Poetic Responses to Prisons and Policing (SAMLA Panel #19707) - DEADLINE EXTENDED 

The 19th Edition of the International Conference Innovation in Language Learning takes place:
on 11 November 2026 | Online Event
on 12-13 November 2026 | in Florence (Italy)

The event brings together educators, researchers, practitioners, and project managers from all over the world to exchange insights, share expertise, and explore innovative approaches to language teaching and learning.

Join us onsite in Florence, Italy, or online from anywhere in the world — as a Presenter or Listener — and be part of an inspiring global dialogue on the innovation in language education.

Call for Papers: Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies

Special Issue: ‘Rapa Nui Now’ – Issue 14.2

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-new-zealand-pacific-studies#call-for-papers

Public Humanities is an international open-access, cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal at the intersection of humanities scholarship and public life.

The journal invites submissions for the upcoming issue, Musical Commemorations and Contestations in Postcolonial Contexts, which will be guest edited by Bart Paul Vanspauwen, Ana-María Alarcón-Jiménez, and Livia Jiménez Sedano.

Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2027

Description

YOUTH AND CULTURE IN NORTHEAST INDIA: INTERSECTIONS AND  PERSPECTIVES  

Introduction  

Youth represent a powerful social force shaping contemporary societies through their  engagement with identity, creativity, social transformation, and cultural negotiation. In India’s  Northeast—a region distinguished by rich ethnic diversity, complex histories, and evolving  socio-political realities—youth culture offers a critical lens to understand how societies adapt  to rapid change while preserving cultural continuity. Young people in the region occupy a  dynamic space where tradition, globalization, technological transformation, and regional  aspirations intersect.  

62nd International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 13 - 15, 2027)

Kalamazoo, MI, USA

Hybrid Session (Virtual and In-person session)

Plastic / Plasticity

Literature and Culture and the Material of a (Bygone?) Era

Plastic is a defining material of our era. Its properties—plasticity, durability, the ability to imitate any shape, its toxicity, and indecomposability—are also properties of contemporary culture and literature. The proposed thematic issue begins with the premise that plastic can be read simultaneously as a historical substance and as a "theory machine"—a tool for understanding cultural texts and the experience of contemporary times.

"My approach, in this paper, is one of thinking with plastic through its metaphoricity and materiality, its relationality and gestationality; in short, a material mediality.” [R. Gosh]

For the Northeast Modern Language Association's 58th Annual Convention in Newport, RI March 6-9, 2027.

The panel will be Hybrid: The session will be held in-person but a few remote presentations may be included.

Global Anglophone / Cultural Studies and Media Studies

Apocalypse or Utopia: Whose End of the World?

This panel session seeks to explore the cultural fascination surrounding "The Backrooms," an internet 'creepypasta' about an abandoned office building with endless corridors that became a popular YouTube series and most recently, a blockbuster horror film. What are the Backrooms? Do they represent an artificial or alien intelligence attempting to simulate reality? Are they a glitch in the imperfect fabric of an unstable universe? Are they a metaphor for the subconscious, techno-paranoia, wasteland necrocapitalism, corporate control, or the internet itself? Or is this all just a retelling of the Greek myth of the Labyrinth for a Gen Z audience?

Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas (father as well as son), William Wordsworth, Percy B. Shelley, Friedrich Hölderlin, G.W.F. Hegel… The list of writers from the era conventionally identified as “Romantic” to have become enthusiastic about the French Revolution could keep on going indefinitely. In fact, ever since the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1765, through the French and the Haitian Revolutions throughout the 1790’s, all the way to 1848, the year that de-politicized Charles Baudelaire (according to his letter from May 5, 1852 to Narcisse Ancelle), literary production seems to have been inseparable from the process of building after and thinking social revolution.

Deadline: October 31, 2026

At this stage, while proposals across all areas remain welcome, we are particularly interested in submissions that broaden the range of topics covered so far. Especially encouraged are proposals focusing on religious pluralism and faith traditions beyond Catholicism; Islam and the post-9/11 context; religion and the culture wars; members of the White House staff and other political actors; the later seasons; and the cultural legacy of The West Wing and its place in changing representations of American political leadership.

The original call for papers appears below.

Special Issue: ‘Veteran & Post-Military Appearance & Dress’

Guest Editor: Matt Porter, Social Redress, USA

matt@socialredress.com

Special Issue: ‘Fatness, Fashion and Profession in India’

Guest Editors

Kishan Kumar Mishra, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, India (kishan_m@hs.iitr.ac.in)

Neha Kumari, Sri Balaji University, Pune, India (nk0007788@gmail.com)

Call for Papers

Call for Chapters

ReFocus: The Films of Gaspar Noé

Edited by Florian Zappe

Edinburgh University Press ReFocus: The International Directors Series
Series Editors: Gary D. Rhodes, Robert Singer, Stefanie Van de Peer, Nuno Barradas Jorge

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | The Soliloquist Journal | FALL 2026 ISSUE

'The Soliloquist Journal' seeks submissions of poems and soliloquies for Fall 2026 issue Website: https://thesoliloquistmagazine.my.canva.site/#submitEmail: thesoliloquistmag@gmail.com 

Issue Theme: The Anatomy of Forgetting

How do postcolonial literatures imagine hospitality in a world shaped by colonial histories, forced migration, displacement, and contested belonging? This panel invites papers that examine the ethics and politics of hospitality through postcolonial, diasporic, and transnational literary and cultural texts. Moving beyond hospitality as a simple act of welcome, the panel seeks to explore its tensions, contradictions, and possibilities: Who is welcomed, excluded, or rendered perpetually a stranger? How do migration, exile, memory, language, and cultural difference reshape notions of home, community, and kinship?

The Text, an International Peer Reviewed Online Journal of Language, Literature and Critical Theory (ISSN: 2581-9526)invites original, unpublished research papers for January 2027 issue.

Indexed in:

1.     Google Scholar

2.     ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)

3.     IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research)

4.     Citefactor (Directory Indexing of International Research Journals)

5.     DRJI (The Directory of Research Journal Indexing)

The IX edition of the Congress will take place on 17, 18, 19 and 20 November 2026. Sessions on 17 and 18 November will be held online, while sessions on 19 and 20 November will take place in person at the Auditorium of the Congress Centre "Ciutat d'Elx" (Elche, Spain). There are 3 participation options:

> Option 1: In this modality, the proposals submitted will follow the main thematic line of the new edition of the Congress: The origins of the fantastic genre in audiovisual culture.

This panel examines how literary and cultural texts from diverse global traditions imagine masculinity not merely as an individual identity but as a relational and communal practice. In an era marked by migration, political polarization, social fragmentation, environmental crisis, and renewed struggles for collective empowerment, narratives of masculinity have become central sites through which communities negotiate belonging, responsibility, vulnerability, and resistance.

Verschwinden: Disappearing into Providence

Rhode Island as a Literary Constellation

Call for papers: Panel at the 2027 NeMLA conference (March 6 - 9, Newport, RI)

Due date for paper proposals: September 30, 2027

Submission link: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/22479

In the hope of connecting our academic endeavors more closely to the places and times we find ourselves in, this panel proposes Rhode Island, and close by Providence in particular, as a nodal point for a constellation of German, American, and European literatures, histories, and cultural memories.

Autism did not exist at the beginning of the world. Who we would now recognize as autistic people existed, yes. But autism itself is undoubtedly new, born in the 20th century clinic and doggedly taken up in popular discourse ever since. Autism did not exist at the beginning of the world, but now, it's hard to imagine a world without it. Despite, or perhaps because of this, autistic characters frequently feature in speculative and post-apocalyptic media—stories which take place at the end of the world but are often based on or extend from of our own reality.

To be held at the Leeds International Medieval Congress 2027 (5-8th July):

Tattooing, a form of bodily modification, has existed as a global phenomenon for centuries, persevering within the distant and near past alike. Yet, only recently have these images embedded in flesh been subjected to thorough scholarly inquiry. This panel invites papers that examine a wide range of issues pertaining to medieval tattoos, including practices of tattooing during the global Middle Ages, recent advances in tattoo archaeology, and modern tattoos portraying medieval themes. Scholars exploring the misuse (and abuse) of medieval images and symbols for contemporary tattoos are especially encouraged to apply. This session allows for both in-person and virtual presentations.