Call for Papers

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies invites submissions for the New issue of the journal - a general issue on literature, theatre and culture studies.

The Nagoya Gifu Chapter of JALT (Japan Association for Language Teaching) is seeking papers on EFL (English as a foreign language) topics. We are a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal.

See past issues of our journal here:

https://sites.google.com/view/nagoyajaltpublication2020/the-jalt-nagoya-...

See the submission guidelines page and link for submissions here:

https://sites.google.com/view/nagoyajaltpublication2020/the-jalt-nagoya-...

Call for Papers! Conference + Festival Title:  TIMES IN BETWEEN 2026 - Folklore and Borderlands: Tales of Order and Identity.

Embodied Aesthetics:

The Body and Embodiment in the Arts and Arts-Based Research

(A Transdisciplinary Conference June 20-21, 2026)

When/Where:

June 20: at the Association of Jungian Analysts’ Centre in London and Online

June 21: Online only

Fees (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)

Call for Chapters

Over the past 10–15 years, children, adolescents, and youth worldwide have lived through overlapping emergencies: the COVID-19 pandemic; intensified border regimes, migration control, and detention; racialized and colonial state violence; war and occupation; environmental disaster; and the erosion of social and educational safety nets. These crises shape not only early childhood, but also adolescent identity formation, schooling, embodiment, political consciousness, and future-making. 

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference

Friday-Sunday, October 9-11, 2026

Horizon Convention Center | Muncie, Indiana

The Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association is accepting proposals for the organization’s 50th annual conference this October in Muncie, Indiana. Submit paper, abstract, or panel proposals (including the title of each presentation within the panel) with the appropriate keywords via the submissions website at https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels.

Femspec seeks both scholarly and creative submissions for its upcoming Issue 26.1 Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist academic journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.  Femspec publishes both academic scholarship and creative writing. Creative writing submissions could include short fiction, poetry, or experimental forms. To submit work for consideration, please review Femspec’s submission guidelines at the following link: 

We are pleased to share our CFP for the forthcoming seminar at the ESSE conference to be held in Santiago de Compostela(Spain) from 31st August to 4th September 2026. Proposals are to be sent to the three convenors listed below by 31 January 2026.

Comparative Literature Graduate Student Organization, Binghamton University

Conference dates: April 17-18, in-person at Binghamton University (limited virtual accommodations by request)

Abstract deadline: February 6, 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 BOOK CHAPTERS - CFP CLOSED -THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST!

 REIMAGINING FRANKENSTEIN IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Cross-Cultural Adaptations in Visual Culture

Edited by Cenk Tan & Defne Ersin Tutan

Editors’ Introduction

International Conference 

Women Filmmakers and New Feminist Cinemas in France, Great Britain, and the USA in the 21st Century 

21-22-23 October 2026, Université Toulouse 2 Jean-Jaurès, France 

Leonard Cohen 2026

Global Perspectives on a Multi-disciplinary Artist

Ghent University, Belgium

Oct. 6-8, 2026

https://cohen2026.ugent.be/en

Call for Papers | Society of Early Americanists
American Literature Association | 37th Annual Conference | May 20–23, 2026 | Chicago, IL

New Directions in Early American Poetry Studies

This panel will develop and expand upon conversations about new directions in early American poetry studies begun at the SEA-sponsored panel on this topic to be convened during the ALA’s “American Poetry: A Symposium” (March 26–28, 2026).

Papers and presentations are invited that highlight new directions and recent developments in the study of early American poetry and poetics. Topics might include (but are not limited to):

Call for Papers | Society of Early Americanists
American Literature Association | 37th Annual Conference | May 20–23, 2026 | Chicago, IL

Teaching Early American Literature Outside the Survey Course

While recent decades have seen significant shifts in pedagogical approaches to early American literature, most undergraduate students (including many English majors) still obtain the bulk of their early American literary knowledge from some version of a broad survey course. Recognizing the potential limitations of such encounters, then, this roundtable asks: Where else in our curricula are we (or should we be) teaching early American literary texts?

From Indigenous testimonies about extraction economies to eco-dystopian manga, comics across the world function as powerful visual laboratories for engaging with the natural world. The graphic form—with its unique interplay of word and image, its use of framing, juxtaposition, and sequentiality—stages ecological questions in ways prose often cannot. By dramatizing the temporality of both sudden catastrophes and slow processes of degradation, comics enable us to see environmental crises unfolding across multiple scales of time and space. They ask us to imagine multispecies entanglements, toxic futures, and alternative modes of dwelling, while also foregrounding human complicity in environmental collapse.

Why does it seem so productive today to be simultaneously the subject and object of one’s writing? This workshop starts from the premise that certain writing and artistic practices position the theorizing self as a mediator between the subject and larger scales of social organization.

Ecology and the Human Being in German Literature and Other Media (planned, 2026)

Book Series: Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology

About the Series

The book series Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology, published by Istanbul University Press, is dedicated to interdisciplinary research in German literary and cultural studies. It brings together approaches from literary studies, cultural studies, media studies, philosophy, history, and related disciplines, with the aim of rethinking German philology in dialogue with contemporary theoretical and societal debates.

Published and forthcoming volumes include:

The Collectively Reimagining Global Politics Taft Research Group and the University of Cincinnati School of Public and International Affairs Graduate Student Association are organizing our Annual Symposium titled "Radical Hope: Reimagining Justice in Insecure and Precarious Times," March 26-27, 2026, at University of Cincinnati.

The American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) invites proposals for a Virtual Seminar Series held during the month of June 2026 over Zoom. This seminar series will take place in lieu of the 2026 AAALS conference.

For this guaranteed session of the TC Religion and Literature forum at the January 2027 MLA convention, we invite papers focusing on literatures of migration and spirituality. Given the convention’s location in Los Angeles, we especially welcome proposals that consider authors and texts with connections to LA and the city as a site of contact, dialogue, and religious syncretism.

Papers might consider, for example:

-       Memoirs of migration in place and faith

-       Religious affect in literatures of exile and precarity

-       Indigenous survival and reemergent spiritual practices in and around LA

-       Sacred spaces and urban geography

CFP: Lydia Maria Child Society

American Literature Association Conference in Chicago
20–23 May 2026 at the Palmer House

https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/

Revised Deadline: January 26, 2026

Political Rhetoric and Emotions in the Work of Lydia Maria Child

Speculative Narratives Beyond Consensus Reality: Navigating the Senses from Wonder to Horror
International Interdisciplinary Conference
29th – 30th June and 1st July, 2026

Venue: Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Conference Organisers: Popular Culture Group

We invite scholars, researchers, and artists to submit abstracts for the upcoming academic conference, Speculative Narratives Beyond Consensus Reality: Navigating the Senses from Wonder to Horror. This event will explore the transformative potential of speculative narratives – across literature, film, visual arts, and other media – in breaking free from the boundaries of “consensus reality.”

 SDSU Press Presents

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Issue 001 – “CAPTION THIS”

[caption] emerges from the collision of theory and spectacle. Annual, audacious, and gloriously hybrid, the journal stages encounters between scholarship and image-making—where Arbus’s restless gaze meets the ghosts of Benjamin, Mulvey, and Stuart Hall. We publish work that refuses to choose between seeing and thinking, between the archive and the avant-garde.