CFP: Media, Press Freedom, and Cultural Production in an Authoritarian Age

 Co-sponsored by the Union for Democratic Communications, Project Censored and the Park Center for Independent Media

Oct. 23-24, 2026

Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY

This panel explores how Francophone and Hispanophone fantastic literatures engage structures of power, hierarchy, and authority across diverse historical and cultural contexts. 

From the nineteenth century to the present, Francophone and Hispanophone fantastic literatures have unsettled the boundaries between the real and the impossible. Emerging from interconnected histories shaped by imperial expansion, colonial violence, dictatorship, revolution, and migration, the fantastic operates not only as narrative hesitation, but as a subtle language of power. As theorists such as Tzvetan Todorov and David Roas have shown, ontological uncertainty is never merely aesthetic. It signals deeper crises of authority, perception, and legitimacy. 

JLIC: CALL FOR ARTICLES FOR OPEN ISSUE 2028

Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies

Vol. 53 No. 1 | March 2027

Call for Papers

From Neurodiversity to Neurocosmopolitanism:

Literature, Science, Politics

Guest Editor

Manuel Herrero-Puertas (National Taiwan University)

Deadline for Submissions: July 15, 2026

44th Annual West Indian Literature Conference

Freedom, Creative Spirit, & the Poetic Imagination

Where: University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus

When: October 7-11, 2026

Abstracts: Proposals are to be submitted by June 1, 2026

How can you free people? . . . When every move you make is to get them to accept conditions of unfreedom, when you use power to twist and corrupt what it is to be human, when you ask people to accept shame as triumph and indignity as progress? —Earl Lovelace, Salt (1996)

Call for SubmissionsComparative Media Panel (In-Person)
PAMLA Conference 2026Primary Area - Secondary Area:
Film and Media Studies - Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, ConflictSession Chair:
Violet Luxton (Claremont Graduate University)
violet.luxton2@cgu.edu PAPER PROPOSAL DEADLINE: MAY 25, 2026

“Home-Making: Reinventing Home

in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures”

November 20-21, 2026

Venue: Sousse, Tunisia

Call for Papers

Call for Additional Chapters

Global Bollywood: Cultural Appropriation, Streaming Media, and the Politics of Representation (Routledge)

Editor: Dr. Tanima Kumari

The proposed edited volume Global Bollywood: Cultural Appropriation, Streaming Media, and the Politics of Representation has received a preliminary expression of interest from Routledge. 

A number of submissions have already been received, and several chapters have been reviewed and confirmed for inclusion.

Table of Contents

Part I: Cultural Appropriation and Hybridity

https://jnr2.hcommons.org/  | ISSN: 1759-3085

Call for Submissions

We are currently inviting submissions for our next open issue on any aspect of cultural practice in Northern Europe in the period 1430-1650, including but not limited to the following disciplines:

☞ Literature

☞ Art & Architectural History

☞ Musicology

☞ Philosophy

☞ Theology

☞ Political Studies

☞ History

☞ Rhetorics

☞ Dance & Performance

☞ Manuscript and Archival Studies

Ekphrasis, the verbal representation of visual representation, is one of art’s oldest preoccupations. Over the past decade, we have seen a rise in British and Irish innovative ekphrastic poetry and visual art that responds to poetry. Concurrently, there has been a new wave of interest in the efficacy and function of ekphrasis, that focuses on its role as a type of creative practice and a way of thinking through aesthetic judgement. Despite all this activity, no formal consideration of the field of ekphrasis itself has emerged. Ekphrasis underwent a paradigmatic shift in which it was no longer defined by its ‘paragonal’ energy.

War Literature Today: Ecology, Violence, and the Novel

A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787). This special issue belongs to the section "Literature in the Humanities".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2027 | Viewed by 69

Since 2014, the eTEXTS: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference has served as a platform for the examination and exploration of diverse "texts" from English-speaking countries of Ango-Saxon heritage. By bringing together scholars, doctoral students, and early-career professionals, the conference fosters scientific debates and critical discussions that drive forward our understanding of literature and culture.

While Percival Everett’s novel James (2024) functions as a radical reworking of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)–freeing Twain’s literary creation from the constraints of the nineteenth century novel as well as the expectations of its original audience–”tellings and retellings” have long served as a mode for revising and reimagining canonical narratives.  From Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966) and Ursula K Le Guin’s Lavinia (2008) to Sandra Newman’s Julia (2023), literary retellings often expose the ideological foundations of the canon while amplifying voices historically marginalized or silenced within it.

Since September of 2025 the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University has housed a new publication called The Pittsburgh Review of Books (or PRoB), available at http://www.pghrev.com We are particularly interested in pieces by scholars that analyze or contextualize breaking news - be it political, cultural, or social events - that can be published quickly. 

Edited by author and Public Humanities Special Faculty Ed Simon, PRoB is a home for engaged, creative, and interdisciplinary cultural criticism and analysis across the humanities. The tone of the publication is similar to other para-academic publications intended for both specialists and a general audience. 

You are invited to participate in a research study survey examining the relationship between film and memory.

This study explores how film experiences may shape personal, emotional, neurological, and cultural recollection, including how individuals understand events they did not directly experience. You will be asked to reflect on your film viewing habits, emotional and cognitive responses to specific films or scenes, and the ways films may influence your understanding of memory, history, and identity.

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This journal collection (c. 90,000 words) will be published as a theme issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities in January 2029 (34.1). Angelaki (established 1993, based in Oxford, UK) is an internationally known journal of European philosophy and literary and cultural theory and criticism published by Routledge. Since 2025 the journal is online only. Open access material allowing, all Angelaki theme issues are considered for publication as books in the Angelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities series.
2025: 160,000 full-article downloads.

How do people narrate movement, imagine home and negotiate belonging? This international conference brings literary inquiry into conversation with interdisciplinary perspectives on borders, migration and diaspora. Inviting academic researchers, artists and creators, independent researchers, policy makers, industry professionals and activists. Human movement across localities, regions, nations and oceans has long shaped societies and their stories. From the Great Depression and the Partition of India to the movement of workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, migration has generated literary, cinematic and media representations that illuminate relationships among individuals, communities and nation-states.

The Elizabeth von Arnim Society invites proposals for "Literary Gardens: Cultivation, Movement, and Modernism," an international online conference to be held February 12–13, 2027. The conference is in conversation with "The Literary Garden: The Cultivation of Plants & Gardens in Narratives," an exhibit at the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum, Missouri Botanical Garden (May 2026–March 2027), curated by Nezka Pfeifer.

We welcome papers on gardens as spaces of cultivation, movement, and modernity, across modernism broadly conceived: fin-de-siècle precursors through later legacies. Topics may include:

CALL FOR PAPERS (CFP)

Bharatiya Bhasha Pariwar: Indian Languages and Shared Expression in the Age of Digital Media and AI

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Special Issue of Study the South: Performed Plantations

Editors: Teresa Simone and Zayne Vance, University of Mississippi 

Contact email: tesimone@olemiss.edu

Deadline for proposals: December 15, 2026.  

We seek proposals for interdisciplinary creative works and papers for a special issue of Study the South, a peer-reviewed, multimedia, online journal by the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture.

Creative responses might include: videos, art, image galleries, scripts, animation, etc.  

For All Which We Inherit: Theorizing about Black Male Social Inheritance Both Directions at Once

Authors: Amir A. Gilmore, Washington State University; Mike Browne, Napcast

Under Contract with Peter Lang

See full call here

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies

Annual Interdisciplinary Spring Academy Conference

Heidelberg, Germany, April 5-9, 2027

Call for Papers

The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for its annual Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion to be held from April 5-9, 2027.

Immersion is a key concept in the fantastic. From the 3D worlds of Avatar to the in-depth lore of The Lord of the Rings, fantastic narratives thrive on the idea of immersing us in worlds so detailed that we feel as if we are really there. Fantastic worlds often come with their own detailed maps, histories, languages, and cultures, creating the illusion of being a real place. Media industries invest heavily in producing technologies of immersion, such as 4D cinema or VR games. Immersion is one of Henry Jenkins’ “Seven Core Principles of Transmedia Storytelling”, while Mark J.P.