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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
The Journal for the New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (JNNHP) invites submissions for its special on Derrick Bell and the History of Africana Philosophy, to be published in Fall 2028. Derrick Bell, the founder of Critical Race Theory, produced one of the most innovative, insightful, and transformative ideas in the 20th century. His philosophical insights continue to challenge how western liberal nations contend with questions of civil rights, human rights, immigration, policing, and education.
The Journal for the New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (JNNHP) invites submissions for its special on Derrick Bell and the History of Africana Philosophy, to be published in Fall 2028. Derrick Bell, the founder of Critical Race Theory, produced one of the most innovative, insightful, and transformative ideas in the 20th century. His philosophical insights continue to challenge how western liberal nations contend with questions of civil rights, human rights, immigration, policing, and education.
About the Event
The Michigan State University (MSU) Comics Forum is a triennial gathering of scholars, creators, librarians, and fans committed to exploring comics culture. The Forum reflects MSU's sustained investment in comics as an area of research, teaching, digital humanities, and public engagement. The Forum welcomes proposals from across disciplines. All presentations must focus on the medium of comics, broadly understood — including graphic novels, serial comics, webcomics, experimental and hybrid forms, zines, and related graphic practices.
2027 Themes
This year's Forum invites scholarship organized around the following thematic and methodological priorities
The Visual Cultures of YA Romance: Seeing Desire, Reading Relationships - The International Journal of Young Adult Literature 8/2027
Guest editors:
Dalila Forni (Università dell’Aquila - IT)
Alessandra Mazzini (Università di Bergamo - IT)
Valentina Baeli (Università di Catania - IT)
CFP: The medieval reception of Greek antiquity The Annual Conference of the Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies at the University of South Florida. April 22-24, 2027. Attendance is in person at the USF campus, Tampa, FL. This interdisciplinary conference will explore the reception of ancient Greek texts in the Middle Ages (roughly, 500–1400 CE). We seek contributions treating the influence of Greek texts on, e.g., medieval philosophy, theology, science, historiography, education, literature, and art. Contributions may fall into the following (non-exhaustive) categories:
Popular Culture Association: Education & Popular Culture Area
Call for Papers
The Area of Education, Teaching, History and Popular Culture is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Popular Culture Association National Conference to be held March 24-27, 2027 in Boston, MA.
Animal Studies Across Disciplines Symposium
April 7th-April 9th 2027
Arizona State University
Polytechnic Campus
The Psychology and Popular Culture area concerns itself with the ways in which popular culture both reflects and shapes the nature of our psychology. The area is accepting submissions for the 2027 annual conference to be held March 24-27, in Boston, MA.
The area invites all interested persons to present papers on a broad array of topics inclusive of psychology and popular culture, such as:
psychological theory, Jungian arts-based research, depth psychology, analytical psychology, archetypal psychology, psychiatry, mindfulness, cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis, critical theory, and interpretations of literature, film, gender theory, music, politics, or religion from a psychological perspective.
Yale 6th Annual Symposium for Accessibility and Disability: Call for Proposals
Crip Translations: Access, Technology, Context
AATI 2027 University of Puerto Rico, March 5-7, 2027
This panel explores the island as both a place and a figure for thinking about borders, mobility, and belonging. Islands are shaped by movements of arrival and departure,
connection and separation, exchange and exclusion. Linguistic islands, diasporic communities, and bodies marked as other all take shape through this double movement of separation and connection. Islands also name a condition: being set apart, forming a world at the edge of another, connected outward by water rather than enclosed by land.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Zora Neale Hurston Society & The Zora Neale Hurston Forum
International Conference 2027
“Jump at de Sun: Zora Neale Hurston’s Global Legacy, Scholarship & Future”
January 7, 2027 | Virtual International Conference
In celebration of Zora Neale Hurston’s 136th birthday, the Zora Neale Hurston Society, in connection with its scholarly journal, The Zora Neale Hurston Forum, invites scholars, educators, graduate students, independent scholars, writers, artists, and interdisciplinary thinkers from around the world to participate in its 2027 International Conference.
The 2027 LSU Mardi Gras Conference
Geography of Liminality: Interdisciplinary Folk
“It’s a difficult thing to separate legend from story from memory from fact.”
Editors Introduction:
While John Carpenter’s Halloween catapulted the slasher subgenre to the front of popular culture, Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th (1980) cemented the formula with a higher body count and an increased focus on sex, violence, and gore. Alongside Black Christmas, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Halloween, the Friday the 13th series helped establish many of the conventions that fans are now accustomed to, and its first sequel introduced an iconic killer with Jason Voorhees. The success of the original film led to a franchise comprised of twelve theatrical films as of 2026, in addition to a short film released in 2025 and a 2026 television series.
Session for NeMLA 58th Conference Seeking Papers
We often think of community through a positive lens, but is community always a force for good? How might “community” be simulated, commodified, branded, weaponized, or made into a technology for compliance? Why does the vulnerability to authentic communities matter now in a world where technology has made connection more accessible than ever?
Call For Papers: ASLE 2027, “Territory, Terroir, Terror” 22-24 June 2027. University of Maryland, College Park.
Seminar Title: Extraterrestrial Evolutions: Posthuman Subjectivity and Alien Ecologies
Contact: D.E. St. John, University of Alabama in Huntsville, dej0009@uah.edu
Edited volume proposed for Manchester University Press's French Film Directors series
I am seeking two additional contributors for an edited volume devoted to the work of French filmmaker Nicole Garcia, currently in preparation for submission to Manchester University Press's French Film Directors series. The series editors have already expressed strong interest in the project.
Environmental Hope: Genres and Methods
Environmental humanists and literary scholars have many genres for theorizing environmental fear, injustice, despair, or pessimism. Environmental gothic, noir, picaresque, horror, and crime fiction are all genres theoretically defined by and committed to engaging with exploitation and terror in historically and formally specific ways. And the hermeneutic of suspicion, devoted to diagnosing and revealing obscured forces and causes, is especially attuned to those that produce systemic violence. We know how to read for necropolitics, colonialism and neocolonialism, anti-Blackness, objectification, and misogyny.
INAUGURAL INTER-HUMANITIES SYMPOSIUM AT FSU
“Borderless World: Text, Image, and Sound”
Florida State University, Tallahassee
April 1-2, 2027
Conference Theme: Gateways
For its 2027 annual conference, the College English Association (CEA) invites proposals for papers and panels that explore the theme of “Gateways” and their significance in literature, criticism, and pedagogy.
Call for Papers: Special Topic "The Profession" at CEA 2027
Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri
The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel
Call for Chapters
Architectures of Deceit: Fraud, Imposture, and Deception in Contemporary Screen Culture
(under consideration byEdinburgh University Press)
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.
Call For Papers
The Game Studies area of the National Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association Conference invites proposals for papers and panels on games and game studies for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference to be held on March 24-27, in Boston. The deadline for proposals is October 31. Please note this is earlier than previous years.
I. Topics of Interest
The organizers seek proposals and papers covering all aspects of gaming, gaming culture and game studies. Proposals can address any game medium (computer, social, console, tabletop, etc.) and all theoretical and methodological approaches are welcome.
Call for Chapters
Architectures of Deceit: Fraud, Imposture, and Deception in Contemporary Screen Culture
(under consideration byEdinburgh University Press)
Resources for American Literary Study (Penn State UP), a peer-reviewed journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship in American literature, invites submissions for our upcoming 2027 issues. Covering all periods and genres of American literature, RALS welcomes both traditional and digital approaches to archival and bibliographical analysis. We also welcome proposals for our "Prospects" series in which scholars forecast future developments (and identify scholarly gaps) in the study of major authors.
Instructions for submissions may be found @ http://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_rals.html.
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Mystery, Suspense, and True Crime for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
Art and/as Knowledge in American Contexts
Special Issue of the Polish Journal for American Studies
This special issue asks what American art knows – and how that knowledge is produced.
Theme: Technology, Ecology and Extinction: Narratives of Survival and Loss
Date: 5-6 March 2027, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Organisers: Symbiosis Centre for Media and Communication (SCMC), Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India
Abstract:
We would like to invite you to join and contribute to the 2nd Shapeshifters Symposium: Plasticity – Here, There, and Everywhere. This symposium brings together people interested in plasticity from a broad range of perspectives, from the natural and formal sciences to the social sciences, humanities, and art. During the symposium, we hope to further expand the concept of plasticity across disciplines.
Who are we? We are a group of interdisciplinary researchers working on the concept of plasticity, sponsored by the DutchCentre for Unusual Collaborations.
Date & Venue
19th – 21st November 2026, Utrecht, The Netherlands
The Winter's Tale: From Page to Stage
IASEMS Tempera Seminar 2027 University of Padova, Department of Language and Literary Studies, 7-9 June 2027
Convenors: Rocco Coronato, Alice Equestri, Alessandra Petrina
Scientific Committee: Rocco Coronato, Alice Equestri, Alessandra Petrina, and the IASEMS Executive Board
A Writer’s Palette: Colour in Late Modernist Literature
Special Issue CfP for Textual Practice
Guest Editors for the Special Issue
Carlos André Cordeiro de Oliveira (Federal Institute of Paraiba, Brazil)
Alfredo Adolfo Cordiviola (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)
Danielle Grace de Almeida (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)
Nishat Zaidi (Jamia Millia Islamia Central University, NewDelhi, India)
Paul Melo e Castro (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
In the 2000s and 2010s, social networking facilitated citizen-based activism of enormous significance like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo. But in the 2020s, corporate enshittification and government surveillance have restricted the reach of social networking tools. For example, Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter meant that many users left X rather than adapt their activist practices to the restrictive corporate environment (Tenbarge & Collier 2024). Instances such as the Trump administration’s use of social media posts to target international students during the Gaza protests caused many users to avoid social media altogether (Lonas Cochran 2025).