About the Event 

The Michigan State University (MSU) Comics Forum is a triennial gathering of scholars, creators, librarians, and fans committed to exploring comics culture. The Forum reflects MSU's sustained investment in comics as an area of research, teaching, digital humanities, and public engagement. The Forum welcomes proposals from across disciplines. All presentations must focus on the medium of comics, broadly understood — including graphic novels, serial comics, webcomics, experimental and hybrid forms, zines, and related graphic practices. 

2027 Themes 

This year's Forum invites scholarship organized around the following thematic and methodological priorities 

CFP: The medieval reception of Greek antiquity The Annual Conference of the Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies at the University of South Florida. April 22-24, 2027. Attendance is in person at the USF campus, Tampa, FL. This interdisciplinary conference will explore the reception of ancient Greek texts in the Middle Ages (roughly, 500–1400 CE). We seek contributions treating the influence of Greek texts on, e.g., medieval philosophy, theology, science, historiography, education, literature, and art. Contributions may fall into the following (non-exhaustive) categories:

                                                       Animal Studies Across Disciplines Symposium
                                                                     April 7th-April 9th 2027
                                                                     Arizona State University
                                                                        Polytechnic Campus

Yale 6th Annual Symposium for Accessibility and Disability: Call for Proposals

Crip Translations: Access, Technology, Context

CALL FOR PAPERS

Zora Neale Hurston Society & The Zora Neale Hurston Forum
International Conference 2027

“Jump at de Sun: Zora Neale Hurston’s Global Legacy, Scholarship & Future”

January 7, 2027 | Virtual International Conference

In celebration of Zora Neale Hurston’s 136th birthday, the Zora Neale Hurston Society, in connection with its scholarly journal, The Zora Neale Hurston Forum, invites scholars, educators, graduate students, independent scholars, writers, artists, and interdisciplinary thinkers from around the world to participate in its 2027 International Conference.

Editors Introduction:

While John Carpenter’s Halloween catapulted the slasher subgenre to the front of popular culture, Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th (1980) cemented the formula with a higher body count and an increased focus on sex, violence, and gore. Alongside Black Christmas, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Halloween, the Friday the 13th series helped establish many of the conventions that fans are now accustomed to, and its first sequel introduced an iconic killer with Jason Voorhees. The success of the original film led to a franchise comprised of twelve theatrical films as of 2026, in addition to a short film released in 2025 and a 2026 television series.

Call For Papers: ASLE 2027, “Territory, Terroir, Terror” 22-24 June 2027. University of Maryland, College Park. 

Seminar Title: Extraterrestrial Evolutions: Posthuman Subjectivity and Alien Ecologies

 Contact: D.E. St. John, University of Alabama in Huntsville, dej0009@uah.edu

Environmental Hope: Genres and Methods

Environmental humanists and literary scholars have many genres for theorizing environmental fear, injustice, despair, or pessimism. Environmental gothic, noir, picaresque, horror, and crime fiction are all genres theoretically defined by and committed to engaging with exploitation and terror in historically and formally specific ways. And the hermeneutic of suspicion, devoted to diagnosing and revealing obscured forces and causes, is especially attuned to those that produce systemic violence. We know how to read for necropolitics, colonialism and neocolonialism, anti-Blackness, objectification, and misogyny.

Conference Theme: Gateways

For its 2027 annual conference, the College English Association (CEA) invites proposals for papers and panels that explore the theme of “Gateways” and their significance in literature, criticism, and pedagogy.  

Call for Papers: Special Topic "The Profession" at CEA 2027

Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri

The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel

Narrative is among the most enduring and adaptive structures of human meaning-making. Across millennia, it has evolved from oral performance and manuscript cultures to print, cinema, broadcast television, digital platforms, and now algorithmically curated streaming environments and AI-assisted compositions.

Call for Chapters

Architectures of Deceit: Fraud, Imposture, and Deception in Contemporary Screen Culture

(under consideration byEdinburgh University Press)

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Mystery, Suspense, and True Crime for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

Theme: Technology, Ecology and Extinction: Narratives of Survival and Loss
Date: 5-6 March 2027, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Organisers: Symbiosis Centre for Media and Communication (SCMC), Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India

Abstract:

The Winter's Tale: From Page to Stage

IASEMS Tempera Seminar 2027 University of Padova, Department of Language and Literary Studies, 7-9 June 2027

Convenors: Rocco Coronato, Alice Equestri, Alessandra Petrina

Scientific Committee: Rocco Coronato, Alice Equestri, Alessandra Petrina, and the IASEMS Executive Board

Guest Editors for the Special Issue
Carlos André Cordeiro de Oliveira (Federal Institute of Paraiba, Brazil)
Alfredo Adolfo Cordiviola (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)
Danielle Grace de Almeida (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)
Nishat Zaidi (Jamia Millia Islamia Central University, NewDelhi, India)
Paul Melo e Castro (University of Glasgow, Scotland)

Call for Papers: Creative Writing at CEA 2027

Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri

The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Creative Writing for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

AI & Antiquity: Journal of Teaching and Technology in Ancient Studies invites contributions for its first Special Issue, Playing Antiquity: Video Games, Teaching and Historical Knowledge, to be published in June 2027.

Video games have become one of the major environments through which students and wider audiences encounter the ancient world. Yet their significance for Ancient Studies extends beyond questions of historical accuracy. Through mechanics, rules, maps, narratives, economies, political systems, and player choice, games transform particular interpretations of Antiquity into interactive and playable systems.

Storyworlds is an interdisciplinary journal of narrative studies. We publish cutting-edge research on storytelling practices across times, cultures, and media. The journal foregrounds research questions that cut across established disciplines and seeks to promote the understanding of narrative and storytelling as worldmaking—and worldbreaking—practices. 

We currently have a number of books available or forthcoming for review. 

AI and Sovereignty

Artificial intelligence is transforming the conditions through which power is exercised, distributed, and legitimized. The development and deployment of AI systems involve not only technological questions, but also fundamental issues concerning language, communication, authority, identity, autonomy, control, and sovereignty.

Caste and Capitalism in Contemporary India

Call for Papers: Mystery, Suspense, and True Crime at CEA 2027

Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri

The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Mystery, Suspense, and True Crime for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

“Borderless World: Text, Image, and Sound” 

Florida State University, Tallahassee 

April 1-2, 2027 

How do we imagine life beyond borders? How do disparate texts, images, sounds, bodies, languages, and histories become interconnected? What does it mean to inhabit a world where boundaries are unstable, permeable, or altogether absent? Conversely, how are borders constantly produced, negotiated, and challenged through acts of creation, interpretation, and community-building? 

Call for Papers

The BCPS Conference, inaugurated in 1992, is the oldest and longest-running annual meeting of its kind in the U.S. We call for presentations situated in colonial and postcolonial histories, literatures, creative and performing arts, politics, economics, and all other aspects of the countries formerly colonized by Britain and other European powers.

Please join us at Georgia Southern University's Armstrong Campus in Savannah for the critical engagement, friendly community, and vibrant network that has been a hallmark of the BCPS Conference for over three decades.

We invite proposals situated in both thematic and geographic areas, including:

Call for Papers: BIPOC & Asian American Literature at CEA 2027 (4/1-4/3/27)

Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri

The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on BIPOC & Asian American Literature for our 2027 conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org