Despite possessing intersecting histories and languages, Latin American studies and Latinx studies have historically been treated as separate fields of study. This panel seeks to spark a dialogue between fields by exploring themes of transhemispheric and archipelagic solidarity in Latinx and Latin American literature and media. Throughout the past and present century, how have Latinx and Latin American media—literature, film, art, or other forms—constructed expressions of community in dialogue with each other? How do works from Latin America reverberate in Latinx cultural productions, and how do Latinx cultural productions influence Latin American media?

How was the concept of “hospitality” and “leisure” conceived by early American writers? Travelogues, whether from William Bartram, Sara Kemble Knight, or others, served as a major genre type during the period. Topics may include stays at early American hotels, the way that leisure was/is linked to social class, and the Caribbean and European vacation in the early American imagination. What regional places of leisure figured heavily in the early American cultural imaginary? How did Black writers and Native American writers conceive of entertainment and visitation? This panel seeks contributors who can speak to leisure and travel from writings that span the early part of American culture and history into the nineteenth century.

Call for Papers

A Golden Age? Global Historical Fictions and Political Nostalgia 

One-Day Online Workshop of the Historical Fictions Research Network

28 November 2026 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)

15 min talks

The Historical Fictions Research Network, an interdisciplinary and international network of scholars examining historical fictions, i.e. narratives of the past in a variety of popular media, is happy to organise its 2026 one-day workshop on the topic of 

“A Golden Age? Global Historical Fictions and Political Nostalgia”.

National Advanced Writing Symposium (NAWS) 2027 - January 29, 2027

Please use the link, below, to find a full description of our CFP for "Evolving Possibiilities: Futures of Advanced Writing."
The event is entirely ONLINE and FREE to both speakers and attendees.
Proposals are due Friday, September 25, 2026.

CALL FOR PAPERS — NeMLA 2027 Seminar

Salve Regina University, Newport, RI | March 6–9, 2027

Can Literary Criticism Break Free of the Silos Trap — and Carry Literature Along?

In the early 1950s, Lacan admonished psychoanalysts for operating within Newtonian epistemology fifty years after Einstein and Heisenberg had dismantled it. It may be worth asking ourselves whether we, literary critics, 125 years later, have adjusted our analytical machine — or, at least, whether it is necessary that we do.

“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.

It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Stray Birds (1916)

Generative AI, LLMs, and NLP are transforming the humanities by reshaping meaning, interpretation, and representation. However, humanities scholars face a widening skills gap due to limited structured access. To address this, Department of English is organising a first-of-its-kind workshop at Visva-Bharati. The programme offers research scholars, faculty, and postgraduate students a useful and rigorous introduction to Digital Humanities and AI tools.

Urgent chapters are required for an upcoming collection, contracted to Peter Lang, Oxford. From existing chapters, this edited collection already clearly represents the areas of fact, fiction, and “inspired by”, with specific consideration to (fictional) serial killers, mass murderers, and their real-life counterparts.

At present, there are one or two areas of the collection that still require chapters – these will need to be delivered by 30 November 2026. Finished chapters should be approximately 2,500 words. I am welcoming abstracts of 250 words in the first instance, with no set deadline for abstract submissions – abstracts will be considered on a rolling basis until the chapter spaces are filled.

European Historical Game Studies

call for papers – ‘‘Exploring Kingdom Come: Deliverance’’

Call for Book Chapters:
Heritage Meets Modernity:Memory, Identity, Community, and Millennial Transformations

An Edited Volume under the ICSSR Major Research Project
(2024-2025): Heritage Meets Modernity: Millennial Interventions in Redefining Kolkata's Culinary Topography
Jadavpur University, Kolkata

This issue’s oxymoronic title, “Inconspicuously Fabulous,” calls attention to the generative tensions, limitations, and potentials of visuality as they pertain to minoritarian subjects. What does it mean to present oneself in and as excess while remaining unseen or unnoticed? Like madison moore, who offers a critical queer-of-color reiteration of economist Thorstein Veblen’s concept of “conspicuous consumption” as grotesque public display of economic power and prestige, we think through negotiated visibility as a survival strategy, or a pleasurable and simultaneously risky method of living as a spectacle in the margins.

The American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) invites submissions for a proposed panel for the American Literature Association (ALA) 2027 symposium “Music and the American Literary Imagination,” to be held January 28-30, 2027, in Nashville, TN.

Every act of communication, interpretation, and representation is an act of framing. In literary analysis, a “frame” might define genre, direct narrative perspective, or position a text within a historical moment. In linguistics, frames organize semantic understanding, govern pragmatic interaction, and underpin metaphor. In translation and interpreting, frames are negotiated, shifted, and sometimes shattered in the movement between languages and cultures. They are the selective filters that highlight certain elements while relegating others to the background, the conceptual structures that allow us to categorize, interpret, and communicate complex realities.

Thirty-Fourth International Conference on Learning, Aristotle University of Thessalonki, Thessaloniki, Greece, 7-9 July 2027

Founded in 1989, The Learner Research Network is brought together around a common concern for learning in all its sites, formal and informal, and at all levels, from early childhood, to schools, colleges and universities, and adult, community and workplace education. 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.

Twenty-Third International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, 8-9 April 2027

Founded in 2005, the Technology, Knowledge & Society Research Network is brought together by a shared interest in the complex and subtle relationships between technology, knowledge and society.

Twenty-Third International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Societyfor research addressing the following annual themes and special focus:

2027 Special Focus—THE CYBER-SOCIAL CONDITION: Knowledge, Learning, and Human Futures

Theme 1: Histories of Technology
Theme 2: Knowledge Makers
Theme 3: Social Realities

The digital infrastructure in today’s world mirrors the colonial administrative structure with its control over data, policing user’s behavior, and pushing narratives for the majoritarian political power. The global tech giants have as much sway in geopolitics as the global leaders themselves. Previously the conditions of colonization created an unequal economic infrastructure that marginalizes the local communities, and even after independence from the colonial power, the trade relations remain that of a colonial appendage. Similarly, the upkeep of the digital sphere is not without its economic and environmental hazards.

PAEDEIA: NSU Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences, and LawCall for Papers

Vol. 2, 2026

*"Online First" publication upon acceptance

*Expected print publication in December 2026

 PLEASE CLICK THE FOLLOWING LINK Submit

NeMLA's 58th Annual Convention

March 6-9, 2027, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI

This panel invites proposals exploring how rhetoric and composition scholars and teachers can develop what bell hooks, Paulo Freire, and other educators in the field call critical consciousness, or our ability to recognize and analyze oppressive political, economic, and social forces shaping society and to take action. Critical consciousness provides a foundation for cultivating students’ civic reasoning and civic literacy skills across diverse institutional and disciplinary contexts.

At this moment in higher education—as our students wrestle with digital distractions, a deeply competitive job market, rising loneliness, and the complex role of GenAI in their academic lives—it is worth remembering that “educational relationships are central to student learning, motivation, well-being, and persistence” (Jibilian 4 May 2025; Puckett and Felten 2026).

RSAJournal, no. 38 (2027) - Call For Papers: Contested Meanings of Freedom in the United States

Guest editors: Dr. Janine Giordano Drake (Indiana University Bloomington) and Dr. Matthew E. Stanley (University of Arkansas)

About the Symposium

Description: Since the 1990s, there has been an ever-growing list of adaptions on early modern women, from Elizabeth (1998) to The Tudors, to Reign, to Mary Queen of Scotts (2018), to the countless depictions of Anne Boleyn. Each of these productions attempt to negotiate a happy medium between maintaining historical accuracy and entertaining a modern audience who may not be familiar with or care about the complicated politics of the early modern world. Adaptions of early modern women are not limited to the screen, but can also be found in music, art, and pop culture.

                                       The 35th Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference:

DESIGN

March 24-27, 2027

Palm Springs, CA

The Journal of Humanities publishes original research articles, scholarly opinions, and reviews in classics, fine and performing arts, communication, literature, linguistics, theology, and philosophy.  While maintaining a pluralistic and non-partisan approach, the journal prioritises studies focused on Southern, Central, and Eastern Africa, aiming to foster critical and theoretical debates within the humanities across the region. (part of the African Journals Initiative AJI by Pluto Journals and the African Books Collective)

ISSN: 1016-0728 (print)  |  ISSN: 2948-0094 (online)

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Panel on the rewards, risks, and ethics of public humanities approaches in the undergraduate classroom. Some possible topics: public project assignments, public writing, community-engaged learning, university/humanities in current political climate, faculty-student collaboration.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, August 15, 2026