Scholars are encouraged to contribute articles about the Grateful Dead and reviews of Grateful Dead-and-related performances and media for consideration for publication in the field’s refereed journal, Grateful Dead Studies. Accepted pieces from the current submission cycle will be published in volume 8 (2027 / 2028) of the journal.

Article submission deadline: 1 August 2026

Review submission deadline: 1 September 2026

Grateful Dead Studies is also seeking qualified reviewers interested in supporting the peer review process. Please reach out if you would like to help scholarly discourse about the Grateful Dead thrive.

The Charles Olson Society will sponsor panels at the Re-Viewing Black Mountain College Conference, to take place in Asheville, North Carolina, October 2-4. 2026 marks the Centenary of poet Robert Creeley’s birth, and the Charles Olson Society will welcome abstracts pertaining to any aspect of Creeley’s life and work. Creeley was a central poet in the development of Black Mountain Poetry, and along with his life-long friend and companion in verse, Charles Olson, Creeley greatly influenced the development of American poetics after World War II. As he said, “I write to realize the world as one has come to live in it, thus to give testament. I write to move in words, a human delight. I write when no other act is possible.”

Who Is This For? The Access Illusion of XR

Immersive Impact Review — Issue 2 Call for Submissions

Open Date: 4/1/26

Closing Date:  5/15/26

The Immersive Impact Review invites submissions for its second issue around the theme of “Who Is This For? The Access Illusion of XR.” The Review is an open-access publication dedicated to advancing knowledge at the intersection of immersive technologies and social good.  It is published by the Immersive Experience Alliance with funding from Agog.  

IMAGINATION, MEDIATION, & MANIFESTATION

Inaugural Graphic Medicine Europe Conference X Cross Comix
9-12 September 2026
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & De Doelen Rotterdam

CALL FOR FINAL CHAPTERS TO COMPLETE COLLECTION

We are now looking for chapters specifically on the work of Madeleine Miller, Pat Barker, and Jennifer Saint. Please see the full CFP below. Please send all abstracts (no more than 500 words) and short biographies to the editors by Friday 8th May 2026.  The editors are: Isabelle Berrow (isabelle.berrow1@yorksj.ac.uk) Zoe Enstone (Z.Enstone@yorksj.ac.uk) and Anne-Marie Evans (A.Evans@yorksj.ac.uk)

Workshop and Special Issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents

Title: “Seeds of Empire, Roots of Change: Botany and the Atlantic World.”  
 
Location: Saint Louis University Campus, Madrid, Spain (March 11–12, 2027)

Organizers: Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, The Center for Iberian Historical Studies, and Saint Louis University, Madrid.

Call for Papers

SHONDALAND

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2026 SWPACA Summer Salon

June 25-27, 2026

Virtual Conference

https://swpaca.org/

Submissions open on March 30, 2026

Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

Eco-Bordering and Green Nationalism: Spatial Transformations in the South Asian Diaspora

Guest Editors:

Dr. Mansi Bose, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India 

&

Dr. Pratyusha Pramanik, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India 

Rationale

This call seeks proposals for 18-minute talks to be presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) in Seattle, Nov. 12-15, 2026.

The Spanish and Portuguese (Latin American) session is open to all papers exploring some aspects of Latin American Spanish and Portuguese literature and cultures. It is a dynamic forum for scholarly exchange, collaboration, and engagement with these interconnected regions' rich cultural heritage and diverse perspectives.

We are particularly interested in papers that touch on:

• Contemporary Literature and Culture

• Cultural Studies

• History and Culture

• Literature, Arts, and other Media

• Visual and Performing Arts

• The conference theme, "Our Ruling Classes"

Wildcat–the 2023 biographical film about Flannery O’Connor–is notable for its unconventional style. Rather than narrating the author’s life in a linear, straightforward fashion, the film fuses scenes from O’Connor’s fiction with events in the author’s life and the musings of her imagination. As a result, the film feels fragmented and somewhat difficult to categorize–both in terms of genre and the ultimate connection between the facts of O’Connor’s life and the purpose of her fiction.  Instead, the viewer feels the influence of the author’s inner conflicts in relation to a variety of issues: Her Catholic upbringing, bodily difference and disability, and humanity’s capacity for redemption.

Time, Memory and Forgetting in the Western

Two-Day Symposium | 10–11 September 2026 | University of Essex, UK

Deadline for submissions: 30th April 2026

To submit: 250 word outlines for all submission types via email to richard.parker@uc.cl

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.”— Louis L’Amour, Lonely on the Mountain.

Futuring Poetic Inquiry: A Return and Renewal10th International Symposium for Poetic Inquiry (ISPI) 
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 
October 8-12, 2026  Proposal Submissions Due May 11, 2026To submit a proposal: Please visit the ISPI website for more information and to submit a proposal: ISPI website  

DEADLINE EXTENDED

“There is more savagery, more brutality, in the pages of Wuthering Heights than in any novel of the nineteenth century, and, for good measure, more beauty too, more poetry, and, what is more unusual, a complete lack of sexual emotion…” Daphne du Maurier.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Book project: Sinners Reader: The Blues, Black Horror, and the Jim Crow South Editor, DuEwa M. Frazier (editor of Introduction to Afrofuturism: A Mixtape in Black Literature & Arts)

This panel seesion for the 2026 RMMLA Conference to be held Ocober 8-10, 2026 in Ogden, Utah, seeks papers that explore all aspects of English literature of the twentieth century to present, namely proposals that look at British or ex-patriot artists and/or works by those authors whose English Commonwealth residency influenced their art since 1900. Interdisciplinary approaches to anlyses of the literature are welcome.

Global Cinema Symposium

Organized by the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology

 
Nov. 13-14, 2026

In-person at the University of Texas at Dallas

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Katarzyna Marciniak, Occidental College

Professor Meta Mazaj, University of Pennsylvania

Call for Papers

Abstract

This session invites papers exploring the role of affect and emotion in contemporary world literature. Recent developments in affect theory—particularly the work of Sara Ahmed and Lauren Berlant—have emphasized how emotions circulate across individuals, communities, and cultural contexts. Literary texts offer a powerful site for examining how affect shapes narratives of identity, belonging, and social transformation within global and transnational frameworks.

The everlasting debates surrounding the relationship between literature and film as distinct mediums of artistic expression have long fascinated both philosophy and critical theory. While proponents of cinema argue that cinema is superior to other forms of artistic expression, especially literature, in the sense that it has a unique ability to engage emotions, convey abstract concepts in tangible settings, and challenge, what Gilles Deleuze might call, human “sensory-motor” perception through cinematic techniques, others might disagree by saying that cinema is inferior to literature due to its passive nature and over-reliance on immediate sensory experience rather than intellectual abstraction, which is one of the major characteristics of literature.

[please note the updated conference date and timeline]

National Video Games: Cultures, Industries, Communities
international conference

4–6 December 2026
University of Warsaw, Poland

Deadline Extension: We are happy to announce that we continue to accept submissions until April 10, 2026. You may find further information on our website: www.thescatteredpelican.ca

Throughout the history of political thought and cultural production, multitudes and mobs that stir up disturbance across the nation, whether revolutionary or reactionary, have frequently been portrayed by the images and metaphors of monstrosity. From the many-headed hydra which was adapted into a political discourse in the early modern age and later revisited by historians such as Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, to contemptuous terms toward the insurrectionists such as swarms or locusts described in Samuel Dolbee’s Locusts of Power, monstrosity and various of dehumanizing terms have long been employed as a signifier through which fears of insurrections are expressed.

The advancement of artificial intelligence has transformed humanities research and education, deepening computation’s influence on scholarly practice and everyday life. From the early era of “humanities computing” in the 1970s to the rise of “computational humanities” over the past decade, this trajectory highlights the enduring—and expanding—role of computation in shaping inquiry across the humanities. These intersections are especially visible in interdisciplinary work. As T. S. Eliot observes, “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” The same spirit can illuminate how methods and tools migrate across fields.

Panel Stream: Early American Forms and Formalisms This panel stream interrogates formalism in early American literature following a postcritical turn in the field. One result of literary studies’ recent postcritical turn has been renewed attention to aesthetics, feeling, and form as essential aspects of literary analysis. In early American studies, this reassessment has taken a distinctive shape, particularly in work that foregrounds the formal and aesthetic dimensions of literary culture across the long eighteenth century — from special issues and essay collections (Looby and Weinstein; Cahill and Larkin; Pethers and Koenigs; Pethers and Couch) to monographs (Armstrong and Tennenhouse; Koenigs, Couch, Tawil, Gardner, Garrett).