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Call for papers – Series of Workshops on Sacred Writing Traditions
The HaZen (Handschriftenzentrum) project, based at the Institute for Jewish Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, would like to invite international researchers to three workshops in Berlin.
We are pleased to announce that the IV SEDERI International Conference for Graduate Students of Early Modern English Studies will be held on 21, 22, 23 October 2026 at the University of Jaén (Jaén, Spain). This event is part of an initiative born within SEDERI, the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies, which seeks to provide a platform where students, PhD candidates and early career researchers from around the globe can gather to exchange different ideas, views, and opinions on the study of the English language and its literature, history and culture of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
MARIA DE JESUS RELVAS (Universidade Aberta, Portugal)
Drama and theatre have long served as dynamic mediums through which societies narrate their myths, record their histories, and preserve traditions. The interplay of myth, history, and tradition shapes the content and form of dramatic expression, influencing storytelling techniques, character archetypes, and performance styles across different cultures and time periods.
The 37th Society for Animation Studies Conference will take place in the city of Pittsburgh (USA) from June 15 to 18, 2026 (with optional excursions to follow on June 19-20). It will be hosted by the Pennsylvania Expanded Animation Alliance (PA XAA), a consortium of faculty from local universities (including Carnegie Mellon University, Point Park University, Robert Morris University, and the University of Pittsburgh) in concert with the Children’s Museum Pittsburgh. The event will also be hybrid, with additional details to follow.
Plenary Lecture: Professor Daniel Cook (University of Dundee)
Artist’s Talk: Martin Rowson (in conversation with Brigitte Friant-Kessler)
Venue: St. Bride Library (London, U.K.)
Dates: 23–25 September 2026
Post-Fossil Fuel Futures
in Popular Culture
Ecology & Culture Area
Popular Culture Association 56th National Conference
Atlanta on April 8-11, 2026
Submissions open until November 30
Guest editor: Maxime Fecteau
Primordial and born of Chaos, Gaia wears many faces. In Hesiod’s Theogony she is a fertile, earth-bodied mother; she is also an insurgent force—ally to the Titans and to violent births. This constitutive ambivalence—nourishing ground and upheaval, regeneration and revolt—guides the 15th issue of MuseMedusa. We follow the figure to probe the regimes of time and action it exceeds, while noting how modern representational devices have narrowed its plurality of faces (Latour, 1991; 2015). In short, understanding Gaia today means holding Greek myth together with attention to planetary change.
The Asian Studies section is currently accepting paper and panel proposals for the 68th Annual Conference of the World Social Science Association. The conference will be held at the Clyde Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from March 25th through 28th, 2026.
The Asian Studies section welcomes research on the historical, cultural, social, and political aspects of the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Pacific, and East Asia. Previous panels have explored Asian immigrant women’s participation management, governance in China, contemporary Japanese digital culture, and feminist readings of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa. We encourage innovative and critical approaches that address contemporary and historical issues.
Miloš Forman: Between Europe and Hollywood
Symposium organized by the Department of Theatre and Film Studies, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Friday, April 24, 2026
Univerzitní 3, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Special Issue: 'Moving Violations: Asian Crime Films'
Special Issue Editors: Victor Fan, Kristof Van den Troost, and Earl Jackson
Explorations: A Journal of Language and Literature is a peer-refereed online journal published by the University of Opole, Poland (for more information and the current issue see http://www.explorations.uni.opole.pl).
Call for Papers
Midwest Winter Workshop 2026
Rhetoric Program
Indiana University Bloomington
Friday, February 6th – Saturday, February 7th, 2026
Call for Chapters
Feminine Rage: A Companion
I have a thing about feminine rage. I get a lot of [scripts of] men doing really terrible things and women sitting silently whilst one tear slowly falls. I’m like, ‘No, no, no, no, no. We get mad. And we get angry. – Anya Taylor-Joy
Call for Papers
Pets and Pet-Owner Relationships in Literary Texts of the Long Eighteenth Century
(Edited Collection)
The Medievalism in Popular Culture Area (including Early to Later Middle Ages, Robin Hood, Arthurian Legend, Chaucer, Norse, and other materials connected to medieval studies) accepts papers on all topics that explore either popular culture during the Middle Ages or transcribe some aspect of the Middle Ages into the popular culture of later periods. These representations can occur in any genre, including film, television, novels, graphic novels, gaming, advertising, art, etc. For this year’s conference, I would like to encourage submissions on some of the following topics:
A Two-Day International Conference on Environmental Humanities: A Multidisciplinary Dialogue on Ecological Agency and Crisis
Organised by the Department of English, Women's Christian College, Kolkata (affiliated to the University of Calcutta),
in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame, Australia, Transilvania University of Brasov (Romania) & Spadina Literary Review (Canada)
DATES OF CONFERENCE: April 22, 2026 (WEDNESDAY) & April 23, 2026 (THURSDAY)
VENUE: WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, KOLKATA, INDIA
MODE: HYBRID (both online and in-person)
CONCEPT NOTE
Today, all countries that were colonized by France have gained their independence, yet discussions about its legacy continue. Many films, documentaries, literary works, speeches, and critical writings contribute to the ongoing conversation about liberty and justice in relation to independence. A 2024 documentary produced by Wandrille Lanos, titled Haïti, la rançon de l'indépendance, explores how liberty and justice were interpreted during Haiti’s struggle for independence. From September 22 to 26, 2025, during the United Nations General Debate at the 80th Session, the current president of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, argued that colonization should be recognized as one of the greatest crimes against humanity.
Call for Proposals: Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory
April 10–12, 2026
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
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Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) insisted on “imagining a future which might be radically and constitutionally other.” The urgency of this task rested on his understanding of Critical Theory “as a way of keeping the negative alive in a period in which praxis, the unity of the negative and the positive, itself seems suspended.” We invite proposals for papers on Jameson’s work and its implications for the future of critical theory.
Today, Bollywood is not merely an industry of Indian films representing the national cinema but also a global cultural phenomenon. From the singsong dance sequences on YouTube to its widespread circulation on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and regional streaming platforms, Bollywood redefines South Asian identities and how they are consumed, contested, and celebrated globally. Moreover, the intertwining of questions on cultural appropriation, culturalized representation, caste, gender, and diasporic negotiations emerges with renewed urgency and visibility.
Epistemologies and Pathways to Truth
The University of Maryland’s Graduate English Organization (GEO) invites proposals relating to the theme of “Epistemologies and Pathways to Knowledge” for our 19th annual graduate student conference, to be held in person on Friday, March 27, 2026 at UMD, College Park.
Epistemologies and Pathways to Truth
The “Collecting and Collectibles Area” of the Popular Culture Association invites papers on “Collecting in/as Crisis” for the 2026 National PCA/ACA Conference to be held in Atlanta, GA, USA on April 8-11, 2026. We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “Collecting in/as Crisis” and particularly address how collections/collectibles and their institutions and practices involve or respond to natural, cultural, economic, environmental, health, epistemic crises, etc.
Possible topics for presentations include but are not limited to:
· Collecting as systemic violence
· Collecting as cultural erasure
Memories & Dreams: Exploring Perspectives on Past, Future and Possibility in Materials for Young People
Call for Paper Proposals
Deadline for Submission: Friday, January 30th, 2026
A peer-reviewed graduate student conference on children’s literature, media, and culture.
University of British Columbia | Unceded traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Vancouver, Canada | Friday July 17th & Saturday July 18th, 2026
"Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open" - Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia.
Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference 2026
“Building Spaces of Freedom,” March 28th-31st at Fisk University, Nashville, TN
Panel:
Medical Humanities Across Species
https://ucgradconference20.wixsite.com/utopian-impulses We are excited to share the CfP for this year’s interdisciplinary graduate student conference at the University of Cincinnati titled Utopian Impulses in the 2020s! We're also pleased to announce that Dr. Angela Laflen will be this year's keynote speaker. See bio below: "Dr. Angela Laflen is Associate Professor of English at California State University, Sacramento, and author of Critical Data Storytelling in the Composition Classroom (Utah State UP 2025).
Call for Chapters: Bodies That Breathe – The Politics of Air, Health, and Survival
Volume 1 of the “Earth and Us” Book Series
Earth and Us is a twelve-volume inquiry into how environmental breakdown and social inequality intertwine, bringing together feminist, queer, and decolonial perspectives. The inaugural volume, Bodies That Breathe, explores the politics of air, health, and survival.
Concept Note:
Theories, or to be precise, Literary and Cultural theories are various (though at
times, overlapping) frameworks or tools used to interpret a given text.
Etymologically, the term, ‘theory’ comes from the Greek ‘Theoria’ which, broadly,
means contemplation and speculation. Every theory proposes its own interpretative
strategies and modes of extracting meaning, helping us to “discriminate between
experiences and evaluate them,” as Richards would have said. Given that meanings
of texts can hardly be considered final, theories shore up our analytical approaches
as well as selection or rejection of meanings.
Theories that have been native to literature, that is, the ones focusing on the
EXTENDED: Call for Proposals: Edited Volume, North Meridian Press, “Subtle Body Horror.”
LEO SEWELL ASSEMBLAGE SCULPTURE (Pennsylvania, born 1945) Seated Woman. Assembled from toys, coins, bits and fragments of metal, glass, wood, and plastic.
Call for Proposals
Anthology Editors: Kailey Tedesco & Mauve Perle Tahat
We invite contributions for Subtle Body Horror, an anthology exploring the intersections of embodiment, pain, and transformation.
The title plays on the idea of the “subtle body," the energetic or spiritual body, and the notion of “subtle” as slight, creeping, or insidious.
The CUNY Graduate Center’s Cinema Studies Group invites you to:CLAWS
A graduate student conference organized by the student-run Cinema Studies Group, with support from Film and Media Cultures and the Doctoral Graduate Student Council.
Conference Date: March 13th, 2026, 9:00 am- 5:00 pm
Location: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY (rooms TBA)
Keynote Speaker: TBA
Proposals Due: December 15th, 2025
Call for Papers
The Society for the Study of American Literary Naturalism
American Literature Association 37th Annual Conference
May 20-23, 2026
Chicago, IL
The Frank Norris Society, The Jack London Society, the Stephen Crane Society, and the Theodore Dreiser Society have united for the American Literature Association into the Society for the Study of American Literary Naturalism.
We are pleased to announce the following Call for Papers for the International Conference “Translating Latin in the Contemporary World”, to be held in June, 11-12, 2026, at the University of Bologna (Italy).
2026 Texas Association for Asian American Diaspora Studies (TAAADS) Annual Symposium
The second International Conference on Globalisation in Languages, Education, Culture and Communication (GLECC2026) is going to be held 28-30 July 2026, Manchester, UK. (https://glecc.org/2026/)
The past two decades have witnessed remarkable advancements in the studies into Education, Second and Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting, Cultural Studies, and Communication. This growth, evident in both the number of active researchers and the volume of scholarly throughput and outcomes, can be largely attributed to the forces of globalisation. Consequently, adopting the globalisation perspective is timely and provides a natural framework for connecting these diverse yet interlinked disciplines.
2026 Herman C. Hudson Symposium on:
“(re)VISION: Through Fracture, Focus. Through Vision, Freedom.”
27-28 February 2026
Call for Papers
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY February 1, 2026
Dear Colleagues:
This issue aims to publish essays on climate fiction and its related topics that are approached through the lens of Christian theological and literary interpretation.
Call for Contributors:
Conspiracy Theories & the Information Society
Editors:
Robert Spinelli (rspinelli@ncis.org); Matthew N. Hannah (matthew.hannah@wisc.edu)
Abstract:
Call for Papers: Performing Oppositions
Oppositions
Cultural Studies Association (CSA) 2026 Annual Conference
May 28-30, 2026
Fully Online
Deadline for Submissions: Friday, December 19, 2025
International conference on
Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Narratives, and Educational Futures in India and Australia
to be organised by the Centre for Australian Studies, Dept of English and Culture Studies, The University of Burdwan
in collaboration with Australian Consulate-General, Kolkata
on 20 & 21 January 2026
at The University of Burdwan
Call for Papers
APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS
Colloque international
de l’Association des professeurs des littératures acadienne et québécoise de l’Atlantique
(APLAQA)
CRISES ET TRANSFORMATIONS. REPENSER LES LITTÉRATURES DE LANGUE FRANÇAISE
Université du Manitoba et Université de Winnipeg
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
du 1er au 3 octobre 2026
Le terme « crise » vient du grec krísis qui signifie « jugement, décision, moment critique » et
renvoie à un point de bascule où se produit un choix décisif ou un changement majeur (TLFi, crise).
En français, le mot est d’abord employé au XVe siècle dans le vocabulaire médical pour désigner le
British covert operations of the Second World War have provided source material for a string of recent films and TV series, with Operation Mincemeat (2021), SAS Rogue Heroes (2022-), and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) all attracting media coverage and public debate. This recent wave joins and revises a longer tradition of cultural representations of the secret aspects of the war, across fiction, memoirs, cinema, television, and latterly digital gaming.
PhD students are invited to submit proposals for a 10‑minute presentation of their thesis project (or other ongoing research) for the inaugural PhD Research Showcase at the 3rd International Meeting of Researchers of Intermediality (IMoRI 2025), held online on 4–5 December 2025. The PhD Research Showcase will take place on Friday, 5 December, 12:15–14:15 CET (UTC+1). IMoRI is traditionally an invitation‑only forum for established scholars. This special session opens the door for emerging researchers to present their work to—and receive feedback from—leading figures in intermedial studies. IMoRI 2025 features panels organized by major research units in the field, two expert roundtables, and will close with a conversation with Prof.
Dear Colleagues,
The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at The Ohio State University is pleased to announce an upcoming conference as part of our biannual celebration of Popular Culture and the Deep Past (PCDP) in 2026. We warmly invite abstracts exploring topics related to medieval and Renaissance astrology and astronomy.Call for PapersStar Gazing: Astrology and Astronomy in the Medieval and Renaissance ImaginationPopular Culture and the Deep Past 2026
April 10-11, 2026
Online via Zoom & Ohio Union - The Ohio State University
The submission deadline for abstracts and panel proposals is December 19, 2025.
The London Arts-Based Research Centre
Women who Create: The Feminine and the Arts
A Transdisciplinary Conference
Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/11/18/women-who-create-2026/
March 28-30, 2026
Where:
March 28-29: In person participation at Cambridge University and online
March 30: Fully online
Fees (for both presenters and attendees):
195 GBP (in person)
100 GBP (Online)
Prices exclude eventbrite fees
Abstract: Deadline January 15, 2026
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)
Greetings from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights!
The 2026 International Network of Museums for Peace (INMP) Conference is being held at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on August 12-16, 2026.
Journal Name: Kaleidoscope : An Interdisciplinary Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
Website: https://kaleidoscopejournal.in/
We invite original, unpublished research papers, review articles, essays, and book reviews from scholars, researchers, and academics for Volume 1, Issue 1, to be published in December 2025.
Theme: Open Theme
For the inaugural issue, we welcome contributions on any topic within the broad ambit of Humanities and Social Sciences, including but not limited to:
Concept and Rationale
Following the long critical trajectory inaugurated by post-Independence Indian English fiction and
expanded by the transnational turn, South Asian Fiction in the 21st Century seeks to investigate
how writers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and the diaspora reinterpret the region’s
social, cultural, and ecological histories amid conditions of global flux. The book project shall
revisit questions of identity and belonging through three conceptual coordinates, viz., memory,
mobility, and the posthuman. These categories allow for an inclusive conversation between the
- Call for Presentation Proposals - Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference
Saturday July 11 – Sunday July 12, 2026
University College London (Bloomsbury Campus)
This is the exciting 29th Annual Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference!
Closing Date for Submissions: January 24, 2026*
The conference will be held in person.
Proposal submission: conference@greatwriting.org.uk
In an increasingly globalized yet hierarchically structured world, the questions of whose voices
are heard, and through what forms of representation, have never been more urgent. Within global
academic and cultural discourses, East Asian perspectives continue to negotiate their positions, seeking
to assert and articulate their own voices rather than being defined through dominant paradigms of
knowledge and interpretation.
We are pleased to invite submissions for the upcoming graduate symposium, “Margins,
The Henry James Society
CALL FOR PAPERS
37th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association
May 20-23, 2026, Palmer House, Chicago, IL
Minor Threads
“There are threads shorter and less tense, and I am far from implying that the minor, the coarser and less fruitful forms and degrees of moral reaction, as we may conveniently call it, may not yield lively results.”
Henry James. The Prefaces