The Anaïs Nin Foundation and Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal are pleased to announce the inaugural Anaïs Nin Essay Prize. We are seeking submissions of scholarly essays centered on the work, influence, relationships, or legacy of Anaïs Nin. Essays should aim to extend the academic conversation around her contributions to literature, art, and culture.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Queen’s Graduate Conference in Literature

Call for Papers | Haunted Bodies

Date: May 22-24, 2026 Location: Queen’s University, Kingston and Online

Submissions due: 

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 19, 2026

Culture, Food, and Literature in the New Millennium (Hybrid)

March 25-26, 2026

School of Liberal Arts

University of Management and Technology, Lahore

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

MICHIGAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, ARTS & LETTERS 614 Superior Street, Alma College, Alma, MI 48801 - Fax: 989-463-7970 - michiganacademy@alma.edu Call for Papers Women's & Gender Studies 

INVITATION 2026 conference: Friday, March 27, 2026, virtual conference held via Zoom.

You are invited to submit a 200-word abstract of the paper you wish to present at the conference.

PROCEDURES  Abstract submission deadline is 1/23/26.

Presentations are up to 20 minutes each, followed by discussion.

Undergraduates may present faculty co-authored or sponsored papers (section leaders may require proof that paper/research was reviewed by a faculty sponsor).

Call for PapersCaliban Speaks: International Conference on Recentering Indigenous Thought in the Age of Decolonialism and Technology

April 21–22, 2026 | International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI)

1. Conference Rationale

In the contemporary intellectual landscape, postcolonial theory has illuminated important questions of empire, identity, and resistance. Yet, its limits are increasingly visible: while interrogating colonial legacies, it has too often re-centered Eurocentric epistemologies and sidelined Indigenous thought.

Empathy in Action: Critical Perspectives from the Arts and Humanities

ARTS & HUMANITIES INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLOQUIUM

(Please read the full CfP before sending a proposal)

Deadline for abstract submissions: 20 March 2026
Notifications of acceptance: by 01 April 2026

Translators, Texts, and Contexts: Reclaiming Human Agency in the Age of AIHosted by the Department of Translation, Lingnan University, Hong Kong11-12 December 2026  |  M+, Kowloon, Hong Kong

As artificial intelligence (AI) sweeps through the landscape of language mediation, the classical trio of Translators, Texts, and Contexts remains central to understanding the art, ethics, and politics of translation. While AI tools offer unprecedented efficiencies in text processing, they often lack the human capacity for nuanced judgment and cultural contextualisation that remain essential to traditional translation studies scholarship.

Queer Ecologies Across Socialisms 

15-16 October 2026

University of Regensburg, October 15-16, 2026 | CfP deadline: Feb 15, 2026
Organizers: Martyna Miernecka, Paweł Matusz

In literary and arts research on socialist worlds, both queer studies and environmental histories have been expanding – yet we still lack approaches that would systematically integrate these strands across global state socialisms. This conference responds to that gap by inviting work that reads queer practices alongside institutional and environmental policies and traces the queer ecological impulses emerging from socialist contexts across the globe.

The International Congress on Narrative and Aesthetics in Film, Series, TV, and Audiovisual Experimentation is a platform for discussion and dissemination of studies and projects related to audiovisual creation in its various areas of production and distribution. It encompasses research related to cinematography and film history across a wide range of fields (sociology, industry, aesthetics, etc.), formats (fiction, documentary, animation, music videos, etc.), and genres (from thrillers and comedies to the connections between film and comics or video games).

Osgood Perkins is emerging as one of the most significant directors of horror in the 21st century. His films are wildly diverse and have elicited an equally wild diversity of response from viewers and critics. Perkins has thought a lot about horror, has frequently spoken about its larger meanings in interviews, and is committed to its centrality as a genre – something he articulates in this 2025 conversation with Interview Magazine:

The journal Studies in Popular Culture publishes reviews of books in the field. If you are interested in reviewing a book submitted to the journal or would like to suggest one to review, please contact the Book Reviews Editor, Caesar Perkowski, at cperkowski@gordonstate.edu. If you have not already reviewed a book for the journal, please include either a CV or a brief description of your interests and qualifications in the email.

Members of the Popular Culture Association in the South who have published a book are encouraged to inform the Book Reviews Editor of that fact.

Welcome to Hawkins: A Special Issue on Stranger Things

Slayage plans a special issue on Stranger Things for publication in late June 2026. Slayage is an international and interdisciplinary refereed scholarly journal concerned with the “fuzzy set” with Buffy the Vampire Slayer at its center, and Stranger Things, a multi-season television series with kick-ass heroines, the irruption of the supernatural into the mundane, high-stakes action, strong characterizations, snarky humor, and an emphasis on relationships and the complexities of queerness and race, fits our definition nicely. It’s even got a Hellmouth in a library!

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 23RD!!

Bridges and Borders: Material Actualities

March 19-21, 2026 | Proposals Due by FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 2026

Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) and on Zoom 

Bridges and Borders is an annual, interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference presented by the Carnegie Mellon University Department of English in collaboration with the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Applied Linguistics.

CONTACT: bridgesandborders@andrew.cmu.edu

Graduate Students in English Interdisciplinary Conference 2026

Call for Papers on the Theme: “Transformation”

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville – March 14-15, 2026

The Graduate Students in English at University of Arkansas at Fayetteville invite proposals on the theme “Transformation,” a topic as broad as the literary and academic canons themselves. As we bear witness to changes in higher education landscapes across disciplines, we might consider how our own perceptions have evolved, what has been reliable in scholarship historically, and what needs to adapt.

ALA 2026: Politics in American Fiction

ALA Annual Conference (May 20-23, Chicago, IL)

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS - DEADLINE EXTENDED!

 REIMAGINING FRANKENSTEIN IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Cross-Cultural Adaptations in Visual Culture

Edited by Cenk Tan & Defne Ersin Tutan

Editors’ Introduction

Studiolo is a series of essays on objects, books, and early technologies, written in the spirit of the chockablock Renaissance study from which it takes its name and published monthly at the Pittsburgh Review of Books (http://www.pghrev.com) 

Call for Papers (proposals)

CONTRIBUTION TO EDITED VOLUME (Please read the full CfP before sending a proposal)

Mediated Masculinities in European networks: Discourse and performativity in the Information Age 

Deadline for abstract submissions: February 15, 2026 

Notifications of acceptance: March 1, 2026 

Deadline for first draft after notification of acceptance: April 15, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

TWO DAY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on “CINEMA: A WAY OF LIFE ? ” (Virtual)

 International Journal of Digital Humanities (IJDHS)

ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)

https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJDHS/Home.html

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August 3-5, 2026

Southern Utah University - Utah Shakespeare Festival

The Wooden O Symposium is a cross-disciplinary conference exploring the impact of Shakespeare's plays on culture and history, from his time to the present. This face-to-face conference aims to foster research in the field of Shakespeare Studies and to provide connections between academia and professional theatre productions through our partnership with the Utah Shakespeare Festival. The Wooden O Symposium limits participation to 25 presenters to ensure robust conversation and feedback as we strive to create a community of scholars engaged with the work of Shakespeare.

The organizers the University of South Carolina Beaufort's Interdisciplinary Studies Conference, "Balm: Binding Art, Life, Medicine," invite proposals for this year's event. This interdisciplinary conference on Narrative Medicine and Health Humanities will be held virtually on Thursday, March 26th and on the Bluffton campus on Friday, March 27th.  We are extending the submission deadline from February 1st to February 15th to allow undergraduate scholars to generate potential contributions. Topics of Interest

We welcome interdisciplinary proposals that explore, interrogate, or illuminate the central theme, including but not limited to:

Crossroads of Literary Creation:
Fact, Fiction, and Everything In-between

A Transdisciplinary Conference
Online, February 11-12, 2026

Conference page: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/12/06/crossroads-of-literary-creation/

Participation fee: £100
Prices exclude eventbrite fees

Call for Papers:

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie” – Stephen King

“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.” – Doris Lessing