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Theme: Hip Hop and Rap Conference
Tentative date: November 19-22
Location: Houston, TX
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Drawing inspiration from Adrienne Rich's seminal book Of Woman Born (1976), in 2006, Andrea O'Reilly coined the term "Motherhood Studies" and established a new interdisciplinary academic field aimed at studying "motherhood" as an institution and "mothering" as an experience. O'Reilly emphasized the importance of adopting a feminist framework designed expressly for mothers: a "matricentric feminism" necessary for an intersectional exploration of motherhood. Within "Motherhood Studies," being or not being a mother matters, and the experience of motherhood is treated as a category alongside gender, class, and race.
A small number of additional abstracts (on disability in German Literature) are currently being sought for an edited volume to be published by Metzler Publishing House (an imprint of Springer Nature). The volume adopts a comparative approach and examines representations of disability and/or addiction in German-language and Japanese literature. Interested scholars are invited to send a brief abstract or topic proposal as soon as possible to habib.tekin@hotmail.com and hayashih@kansai-u.ac.jp by 2.7.2026.
One hundred years:
still, the fire burns.
In 1926, Wallace Thurman, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Aaron Douglas lit a match called FIRE!!, a journal by younger Black artists who refused to wait for permission.
It ran one issue. It changed everything.
Now, we strike the match, one century later.
FIRE!!! returns to publish twenty-one new pieces, paid, in the spirit of the original.
There are seats at this table for emerging African American writers, poets, photographers, makers, and artists.
Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature invites article submissions on the topic of “planetary precarity” for its Winter 2027 issue. This special issue will consider how precarity is produced on both local and global scales. As we confront our own possible extinction-level threats caused by climate disaster and, supposedly, a future dominated by artificial superintelligence, we seek to investigate how the Victorians reconceived their own precarity in the face of extractive capitalism and ecological crisis.
Call for Papers:
Conference on Multiracial Democracy
University of Notre Dame
CFP: Smell Studies Journal
General Editors: Will Tullett, University of York and Manon Raffard, University of Manchester.
Editorial board: Andrew Kettler, Chanelle Dupuis, Jayanthan Sriram, Ally Louks, Hsuan Hsu, Sandra Barré.
Call for Abstracts for a Panel at SAMLA 98
Narratives of Displacement in Global South Literature
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions invites submissions for a special guest-edited issue on the subject of disclosure. Since the beginning of the modern UFO phenomenon in 1947, popular discourse on the subject has always included an intense speculative interest in the secret knowledge of the state, including and perhaps especially the military and intelligence agencies, who are widely suspected of harboring hidden knowledge about UFOs, their occupants, and nothing less than humanity’s ultimate place in the cosmos.
Florentina Holzinger & Co: Performing Pleasure, Risk and Rapture
Guest Editors
Dr Charlotte Farrell (University of New South Wales, Sydney)
Dr Anna Laura Wieczorek (Mozarteum University, Salzburg)
Special Issue of Contemporary Theatre Review Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Research in Children’s Literature
Special Issue: Global Perspectives in Queer Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Guest Editor: Cheeno Marlo Sayuno, PhD
Following the death of Marjane Satrapi, this session examines her legacy through the lens of graphic resistance, considering questions of form, memory, politics, religion, gender, and emancipation in her comics and their afterlives.
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Paper36481.htm
Global and Intersectional Framings of Disability in Comics & Graphic Narratives
Edited by Crystal Yin Lie (California State University, Long Beach) and Kai Qing Tan (Ghent University; Aachen University)
Er(r)go. Theory – Literature – Culture
Next Issue – 55 (2/2027) – game/play/idleness
submission deadline: 15 September 2026
CFP: German Romantic Humor across the Disciplines (9/30/2026; NeMLA; Sat March 6 - Tuesday March 9, 2027)
To be held at the 2027 Northeastern Modern Language Association (NeMLA) convention in Newport, Rhode Island.
This panel seeks to bring together scholars of literature, philosophy, history, art history, theology, musicology and/or related humanistic disciplines to discuss how humor shaped, and was shaped by, German Romanticism.
Embodying the WPA: Advice Narratives for Writing Program Administration
Edited by Jackie Hoermann-Elliott, Juliette Holder, Jennifer Judd, & Danielle Littlefield Brady
Even among the quietest of us, there are stories to be told. Stories of how we dressed for the campus visit, whether or not we drank wine with the search committee at dinner. Stories from the first year as the WPA, remembering how we physically composed (or contorted) ourselves and our offices for comfort – our own or others’. Stories of how we hugged a bereaved teacher, toasted in celebration, or laughed a little too loud at that one department meeting.
Abstract:This roundtable explores contemporary directions in life writing, biography, and memoir, with a particular interest in how we narrate the self amidst evolving issues of identity, culture, and power. We welcome both traditional scholarly essays and creative nonfiction/memoir submissions accompanied by a brief meta-analysis. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, autoethnography, digital self-representation, intersectional approaches to life writing, and the emerging impacts of technological shifts—such as generative AI—on authorship and equity.
Teaching the Young Adult Novel
American Literature Symposium – “The American Novel: Forms, Genres, Traditions”
Nov. 5-7 Santa Fe, NM
Green Day has often been treated as a problem in the “longview” of punk: too popular, too melodic, too commercial, too successful. Green Day and the Politics of Pop-Punk starts from the opposite assumption. Green Day matters precisely because the band’s career makes it impossible to separate punk from the mass-cultural conditions it has so often claimed to resist.
This proposed panel for the November 2026 Tunisian Association for English Language Studies International Conference | Home-Making: Reinventing Home in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures invites papers that examine Black and African fatherhood as a site of un-homing, home-making, and reinvention across Anglophone literatures and cultures. While scholarship on families has often centered mothers and children, fathers remain understudied as agents of domestic life, memory work, and cultural transmission.
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Appel à communications -- Congrès AFEC 2027
Le Canada face aux logiques de l’économie extractive : perspectives esthétiques, politiques, juridiques, historiques, économiques et environnementales
Université de Strasbourg, 23-25 juin 2027.
CfP- Speculative Fiction and Criticism in Precarious Times
‘Speculative Fiction and Criticism in Precarious Times’ is a conference celebrating a rich network of postgraduate research students working with speculative fiction and criticism across the United Kingdom. Taking place on Friday 18th September at Lancaster University, the conference will feature an array of diverse papers along with a plenary lecture (tbc) and a roundtable discussion from world-leading academics including Dr. Anna McFarlane and Dr. Oliver Langmead. This event is proudly funded by the NWCDTP Cohort Development Fund.
Surrealism and Arts-Based Research:
Bridging the Imagination and Reality Divide
A Transdisciplinary Conference
Conference Dates: September 29-30, 2026
Location: Online
Proposal Deadline: August 15, 2026
Fees:
£100 (for both presenters and attendees)
Prices exclude booking fees
Call for Papers
"Eastern Thought in the Americas"
RIAS Vol. 21, Fall-Winter (1/2028)
This issue of RIAS invites contributions on the theme of “Making Trouble: Subversions and Reclamations in American Imaginaries.” Engaging ongoing debates in global American Studies on power, representation, dissent, and cultural transformation, the issue seeks contributions that examine how American cultural, political, and social imaginaries are challenged, reworked, and reclaimed across diverse historical and geographical contexts. It invites interdisciplinary perspectives from the global field of American Studies and welcomes submissions from scholars worldwide.
The Black Sitcom:
A Comprehensive Survey with Critical Essays
1950 – 2000
Innovating for Sustainable Futures
The On Sustainability Research Network invites proposals for the Twenty-Third International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability, to be hosted from 20 to 22 January 2027 by the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, with integrated online participation via CGScholar Event (KX).
Motion Lines: Depicting movement in the early 20th century
18 Nov. 2026, Université Paris Nanterre
As its title indicates, this seminar will take a broad geographic and temporal view of the Harlem or New Negro Renaissance to invite considerations of the historicity and historiography of Black writing at the turn of the twentieth century. Seminar participants will be invited to consider how history shaped and was shaped by Black art, literature, and thought in the period stretching from approximately the end of Reconstruction through the Civil Rights era. How did Black writers, artists, and thinkers use historical concepts, forms, narratives, figures, events, philosophies, discourses, and other materials to craft original works of art and literature?
GERMAN
Die Germanistikabteilung der Philologischen Fakultät an der Lucian-Blaga-Universität Hermannstadt führt ihre Tagungsreihe mit dem Schwerpunkt Deutsche Literatur, Sprache und Kultur im südosteuropäischen Raum fort.
European Journal of Media, Art & Photography
ejmap.sk | Indexed in WoS Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) | Q1 in art journals category
European Journal of Media, Art & Photography
ejmap.sk | Indexed in WoS Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) | Q1 in art journals category
Edited by Juliana Luna Freire (Universidade Federal da Paraíba UFPB), Rong Huang (Peking University), Lucy Blaney-Liable (University of Stuttgart)
Confirmed publisher Editora UFPB (Brazil)
Following Guan and Scott (2025), there is a need to rethink pedagogical practices in language teaching and their real impact on health students and their future work in the medical field.
We propose, as discussed by Ferguson (2025), a deeper discussion on the contexts of English for Medical Purposes (EMP), as well as the prevalent use of English in this field.
The Elizabeth Bowen Review is an open access online journal, publishing essays on all aspects of Elizabeth Bowen’s work and life. The Editors are now accepting submissions for Volume Eight. The focus for the volume is ‘Why Bowen Matters’, the title of the symposium organised by the Irish Writers’ Centre in June 2026, but essays on any area of her life and work will also be welcome. Completed essays should be submitted by 30th September 2026. Essays should be no more than 6,000 words in length excluding bibliography and footnotes, and use the Harvard referencing system. All essays are subject to double blind peer review.
Queer as Method:
Transdisciplinary Approaches to Art, Research and Resistance
an online transdisciplinary conference
September 11-12, 2026
Online, Via Zoom
Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/06/15/queer-as-method/
Proposal deadline: August 1, 2026
This panel considers the often overlooked presence of flora and fauna in early modern print, whether they appear as marginalia, within printers’ ornaments, or as materially integral to books. Animals and plants always carry symbolic value—a single image sometimes carrying diametrically opposed values—and participate in a broader network of signification through emblems, printers’ ornaments, marginalia, and engraven images. Do those values come into tension with each other via the margin, the marginal, and the marginalized? In what ways do peripheral plants and animals comment on questions of identity, like gender, race, or disability?
"Making Trouble: Subversions and Reclamations in American Imaginaries"
RIAS Vol. 21, Fall-Winter (2/2028)
This issue of RIAS invites contributions on the theme of “Making Trouble: Subversions and Reclamations in American Imaginaries.” Engaging ongoing debates in global American Studies on power, representation, dissent, and cultural transformation, the issue seeks contributions that examine how American cultural, political, and social imaginaries are challenged, reworked, and reclaimed across diverse historical and geographical contexts. It invites interdisciplinary perspectives from the global field of American Studies and welcomes submissions from scholars worldwide.
*Call for Chapters* for our upcoming edited volume, Adaptive Learning and AI: Global Socio-Technical Discourses, co edited with Dr. Debanjali Roy , Dr. N P Subheesh, and Dr. Sobin C.C.The book has already received a Letter of Intent (LOI) from Peter Lang and, upon publication, will be submitted for indexing in Scopus.This volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on AI-driven adaptive learning, moving beyond technocentric frameworks to engage with its epistemological, pedagogical, and socio-political implications.
"Archipelagic Imaginaries and the Americas: Islands - Narratives - Mythologies"
RIAS Vol. 20, Fall-Winter (2/2027)
"Imaginarios Archipelágicos y las Américas: Islas – Narrativas – Mitologías"
RIAS Vol. 20, Otoño–Invierno (2/2027)
The Hispanic Caribbean literary canon of the 19th and 21st centuries—spanning Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic—frequently wrestles with the complex dynamics of narrative erasure and authorial control. While these vibrant traditions offer profound insights into regional identity, certain texts replicate systemic marginalization by silencing minoritized characters or speaking entirely for them or over them. Whether rendering Afro-Caribbean, Indigenous, queer, or working-class figures completely voiceless, or problematically assuming their perspectives through a privileged lens, authors within this geographic sphere can inadvertently reinforce colonial and class hierarchies.
This panel invites proposals that examine acts of remembrance and care of an individual’s or a collective’s past that lead to empowerment and change. Papers may address historical or contemporary works in art, architecture, film, recordings, and literature, and may engage theoretical, critical, pedagogical, or archival practices. Drawing from Valérie Perrin’s novels Forgotten on Sundays (2015) and Fresh Water for Flowers (2019), soon to be on the screen by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, memory work enables individuals to feel visible, situate themselves in a collective, and solve piece puzzles through inquiry. Such work is often relegated to women’s labor, caregivers, and hired help who go beyond roles and job duties to make personal connections.
“Science and Sensibility: Method Meets Art”
A Transdisciplinary Conference
Date: October 17-18, 2026
Location: University of Oxford, UK and online
Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/06/15/science-and-sensibility-2026/
Alchemy: Exploring Metaphorical Transformations and Arts-Based Research
Date: November 14-15, 2026
Location: University of Oxford, UK and online
Conference page: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/06/15/alchemy-2026/
Fees (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)
Prices exclude Eventbrite fees
International Conference
The Artificial Mind: Art and Philosophy after AI
24-25 September 2026
National Gallery of Art
22 Konstitucijos Ave.
Vilnius, Lithuania
The title “Artificial Mind” references Claude Lévi-Strauss’ The Savage Mind (La Pensée sauvage (1962), a foundational work in anthropology, in which he argues that “savage” and “civilized” thought share the same epistemological architecture – differing not in structure but in mode of operations. While the “civilized” engineer works with purpose-built concepts and tools toward a specific end, the “savage” bricoleur thinks with whatever is at hand, constructing new meanings from fragments.
About the Conference
The conference, “Narratives of the Mind: Media, Literature and Culture,” is conceived as an interdisciplinary platform for examining the complex and evolving representations of the human mind across diverse branches: literature, culture, and media . In this context, the “mind” is not regarded solely as a structural or biological entity, but as a dynamic site shaped by language, narrative, ideology, technology, and cultural practices. By foregrounding narratives, the conference aims to illuminate how mental experiences are constructed, expressed, mediated, and contested across time and space.
We invite original book chapter proposals for the upcoming edited volume“Emergence of New World Imagination in the 20th Century Asia:Understanding the Asian Colonial Countries through the Lens of Travelogues, Memoirs, Testimonies and Archival Documents" to be published with an International publishing house. This edited book aims to provide a multidisciplinary platform for advanced doctoral students, researchers, academicians and faculty members to publish their original works with us.
Brief Synopsis :
International Journal of Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Abstract:
Mediapolis – International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies y open access online journal, drawing a connection between culture and the built environment – understood in the broadest sense. We publish research in different forms, from research articles to Q&A interviews and readings list, and across different academic fields, including but not limited to media studies, urban studies, geography, architecture and art history as well as digital humanities.
Call for Submissions for “Ariel’s Corner” (Miranda e-journal)
Submissions for ‘Ariel’s Corner’ section of Miranda e-journal are open.
Miranda is a scholarly e-journal focusing on a wide range of social and cultural practices of the English-speaking world and encouraging the broadest possible spectrum of scholarly approaches. A special section, called ‘Ariel’s Corner,’ is dedicated to the arts in the English-speaking world.
In this CFP, we are looking for essays that take up the issues of the Speculative Genre (you can interpret this in many ways, though the sciences, technologies, and alternative social structures are usually instrumental in these realms) as it is manifest in the literary production of the Czechs and Slovaks, whether this was during the 1800s or it is a current manifestation.
We are interested in review essays, literary scholarship, and in translations of original works from Czech or Slovak.
You can submit essays and reviews for consideration here: https://astralcourier.subfolios.com/submit/578/essays-reviews
Call for Conference Papers
"Live Long and Prosper": 60 Years of Star Trek in Popular Culture - 10-11 September 2026
Free and Online
The Popular Culture Research Network, Australia
In September 1966, the first episode of Star Trek aired on American television, introducing audiences to a future shaped by exploration, diplomacy, scientific discovery, and the possibility of social progress beyond the limitations of the present.