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Comics Arts Conference San Diego

updated: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025 - 5:39pm
Comics Arts Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 7, 2026

The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100 to 200 word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at Comic-Con International, in San Diego, CA, July 23–26, 2026.  We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars.  We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists.  The CAC is presently scheduled to take place in person and does not accept virtual presentations.  The CAC is designed to bring together

Touching Earth: Queer Ecologies, Ecosexualities, and the Ethics of Relation

updated: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025 - 5:39pm
Graduate Conference at the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 29, 2026

“WE ARE THE ECOSEXUALS. The Earth is our lover.”  — Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle, The Ecosex Manifesto

 

The Graduate Students of the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University are proud to announce our biennial conference, to be held on April 17–18, 2026. We are pleased to host keynote speaker Heather Davis (The New School). 

4th International UTAD Theatre Research Conference: Borders & Boundaries

updated: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025 - 5:39pm
Turkish Society for Theatre Research - Uluslararası Tiyatro Araştırmaları Derneği
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 10, 2026

4th International UTAD Theatre Research Conference

“Borders & Boundaries”

Hosted by:
Turkish Society for Theatre Research (UTAD), Marmara University, Department of English Language and Literature
Conference Dates: 10-12 September 2026
Venue: Marmara University, İstanbul, Türkiye

 

Emerson Society cfp for Thoreau Annual Gathering

updated: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025 - 5:39pm
Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Thoreau Annual Gathering, July 8-12, 2026

Ralph Waldo Emerson Society

“Give Me Health and a Day”: Emerson and Health, Illness, and Unity

CFP Issue on US American Theatre's 250 anniversary

updated: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025 - 5:39pm
Theatre and Performance Notes & Counternotes
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 6, 2026

Call for Papers.

Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes seeks short articles or extended essays (1,500-3,000 words) on American (US) theatre at the United States semiquincentennial (250th anniversary). 2-3 sentence abstracts should be submitted by February 2, 2026 and essays/articles before April 6, 2026 to Harvey Young (issue editor) at cfadean[at]bu.edu. 

AI & Cultural Production (Extended Deadline)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025 - 5:33pm
Ege University, 20th Cultural Studies Conference (CSS)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 18, 2026

Call for Papers

 

Ege University
20th Cultural Studies Symposium
“AI & Cultural Production”
6–8 May 2026 | Faculty of Letters, Izmir, Türkiye

Artificial Intelligence has distinctly shifted from being a technological tool to a shaping factor in present-day cultural practices. Ranging from AI-related literature, music, and visual arts to AI-enabled storytelling, translation, and co-creative practices, AI confronts traditional concepts of authorship, creativity, agency, and responsibility. Furthermore, AI raises critical moral and political considerations with respect to power, bias, labour, and representation.

Failure & Resistance-16th International Illustration Research Symposium- Call for papers and contributions

updated: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025 - 5:33pm
Nanette Hoogslag
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 26, 2026

Call for Conference papers and contributions

Failure & Resistance

16th International Illustration Research Symposium

November 13th-14th, Arts University Plymouth, United Kingdom

Submission deadline: February 28th 2026 

                   

Under certain circumstances failing, losing, forgetting, unmaking, undoing, unbecoming, not knowing may in fact offer more creative, more cooperative, more surprising ways of being in the world. (Jack Halberstam)

Plates of Memory, Palates of Change: Memory, Identity, Community, and Millennial Transformations

updated: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025 - 5:33pm
Department of English, Jadavpur University in collaboration with Department of English, Aliah University, Kolkata under the ICSSR Major Research Project (2024–2026) Heritage Meets Modernity: Millennial Interventions in Redefining India’s Culinary Topograp
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

A Two-dayInternational Conference 

 

Plates of Memory, Palates of Change: Memory, Identity, Community, and Millennial Transformations

 

28–29 March 2026

 

Call For Papers

Edited Collection: Baldur’s Gate 3: Literary and Philosophical Influences

updated: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025 - 5:33pm
Bridget Dolan / Old Dominion University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 1, 2026

Baldur’s Gate 3 (Larian Studios, 2023) represents a milestone in the evolution of narrative gaming. As both an heir to Dungeons & Dragons and a contemporary work of interactive storytelling, the game synthesizes centuries of myth, moral inquiry, and imaginative world-building into a playable form. This edited collection seeks essays that investigate how Baldur’s Gate 3 draws upon, reinterprets, and transforms literary and philosophical traditions—from the medieval and Renaissance periods through modern fantasy and posthuman theory—to create new modes of narrative, ethics, and embodiment.

Mobilising Heritage: Dance, Theatre, and Performance in the Age of (In)Tangibility

updated: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025 - 5:33pm
European Journal of Theatre and Performance (EJTP)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 25, 2026

European Journal of Theatre and Performance (EJTP)

 

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

 

 

Mobilising Heritage: Dance, Theatre, and Performance in the Age of (In)Tangibility

 

Guest editors:

Timmy De Laet, Franz Anton Cramer, Vicky Kämpfe, and Dunja Njaradi

 

(proposal deadline: 25 January 2026)

 

Saints English Graduate Conference: Lost and Found

updated: 
Tuesday, December 30, 2025 - 6:26pm
School of English, University of St Andrews
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 2, 2026

'It is not down on any map; true places never are' - Herman Melville

 

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