humanities: Preservation, Power, and the Politics of Representation” (Hybrid Mode)

Under capitalism, we live separated from life. Capital’s extractive colonizing domination keeps us separated from nature, from each other, and from our own bodies, denying us a symbiotic and regenerative relationship with the natural world and with each other. Yet, certain types of bindings are integral to capitalism: capitalism depends on the combination of labour and nature for the production of value; the “emergence of capitalist accumulation and the reproduction of capitalist production” depends on “acts of violent dispossession”, on “tearing Indigenous societies, peasants, and other small-scale, self-sufficient agricultural producers from the source of their livelihood––the land” (Coulthard 2014).

Submission Guidelines 

• The deadline for submissions is March 20th, 2026. Please submit a 300-word abstract with a short 50-word bio to our conference email address: otherothering@gmail.com

• We are only accepting submissions written in the English language 

• Each participant is allocated 15 minutes for their presentation

• Successful applicants will receive an invitation to the conference by 2nd April, 2026

Concept of other and othering 

The LSL Language Change Forum invites proposals for the following panels at the 2027 MLA Annual Conference in Los Angeles:

Empowering Language Change

This guaranteed panel invites papers examining how linguistic changes enable—and emerge from—emancipatory practices across spoken, written, digital, pedagogical, and/or related contexts.

Listening to Language Change: Evidence of Emancipation

This guaranteed panel invites papers examining how emancipatory movements become visible through linguistic changes—historically, contemporarily, or in imagined futures—across disciplines.

Please consider submitting an abstract to present in my conference panel. The conference is open to graduate students (MA and PhD-track), educators, practicing artists, and museum professionals. Details below:

Call for Abstracts – SECAC Panel

Immersive Threads: Narrative, Participation, and the Making of Experiential Worlds

How do narrative and participation become interwoven within immersive environments? How do we, as participants, become threads within experiential artworks, installations, museums, performances, digital platforms, or urban spaces?

Call for Papers: International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics

Special Issue: ‘Entertainment Video Games Within Wider Culture’

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-media-cultural-politics#call-for-papers

Context

The Polish Academy of Sciences Scientific Centre in Paris and the Institute of Linguistics of the University of Silesia in Katowice cordially invite you to the academic conference entitled:

IN COLLABORATION ON COOPERATION: RESEARCH IN LINGUISTICS WITHIN FRENCH-POLISH TEAMS

9–10 July 2026
Scientific Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences
74 Rue Lauriston, 75116 Paris, France

The way our current globally interconnected and digitally enabled capitalist formation continuously reshapes itself to reinforce categories of class and overarching capitalist structures requires analyses that engage and critique these adaptive forces of capital. Responding to this need, this seminar seeks to examine the relationship of texts to a global capitalist economy by asking how class and capitalism function within and exert force upon texts and their contexts—in film, literature, art, video games, social media, and other extratextual spaces such as fan sites. In concert with this year’s theme, we also invite examinations of representations of the capitalist ruling class and the material and ideological effects of these representations.

Conteseting Scientific Literacies: New Tools for a New WorldEdited by Meg M. Marquardt and Lourdes Cardozo Gaibisso, Mississippi State UniversitySend questions and proposals to: contestingsciliteracy@gmail.com 

Call for Papers: MLA 2027 - Los Angeles

The William Morris Society in the United States is soliciting proposals for two panels at next year's MLA (January 7-10, 2027 in Los Angeles). You are warmly invited to submit proposals for either session. Please submit your proposals to the email addresses listed with each CFP. Submissions must be received by March 22.

William Morris, Labor & the Nineteenth Century

Extended Deadline (MLA 2027): William Morris, Collections Technology & the Virtual Archive

Call for Papers: MLA 2027 - Los Angeles

The William Morris Society in the United States is soliciting proposals for two panels at next year's MLA (January 7-10, 2027 in Los Angeles). You are warmly invited to submit proposals for either session. Please submit your proposals to the email addresses listed with each CFP. Submissions must be received by March 22.

William Morris, Collections Technology & the Virtual Archive

See below for a call for papers to the upcoming ASAP (Association for the Arts of the Present), which takes place in Madison, WI on October 15-17, 2026. We invite contributions on the narrative dimensions of any contemporary "brainrot" or "slop" media- with particular interest in genre, grand narrative, minimal narrative, short form, segmentivity, seriality, plot, character, etc.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Title: Welsh, Irish, and Polish Migration and Diaspora to Argentina

Editors: María Eugenia Crusetand Aleksander Bednarski

Proposals (500 words): May 15, 2026

Completed chapters (7,000 words): September 15, 2026

Languages: English and/or Spanish

In recent years, critiques of human exceptionalism and extractivism have prompted scholars to reconsider the role of translation as a communicative practice capable of engaging with nonhuman voices. Dominant strands of Western thought, from Descartes to Heidegger, have long reinforced the perceived superiority of humans over other forms of life and expression. Challenging this hierarchy requires not only rethinking human–nonhuman relations but also reconsidering how communication itself is understood within translation studies.

JSR: Journal for the Study of Radicalism—an academic journal published by Michigan State University Press—announces a call for articles and book reviews.JSR seeks articles on political and religious forms of radicalism across the political spectrum. "Radicalism" here refers not to social reform, but to those who seek through violent or non-violent means to bring about sudden political transformation. In particular, we are interested in articles that consider such topics as both historical or contemporary anarchist figures or groups, ecological radicalism, antifa, communism, and radical violence.