Virtual Identities and Self-Promoting explores the fascinating intersection of self, identity construction, and self-promotion within the digital realm. The internet has revolutionized how we present ourselves to the world. Social media platforms, online games, virtual worlds, and even professional networking sites provide individuals with a myriad of opportunities to curate and project versions of themselves. In an increasingly online world, individuals craft and curate virtual identities across various platforms, engaging in strategic self-presentation to achieve personal, social, and professional goals.

Call for Papers

“Refusal(s) and Kurdish Literature”

21–22 May 2026

Virtual Conference hosted by the University of Connecticut  

Call For Papers| ASBM Literary Seminar 2026: Intersection of Literature and Management: Decoding Leadership through Literary Heroes

17th January, 2026

IMPORTANT DEADLINES AND DATES:

Abstract Submission: 30th November, 2025

Full Paper Submission: 10th December, 2025

Registration: 15th December, 2025

Seminar Date: 17th January, 2025

Publication: As per the selection process, papers will be published in one of the following: 

Petrocultures is a sub-discipline in the humanities which contends with the ways fossil fuels shape interpersonal, social and cultural lives. Despite the field’s rapid expansion, there has been little concentrated work to date on the relationship between energy culture and popular music. What Stephanie LeMenager calls the ‘aesthetics of petroleum’ holds a particularly strong resonance with music cultures. Understanding the ways oil culture has structured ways of life requires attention to the music that exemplifies, glamorises and critiques petromodernity.

JOIN CEA IN THE QUEEN CITY

On May 20, 1775—a year before the signing of the Declaration of Independence—the citizens of North Carolina declared their own independence from Great Britain in the Mecklenberg Declaration. Today, more than 250 years later, North Carolinians continue to celebrate “Meck Dec” and their history as “a free and independent people.” In the spirit of public proclamation and historic resolve, the College English Association announces its 55th annual conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, and our theme, DECLARATIONS. The CEA conference features papers, panels, and roundtables that address our discipline from multiple perspectives.

Barry J. Faulk                                   Brady Harrison

Department of English                       Department of English

Florida State University                     University of Montana

bfaulk@fsu.edu                                 brady.harrison@mso.umt.edu

CFP: Dylan's Late Styles

FAN STUDIES

The Fan Studies Area, formerly Fan Culture & Theory, of the PCA welcomes papers, presentations, panels, and roundtable discussions that cover all aspects of fandom for inclusion at the PCA National Conference in Atlanta, Georgia on April 8-11, 2026. The conference proposal system will be opening to submissions on Sept. 1, 2025. Please see the pcaaca.org website for more information on submitting your proposals.

The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (https://pcaaca.org/) annual conference will be held April 8-11, 2026, at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis in Atlanta, Georgia. Scholars from a wide variety of disciplines will meet to share their Popular Culture research and interests.

The Libraries, Archives & Museums area is soliciting papers dealing with any aspect of Popular Culture as it pertains to libraries, archives, museums, or related areas. Possible topics include:

The recent IRSCL 2025 Congress, titled “Borders, Migration, and Liminality in Children’s Literature,” held in Salamanca (Spain), offered a unique opportunity to examine these themes from a multiplicity of perspectives — literary, aesthetic, cultural, linguistic and pedagogical. Building on the dialogues initiated at the congress, this Special Issue invites contributions that explore how children’s and young adult literature (and related media) negotiate, represent, and theorize experiences of migration and border-crossing, and how they open up liminal spaces for the redefinition of childhood in a changing world.

The annual Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Graduate Student Workshop will be held on Monday, June 16, 2026 (the day before our annual conference begins) at the DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois.

The Waves team is excited to announce an upcoming special issue, “

RECLAIMING THE FRAME: BLACK CREATORS TRANSFORMING TELEVISION AND FILM UTILIZING A BELL HOOKS’ LOVE ETHIC

Deadline for abstract submissions: November 15, 2025
McFarland and Company, Publishers, Inc.
Contact email: DrLTbooks@gmail.com 

Call for Abstracts: Reclaiming the Frame: Black Creators transforming television and Film utilizing a bell hooks’ Love Ethic

Collection Editor: LaToya T. Brackett, PhD

Targeted CFP: Routledge International Handbook of Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms

Targeted Call For Papers
Routledge International Handbook of Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms

Co-edited by: Ela Przybyło (Illinois State University) and Yo-Ling Chen (Independent Scholar)

Deadline for abstracts: November 15, 2025                    Contact email: globalacearo(at)gmail(dot)com

Call for Papers and Talks
Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm & Uppsala University, Sweden

22-23 April, 2026

Comics and Machines 

Steering Committee:

Jan Baetens, Jaqueline Berndt, Jan von Bonsdorff, Gareth Brookes, Benoît Crucifix, Björn-Olav Dozo, Anna Foka, Isabelle Gribomont, Andre Holzapfel, Per Israelson, Gaëtan Le Coarer, Ilan Manouach, Pedro Moura, Everardo Reyes, Keith Tillford, Ray Whitcher

The Mind and the Machine: Mental Disability and Technology

George Washington University (GWU) English Graduate Student Association Symposium

Friday, 20 March, 2026

This virtual symposium invites papers that explore how mental disability and technology intersect in literature, film, and media.

By mental disability, we include conditions such as mental illness, neurodivergence, emotional distress, and psychological differences as represented across cultures.

By technology, we refer broadly to scientific, digital, or mechanical systems (such as medical instruments, typewriters, social media, surveillance systems, and artificial intelligence).

The School for International Training (SIT) invites proposals from researchers and scholars to contribute to a roundtable discussion focused on the following areas: climate and the environment; development and inequality; education and social change; geopolitics and power; global health and well-being; identity and human resilience; and peace and justice.

AI and Shakespeare: A British Shakespeare Association Virtual Conference: CFP

The Mind and the Machine: Mental Disability and Technology

George Washington University (GWU) English Graduate Student Association Symposium

Friday, 20 March, 2026

This virtual symposium invites papers that explore how mental disability and technology intersect in literature, film, and media.

By mental disability, we include conditions such as mental illness, neurodivergence, emotional distress, and psychological differences as represented across cultures.

By technology, we refer broadly to scientific, digital, or mechanical systems (such as medical instruments, typewriters, social media, surveillance systems, and artificial intelligence).

Our moment is one in which information literacy is an increasingly vital skill. As misinformation invades everything from hallucinatory AI-generated online search results, to fallacious social media posts, to official statements from the highest levels of government, the ability to discern between facts, fiction, and opinion is as important as ever. Yet, as history reveals, our times are not entirely unprecedented. In particular, African Americans have long dealt with lies about who we are similarly promoted at every societal level.

The American Academy of Religion, Western Region (AAR-WR) 2026 Annual Conference will be held in person, with some hybrid capabilities.

R. Murray Schafer: Reassessing His Work and Legacy

Eric Schmaltz, Dalhousie University, schmaltzeric@gmail.com  Shannon Brown, Dalhousie University, slbrown@dal.ca 

Co-editors Heather M. Porter and Michael Starr invite proposals or completed essays for an edited collection of scholarly works that explore the ground-breaking HBO series Sex and the City(1998 -2004) along with shows that came before and after, including the divisive …And Just Like That (2022-2025) which has just finished its three-season run. Proposals should demonstrate a clear methodology and strong thesis and a familiarity with prior and current conversations and publications concerning the series, and any incorporated series. The collection seeks to showcase a range of theoretical lenses; we are hence interested in diverse disciplinary approaches concerning a wide variety of topics.

Call for Book Chapters

Editors:
Dr. Muhsin Yanar, Visiting Researcher, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
Dr. Grace Halden, Reader, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
Dr. Russell Kilbourn, Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

Sciences and Fictions: Human Futures Beyond Boundaries

We seek chapters for the forthcoming edited collection Sciences and Fictions: Human Futures Beyond Boundaries.

The Routledge Handbook to Star Wars

Edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Angelique Nairn, and Justin Matthews

The Editors invite abstract submissions for The Routledge Handbook to Star Wars. Contributions are encouraged from scholars across disciplines, including film and media studies, cultural studies, sociology, history, gender studies, literature, and related fields, as well as from those engaging with interdisciplinary approaches.