The Philosophy & Literature Workshop at Stanford and the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins welcome submissions for the 7th annual Philosophy & Literature Graduate Conference to be held in person on May 15-16th, 2026 at Stanford University. This year’s conference topic, “Chrōnos, Tempus, Time: Temporality in Philosophy, Literature & the Arts” brings together doctoral students and scholars that work at the intersection of philosophy, literature, the arts, and media studies. 

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Call for Book Chapters

Trauma and Mental Health in the Writing Workshop:A Theoretical and Practical Toolkit for Teachers

Edited by Jennifer Case

Under Contract with Bloomsbury Academic

We're now accepting proposals for our 2026 conference and Volume IV of the Board Game Academics journal through March 15, 2026. If you or someone you know has an idea for a presentation or article about using tabletop gaming to contextualize, historicize, and challenge the ideologies rooted not just within gaming materials but also in their communities at large, please contact us. 

Share with the world how you are using tabletop games to support more experiential pedagogies, enhance clinical practice, and engage with students and colleagues. 

The GITAM School of Humanities and Social Sciences, alongside collaborating institutions, Jadavpur University and Hansraj College, University of Delhi, invite scholars to the two-day national conference on “Embodied Justice: Memory, Violence, and Resilience in India”.

The Palgrave Handbook of Virtual Reality Literature (Re-CFP)

Anik Sarkar and Ratul Nandi

Note: This is a call for additional essays.

About the book:

CALL FOR PAPERS

American Religion and Literature Society

American Literature Association

37th Annual Conference

May 20-23, 2026

The Palmer House Hilton

17 East Monroe Street

Chicago, IL 60603

We invite faculty, advanced graduate students, and independent scholars to apply for a three-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on the New Deal era Federal Writers’ Project (FWP), taking place June 29–July 18, 2026. The institute will be conducted in a hybrid format, with the first and third weeks held virtually and the second week convening on site at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. for guided research in its extensive FWP collections. This interdisciplinary program offers participants the opportunity to deepen their understanding of the FWP and to develop hands-on experience using its rich documentation of American lives, communities, and cultures for teaching, research, and scholarship.

The Many Hands of Book History
Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Canada / Société bibliographique du Canada
8-9 June 2026, University of Toronto

This collection gathers essays centered on how the performance of early modern drama has provided a method both for engaging with the problem of tyranny and for acts of resistance across different periods and in global contexts. How can the staging of early modern drama help us better understand ideas about, and responses to, repression, persecution, totalitarianism, and opposition? In what ways do early modern plays, when performed at particular historical moments and in particular cultural contexts, provide a means both for reflecting political attitudes and anxieties and for shaping political change? What role does early modern drama in performance have to play—if any—in helping diagnose, confront, and challenge tyranny? 

This special issue of Frontiers investigates how feminism, even as a discourse of resistance, participates in hegemonic projects. We invite papers that examine the connections between feminism, conservatism, and conservative ideologies during the long twentieth century within the context of the Americas (including North, Central, and South America, the Caribbean, as well as indigenous lands and communities). We welcome crosstemporal and transgeographic approaches, since we aim to put together a comparative, humanistic interdisciplinary analysis that explores how culture articulates and mobilizes notions of femininity, conservative politics, and complex ideological affiliations in transnational, local, border, and/or oceanic frameworks.

Steeped in the primal discomfort of the uncanny, dolls and the houses they inhabit are an especially fluid and perennially creepy motif within popular culture. Revealing historical and on-going tensions between what it means to be human and what it means to only perform those attributes, these remnants of childhood carry with them specific cultural messaging that has been particularly fertile ground for the horror genre.

For special issue #10 (spring 2026) of Horror Homeroom, we’re diving into the world of creepy dollhouses and their inhabitants. We’re interested in abstracts about the dolls and dollhouses of horror - or of horror adjacent narratives (thrillers, mysteries, science fiction etc.). 

The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale (I19) seeks to publish the best scholarship on the century that was, in many ways, the time period in which the modern genres of science fiction and fantasy began, and in which the academic study of fairy tale and folklore has its roots. 

Call for Papers: (SPECIAL ISSUE) Digital Education for All (SCOPUS)

We are excited to announce a Special Issue of the SCOPUS Indexed Journal "Quality Education for All" titled "Digital Education for All,” which invites contributions exploring how digital technologies can foster inclusive, equitable, and high-quality learning for communities worldwide.

Why this Special Issue?

The global shift to digital education has opened new opportunities but also exposed deep-rooted inequalities. From infrastructure and affordability to teacher readiness, inclusivity, and ethics—digital education today is as much a socio-cultural and policy challenge as it is a technological one.

As part of the 10th International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies, the American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) invites proposals for either a panel or a roundtable discussion. The Elmira conference will expand its traditional focus on Mark Twain by including sister organizations such as AHSA. The conference theme is “Irreverence, Rebellion, and Resilience.”

In Traditional African Festival Drama in Performance, Austine Anigala(2006)draws on the Ukpalabor festival of the Ebedei people in Southern Nigeria to argue for the performance and dramatic potential of the indigenous African festival. This provocative work is against the backdrop of polemics initiated by scholars such as Ruth Finnegan (2012) and Michael J. C. Echeruo (1973) about the dramatic limits of indigenous African festivals. Recall that Echeruo (1973) called for a re-examination of how indigenous festivals are referred to as drama.

Proposals are invited to a Special Issue of Feminist German Studies on “Intersections of Gender and Disability in German Studies”

Guest Editors: Judith Bierwolf, Hanna Bingel-Jones, Rachel MagShamhráin, Michaela Schrage-Früh

The 2026 International Conference on Human Rights: Youth in Asia is the 4th ICHR series. ICHR has been co-organized by East Asia Young Scholars Association (EAYSA), Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP) Tokyo, and the Graduate Program on Human Security (HSP) and Research Center for Sustainable Peace (RCSP), the University of Tokyo.

Midnapore College (Autonomous)
International Seminar
on
“Aestheticism in Art and Literature” (সাহিত্য ও শিল্পে নন্দনতত্ত্ব)
To be organized by
Department of Bengali & Cultural Section
in collaboration with IQAC
on 13 January 2026
Mode: Hybrid(Online & Offline)
“The purpose of art is the realization of aesthetic bliss (Ānanda)” - Abhinavagupta.

Edited Collection – Critical Perspectives on the “Flanaverse” of Mike Flanagan 

In recent decades, research on authority and trust in the US has seen a considerable increase across various disciplines (cf. Leypoldt and Berg 2021). However, in comparison, there has been much less scholarship on aspects of gender since Anette Baier dedicated her influential 1994 collection of essays Moral Prejudices on trust (and related issues)to her “women students, past, present, and future.” Our workshop addresses this lacuna, both from a theoretical perspective, and in the light of current cultural, social, and political developments in the US, and of (once again) contested definitions of gender(ed) identities, practices, performances, and ethics.

QUEER: PRESENT! VISIBILITY THROUGH THE BODY
International Conference

25-26 June 2026

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
Faculty of Philosophy

The 1st Symposium on the Chinese Translation of the Greek Septuagint
（第一屆中文七十士譯本翻譯學術研討會）

Hong Kong, 22-24 April 2026 (Wed to Fri)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Theme: Towards a Chinese Translation of the Greek Septuagint: Opportunity and Challenge   

The conference aims to explore both opportunities and complexities involved in rendering the Greek Septuagint into Chinese. Participants are encouraged to present research on the following themes:

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

***EXTENSION*** Abstracts now due by January 25, 2026.

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.

The SCREEN STORYTELLERS series is designed for students, professors, and enthusiastic