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Agricultural and Rural Development in the Twentieth Century
Yearbook for the History of Global Development
Volume co-editors Leo Chu (University of New South Wales) and James Lin (University of Washington, Seattle)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Queering Professional and Technical Communication: Intersectional Approaches to Theory and Practice
Editor: Trent M. Kays, PhD
The 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference will take place this November in Seattle, Washington, from November 12-15.
Our panel will focus on American Literature from 1945 to the present. The category of “literature” includes imaginative works (fiction, poetry, drama) but also essays, memoirs, or creative nonfiction. This session investigates texts that are written by American-identifying authors, composed by writers in the US, or address American life.
I seek proposals for brief scholarly essays (3500-5000 words) that provide an overview of a chosen aspect of motherhood in the American imagination for a volume under contract with a new Bloomsbury series called Exploring the American Imagination: Ideals, Values, and Myths in Popular Culture.
These overview essays should cite a number of popular culture texts to provide an overview of the tensions and contradictions as well as the foundational beliefs inherent in various aspects of American motherhood. If there is an aspect of motherhood that you are interested in discussing, please propose it! Potential topics include:
Conference Dates - Nov. 12th to 15th 2026
Location: Seattle, Washington (USA) - The Hyatt Regency Seattle
University of Chicago | November 5–7, 2026 When we trace the genealogy of crisis, it can seem as if we’ve always been surrounded by catastrophe. Different factions of the ruling class tell us that we need to be prepared, but also that preparation may be fruitless. Crises shift and expand, strengthening their hold on us through their very instability. The state of emergency, after all, “is not the exception but the rule,” as Walter Benjamin theorized. It is not a single event but what Lauren Berlant called a norm “embedded” in the everyday.
Call for Papers: Dramatherapy
Special Issue: ‘Dramatherapy with Children and Young People’
Guest Editor
Meabh Ivers, independent dramatherapist
Deadline
Full papers: 20 July 2026
View the full call here>>
[please note the updated conference date and timeline]
National Video Games: Cultures, Industries, Communities
international conference
4–6 December 2026
University of Warsaw, Poland
[EXTENDED DEADLINE] CALL FOR PAPERS FOR DIALOG JOURNAL
Special Issue No. 47
Theme: Creative Afterlives of Texts
Note from the Editor: Owing to technical difficulties, the journal website has not yet been updated to display the revised and extended submission deadline (12th June, 2026). Please consider the extended deadline communicated through this announcement as official and valid.
Call for Papers
Philip K. Dick at 100: Fiction, Philosophy, and Cultural Afterlives
Edited Volume (Centenary Collection)
Editors:
Assoc.Prof.Dr. Ercan Gürova
Ankara University, Turkey
Prof. dr Mladen Jakovljević
University of Priština in Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia
“Under consideration for publication by a reputable international academic publisher.”
Just a quick update regarding the Society for Utopian Studies conference, November 12-14, 2026, in Portland, Oregon. Please see the following link for further information: https://utopian-studies.org/conference2026/.
-The deadline has been extended to July 15, 2026. -We are thrilled to announce our two keynote speakers:
Tentative Title- Cross Imagination and Literary Production: African Writers and Indian Characters, Indo- African Writers and African Characters
Globalectics is the interrelationship of all things, the mutual containment of the local and the global.”
— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing (2012)
Industrial Modernity: Energy, Labor, and Media in 20th Asia
2026 Meeting of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts
October 29-31, 2026
Embassy Suites Austin Central
Austin, TX
“Justice”
Keynote Speaker: TBA
CFP: MW/SWCCL, “Taking Care”
Midwest/Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature
College of the Ozarks
Point Lookout, Missouri
September 25-26, 2026
Keynote Speaker: Jeffrey Bilbro, professor of English at Grove City College and editor-in-chief at Front Porch Republic
Gothic Nature is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that engages with the Gothic conceptions of, and relationship to, the natural world. For the TV and film review section of its sixth issue, the journal seeks reviews for ecoGothic television series and films released in the last couple of years (2023–2026). Issue VI of the journal is unthemed, so there is no restriction on the types of film and TV we’d like reviews for. As a general guideline, we’d be interested to see reviews of the following (please note that this is not an exhaustive list, reviews of other relevant films and programmes are more than welcome):
Film:
2028 will mark the two hundredth anniversary of Thomas Lovell Beddoes’s completion of the first version of his masterpiece Death’s Jest-Book. This special issue of Studia Neophilologica, coinciding also with the centenary of a journal that has been the home of many significant essays on Beddoes’s writings, will offer new readings and accounts of Beddoes’s life, work, and reputation.
Contributions are invited for essays between 5 and 8,000 words on all aspects of Beddoes’s career. Topics might include:
The tenth annual Brandeis Novel Symposium (BNS), which will take place on Friday, October 23, 2026, invites proposals for papers on Han Kang’s 2014 novel Human Acts (original title: 소년이 온다, or A Boy Comes; English translation by Deborah Smith). The Brandeis Novel Symposium is a one-day conference that chooses a single novel as a point of focus for salient theoretical, historical, political, and narratological questions about the novel as a genre. (See the 2025 BNS websiteand this archive for more information about the BNS.)
Christian Writers Conference 2027
“Restoring Creativity”
April 9-10, 2027, Grove City College, PA
The Eastern Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature
and Third Annual meeting of the Holy Moot
Featuring Daniel McInerny, philosopher of art, novelist, and dramatist
Call for Papers
Call for Proposals: Star Trek and the CourtroomAn Edited Collection on Justice, Law, and the Trial in Star Trek
We invite proposals for an edited volume examining trial and courtroom episodes across the Star Trek franchise. From “Court Martial” (TOS) to “Ad Astra per Aspera” (SNW), Star Trek has used the trial format to explore questions of personhood, justice, military law, civil rights, ethical responsibility, and the limits of legal systems. These episodes serve as philosophical laboratories, testing the boundaries of law when confronted with, for example, artificial intelligence, alien cultures, time travel, and evolving definitions of sentience and citizenship.
Workshop at the Renaissaince Society of America's annual meeting (Philadelphia. March 11-13, 2027)
Conference online: 20-21 August 2026
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE:
Call for Papers: International Journal of Education Through Art
Special Issue: ‘Routes & Roots: Transnational Genealogies of Art Education’
Guest Editors:
Dustin Garnet University of British Columbia
Indira Bailey Claflin University
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-education-through-art#call-for-papers
Theme: Is it a Wonderful Life?
Wonder (n.): a feeling of surprise or awe, caused by something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable
Wonder (v.): to feel some doubt or curiosity; to be desirous to know or learn.
Wondrous (adj.): marvelous; wonderful.
Background
The Just Transition Knowledge Network (JETNET), an initiative of the Just Transition Research Centre at IIT Kanpur, invites national and international participants to its Annual Conference 2026.
PAMLA 2026 is pleased to present Pacific Northwest Literatures (https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/20023)!
Past and present, the Pacific Northwest has functioned in literature as a dynamic space defined by transition, ecological precarity, and socio-political friction. This panel explores writers of fiction, poetry, memoir, and non-fiction whose work investigates the unique sense of place, history, and culture defining the region. We welcome papers that engage with the tensions between industry and preservation, indigenous sovereignty, labor movements, and the mythologies of the western wilderness.
PAMLA 2026 is pleased to present Translation and Temporality: Rewriting Ancient and Medieval Texts for the (Post)Modern World (https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/20010)!
PAMLA 2026 is pleased to present New Directions in Mark Twain Studies (co-sponsored by the Mark Twain Circle) (https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/20184)!
PAMLA 2026 is pleased to present Together and Apart: Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Medieval Spain (https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19955)!
Animal Adaptations
We invite proposals for a small number of additional chapters for an edited volume on animal adaptations, edited by Justyna Włodarczyk (University of Warsaw) and Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck).
Submissions are invited for an upcoming edited volume exploring the development of electoral politics in India in the post-liberalization era. This comprehensive publication will be brought out by the Department of Political Science, Seth Soorajmull Jalan Girls’ College (Affiliated to the University of Calcutta), Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Concept Note:
The Indian diaspora is the largest diaspora community in the world, with an approximate population of 35.4 million. From the migration of the indentured labour force during the colonial period to the mass immigration of educated Indians to overseas countries in the late twentieth century, the Indian diaspora has indeed become a global phenomenon. Expanding migration circuits, job and business opportunities, shifting lifestyles, skilled and semi-skilled labour force, among others, have resulted in significant socioeconomic mobility, especially over the last 25 years. Besides making significant contributions to varied fields, the Indian diaspora has also arguably brought changes in how others have traditionally seen India.
grounding
recent conversations illustrating the gap between the notion of “living life” and the realities of our day-to-day functioning (often framed as “being in survival mode” or “the difference between surviving and thriving”) have served to underscore the importance of our rituals of pleasure and joymaking. the essentiality of these rituals, as reclamations of agency, methods of healing, and ways of maintaining community, is especially relevant for those throughout the African Diaspora and the broader Third World* global community who identify as femme-of-center.
Often, when thinking of academia, the ideas of books, writing, and theory are what make up the idea of the scholar. Many scholars who speak about activism, liberation, mutual aid, living in a collective community, and many other topics of concern for the JOAA team, do not always live the practice they write. This year, we are hoping to disrupt this focus on the blueprints of freedom and look into the way folks are working in the world to build, support, create, and live praxis in their lives.
Appalachian Glass: Furnace of Meaning and Memory
This edited collection addresses a major gap in current work focused on Appalachia’s glass industry. We have catalogs and reference books. We have histories focused on class, labor, and gender. We have histories focused on the rise and demise of glass factories. But the human work of meaning, identity, and memory--in the context of Appalachian glass--has yet to be gathered and shared in book form.
Call for Papers:
Cluster on Refusal in Migrant and Refugee Lifemaking
Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
Convener: Monisha Das Gupta
Submission length: 6,000-8,000 words, including the list of references
Climate change is often discussed as an environmental emergency, but its most profound consequences are social, political, economic, and deeply gendered. The climate crisis does not operate in isolation from existing systems of inequality; rather, it intensifies historically entrenched hierarchies of gender, caste, class, race, labour, sexuality, and power. Women and gender minorities, frequently experience climate change not as a distant ecological abstraction but as everyday reality lived through food insecurity, water scarcity, displacement, unpaid labour, agrarian distress, and precarious working conditions.
India is poised to press home its civilisational charisma and unique advantages in the quest to realise its goals under the mission Viksit Bharat 2047. Fuelled by conceptual, imaginative and practical inputs derived from the continuously preserved Indian Knowledge Systems (Bharatiya Jñāna Paramparā), India’s developmental mission is not for its own exclusive benefit; rather, it is to guide the world in its anxious search for an alternative holistic paradigm of growth that preserves the universal core of human life and values, restores our vital spiritual connections with natural environments and rejuvenates an organic sense of community even as global enterprise prospers and enables a sense of economic well-being and security in people.
Cunterbury is a scholarly arts & comedy podcast hosted by three Gen Z academics — A.J. Scott, Alice Fulmer-Zelinka and Shannen Escote — exploring the major works of Geoffrey Chaucer and friends, starting with The Canterbury Tales. In our first season, we are providing witty commentary and voices to discuss the Tales and their pilgrims like you’ve never heard them before.
CFP: History and Popular Uses of the Past – NEPCA Virtual Fall Conference 2026
Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2026 (at 5 pm EDT)
Contact email:
Hannah Sophie Schiffner, h.schiffner@zeppelin-university.net
The History and Popular Uses of the Past Area invites submissions for the Northeast Popular Culture Association’s (NEPCA) annual conference to be held online October 15th – 17th, 2026.
SESSION DESCRIPTION
Afrofuturism, Latinx altermundos, Indigenous futurisms, solarpunk, cli-fi — the speculative modes through which BIPOC writers have imagined, contested, and survived the present are not marginal subgenres. They are among the most politically urgent literary formations of the last half-century, and among the least fully mapped by existing scholarship. This special session invites papers that read across these formations to ask: what does speculative fiction do when it is written from the borderlands, from the barrio, from the reservation, from the maquiladora corridor, from communities that have been made to inhabit the dystopian present that other traditions only project?
The First Global Algorithmacy Conference
Acronym
ALGOCON 2026
Web page
https://algorithmacy.com
Location
La Brea Pitch Lake, Trinidad and Tobago
Submission deadline
15 August 2026
Notification due
Rolling (public review on the PR thread, typically within ~5 business days of submission); final decisions by September 1 2026
Final version due
At acceptance — accepted papers are published with their full review history on the public repository
Call for Papers: The Legacy of Norman Bates: Essays on the Psycho Franchise
Editor: Shane H Weathers, Bowling Green State University
Editors Introduction:
We invite proposals for individual papers for the critical mixed race studies panel at the annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) in Seattle, Washington, from November 12-15, 2026.
Paper proposals are due by June 6, 2026.
Welcoming submissions for a free scholarly conference on scary literature to be hosted online from October 22nd-24th, 2026 by graduate student, Anais Shelley.
Research may draw inspiration from (but is not limited to) these prompts:
Supernatural themes
Domestic horror
The role of setting within scary stories
Frightening myths and folklore
The gothic novel and short story
Monsters and the monstrous
Multicultural superstition and regional ghost stories
The deadline for abstract submission has been extended until 30 June, 2026.
2026 Global K-Culture Conference
August 20 (Thu.) ~ August 22 (Sat.), 2026 (3 days)
Chungbuk National University, Korea
Korean, English, or the presenter’s preferred language
Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2026
The Department of Global K-Culture at Chungbuk National University is pleased to invite submissions for the upcoming Global K-Culture Conference, aimed at fostering meaningful dialogue and the exchange of ideas among instructors and researchers working across diverse educational and cultural contexts.
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the literatures of the Spanish State have witnessed a remarkable proliferation of Bildungsroman-inflected narratives, testimonial accounts, and coming-of-age fictions that fundamentally interrogate received models of subjectivity, identity formation, and social progress. This international congress invites critical engagement with a corpus of works — spanning authors such as Najat El Hachmi, Marta Sanz, Belén Gopegui, and Alana S. Portero — that contest hegemonic discourses of selfhood and becoming from positions of social, gendered, and cultural marginality.
PAMLA Seattle (2026) - November 12-15, all in-person conference
2027 is the centenary year of the birth of US American poet and Pulitzer Prize-winner, Galway Kinnell (1927-2014). This session seeks to celebrate his life and legacy while pointing to future thematic and prosodic engagement in Kinnellian studies. Papers offering approaches to any aspect of Kinnell’s work are invited and most welcome.
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