CALL FOR PAPERS

Speculative Embodiment: Dramaturgical Approaches to Subtext in Shakespeare
Special Session | PAMLA 123rd Annual Conference

Conference Dates: November 12–15, 2026
Location: Hyatt Regency Seattle, 808 Howell St., Seattle, WA 98101
Abstract Deadline: May 25, 2026
Format: In-person only
Session Area: Drama, Theater, and Performance / British and Anglophone
Presiding Officers: Kristen Tregar (Independent Scholar) and Sam Kolodezh (University of California – San Diego)

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Pedagogy and Praxis (Panel / In-Person)Presiding Officer: Kathryn Vulic (Western Washington University)

The Pedagogy and Praxis roundtable will explore all aspects of pedagogy and teaching praxis as experienced or theorized by English, Modern Languages, and Humanities educators. Topics of interest might include:

· Theoretical and practical responses to the rise of large language model/generative AI

· Classroom methods and assignments that foster students’ literary analysis skills and that reduce reliance of AI tools

· Recent trends in higher education and high school teaching of the humanities

· Innovations and emerging research in pedagogy

CALL FOR PAPERS: TOURISM, RELIGION, AND POLITICS 

“Open Theology” (https://www.degruyterbrill.com/opth)  invites submissions for the special issue “Tourism, Religion, and Politics: The Influence of Political Environments on Religious Tourism,” edited by Dr. Caglar Ezikoglu.

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New Imago Forum

University of Essex (UK)

11 – 13 December 2026

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Call for Proposals: Mapping Post-Truth Across Disciplines Conference

Key Information
Proposals due June 30th, 2026 to posttruthconference@gmail.com
Decision of acceptance communicated by July 15th, end of day

Dates: October 29th-30th, 2026
Location: University of Memphis, specific locations TBD
Fee: TBD

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=30 

In April 2026, I attended Shauna M. Morgan, Angel Dye, and Madison (Mocha) Hunter's College Language Association panel discussion: “Scripting Soul Work: The Infusive Praxis of Poet-Scholars.” In their talk, each panelist discussed—in prose like fashion—her relationship with her creative and scholarly self, and, in the spirit of Barbara Christian's 1987 “The Race for Theory,” they argued the significance of creative writing to Black and brown folk scholarship and being, which they supported with a reading of their selected poetic works.

Literature/Film Quarterly (LFQ) is an internationally recognized, open-access journal specializing in adaptation studies. Published entirely online, LFQ makes all content freely available to readers worldwide. We publish quarterly and manuscripts often progress from initial submission through peer review to publication in less than one year. 2023 marked our 50th year of continuous publication. Visit our website for current issues, online archives (dating to 2017), and complete submission guidelines: https://lfq.salisbury.edu/

The Phenomenology of the Stand-up Comic: Toward a Sociology of Gendered Humour

Travel and Tourism Studies as a discipline continues to gain popularity in academia, in part because of its inter-disciplinary nature. The Travel and Tourism area seeks papers that discuss and explore any aspect of travel and/or tourism. Topics for this area include, but are not limited to, the following:

- travel and gender/race/class
- personal travel narratives
- heritage tourism
- material culture and tourism
- the impacts of the political climate on travel

Call for Chapter Contributions
An Edited Volume: Ecofeminism and Islam in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Editor: Dr. Gabrie’l J. Atchison
Proposed Publisher:  Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.

As the series editor for Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives for Bloomsbury Publishing, I am writing to invite you to consider submitting a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in Ecofeminism and Islam in the Middle East and North America (MENA). 

Mike Flanagan has emerged over the past fifteen years as one of the most prolific and recognizable horror creators in film and television, working across low-budget independent cinema, studio-backed films, and prestige limited series. Yet despite his prominence, versatility, and authorial trademarks, especially his collaborations with recurring actors and other artistic partners, he has received little sustained scholarly attention.

2027 marks the 50th anniversary of the film now generally known as Episode IV: A New Hope, the first instalment in the hugely successful Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas. As beloved as it is divisive, Star Wars now straddles multiple decades and generations while proliferating across narrative media (novels, comics, games, animation, TV). It provides a series of compelling case studies in the relationship between creativity and commerce, from the foundation of Lucasfilm during the New Hollywood period to the 21st century Disney-era, and it has developed via a complex interplay between cutting-edge technological innovation, nostalgia, and mythmaking.

Kala Pani Crossings #4:

Jahaji bhai / Jahaji behen: Fraught Legacies, New Kinships, Reimagined Solidarities

Institut Français de Pondicherry / French Institute of Pondicherry 

in partnership with EMMA (University of Montpellier Paul-Valéry),

IHRIM (ENS-Lyon, France), VALE (Sorbonne University)

& DIRE and LCF (University of Reunion Island)

Dates: February 16-17, 2027

Venue: IFP (French Institute of Pondicherry)

Call for Contributions and Book Reviews for PSA
Newsletter #35: Postcolonial/Decolonial Water Stories
We invite submissions exploring the dynamic intersections between colonialism (past and ongoing)
and water/waterscapes through a humanities perspective. As many scholars have pointed out,
“Unequal access to water and the political processes that direct management are fundamentally
rooted in colonialism” (Hartwig, Jackson, Markham & Osborne 2023, p. 31) Water – oceans, rivers,
seas, and wetlands – has long been central to colonial histories, shaping routes of conquest,
migration, trade, and resistance. In literary texts and other cultural productions, waterscapes often

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Green Wall: Narrating Ethnicity, Belonging, and Environmental Nativism in South Asian Cultural Production

Guest Editors

Dr. Mansi Bose, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India

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Dr. Pratyusha Pramanik, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India

Rationale

Adolfo Ibáñez University and the consortium of institutions sponsoring this event are delighted to invite you to the 2027 World Congress of the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, centered on the theme “Global Imaginaries, Maritime Power, and Intercontinental Circulations: the Ambivalent Legacies of the Long Nineteenth Century.” The congress will be held in Viña del Mar, overlooking the port city of Valparaíso.     

Geomythology is an emerging field invented by the geoscientist Dorothy Vitaliano in 1968 but has ancient roots in figures such as the mythographer Euhemerus (3rd century B.C.) as well as modern predecessors like Robert Hooke (1635-1703), the “English Leonardo,” and Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), the father of modern paleontology. It has been featured in recent panels at literary and scientific conferences. Geomythology seeks to discover proto-scientific information in ancient and medieval myths, legends, and tales. Often, this information is encoded in stories originally told by eyewitnesses to make sense of traumatic events such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis.

Second and Final Call for papers

Sensation: The Sounds, Visions, and Words of David Bowie

Academic conference, University of Agder, Norway 29. – 30. September 2026

Textual Embodiments: Remediating Meaning Across the Disciplines

Rome Link Campus University, September 11-12, 2026

Dear colleagues,

Are you planning your summer writing projects—or revising an article and considering where to submit it? The editors of Nineteenth Century Studies are now accepting submissions for the 2027 volume. The deadline for consideration is October 1, 2026; submissions received after this date may be considered for the 2028 volume.

Call for Submissions: Invisibility & The Raft of Hope: A 75th-Anniversary Reflection on Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

Deadline: June 15, 2026

Contact: qal0815@utulsa.edu

Chênière journal call-for-papers

Volume 10

Chênière, an online, interdisciplinary undergraduate journal based at Nicholls State University, invites papers for its tenth volume. Chênière is an MLA-indexed journal that welcomes submissions from any humanities field, broadly speaking, from history, communication, English, religion, art, music, and everything in between. The journal welcomes submissions from any undergraduate work but particularly caters to students from the Gulf Coast and the American South, broadly speaking. The subject matter for this issue is completely open topic.

Dear colleagues and friends,

We warmly invite scholars to submit papers for the DPRK Cities Research Group’s 5th International Conference at the Soongsil Institute for Peace and Unification, Soongsil University, supported by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.

This conference explores how marketization, technological change, and governance reshape civic space and everyday life in cities under authoritarian and transitional regimes. Moving beyond state-level analysis, it focuses on cities as key sites where control, adaptation, and agency are negotiated in practice.