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Special Issue: The Subject and its Estrangements
‘The wounds of the Spirit heal, and leave no scars behind.’ Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit
International Journal of Education (IJE)
ISSN : 2348 - 1552
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Scope
International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies
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ISSN : 1831-622N 2974-5862 (Print)
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Call for papers
Call for PapersEcofeminist Drama: Theatre, Performance, and Ecological Futures
Edited by Douglas A. Vakoch and Işıl Şahin Gülter
Under review with the University of Illinois Press
International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology
ISSN: 0975-3826(online); 0975-4660 (Print)
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Scope & Topics
"I don't know what Christmas is, but Christmas time is here": Santa Claus, Christmas, and Implicit Religion in SFF
Abstracts (250 words) are invited for papers exploring Santa Claus and/or the Christmas holiday in science fiction, speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and graphic novels. Considerations of the interrelation of secular and religious themes in SFF Christmas, implicit religion, and contemporary ritual welcome.
Deadline: March 25, 2026
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o stands as one of the most formidable literary and intellectual voices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Novelist, playwright, theorist, memoirist, and advocate of linguistic decolonisation, Ngũgĩ’s work continues to shape debates on coloniality, nationalism, language politics, global capitalism, and epistemic justice.
Concept Note
Two-Day International Conference (likely to be ICSSR Sponsored) on “Loss of Indigenous Knowledge in the Age of Digital Humanities: Preservation, Power, and the Politics of Representation” (Hybrid Mode)
The Ninth Annual Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference at StokerCon 2026Conference Date: Friday, June 5, 2026Conference Location: The Westin Pittsburgh1000 Penn AvenuePittsburgh, PA 1522and via HopinConference Website: https://www.stokercon.com/Stokercon 2026 will be the tenth anniversary of Stokercon, and the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference is delighted to be a part of this banner year.
Modernist Nationalisms Conference
St John’s College, University of Oxford
Thursday 10th September 2026
The Editorial Board of “Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis” invites submissions of scholarly articles for the peer-reviewed thematic issue “Faces of Childhood: Representations and Experiences in Art and Society.”
The Journal of Marlowe Studies, the only peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the study of Christopher Marlowe, invites submissions for its 2027 issue. We welcome scholarly exploration of Marlowe’s works, reviews of relevant books, and reviews of productions of Marlowe’s plays from anywhere in the world. Submissions are welcome from scholars at all career stages.
The journal is co-edited by Lisa Hopkins and Andrew Duxfield. If you have any questions, please feel free to email Andrew on a.duxfield@liverpool.ac.uk.
Journal Website: https://journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/Marlstud/index
This panel invites scholarship exploring South-Asian diasporic poetics, transnational feminist perspectives, negotiations of identities, and practices of resistance. Please submit a 250-word abstract and a brief bio to subrata-chandra.mozumder1@louisiana.edu.
Deadline for submissions: Monday, March 23, 2026
Subrata Chandra Mozumder, U of Louisiana, Lafayette (subrata-chandra.mozumder1@louisiana.edu )
In the late oughts and 2010s, critical and cultural theory across the humanities embraced the power of positive thinking. If we paid lip service to the determinations of (neo)liberal modernity, our thinking nonetheless gathered with feverish intensity around all that was said to escape or exceed its iron cage. Those of us tutored in assembling a historical ontology of ourselves turned to dreams of possible futures – or else to cultural practices and lifeways whose onto-epistemic difference enacted futurity in the midst of a seemingly endless now. This politics of utopian adjacency crystallized in a now-familiar set of keywords: affirmation, futurity, speculation, utopia, worldmaking, and (of course!) the ever-popular injunction to imagine otherwise.
The ongoing developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning automation announce an imminent technological revolution like nothing we have ever seen. Our relation to traditional labor markets, artistic creation, and modes of education has already been drastically disrupted and will potentially change even more. It seems that we are witnessing the dawn of a new age in which human intellectual and productive capacities are outsourced to machines and human connection is mediated by algorithms in digital spaces.
The International T. S. Eliot Society
The 47th Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society
25-27 September 2026
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Rising water levels in oceans and rivers, streams with high flood waves, and torrential rains that turn puddles into lakes: houses that are currently exposed to such increasingly regular water events are becoming a problematic, if not catastrophic, environment. The protective function that the house is supposed to have according to its original idea and design is being compromised. While roofs and walls are supposed to keep out wind and water—and the traditional European gabled roof is primarily designed to divert water from above—in these extreme weather scenarios, basements are flooded, roofs are torn off, entire houses stand like islands in the water or are even swept away.
Special issue of the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies
We are issuing a brief second call for papers for the special issue Distinctly Canadian Voices in the peer-reviewed, Scopus indexed journal, the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies.
Due to the withdrawal of one or two previously accepted contributions, additional article slots have become available.
We invite new submissions that explore the representations of Canada and Canadians in fields as diverse as literature, film, television, visual art, and other media, both in Anglophone and Francophone contexts.
Special issue of the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies
We are issuing a brief second call for papers for the special issue Motherhoods around the World in the peer-reviewed, Scopus indexed journal, the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies.
Due to the withdrawal of one or two previously accepted contributions, additional article slots have become available.
How do playwrights imagine and stage ways of being, hoping, and memorializing against censorship and erasure? We invite papers that explore alternative historiographies in post-war Sri Lankan theater and performance. Please share a 300-word abstract and bio.
Contribute to a Special Issue of the Pop Culture Studies Journal on TOYS!
Volume Editor: Jonathan Alexandratos
Abstract: ~500 words due by April 25th to the editor via email at jsalexan@gmail.com.
Overview:
Paper. Film. TV screen. Sound recording. Internet. These are common ways popular culture reaches us. However, while scholarship around comics, movies, TV shows, music, and online media expands, one pop culture area too often remains under-explored: toys.
The Eco-esotericism panel invites submissions that examine the intersection of esoteric thought and ecological consciousness as expressed in literature, cultural texts, and critical theory. Eco-esotericism encompasses approaches that unite spiritual or mystical understandings of nature with ecological critique and environmental activism. Engaging with PAMLA’s 2026 theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” this panel asks: How do esoteric ecological imaginaries reinforce, negotiate, or resist ruling ideologies? How have spiritualized visions of nature shaped elite cultural production, countercultural movements, or alternative political communities?
The Literature and Religion session invites abstracts for a panel that explores the multifaceted role of religion and spirituality within literary cultures, especially as they intersect with social hierarchies, power structures, and conflict. Religion has long shaped literary expression.
Special Session Proposal for the 2027 MLA Convention (Los Angeles, 7–10 January 2027).
This MLA 2027 special session, “Unfinished Histories: Literary and Cultural Acts of Hope,” explores radical hope as an emancipatory and dynamic framework for examining how literature, film, and art cultivate creative and relational modes of remembrance. Rather than approaching the past solely through paradigms of loss, grievance, or melancholia, the panel asks how cultural narratives open generative spaces for imagining unfinished futures.
Roundtable reflecting on impacts of disabilities on work life in graduate school, pre-tenure, post-tenure, among contingent faculty, and in leadership positions. Please send CV and 300-word abstract for 8- to 10-minute contributions to: Cassandra.falke@uit.no
For the 2027 Modern Langauge Association Convention, the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession welcomes papers about:
Please submit a 300-word abstract and CV to: Cassandra.falke@uit.no
Redefining Borders in British Literature:
Global and Local Identity Before and After Brexit
Roma Tre University
Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures
29-30 ottobre 2026
Convenors
Michela Compagnoni, michela.compagnoni@uniroma3.it
Lucia Esposito, lucia.esposito@uniroma3.it
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
A Cultural History of the Avant-garde in East Asia
Part of: Cultural Histories of the Avant-Garde: A Companion Series (www.brill.com/CHAG)
The companion series is part of an ongoing, large-scale project launched by De Gruyter Brill (a merger of two international publishing houses) that uncovers the cultural history of the avant-garde in major regions of the world. The series on East Asia consists of four volumes, each dealing with specific decades and topics as follows:
250-500 worded abstracts to be sent to the session organisers at:
In her introduction to Science in the Archives (2017), Lorraine Daston explores the way that scientific archives function as “repository” of scientific empiricism (10), a process through which scientists preserve scientific findings. What is occluded in this understanding, Daston explains, is that, when scientists ‘convert’ the natural world into its ‘second nature’—i.e. data—the conditions for that translation are controlled, selective, entangled, slowed, sped up, and digitized (10). Daston’s research helps us to consider how science arbitrarily constructs archivable data at an increasing rate: “more people are manipulating more information in more ways, and all at a tempo that baffles ‘what next?’ predictions” (10).
Event: University of Washington English Department Writing Programs’ Praxis Conference
Theme: Writing With
Date: Fri May 29, 2026
Location: Seattle, Washington, United States (University of Washington, Seattle campus)
CFP SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 13, 11:59pm PST (UPDATE: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 16, 11:59pm PST)
We are pleased to invite proposals for the University of Washington English Department Writing Programs’ sixth annual Praxis Conference, which will be held at the University of Washing, Seattle campus on Friday, May 29th, 2026.
International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHASS/Home.html
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The journal Korpusgermanistik invites submissions for its June 2026 issue. The journal provides an international platform for research across the full spectrum of German Studies, including linguistics, literary studies, cultural studies, and media studies.
All submissions undergo a double-blind peer-review process.
Important Dates
Submission
Authors are kindly asked to submit their full manuscripts via the journal’s online submission system:
Please ensure that your manuscript follows the author guidelines available on the journal website.
On December 9, 2014, the release of Ezell Ford’s autopsy report inspired an 18-day protest held in
record-breaking cold in front of LAPD headquarters. The evidence confirming that Ford had been shot by
police at close range inspired a group of dance activists, led by Black Lives Matter founding member Dr.
Shamell Bell, not only to occupy space but also to move within it. The protest represented what she coined
“street dance activism” based on “radical joy” and “collecting freedom dreaming.”
The Pleasures and Problems of Pooh
The 3rd Biennial kidlit@hollins Children’s Literature Symposium
On Zoom
Friday-Sunday, July 10-12, 2026
Hollins University Graduate Programs in Children’s Literature
Chaired by Lisa Rowe Fraustino
This year’s hundredth anniversary of A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh, published in 1926, provides a springboard for reflection on the role of classic children’s literature. This online symposium seeks presentation proposals from authors, illustrators, librarians, publishers, educators, and scholars in any field. Possible topics for exploration include:
“I Put a Spell on You” @ 70: 3rd Annual Goth Music and Subculture Symposium
Theme: “Hyphenated Hauntings: Examining Proto-goth and Goth-adjacent Bands”
Submission Deadline:
June 12, 2026
Symposium Date:
August 15, 2026
Format:
Online (via Zoom, Pacific)
Abstract:
200 words
Biographical Statement, inclusive of position, institutional affiliation, previous publications, accolades, research interests, etc.
Time Zone
Submit to:
Conference online (via Zoom): 16-17 April 2026
CFP:
Affects, emotions and perceptions have always been at the center of philosophical discussion. Yet the so-called “Affective turn” in social studies and humanities is a relatively new phenomenon inspired by Deleuze and Guattari´s influential works among others. Affective turn challenges the still dominant representational approach in semiotics, discourse analysis and text analyses of all kinds.
Afrofuturism in African Literature
Edited Volume — Call for Contributions
Children’s accounts of violence occupy a paradoxical space in public discourse: they are framed as both essential, unquestionable evidence, and, sometimes at the same time, as unreliable and prone to outside influence. Both framings rely on cultural constructions of the child’s “innocence.” This panel invites papers examining narratives of violence told by children, with a particular interest in experiences of institutional or state violence. How do these narratives complicate familiar tropes of children as voiceless victims in need of saving, or of certain topics as exclusively “adult” or “childish”? How do child narrators themselves exploit, resist, and play with or into these tropes?
Session CFP:
Seeking presentations addressing multilingualism and linguistic rights in South Asian literature and culture for a guaranteed panel of the MLA-allied South Asian Literary Association. 300-word abstract and short CV.
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, March 15, 2026
Hans-Georg Erney, Georgia Southern U (herney@georgiasouthern.edu )
Special note for the contributors:
Please focus on the text that represents migration from the Global South to the Global North.
The text under consideration should be published after 2000, though it can focus on migration that happened at any time in history.
Please take a minimum of one and a maximum of two migration/refugee narratives for analysis.
Please mention within the abstract the theoretical background clearly that one wants to apply.
The text under consideration should be either written in English or translated into English.
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
Date of Conference: 23-25 April, 2026
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 24 March 2026
Online, international, interdisciplinary conference titled:
(In-)Visible Wounds: Interdisciplinary Perspectiveson Discrimination and Violence
Call for Papers
UCLA QGrad 2026: SELVAGE
Queer/Trans Studies Graduate Student Research Conference
Keynote: Dr. PJ DiPietro
Conference Date: Friday, October 30, 2026
Abstracts Due: Friday, April 10, 2026
UCLA’s 29th annual QGrad Conference invites graduate students working in any discipline engaging with queer, trans, and sexuality studies to convene under its 2026 theme, “Selvage.”
Video Game and Memory
Call for Book Chapters
"To live an age, yet remember so little…
Perhaps I should be thankful?”
Quirrel, NPC in Hollow Knight (2017)
BABEL AFIAL journal. Dept of English, French and German, University of Vigo, Spain. Call for Papers for No. 35, Special Issue: “BABEL/S IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: LINGUISTIC AND LITERARY NEGOTIATIONS, CULTURAL (MIS)ENCOUNTERS AND TEXTUAL VARIATIONS IN THE ANGLOPHONE WORLD”. Deadline: 31 March 2026. Contact info: babelafial@uvigo.gal. Journal info (both English & Spanish versions) at: https://revistas.uvigo.es/index.php/AFIAL/announcement/view/38
CFP: Taking Care
Midwest/Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature
College of the Ozarks
Point Lookout, Missouri
September 25-26, 2026
Recent archival initiatives have made accessible significant bodies of media work by writers associated with the Black Arts Movement, including projects in film, radio, and television. These rediscoveries invite renewed attention to the movement’s engagement with broadcast and screen media and challenge the longstanding emphasis on poetry, theater, and print culture in scholarship on the period.
“The poetry of witness reclaims the social from the political and in so doing defends the individual against illegitimate forms of coercion.”- Carolyn Forché
“But is it enough that a poem “remembers” when we are now entrenched in an era of total recall?”– Cathy Park Hong, “Against Witness“
Unearthed invites submissions for an upcoming issue devoted to witnessing in a time of social and ecological rupture. We welcome work that refuses to look away from injustice and chronicles radical resilience.