Call For Papers for Italian Ecofeminism and Literature

Deadline for Submissions: August 1, 2026

Notification date: September 1, 2026

Full name / Name of organization: Nicole C. (Civitano) Dittmer, PhD

Contact email: ncdittmer@gmail.com

The "Shakespeare and the Early Moderns" session at PAMLA 2026 seeks proposals focusing on: Shakespeare and the early moderns; Shakespeare and/or his peers (Massinger, Heywood, Beaumont, Fletcher, Wroth, Middleton, etc.); the influence of Shakespeare and the early moderns on later works of literature. Topics of particular interest include work on Shakespeare and power and authority; labor and hierarchy, national identity, Shakespeare and race, feminism, gender and sexuality, disability studies, post-colonial studies, early modern economies; adaptations, and other proposals that touch on any aspect of Shakespeare, his contemporaries, and related topics.

Theme: Interconnections between Utopia and Dystopia in Times of Crisis

Venue: Embassy Suites Portland Downtown (Formerly the 1912 Multnomah Hotel)

Proposal Deadline:June 30, 2026

Conference Co-chairs email: susprogramchair@gmail.com

Conference website: https://utopian-studies.org/conference2026/

While not for the first time, educators are finding themselves at the center of political controversies as their pedagogies, content, and even profession is questioned, critiqued, and in some cases, banned. Also not the first occurrence, protesting has become one way targeted educators, students, and community members respond to and resist these top-down attacks. For some, these involve taking to the streets, organizing or joining protest efforts with high, public-facing visibility. For others, protests manifest as the books and content they continue to teach or the use of a student’s preferred pronouns.

The Writing, Speaking, and Argument Program, along with the Department of English and the Film and Media Studies Program at the University of Rochester are pleased to announce an upcoming undergraduate conference on horror, to be held October 23-25, 2026. The conference will featuring a keynote address by the University of Rochester’s own Jason Middleton, author of numerous articles on horror films, co-editor (with Aviva Briefel) of Labors of Fear: The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work (U of Texas P, 2023), and a featured expert on the AMC series Eli Roth’s History of Horror.

This issue aims to restore much-needed scholarly attention to analog effects and other hands-on approaches to filmmaking in analog and contemporary digital cinema. Special effects have become a growing area in film studies with the rise of digital cinema since the turn of the century, sparking renewed interest across academic writing, popular culture, journalism, and fandom. Scholars such as Warren Buckland, Stephen Prince, Charlie Keil, Kristen Whissel, and Julie A. Turnock have primarily focused on the cinematic realism of CGI and its ubiquitous use in Hollywood mainstream cinema. Furthermore, as Dan North, Bob Rehak, and Michael S.

At a time when some are attempting to rewrite the Humanities, it might be questioned as to how archives can not only be preserved but also utilized to fight for the future. Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture are deeply shaped by questions of memory, authority, and cultural transmission. Contributors are encouraged to consider the archive as an ever-evolving site of power that governs inclusion, exclusion, and interpretation. One might posit questions such as How do archival practices shape the stories available to young readers, and how might authors, educators, and scholars work against inherited silences and erasures?

This peer reviewed edited collection will be part of McFarland & Company, Inc.’s Studies in Gaming series.

The 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference will take place this November in Seattle, Washington, from November 12-15. The PAMLA 2026 conference is entirely in-person. We do not under any circumstances allow papers to be given virtually, online, or in absentia.

We are open to a wide range of papers dealing with French and Francophone literature and culture. However, we are very much interested in proposals that engage with the special conference theme of "Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict." Possible areas of focus include:

Legitimacy and political authority

Leadership and the figure of the ruler

Colonial rule and postcolonial elites

Event Title:                    Truth in (Contemporary) SocietyEvent date:                    Monday, 29th & 30th June 2026
Location:                       Workroom 3, 38 Mappin St, University of Sheffield

Greetings everyone!

We are excited to announce the commencement of abstract submissions for the fifth volume of Sophia Luminous.

Sophia Luminous ( ISSN: 3048-6211) is a national-level, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary online research journal for students, published by Sophia College for Women (Autonomous), Mumbai, India. It is devoted to the discussion of the innovative, novel, and contemporary areas of research by undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and early researchers from an array of disciplines.

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world,” claims Percy Bysshe Shelley at the end of his well-known essay A Defence of Poetry, based on the idea that poetry is connatural with the origin of the human. Poetry is one of the most prestigious genres in the literary tradition, if not the most. Whether we go back to its public and ritual function in shamanic chants or in Homeric epic, or we think of its circulation in multimedia formats on digital consumption platforms on the internet, poetry has existed both as an artistic mode of verbal language and as a literary genre that encapsulates the virtues of literature.

JFA Presents: The Ruthven Literary Bulletin – FOCUSED ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS

Issue Editor: Elizabeth Schechter

Call for Papers

In the Introduction to In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, Margaret Atwood makes a clear distinction between science fiction and speculative fiction: the former concerns events that could not happen; the latter draws on developments that could happen or that have already occurred in some historical form. The distinction was publicly contested, including in an exchange with Ursula K. Le Guin, and Atwood insists her terminology was descriptive rather than hierarchical. She places The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) within the speculative category on the grounds that nothing in the novel exceeds documented historical precedent (Atwood 5–6). This conference takes Atwood at her word.

The Aquatic Presence-Absence in World Literatures

Critical Language and Literary Studies (CLLS) invites original, unpublished research articles for a themed issue to be published in Fall 2026. The theme is examining aquatic presences and absences in world literatures.

LFA 2026: ADAPTATION/NATION

LITERATURE/FILM ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

Elon University, Elon, NC

October 1st – 3rd 2026

Theme: The Other Side of the Looking Glass 

29th Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference 

University of Mississippi

August 8th—9th, 2026

Call for Submissions

Supernatural South(s): The Monstrous, The Fantastic, The Grotesque, The Speculative and So On…

The Southern Writers/Southern Writing Conference (SW/SW) is an interdisciplinary conference, welcoming graduate students, creative writers, activists, and community members with interest in the U.S. or Global South from all departments and fields of study. The 29th meeting of SW/SW will be held at the University of Mississippi from August 8th-August 9th, 2026. 

UVA Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXIX (9/17-19) deadline for submissions: June 26, 2026 full name / name of organization: University of Virginia-Wise Center for Medieval-Renaissance Studies contact email: kjt9t@uvawise.edu 

Opening Sequences: The Narrative Architecture of TV Titles

This edited volume proposes the first critical anthology devoted to television title sequences as a distinct and influential mode of visual storytelling. By treating opening titles as complex aesthetic and narrative artefacts, this volume seeks to establish a new interdisciplinary space for the study of title design, inviting scholars to rethink how beginnings shape meaning, memory, and emotional architecture in serial television.

                                                                 Call for Abstracts (Circle 3)  

                                        Literature and the Arts as Sites of Resistance and Solidarities
                                                 24 July -31 July 2026, Saulkrasti, Latvia

Focus

Literature and the Arts as tools for intersubjective transformation, resistance, and the forging of solidarities.

Framing Questions

Call for Papers:

The Art of Storytelling: Archetypes in Focus A Transdisciplinary Conference

May 30-31, 2026

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/02/24/storytelling-2026/

Where:

Oxford University (and Online)

Fees:

£180 (In person participation)

£100 (Online participation)

Theme: Is it a Wonderful Life?

Wonder (n.): a feeling of surprise or awe, caused by something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable

Wonder (v.): to feel some doubt or curiosity; to be desirous to know or learn.

Wondrous (adj.): marvelous; wonderful. 

International Holocaust Cinema is a planned collection edited by Dr. Elyce Rae Helford (professor of English, Middle Tennessee State University) with support from Edinburgh University Press for publication in 2027.

I seek chapters on famous or lesser-known Holocaust-themed films from diverse nations/national cinemas. Each chapter should have a specific thesis as well as attention to cultural context, production history, and/or other important elements for those interested in learning more about the film – for research, teaching, or personal interest.