The Medieval Foremothers Society invites proposals for two hybrid sessions honoring Sharon Kinoshita (UC Santa Cruz) at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI in May 2026. Each year the Medieval Foremothers Society honors a scholar whose scholarship, teaching, and activism have laid foundations and built networks for modern medieval studies. Sharon Kinoshita is our 2026 Foremother because of her innovative research that cuts across disciplinary and geographic boundaries, which foregrounds crucial developments in postcolonial medieval studies, Mediterranean Studies, and the Global Middle Ages.

For an edited volume on "Datafied Decision-Making", we invite scholars at different career stages to submit short abstracts (400-500 words) from the disciplines of political science, law, sociology, environmental studies, science and technology studies, critical data studies and related fields that offer a critical perspective on the ethical, legal and societal consequences of algorithms and data practices.

More information on the call can be found here. 

The 2026 American Studies Association of Norway Conference looks back to its early years for inspiration. The very first themed ASANOR seminar was titled “The Bicentennial of the US Constitution.” Many years later we return to this document, not only to revisit its cultural and historical significance but also to ask what it means to invoke the Constitution now, in a time of intensifying democratic crisis and rising illiberalism. From the expansion of executive power to attacks on voting rights, judicial independence, and press freedoms, many of the traditional pillars of U.S. liberal democracy are under threat. However, illiberalism is not new to the American experience.

Book Chapters on Severance for Edited Collection on Neoliberalism and Affect in Twenty-First Century Culture  contact email: neoliberalismandaffect@gmail.com 

“We’re people, not parts of people. Even with what little they gave us these are our lives. no one gets to just turn you off” - (Severance, S1.8)

The University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada, Department of French, Hispanic, Italian Studies (FHIS)

November 20th – 21st, 2025 

The Silence of Forgetting: Absence, Void, and Memory in Literature and Culture Graduate Conference 

                      Gendered Bodies and Digital Selfhood in Short-form Videos: Research from the Global South

                                                             CFP for  Special Issue of Journal of Gender Studies

 CFP: Rhetoric and/as Academic Leadership  Leadership in academia is by nature a fraught enterprise for which few faculty find themselves adequately trained. Such work is made even more difficult in our current climate due to the shifting socioeconomic conditions of higher education that ask more of leaders while at the same time providing fewer material and structural resources to help them lead. As a result, many faculty are more reticent than ever to seek out or accept leadership positions, especially at the highly visible executive levels such as university presidencies, where political or personal failure comes at a high price.

Medieval Temporalities and Comics

Leeds International Medieval Congress, 6th-9th July 2026

Hybrid Session

Co-organized by Natalie Hopwood, University of Leeds and Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College (The Medieval Comics Project)

This session aims to discuss the lasting legacy of the medieval on modern comics, sequential art, manga, and related media, and how the medieval continues to affect us today. We invite proposals for 20 minute papers about topics including, but not limited to:

ReFocus: The Films of Gerard Damiano

Weeks after the death of Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro last year, her daughter Andrea Skinner disclosed the sexual abuse she'd suffered as a child—abuse about which Munro had known and stayed silent. The disclosure is but one of many revelations in recent years to upend the legacy of a cultural icon. Neil Gaiman, Louis CK, Jean Vanier, and Avital Ronell are only a few public figures to be reassessed in the wake of accounts of sexual abuse. Similarly, disputed claims to Indigenous ancestry touted by artists including novelist Joseph Boyden and singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie have generated outrage and heartbreak among Indigenous groups and innumerable admirers, compounding generational traumas.

Call for Papers on The Beatles and Media Today

Special Issue of Rock Music Studies

Guest-edited by Shannon Howard (Auburn University Montgomery), Tom Grochowski (St. Joseph’s University, NY) and Richard D. Driver (McLennan Community College) 

From the iconic Orient Express to the shadowy alleys of urban noir, and to the contemporary invisible highways of cyberspace, transportation and mobility have long played an important role in crime fiction. Traditional detective fiction often relied on transportation as both setting and symbol, underscoring how mobility can conceal, isolate, or reveal, shaping the very structure of mystery and detection. In the digital age, mobility is no longer confined to physical movement; it also encompasses virtual travel, data flows, and algorithmic surveillance.

INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

TENNYSON 2026: ECOLOGY, LANDSCAPE, ENVIRONMENT

LINCOLN, UK, 14-17TH JULY 2026

**Deadline for Abstracts (300 w max.) and Bio (150 w max.)**

31 JANUARY 2026

 Edited by Professor Meenakshi Bharat (University of Delhi) and Dr. Blythe Worthy (University of Sydney)
Under preparation for submission to the ReFocus: International Directors series, Edinburgh University Press

Call for papers

29 July 2025

Special Issue: Contemporary India and Hindi Cinema

Journal: Women Studies International Forum

Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/324617/contemporary-india-and-hindi-cinema

Submission of abstracts: 30 September 2025

Submission of full manuscript: 31 July 2026

Abstract

Concept Note & CFP on

Crisis and Hope in Contemporary South Asia

Crisis can be understood as any event or a series of events that disrupts, destabilizes, and threatens the everyday individual, social, and political order, leading to moments of transition and transformation that are often challenging to comprehend. The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented accruement of crises on a planetary scale manifesting as economic and environmental exploitation, geopolitical conflicts, pandemics and public health emergencies, and financial and economic turmoil, making the world an increasingly volatile and uncertain space.

ASANOR biannual conference 2026
June 4-6, Kristiansand, Norway CONSTITUTING THE US IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Proposal deadline: October 15, 2025

https://asanor.org/2026-conference/

The 2026 American Studies Association of Norway Conference looks back to its early years for inspiration. The very first themed ASANOR seminar was titled “The Bicentennial of the US Constitution.” Many years later we return to this document, not only to revisit its cultural and historical significance but also to ask what it means to invoke the Constitution now, in a time of intensifying democratic crisis and rising illiberalism.

Call for Proposals: Edited volume on screenwriter, actor, director, and comedienne Elaine May

SCREEN STORYTELLERS

The Works of Elaine May

Edited by Jonathan Winchell

This edited volume on the works of Elaine May will be a book in the SCREEN STORYTELLERS series published by Bloomsbury Academic. Seeking 250-word abstracts for previously unpublished chapters on Elaine May’s work as a screenwriter and comedy writer. Final chapters will be 3,000-3,500 words, written for an audience of student readers.

RSA 2026

San Francisco - February 19–21, 2026

Reimagining Disability through “Disability Intimacy”

Relatable! Exploring Difference & Relationality in Creative Writing Studies (CFP)

Proposal Deadline: September 5th, 2025

Conference Dates: November 7th & 8th, 2025

The Creative Writing Studies Organization is now accepting proposals for our online fall conference, to be held the weekend of November 7, 2025. In holding our conference virtually in alternating years, we hope to continue building Creative Writing Studies scholarship across borders and time zones while maintaining the felt benefits of in-person gatherings. This year, the CWSC seeks proposals that help us expand and refine our understandings of relationality. 

Call for Panel Participants

College Art Association Annual Conference

18-21 February 2026   |   Chicago, IL  USA

https://caa.confex.com/caa/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Session16720.html

“Dissent Nearby: Diasporic & LGBTQ+ Resistance”*

*guaranteed session with Sponsorship from the Society of Contemporary Art Historians

'The Soliloquist Journal' seeks submissions of poems and soliloquies for Fall 2025 issue

Theme for Fall 2025 issue: "Voices in Transition”

This theme explores moments of change, transformation, and evolution in our
personal and collective experiences - whether it's seasonal transitions, life
phases, social changes, or internal shifts in perspective.

Website: The Soliloquist Journal

SUBTHEMES:

Call for Papers: Historical Fiction in / and the Anthropocene

One-Day Online Workshop of the Historical Fictions Research Network

29 November 2025 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)

15 min talks

The Historical Fictions Research Network, an interdisciplinary and international network of scholars examining historical fictions, i.e. narratives of the past in a variety of popular media, is happy to organise its third one-day winter workshop on the topic of “Historical Fiction in / and the Anthropocene”.