AATSEEL 2026: New Orleans, LA - February 19-22 (Sheraton New Orleans)

When taking stock of the figures that dominated late Soviet popular culture, one would be remiss not to mention Cheburashka, Vinni-Pukh, and the Bremen Town Musicians alongside the likes of Alla Pugacheva and Viktor Tsoi. Animation represented a massive undertaking in the Soviet Union, with state funded animation studios found across republics. Both viewers and scholars alike have been drawn to Soviet animation’s diversity in style and ability to address what scholars such as Larissa Tumanov have termed a “dual audience” of children and adults, often concealing more subversive messages behind an innocent storyline. 

Conference online (voa Zoom):

23-24 October 2025

CFP:

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Conference online (via Zoom)

25-26 September 2025

Deadline for proposals: 7 September 2025

Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland

Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

 All details: https://www.inmindsupport.com/loneliness-conference

CFP: 

Call for Papers

Asian Popular Culture / Asian American Experiences

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open: September 1, 2025

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025

Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 47th annual SWPACA

The Victorians Institute Journal (VIJ) is an award-winning scholarly journal of Victorian and Edwardian literary and cultural studies. The VIJ publishes a variety of pieces—including articles, reviews, and rare texts—and is accepting submissions for Volume 53 through February 1st. For further details on the Victorians Institute Journal, visit https://vijournal.org/.

Article submissions should be between 7K-9K words, and are welcome to address any aspect of Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and culture. If you would like to submit a review for consideration, contact us directly through our email: victoriansinstitutejournal@gmail.com.

We invite proposals that explore themes of kinship and mediated differences for our dynamic book series! 

Since 2021, we have published eight volumes which delve into a range of topics and use wide-ranging methods, with several more books scheduled for publication in the coming years.  We invite monographs as well as edited collections and are excited to receive inquiries about completed projects as well as ideas that are still in development. 

Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Call for Proposals

A Virtual Conference
12–13 March 2026

Sponsored by the University Writing Program at the University of Florida

Details

Like stories themselves, forests have little respect for geopolitical boundaries. And like forests, stories have always played a crucial role in human imaginations around the world. The wide distribution of forests across most of the planet's biospheres suggests that stories about forests, as well as the stories that forests tell, should be understood in relation to literary and theoretical encounters both with plants and with the planet. While discourse on climate change focuses on deforestation and reforestation in relation to the problem of dangerously increased carbon dioxide levels, trees and forests are treated in large part instrumentally rather than as agents in their own right.

In Poetics of Dislocation, Meena Alexander recalls her childhood migration as an experience of “unselving.” The ocean that makes her an immigrant also dissolves inherited identities. Yet this loss, for Alexander, is generative: a crucible of poetic vision, where the self, fluid as tidewater, reshapes itself from poem to poem, contouring itself to each new shore that it meets. 

This is a call for papers for a hybrid session at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference in Pittsburgh, PA which will take place March 5-8, 2026. Please see this link for the CFP and to submit through the NeMLA site: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21963 .

Edouard Glissant and Michael Wiedorn call us to “think” with or like a geography. Evolving out of cultural studies, island and archipelagic studies have spurred a conversation regarding the connection between geography and culture. While Glissant and Wiedorn were particularly preoccupied with thinking (like) an archipelago, it is possible yet to conceive of other modes of geographical thought. Transatlantic, island, and even aquatic matrices of culture and geography have been well documented and studied. This panel welcomes submissions in the field of archipelagic and island studies and is particularly interested in papers exploring methods of geographical thought, the relationship between geography and culture, in the US South.

We invite submissions for a paper panel themed “Non-Western Aesthetics: Rhetoric, Resistance, and Representation” – an exploration of aesthetics from diverse cultural perspectives, non-Western rhetorical traditions, and globalized literary theory. Our aim is to examine non-Western, non-hegemonic discourses from non-White nations that incorporate indigenous critical approaches and local theories within artistic and literary practices. We are particularly interested in South and Southeast Asian literary and cultural studies.

Broad areas of exploration may include, but are certainly not limited to, the following literary and cultural theoretical perspectives:

The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for its 2026–2027 research fellowship program. Up to 50 fellowships will be awarded to support projects that require substantial on-site use of the Center’s internationally renowned collections in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history.

Second Conference of the European Children’s Literature Research Network.
Munich, Schloss Blutenburg, International Youth Library

19-21 October 2026

Concept Note

The rapidly escalating planetary crisis has precipitated a profound epistemic rupture, compelling the humanities to reconfigure their disciplinary coordinates in dialogue with the ecological. The evolving domain of ecological humanities has taken on the task of interrogating not only the material devastation wrought by extractive capitalism, militarised modernities, and petrochemical globalisation, but also the conceptual frameworks—ontological, epistemological, and ethical—that have historically sustained such devastation.

De-extinction - the resurrection of extinct species by back breeding, gene editing or synthetic biology - is a rapidly advancing biopolitical technology of conservation science which aims to create proxies of previously extinct species. This collection advances that de-extinction is a cultural and political phenomenon that intersects, communicates, and speaks to the limits of scientific discourses. It offers an intervention into debates about de-extinction from the rich and innovative perspectives of the humanities, social sciences, and creative arts.

Paper Pushers and Ink Suckers: Objectifying the Administrative Subject in Bureaucratic Fiction

Call for Proposals

Cinematic Memory: Narrative, Recollection, and Identity

Edited by David Ryan

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“I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can’t remember them.”
— Leonard Shelby, Memento (2000)

“Memories can be vile, repulsive little brutes. Like children, I suppose. But can we live without them?”
— The Joker, Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)

*Fresh Words* is now accepting submissions for its **Special One-Minute Horror Plays Anthology**, titled ***SHHH! BREATHE SLOW!* (Volume 4)**. We invite playwrights worldwide to submit original, spine-chilling short works that deliver maximum impact in just 60 seconds.

Website:  https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/announcements?authuser=0

Anglistik (e-ISSN: 2625-2147) is a peer-reviewed German-based triannual open-access journal for Anglophone Studies

https://angl.winter-verlag.de/?_locale=en

Back in the mid-twentieth century, the political novel used to be a respectable field of study, commanding the attention of influential critics like Irwing Howe. These days, not so much. In fact, most scholarly books with the phrase ‘political novel’ in the title published over the past three decades or so were not written by professional critics, but rather by historians and political scientists (including Christopher Harvie, John Uhr, and Stuart A. Scheingold).

See ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) listing for submission portal: https://www.acla.org/seminar/10bd9b61-e065-472a-8698-c8949a85f069 

Paper proposals cannot be accepted via email.

Death Studies is a field of study that not only draws from a host of disciplines like anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology but also cuts across fields such as bereavement studies, trauma studies, and health humanities. 

We invite papers on the cerebral Dickens, but also on “the mind of the heart” (David Copperfield): on how Charles Dickens thought, but also how and what we think about him. Suitable topics might include:

• Dickens and philosophy, psychology, statistics, or the natural sciences

• Dickens and his intellectual friends and contemporaries, such as Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot

• How Dickens and his readers develop ideas through and by means of language

• Plotting, planning, and making connections

SUBJECT: Lorefest Call for Papers

Lorefest – Oct 29-Nov 01, 2025. Lorefest Conference 9am-5pm, Nov 01, 2025, Texas A&M University,

College Station, TX.

Lorefest is an annual festival combining scholarly research and creative practice

inspired by local and “glocal” (i.e. globally-inspired, locally-rooted) folklore. It brings together

the Texas A&M student body, their family and friends, and local Bryan/College Station

communities culminating in a four-day event in late October/early November. Its organizers