From its founding ideals framing rights as tied to individuals to many of the ‘myths that made America,’ such as the self-made man, ideas of individualism are deeply entrenched in the culture of the United States. Yet at the same time, the US has also always understood itself as a particular community: as a city upon a hill, a melting pot, a more perfect union. As such, the United States has been established on a seeming paradox, forming ‘out of many, one.’ More recently, this previous consensus has become increasingly brittle, with fragmentation, polarization, hyper-individualism, and loneliness on the rise—as some would argue: again.

Transnational Feminisms have emerged out of the need for women’s groups to address oppression that crosses national borders and to build solidarities rooted in an exploration of the articulation between the local and the global. These forms of feminisms examine the ways in which women’s groups transcend location beyond national boundaries to address their political and ideological struggles, exploring the interrelationships between discrete factors such as caste, class, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, age, and multiple other positionalities and contexts of inequalities as they overlap and are shaped by neoliberal economic and political forces, patriarchies and various other systems of stratification.

The Cultural Translation and Mobility: Processes, Spaces, Objects Working Group invites proposals for a panel titled “Planetary thinking at the intersections of cultural translation and mobility“ as part of the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies Biennial Conference (hybrid), November 5-7, 2026, hosted  by the Cultural Studies Department, Trent University, Canada.

Femspec seeks both scholarly and creative submissions for its upcoming Issue 26.2.  Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist academic journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.  Femspec publishes both academic scholarship and creative writing. Creative writing submissions could include short fiction, poetry, or experimental forms.

Drawing inspiration from Adrienne Rich's seminal book Of Woman Born (1976), in 2006, Andrea O'Reilly coined the term "Motherhood Studies" and established a new interdisciplinary academic field aimed at studying "motherhood" as an institution and "mothering" as an experience. O'Reilly emphasized the importance of adopting a feminist framework designed expressly for mothers: a "matricentric feminism" necessary for an intersectional exploration of motherhood. Within "Motherhood Studies," being or not being a mother matters, and the experience of motherhood is treated as a category alongside gender, class, and race.

One hundred years:
still, the fire burns.

In 1926, Wallace Thurman, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Aaron Douglas lit a match called FIRE!!, a journal by younger Black artists who refused to wait for permission.

It ran one issue. It changed everything.

Now, we strike the match, one century later.

FIRE!!! returns to publish twenty-one new pieces, paid, in the spirit of the original.

There are seats at this table for emerging African American writers, poets, photographers, makers, and artists.

Call for Papers: 

Conference on Multiracial Democracy 

University of Notre Dame 

Call for Abstracts for a Panel at SAMLA 98 

Narratives of Displacement in Global South Literature

Florentina Holzinger & Co: Performing Pleasure, Risk and Rapture 

Guest Editors 

Dr Charlotte Farrell (University of New South Wales, Sydney) 

Dr Anna Laura Wieczorek (Mozarteum University, Salzburg) 

Special Issue of Contemporary Theatre Review Call for Papers 

Following the death of Marjane Satrapi, this session examines her legacy through the lens of graphic resistance, considering questions of form, memory, politics, religion, gender, and emancipation in her comics and their afterlives.

https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Paper36481.htm

Er(r)go. Theory – Literature – Culture

Next Issue – 55 (2/2027) – game/play/idleness
submission deadline: 15 September 2026

Embodying the WPA: Advice Narratives for Writing Program Administration

Edited by Jackie Hoermann-Elliott, Juliette Holder, Jennifer Judd, & Danielle Littlefield Brady

Even among the quietest of us, there are stories to be told. Stories of how we dressed for the campus visit, whether or not we drank wine with the search committee at dinner. Stories from the first year as the WPA, remembering how we physically composed (or contorted) ourselves and our offices for comfort – our own or others’. Stories of how we hugged a bereaved teacher, toasted in celebration, or laughed a little too loud at that one department meeting.

Teaching the Young Adult Novel

American Literature Symposium – “The American Novel:  Forms, Genres, Traditions”

Nov. 5-7 Santa Fe, NM

This proposed panel for the November 2026 Tunisian Association for English Language Studies International Conference | Home-Making: Reinventing Home in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures invites papers that examine Black and African fatherhood as a site of un-homing, home-making, and reinvention across Anglophone literatures and cultures. While scholarship on families has often centered mothers and children, fathers remain understudied as agents of domestic life, memory work, and cultural transmission.

CfP- Speculative Fiction and Criticism in Precarious Times

‘Speculative Fiction and Criticism in Precarious Times’ is a conference celebrating a rich network of postgraduate research students working with speculative fiction and criticism across the United Kingdom. Taking place on Friday 18th September at Lancaster University, the conference will feature an array of diverse papers along with a plenary lecture (tbc) and a roundtable discussion from world-leading academics including Dr. Anna McFarlane and Dr. Oliver Langmead. This event is proudly funded by the NWCDTP Cohort Development Fund.

Motion Lines: Depicting movement in the early 20th century

18 Nov. 2026, Université Paris Nanterre

European Journal of Media, Art & Photography

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

The Elizabeth Bowen Review is an open access online journal, publishing essays on all aspects of Elizabeth Bowen’s work and life.  The Editors are now accepting submissions for Volume Eight. The focus for the volume is ‘Why Bowen Matters’, the title of the symposium organised by the Irish Writers’ Centre in June 2026, but essays on any area of her life and work will also be welcome. Completed essays should be submitted by 30th September 2026. Essays should be no more than 6,000 words in length excluding bibliography and footnotes, and use the Harvard referencing system. All essays are subject to double blind peer review.

This panel considers the often overlooked presence of flora and fauna in early modern print, whether they appear as marginalia, within printers’ ornaments, or as materially integral to books. Animals and plants always carry symbolic value—a single image sometimes carrying diametrically opposed values—and participate in a broader network of signification through emblems, printers’ ornaments, marginalia, and engraven images. Do those values come into tension with each other via the margin, the marginal, and the marginalized? In what ways do peripheral plants and animals comment on questions of identity, like gender, race, or disability?

*Call for Chapters* for our upcoming edited volume, Adaptive Learning and AI: Global Socio-Technical Discourses, co edited with Dr. Debanjali Roy , Dr. N P Subheesh, and Dr. Sobin C.C.The book has already received a Letter of Intent (LOI) from Peter Lang and, upon publication, will be submitted for indexing in Scopus.This volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on AI-driven adaptive learning, moving beyond technocentric frameworks to engage with its epistemological, pedagogical, and socio-political implications.

The Hispanic Caribbean literary canon of the 19th and 21st centuries—spanning Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic—frequently wrestles with the complex dynamics of narrative erasure and authorial control. While these vibrant traditions offer profound insights into regional identity, certain texts replicate systemic marginalization by silencing minoritized characters or speaking entirely for them or over them. Whether rendering Afro-Caribbean, Indigenous, queer, or working-class figures completely voiceless, or problematically assuming their perspectives through a privileged lens, authors within this geographic sphere can inadvertently reinforce colonial and class hierarchies.

“Science and Sensibility: Method Meets Art”
A Transdisciplinary Conference

Date: October 17-18, 2026
Location: University of Oxford, UK and online

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/06/15/science-and-sensibility-2026/

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.