Copyright and Intellectual Property Area

As our day-to-day lives depend increasingly on creating “content,” the often misunderstood rules of copyright and intellectual property have an important effect on us. The Copyright and Intellectual Property area seeks to foster an interdisciplinary discussion about the tumultuous cultural battle raging over how we understand the production and distribution of knowledge.

We are pleased to invite proposals for new themed issues of Film Journal, the open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal founded by SERCIA (Société d’études et de recherches sur le cinéma anglophone / Society for Study and Research in Anglophone Cinema). Established in France in 1993, SERCIA promotes the study and teaching of English-speaking cinema worldwide.
Each issue of Film Journal is devoted to a particular theme, and we welcome proposals that explore diverse aspects of film and screen studies. The journal encourages contributions that offer fresh perspectives on film history, theory, narrative, and aesthetics, and that engage critically with a wide variety of cinematic forms, genres, and traditions.

Robert Lowell Society is inviting new papers on Robert Lowell, his work and his times, to be presented at the 37th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, May 20–23, 2026 in Chicago.

ICSSR sponsored

International Conference on

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Charles W. Chesnutt Association

American Literature Association
37th Annual ConferenceMay 20-23, 2026Palmer House
17 East Monroe Street
Chicago, IL  60603

The Charles W. Chesnutt Association welcomes abstracts of no more than 300 words for presentation at two sessions on the work of Chesnutt at the 2026 ALA conference in Chicago.

Subjects for submissions are open but may include one of the following:

The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session that will explore disability in the medieval past and/or the ways in which disability studies and medieval studies fruitfully intersect. The session welcomes papers that consider understandings of non-standard human bodies from the medieval past and/or reflect upon the ways in which, as Godden and Hsy write, “the study of disability in the Middle Ages challenges modern narratives of bodily integrity and autonomy” (334). The non-standard body in the Middle Ages takes on a variety of forms both familiar and unfamiliar to us today, from the use of spectacles to colonies of lepers.

Call for Papers 1: You Are On Native Land:  Understanding Medieval Studies in Turtle Island

The EDID Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers on Indigeneity and the medieval. 

The New American Studies Journal: A Forum (Göttingen University Press) invites submissions for a forthcoming special issue in 2026 that focuses on Chinese American literature. We invite submissions of both academic essays and creative works.

3rd International H/Story Seminar

Communism in Historical Fiction

02.04.2026

online

University of Silesia in Katowice
Institute of Literary Studies
H/Story Research Group

The Popular Arts Conference (PAC) invites submissions for our 19th Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, September 3-7, 2026.

PAC is an annual academic conference for the studies of the popular arts, including science/speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and other media; comic books and graphic novels; anime and manga; tabletop and video gaming; etc., presented to a mixed audience of scholars and fans. The mission of PAC is to promote scholarship on popular culture and to encourage engagement between scholars and fans in order to deepen our understanding of the popular arts. PAC presentations are peer reviewed, based on scholarly research.

The organizing committee of the South Asia Graduate Student Conference (SAGSC-XXIII) at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce its twenty-third annual conference: “Resonant Boundaries: (Inter)disciplinarity in and about South Asia.” This year’s conference will take place on March 5th-6th, 2026. We cordially invite papers from independent scholars and graduate students at any stage of study and in any discipline from universities across the world.

NETSOL: New Trends in Social and Liberal Sciences 

An Interdisciplinary Journal - ISSN 2469-4002

http://www.netsoljournal.net/

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Faculty-owned and faculty-run interdisciplinary journal NETSOL welcomes submissions from all scholars in the humanities and social sciences.  

NETSOL has been housed at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley since 2016.

NETSOL is a peer-reviewed biannual academic e-journal publishing original research articles and book reviews. All articles go through a double-blind peer-review process.

In 2021, the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)  issued a position statement on “the Role of Reading in the College Writing Classroom”. In this statement, 4Cs “affirm[ed] the need to develop accessible and effective reading pedagogies in college writing classrooms” because it would help student performance across the university and in students’ roles as citizens in a democracy. The statement correctly notes that reading pedagogy is an issue writing studies has not taken up in a robust way for about 30 years and that it is now receiving attention at four-year institutions, though reading pedagogy has long been addressed at two-year schools.

Call for Special Issues: Christianity and Literature

As a peer-reviewed journal publishing since 1951, Christianity and Literature invites proposals for Special Issues exploring focused topics at the intersection of Christian faith and literary expression. We are interested in issues that address, but are not limited to, the following areas:

Keynote speakers:

Hannah Williams, Reader in the History of Art, Queen Mary University of London
Daniel Foliard, Professor of Modern History, Université Paris Cité

For the Annual Conference in Atlanta, April 8-11, 2026, PCA will be piloting poster sessions.  Poster sessions allow scholars to share their research and ideas in a less formal setting compared to traditional presentations while still being part of the program.  

If the proposal is accepted, presenters should create a poster presentation that visually summarizes their topic, highlighting such things as their main argument, their research methods, and overall conclusions.

Poster sessions will be scheduled in a four hour block (8 a.m. - 12 p.m. or 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.).  Presenters should be ready to set up and take down at those times and will need to schedule a 90 minute block in which to be with their posters.   

orum: Issues about Part-Time and Full-Time Contingent Faculty is a peer-reviewed journal published by NCTE and CCCC to address working conditions, professional life, activism, and perspectives of non-tenure-track faculty. This special issue will be published in the fall of 2026. The submission deadline is January 20, 2026. Issues of identity shape not only who we are as faculty, but also how we perform and the connections we make in the classroom. Identifying one’s place, not just as an educator but as a person, has unique implications for part-time and contingent faculty in higher learning, both in and outside the academic spaces they take up.

Volcanic Materiality: Cultural Phenomena in the Age of the Anthropocene

Editor: Dewey W. Hall

Call for Contributions 

Rural Futures/Todhchaí na Tuaithe: 
Social and Environmental Justice in Ireland 
Sacred Heart University, Dingle, Ireland 
June 8-10, 2026 

The inaugural three-day Rural Futures conference at Sacred Heart University’s campus in Dingle, Ireland, will feature keynote speaker Nessa Cronin (University of Galway), and a plenary conversation on the future of rural Irish literature with authors Belinda McKeon (Maynooth University) and Mike McCormack (University of Galway).

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Literature/Film Quarterly on “Female Adaptations, Female Sources”

Guest Editor: Betty Kaklamanidou (Aristotle University)

Listening: The Dark Side of Literature, Art and Thought / À L'Écoute: le côté obscur de la littérature, de l’art et de la pensée

Special issue of L’Atelier https://ojs.parisnanterre.fr/index.php/la 18.1 (april 2027) 

Guest Editor: Adrienne Janus Proposals (approximately 350 words) in English or in French should be sent to Adrienne Janus [adrienne.janus@univ-tours.fr] and Anne Ullmo [anne.ullmo@univ-tours.fr] by 15 Feb. 2026

The Music Graduate Student Organization at the University of Pittsburgh welcomes proposals for 20-minute paper presentations, performance demonstrations, or work that integrates research and practice for its 2026 conference, “Sonic Power: Speculation, Surveillance, and Strength.” We invite students, researchers, musicians, sound artists, and practitioners from diverse disciplines to consider how sound organizes power and how people reorganize power through sound. Sonic life shapes worlds, whether in the hush of archival erasure, the loudness of protest, or the sorting of listening within media infrastructures.

Call for Book Chapters: Mythological Motifs in German Narratives

The study of mythology transcends the boundaries of time, space, and medium. Myths have always been an integral part of human storytelling, shaping collective identities, cultural ideologies, and individual imaginations. From ancient oral traditions and epics to contemporary literature, cinema, graphic novels, and digital media, mythological motifs continue to evolve and find expression across genres and media.

Call for Book Chapters

Reimagining Futures in Steampunk, Cyberpunk, and Solarpunk Narratives