CALL FOR PAPERS 

RADIO AND AUDIO MEDIA AREA

POPULAR CULTURE AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

April 8-11, 2026, ATLANTA

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION:  NOVEMBER 30, 2025

The Biographies Area of the Popular Culture Association (PCA)  is soliciting papers for the 2026 conference that examine the connections between biography and popular culture. Papers and full panel presentations regarding any aspect of popular culture and biography are encouraged. Potential topics might include:

• Biography and entertainment, art, music, theater

• Biography and film

• Biography and criminal justice

• Television programs about biography

• Biography and urban legends

• Biography and folklore

 The Shakespeare on Film and Television area explores Shakespeare in a variety of media beyond the traditional stage, including film, television, anime, magna, and recent novelizations of the plays. We have previously had papers on the following topics and invite new ideas all the time.
* What is a Shakespeare Adaptation?
* Translating Shakespeare into Film: Additions, Omissions, Anachronisms
* Shakespearean Auteurs
* Shakespeare in Silent Film
* Shakespeare biopics and television takeoffs
* Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace
* Latino Shakespeare
* Shakespeare in Korea
* Anime, Manga, and animated Shakespeares
* Shakespeare on British Television

Shapes of Dystopia:Literary Imaginings and Social Realities Across Media

January 16, 2026, Rzeszów, Poland (Hybrid Formula) 

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: 

The XVIII James Joyce Italian Foundation Conference in Rome

Joyce’s “World of Words”

Conference Dates: 4-6 February 2026

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: November 9, 2025

SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS WILL BE NOTIFIED BY

NOVEMBER 30, 2025

Keynote speakers:

▪       Declan Kiberd, University of Notre Dame

▪       Annalisa Volpone, University of Perugia

The Faculty of Langagues and Literautre, University of Central Pubjab (UCP), Lahore, Pakistan is organizing its 2nd International Conference on January 8-9, 2026 on the theme of The Second Coming of Humanities. The conference will be hybrid, in-person as well as online. Abstract submission deadline Extended: Nov 10, 2025. 

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:

It’s in their Blood:

Television Series and the Representation of Violence in the 21st Century

International conference hosted by

Metropolitan University Prague and

ULICES – University of Lisbon Center for English Studies,

School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon.

6-7 March, 2026

Online

Concordia University, Tiohtià:ke (Montreal)

4 – 7 June 2026

DEADLINE: 21 November 2025

Title: Audience Reactions to Shakespeare Then and Now

Chairs: Alexandra Lukawski (Western University; alukawsk@uwo.ca); Alice Hinchliffe (University of Guelph; ahinchli@uoguelph.ca)

Call for Papers (CFP)

Every year, the Association holds it annual conference, usually a two-day affair, as well as a graduate student workshop, usually held the day before the annual conference. The 2026 annual meeting will be held at the DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois from June 17-18th.

Uprooted Law: Reflecting on the Origins and Outgrowths of Law

EDITORS: Jodi Byrd (University of Chicago), Kimberly Anne Coles (University of Maryland), Sharon P. Holland (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Greta LaFleur (Yale University)

This year’s MCLLM theme invites exploration of how literature, language, and performance illuminate intersecting dimensions of justice. How are inherited forms, genres, and rhetorical strategies reactivated in contemporary struggles for equity? In what ways do linguistic, literary, and artistic practices navigate, resist, and respond to the abuse of power while imagining alternative futures? 

MCLLM welcomes proposals from a wide range of disciplines and expression forms. The list below provides a sense of the topics the organizers are interested in seeing, but it is not an all-inclusive list. Please submit a proposal that represents your interpretation of our theme! 

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.