Please see this Call for Proposals for an upcoming special issue of Feral Feminisms: 

 https://feralfeminisms.com/cfps/ 

This special issue, “Scrapwork: Foraging Feminist Fragments” will be guest edited by Dr. Amber Moore (University of British Columbia) and Dr. Kaye Hare (University Canada West). 

36th Annual Mardi Gras Conference

Postcolonial Environments: Re-Grounding the Discipline in the State of Emergency

Date: February 12-13, 2026

Location: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

Memory, Myth, and Meaning: Cather in Dialogue with America 250

Willa Cather Spring Conference | Thursday, June 4 - Saturday, June 6, 2026 

This year marks the centennial of My Mortal Enemy, one of Cather’s least affirmative works and one not produced in the Cather Scholarly Edition (translation: much important work remains to be done!)  We invite papers on new approaches to My Mortal Enemy, including but not limited to the following considerations of style, form, provenance, and themes:

Call for book chapters: Reading as Habitation. In Memoriam Ana-Karina Schneider

THE THIRD ANNUAL WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

A Century of Black History Commemorations

“The Impact and Meaning of Black History and Life Commemorations in Transforming the Status of

Black Peoples in the Modern World”

Morgan State University, April 2, 2026

“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”

George Orwell, 1984

General Issue | Rolling Submissions

The Critical Gender Studies Journal / Revista Crítica de Estudios de Género invites submissions for its upcoming general issue. We welcome original research articles, theoretical essays, creative interventions, and reviews that explore the multifaceted dimensions of gender and sexuality across diverse contexts and disciplines.

Translating Modernities: Language, Selfhood, and Literary Futures in Asia

This proposed panel explores how modernities across Asia have been shaped not only through contact with the West but through acts of translation-linguistic, cultural, and epistemic-within and across Asian languages. It asks how writers and thinkers, negotiating between vernaculars and global idioms, forged new vocabularies of selfhood and community that redefined what it meant to be "modern."

RSAP Article Prize 2024-2025

Deadline for submissions: 15 December, 2025

https://www.periodicalresearch.org/rsap-article-prize-2024-2025/

Contact: Kirsten Macleod, kirsten.macleod@newcastle.ac.uk

The Research Society for American Periodicals invites submissions for its 2024-25 Article Prize.

Call for Papers: 2026 Yale Korean Philosophy of Religion and Theology Graduate Conference

The Yale Korean Philosophy of Religion and Theology Graduate Conference is pleased to announce its second annual conference. We invite presenters from graduate students and emerging scholars working in philosophy of religion, theology, and religious thought within Korean studies. We especially welcome proposals that challenge, expand, and reinterpret the concept of “Korean” in religious discourses, while engaging in dialogue with political theory, comparative religious studies, sociology and anthropology, critical literary studies, intellectual history, and other related disciplines.

The American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) invites proposals for a Virtual Seminar Series held during the month of June 2026 over Zoom. This seminar series will take place in lieu of the 2026 AAALS conference.

Seminars can be of two types:A) panel or B) roundtable. Panels can have between 2 to 3 speakers. Roundtables can have 4 to 5 speakers.

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

 The Final Frontier: Race, Ecology & Colonialism in Space Opera

Edited by Mikail Boz & Cenk Tan

Editors’ Introduction

MIRROR 2025

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

NEW DIRECTIONS IN NARRATOLOGY

Organised by
PG Department of English, St. Joseph’s College of Arts & Science (Autonomous), Manjakuppam, Cuddalore.

Date    : 12th December 2025, Friday
Time    : 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
Venue  : St. Joseph’s College of Arts & Science (Autonomous), Cuddalore.

Mode   : Offline and Online presentations are accepted.

Key Note Speakers:

Dr. S. Samuel Rufus, PhD
Associate Professor of English
& Dean, International Programmes
Madras Christian College (Autonomous), Chennai, India.

Bridges and Borders: Material Actualities

March 19-21, 2026 | Proposals Due by January 15th, 2026

Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) and on Zoom 

Bridges and Borders is an annual, interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference presented by the Carnegie Mellon University Department of English in collaboration with the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Applied Linguistics.

CONTACT: bridgesandborders@andrew.cmu.edu

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:  TBA.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Astrology in Focus:
Navigating Art, Psyche, and Knowledge
A Transdisciplinary Conference
January 18-20, 2026

Proposal Submission Deadline: December 1, 2025

Format: Online
Fee: 100 GBP

Call for Papers:

“Astrology represents the sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity”, Carl Jung

Call for Papers for a special issue of the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry on “Concrete and Visual Poetries in Britain, Ireland, and Beyond”, edited by Colin Herd and Greg Thomas.

Send 250-300 word abstracts for 5,000-7,000-word articles to ConcreteAndVisualPoetries@gmail.com by 10 January 2026.

Call for Papers

Food and Culture

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025

Special issue of Comunicazioni Sociali: Journal of Media, Performing Arts and Cultural Studies

Embodied Rhythms. Interdisciplinary Takes on the Perception of Rhythm in Reality, Arts, Cinematic and Immersive Experience

Edited by Adriano D’Aloia, Ruggero Eugeni, and Maria Alessandra Umiltà

In recent years, the study of rhythm has regained centrality across multiple disciplinary fields — from film and media theory to cognitive neuroscience, from aesthetics to performance studies. This special issue aims to explore rhythm as an embodied and perceptual structure that organizes audiovisual experience in both cinematic and immersive environments.

The English department at Duke University is thrilled to host the 11th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium on February 20-21, 2026.

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 Abstracts
Tracks and Practices: Rethinking Artist Residencies
Symposium, part of OULU 2026 – European Capital of Culture
21–22 August 2026 | Oulu & Varjakka, Finland

As part of the project Tiny Spaces – Deep Connections, we invite proposals for participation in the upcoming symposium Tracks and Practices: Rethinking Artist Residencies, taking place between Oulu and Varjakka on Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd August 2026.

17 th Debrupa Bal Memorial International Students’ Seminar

2-3 December 2025

Organized by the students of
Department of Comparative Literature
Jadavpur University

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECTATORIAL-ITY: RECEPTION/ REGENERATION/ REPRODUCTION

Announcing

The 2026 First Book Institute

May 31-June 6, 2026

Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University

Co-Directors

Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature

Sean X. Goudie, Director of the Center for American Literary Studies and Past Winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book

Panel Title:
Transnational Black Childhood and Practices of Maronnage

Conference:
Rutgers University-Camden, Childhood Studies Department
“The Transnational Child Strikes Back: Transnational Desires and Childhoods of Empire ”
June 11-13th, 2026
Camden NJ

Organiser Contact Info:
Samira Abdur-Rahman, The College of New Jersey, abdurras@tcnj.edu

Panel Description:

This special panel to be held in the Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association seeks 15-20 minute conference presentations from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives examining any and all aspects of the emerging trend of “reality shifting” in relation to popular culture, particularly that of Generation Z.