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For(u)m: Re-forming Value, Re-valuing Form in Music Studies

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 6:11pm
Music Department of the University of Pennsylvania
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

The graduate students of the Department of Music at University of Pennsylvania invite proposals for individual papers and performances for our first-ever graduate conference, For(u)m: Re-forming Value, Re-valuing Form in Music Studies. The conference will take place from February 13-14, 2026 in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts.  We welcome submissions from graduate students across disciplines to critically examine the intersection of form and value in music, sound, and performance broadly.

Curriers’ Company London Essay Prize

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 6:10pm
The London Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 31, 2026

The Worshipful Company of Curriers, one of the livery companies of the City of London, has established an essay prize on London for early career scholars, in association with The London Journal Trust and the Institute of Historical Research.

 

The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal. Other promising entries may also be considered for publication.

 

ALA 2026 - Ernest Hemingway: 1926

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 6:06pm
Ernest Hemingway Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 10, 2026

The Ernest Hemingway Society is sponsoring a panel at the upcoming American Literature Association Conference in Chicago, IL (May 20–23, 2026).

Given the centenary of the publication of both The Torrents of Spring and The Sun Also Rises (1926), we encourage papers focused on the early part of Hemingway’s life and career.

Please send a 250-word proposal and short CV to Dr. Ross K. Tangedal (University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point) at rtangeda@uwsp.edu by January 10, 2026, for full consideration. Your submission will be confirmed via email. 

Chesnutt panels at ALA

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 6:06pm
Charles W. Chesnutt Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

Charles W. Chesnutt Association

American Literature Association
37th Annual ConferenceMay 20-23, 2026Palmer House
17 East Monroe Street
Chicago, IL  60603

 

The Charles W. Chesnutt Association welcomes abstracts of no more than 300 words for presentation at two sessions on the work of Chesnutt at the 2026 ALA conference in Chicago.

 

Subjects for submissions are open but may include one of the following:

Understanding Medieval Race-Making

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 12:31pm
The Canadian Society of Medievalists
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 5, 2026

The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session on medieval race-making. 

Medieval Engagements with Disability

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 12:31pm
The Canadian Society of Medievalists
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 6, 2026

The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session that will explore disability in the medieval past and/or the ways in which disability studies and medieval studies fruitfully intersect. The session welcomes papers that consider understandings of non-standard human bodies from the medieval past and/or reflect upon the ways in which, as Godden and Hsy write, “the study of disability in the Middle Ages challenges modern narratives of bodily integrity and autonomy” (334). The non-standard body in the Middle Ages takes on a variety of forms both familiar and unfamiliar to us today, from the use of spectacles to colonies of lepers.

Queer World-Making

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 12:31pm
The Canadian Society of Medievalists
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 5, 2026

The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session on queer world-making in medieval studies. This session takes as its starting point the idea that queerness is not only an identity category or critical lens, but also a mode of imagining, creating, and inhabiting other worlds. We are interested in how medieval texts envision alternatives to normative ideals, and in how queer approaches to these texts might open transformative possibilities.

You Are On Native Land: Understanding Medieval Studies in Turtle Island

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 12:31pm
Canadian Society of Medievalists
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 5, 2026

Call for Papers 1: You Are On Native Land:  Understanding Medieval Studies in Turtle Island

The EDID Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers on Indigeneity and the medieval. 

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 12:31pm
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 1, 2026

Since 1988, The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature has published material relevant to the life, works, and friends of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Yearling and many other widely respected and beloved works, including Cross CreekCross Creek CookerySouth Moon Under, and Golden Apples.

Call for Abstracts: Playful Literature, Literary Play: (Video) Games and American Fiction [Iperstoria Special Issue]

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 12:30pm
Iperstoria: Journal of American and English Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Iperstoria Special Issue no. 28 (Dec 2026) - Playful Literature, Literary Play: (Video) Games and American Fiction

Guest Editors

Francesca Razzi, “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara (francesca.razzi@unich.it)

Valentina Romanzi, University of Torino (valentina.romanzi@unito.it)

Stefan Schubert, Leipzig University (stefan.schubert@uni-leipzig.de)

 

Communism in Historical Fiction

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 12:30pm
H/Story Research Group
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

3rd International H/Story Seminar

 

Communism in Historical Fiction

02.04.2026

online

 

University of Silesia in Katowice
Institute of Literary Studies
H/Story Research Group

 

 

Cadernos de Fraseoloxía Galega, issue 28

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 12:30pm
Centro Ramón Piñeiro para a Investigación en Humanidades
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 24, 2026

Cadernos de Fraseoloxía Galega (CFG), an international journal on phraseological and paremiological research edited by Centro Ramón Piñeiro para a Investigación en Humanidades (Xunta de Galicia), is seeking submissions of contributions for its twenty-eight issue. Even though the deadline is permanently open, only manuscripts received by October 24, 2026 will be considered for issue 28.

CFP: Popular Arts Conference 2026 - Pop Culture Studies at DragonCon

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 12:12pm
Popular Arts Conference 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 12, 2026

The Popular Arts Conference (PAC) invites submissions for our 19th Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, September 3-7, 2026.

PAC is an annual academic conference for the studies of the popular arts, including science/speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and other media; comic books and graphic novels; anime and manga; tabletop and video gaming; etc., presented to a mixed audience of scholars and fans. The mission of PAC is to promote scholarship on popular culture and to encourage engagement between scholars and fans in order to deepen our understanding of the popular arts. PAC presentations are peer reviewed, based on scholarly research.

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