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More Terrors than her Reason Could JustifyA 200th Anniversary Celebration of Ann Radcliffe’s Posthumous Publications
22nd/23rd August 2026 (Online)
We are excited to share with you all on behalf of the Conference Planning Committee for the University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program that we are holding our 21st Annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing on Thursday, April 23, and Friday, April 24, 2026, on our campus in Storrs, CT. Our theme for the upcoming conference is: “Wicked Reading for Wicked Problems." As those who have collaborated with us in the past, we are once again inviting you to help us explore ways of approaching these 'wicked problems', such as those that evade consensus, offer multiple solutions, or may even resist resolution at all.
International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
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International Journal of Education (IJE)
ISSN : 2348 - 1552
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Beyond Conventional Screens: New Approaches to Audiovisual Storytelling - Call for Chapter Proposals
Edited by Sotiris Petridis
International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies (IJHAS)
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Scholarly discussions on environmental concerns have long been Euro-American-centric. In his 2005 essay, Rob Nixon critiques literary representations of environmentalism as an “offshoot of American Studies,” which has excluded non-American and non-Western perspectives on environmental degradation from critical inquiry. Nixon highlights Nigeria’s Abacha regime’s execution of Saro-Wiwa, a writer, activist and poet, who died fighting for his Ogoni people’s farmlands and the encroachment of their fishing waters by American and European conglomerates, supported by the local despotic regime. Nixon observes that Saro-Wiwa’s writings have received little attention from ecocriticism scholars (2005).
International Journal of Digital Humanities (IJDHS)
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
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MLA 2027 Los Angeles
The last few years have seen growing interest in theorist Stuart Hall’s work and its relation to psychoanalysis. Jacqueline Rose devoted a lecture to the topic (later reprinted in The New York Review of Books as “The Analyst”). More attention has been given to what Hall had to say about psychoanalytic thought between the lines in his work, but also in more direct ways, such as in his 1987 paper “Psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies.” Further, psychosocial theorists like Stephen Frosh have commented on Rose’s reflections on Hall and offered their own takes on why thinking about Hall vis-à-vis psychoanalysis may be overdue and worthwhile.
Under capitalism, we live separated from life. Capital’s extractive colonizing domination keeps us separated from nature, from each other, and from our own bodies, denying us a symbiotic and regenerative relationship with the natural world and with each other. Yet, certain types of bindings are integral to capitalism: capitalism depends on the combination of labour and nature for the production of value; the “emergence of capitalist accumulation and the reproduction of capitalist production” depends on “acts of violent dispossession”, on “tearing Indigenous societies, peasants, and other small-scale, self-sufficient agricultural producers from the source of their livelihood––the land” (Coulthard 2014).
CALL FOR PAPERS
Edited Volume
Traumatic Geographies.
Marginal Voices in Central and Eastern European Literatures
Editors: Alina Bako (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu), Merritt Moseley (University of North Carolina at Asheville), Iris Rusu (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, University of Bucharest)
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (IJAISC) ISSN : 2819 - 101N 2974-5962 (Print)
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“Creativity, Resistance and Social Change”International Conference13-14 June 2026 - Accra, Ghana / Online
organised by
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
Across history and cultures, creativity has played a central role in resisting injustice, challenging dominant narratives and imagining alternative social futures. From storytelling, music and visual art to literature, performance, digital media and everyday creative practices, acts of creation often emerge in response to exclusion, oppression or crisis. Creativity can unite communities, give voice to marginalised experiences and sustain collective struggles for dignity, justice and transformation.
Wilde West Coast
The Oscar Wilde Society invites abstracts for a special session at the 2027 MLA (Modern Language Association) Convention in Los Angeles, January 7–10 2027.
In athletics, athletes are often described as ‘throwing down the gauntlet’ when they record a particularly impressive jump, race, throw, indicating a raise in the competition stakes, a nod to their fellow competitors that they are the champion to beat. In the 2001 movie A Knight’s Tale, jousting enthusiasts are depicted like modern day sports fans, with Ulrich’s friends even singing a football chant in the pub.
The song lyric occupies little space in academia, where it is less studied, less appreciated, and perceived as less-than other kinds of writing. Despite music’s ubiquitous cultural presence, the song lyric—as creative work—suffers from what renown songwriter Jimmy Webb calls a “status problem”: songwriters do not enjoy the same standing as writers of other kinds of traditionally studied literature. The most common way that song lyrics have earned scholarly attention is by conflating the form with the poem. Goldstein’s (1969) The Poetry of Rock is one of the first books to attend to lyrics as poetry.
Call for Papers
The conference Comics and Film: A Space Odyssey explores the intersection of cinema and comics through the multifaceted lens of spatial representation. We invite scholars, PhD students, artists, and practitioners to examine how these two visual media construct
and organize space in its broadest conceptual and material dimensions.
International Conference on Ecocriticism and Environmental Studies10-11 October 2026 – London/Onlineorganised byLondon Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
International Conference on Myths, Archetypes and Symbols:“Models and Alternatives” 26-27 September 2026 – London/Online
organised by
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
International Conference on Poetry Studies:“Poetry Between Creation and Interpretation”19-20 September 2026 – London / Onlineorganised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
“Beyond Labels”: International Conferenceon Disability, Different Ability and Neurodiversity12-13 September 2026Birkbeck, University of London / Online
organised by
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
Disability, different ability and neurodiversity are concepts that traverse boundaries, challenging disciplines to rethink foundational assumptions about identity, culture and power. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring together scholars from different fields to critically examine the shifting narratives, representations and lived experiences surrounding ability and difference.
Fifth Annual Beverly Lyon Clark Children’s Literature Symposium
Trees: In Relation
Saturday, 11 April 2026 at Wheaton College (Norton, MA)
In the early stages of understanding the scope of the most horrifying criminal empire in American history, we are grappling with academia’s role in it. Several faculty members and institutions have been implicated. A few were genuinely innocent and ignored Epstein’s invitations, and some were willingly complicit in crimes against humanity.
Epstein’s co-conspirators have fundamentally compromised the student-teacher relationship and the student-university relationship.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o stands as one of the most formidable literary and intellectual voices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Novelist, playwright, theorist, memoirist, and advocate of linguistic decolonisation, Ngũgĩ’s work continues to shape debates on coloniality, nationalism, language politics, global capitalism, and epistemic justice.
Postcolonial Interventions invites scholarly articles for an OPEN ISSUE to be published in June 2026. As the journal enters its eleventh year, we are hoping to continue critical exploration of emerging voices and recent literary creations while remaining mindful of the various threats associated with older imperial aggressions, re-appearing across the globe, fissures within nation states, multiple forms of exclusionary violence and widening inequality and precarity. The next issue of Postcolonial Interventions seeks to explore such issues and more based on postcolonial experiences across the world.
Submission Guidelines:
LORETO COLLEGE, KOLKATA
Call for Book Chapters
Theme: Marginalized Identities: Dimensions, Perspectives and Problems
The Research and Development Cell of Loreto College is pleased to announce a call for chapter contributions for an upcoming book publication. The theme of the proposed volume is:
‘Marginalized Identities: Dimensions, Perspectives and Problems’
This publication aims to present interdisciplinary insights into the lived realities, challenges, and representations of marginalized identities across various contexts.
Concept Note
Seeking 250-word proposals that engage with Filipino/a/x placemaking in literature, ecology, media, the arts, and the built environment. Particularly interested in proposals that bring together some combination of urban humanities, Global Asias, and archipelagic thinking.
Questions in Black sound and sonic geographies
American Association of Geography
Panel Presentation
What are the spatial contours of black sound? What are some iterations, notes, scripts, or possibilities within the emerging field of black sonic ecologies and black sonic geographies? How can one detect or follow a “black sense of place” (McKittrick 2011)? What is being listened to and what is being heard? What have you been taught or teaching yourself to hear?
What do you consider noise? Who and what hears black sound as a nuisance? What does noise, nuisance generate?
The Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies publishes interdisciplinary and cross-cultural articles and interviews on literature, history, politics, and art whose focus, settings, or subjects involve colonialism and its aftermath, with an emphasis on the former British Empire.
“We are here to begin to achieve the American Revolution.”
– James Baldwin, Foley Square, 1963
Did Baldwin mean it? Do we, who take him down from the shelf, mean it? What would it mean to pick up the idea again, with or against Baldwin? Is it too late, for America, for revolution, for both? Or is the time now finally ripe?
For the American Studies Association convention in Chicago in 2026, James Baldwin Review invites proposals for a roundtable that takes this starting point as an occasion to leap into the unknown.
Please send abstracts of 250 words to jbr@wustl.edu by February 20, 2026.
James Baldwin ends his “Open Letter to My Sister, Angela Y. Davis” about her imprisonment, the health of the country, and the responsibility of intellectuals, with the assertion that:
If we know, and do nothing, we are worse than the murderers hired in our name. If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own—which it is—and render impassable with our bodies the corridor to the gas chamber. For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.
How might scholarship today render such corridors impassable? What is our responsibility, and what are we willing to risk?
In “Thoughts on Late Style,” Edward Said describes how an artist’s late works
cannot be reconciled or resolved, since their irresolution and fragmentariness are constitutive, neither ornamental nor symbolic of something else. The late works are about ‘lost totality’, and it is in this sense that they are catastrophic.
The late works of James Baldwin have often been dismissed as evidence of decadence, of their maker’s exhaustion after too many years of activism, as a crude failure to synthesize his fiction and nonfiction, the novels too political, the essays too aesthetic. Yet this supposedly weak synthesis rhymes with Said’s meditations on the irresolution typical of an artist’s late works.
The Gaskell Journal invites applications for the position of co-Editor.
The Gaskell Journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published annually, dedicated to disseminating the most authoritative, dynamic and agenda-setting research in Gaskell Studies. It is owned by the Gaskell Society and is distributed to its members, as well as being indexed in various academic databases (for more details, see The Gaskell Journal – The annual Journal of the Gaskell Society). In a typical issue, the journal publishes 3-4 original articles, 3-4 book reviews, and reports from the Society’s branches across the UK and the world.
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Call for Contributions
Apologies for crossposting.
Call for Papers: Journal of Contemporary Painting Special Issue & Symposium
Special Issue: ‘Conversations between Painting, Fashion and Textiles’
One-day symposium: ‘Painted Garments’
Friday 22 May 2026
The Hub, Camberwell College of Arts, Bonar Road, London SE15 5FB
Keynote: Delaine Le Bas
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-contemporary-painting#call-for-papers
Deadlines
Penn State’s Center for American Literary Studies presents
Heat and the Humanities: Reframing Human Relationships to Heat and Wildfire
Friday, February 27, 2026, Noon—1:00 p.m. EST via Zoom
Register here
https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tzjjrtt9RYWmESys5PkJaw
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email
The Cambridge Handbook of Postcolonial Law and Literature is a collection of essays analyzing the relationship between English Common Law and Anglophone literature in the colonial and postcolonial world. The collection is largely complete, but can accommodate a few more essays. The editors particularly welcome submissions on Disability Studies, Ecological Studies, and/or essays that focus on the Caribbean.
Jason Lives – essays on the Friday the 13th franchise
In 1980, inspired by the success of John Carpenter’s Halloween two years prior, Sean S. Cunningham wanted to create a horror film that would serve as a ‘roller coaster ride’ – that film, Friday the 13th, would launch one of the key horror franchises of the 20th century, comprising twelve films, a TV series, a selection of books, games and merchandise, and the establishment of hockey mask-wearing killer Jason Voorhees as a cultural phenomenon.
This year’s ICSAH meeting approaches the Art of Mediation as a framework for understanding cross-cultural interaction in history. Throughout time, individuals, institutions, communities, and cultural forms—ranging from language and performance to visual and material culture—have acted as mediators between societies. In negotiating religious difference, political conflict, economic rivalry, and artistic exchange, they shaped the shared spaces where civilisations met, interacted, and coexisted.
Call for Articles: Cultural Materialism, Fascism and the Far Right
A Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism
CFP for Special Issue in IMAGO MUNDI: The International Journal for the History of Cartography
“Maps and the Imagination”
In light of the ongoing “cartographic turn” in literary studies and recent critical attempts to
“remap” the field of cartographic history, we are seeking contributions for a special issue that
examines the relationship between maps (from historical prints to digital creations) and the
imagination (from the impact of maps on literary and visual arts to earthworks and new media).
Following the growing interest in cartographic imaginaries, documented, for example, in studies
Call for Papers: Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds
Special Issue: ‘Video Games & Horror’
Abstract deadline: 1 April 2026
Full article draft deadline: 28 July 2026
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-gaming-virtual-worlds#call-for-papers
The Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds is excited to announce a call of content for an upcoming Special Issue focused on horror in video games.
Finnish Literary Research Society Annual Conference 2026
May 20-22, 2026
Online Panel: Indigenous Futurisms Beyond the West: Arab and Global South Speculative Fiction
The Cultural Studies Cell
Department of English and Cultural Studies, Central Campus
In collaboration with
Department of Media Studies, Central Campus
CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore
Organizes
An International Conference (Hybrid)on
Urban/Media Infrastructures
March 5-7, 2026
The USC Korean Studies Institute invites applications for its annual Pacific Graduate Conference for Korean Studies at USC (PaCKS). This conference aims to foster a multidisciplinary community of local and regional graduate students whose research projects significantly engage Korean society and culture across the periods. It offers a platform for emerging scholars to present their work-in-progress, receive feedback from faculty and peers, and participate in interdisciplinary discussions within a supportive environment.
Call for Expressions of Interest: Book Reviews Editor for The London Journal
The London Journal is seeking expressions of interest for the role of Joint Book Reviews Editor.
This role will cover the period from roughly 1800 to the present, joining Kirstin Barnard, who covers the medieval and early modern periods. The Book Reviews Editors are full members of the Editorial Board.
Call for Papers
Journal of West Indian Literature Special Issue on Caribbean Health Humanities
November 2027
Special issue editors: Jarrel De Matas and April Shemak
Call for Papers: SCMS Horror Studies SIG Graduate Student Essay Prize
The SCMS Horror Studies Scholarly Interest Group is delighted to announce that submissions are now open for our annual Graduate Student Essay Prize.
The winning essay will be published in an upcoming issue of the open-access journal Monstrum and the author will receive: