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Art and/as Knowledge in American Contexts
Special Issue of the Polish Journal for American Studies
This special issue asks what American art knows – and how that knowledge is produced.
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:
We would like to invite you to join and contribute to the 2nd Shapeshifters Symposium: Plasticity – Here, There, and Everywhere. This symposium brings together people interested in plasticity from a broad range of perspectives, from the natural and formal sciences to the social sciences, humanities, and art. During the symposium, we hope to further expand the concept of plasticity across disciplines.
Who are we? We are a group of interdisciplinary researchers working on the concept of plasticity, sponsored by the DutchCentre for Unusual Collaborations.
Date & Venue
19th – 21st November 2026, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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
A Writer’s Palette: Colour in Late Modernist Literature
Special Issue CfP for Textual Practice
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)
In the 2000s and 2010s, social networking facilitated citizen-based activism of enormous significance like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo. But in the 2020s, corporate enshittification and government surveillance have restricted the reach of social networking tools. For example, Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter meant that many users left X rather than adapt their activist practices to the restrictive corporate environment (Tenbarge & Collier 2024). Instances such as the Trump administration’s use of social media posts to target international students during the Gaza protests caused many users to avoid social media altogether (Lonas Cochran 2025).
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
Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities is a new peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of cultural and social issues related to complex cosmopolitan identities arising from mobile global childhoods which transcend conventional categories of migrancy and diaspora.
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.
June, 17th and 18th 2027, Université de Rouen-Normandie
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.
The SMU Conference on AI-Era Teaching: Innovative Pedagogy and Reimagined Classrooms will take place at South Mediterranean University, Tunisia. This research-oriented event brings together scholars, educators, instructional designers, and researchers to explore evidence-based pedagogical innovation in technology-mediated and AI-enhanced learning environments. This conference provides an international platform to present academic research, foster interdisciplinary dialogue, and advance collaboration on the future of teaching and learning in the AI era.
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.
Hindutva and Capitalism in Contemporary India
Caste and Capitalism in Contemporary India
Animal Studies Across Disciplines Symposium
April 7th-April 9th 2027
Arizona State University
Polytechnic Campus
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
The Gothic Servant
deadline for submissions:
September 29, 2026
contact email:
full name / name of organization:
NeMLA
Conference will take place March 6-9, 2027 at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island
“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: 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
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:
Travelling Cultural Heritage
Circulation and Digital Afterlives
Call for PapersCultural Heritage Lab International Conference4th edition
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
December 10-11, 2026
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
International Workshop: Decolonising Utopia? Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives
5-6 February, Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus
How does financialization shift our relationship to the future? And what new insights emerge when we decenter northern approaches in our analysis?
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.
CFP for Futures of Memory Conference 2027
Performing the Past, Witnessing (for) the Future: Memory in the Posthumanist Era
This peer-reviewed fast-track collection seeks to publish innovative approaches to teaching Aphra Behn’s work, building on existing critical and pedagogical scholarship.
We do invite essays on Behn’s most-taught work, Oroonoko, but we aim particularly to give sustained attention to the full range of her literary life, and are especially interested in proposals about works that have been shown to be amenable to modern undergraduate teaching: the plays, the shorter fiction, the poems.
PKMS Graduate Student Conference and Workshop: Dinner Party Medieval Studies
Thursday, February 18 – Friday, February 19 2027
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Postcolonial Interventions invites scholarly articles for the January 2027 issue on the theme of Popular Culture and the Rise of the Right.
The 34th Annual NINE Spring Training Conference (March 3-6, 2027) invites original unpublished papers that study all aspects of baseball, with particular emphasis on history, literature, and social policy implications. Abstracts only, not to exceed 300 words, should be submitted by December 4, 2026, to co-directors Willie Steele (wdsteele@lipscomb.edu) and David Pegram (david.pegram@paradisevalley.edu) for the abstract committee’s consideration. We ask that you please copy your submission to both of us.
This is the second call for papers for the edited volume tentatively titled ‘Visual Propaganda in an Era of Instability’. Based on distinct case studies explored in a wide range of book chapters, the main objective of the volume is to analyse the role of the image in driving public opinion and perception. The first call for papers generated a strong response and resulted in a number of high-quality contributions. During the review process, however, it became clear that several important dimensions of contemporary visual propaganda remained underrepresented. To address these gaps, we are issuing a second call for papers and expanding the historical timeframe under consideration from 2020 onwards to 2014 onwards.
We would like to invite you to join and contribute to the 2nd Shapeshifters Symposium: Plasticity – Here, There, and Everywhere. This symposium brings together people interested in plasticity from a broad range of perspectives, from the natural and formal sciences to the social sciences, humanities, and art. During the symposium, we hope to further expand the concept of plasticity across disciplines.
Who are we? We are a group of interdisciplinary researchers working on the concept of plasticity, sponsored by the Dutch Centre for Unusual Collaborations.
Date & Venue
Call for Chapters: Digital Assessment Ecosystems and Learning Analytics
Book Title: Digital Assessment Ecosystems and Learning Analytics: Bridging Pedagogical Evaluation and Social Equity Publisher: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
An International Conference on Climate Change and Epistemic Recovery: Indigenous Pathways
Submission of abstract: 1 October 2026
Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2026
Organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, in academic collaboration with the Department of English, Bodoland University, Kokrajhar
Concept Note:
ICMS 2027 Deadline Extended to September 22nd, 2026. Still accepting abstracts for the session "Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Medievalisms in British Literature"
CALL FOR PAPERSBetter MenHealing Masculinity and Dismantling Patriarchy From Within
What would it mean for a man to come home to himself?
Not the patriarchal self shaped by silence and performance, but the divine masculine. Patriarchy teaches men that strength has no needs, that manhood means enduring and providing. What does it look like to reclaim a masculine self that knows how to grieve and how to celebrate, how to ask for help and how to offer it, how to listen and how to share?
"Hogg’s Worlds Now"The James Hogg Society is delighted to announce that we will be holding a conference at the University of Glasgow on July 2-4, 2027. We warmly invite paper proposals that engage with any aspect of Hogg’s life and writing and with the broader community of authors associated with Scottish Romanticism. The first volume of The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg was published over thirty years ago now, and the edition is still ongoing, with several collections of Hogg’s periodical publications recently released.
Sonic mismatches in contemporary audiovisual media
Abstract
CALL FOR CHAPTERS
TITLE: Siri Hustvedt, Gender, and the Critical Medical Humanities
Rationale and Scope
Call for Proposals: Sessions, Panels, Papers
Come join a vivid and diverse community of scholars and professionals to discuss the history and depiction of the sea through a popular culture perspective!
We are considering proposals for individual papers, panels, creative sessions, and roundtables. Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour slots, typically with four papers or speakers per session. Scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, and working professionals are all encouraged to submit. Proposals may include (but are not restricted to):
Call for Proposals
Submissions due:
Editors: Michael Domínguez and Julia Reade
Teaching Protest, Teaching as Protest: Pedagogies and Narratives in Contentious Times
Call for Proposals: AI and the Humanities An Interdisciplinary Conference Hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee Southern
March 6-7, 2027 | Pulaski, Tennessee
Proposal Deadline: October 20, 2026
The University of Tennessee Southern is pleased to announce an interdisciplinary conference exploring the crucial intersection of AI and the Humanities.
Conference dates: March 6-7, 2027
Submission deadline: October 20, 2026
Location: University of Tennessee Southern, Pulaski, TN
Call for Proposals:
REVISED – August 17, 2026
International Federation for Theatre Research Conference
28 June – 2 July 2027
Nafplion – Greece
University of the Peloponnese
Department of Performing and Digital Arts
Theme:
Hybridity - Rethinking borders and boundaries in theatre/performance and beyond
Celebrating 70 years of IFTR (1957-2027) @Nafplio
IFTR African and Caribbean Theatre and Performance Working Group
Website
https://www.iftr-african-and-caribbean-theatre-and-performance.com/
Dear Colleagues,
Please circulate the following CFP for NeMLA 2027, particularly among colleagues working in the fields of posthumanism, ecocriticism, the Anthropocene, or New Materialism. Thank you and have a great semester!
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NeMla session: Ecologies of the Human and Nonhuman in Italian Literature
The Military Gaze: War, Intelligence and Security on Twenty-First-Century Screens
Edited Collection
ed. Jo Coghlan, University of New England, Australia
The Military Gaze: War, Intelligence and Security on Twenty-First-Century Screens
This session explores how Indigenous literary and cultural productions transform histories of colonial violence, dispossession, and erasure into acts of community witness and collective empowerment. Across Native American, First Nations, and other Indigenous traditions, writers have challenged state-controlled narratives that render Indigenous experiences invisible, replacing imposed silence with storytelling practices rooted in survivance, kinship, and communal memory.
Three decades on, the founding categories of trauma theory: belatedness, aporia, the unspeakable, the event that cannot be claimed, remain largely those of a single archive: European, modernist, post-Holocaust. Stef Craps’s decolonising critique (2010; 2013; 2014) has exposed the field’s marginalisation of non-Western suffering, its universalisation of a Euro-American psycho-diagnostic invention, its prescription of fragmentary modernist techniques as its defining form, and its neglect of the connections between metropolitan and other histories of violence. Yet that critique has been prosecuted largely through postcolonial and Anglophone Global South materials.
From Christopher Strachey’s Love Letter Generator to today’s generative AI writing tools and multimodal models, AI technologies are reshaping how literary works are created, adapted, and circulated across media. Texts can now be generated, illustrated, voiced, animated, and transformed into comics, audiobooks, visual art, and video, prompting renewed questions about creativity, form, authorship, authenticity, and human agency.This seminar asks: Can AI-generated literature and art be understood as forms of artificial creativity? Does AI expand, automate, or redefine human creativity? How does human–AI collaboration challenge traditional ideas of authorship and authenticity?