47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open: September 1, 2025

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025

Call for Papers

Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster in Culture

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open: September 1, 2025

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025

********DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 1st 2025********

London Metropolitan University, in partnership with Vilnius University, invite proposals for conference papers for an international symposium “1984 and its afterlife: legacy, narratives, and the making of a community” to be held at London Metropolitan University, London, 18 – 19 December 2025. The symposium will be held in hybrid form, we are welcoming both on-site and online papers. 

This symposium will explore the historical, social and cultural reverberations of the events of 1984 in India and abroad through the analysis of literature, films and artworks engaged with them. 

The last decade of the Twentieth century witnessed a drastic shift from a ‘Bipolar’ to a ‘Unipolar’ world including the definition of the power politics and the diplomatic, economic and military status quo of the cold war era. Now the geographies of the globe had to shape the historical predictability, literary upsurges, socio-economic developments and psycho-cultural practices within the communities including the entire ecosystem of the various ecosophical narratives of climate change. In this context, ‘Geopolitics’ proved to the most apt term that invokes many things simultaneously. Political tussle and dominance is the most obvious meaning of the term that implicitly implies its global extent.

A guest-edited special issue of the journal SOUTHEAST OF NOW: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia. Editors: Louis Ho, Michelle Lim, Sushma Griffin Deadline for proposals and abstracts (in all formats):Nov 1, 2025 (please submit an abstract of 400-500 words, and a brief biographical note) Deadline for the submission of complete manuscripts for accepted proposals (in all formats):Mar 1, 2026 (please see below for more details about the submission formats) Please send all submissions for, and queries regarding, this issue to artecopol.seon@gmail.com. About the journal:Southeast of Now is a scholarly journal on art and visual cultur

Sixteenth International Conference on Food Studies, University of Osaka, Japan, 10-12 October 2026

Founded in 2011, the Food Studies Research Network is brought together around a common interest to explore new possibilities for sustainable food production and human nutrition, and associated impacts of food systems on culture. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

The Sixteenth International Conference on Food Studies calls for research addressing the following annual themes and special focus:

Call for Papers

Translation and Interpreting Research (TIR)
Official Journal of the Research Institute for Translation Studies, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran

This is an Emergency (Archive): Recording, Remembering, Resisting, Refusing Under Catastrophe 

Editors: Kathryn Manis, Bibhushana Poudyal, Patty Wilde, and Ma-Ya

MRDS continues its annual tradition of inviting all scholars new to the field of early drama studies—especially graduate students, recent PhDs, and early career researchers (within four years of receiving the degree)—to submit their work to the panel. The panel will consist of four papers and commentary from a respondent.

MRDS welcomes all approaches to early drama studies for this open-topic session. Proposed papers do not have to speak to the Congress’s proposed topic of “temporalities,” however, papers related to this general topic will be especially welcome.

This interdisciplinary (hybrid) conference considers the role of universities in war past and present. Historically, the university experience in war is of loss, displacement, depleting student numbers, reallocation of staff to expert roles to support the war effort, students and staff engaged in active duty, and campus buildings re-purposed. Universities also become key for a country’s postwar reconstruction. However, not all universities have direct experience of conflict. This conference considers how universities operate in war zones and the role universities play in non-conflict zones to support the academy and the communities they serve in war and displacement.

The 5th Annual Humanities Podcasting
Network Symposium: “Podcasting & Power”
Oct. 24th & 25, 2025 (Virtual)
Call For Panels and Presentations

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Punk rock isn’t something you grow out of. Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is ‘give us some truth.’”
— Joe Strummer

Cultural Constellations: A Journal of Literature and Art

deadline for submissions: 

September 30, 2025

full name / name of organization: 

Cultural Constellations / University of Maryland Global Campus Europe

contact email: 

CulturalConstellations-Europe@UMGC.edu

For Reference:

https://europe.umgc.edu/content/dam/umgc-europe/documents/upload/cultura...

Cultural Constellations:  A Journal of Literature and Art

Call for Papers:

Global Committee Panel on

"Borders, Bridges and Belonging:

Neighborhoods in Global Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture"

Deadline: September 30, 2025

11:59 p.m. (Eastern US Standard Time)

Children's Literature Association Conference

May 28-30, 2026

Omni William Penn Hotel

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

The so-called “post-secular turn” in Victorian studies has helped produce a more accurate view of the Victorian period by acknowledging the religiosity of the time rather than privileging doubt and skepticism. However, so far the post-secular turn, understandably, has focused on religious movements and the role of the Bible in the literature of the time. This panel seeks to broaden that focus by examining ways in which a consideration of Victorian religiosity sheds new light on a range of scholarly debates – including but not limited to such topics as disability studies, eugenics, “scientific” racism, or animal rights, among many other possibilities. Interdisciplinary papers are welcome.

A trace evokes the marks, remnants, and residues of the past. Rather than static records, trace embodies the temporal and spatial dimensions of the actions that produced them, representing intersections of movement, perception, and interaction. A trace can be the smallest and subtlest thing–a memory knot, a mark left by animals, travelers, or strangers, or can be the space between the lines of historical texts. A trajectory, on the other hand, is the path of movement that implies direction, growth, narrative, discourse, coming into an account, taking shapes, and becoming present. What is the dynamic tension between trace and trajectory? How do trace and trajectory translate and communicate with each other?

While ancient Europe regarded India as a land of material wealth and proverbial wisdom, it also saw it as a land of man-like monkeys, banyan trees, and enormous elephants. Ancient Europeans perceived Indians as wearing bright colors, eating rice and meat, and lacking wine-drinking finesse. Today, portrayals of India in prose fiction, cinema, social media, and historiography have shifted from polarized images of Europe and India to narratives depicting a “Dark” and a “Shining” India. Characters in these texts strive to be part of an economically thriving “shining” India, even as they face social, cultural, and political challenges daily.

Magics, Marvels, Metamorphoses, and Monsters: Horrors of the Medieval Past, Present, and Future (Virtual)

Co-sponsored by Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association, Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, International Society for the Study of Medievalism

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College, and June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University

Call for Articles

Special Issue: (Re)articulating an Old Ideal: Self-Care and Self-Help in Contemporary Culture

Guest Editors: Alexandra Bacalu (University of Bucharest) & Dragoș Manea (University of Bucharest)

The Charles Olson Society will sponsor panels at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, to take place in Louisville, Kentucky, February 16-21. 2026 marks the Centenary of poet Robert Creeley’s birth, and the Charles Olson Society will welcome abstracts pertaining to any aspect of Creeley’s life and work. Creeley was a central poet in the development of Black Mountain Poetry, and along with his life-long friend and companion in verse, Charles Olson, Creeley greatly influenced the development of American poetics after World War II. As he said, “I write to realize the world as one has come to live in it, thus to give testament. I write to move in words, a human delight. I write when no other act is possible.”

Pasados Special Issue: Against the Past/Contra Pasados

Co-edited by Jesse Alemán (University of New Mexico) and Evelyn Soto (Rutgers University—New Brunswick)

Deadline: January 15, 2026

Call for papers

Undisciplined Anthropologies: Practices, Trajectories, and Imaginations Beyond “Method”

Cultures and Societies Department, University of Palermo, Italy

Institut Français, Palermo, Italy

International Conference

30th, 31rst October 2025

Institut Français Palermo

Via Paolo Gili 4, 90138, Palermo

Deadline for abstracts: September 25th, 2025

Literary criticism is often treated as a secondary act, the intellectual afterimage of the work it addresses. This seminar proceeds from the opposite premise: criticism can be understood as a compositional art, a practice that gathers elements from different media, genres, and historical moments in order to propose a world in which the work might live. The critic does not merely interpret but constructs, weaving together forms, narratives and temporalities to re-situate a work within a newly configured cultural space, animated by the critical desire to imagine and construct more just and inhabitable worlds. 

NeMLA 2026 will be held in Pittsburgh, PA from March 5-8.