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.

Studies in American Humor, the journal of the American Humor Studies Association, invites submissions of scholarly papers for a special issue of the journal to appear in fall 2027, edited by Wesley Scott McMasters and Todd Nathan Thompson. The topic of this special issue is “Periodicals, Period: Humor and Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers and Magazines.” This special issue will be an extension of a well-received panel on this topic (co-sponsored by the American Humor Studies Association and the Research Society for American Periodicals) at the 2025 American Literature Association conference.

The South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference 2025. 

SAMLA97, KNOWLEDGE: CALL FOR PAPERS (In-person), Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Conference Date: November 6-8, 2025

Special Session/Panel on "Breath, Borders, and Belonging: Pandemic Literature and the Postcolonial Imagination"

 Edited by Professor Meenakshi Bharat (University of Delhi) and Dr. Blythe Worthy (University of Sydney)
Under preparation for submission to the ReFocus: International Directors series, Edinburgh University Press

Call for papers

29 July 2025

Special Issue: Contemporary India and Hindi Cinema

Journal: Women Studies International Forum

Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/324617/contemporary-india-and-hindi-cinema

Submission of abstracts: 30 September 2025

Submission of full manuscript: 31 July 2026

Abstract

Concept Note & CFP on

Crisis and Hope in Contemporary South Asia

Crisis can be understood as any event or a series of events that disrupts, destabilizes, and threatens the everyday individual, social, and political order, leading to moments of transition and transformation that are often challenging to comprehend. The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented accruement of crises on a planetary scale manifesting as economic and environmental exploitation, geopolitical conflicts, pandemics and public health emergencies, and financial and economic turmoil, making the world an increasingly volatile and uncertain space.

ASANOR biannual conference 2026
June 4-6, Kristiansand, Norway CONSTITUTING THE US IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Proposal deadline: October 15, 2025

https://asanor.org/2026-conference/

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.

Call for Proposals: Edited volume on screenwriter, actor, director, and comedienne Elaine May

SCREEN STORYTELLERS

The Works of Elaine May

Edited by Jonathan Winchell

This edited volume on the works of Elaine May will be a book in the SCREEN STORYTELLERS series published by Bloomsbury Academic. Seeking 250-word abstracts for previously unpublished chapters on Elaine May’s work as a screenwriter and comedy writer. Final chapters will be 3,000-3,500 words, written for an audience of student readers.

RSA 2026

San Francisco - February 19–21, 2026

Reimagining Disability through “Disability Intimacy”

Relatable! Exploring Difference & Relationality in Creative Writing Studies (CFP)

Proposal Deadline: September 5th, 2025

Conference Dates: November 7th & 8th, 2025

The Creative Writing Studies Organization is now accepting proposals for our online fall conference, to be held the weekend of November 7, 2025. In holding our conference virtually in alternating years, we hope to continue building Creative Writing Studies scholarship across borders and time zones while maintaining the felt benefits of in-person gatherings. This year, the CWSC seeks proposals that help us expand and refine our understandings of relationality. 

2025 marks the 35th year since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Though ADA advances have often been celebrated in mainstream media and the rights they support taken as secured, it has come under attack through rollbacks since 2016, and most recently by removing DEIA initiatives within the Department of Education. At the same time, national and international discourse community efforts through conferences and other open forums have grown more diffuse.  With this in mind, this conference, “New Directions in Disability Studies,” will reflect on where disability studies has come from and what it will be in the future.  

Over the past decade, as the opioid epidemic turned into an even deadlier fentanyl epidemic, many colleges developed and implemented collegiate recovery programs “designed to provide an educational opportunity alongside other recovery supports to ensure that students do not have to sacrifice one for the other” (ARHE, 2024). As Nichols et al. (2025) relate, “Descriptive and observational research suggests that CRPs tend to reach the most at-risk students.”

SUSANNE K. LANGER: Artistic Angles, Philosophical Circles, Poetic Dots, and Technical LinesVienna University of Technology, Austria. 26–29 May 2026. Call opens: 1 September 2025Deadline: 1 October 2025 Organized in collaboration with the Research Unit Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics ATTP at the Vienna University of Technology and the IVC Institute Vienna Circle at the University of Vienna, this conference illuminates the history and relevance of Susanne K.

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Contested Bodies: Corporeality in Contemporary India
Edited by Dr. Shivshankar Rajmohan. & Dr. Sushant Kishore
Department of English, School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, TN, India

The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 53rd annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Feb. 19-21, 2026, at the University of Louisville (https://artsandsciences.louisville.edu/news-events/conferences/louisville-conference-literature-and-culture).

Rhetorical Society of America Conference

May 21-24, 2026

Portland, OR

“An Unassailable and Monumental Dignity”: Baldwin’s Rhetoric of Struggle

In 1963, speaking to a group of Oakland high school students about organizing for rights, suffrage, and economic change James Baldwin remarked that, “The measure of one’s dignity depends on one’s estimate of one’s self.” Dignity, for Baldwin, was born of independence, and forged through struggle against an oppressive social structure. 

CALL FOR PAPERS

13th International George Moore Conference

May 5-7, 2026

at

         Atlantic Technological University, Mayo

&

Moore Hall

George Moore:  Landscape and Memory

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” 

Dear Colleagues,

Please consider submitting a paper proposal to the panel, "Boccaccio and Boccaccian Medievalisms: Representatives of Gender in Storytelling" for the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The dates of the conference are May 14-16, 2026. The deadline to submit a paper proposal is September 15. This panel will be in person and is organized by Italian Studies@Kalamazoo.

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