Innovating for Sustainable Futures

The On Sustainability Research Network invites proposals for the Twenty-Third International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability, to be hosted from 20 to 22 January 2027 by the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, with integrated online participation via CGScholar Event (KX).

As its title indicates, this seminar will take a broad geographic and temporal view of the Harlem or New Negro Renaissance to invite considerations of the historicity and historiography of Black writing at the turn of the twentieth century. Seminar participants will be invited to consider how history shaped and was shaped by Black art, literature, and thought in the period stretching from approximately the end of Reconstruction through the Civil Rights era. How did Black writers, artists, and thinkers use historical concepts, forms, narratives, figures, events, philosophies, discourses, and other materials to craft original works of art and literature?

European Journal of Media, Art & Photography

ejmap.sk | Indexed in WoS Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) | Q1 in art journals category

Edited by Juliana Luna Freire (Universidade Federal da Paraíba UFPB), Rong Huang (Peking University), Lucy Blaney-Liable (University of Stuttgart) 

Confirmed publisher Editora UFPB (Brazil)

Following Guan and Scott (2025), there is a need to rethink pedagogical practices in language teaching and their real impact on health students and their future work in the medical field. 

We propose, as discussed by Ferguson (2025), a deeper discussion on the contexts of English for Medical Purposes (EMP), as well as the prevalent use of English in this field. 

Queer as Method:

Transdisciplinary Approaches to Art, Research and Resistance

an online transdisciplinary conference

September 11-12, 2026

Online, Via Zoom

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/06/15/queer-as-method/

Proposal deadline: August 1, 2026

"Making Trouble: Subversions and Reclamations in American Imaginaries"
RIAS Vol. 21, Fall-Winter (2/2028)

This issue of RIAS invites contributions on the theme of “Making Trouble: Subversions and Reclamations in American Imaginaries.” Engaging ongoing debates in global American Studies on power, representation, dissent, and cultural transformation, the issue seeks contributions that examine how American cultural, political, and social imaginaries are challenged, reworked, and reclaimed across diverse historical and geographical contexts. It invites interdisciplinary perspectives from the global field of American Studies and welcomes submissions from scholars worldwide.

"Archipelagic Imaginaries and the Americas: Islands - Narratives - Mythologies"
RIAS Vol. 20, Fall-Winter (2/2027)

"Imaginarios Archipelágicos y las Américas: Islas – Narrativas – Mitologías"
RIAS Vol. 20, Otoño–Invierno (2/2027)

This panel invites proposals that examine acts of remembrance and care of an individual’s or a collective’s past that lead to empowerment and change. Papers may address historical or contemporary works in art, architecture, film, recordings, and literature, and may engage theoretical, critical, pedagogical, or archival practices. Drawing from Valérie Perrin’s novels Forgotten on Sundays (2015) and Fresh Water for Flowers (2019), soon to be on the screen by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, memory work enables individuals to feel visible, situate themselves in a collective, and solve piece puzzles through inquiry. Such work is often relegated to women’s labor, caregivers, and hired help who go beyond roles and job duties to make personal connections.

Alchemy: Exploring Metaphorical Transformations and Arts-Based Research

Date: November 14-15, 2026
Location: University of Oxford, UK and online
Conference page: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/06/15/alchemy-2026/

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

International Conference

The Artificial Mind: Art and Philosophy after AI

24-25 September 2026

National Gallery of Art

22 Konstitucijos Ave. 

Vilnius, Lithuania

The title “Artificial Mind” references Claude Lévi-Strauss’ The Savage Mind (La Pensée sauvage (1962), a foundational work in anthropology, in which he argues that “savage” and “civilized” thought share the same epistemological architecture – differing not in structure but in mode of operations. While the “civilized” engineer works with purpose-built concepts and tools toward a specific end, the “savage” bricoleur thinks with whatever is at hand, constructing new meanings from fragments.

We invite original book chapter proposals for the upcoming edited volume“Emergence of New World Imagination in the 20th Century Asia:Understanding the Asian Colonial Countries through the Lens of Travelogues, Memoirs, Testimonies and Archival Documents" to be published with an International publishing house. This edited book aims to provide a multidisciplinary platform for advanced doctoral students, researchers, academicians and faculty members to publish their original works with us.

Brief Synopsis :

Mediapolis – International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies y open access online journal, drawing a connection between culture and the built environment – understood in the broadest sense. We publish research in different forms, from research articles to Q&A interviews and readings list, and across different academic fields, including but not limited to media studies, urban studies, geography, architecture and art history as well as digital humanities. 

In this CFP, we are looking for essays that take up the issues of the Speculative Genre (you can interpret this in many ways, though the sciences, technologies, and alternative social structures are usually instrumental in these realms) as it is manifest in the literary production of the Czechs and Slovaks, whether this was during the 1800s or it is a current manifestation.

We are interested in review essays, literary scholarship, and in translations of original works from Czech or Slovak.

You can submit essays and reviews for consideration here: https://astralcourier.subfolios.com/submit/578/essays-reviews

Disability and Horror: A Companion

Call for Chapters

As the section editor for The Queer Experience, I invite you to submit a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, an edited scholarly volume that examines the evolving role of diversity, equity, and inclusion within American democracy and educational institutions.

The Queer Experience Section Seeks:

• Well-researched and evidence-based analyses that examine gender identity, sexuality, intersectionality, and/or the evolving role(s) of queer people in society at the present moment.

Brief Synopsis: 

The nineteenth and twentieth centuries witnessed profound political, social, and cultural transformations across Asia. This edited volume, Emergence of New World Imagination in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Asia: Understanding Asian Colonial Countries through Travelogues, Memoirs, Testimonies and Archival Documents, seeks to examine how autobiographical narratives, letters, memoirs, travelogues, oral narratives, and archival documents written in various Indian languages engage with the colonial and postcolonial histories of East Asia, Southeast Asia, West Asia, and South Asia.

The twenty-first century has seen a world-wide immigration crisis to which Children and YA authors have responded with a wonderful explosion of literature capturing immigrant  and refugee experiences. From picture books to YA novels, authors present stories about immigrants from South America, the Caribbean,  Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Each author explores the reasons for leaving “Home” (politics, economics, religious oppression, adoption, etc.) and youths’ experiences adjusting in their new “homes.”  These writers present readers with stories concerning the joys and sorrows that immigrants experience, challenge dehumanization, and deepen reader empathy. 

Occulture as Method Symposium

September 10-11, 2026

Manchester Metropolitan University

Manchester, UK

Organised by the Dark Arts Research Kollective

Submission deadline: 10th July 2026

The Intimacies of Kith seeks to bring together scholars who are also practitioners of poetry from Asian North American and Southeast Asian communities. Our goal is to create a shared space for poet-scholars to engage one another directly, creating opportunities for sustained dialogue across geographic and disciplinary boundaries.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Superheroes of the Squared Circle:

The Intersection of Comics and Professional Wrestling

An Edited Academic Collection for McFarland & Co. Publishing

Editor: Forrest C. Helvie, Ph.D.

Connecticut State Community College

About the Project

Call for Contributors:Death and the Chatbot: The Thanatology of Artificial IntelligenceEditors:

Robert Spinelli (rspinelli@ncis.org); Kaylee Alexander (kaylee.alexander@utah.edu); Justina Sumilova (justina.sumilova@protonmail.com)

Abstract:

Friendship occupies a central place in children’s and young adult literature, film, and television. It functions as a key site through which processes of Bildung, selfhood, community, and belonging are imagined and negotiated. However, despite its centrality to narratives for young audiences, friendship has received comparatively limited sustained attention as a distinct object of study within children's literature and media scholarship.

Call for Papers: Literary Reception and Human Creativity in the Age of AI
Bryn Mawr College, April 16–17, 2027

Co-organizers: Asya Sigelman (Classics) and Margaret Strair (German Studies)

Keynote speaker: Barbara Graziosi (Princeton University)

The rapid integration of generative AI in everyday life brings renewed urgency to fundamental questions about human creativity: what constitutes the human act of writing, and how does human literary production differ from that of large language models (LLMs) — algorithms trained on vast textual corpora to predict and generate language?

“The American Literary Studies Periodical as Form”

Special Issue of American Periodicals

Ed. Tim Lanzendörfer, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main