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Call for Articles: Cultural Materialism, Fascism and the Far Right
A Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism
CFP for Special Issue in IMAGO MUNDI: The International Journal for the History of Cartography
“Maps and the Imagination”
In light of the ongoing “cartographic turn” in literary studies and recent critical attempts to
“remap” the field of cartographic history, we are seeking contributions for a special issue that
examines the relationship between maps (from historical prints to digital creations) and the
imagination (from the impact of maps on literary and visual arts to earthworks and new media).
Following the growing interest in cartographic imaginaries, documented, for example, in studies
Call for Papers: Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds
Special Issue: ‘Video Games & Horror’
Abstract deadline: 1 April 2026
Full article draft deadline: 28 July 2026
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-gaming-virtual-worlds#call-for-papers
The Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds is excited to announce a call of content for an upcoming Special Issue focused on horror in video games.
The Cultural Studies Cell
Department of English and Cultural Studies, Central Campus
In collaboration with
Department of Media Studies, Central Campus
CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore
Organizes
An International Conference (Hybrid)on
Urban/Media Infrastructures
March 5-7, 2026
The USC Korean Studies Institute invites applications for its annual Pacific Graduate Conference for Korean Studies at USC (PaCKS). This conference aims to foster a multidisciplinary community of local and regional graduate students whose research projects significantly engage Korean society and culture across the periods. It offers a platform for emerging scholars to present their work-in-progress, receive feedback from faculty and peers, and participate in interdisciplinary discussions within a supportive environment.
Call for Expressions of Interest: Book Reviews Editor for The London Journal
The London Journal is seeking expressions of interest for the role of Joint Book Reviews Editor.
This role will cover the period from roughly 1800 to the present, joining Kirstin Barnard, who covers the medieval and early modern periods. The Book Reviews Editors are full members of the Editorial Board.
Call for Papers: SCMS Horror Studies SIG Graduate Student Essay Prize
The SCMS Horror Studies Scholarly Interest Group is delighted to announce that submissions are now open for our annual Graduate Student Essay Prize.
The winning essay will be published in an upcoming issue of the open-access journal Monstrum and the author will receive:
POSTHUMANISM AND CONTEMPORARY ARTISTIC PRACTICES
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM 7-8 May 2026
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
Gedimino Ave. 42, 01110 Vilnius, Lithuania
Concept Note
Call for Papers: Elizabeth von Arnim and Pomerania EXTENDED DEADLINE
Institute of Literature and New Media at the University of Szczecin, Poland invites you to take part in the international academic conference on the 160th anniversary of the birth and 85th anniversary of the death of the author Elizabeth von Arnim and Pomerania
6-7 June 2026
Confirmed plenary speakers:
Dr Jennifer Shepherd, The Open University Belfast, Northern Ireland
prof. Noreen O’Connor, King’s College, Pennsylvania, USA
This guaranteed online session of the TC Religion and Literature forum at the January 2027 MLA convention invites papers on literary production and culture that occurs at the intersections of Black Studies and spirituality. How have texts by Black writers imagined, challenged, and embraced traditional, new, and syncretic forms of spirituality?
Possible topics could include:
“Global Early Modern Environmental Crises: Modes of Extraction, Settler Colonialism, and Empire”
The Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) is putting together a guaranteed MLA panel for the 2027 Annual Convention in Los Angeles, CA, USA (7-10 January) on global early modern environmental crises with a focus on human interactions with the earth tied to imperial pursuits, settler colonialism, conflicts in worldviews, and methods of extraction. We hope to feature scholars with expertise in different linguistic traditions to foster cross-cultural discussions.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
‘A breeze in God’: The Spirituality of Music and Song
International Conference.
September 10th-11th 2026.
Parthenope University, Naples, Italy
Organised by Raffaella Antinucci (Parthenope), Adrian Grafe (Textes & Cultures research lab, Université d’Artois, France)
The intersection of Rhetoric and Communication continues to attract the interest of many scholars, particularly within the fields of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The scope of analysis is wide-ranging, encompassing literature and culture, language studies and advertising, communication studies and politics, among other domains.
Call for abstracts for proposed articlesTo Be Forever Known: The Brontës and Poetry
Inspired by the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s 2025 exhibition From Haworth to Eternity,
Brontë Studies invites new and original articles of no more than 7,500 words that respond to the theme of ‘the Brontës and adaptation’ across film, screen, and the visual and performing arts—including digital, transmedia, and other emerging media forms. The special issue will be published in 2027.
The history of work and labour has long occupied a central place within European social history, offering a key lens through which to examine social relations, hierarchies, forms of power, and economic formations across the longue durée. Rather than approaching work solely as an economic function, historical scholarship has increasingly foregrounded work as a lived social experience –one that has shaped identities, values, and modes of belonging.
Event Date & Location: October 16th – 18th, 2026, at the Hilton Peachtree City, 2443 HWY 54 West, Peachtree City, Georgia, 30269
Deadline for Submissions: Friday, May 1, 2026
Name of Organization: Multiverse Convention
Organization Website: https://www.multiversecon.org
Contact Email: Kenneth Broome, Jr., Learn@Multiversecon.org
CONVENTION THEME:
Call for Papers – Lucius Annaeus Seneca: International Journal of Senecan Studies (LAS)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (LAS), an open-access, peer-reviewed annual journal devoted to Senecan studies and published by Sapienza Università Editrice, invites submissions for its upcoming volume. LAS welcomes high-quality, original research on all aspects of the life, works, reception, and philosophical, literary, and historical impact of Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Women, Literature and Art in Republican China
A Special Issue in Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 57, nos. 1-8 [TBD], 2028
Abstracts Due: April 1, 2026
Manuscripts Due: October 30, 2026
Special Issue Editor(s): Lang Wang and Ying Xiong
Submissions Portal: par e-mail
Personhood is having a cultural moment. The ambiguous status of agency and rights animates compelling and diverse critical responses: from studies of animals, AI, and fetal protection laws (Kurki and Pietrzykowski, 2017), to Frankenstein as a model for corporate personhood (Atkinson, 2022), to anthropocentric ideas of personhood versus the environment (Rochford, 2024), to studies of “potential people” including chatbots and embryos (Kalantry 2025).
Hotels are often the first destination of any traveler. Not just a place to unpack and sleep, they are often one’s first exposure to a new culture, a base of operations, and an enormous factor in travel experience outcomes. Given their essential role in travel, hotels especially cater to the tourism industry. In Discourses in Place (2003), Scollon and Scollon develop an important, multi-faceted framework for analyzing text in space, arguing “we can only interpret the meaning of public texts like road signs, notices and brand logos by considering the social and physical world that surrounds them” (1).
“Feminist and Anti-Racist Citation”
sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Society
Modern Language Association 2027 | January 7–10, 2027, Los Angeles
Please note this is a call for potential SITE AND PROGRAM DIRECTORS to organize the 2028 Hemingway Society Conference. We are not accepting individual paper or panel proposals at this time.
The Hemingway Society Welcomes Preliminary Site Proposals for 2028 Conference
The executive board of the Hemingway Society (hemingwaysociety.org) welcomes preliminary proposals for our 2028 international conference. Please share this call widely with your professional networks.
Teams wishing to be considered should submit to Hemingway Society President Verna Kale (vlk123@psu.edu) a letter of interest that includes the following information:
Edited Volume: Nam June Paik as a California Artist:
West Coast Experiments, Networks, and Legacies
For the 150th anniversary of Harriet Martineau’s death, the Martineau Society will be hosting its annual conference in conjunction with the University of Cumbria, Ambleside Campus, in Ambleside, England. The Martineau Society conference is an interdisciplinary conference that focuses on the lives, work, and contributions of the Martineau family, including its two most famous and influential members, Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) and James Martineau (1805-1900). Harriet Martineau resided in the Lake District for much of her later years, from 1845 until her death in 1876.
Feminisms Against Fascism: Consortium-Wide Graduate Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
DATES: April 23 (evening) & April 24 (all day)
WHERE: Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang College of the Liberal Arts, The New School, 65 West 11th Street, New York, NY, Room B500
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Judith Butler
The Gender & Sexualities Studies Institute at The New School invites submissions for our annual, in-person convening in New York City. This year, we bring together scholars, artists, writers, activists, and students to address the topic of Feminisms Against Fascism.
For much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Italian Americans have occupied an uneasy position within U.S. racial, cultural, and national narratives—simultaneously marked as insiders and outsiders, assimilated and othered, white and not-quite-white. This call for papers invites scholars to revisit and re-theorize Italian American identity through the lens of Otherness, drawing on and expanding the concept of Italianità as articulated by Fred Gardaphé and Anthony Julian Tamburri.
UCD Centre for Gender, Feminisms & Sexualities - 2nd CGFS Conference Call for Papers: 'Thinking Gender Justice: Oppression, Resistance, Liberation' University College Dublin, Ireland, 17-19 June 2026 Proposal Deadline: 27 February 2026. Notifications: 9 March 2026Registration opens 6 MarchProposal Submission form: https://forms.gle/4qkYr9riQ1yWgnwR7
The call for papers is now open for the second volume of CJHS, scheduled for publication in December 2026.
Submission period:
January 1 to June 30, 2026
All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review.
MLA Annual Convention 2027
Los Angeles, California | 7–10 January 2027
This special session invites proposals that examine current challenges and emerging trends in the teaching of Spanish language, Hispanic literature, and culture in both university and secondary education contexts. We seek contributions that critically reflect on pedagogical practices in a rapidly evolving academic, technological, and social landscape, offering innovative, reflective, or praxis-oriented perspectives.
Call for Papers: Film International: Journal of World Cinemas
Special Issue: ‘Diasporic Cinemas: Transnational Aesthetics’
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/film-international-journal-of-world-cinema#call-for-papers
(To be released in Dec 2026)
Call for Papers: Film, Fashion & Consumption
Special Issue: 'Dress Against: Aesthetics of Power and Normativity in Contemporary Cinema'
Guest Editor : Danae Ioannou
Submission deadline: 31 August 2026
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/film-fashion-consumption#call-for-papers
Reconstructing the Electronic Superhighway:
Radical Media Art and Techno-Community at the Margins of the Global Village
Edited Volume
Abstracts Due: April 30, 2026
Editors: Kelly Donahey and Erin Gordon
Submissions Portal: https://submit.kellydonahey.com/index.php/cfp/index.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos
Call for Contributions
Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos invites submissions for
its 30th volume (2026). The journal is an international, peer-reviewed, English- language publication dedicated to U.S. Studies in their broadest sense, including literary, cultural, historical, artistic, and critical perspectives. Published annually by the University of Seville and supported by the Spanish Association for American Studies, the journal has contributed to advancing U.S. Studies scholarship since 1992.
Scope and Review Process
Journal Cedoua
2026 – n.º 52
The Cedoua Journal (RevCedoua), published in digital and open-access format, is issued annually by the Centre for Studies on Spatial Planning, Urbanism and the Environment of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra. The Journal is dedicated to the publication of original scholarly works of a legal or interdisciplinary nature that reflect advanced research on issues related to spatial planning, urbanism and the environment, contributing to the identification and proposal of solutions to relevant problems in these fields.
On November 26, 1976, the Sex Pistols released “Anarchy in the UK” in Great Britain, the first single from what would become Never Mind the Bollocks, Here Comes the Sex Pistols the following year. This conference – part of a larger project involving a series of events in Bordeaux and a collaboration with the Lycée Magendie (Magendie high school) – takes as it starting point the 50th anniversary of the release, on November 26, 2026, while seeking to investigate the meaning of such a celebration.
10×10 Photobooks is pleased to announce a new grant cycle and call for applications as part of its annual photobook research grants program to encourage and support scholarship on under-explored topics in photobook history.
Information and Submission at:
https://10x10photobooks.org/research-grants-cycle5-call/
The deadline for submissions for the new cycle of 10×10 research grants is midnight ET 23 March 2026.
This panel examines configurations of masculinity that have emerged in conjunction with contemporary global political, technological, and cultural shifts in the last decade. We invite papers that engage with films across geographical contexts. Please submit a 250-word abstract and bio.
Deadline for submissions: March 10, 2026.
Megha Anwer, Purdue University (manwer@purdue.edu) and Anupama Arora, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (aarora@umassd.edu)
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We are pleased to announce that the theme for our 3rd annual online Conference is Fame and Fortune. We invite submissions to both the conference and the journal on this theme.
We are pleased to announce that the theme for Volume 13 of Ceræ is Fame and Fortune. We invite submissions to both the conference and the journal on this theme.
This year, we turn our attention to the intricate, invisible, but often tangible webs that bound the early modern world together. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were defined by a profound density of connection - a world of intense social binding, material circulation, and intellectual exchange. From the “knot intrinsicate” of Cleopatra’s demise to the conspiracy of rumours that entraps Othello, early modern drama is obsessed with the architecture of entanglement.
What roles do ‘hierarchy’ and ‘egality’, as values and practices, play in the everyday lives of South Asian traditions? Hierarchy as a value in the social life of Hinduism has been much discussed. Scholarship has tended to contrast a transhistorical Hindu hierarchy with egalitarian elements of Muslim, Christian, Buddhist and Sikh thought in South Asia, framing ubiquitous caste-like social forms among the latter traditions as anomalous. Yet careful studies of everyday life in the religious traditions of South Asia suggest that a far more heterogeneous set of social imaginaries and a far more complex entanglement of hierarchy and egality are, in fact, shaping the trajectory of both inter-caste and inter-religious relations and practices.
Frank Lloyd Wright began wintering in the Sonoran Desert in the late 1920s, where the region’s extreme climate and tectonic landscape shaped by sun, erosion, and wind profoundly influenced his thinking about architecture. How did Wright respond to the beautiful yet hostile desert environment?
Call for contributions: Audience Participation as Vernacular Practice
We are seeking contributions for an edited volume on the subject of audience participation across performance forms and traditions, focusing on practices that evolve among audience communities, rather than being led by performance makers or artists.
This volume will be published by State University of New York Press as part of the series Studies in Vernacular Music.
CALL FOR PAPERSTeaching Authentic Thinking in the Age of AI: Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice
Editors: Trent M. Kays, PhD (Augusta University); Rosita Scerbo, PhD (Georgia State University); and Stefanie Sevcik, PhD (Mercer University)
THE PROBLEM
Students carry ChatGPT in their pockets. They can generate competent essays in seconds. Traditional assignments become trivial to automate.
How should we teach?
Apologies for crossposting.
Call for Papers: Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion
Special Issue: 'Beau Brummell'
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/critical-studies-in-mens-fashion#call-for-papers
Call for papers
Sensation: The Sounds, Visions, and Words of David Bowie
Academic conference, University of Agder, Norway
29. – 30. September 2026