CALL FOR PAPERS

The Dime Novels and Juvenile Series Books area is accepting proposals for presentations at the next PCA/ACA annual conference, to be held in Atlanta, GA from April 8-11, 2026.

Call for Contributions and Book Reviews for PSA Newsletter #33:
The Decolonial Caribbean

Every recipe has an origin story. Much like a legendary superhero, cunning villain, or even the kernel of an idea behind a compelling pop culture conference paper or book chapter, each dish carries a narrative infused with creativity, nostalgia, or transformation. Reflecting this spirit, we ask you: what recipe mirrors your own unique PopCRN origin story?

Stemming from the “How Not to Be a Misogynist” panel at the 2025 meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, we are soliciting chapters for an edited collection that engages with matters of gender, power, and misogyny. We are particularly interested in interrogations of how—perhaps unwittingly—misogyny is inscribed onto early modern texts and contexts by contemporary scholars and scholarship. Some of the questions we seek to answer in this collection include: 

The Department of English at Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya, Bankura, West Bengal, announces an upcoming international, interdisciplinary conference examining AI's impact on literature (Hybrid Mode). 

The conference will take place on Friday and Saturday, 29-30 August 2025,  on the main campus, near the National Highway. 

Note: All abstracts must be submitted through the Annual Meeting and Membership portal at  https://www.xcdsystem.com/asecs/member/

You do not need to be a member to submit an abstract through the portal; however, you must be a member of ASECS to present at the conference. The panel chair cannot submit the abstract on your behalf.

With the increasing popularity of game studies, academic departments are striving to accommodate potential students. This panel is designed for participants to share their approaches to teaching game studies, either at the undergraduate or graduate level. This will be in roundtable format, and participants are encouraged to bring materials (syllabi, course packets, other media). A multiplicity of approaches is welcome, whether participants teach in game design, critical studies, or pedagogy/rhetoric.

To participate, submit a syllabus for a course you have taught recently or are about to teach in academic year 2025-2026. Also, note that this proposed panel needs to be approved in October by the Program Committee.

Remembering the Middle Ages: Memories of the Medieval Across Time and Space (Roundtable) (Hybrid)

61st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI), Thursday, 14 May, through Saturday, 16 May, 2026

Co-sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, International Arthurian Society-North American Branch, International Association for Robin Hood Studies

Co-organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College; Siân Echard, University of British Columbia; and Alexander L. Kaufman, Ball State University

Planet LangLit 2026: International Conference on Language, Literature and Cultural Studies

Theme: Language, Literature, Education and Ecology for Planetary Justice & Inclusive Future

Date & Venue: 15 – 16 January, 2026 |

Hybrid |Green University of Bangladesh, Dhaka,
Bangladesh

Pioneering Bangladesh’s Language and Literary Conference with Global Impact!
Do you want your research to shape the future of language, literature, culture, and the planet?

Planet LangLit 2026 is your chance to break boundaries and connect with researchers from around the globe.

For the first time in Bangladesh, an international conference is offering publication opportunities in four globally renowned outlets:

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/.

Call for Manuscripts, Study & Scrutiny, Volume 8

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: DECEMBER 15, 2025

CLIMATE, JUSTICE, AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE: CENTERING INTERDISCIPLINARY CLIMATE LITERACY LEARNING

Call for PapersWorkshop: Black Presence and Influence in Europe Before the Atlantic Slavery21.–22. January 2026 | Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) in Culture and Society, Leuphana University Lüneburg

The Medieval Foremothers Society invites proposals for two hybrid sessions honoring Sharon Kinoshita (UC Santa Cruz) at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI in May 2026. Each year the Medieval Foremothers Society honors a scholar whose scholarship, teaching, and activism have laid foundations and built networks for modern medieval studies. Sharon Kinoshita is our 2026 Foremother because of her innovative research that cuts across disciplinary and geographic boundaries, which foregrounds crucial developments in postcolonial medieval studies, Mediterranean Studies, and the Global Middle Ages.

For an edited volume on "Datafied Decision-Making", we invite scholars at different career stages to submit short abstracts (400-500 words) from the disciplines of political science, law, sociology, environmental studies, science and technology studies, critical data studies and related fields that offer a critical perspective on the ethical, legal and societal consequences of algorithms and data practices.

More information on the call can be found here. 

The 2026 American Studies Association of Norway Conference looks back to its early years for inspiration. The very first themed ASANOR seminar was titled “The Bicentennial of the US Constitution.” Many years later we return to this document, not only to revisit its cultural and historical significance but also to ask what it means to invoke the Constitution now, in a time of intensifying democratic crisis and rising illiberalism. From the expansion of executive power to attacks on voting rights, judicial independence, and press freedoms, many of the traditional pillars of U.S. liberal democracy are under threat. However, illiberalism is not new to the American experience.

Book Chapters on Severance for Edited Collection on Neoliberalism and Affect in Twenty-First Century Culture  contact email: neoliberalismandaffect@gmail.com 

“We’re people, not parts of people. Even with what little they gave us these are our lives. no one gets to just turn you off” - (Severance, S1.8)

The University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada, Department of French, Hispanic, Italian Studies (FHIS)

November 20th – 21st, 2025 

The Silence of Forgetting: Absence, Void, and Memory in Literature and Culture Graduate Conference 

                      Gendered Bodies and Digital Selfhood in Short-form Videos: Research from the Global South

                                                             CFP for  Special Issue of Journal of Gender Studies

 CFP: Rhetoric and/as Academic Leadership  Leadership in academia is by nature a fraught enterprise for which few faculty find themselves adequately trained. Such work is made even more difficult in our current climate due to the shifting socioeconomic conditions of higher education that ask more of leaders while at the same time providing fewer material and structural resources to help them lead. As a result, many faculty are more reticent than ever to seek out or accept leadership positions, especially at the highly visible executive levels such as university presidencies, where political or personal failure comes at a high price.

Call for Creative Pieces (Issue III)Thing-Poetry 

Things bear world, World grants things.
Poetry, Language, Thought, Martin Heidegger1

We seek panelists for Northeast MLA 2026, "The Name of the Witch." 

Conference Details

57th NeMLA Annual Convention, March 5 - 8, 2026, Pittsburgh, PA. Visit https://www.nemla.org/convention/future.html for more details about the conference. 

Modality 

Panel / In Person Only: The session will be held fully in person at the hotel. No remote presentations will be included.

Submissions and Deadline

Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Symbiosis International
(Deemed University), Pune, India, is delighted to announce the
International Conference on Media and Communication (ICMAC 2026), from
February 17–19, 2026.

ICMAC 2026, themed ‘Media Industries in the Platformisation Landscape:
Introspections, Iterations & Interventions’, invites critical
reflections on how digital platforms are reshaping media
industries—reconfiguring production, labour, circulation, and audience
engagement, particularly in the Global South.

Keynote Speakers

The Royal Heraldry Society of Canada invites proposals for our roundtable, "Beyond the Blazon: Materializing Medieval Heraldry." Coats of arms are defined not by their physical representations but by the words of their blazons. Yet armorial objects, as interactive, material things, played a prominent role in shaping the arts, literature, and popular culture of the Middle Ages. This interdisciplinary session will explore object-based approaches to medieval heraldry, including investigations into the materiality and "lives" of armorial objects and their significance in medieval artistic expressions, literary portrayals, material culture, and historical accounts. 

Potential topics may include but are not limited to:

Call for Papers

Session ID: 7516

This session seeks to explore how the historiography of medieval India was reimagined during the nineteenth century by a range of intellectual actors—including colonial scholars, nationalist thinkers, Dalit reformers, Hindu revivalists, and Muslim scholars. Moving beyond Eurocentric or nationalist binaries, the session investigates how India’s medieval past, from the emergence of the Delhi Sultanate to the decline of the Mughal Empire was actively constructed, contested, and institutionalized in this period.