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Editors: Federico Bertoni (University of Bologna), Gabriele D’Amato (University of L’Aquila and Ghent University), Luca Diani (University of L’Aquila), Massimo Fusillo (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
For this guaranteed session of the TC Religion and Literature forum at the January 2027 MLA convention, we invite papers focusing on literatures of migration and spirituality. Given the convention’s location in Los Angeles, we especially welcome proposals that consider authors and texts with connections to LA and the city as a site of contact, dialogue, and religious syncretism.
Papers might consider, for example:
- Memoirs of migration in place and faith
- Religious affect in literatures of exile and precarity
- Indigenous survival and reemergent spiritual practices in and around LA
- Sacred spaces and urban geography
CFP for a Special Session on "Books and Reading in Hispanic Queer Culture"2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles (7-10 January 2027) Proposals sought on the roles of books, print culture or reading in the consolidation of queer identities or communities in Spanish-speaking or Hispanic contexts. Send 200-250-word abstracts and 100-word bios. Submissions in English or Spanish are welcome.
Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Jeffrey Zamostny, Kansas State University (jzamostny@ksu.edu )
CFP: Lydia Maria Child Society
American Literature Association Conference in Chicago
20–23 May 2026 at the Palmer House
https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/
Revised Deadline: January 26, 2026
Political Rhetoric and Emotions in the Work of Lydia Maria Child
The Victorians Institute Journal (VIJ) is still accepting submissions through April 1st for Volume 53, which will be published later this year. The 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. For further details on the Victorians Institute Journal, visit
Speculative Narratives Beyond Consensus Reality: Navigating the Senses from Wonder to Horror
International Interdisciplinary Conference
29th – 30th June and 1st July, 2026
Venue: Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Conference Organisers: Popular Culture Group
We invite scholars, researchers, and artists to submit abstracts for the upcoming academic conference, Speculative Narratives Beyond Consensus Reality: Navigating the Senses from Wonder to Horror. This event will explore the transformative potential of speculative narratives – across literature, film, visual arts, and other media – in breaking free from the boundaries of “consensus reality.”
The Australasian Modernist Studies Network and Modernist Studies in Asia present
JOINT AMSN / MSIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
NOVEMBER 19-21, 2026
In 1916, interviewed for the New York Times, the poet-diplomat Robert Underwood Johnson took up the “new movement” in poetry: “There is an intoxication about the way our contemporary poets fling themselves into a dauntless quest for self-expression.” “Alas!,” he went on, “this is just the trouble! For intoxication is no more desirable in poetry than in the household. Intoxication is not the state of mind in which, as Matthew Arnold says, one may ‘see life clearly and see it whole’.”
SDSU Press Presents
[caption] the journal of visual cultural studies
Issue 001 – “CAPTION THIS”
[caption] emerges from the collision of theory and spectacle. Annual, audacious, and gloriously hybrid, the journal stages encounters between scholarship and image-making—where Arbus’s restless gaze meets the ghosts of Benjamin, Mulvey, and Stuart Hall. We publish work that refuses to choose between seeing and thinking, between the archive and the avant-garde.
The Jadavpur University Sociology Consortium (JUSC) invites original papers based upon the theme of "Rethinking Development: State, Society and Consciousness" for PERSPECTIVES, a hybrid-mode paper presentation to be held as part of its annual academic conclave, Lifeworld 2025–26. Themes for the paper presentation involve, but are not limited to:
Extended Deadline: February 15, 2026!
Call for Papers
Knowledge in the Age of AI: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Learning, Writing, and Teaching
The English Graduate Organization at North Dakota State University (NDSU) invites proposals for the 2026 Red River Valley Graduate Student Conference, April 10-11, 2026, on the beautiful NDSU campus in Fargo, North Dakota.
Call for Presenters Submit to present for the 2nd Annual Black Scholars in Podcasting Virtual Conference “Picture Me Storytelling”, Saturday, March 28, 2026, 1 pm CST / 2 pm EST via Zoom. The deadline for submission is February 11, 2026, with notification expected by February 16, 2026.Please use the Google form (linked) to make your submission: https://forms.gle/7b6Bs3PUwSfWaCMv7 This is a call for active scholar podcasters, faculty who teach with podcasts, and/or whose current research agenda includes podcasting.
Call for Papers: Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds
Special Issue: ‘Save State: Ethics, Politics and Poetics of Video Game Preservation’
Guest Editors: Paweł Frelik (University of Warsaw), Magdalena Kozyra (SWPS University), Tomasz Z. Majkowski (Jagiellonian University)
Important Dates
Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 March 2026
Notification of Acceptance: 10 March 2026
Full Article Submission: 15 June 2026
Peer Review Returned: 1 August 2026
Revised Article Submission: 31 August 2026
Accelerationism Revisited
15 June 2026, University College Dublin, Ireland
Guest Speaker: Hari Kunzru, interviewed by Mark O’Connell
Further speakers TBC
The recent Mandarin Chinese translation of The Canterbury Tales (Linking Publishing, 2025) by Dr. Francis K. H. So offers a timely opportunity to reflect on the growing presence, vitality, and diversity of Chaucerian studies outside the Anglophone world. This significant contribution not only opens new avenues for engaging with Geoffrey Chaucer’s language and narrative art, but also foregrounds the crucial role of translation, pedagogy, and local scholarly traditions in shaping how Chaucer is read, interpreted, and taught across different linguistic and cultural contexts.
A conference hosted by the graduate students of the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study
Keynote TBA
March 15 at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
While last year’s Media Study conference asked us to imagine artistic and research creation during the world’s prescribed end, this year we imagine methods of existing, creating, and remediating beyond our present moment.
Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism
A Transdisciplinary Conference
July 18-19, 2026
July 18: In person participation at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park (and online)
July 19: Fully online
Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/01/21/ecopoetics2026/
Fees** (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)
**Prices exclude Eventbrite fees
Call for Presentations:
In 2016, Oxford Dictionaries named “post-truth” its Word of the Year, marking a shift towards skepticism of facts and scientific institutions alongside the rising influence of emotion and opinion in shaping public knowledge. In the decade since, we have witnessed the further erosion of consensus truth as multiple constructions of the “real” proliferate throughout divergent media ecosystems, accelerated by emerging technologies and polarizing political orientations towards race, gender, class, and sexuality.
The Dos Passos Society has extended the deadline for its 2026 biennial conference in Posta do Sol, Madeira, by one week to February 8th. We do hope you will join us in Madeira this May for a celebration of the life and works of one of America's greatest chroniclers of the twentieth century.
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The John Dos Passos Society is proud to announce its 2026 biennial conference in Ponta do Sol, Madeira Island, Portugal. The conference will be held at the John Dos Passos Cultural Center in the municipality of Ponta do Sol, the home of the author's Portuguese ancestors.
Jürgen Habermas suggested that it is through communicative action, that is reasoned and open discourse, that we transmit, change, and recreate cultural knowledge, and that in so-doing we can achieve mutual understanding.
Communicative action and communicative rationality are self-reflexive dialogues through which we can learn from others, question dominant paradigms, and advocate for cultural change.
International Symposium: SDGs through Hindu Worldviews – Spiritual Care in a VUCA–BANI World
February 25–26, 2026 | IIT (BHU), Varanasi | Hybrid (Online + Offline)
Concept Note
Circus Historical Society Convention 2026
The 2026 Circus Historical Society Convention will be held in Baraboo Wisconsin from June 10 – 13, 2026. Convention will conclude with Baraboo’s Big Top Parade. Registration and other information will be available soon.
Call for Papers
Proposals are now being accepted for Convention presentations on any subject related to circus history. We invite proposals for single speakers and groups. All proposals must be received using the online form by March 31, 2026. Visit https://circushistory.org/next-convention/ to submit your proposal today.
2026 CHS Student Prize
Conference online (via Zoom): 12-13 March 2026
CFP:
Centre for Comparative Literature, Bhasha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati,
in collaboration with
Department of Yogic Art and Science, Vinaya Bhavana, Visva-Bharati
presents
Of Clay and Dust
6 days extensive body movement workshop
Body awareness
Narrative based movements
Body conditioning
Introduction to Odissi with marshal arts like Mayurbhanj Chhau and Kalaripayattu
Introduction to basic Abhinaya
How to work with musicians and script
How to develop performance
Facilitated by Monami Nandy
February 16-21, 2026
Venue: Dhyana Kutir, Yoga Village Premises, Vinaya Bhavana, Visva-Bharati
“Unfinished Declarations: Independence, Identity, and Imagination in American Culture”
Hosted by the Irish Association for American Studies
Date: 24th and 25th April 2026
Location: Ulster University, Coleraine Campus, Northern Ireland
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
Our conference theme, “All Things Made New: Creation, Re-creation, and Redemption,” aims to explore the multifaceted dimensions of the creative and re-creative acts embedded in our discipline practices and the works we study. As a number of Christian scholars have pointed out, reading and writing literature is one way we can carry out our responsibility to establish a world that pleases and praises God by cultivating its potential. Just as Adam and Eve cultivated the fruits of the Garden of Eden, so are we to cultivate the talents and abilities God has given us in all areas: technology, literature, art, music, science, social and political structures, etc.
Global Perestroika and Soviet Literatures
Conference and Subsequent Edited Volume
University of Dresden, March 18–21, 2027
Organizers:
Klavdia Smola (Technology University of Dresden)
Naomi Caffee (Reed College)
Zachary Hicks (UC Berkeley)
29th Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference
University of Mississippi
August 8th—9th, 2026
Call for Submissions
Supernatural South(s): The Monstrous, The Fantastic, The Grotesque, The Speculative and So On…
The Southern Writers/Southern Writing Conference (SW/SW) is an interdisciplinary conference, welcoming graduate students, creative writers, activists, and community members with interest in the U.S. or Global South from all departments and fields of study. The 29th meeting of SW/SW will be held at the University of Mississippi from August 8th-August 9th, 2026.
“Channels and Chokepoints: Tracing the Pathways of Long Nineteenth-Century Indian Fiction”
Sponsored by the NAVSA Empire & Colonialism Caucus
The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies has foregrounded special issues as crucial sites for shaping emerging conversations, opening new interdisciplinary pathways, and bringing into visibility critical questions that cut across literature, culture, philosophy, interdisciplinary humanities, and posthumanities thinking. Continuing this commitment, we invite proposals from potential guest editors for several forthcoming special issues of the journal as we shift from our recent annual issue format to a bi-annual format in an attempt to revive the previous publication schedule of the journal (2014-2019).
International Society for Philosophy in Film Fifth Annual Symposium Call for Abstracts
August 20-22, 2026
London, England
Victorian popular fiction is replete with animals – racing horses, loyal dogs, caged birds, exotic creatures, and anthropomorphic companions. These beings carried immense symbolic significance: they could function as status symbols, metaphors for the body or soul, expressions of sentiment, or instruments of moral instruction. Animals also frequently offered a lens through which Victorians addressed issues surrounding empire, industrialisation, science, social mobility, and domesticity. In popular fiction, animals were not merely background – they were moral barometers, class indicators, narrative devices, and symbols of broader anxieties regarding industrialisation, gender roles, and empire.
H2D (Revista de Humanidades Digitais) is an interdisciplinary Diamond Open Access journal dedicated to advancing research and dialogue in Digital Humanities. We welcome contributions that explore how digital tools and methods reshape humanities scholarship and practice, bridging humanistic inquiry and technological innovation while engaging contemporary societal challenges aligned with the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
Call for Papers 2026
Deadline: February 28th 2026
Theme: Gender and Supernatural
“You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.” Macbeth 1.3.46-47
Dear Colleagues,
Call for Submissions
Eye to the Telescope Guest Editor Angela Acosta is accepting poetry submissions for Issue 60, Paying Tribute
The Zeitpyramide in Germany gains a new block every decade to mark the passage of time until the year 3183. Will future humans remember this art installation, or will it cease to have any meaning by the next millennium?
The Text, an International Peer Reviewed Online Journal of Language, Literature and Critical Theory (ISSN: 2581-9526)invites original, unpublished research papers for July 2026 issue.
Indexed in:
1. ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
2. IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research)
3. Citefactor (Directory Indexing of International Research Journals)
4. DRJI (The Directory of Research Journal Indexing)
5. ResearchBib (Research Bible)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Anglica: An International Journal of English Studies
Thematic Issue 2027
Apocalypse as Utopia:
Hopeful Visions of Apocalypses in Literature, Media and Culture
Guest Editors:
Magdalena Cieślak, University of Lodz
Paola Spinozzi, University of Ferrara
Katarzyna Więckowska, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun
SPECIAL ISSUE of FERAL FEMINSISMS
Feral Intelligence (FI): New Queer Approaches to Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI)
// Abstract Deadline: March 15, 2026
The Society for the Study of American Poetry invites proposals for a roundtable to be held at the 37th annual American Literature Association conference in Chicago, IL, May 20-23, 2026.
Roundtable: “Teaching American Poetry Now”
This roundtable invites participants to reflect on the challenges, possibilities, and urgencies of teaching American poetry in the current moment. Across institutions, student populations, and media environments, instructors are rethinking how—and why—we teach American poetry now.
The Society for the Study of American Poetry invites proposals for a session to be held at the 37th annual American Literature Association conference in Chicago, IL, May 20-23, 2026.
Panel: Mediating American Poetry
This panel invites papers that examine American poetry through the lens of media, broadly construed and across historical periods. We seek work that explores how poetic production, circulation, reception, and interpretation have been shaped by media forms—from print technologies and the history of the book to digital platforms, archives, and social media.
Announcing
The 2026 First Book Institute
May 31-June 6, 2026
Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University
Co-Directors
Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature
Sean X. Goudie, Director of the Center for American Literary Studies and Past Winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book
Call for Papers - Doctoral Conference
Restanza. Linguistic, Literary and Geographical Imageries of Permanence
University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara
Pescara, 4-5 June 2026
Doctoral Course in Languages, Literatures, Cultures in Contact Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
«Restare, quindi, non è statica come azione,
ma dinamica, non cristallizza il presente ma si permea di futuro»(Teti, 2022: 119).
CFP | Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society (PEHS) session
American Literature Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, May 20-23, 2026
Hopkins’s America, Then & Now
CALL FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS TO SERVE AS KEYNOTE AND PLENARY SPEAKERS: due by 2/08/26
The Undergraduate and Graduate Victorian Studies Association (UGSVA) is announcing our fourth annual online conference. The UGSVA conference is run by a team of undergraduate and graduate students primarily from Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada and Carroll University, Waukesha, WI. The conference will take place on Tuesday April 28st from about 9:00 AM-4:00 PM EST (time approximate) via Zoom.
ECOS DEL INTERIOR: POTENCIALIDADES ESTÉTICAS Y POLÍTICAS DE LO AFECTIVO EN LA LITERATURA
Edificio A, Facultad de Filología de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 11 y 12 de mayo de 2026
Beginning with Jonathan Hickman’s House of X/Powers of X limited series, the Krakoan Age X-Men stories occur against the backdrop of the establishment of a post-scarcity and post-mortality mutant homeland on the living island of Krakoa. The Krakoan Age ran from 2019 and 2024 and included more than 500 issues spread across 80 different comic titles. Within this vast body of text, a dizzying plurality of story-types are explored, ranging from gritty police procedurals, to sprawling war stories, to cozy slice-of-life tales. The Krakoan Age stories are also notable in their creative and interesting engagement with religious stories and themes, particularly in series such as Way of X, Legion of X and The Onslaught Revelation.
Legacies of Performance: Inheriting Pasts & Imagining Futures
Graduate Student Symposium
Sponsored by the Department of Theater and Dance
University of California, Santa Barbara
April 18, 2026
“Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.” – Walter Benjamin, 1942
“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.” – Audre Lorde, 1978