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We invite proposals for a small number of additional chapters for an edited volume on animal adaptations, edited by Justyna Włodarczyk (University of Warsaw) and Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck).
Abstract:
This panel reexamines life writing in the age of Generative AI, asking who controls the conditions under which individuals narrate their own lives. Submissions reflecting on how AI corporations and Generative AI models are reshaping life writing practices across textual, digital, and visual formats, or on the consequences of such practices for authorship, equity, and cultural power, are especially welcome.
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Society for the Study of Affect (SSA)
#MAKE: Methods, Atmospheres, Knowledges, Energies
Vancouver, BC, October 23 to 25, 2026
Abstracts due May 29, 2026
Submit here: https://affectsociety.com/make/conference/?submit=paper&stream_id=10
S16. Insurgent Residues of Extraction
A Matter of Life and Death
Call for Papers: Victorians Institute Conference 2026
September 11-13, 2026, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Knoxville, TN
Following along from the urgency of last year’s theme, Victorian Studies: Who Cares? this year’s theme asks conference participants to consider matters of life and death in the Victorian era. What did it mean to live and die in Victorian England? How are matters of life and death reflected in the literature of the time?
Beyond Conventional Screens: New Approaches to Audiovisual Storytelling - Call for Chapter Proposals
Edited by Sotiris Petridis
Artificial Intelligence, Faith, and Epistemic Coherence
Session Organizer: Dr. Houman Mehrabian, University Canada West
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Alfred Hermida, University of British Columbia
2027 will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the passing of radical ecologist and labor organizer Judi Bari. Best known for her leadership in the 1990 Redwood Summer campaign in Northern California, Bari sought to overcome the entrenched division between environmentalists and timber workers by identifying corporate capital as the common force exploiting both labor and forests. Her politics extended beyond direct action and formal organizing to include music, storytelling as agitation, and public spectacle, all mobilized to cultivate ecological consciousness within a framework of working-class solidarity.
Date of conference: 28-29 August, 2026
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 5 July 2026
Online, international, interdisciplinary conference titled:
A Letter to Video Games:The Mechanisms of Emotions
The Forum Section invites scholars to reflect on the different ways that their research and/or pedagogy has intertwined with their lives in relation to the theme of the Volume. It is a more immediate exploration of how one’s research is shaped out of one’s personal experiences and positionalities. This section was introduced in 2023, encouraging contributors to experiment with styles outside academic writing to tease out the intricacies of pedagogy, research, and lived experience. Forum pieces can be more personal and self-reflective, and can include open ended enquiries. There are aspects of research that never make it to the research paper.
LFA 2026: ADAPTATION/NATION
LITERATURE/FILM ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
Elon University, Elon, NC
October 1st – 3rd 2026
DEADLINE UPDATED TO JUNE 1ST 2026 due to late application demand. Please continue to share widely.
CFP: “American Carnage”
Canadian Association for American Studies, October 23-25, 2026 (In person at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
NEW: Visit our website: https://american-carnage.ca
International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies [IJHASS]
http://deepublisher.com/Jnl/hass/Home.html
ISSN : 1831-622N 2974-5862 (Print)
*** May Issue***
Call for papers
Indian Knowledge System Cell,
Post Graduate Department of English,
And
Post Graduate Department of Economics,
SRI GURU TEG BAHADUR KHALSA COLLEGE,
SRI ANANDPUR SAHIB-140118,
PUNJAB, INDIA
organizes
Two-days International Conference
On
Indian Knowledge System: Perspectives and Imperatives
(6-7 August, 2026)
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Late Diagnosis and Neurodivergence:Autoethnographies and Creative Narratives of Recognition
Edited by Tess Ezzy | University of New England Proposals due: 31 July 2026 | Final works due: 30 November 2026
Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism
A Transdisciplinary Conference
July 16-17, 2026
July 16: In person participation at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park (and online)
July 17: 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:
2026 Pacific Ancient Modern Langauges Association (November 12-15) in person in Seattle
"I Think I'm Gonna Die in this House": Spatiality and Class in Film & Literature
submission link:
https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/20015
Abstract:
The Aquatic Presence-Absence in World Literatures
Critical Language and Literary Studies (CLLS) invites original, unpublished research articles for a themed issue to be published in Fall 2026. The theme is examining aquatic presences and absences in world literatures.
Call for Papers – 2nd International CLOSURE Conference
Tropes of Comics and Manga
Kiel, November 19–21, 2026
Translating Resistance:
Literary Activism in Conflict and Solidarity
Funded in part by The International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) Regional Workshop Fund
Scholars, researchers, and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this two-day workshop, hosted by Binghamton University (SUNY), to be held in New York on October 3–4, 2026.
Call for Book Chapters
Heated Rivalry: Queer Joy and Intimate Masculinity on Television
** Under review with a major international publisher **
Australia from Below: Lived Histories and Material Cultures of Everyday Life
The editors of Australia from Below: Lived Histories and Material Cultures of Everyday Lifeareinviting you submit a research article, essay, creative work, poetic or other creative work reflecting the diversity of ways in which lived experience and material culture can be explored.
Edible Witness: Cookbooks, Recipes, and the Social History of Women
Jo Coghlan and Sherrie Gavin, editors
University of New England
** Edited Collection for Vernon Press, The Cultural Politics of Witnessing Book Series. Under contract **
The Mid-Atlantic Review is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published annually by the College English Association Mid-Atlantic Group (CEAMAG). The journal specializes in literary and cultural criticism, discussions of pedagogy, public humanities work, reviews of scholarly books published in the last two years, personal essays concerned with the teaching of English, photographs and visual art related to the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, and creative writing clearly related to the humanities, teaching, or the craft and art of writing. The Mid-Atlantic Review is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography and available to scholars through the EBSCO and ProQuest Literature databases.
Animal Adaptations
We invite proposals for a small number of additional chapters for an edited volume on animal adaptations, edited by Justyna Włodarczyk (University of Warsaw) and Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck).
PAMLA Seattle (2026) - November 12-15, all in-person conference
2027 is the centenary year of the birth of US American poet and Pulitzer Prize-winner, Galway Kinnell (1927-2014). This session seeks to celebrate his life and legacy while pointing to future thematic and prosodic engagement in Kinnellian studies. Papers offering approaches to any aspect of Kinnell’s work are invited and most welcome.
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Uncharismatic Aliens: Weird Life on Earth and Beyond in Science Fiction and Bio Art
International Conference – Porto, Portugal
(June 5th 2026)
You are invited to submit a paper to the session "Passing Novels Now and Then:Gender, Class" at the 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Languagae Association (PAMLA) conference in Seatlle, WA from Nov. 12-15, 2026.
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You are invited to submit a paper proposal to the session "(Almost) Fifty Tears Later: Reception of Octavia Butler's Kindred" at the 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Languagae Association (PAMLA) conference in Seatlle, WA from Nov. 12-15, 2026.
You are invited to submit a paper proposal to the session "International Bildungsroman" at the 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Languagae Association (PAMLA) conference in Seatlle, WA from Nov. 12-15, 2026.
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Gender (In)Equity (SDG #5) and the Global South
The "Animals & Culture" Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association's call for papers for our 2026 virtual conference is live! See our details below (or at https://www.northeastpca.org/conference-areas):
The "Animals & Culture" area explores the complex and multifaceted intersections between animals, animal representations, society, and popular culture.
International Conference on Gender Studies: “Gender and Crime”5-6 September 2026 – London/Onlineorganised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary ResearchThe relationship between gender and crime has long been a subject of scholarly interest across a wide range of disciplines. Gender influences how crime is committed, experienced, represented, prosecuted and remembered. It shapes both the realities of criminal behaviour and the social, cultural and institutional responses to it.This international conference invites scholars to examine the link between gender and crime from interdisciplinary perspectives.
"Narratives of Displacement" International Conference
17-18 October 2026 - London /Online
organised by
"Memory and Trauma"International Conference5-6 December 2026 - London/Onlineorganised byLondon Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
Memory and trauma are two deeply interconnected phenomena that have captivated the attention of scholars and professionals across various disciplines. Understanding the complex interplay between these two elements is essential for comprehending how individuals, communities, and societies cope with and recover from traumatic experiences.
"AI and Society: Ethics, Creativity and Power in the Digital Age"International Conference30-31 January 2027 – London / Online
organised by
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
Artificial Intelligence is no longer a speculative horizon — it is an active force reshaping how we work, create, govern, communicate and understand what it means to be human. From generative AI and automated decision-making to algorithmic governance and digital surveillance, AI technologies are transforming social structures, cultural production and everyday life at an unprecedented pace.
Call for Chapters
Edited Volume: Rethinking M.R. James: Antiquarianism, Horror, and the Supernatural
Editor: Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash, Fellow of Social Science Research Council
Introduction
Submissions open: June 15, 2026 – August 1, 2026
Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies welcomes submissions for its October 2026 issue, which seeks to reconsider how literature translates bodily experience into writing and visibility, and how the body, in turn, discloses and shapes literary meaning.
This session focuses on British literature and culture of the long 19th century. Particularly welcome are proposals on underrepresented works, on the 150th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s proclamation as Empress of India and on the 125th anniversary of her passing, on Neo-Victorianism, and on the conference theme “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict.”
While any proposals dealing with British literature and culture of the long 19th century are welcome, these topics related to the conference theme are of special interest:
University of Surrey
27-28 September 2026
Spring 2026 'Theory Today' Workshop w. Prof. Eugenie Brinkema.
Eugenie Brinkema’s research in film and critical theory focuses on violence, affect, sexuality, aesthetics, and ethics in texts ranging from the horror film to gonzo pornography, from the body of films dubbed “New European Extremism” to works of literature and continental philosophy. She is the author of The Forms of Affect (2014) and Life-Destroying Diagrams (2022), among many other essays and articles.
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Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Fall Conference October 15th to 17th - Online
Call for Papers: Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies Area
Please submit abstracts of 250–400 words and a short 100-word bio to the linked form below.
The Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies area, part of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Fall Online Conference (October 15–17, 2026), features the newly established conference area and Digital Swift Symposium, a curated space for interdisciplinary scholarship on popular music, fandom, gender, authorship, and digital culture.
In our current postdigital condition, digital technology is so deeply embedded in everyday life that the distinction between technical and natural is becoming increasingly blurred and images have become mere byproducts of our embodied co-existence with digital media. At the same time, we see that visual forms are continuously rendered obsolete by the rapidly evolving algorithmic processes. In new media, we are no longer even looking at “the image” any more, but rather always only at a version of an image that can be infinitely modified. Cameras are regularly used to connect the eye and the machine in a way that serves no aesthetic goal, creating purely “operational images” (Harun Farocki).
CfP – Contested Ground: Ownership and Belonging in the Middle Ages
Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, 3rd-4th September
We’re delighted to announce a new online event to mark Dickens’s passing. On this occasion, our theme does not dwell on the Inimitable’s death, but focuses instead on his ever-expanding life on the big and small screen. Dickens was first adapted for silent cinema in 1901, and since then his work has appeared countless times on film and television. Since Dickens’s Bicentenary in 2012, a number of significant screen adaptations have appeared, including Armando Iannucci’s Personal History of David Copperfield (2019), Steven Knight’s Great Expectations (2023), two Artful Dodger character adaptations, and multiple versions of A Christmas Carol.
In recognition of the 100th anniversary of the publication of O.E. Rolvaag’s Giants in the
Earth, the Norwegian American Historical Association seeks contributions to an edited
volume reconsidering Rolvaag and his life’s works to be published in 2027.
Articles in the volume can address this topic from a variety of analytical and disciplinary
perspectives, and may have a biographical, literary, and/or historical focus. Topics that
extend our understanding of the Norwegian-American experience through analyzing
Rolvaag and his writings in the context of new historical eras, new geographical eras,
cross-cultural encounters, and/or innovative applications of theoretical models are
particularly encouraged.
The 123rd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in Seattle at the Hyatt Regency Seattle, from Thursday, November 12, to Sunday, November 15, 2026.
Cultural History:
CFP: Special Issue of The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (15.2 2026) on K-Pop, deadline 15th June 2026.
In keeping with the presidential theme of the 2026 MMLA Conference, “After the Archives,” to be held in Chicago from November 12-14, 2026, papers that incorporate and/or interrogate the archives are welcomed for this year’s panel on American Literature before 1870.
This is a call for paper for an edited volume “(Re)Imagining Gender in Post-Covid Times: Transformations and Possibilities” which looks into the transformations that have occurred in gender relations in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic, which was a global crisis, had a considerable impact in different aspects and reinforced pre-existing inequalities across gender, sexuality, class, caste, and other spheres of marginality. This edited volume aims to closely examine these transformations through the lens of gender as the primary variable in understanding post-pandemic societies.