Dates: Thursday 25 June - Friday 26 June 2026
Venue: Jesus College, University of Cambridge

Special thematic dossier 8.1 | Digital Projections and Screened Identities in US American Culture

Editors: Laura Álvarez Trigo (Universidad de Valladolid) and Anna Marta Marini (Freie Universität Berlin) 

Concorde: Literary, Linguistic and Sustainability Studies International Conference

Date: 22-23 April, 2026

Venue: Department of English, Netrokona University, Netrokona, Bangladesh

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Professor Dr Anirudra Thapa, Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Professor Dr Shamsad Mortuza, Department of English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Professor Dr Shaila Sultana, Institute of Modern Languages, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

The Anaïs Nin Foundation and Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal are pleased to announce the inaugural Anaïs Nin Essay Prize. We are seeking submissions of scholarly essays centered on the work, influence, relationships, or legacy of Anaïs Nin. Essays should aim to extend the academic conversation around her contributions to literature, art, and culture.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Queen’s Graduate Conference in Literature

Call for Papers | Haunted Bodies

Date: May 22-24, 2026 Location: Queen’s University, Kingston and Online

Submissions due: 

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 19, 2026

Culture, Food, and Literature in the New Millennium (Hybrid)

March 25-26, 2026

School of Liberal Arts

University of Management and Technology, Lahore

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

MICHIGAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, ARTS & LETTERS 614 Superior Street, Alma College, Alma, MI 48801 - Fax: 989-463-7970 - michiganacademy@alma.edu Call for Papers Women's & Gender Studies 

INVITATION 2026 conference: Friday, March 27, 2026, virtual conference held via Zoom.

You are invited to submit a 200-word abstract of the paper you wish to present at the conference.

PROCEDURES  Abstract submission deadline is 1/23/26.

Presentations are up to 20 minutes each, followed by discussion.

Undergraduates may present faculty co-authored or sponsored papers (section leaders may require proof that paper/research was reviewed by a faculty sponsor).

Call for PapersCaliban Speaks: International Conference on Recentering Indigenous Thought in the Age of Decolonialism and Technology

April 21–22, 2026 | International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI)

1. Conference Rationale

In the contemporary intellectual landscape, postcolonial theory has illuminated important questions of empire, identity, and resistance. Yet, its limits are increasingly visible: while interrogating colonial legacies, it has too often re-centered Eurocentric epistemologies and sidelined Indigenous thought.

Empathy in Action: Critical Perspectives from the Arts and Humanities

ARTS & HUMANITIES INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLOQUIUM

(Please read the full CfP before sending a proposal)

Deadline for abstract submissions: 20 March 2026
Notifications of acceptance: by 01 April 2026

Translators, Texts, and Contexts: Reclaiming Human Agency in the Age of AIHosted by the Department of Translation, Lingnan University, Hong Kong11-12 December 2026  |  M+, Kowloon, Hong Kong

As artificial intelligence (AI) sweeps through the landscape of language mediation, the classical trio of Translators, Texts, and Contexts remains central to understanding the art, ethics, and politics of translation. While AI tools offer unprecedented efficiencies in text processing, they often lack the human capacity for nuanced judgment and cultural contextualisation that remain essential to traditional translation studies scholarship.

Food& (https://foodand.eu/) is an experimental publishing project based in Berlin that examines encounters between food and wider social, cultural and political contexts. Previous issues have addressed themes such as Food & Bathrooms, Food & Nuclear War, Food & Gravity and Fast Food & Patents. Food& invites contributions for its upcoming themed issue on Food and Censorship. The issue explores how questions of restriction, regulation, visibility, silence and control shape the production, circulation and mediation of food, food knowledge and food cultures.

ATRAS Journal is now inviting scholars from around the globe to submit their unpublished manuscripts for publication. The journal aims to contribute to the body of knowledge by publishing original papers in the fields of literature, gender studies, cultural studies, linguistics, education, language studies, translation, social sciences, and the arts. Researchers are invited to submit their manuscripts in English, Arabic, and French.

Presentation 

ATRAS Journal is inviting researchers from the international academic community to submit their unpublished manuscripts for publication. 

Accepted papers after review will be published for volume 7, issue 2 on July 15th, 2026

“Meaning emerges in the encounter — in the relations between bodies, images, and the world,” wrote Vivian Sobchack in her Carnal Thoughts (68); and it is precisely these shifting relations that shape contemporary — digital — American identity. In the digital environment, such relations do not stabilise; they reconfigure themselves, recalibrate, and adjust across platforms, archives, sensors, and interfaces.

The Department of English and Cultural Studies, School of Humanities and Performing Arts, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Delhi NCR Campus, is hosting its 3rd International Conference on Global Digital Cultures: Texts, Technologies, and Audiences (Hybrid Mode). 

Date: 23 - 24 February, 2026

In the era of rapid technological change, digitalization, globalization, and platformization are reshaping film, media, and creative industries. This conference critically explores the intersections of texts, technologies, and audiences in global digital cultures, with a focus on South Asia and the Global South.

Call for Papers: Perspectives on Netflix’s Ripley

I am pleased to announce a call for papers for the first edited volume devoted to the Netflix limited series Ripley (Zaillian, 2024). Perspectives on Netflix’s Ripley seeks to explore the myriad ways in which this striking adaptation reimagines Patricia Highsmith’s iconic character for a new era of streaming television. I invite proposals from scholars, practitioners, and critics whose work engages with adaptation, media studies, sexuality, and screen cultures.

About the Volume

DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL THE 29TH, JANUARY 2026

“Violence in the Medieval and Early Modern North”

Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern North Conference

University of Aberdeen, Scotland

ALA 2026: The Novel of Ideas in American Fiction

ALA Annual Conference (May 20-23, Chicago, IL)

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

 The Final Frontier: Race, Ecology & Colonialism in Space Opera

Edited by Mikail Boz & Cenk Tan

Editors’ Introduction

Since September of 2025 the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University has housed a new publication called The Pittsburgh Review of Books (or PRoB), available at http://www.pghrev.com

Edited by author and Public Humanities Special Faculty Ed Simon, PRoB is a home for engaged, creative, and interdisciplinary cultural criticism and analysis across the humanities. The tone of the publication is similar to other para-academic publications intended for both specialists and a general audience. Currently we are particularly interested in analysis that intersects with breaking news that can be produced by scholars quickly.

 International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies 

ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)

https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHASS/Home.html

*** January Issue***

Submission System 

Scope

The paradigmatic scene in a Western – witnessed in numerous movies, such as High Noon (1952), The Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957), or Tombstone (1993), as well as in classic western novels, such as Louis L’Amour’s The Lonesome Gods (1983) or Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove (1985) – is that of a confrontation between a sheriff and a bandit: it suggests the forces of civilization taking hold on the frontier, even if tentatively, and ultimately a triumph of the order imposed to protect those in need of protection.

Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds 

Special Issue 3/2026

“Save State: Ethics, Politics, and Poetics of Game Preservation”

Guest Editors: Paweł Frelik (University of Warsaw), Magdalena Kozyra (SWPS University), Tomasz Z. Majkowski (Jagiellonian University)  

Latina/o/x Literature and Culture Society, ALA, Chicago, Illinois, May 20-23, 2026

This year, the Latina/o/x Literature & Culture Society welcomes submissions focusing on diverse topics, including literary genre, single authors, children’s literature, speculative fiction, comparative analyses, as well as cultural studies approaches. The society also encourages a variety of theoretical and interdisciplinary prisms, and a variety of panel types, including traditional paper sessions, roundtable discussions, and sessions dedicated to the teaching of Latina/o/x literature and culture.