ReFocus: The Films of Gerard Damiano

Weeks after the death of Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro last year, her daughter Andrea Skinner disclosed the sexual abuse she'd suffered as a child—abuse about which Munro had known and stayed silent. The disclosure is but one of many revelations in recent years to upend the legacy of a cultural icon. Neil Gaiman, Louis CK, Jean Vanier, and Avital Ronell are only a few public figures to be reassessed in the wake of accounts of sexual abuse. Similarly, disputed claims to Indigenous ancestry touted by artists including novelist Joseph Boyden and singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie have generated outrage and heartbreak among Indigenous groups and innumerable admirers, compounding generational traumas.

Call for Papers on The Beatles and Media Today

Special Issue of Rock Music Studies

Guest-edited by Shannon Howard (Auburn University Montgomery), Tom Grochowski (St. Joseph’s University, NY) and Richard D. Driver (McLennan Community College) 

From the iconic Orient Express to the shadowy alleys of urban noir, and to the contemporary invisible highways of cyberspace, transportation and mobility have long played an important role in crime fiction. Traditional detective fiction often relied on transportation as both setting and symbol, underscoring how mobility can conceal, isolate, or reveal, shaping the very structure of mystery and detection. In the digital age, mobility is no longer confined to physical movement; it also encompasses virtual travel, data flows, and algorithmic surveillance.

INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

TENNYSON 2026: ECOLOGY, LANDSCAPE, ENVIRONMENT

LINCOLN, UK, 14-17TH JULY 2026

**Deadline for Abstracts (300 w max.) and Bio (150 w max.)**

31 JANUARY 2026

Migration stories from the Global South are rarely neutral, since they are often born of struggle, shaped by colonial history, economic precarity, or climate collapse, and told in defiance of imposed silences. This panel proposes to examine how writers, scholars, and creative artists across the Global South turn to cultural production to challenge the hegemonic knowledge systems that structure how migration is seen, narrated, and understood, particularly in the Global North. From refugee testimonies and borderland fiction to diasporic films and grassroots media, these works assert the validity of local ways of knowing, remembering, and imagining movement. 

Simon J James was a prolific scholar and a pioneer of Victorian and Edwardian studies. He passed away on 11 June 2025 and this issue is dedicated to his memory. Simon wrote on H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Sherlock Holmes. His monograph, Maps of Utopia: H. G. Wells, Modernity and the End of Culture (Oxford University Press, 2012), remains the finest and most comprehensive study of Wells’s aesthetics to date.

"The Imagined Woman: The Phantasmic 'Woman' in the Middle Ages"In-Person Panel, sponsored by Magistra: A Journal of Women's Spirituality in History.Organized by Dr. Anne Crafton, Kristina Kummerer, and Dr.

Type: Paper Session

PopCRN is delighted to announce a conference dedicated to the cult phenomenon, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. This free, online event will be held on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th of November 2025.

ASANOR biannual conference 2026
June 4-6, Kristiansand, Norway CONSTITUTING THE US IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Proposal deadline: October 15, 2025

https://asanor.org/2026-conference/

The 2026 American Studies Association of Norway Conference looks back to its early years for inspiration. The very first themed ASANOR seminar was titled “The Bicentennial of the US Constitution.” Many years later we return to this document, not only to revisit its cultural and historical significance but also to ask what it means to invoke the Constitution now, in a time of intensifying democratic crisis and rising illiberalism.

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

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.

RSA 2026

San Francisco - February 19–21, 2026

Reimagining Disability through “Disability Intimacy”

Relatable! Exploring Difference & Relationality in Creative Writing Studies (CFP)

Proposal Deadline: September 5th, 2025

Conference Dates: November 7th & 8th, 2025

The Creative Writing Studies Organization is now accepting proposals for our online fall conference, to be held the weekend of November 7, 2025. In holding our conference virtually in alternating years, we hope to continue building Creative Writing Studies scholarship across borders and time zones while maintaining the felt benefits of in-person gatherings. This year, the CWSC seeks proposals that help us expand and refine our understandings of relationality. 

Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2025 Annual Conference, November 6-8, 2025 in Philadelphia, PA

Call for Panel Participants

College Art Association Annual Conference

18-21 February 2026   |   Chicago, IL  USA

https://caa.confex.com/caa/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Session16720.html

“Dissent Nearby: Diasporic & LGBTQ+ Resistance”*

*guaranteed session with Sponsorship from the Society of Contemporary Art Historians

'The Soliloquist Journal' seeks submissions of poems and soliloquies for Fall 2025 issue

Theme for Fall 2025 issue: "Voices in Transition”

This theme explores moments of change, transformation, and evolution in our
personal and collective experiences - whether it's seasonal transitions, life
phases, social changes, or internal shifts in perspective.

Website: The Soliloquist Journal

SUBTHEMES:

Call for Papers: Historical Fiction in / and the Anthropocene

One-Day Online Workshop of the Historical Fictions Research Network

29 November 2025 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)

15 min talks

The Historical Fictions Research Network, an interdisciplinary and international network of scholars examining historical fictions, i.e. narratives of the past in a variety of popular media, is happy to organise its third one-day winter workshop on the topic of “Historical Fiction in / and the Anthropocene”.

The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 53rd annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Feb. 19-21, 2026, at the University of Louisville (https://artsandsciences.louisville.edu/news-events/conferences/louisville-conference-literature-and-culture).

Throughout the past century, many theoretical approaches have put the indexical properties of the photographic image at the center of documentary's claims to the real. In today’s discussions of social media platforms, arguments about fakery, falsity, and deception abound across genres, from political deep fakes to more “innocuous” lifestyle influencing. Remarked on are the ways platforms such as Instagram and TikTok offer mesh-ups, montages, appropriated footage, nostalgic clips, and media plucked from their original contexts.

We are pleased to announce the 5th Hawaiʻi International Conference on English Language and Literature Studies (HICELLS 2026), which will be held at the Univrsity of Hawaii at Hilo on March 13 - 14, 2026. This year's conference theme is "Teaching and Learning English Language and Literature in a Changing World: Global Trends and Transformative Practices," aims to explore the emerging global trends in English language teaching and literary studies, including curriculum innovation, assessment practices, digital integration, and multilingual education.

Date and location: 23-25 June 2026, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin

Keynote speakers: Sarah Werner, independent book historian; Renske Hoff, University of Utrecht; Aditi Nafde, Newcastle University

Description: Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures (REBPAF) is a Marie Curie Doctoral Training Network coordinated by the University of Galway, which focuses on the ways in which 15th- and 16th-century book producers (scribes, printers, entrepreneurs) negotiated the dynamic relations between the manuscript and the printed book and adapted to the evolving challenges of the market. It also explores the continuing relevance of these cultural and economic negotiations to the modern world.

Telangana Journal of Higher Education (TJHE)

Call for Papers

Volume 1 Issue 2 (July-December 2025)

6 de noviembre 2025. Formato online

II Jornadas Intermediales Intercátedras

Organizadas por las Cátedras de Literatura en las Artes Audiovisuales y Performáticas y de Pensamiento Audiovisual

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