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The Big Ten Trans Studies Initiative invites trans studies scholars and students affiliated with Big Ten institutions to submit proposals for a three-day forum on pedagogy and curriculum, to be held April 20-May 1 at Penn State University. This forum will be held in person.
Call for Seminar Participants
Performance Forms in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: Commercial Drama, Performance Practices and Theatrical Spaces in Early Modern England
(ESRA 2027, Bangor University, 27-30 July 2027)
Convenors:
Aurélie Griffin, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France
Simon Smith, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK
IRISH POPULAR CULTURE FROM THE 1990s TO TODAY: A NEW GREEN WAVE TAKING THE WORLD BY STORM?
International Conference (France)
Thursday 4th and Friday 5th February 2027
Co-organised by Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (CIRLEP), Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (CREW) and Université de Tours (ICD)
Confirmed key-note speakers: Dr. Maria Parsons (IADT, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland), and Dr. Timothy Heron (U. Strasbourg, France)
Deadline: October 31, 2026
At this stage, while proposals across all areas remain welcome, we are particularly interested in submissions that broaden the range of topics covered so far. Especially encouraged are proposals focusing on religious pluralism and faith traditions beyond Catholicism; Islam and the post-9/11 context; religion and the culture wars; members of the White House staff and other political actors; the later seasons; and the cultural legacy of The West Wing and its place in changing representations of American political leadership.
The original call for papers appears below.
Animal Studies Across Disciplines Symposium
April 7th-April 9th 2027
Arizona State University
Many scholars argue that we are now living in a new geological epoch—the Anthropocene—a name chosen to encapsulate an irreversibly transformed planet due to the rapid expansion of human populations, increasing exploitation of animals and natural resources, and pervasive pollution. The effects of the Anthropocene have been caused by only a small percentage of the world’s population, yet those living in the Global South disproportionately suffer the consequences. The Anthropocene, then, is just as much a social problem as it is an environmental issue.
In 1892, when authorities arrested Lizzie Borden for the brutal axe-murders of her father and stepmother, America, and specifically Massachusetts, stood at the forefront of the Women's Suffrage Movement. Several of the first conventions, halls, and clubs in support of the movement took place in Lizzie’s home state of Massachusetts. In this paper I will examine how the gender roles and socioeconomic factors of Victorian Massachusetts contributed to Lizzie Borden’s acquittal despite the abundance of circumstantial evidence. I will not argue for Lizzie’s innocence, as I believe she committed the crime, but instead I will present how the gender norms and socioeconomic factors of this era shaped perceptions of criminality and public opinion.
The IMS Standing Committee welcomes
papers in all areas of Milton Studies.
Submission deadline November 15, 2026
For possible topic and more information see https://ims14.org/call-for-papers
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSAL
The Ghost in the Machine Learns to Speak for the Dead:
AI, Rhetorical Resurrection, the Injustice of Synthetic Voice
An edited Collection, edited by Shiva Hari Mainaly, PhD, University of Memphis
Abstracts due December 15, 2026
The Dead are Speaking. Who Gave Them Their Words?
CFP: ARIEL Special Issue, “Displacing Diasporas: How Diasporas Make and Unmake Empires and Nations”
Guest Editors:
Amrita Mishra, Berea College; Chienyn Chi, Bethany College; Nicholas Bloom, Harvard University
The Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University is thrilled to host the 12th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium on March 4-6, 2027.
The Post45 Graduate Symposium seeks graduate-level works-in-progress related to post-1945 media, arts, literature, textual or visual objects, digital platforms, politics, and culture. We welcome submissions that expand our conception of objects and meaning-making post-1945 or place them in comparative, transnational, or hemispheric frames. We especially welcome contributions that foreground the importance of race, gender, class, and sexuality to post-45 studies.
Call for Proposals
Call for Proposals - Acting Out: Theatre Training Outside the Theatre Classroom
Learning Stages is seeking contributions to a new anthology promoting the use of theatre training and educational strategies for application across post-secondary disciplines outside of the theatre classroom.
Haunted Landscapes 3
Conference: Falmouth University, June 30 to 2nd July 2027
In 2014 and 2023, Falmouth University hosted two of its most successful conferences: Haunted Landscapes. This conference is round three of that event, which will again be held in beautiful Cornwall on the Falmouth Campus, set in lush tropical gardens and only a few minutes’ walk away from its picturesque town and beaches.
Staging Myth: Performance, Adaptation, and Cultural Memory
Deadline for Abstract Submissions: 30th October 2026
“The true purpose of the theater is to create Myths, to express life in its immense, universal aspect.” (Artaud, 1958, p. 116)
This roundtable will engage with African American literary works (or other works of art) that create spaces for ancestors and other departed characters, frequently portraying such characters as active participants who shape the present of the living. We will consider in what ways such depictions offer and build communities for both the living and those whom they have lost. Special attention will be paid to how such works often serve as acts of historical preservation and memorialization outside official archives. All literary or artistic genres are welcome; interdisciplinary approaches welcome.
The Center for Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies is excited to share a call for submissions for the 6th volume of Roots & Resettlement, a mixed-media digital collection. For this volume, we invite creative submissions by Latine voices from across the world for a collection exploring migration, place, and belonging.
Guest Editor: Nidhi Shrivastava, Sacred Heart University, shrivastavan@sacredheart.edu
The Centre in English-Language Travel Literature – 20, 21 and 22 May 2027
MSH Clermont-Ferrand
‘Green Religions, Divine Immanence, and Ecospirituality’
Call for Papers:
The Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University is thrilled to host the 12th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium on March 4-6, 2027.
The Post45 Graduate Symposium seeks graduate-level works-in-progress related to post-1945 media, arts, literature, textual or visual objects, digital platforms, politics, and culture. We welcome submissions that expand our conception of objects and meaning-making post-1945 or place them in comparative, transnational, or hemispheric frames. We especially welcome contributions that foreground the importance of race, gender, class, and sexuality to post-45 studies.
The Ernest Hemingway Society https://www.hemingwaysociety.org/ is sponsoringone panel andone roundtableat the 38th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ to be held at The Westin Copley Place in Boston, MA, May 26-29, 2027.
Reminder: Teaching the Nineteenth Century in Today's University
NeMLA 2027 Annual Convention in Newport, RI, March 6-9, 2027
Abstracts due 9/30
In an environment of increasing digital distraction, courses exploring nineteenth-century literature and culture ask students to engage with some of literature’s lengthiest texts. How can we encourage meaningful engagement with nineteenth century “loose, baggy monsters” in today’s university? What resources can we call upon to better engage our students and support their learning in light of the rise of AI and the challenges of online distraction?
Sexualities Special Issue Call for Papers:
Transitions: Examining Changing Regimes of Sexuality in Post-Soviet Muslim Republics
Concept note
Participants are sought for a virtual roundtable at the Law and Society Association Global Meeting (Hong Kong) on June 26, 2027 examining how law is interpreted, translated, and given practical effect within universities—and how institutional actors may extend, reshape, or selectively invoke legal mandates in governing academic knowledge.
Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research invites authors to submit papers for issue 1/2027. Research into any and all aspects of science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative genres is welcome from a range of disciplines.
Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal published online twice a year. Fafnir is acompletely open-access, non-profit publication of the Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research (FINFAR). Fafnir publishes various texts ranging from peer-reviewed research articles to short overviews and book reviews in the field of science fiction and fantasy research.
How can practice-based approaches to research and teaching contribute to the creation of alternative democratic spaces within universities?
Working Title of Collection: Mukhar: Reading Gender across Page, Screen, and Society
Editor: Dr. Vasundhara Laspal (Head, Department of English, Government Degree College, Shitlakhet, Almora, Uttarakhand)
Publisher: L Ordine Nuovo Publication (CRRPS), Madurai, Tamil Nadu · www.nuovopublication.com · www.crrps.in
Special Issue website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/literature/special_issues/B781Q58SAM
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Literature will collect essays addressing the reception, influence, adaptation, or incorporation of literature from the Greco–Roman world into later theatre, film, and television. The Greeks and Romans pioneered a wide range of performed literary styles like tragic and comic drama, or epic and lyric poetry, as well as developing extensive mythic story networks and what we now recognize as formal histories, etc. Some of these works remain among the most influential and beloved writings ever produced by humanity.
CFP: Feminist Digital Archiving
April 23-24, 2027
William & Mary, Williamsburg VA
Please send a 300-400 word abstract and 200 word bio to emlosh@wm.edu by December 1, 2026
Amy Earhart has warned that feminist and anti-racist digital humanities projects are often vulnerable to neglect and obsolescence, compounding a persistent “lack of diversity in the digital canon.” She also cited Matt Kirschenbaum’s dictum that “preservation is not a technical problem but a social problem.”
The 35th Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference: Palm Springs, CA, March 24-27, 2027“Design”
Call for Papers
Myth, Folklore, and Fairy Tales Area
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026
Call for Papers
Mystery / Detective Fiction Area
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026
Confirmed keynote speakers: Brendan McMahon (University of Michigan) and Franziska Schenk (artist and researcher, Birmingham City University)
¡AfroLatinxs Presente!, AfroLatinx Pasados
Special Issue of Pasados: Recovering History, Imagining Latinidad
Deadline for article submissions: January 5, 2027
What does it mean to teach a history that has been marginalised?
Questions surrounding the teaching of marginalised, contested, and difficult histories have become increasingly important across educational systems, universities, museums and other sites of historical education internationally. Yet discussions of inclusive and diverse curricula can sometimes obscure a more fundamental question: how, and at what point, does a history become marginalised in the first place?
Papers on any aspect of William Blake’s poetry and composite art are welcome on this 200th anniversary of his death and the 270th of his birth for the NEMLA conference The 58th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention will take place from March 6–9, 2027, at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island.
When, in September 2026, a post declaring the actress Katrina Kaif "finished" following her return to public life after childbirth accumulated lakhs of views and comments, the disproportion between judgement and object became, itself, the more legible text. A comparable structure recurred that same year for the South Korean singer Jennie, whose performances at Mad Cool Festival and Lollapalooza Chicago drew, alongside widespread acclaim, a coordinated wave of "netizen" commentary deriding her "leaner frame" — two women, two national contexts, two entirely unrelated bodily "failures" (one insufficiently youthful, the other insufficiently substantial), and yet an identical infrastructure of mass, public, collectively affirmed judgement.
ALEA, revue internationale d'art et de recherche (ISSN 3130-477X) is an annual, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published online by ALEA (Association de la Lueur Éclairante de l'Art), a nonprofit association based in Paris. Under the editorship of Dr. Marie Goehner-David (Université de Strasbourg), the journal invites submissions for its inaugural issue.
KÁROLI GÁSPÁR UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
21–25 JUNE 2027
The International Milton Symposium is the world's leading forum for scholars working on John Milton and his world. The 14th Symposium will be held in the historic city of Budapest in 2027.
Papers are invited in all areas of Milton Studies, including but not limited to: politics, religion, textual studies, reception, translation, digital humanities, animal studies, and more.
Abstract deadline:15 NOVEMBER 2026
International Conference
Université de Montréal
February 5-7, 2027
Call for Papers
Geo-Medical Syndemics: Earthquakes, Geotrauma, and Mental Health in the Planetary Imagination
NEW DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS SEPTEMBER 30, 2026
The rise of the superhero is one of the most significant cultural developments of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Since the debut of Superman in Action Comics #1 (April 18, 1938), superheroes have evolved from colorful comic-book figures into powerful global symbols that shape conversations about politics, morality, identity, technology, gender, race, mythology, trauma, and resistance. What began with the imaginative vision of Jerry Siegel (writer) and Joe Shuster (artist) has expanded into a worldwide phenomenon spanning comics, film, television, literature, gaming, digital media, and academic discourse.
Architectures of Deceit provides a timely analysis of how and why imposture has emerged as a shared media logic across cinema, television, streaming platforms, and networked culture.
The volume offers a new critical lens for examining how contemporary screen culture negotiates identity, class mobility, institutional legitimacy, technological change, and the erosion of social and public trust. It traces a trajectory from fictional impostors and narratives of real-world fraud to deceptive media infrastructures and machine-generated images.
The volume is organized into four parts:
Part I — Constructing a Legible Self: Class, Identity, and Recognition
Call for Papers
Poetry and Poetics (Critical)
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026
WANT TO EDIT AN ISSUE OF A JOURNAL?
• The Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities (JURH) is looking for guest editors for our Summer 2027 issue.
WHAT IS JURH?
• JURH is an annual journal that provides a national forum to showcase the best in undergraduate Humanities research. Click here to learn more about JURH.
• JURH is governed by a board of nationally recognized scholars and overseen by Dr. Lara Karpenko, Professor of English, and Director of the Center for the Humanities at Carroll University and Dr. Lauri Dietz, Executive Director, Center for Faculty Development, Loyola University, Chicago.
The Gothic Servant
deadline for submissions:
September 29, 2026
full name / name of organization:
NeMLA
contact email:
This conference will take place in person at Salve Regina University in Newport, RI, March 6-9, 2027.
Call for Papers
“A Golden Age? Global Historical Fictions and Political Nostalgia”
One-Day Online Workshop of the Historical Fictions Research Network
28 November 2026 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)
15 min talks
Call for Proposals
Audiovisual Creation in the Age of AI
Special Issue for 2027
Narrative is among the most enduring and adaptive structures of human meaning-making. Across millennia, it has evolved from oral performance and manuscript cultures to print, cinema, broadcast television, digital platforms, and now algorithmically curated streaming environments and AI-assisted compositions.
Extended deadline: EchoForum 2026 Conference: Disability as Radical Interdisciplinary Practice26–27 November 2026
Organised by: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
Submission deadline: 10 October 2026
Working languages: English, French, Romanian
CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:Petra Kuppers // University of MichiganJonathan Meth // Goldsmiths University of LondonMaria Bucur // Indiana University Bloomington
EchoForum: Conceptual Framework