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The journal Gender Studies (see details about the journal here: https://reference-global.com/journal/GENST) invites contributions for a forthcoming special section on “Life-Writing and Gendered Trauma,” to be published in the 2027 issue.
CALL FOR PAPERS (CFP)
Bharatiya Bhasha Pariwar: Indian Languages and Shared Expression in the Age of Digital Media and AI
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issue 21 | Postcolonial Horror: Violence, Terror, and the Decolonial Imagination | fall 2027
Editors: Francesca Furlan (University of Padua), Marco Petrelli (University of Pisa), and Alice Salion (University of Padua)
Call for Proposals
Special Issue of Study the South: Performed Plantations
Editors: Teresa Simone and Zayne Vance, University of Mississippi
Contact email: tesimone@olemiss.edu
Deadline for proposals: December 15, 2026.
We seek proposals for interdisciplinary creative works and papers for a special issue of Study the South, a peer-reviewed, multimedia, online journal by the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
Creative responses might include: videos, art, image galleries, scripts, animation, etc.
'witness'
We live in a media culture saturated with exposure: livestreamed violence, viral confession, algorithmic archives, state inquiries, surveillance footage, and ecological catastrophe rendered in real time. Testimony circulates rapidly, often before it can be contextualised or absorbed. Truth claims are asserted, contested, amplified, and undermined within institutional and digital infrastructures that shape what counts as evidence and who is recognised as credible.
For All Which We Inherit: Theorizing about Black Male Social Inheritance Both Directions at Once
Authors: Amir A. Gilmore, Washington State University; Mike Browne, Napcast
Under Contract with Peter Lang
See full call here
Project’s Detailed Description
The Kate Chopin International Society is seeking individual proposals for two sponsored panels at the 2027 American Literature Association conference in Boston, Massachusetts, May 26–29, 2027
The first panel, a roundtable on “Teaching Kate Chopin,” seeks short (seven- to eight-minute) papers/remarks that address any aspect of or strategy for teaching Chopin’s life or work to today’s students—to students of any kind at any level using any materials or technology in any educational environment anywhere. Proposals should include a title, your name and affiliation, and a paragraph about your proposed remarks. Roundtable chaired by Heather Ostman.
Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Annual Interdisciplinary Spring Academy Conference
Heidelberg, Germany, April 5-9, 2027
Call for Papers
The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for its annual Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion to be held from April 5-9, 2027.
Call for Papers: John Kinsella – Writing Wrongs
A Special Issue of Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature
Guest Editors: Dr Nicholas Duddy and Dr Joseph Steinberg
Immersion is a key concept in the fantastic. From the 3D worlds of Avatar to the in-depth lore of The Lord of the Rings, fantastic narratives thrive on the idea of immersing us in worlds so detailed that we feel as if we are really there. Fantastic worlds often come with their own detailed maps, histories, languages, and cultures, creating the illusion of being a real place. Media industries invest heavily in producing technologies of immersion, such as 4D cinema or VR games. Immersion is one of Henry Jenkins’ “Seven Core Principles of Transmedia Storytelling”, while Mark J.P.
Reading and discussing stories that include representations of sexual assault involves a paradox. There is a need to represent, expose, and challenge the ideologies and systems that enable such assault. At the same time, interacting with such representations can be an imposition on those who experience sexual violence, misogyny, and cisheterosexism. Because sexual assault trauma is often felt in the body in recurring reverberations throughout a person’s life, textual representations of it may trigger a trauma response. Rape culture ensures that sexual assault remains obscured by shame and victim-blaming, making it profoundly difficult to resolve sexual assault trauma.
The Kate Chopin International Society is seeking individual proposals for two sponsored panels at the 2027 American Literature Association conference in Boston, Massachusetts, May 26–29, 2027
The first panel, a roundtable on “Teaching Kate Chopin,” seeks short (seven- to eight-minute) papers/remarks that address any aspect of or strategy for teaching Chopin’s life or work to today’s students—to students of any kind at any level using any materials or technology in any educational environment anywhere. Proposals should include a title, your name and affiliation, and a paragraph about your proposed remarks. Roundtable chaired by Heather Ostman.
Food is essential to the survival of the living, but its cultural significance does not cease at death. Across South Asia, death and mourning are accompanied by a range of food-related practices: cooking, offering, carrying, abstaining, fasting, feeding, sharing, distributing, refusing, burying, burning, or disposing of food. Meals may be prepared for mourners; particular foods may be offered to the deceased, ancestors, spirits, religious specialists, or members of the community; certain ingredients may be prohibited during mourning; and food may be placed beside the dead, carried to cremation or burial sites, offered at shrines or monasteries, distributed among participants, or consumed collectively as part of commemorative rites.
The Kate Chopin International Society is seeking individual proposals for two sponsored panels at the 2027 American Literature Association conference in Boston, Massachusetts, May 26–29, 2027
The first panel, a roundtable on “Teaching Kate Chopin,” seeks short (seven- to eight-minute) papers/remarks that address any aspect of or strategy for teaching Chopin’s life or work to today’s students—to students of any kind at any level using any materials or technology in any educational environment anywhere. Proposals should include a title, your name and affiliation, and a paragraph about your proposed remarks. Roundtable chaired by Heather Ostman.
Consider the Radiance: On the Life and Poetry of A.R. Ammons
SYMPOSIUM ON THE WORK OF A.R. AMMONS
Cornell University, April 30, 2027
Join us in a celebration of the life and poetry of A.R. Ammons. This symposium will reflect the current state of scholarship on Ammons just as it will honor his life and career. Ammons, who taught in the English Department at Cornell from 1964 to 1998, was known for his book-length poems (Garbage, Tape for the Turn of the Year, Glare, andSphere) and for short, meditative lyrics, filled with the objects of everyday life.
CFP for ISLJ-Sponsored Session at RSVP 2027 Annual Conference in Ottawa, Canada:
Designing Youth: Child Creators and the Victorian Periodical
The BRIDGS Initiative is now accepting applications to the Emergent Scholars Fellowship. Applications due November 15th, 2
Housed in the Arizona State University Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Bringing Research and Innovation into the Debate on Guns in Society (BRIDGS) brings social science approaches to the gun debate to forge a forum for those across the debate to engage, learn, and elevate. America is a Gun Culture: The Third Annual BRIDGS Guns in Society Symposium February 25 - 26, 2027Arizona State University Downtown CampusPhoenix, Arizona America doesn’t have a gun culture. It is a gun culture. Framing gun culture in this way asks us to consider the pre-eminence of guns in US society as a shared–if also complex and contradictory–experience, even as our social worlds become ever-more fragmented.
2027 Association for Asian American Studies Panel Proposal
Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work in the Shadows of Capitalism
Boston March 24-27, 2027
Subject Area:
Disasters and Apocalyptic Culture
Submission Deadline: Oct 31, 2026
Scope of the paper topics accepted under this area:
Dance(d) Forms - Shakespeare and Dance - ESRA international conference, Bangor University, Wales, July 27-30, 2027
In 2014 and 2023, Falmouth University hosted two of its most successful conferences: Haunted Landscapes. This conference is round three of that event, which will again be held in beautiful Cornwall on the Falmouth Campus, set in lush tropical gardens and only a few minutes’ walk away from its picturesque town and beaches.
Call for Papers
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026
Call for Chapters
Nocturnal Dissent: State Oppression, Control and Urban Resistance in Indian Literature and Cinema
(Call for Book Chapters)
Editors:
Subashish Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor, Munshi Premchand Mahavidyalaya, University of North Bengal, India
&
Saikat Pradhan, Senior Research Fellow, University of North Bengal, India
To be published under a Book Series by a reputed international publishing house (Our first choices are Routledge and Bloomsbury)
About the book:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Affective Worlds: Emotions and Aesthetics in Afro-Descendant Women’s Writing International Conference
24–25 May 2027, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
Format: in person
Language: English
Link to the CfP: https://clic.research.vub.be/afropemotions-international-conference
“The monster is born only at this metaphoric crossroads, as an embodiment of a certain cultural moment—of a time, a feeling, and a place. The monster's body quite literally incorporates fear, desire, anxiety, and fantasy (ataractic or incendiary), giving them life and an uncanny independence. The monstrous body is pure culture.”
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen. “Monster Culture (Seven Theses).”
Join us for 2027’s Dis/Junctions, a hybrid, graduate-run conference held March 4-5. The conference will feature both in-person and virtual panels and events. In-person programming will be hosted on the University of California, Riverside campus.
In recent decades, South Korean popular culture, commonly referred to as the Hallyu Wave, has taken the world by storm. Whether through K-Pop, K-dramas, or Korean cinema, this cultural phenomenon has eSountered a phase of “compressed modernity” (Kyung-Sup 1999, 2010), wherein the world appears smaller as Korean popular culture makes significant inroads not only across East Asia but also in countries such as the United States, Brazil, Argentina, various African nations, Europe, and South Asia.
Myth in Literature and Music
University of Angers, France, 30 June – 3 July 2027
The Interdisciplinary Center for Research on Heritage in Arts and Languages (CIRPaLL) at the University of Angers is proud to host the 15th Conference of the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA) on Myth in Literature and Music from 30 June to 3 July 2027 at the Maison de la Recherche Germaine Tillionin Angers, France.
Over the past three decades, fan studies have developed sophisticated accounts of participatory culture, collective intelligence, affective engagement, and transformative practices (Jenkins 2006; Booth 2015; Hills 2017). At the same time, scholarship has increasingly addressed the investigative dimensions of audience participation. Mittell’s concept of “forensic fandom” (2009), for example, highlights practices of close reading, clue collection, speculation, and collaborative interpretation in response to complex narrative worlds. Fans thus become active investigators who uncover hidden meanings, solve mysteries, and assemble fragmented information across media texts. More recently, such investigative practices have expanded beyond fictional worlds.
In 2023, the Library of America published a collection of Faulkner’s short stories, the sixth volume of its edition of William Faulkner’s works, which shows a keen and never-ending interest in a part of his work which was perceived by academics in varying ways. In 2017, the prestigious French collection La Pléiade published a 1824-page-long volume containing all of Faulkner’s short stories, including collected, uncollected, posthumous and original versions of stories reworked and incorporated in The Town and The Mansion, in translations revisited by François Pitavy. Faulkner himself admitted: “I never wrote a short story I liked” (Lion in the Garden 59).
Dear Colleagues, and friends
We are holding the conference 'Late Bowie: Legacy, Mortality and the Archival Impulse' at Kingston university, in our state of the art Visconti recording studio, Kingston Hill, on Nov 5th and 6th of this year.
We have a really exciting programme with some great speakers and guests. These include Harriet Reed (Project Lead, Bowie Archive, V&A Storehouse East; Clare Watt (Bowie fellow, V&A); Peter Carpenter (author of Bowieland: Walking in the Footsteps of David [Octopus Books, 2025]); British film and TV producer Kevin Loader and Jonathan Barnbrook, graphic designer of Bowie;s albums from Heathen (2002) to Blackstar (2016).
The 4th Global Plant Humanities Network Conference
Urban Plantscapes: Cities, Working Landscape, and Botanical Life
30 June – 2 July 2027
University of Rzeszów, Poland
Plenary speakers:
Michael Marder, the University of the Basque Country, Spain
International Conference on
Environmental Precarity and Planetary Aesthetics: Voices, Epistemologies, and Geopolitics of the Global South
25 & 26 February 2027
Organised by the Department of English, Bodoland University, Kokrajhar, India
Concept note
AfroLatinx Studies is not an emerging field. It is a field of study with a past that can be traced back to the 15th century and an ongoing political and intellectual project. The recent formation and institutionalization of AfroLatinx studies does not make it new. It is an area of knowledge production rooted in the African diaspora and migration patterns to the United States and hemispherically. Black diasporic epistemologies, archives (material and embodied), and cultural production of AfroLatinx lives have been catalysts to the formation of the field. As AfroLatinx Studies becomes an institutionalized field of study questions like: what is the work of AfroLatinx Studies? What has it been?
Renewed call for chapter proposals
Off the Stage: Performance Practices in Postcolonial India
(forthcoming in 2027)
The editor is pleased to issue a renewed call for chapter proposals for the edited volume Off the Stage: Performance Practices in Postcolonial India, scheduled for publication in 2027 by an internationally renowned UK-based publishing house. This renewed call has become necessary owing to a few last-minute withdrawals and the non-submission of some previously committed chapters.
Comparative Cinema No. 28 – Summer 2027
A Rose by Any Other Name: Approaches to Audiovisual Adaptations
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 11, 2026
NeMLA
March 6-9, 2027
Newport, RI
Submit paper proposals here: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/22354
Proposed Book Title
Urban Palimpsests: Indian Cities, Identity, and Modernity in Anglophone Literature
Editors: Md Rakibul Islam* & Md Jakir Hossain**
Call for Papers
Imagining Italy: Transatlantic Encounters, Diaspora, and Cultural Belonging
Date: June 24-27, 2027
Location: University of Macerata
Abstracts & Proposals Due: Friday, February 26, 2027
Notifications Sent Out by Monday, March 8, 2027
Submittable Link:
CfP Death in the Eyes 3 – The Iconographies of Death in Cinema: Personae, Representations, and ImaginariesUniversity of L’Aquila (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila), Italy, 24-25 June 2027 Keynote Speakers: Stacey Abbott (Northumbria University, UK) and Katarzyna Ancuta (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) Few cinematic images have entered the collective imagination as profoundly as Death in Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet, 1957).
PSi#32, İstanbul, Türkiye, Call for Proposals
(Turkish version follows below.)
Performance Studies international #32
Call for Papers
15–19 September 2027
İstanbul, Türkiye
Performance Studies international (PSi), in collaboration with Performistanbul in İstanbul, Türkiye, invites responses to the call for proposals for the PSi#32 Conference in 2027.
Conference Theme: MEYDAN
The 2027 Telos-Paul Piccone Institute Annual Conference
March 19–20, 2027
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College/CUNY
New York, NY
Deus et Machina: Technology, Politics, and Theology in the Age of AI
Call for Papers: British Literature, pre-1600 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 British Literature, pre-1660 for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
Call for Papers
7th Spiral Film and Philosophy Conference
“Resilience”
Vancouver, Canada
May 6-8, 2027
The Spiral Film and Philosophy collective is delighted to announce that its seventh full conference will take place at the University of British Columbia between 6 and 8 May 2027. With this in mind, we are calling for proposals from scholars to take part in the conference, the theme of which this year is resilience.
The Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University is thrilled to host the 12th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium on March 4-6, 2027.
The Post45 Graduate Symposium seeks graduate-level works-in-progress related to post-1945 media, arts, literature, textual or visual objects, digital platforms, politics, and culture. We welcome submissions that expand our conception of objects and meaning-making post-1945 or place them in comparative, transnational, or hemispheric frames. We especially welcome contributions that foreground the importance of race, gender, class, and sexuality to post-45 studies.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS THE THING IN THE DARK An International Anthology of Micro Fiction
Submissions email: specialanthologyfreshwordsmag@gmail.com
Website:https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/announcements
There are things we see in the dark.
And then there are things we are certain we saw.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS THE DOOR OPENS AT MIDNIGHT An International Anthology of Three-Page Plays
Email all submission to:dramaanthologyfreshwords@gmail.com
Website:https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/announcements
At 11:59, it is an ordinary night.
At midnight, the door opens.
Who is standing outside?
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS HAIKU AFTER DARK An International Halloween Haiku Anthology
Email all submissions to: specialanthologyfreshwordsmag@gmail.com
Website:https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/announcements
The moon is awake.
The house is quiet.
Something moves behind the curtain.