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Tinta regada (Spilled Ink) a multilingual publication, invites submissions for a Series on Travel Writing (Literatura de viajes).
The editors of the literary magazine of the Instituto Nuevos Horizontes welcome personal commentaries, essays, poetry, short story and other forms, in any language, up to 2,500 words.
Send questions and submissions to nuevos.horizontes.uprm@gmail.com.
CALL FOR PAPERS
MELUS 2026 | Austin, Texas
Beyond the Page: Storytelling Across Media and Borders in Precarious Times
Co-Hosted by Southern Methodist University and The University of Texas at Austin
Co-Organizers: Frederick Luis Aldama (UTexas-Austin) and Christopher González (SMU)
Conference Dates: Thursday, April 30 – Saturday, May 2, 2026
Optional outings and welcome activities will take place on Wednesday evening, April 29, and Sunday morning, May 3.
CONFERENCE THEME
In a 1918 speech at Munich University, sociologist Max Weber observed a widespread cultural loss of belief in magic and the supernatural: “the fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization, and above all, by the ‘disenchantment of the world.’… the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life." Weber’s idea of disenchantment is borrowed from the Enlightenment-era playwright Fredrich Schiller's exploration of Entzauberung, the "de-divinizing" of art, literature, culture, and existence. As Richard Jenkins clarifies, Weber's disenchantment is “right at the heart of modernity,” a product of the world becoming “knowable, predictable, and manipulable by humans ...
This panel explores how Asian American literature, film, and television depict the diasporic struggle to assimilate, resist, and reconstruct identity within spaces and places in the United States. Spaces and places here refer to the urban/suburban/rural, the home, institutions, transitory spaces like highways, but also the lack of space, moments of displacement, and the absence of place. Where do we as readers and audiences find the Asian American physically? What are the affordances of such spaces and places in their construction of the Asian American individual? We welcome submissions that consider when and where Asian Americans can or cannot exist within the diasporic canon.
Addressing Ocean and Space Pollution Through the Arts: New Considerations on Indigenous Knowledges and Collaborative Practices
A conference organized by the ERC-funded research project OSPAPIK, the Centre des métiers d’art de la Polynésie française (CMAPf) and the Université de la Polynésie française (UPF, Vice-Présidence Dialogue Sciences, Cultures & Sociétés)
(For the CFP in French, please scroll down)
26-28 October 2026
Call for Papers
Digital & Analog Cultures
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025
TWO-DAY NATIONAL CONFERENCE
on
Precarity and Resistance: Bengali Muslim Experience and Contemporary India
on
15-16 November 2025
(Tentative Dates)
Organised by
Bengali Academia for Social Empowerment (BASE), Kolkata, West Bengal
in collaboration with
Department of English, Nagar College, Nagar, Murshidabad, West Bengal &
“Formats and Institutions of American Literary Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century” Editors: Philipp Löffler (Universität Heidelberg) and Alexander Starre (Freie Universität Berlin) Deadline for Abstracts: October 31, 2025 This edited collection addresses alternative modes of writing nineteenth-century literary history, spanning the evolution of the literary field from a narrow patronage system in the 1810s and 1820s to a broad and expanding commercial literary market around 1900. The framing of the volume cuts across traditional period distinctions, from the early Republic to turn-of-the-twentieth-century naturalism, as well as canonized literary movements.
Historical Fictions Research Conference, Erlangen (Germany),
19th-20th February 2026
Call for Papers
Deadline: 1st September 2025
Call for Papers – ACLA 2026 SeminarSeminar Title: Heteronormativity, Resistance and Censorship: Queer Gothic Narratives in South Asian DramaConference: American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting 2026Dates: February 26 – March 1, 2026Venue: Montréal, Canada (in person)
Organizers: Muhammad Numan, Faham Zeeshan (UMT Lahore)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025
CFP: 16th Annual African, African American, and Diaspora Studies (AAAD) Interdisciplinary Conference
A conference hosted by James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Conference Theme: Sanctuary: Sites of Survival and Spontaneity
February 11-13, 2026
Deadline: October 15, 2025
Call for Papers
Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster in Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025
Faculty Development Programme
Translation as Dialogue: Creative License, Crossover and Current Developments
(Hybrid Mode)
Organized by
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur
Important Dates
********DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 1st 2025********
Conference Location: NeMLA 2026 March 5-8, Pittsburgh, PA (virtual option available)
London Metropolitan University, in partnership with Vilnius University, invite proposals for conference papers for an international symposium “1984 and its afterlife: legacy, narratives, and the making of a community” to be held at London Metropolitan University, London, 18 – 19 December 2025. The symposium will be held in hybrid form, we are welcoming both on-site and online papers.
This symposium will explore the historical, social and cultural reverberations of the events of 1984 in India and abroad through the analysis of literature, films and artworks engaged with them.
CFP: M-C-M: Marx-Commodity-Modernism
Modernism/modernity Print+ Cluster
Editors: George Kovalenko (New York University) & Aleksandr Prigozhin (Utrecht University)
Abstracts due: 31 August 2025
Full papers due: 28 February 2026
We seek proposals for original essays that analyze the relationship between modernist artistic forms and the commodity form for a proposed peer-reviewed cluster on Modernism/modernity's Print+ platform.
The last decade of the Twentieth century witnessed a drastic shift from a ‘Bipolar’ to a ‘Unipolar’ world including the definition of the power politics and the diplomatic, economic and military status quo of the cold war era. Now the geographies of the globe had to shape the historical predictability, literary upsurges, socio-economic developments and psycho-cultural practices within the communities including the entire ecosystem of the various ecosophical narratives of climate change. In this context, ‘Geopolitics’ proved to the most apt term that invokes many things simultaneously. Political tussle and dominance is the most obvious meaning of the term that implicitly implies its global extent.
T&T VIII: ALGORITHMS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE CLASSROOM
APRIL 17-18, 2026
submission link:
https://forms.office.com/r/evbdv8etth
A guest-edited special issue of the journal SOUTHEAST OF NOW: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia. Editors: Louis Ho, Michelle Lim, Sushma Griffin Deadline for proposals and abstracts (in all formats):Nov 1, 2025 (please submit an abstract of 400-500 words, and a brief biographical note) Deadline for the submission of complete manuscripts for accepted proposals (in all formats):Mar 1, 2026 (please see below for more details about the submission formats) Please send all submissions for, and queries regarding, this issue to artecopol.seon@gmail.com. About the journal:Southeast of Now is a scholarly journal on art and visual cultur
As a vital medium of resistance, literature has long served as a cultural expression of oppression, displacement, censorship, and violence, offering both testimony and critique. Resistance narratives respond to the structures of domination that are colonial, patriarchal, racial, economic, and ecological. These texts often articulate alternative modes of existence, agency, and solidarity. While resistance may take multiple forms, it remains grounded in a shared ethical impulse: to challenge authority, expose injustice, and envision transformation.
Sixteenth International Conference on Food Studies, University of Osaka, Japan, 10-12 October 2026
Founded in 2011, the Food Studies Research Network is brought together around a common interest to explore new possibilities for sustainable food production and human nutrition, and associated impacts of food systems on culture. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
The Sixteenth International Conference on Food Studies calls for research addressing the following annual themes and special focus:
S23.Shakespeare in the Cloud(s) Organisers: Maria Elisa Montironi, Reto WincklerDescription: Shakespeare in the cloud(s) interrogates categories of temporality and spatiality in relation to digital Shakespeares in the form of performances, editing practices, adaptations, appropriations, community building, AI-revivifications, memes and more and explores their aesthetic and political implications.
Call for Papers
Translation and Interpreting Research (TIR)
Official Journal of the Research Institute for Translation Studies, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran
K-Pop Reader: Gender and Technology in K-pop
Edited Volume
We invite proposals for chapters in a forthcoming edited volume, Electric Bodies, Digital Souls: Gender and Technology in K-pop. This collection examines K-pop as a key site for negotiating gender and identity in the digital age, where artificial intelligence (AI), algorithmic mediation, and posthuman aesthetics are reshaping what it means to be a gendered subject.
This is an Emergency (Archive): Recording, Remembering, Resisting, Refusing Under Catastrophe
Editors: Kathryn Manis, Bibhushana Poudyal, Patty Wilde, and Ma-Ya
The 97th annual SAMLA Conference is taking place Thursday, November, 6, through Saturday, November, 8, 2025, at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, GA. For more information, see https://southatlanticmla.org/.
MRDS continues its annual tradition of inviting all scholars new to the field of early drama studies—especially graduate students, recent PhDs, and early career researchers (within four years of receiving the degree)—to submit their work to the panel. The panel will consist of four papers and commentary from a respondent.
MRDS welcomes all approaches to early drama studies for this open-topic session. Proposed papers do not have to speak to the Congress’s proposed topic of “temporalities,” however, papers related to this general topic will be especially welcome.
The Trans* Research Association of Ireland (TRAI)’s 2nd Annual Symposium is the sequel to the groundbreaking first T*RAI symposium hosted at the University College Dublin in 2024. This two-day symposium will bring together international scholars, artists and activists from across, between and against disciplines, all of whom are committed to research on transness and/or Irishness, broadly conceived.
This interdisciplinary (hybrid) conference considers the role of universities in war past and present. Historically, the university experience in war is of loss, displacement, depleting student numbers, reallocation of staff to expert roles to support the war effort, students and staff engaged in active duty, and campus buildings re-purposed. Universities also become key for a country’s postwar reconstruction. However, not all universities have direct experience of conflict. This conference considers how universities operate in war zones and the role universities play in non-conflict zones to support the academy and the communities they serve in war and displacement.
Concept Note
The 5th Annual Humanities Podcasting
Network Symposium: “Podcasting & Power”
Oct. 24th & 25, 2025 (Virtual)
Call For Panels and Presentations
SEND ALL SUBMISSIONS TO THIS LINK: https://forms.gle/8rfmnbBmYDoNKVxeA
Punk rock isn’t something you grow out of. Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is ‘give us some truth.’”
— Joe Strummer
CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Fear as a Political Emotion: The Rise of New Violent Orders (Nova Science Publishers).
Maximiliano E Korstanje, University of Palermo, Argentina
Adrian Scribano, CONICET, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cultural Constellations: A Journal of Literature and Art
deadline for submissions:
September 30, 2025
full name / name of organization:
Cultural Constellations / University of Maryland Global Campus Europe
contact email:
CulturalConstellations-Europe@UMGC.edu
For Reference:
https://europe.umgc.edu/content/dam/umgc-europe/documents/upload/cultura...
Cultural Constellations: A Journal of Literature and Art
Starfish are echinoderms with a unique ability called autotomy where they can regenerate lost limbs. There are times when these creatures will even sacrifice a limb to save themselves. However, whether through natural causes or detriment, we learn that loss can equal a new beginning. These new appendages are not always exact matches. Nevertheless, these misshaped, Frankensteined pieces, marred by experience, can represent a new foundation that is more powerful, vigorous, efficient, and even healthier.
Call for Papers:
Global Committee Panel on
"Borders, Bridges and Belonging:
Neighborhoods in Global Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture"
Deadline: September 30, 2025
11:59 p.m. (Eastern US Standard Time)
Children's Literature Association Conference
May 28-30, 2026
Omni William Penn Hotel
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Global South is a phrase often heard in the academic parlance to categorise a group of nations which have been broadly classified in economic terms by the United Nations Trade and Development (UNCTAD) based on certain defining characteristics (socio-economic and political factors). The countries or continents which come under this category are Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia (excluding Australia and New Zealand). However, to classify economic grounds poses severe questions about factors contributing to the dissemination of this inequality. This unevenness as one suspects can be a major reason for armed conflicts often leading to tensions and permanent war zones.
The so-called “post-secular turn” in Victorian studies has helped produce a more accurate view of the Victorian period by acknowledging the religiosity of the time rather than privileging doubt and skepticism. However, so far the post-secular turn, understandably, has focused on religious movements and the role of the Bible in the literature of the time. This panel seeks to broaden that focus by examining ways in which a consideration of Victorian religiosity sheds new light on a range of scholarly debates – including but not limited to such topics as disability studies, eugenics, “scientific” racism, or animal rights, among many other possibilities. Interdisciplinary papers are welcome.
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
2026 Conference | 12–14 March 2026 | Cincinnati, Ohio
“To Give Them All A Welcome To Our Shores”:
Immigrant Voices and Advocates in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
organized by the Margaret Fuller Society
A trace evokes the marks, remnants, and residues of the past. Rather than static records, trace embodies the temporal and spatial dimensions of the actions that produced them, representing intersections of movement, perception, and interaction. A trace can be the smallest and subtlest thing–a memory knot, a mark left by animals, travelers, or strangers, or can be the space between the lines of historical texts. A trajectory, on the other hand, is the path of movement that implies direction, growth, narrative, discourse, coming into an account, taking shapes, and becoming present. What is the dynamic tension between trace and trajectory? How do trace and trajectory translate and communicate with each other?
Concept Note
While ancient Europe regarded India as a land of material wealth and proverbial wisdom, it also saw it as a land of man-like monkeys, banyan trees, and enormous elephants. Ancient Europeans perceived Indians as wearing bright colors, eating rice and meat, and lacking wine-drinking finesse. Today, portrayals of India in prose fiction, cinema, social media, and historiography have shifted from polarized images of Europe and India to narratives depicting a “Dark” and a “Shining” India. Characters in these texts strive to be part of an economically thriving “shining” India, even as they face social, cultural, and political challenges daily.
Living on the Edge: Chaos in Theatre, Film and Performance
5-7 December 2025 Online via ZOOM
Dates: December 5-7, 2025
Organisation: Theatre and Drama Network
Presentation Mode: Online
No Fees
Magics, Marvels, Metamorphoses, and Monsters: Horrors of the Medieval Past, Present, and Future (Virtual)
Co-sponsored by Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association, Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, International Society for the Study of Medievalism
Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College, and June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University
Please consider submitting an abstract for NeMLA 2026: (Re)generating Foreign Language Studies Through Cultural Competence Between the U.S. and Italy
The conference will take place in Pittsburg, PA, from March 5-March 8, 2026. The deadline for abstracts is September 30th, 2025.
Call for Articles
Special Issue: (Re)articulating an Old Ideal: Self-Care and Self-Help in Contemporary Culture
Guest Editors: Alexandra Bacalu (University of Bucharest) & Dragoș Manea (University of Bucharest)
Composition Studies invites proposals from potential guest editors for an open-access, digital, special issue to be published in summer 2026! This is an open call, and we are especially interested in special issues that would benefit from the ease of circulation afforded by open-access, digital publication.
The Charles Olson Society will sponsor panels at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, to take place in Louisville, Kentucky, February 16-21. 2026 marks the Centenary of poet Robert Creeley’s birth, and the Charles Olson Society will welcome abstracts pertaining to any aspect of Creeley’s life and work. Creeley was a central poet in the development of Black Mountain Poetry, and along with his life-long friend and companion in verse, Charles Olson, Creeley greatly influenced the development of American poetics after World War II. As he said, “I write to realize the world as one has come to live in it, thus to give testament. I write to move in words, a human delight. I write when no other act is possible.”