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You are invited to submit a paper proposal to the session "(Almost) Fifty Tears Later: Reception of Octavia Butler's Kindred" at the 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Languagae Association (PAMLA) conference in Seatlle, WA from Nov. 12-15, 2026.
You are invited to submit a paper proposal to the session "International Bildungsroman" at the 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Languagae Association (PAMLA) conference in Seatlle, WA from Nov. 12-15, 2026.
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Gender (In)Equity (SDG #5) and the Global South
The "Animals & Culture" Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association's call for papers for our 2026 virtual conference is live! See our details below (or at https://www.northeastpca.org/conference-areas):
The "Animals & Culture" area explores the complex and multifaceted intersections between animals, animal representations, society, and popular culture.
International Conference on Gender Studies: “Gender and Crime”5-6 September 2026 – London/Onlineorganised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary ResearchThe relationship between gender and crime has long been a subject of scholarly interest across a wide range of disciplines. Gender influences how crime is committed, experienced, represented, prosecuted and remembered. It shapes both the realities of criminal behaviour and the social, cultural and institutional responses to it.This international conference invites scholars to examine the link between gender and crime from interdisciplinary perspectives.
"Narratives of Displacement" International Conference
17-18 October 2026 - London /Online
organised by
"Memory and Trauma"International Conference5-6 December 2026 - London/Onlineorganised byLondon Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
Memory and trauma are two deeply interconnected phenomena that have captivated the attention of scholars and professionals across various disciplines. Understanding the complex interplay between these two elements is essential for comprehending how individuals, communities, and societies cope with and recover from traumatic experiences.
"AI and Society: Ethics, Creativity and Power in the Digital Age"International Conference30-31 January 2027 – London / Online
organised by
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
Artificial Intelligence is no longer a speculative horizon — it is an active force reshaping how we work, create, govern, communicate and understand what it means to be human. From generative AI and automated decision-making to algorithmic governance and digital surveillance, AI technologies are transforming social structures, cultural production and everyday life at an unprecedented pace.
Call for Chapters
Edited Volume: Rethinking M.R. James: Antiquarianism, Horror, and the Supernatural
Editor: Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash, Fellow of Social Science Research Council
Introduction
Submissions open: June 15, 2026 – August 1, 2026
Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies welcomes submissions for its October 2026 issue, which seeks to reconsider how literature translates bodily experience into writing and visibility, and how the body, in turn, discloses and shapes literary meaning.
This session focuses on British literature and culture of the long 19th century. Particularly welcome are proposals on underrepresented works, on the 150th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s proclamation as Empress of India and on the 125th anniversary of her passing, on Neo-Victorianism, and on the conference theme “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict.”
While any proposals dealing with British literature and culture of the long 19th century are welcome, these topics related to the conference theme are of special interest:
University of Surrey
27-28 September 2026
Spring 2026 'Theory Today' Workshop w. Prof. Eugenie Brinkema.
Eugenie Brinkema’s research in film and critical theory focuses on violence, affect, sexuality, aesthetics, and ethics in texts ranging from the horror film to gonzo pornography, from the body of films dubbed “New European Extremism” to works of literature and continental philosophy. She is the author of The Forms of Affect (2014) and Life-Destroying Diagrams (2022), among many other essays and articles.
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Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Fall Conference October 15th to 17th - Online
Call for Papers: Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies Area
Please submit abstracts of 250–400 words and a short 100-word bio to the linked form below.
The Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies area, part of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Fall Online Conference (October 15–17, 2026), features the newly established conference area and Digital Swift Symposium, a curated space for interdisciplinary scholarship on popular music, fandom, gender, authorship, and digital culture.
In our current postdigital condition, digital technology is so deeply embedded in everyday life that the distinction between technical and natural is becoming increasingly blurred and images have become mere byproducts of our embodied co-existence with digital media. At the same time, we see that visual forms are continuously rendered obsolete by the rapidly evolving algorithmic processes. In new media, we are no longer even looking at “the image” any more, but rather always only at a version of an image that can be infinitely modified. Cameras are regularly used to connect the eye and the machine in a way that serves no aesthetic goal, creating purely “operational images” (Harun Farocki).
CfP – Contested Ground: Ownership and Belonging in the Middle Ages
Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, 3rd-4th September
We’re delighted to announce a new online event to mark Dickens’s passing. On this occasion, our theme does not dwell on the Inimitable’s death, but focuses instead on his ever-expanding life on the big and small screen. Dickens was first adapted for silent cinema in 1901, and since then his work has appeared countless times on film and television. Since Dickens’s Bicentenary in 2012, a number of significant screen adaptations have appeared, including Armando Iannucci’s Personal History of David Copperfield (2019), Steven Knight’s Great Expectations (2023), two Artful Dodger character adaptations, and multiple versions of A Christmas Carol.
In recognition of the 100th anniversary of the publication of O.E. Rolvaag’s Giants in the
Earth, the Norwegian American Historical Association seeks contributions to an edited
volume reconsidering Rolvaag and his life’s works to be published in 2027.
Articles in the volume can address this topic from a variety of analytical and disciplinary
perspectives, and may have a biographical, literary, and/or historical focus. Topics that
extend our understanding of the Norwegian-American experience through analyzing
Rolvaag and his writings in the context of new historical eras, new geographical eras,
cross-cultural encounters, and/or innovative applications of theoretical models are
particularly encouraged.
The 123rd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in Seattle at the Hyatt Regency Seattle, from Thursday, November 12, to Sunday, November 15, 2026.
Cultural History:
CFP: Special Issue of The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (15.2 2026) on K-Pop, deadline 15th June 2026.
In keeping with the presidential theme of the 2026 MMLA Conference, “After the Archives,” to be held in Chicago from November 12-14, 2026, papers that incorporate and/or interrogate the archives are welcomed for this year’s panel on American Literature before 1870.
This is a call for paper for an edited volume “(Re)Imagining Gender in Post-Covid Times: Transformations and Possibilities” which looks into the transformations that have occurred in gender relations in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic, which was a global crisis, had a considerable impact in different aspects and reinforced pre-existing inequalities across gender, sexuality, class, caste, and other spheres of marginality. This edited volume aims to closely examine these transformations through the lens of gender as the primary variable in understanding post-pandemic societies.
We seek original research articles from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences on the theme of climate narratives of the future for the online research resource Climate Adaptation, an Oxford Intersection.
What is Climate Adaptation and the Oxford Intersections?
Climate Adaptation is one of several recently announced Oxford Intersections from Oxford University Press. Each Oxford Intersection is an edited resource that deals with an urgent, cross-disciplinary theme (others include AI in Society, Borders, and Gender Justice). Each Intersection contains several sections.
- LITERATURE FOR PEACE: NARRATIVES OF CO-EXISTENCE
The 123rd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in Seattle at the Hyatt Regency Seattle, from Thursday, November 12, to Sunday, November 15, 2026.
As the section editor for The Women’s Experience, I am writing to invite you to consider submitting a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, an edited scholarly volume that examines the evolving role of diversity, equity, and inclusion within American democracy and educational institutions.
The Women’s Experience section seeks rigorous, thoughtful, and evidence-based analyses that examine gender equity, intersectionality, and the evolving role(s) of women in society at the present moment.
I am writing to invite you to consider submitting a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, an edited scholarly volume that examines the evolving role of diversity, equity, and inclusion within American democracy and educational institutions. I encourage you to invite friends/colleagues outside of the Appalachian region, too.
Embodied Aesthetics:
The Body and Embodiment in the Arts and Arts-Based Research
(A Transdisciplinary Conference June 20-21, 2026)
When/Where:
June 20: at the Association of Jungian Analysts’ Centre in London and Online
June 21: Online only
Fees (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)
SEEKING BOOK CHAPTER AUTHORS: Women and social media through a global lens - edited collection (under contract)
We are seeking authors for an interdisciplinary edited volume examining women’s roles in social media as both producers and consumers across global contexts. This collection explores the personal, political, social, and economic dimensions of this digital activity through the examination of global regions.
Chapters are organized by region. Remaining regions include:
Each chapter will contain the following sections:
Futures and Frontiers of US American Culture(s) International Conference
30 September – 2 October 2026
John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität Berlin
Keynotes: Jenny Stümer (Universität Heidelberg) | Dan Hassler-Forest (Utrecht University)
International Conference for Student Researchers:
Organizer:
AAB College
In partnership:
Department of Journalism and Communication, University of Tirana
Algebra Bernays University, Zagreb
Communication Institute of Greece, Athens
Faculty of Massmedia Communication, University of SS. Cyrila and Methodius, Trnava, Slovakia
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Call for Proposals
6th Annual Corridors: Blue Ridge Writing & Rhetoric Conference
Saturday, September 19, 2026
Radford University | Radford, Virginia
Conference Theme
Writing Home: Where the Power of Place Meets the Page
Description
Modernist Nationalisms Conference
St John’s College, University of Oxford
Thursday 10th September 2026
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).
CALL FOR PAPERS
Platform Bengali: Digital Humanities and Digital Culture in the Bangla-Speaking World
A One-Day Hybrid Academic Conference
Conference Date: 18 July 2026
Venue: Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, Kolkata - 700103
Format: Hybrid (In-Person and Online)
Conference Convenor: Pranab K Mondal (Assistant Professor, RKMRC Narendrapur)
Volume Editors: Prithu Halder (Project Coordinator, Platform Bengali; IIT Tirupati), Debapriya Basu (Associate Professor, IIT Guwahati), Spandan Bhattacharya (Assistant Professor, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad)
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
link for abstract submission: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScFPhqcIfUje5A_VuJjReJHlwjtc_Tz...
Seminar to be held in Hybrid ModeConcept Note:
Making Futures Flash. Hacer refulgir el futuro.
Artes, medios y tecnologías de las digitopías a las contranarrativas.
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Departamento de Historia del Arte, 17 de junio 2026
[English version below]
"Se está creando una sutil oscilación entre la predicción y el control, en la que las descripciones acertadas o poderosas del futuro tienen una capacidad cada vez mayor para atraernos hacia ellas, para forzarnos a hacerlas refulgir"
-Kodwo Eshun, “Further Considerations on Afrofuturism” 2003
Guest Editors
Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay, University of Milan
Christina Banalopoulou, University of Milan
98 Annual South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference ~ Atlanta, Georgia ~ November 5-7, 2026
This panel invites papers that examine how literary and cultural texts represent and imagine the dynamics of hospitality, with particular attention to questions of inclusion, belonging, and access for LGBT individuals, as well as in real-world institutions and spaces. Acts of welcome in homes, nations, classrooms, or communities often involve negotiating boundaries: who is invited in, how that welcome is extended, and what it means to belong. How do literary and cultural works depict LGBT figures moving within, across, or outside these spaces?
Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare: Information, Interpretation, Conspiracy, and the Struggle for RealityCall for Papers and PresentationsDetails
Die Erstausstrahlung von Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1997 auf The WB Television Network jährt sich im kommenden Jahr zum dreißigsten Mal. Die Serie hat die Populär- und Medienkultur der Jahrtausend-wende maßgeblich mitgeprägt und ist zugleich als Referenztext weit über diesen historischen Moment hinaus wirksam geblieben. Ihre anhaltende Relevanz beruht nicht zuletzt auf der ästhetischen und narrativen Verfasstheit: Genre-Hybridität, Intertextualität, ironisch-selbstreflexive Erzählverfahren sowie eine ausgeprägte figurale und narrative Komplexität machen sie noch heute zu einem beliebten Gegenstand kultur- und medienwissenschaftlicher Auseinandersetzung.
An international workshop at Utrecht University (The Netherlands), 14 September 2026
Organized by Karin van Es (Utrecht University), Ramon Lobato (Swinburne University), and Mike Wayne (Erasmus University).
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Conference Dates: June 1–2, 2026
Location: North Carolina A&T State University
Proposal Submission Deadline: May 4, 2026
Call for Papers
Benjamin Quarles Humanities and Social Science Institute
College of Liberal Arts, Morgan State University
9th Annual Conference
Theme: 100 Years of Black History: Remembering the Past, Interpreting the Present, Envisioning the Future
The 123rd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in Seattle at the Hyatt Regency Seattle, from Thursday, November 12, to Sunday, November 15, 2026.
Session Type: Special Session / Roundtable
Primary Area / Secondary Area: Professional and Pedagogy / Composition and Rhetoric
Presiding Officer(s): Shataparni Bhattacharya (Indiana University - Bloomington)
shabhat@iu.edu
Abstract
Session Type: Standing Session / Panel
Primary Area / Secondary Area: British and Anglophone / Our Ruling Classes: Class, Power, Conflict
Presiding Officer(s): Shataparni Bhattacharya (Indiana University - Bloomington)
shabhat@iu.edu
Abstract
Eric Glover (Yale University) and Michelle Cowin Gibbs (CSULB) invite participants for a working group that takes stock of Zora Neale Hurston’s legacy and impact as a vital yet still underexamined repertoire in theatre, dance, and performance studies.
In conversation with the conference theme’s attention to retrospection and futurity, the group considers how Hurston’s work and that of her successors has been adapted, staged, studied, and taught, while asking what remains unfinished, underdeveloped, and newly possible.
Rethinking Europe–Japan Relations, 1868–1913: An Interdisciplinary Unconference
Organized by the Europe-Japan Bilaterology Research Hub
Date: 19–20 September (Saturday–Sunday) 2026
Venue: Székesfehérvár (near Budapest), Hungary
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