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Multiple Marginalities: Intersectional Resistance(s) in Canadian Comics/Graphic Novels
A special issue of Studies in Canadian Literature
Venues:
INHA – Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art
Académie du Climat
Université Paris 8 | Vincennes – Saint-Denis
Proposals should be sent to: extractivisms2@gmail.com before 30/03/2026
Organising Committee: LAE Network (Literatures, Arts, Extractivisms):
Christian Alonso, University of Lleida
David Castañer, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Fortunata Calabro, University of Barcelona
Christian Galdón, École Polytechnique, Paris 8
Alessia Gervasone, University of Barcelona
Benoît Turquety, Université Paris 8
Book Chapters on African and Australian Women, 500-1500.
We invite additional submissions for Lands of the Lost, an edited collection that explores extinct animal parks real, imagined, unrealized, or yet to be. Our goal is to bring together multi-disciplinary perspectives to examine parks across time and space, across fact and fiction. We seek to understand how these projects, which reconstitute and enclose long-extinct life forms, intersect with histories of science, capitalism, imperialism, environmental change, and more.
Irish Studies: Legacies and Futures
Special Issue 3/2026
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia
Guest editors
Brian Ó Conchubhair (University of Notre Dame) boconch1@nd.edu
The Margaret Atwood Society invites paper proposals for an online panel on testimony and resistance in Margaret Atwood’s work. In keeping with the MLA 2027 presidential theme, this panel welcomes papers that examine how Atwood’s narratives represent coercion and constraint while also tracing the risk and agency at stake in claiming liberatory space. Possible topics include but are not limited to:
• Testimony, witnessing, and the politics of voice
• Surveillance, secrecy, confession, and the archive
• Gendered power, reproductive politics, and bodily autonomy
• Critical reception and adaptation
The Margaret Atwood Society invites paper proposals for an online panel focusing on how Atwood’s writing engages religious and spiritual practices and the supernatural. We welcome proposals that consider how Atwood’s works mobilize the sacred, the ritual, the metaphysical, and/or the ghostly as vehicles for meaning-making, ethical reflection, and narrative strategy. Possible topics include but are not limited to:
· Religion as ideology
· Spirituality and folk belief outside institutional frameworks
· Myth, ritual, and cosmology
· Scriptural and prophetic discursive modes
· Haunting, spectrality, and divided subjectivity
The London Arts-Based Research Centre
Women who Create: The Feminine and the Arts
A Transdisciplinary Conference
Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/11/18/women-who-create-2026/
March 28-30, 2026
Where:
March 28-29: In person participation at Cambridge University and online
March 30: Fully online
Fees (for both presenters and attendees):
195 GBP (in person)
100 GBP (Online)
Prices exclude eventbrite fees
Abstract: Deadline February 22, 2026
Sacred Arts 2026:
Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Artistic Expression and Ritual
Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/12/11/sacred-arts-2026/
University of Oxford
and online
May 16-17, 2026
Registration fees (for both attendees and presenters):
*EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR CHAPTER SUBMISSIONS*
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
NEW Deadline for abstract submissions: March 1, 2026
Notifications of acceptance: March 10, 2026
Deadline for first draft after notification of acceptance: April 30, 2026
Call for Abstracts: 12th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education
Dates: May 18 - 19, 2026
Venue: ARCOTEL Wimberger Wien, Neubaugürte, 34-36, 1070, Vienna, Austria
CPD Accreditation
As a Certified CPD Accredited Provider (Provider Number #785414), this conference offers 18 CPD credit hours, providing attendees with valuable recognition for their professional development. Verification is available at https://thecpdregister.com/view/eurasia-conferences-816429.
CALL FOR PAPERS
for a joint symposium to be hosted by the
Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society and Lydia Maria Child Society
Williamsburg, Virginia
June 24-27, 2026
(Extended deadline for proposals: February 20, 2026)
The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society and the Lydia Maria Child Society invite proposals for a joint symposium to be held on the campus of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, June 24-27, 2026.
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I am seeking short (3,500-word) chapters for The Works of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, which will be an edited volume dedicated to Didion and Dunne’s lives in film.
The American couple were a prolific and popular screenwriting team despite being much better known for their respective novels, memoirs, and journalism. Accordingly, the volume will take into account both their produced and many unproduced screenplays—the latter of which are held in Didion and Dunne’s papers at the New York Public Library.
Since the turn of the millennium, migration to Europe has significantly increased. Individuals have come to this continent often fleeing conflict and political instability as well as seeking improved social and economic wellbeing. For migrants, engagement in religious practice is a key resource in the post-migration period. Religious activities and infrastructure offer practical and spiritual support, as well as being a source of social belonging for newly arriving migrants. These factors often help individuals navigate structural inequalities, for example, facilitating access to social services.
Oxford Literary Review 49.2: SETI and the Cosmic Turn in the Environmental Humanities, Edited by Timothy Clark and Philippe Lynes
OLR devotes itself to outstanding writing in deconstruction, literary theory, psychoanalytic theory, political theory and related forms of exploratory thought. OLR 49.2, to be published by Edinburgh University Press in late 2027, is planned to direct the journal’s distinctive mode of enquiry on the philosophy, culture and assumptions of SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
Call for Papers:
Listening to Possible Worlds
Sound and Music in Speculative Literature and Culture
22-23 October 2026, Leiden University, the Netherlands (in-person)
Confirmed keynote speakers are Anna Snaith (King’s College London) and Chris Tonelli (University of Groningen)
International Journal of Digital Humanities (IJDHS)
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJDHS/Home.html
*** February Issue***
Scope
We invite papers on automobility and/or transportation infrastructure in any aspect of literary and cultural studies. We are particularly interested in exploring how representations of vehicles address questions of social and environmental justice.
This is a proposed special session for the 2027 MLA convention in Los Angeles, 7-10 January. We plan to hold the session in person.
Please email abstract (250 words) and author bio (100 words) by March 3 to both organizers:
Govind Narayan Ponnuchamy, Northwestern University (gnarayan@u.northwestern.edu )Ben Jamieson Stanley, University of Delaware (bstanley@udel.edu )
We are inviting contributions to our panel "Global Asias and Francosphères: Intersections, Exchanges, Tensions," proposed as a special session for the MLA convention in Los Angeles, CA (January 7-10, 2027). We welcome papers that draw on conceptions of the global, the translocal, and/or the relational offered by the Global Asias and Francosphères frameworks to examine francophone Asian forms (textual, visual, etc.) and exchanges.
Call for Papers — MLA 2027 (Los Angeles)
Black Motherhood in the African Diaspora: Narrating Care, Resilience, and Futures
Across African diasporic literary traditions, Black motherhood emerges as a crucial site through which histories of slavery, empire, migration, and racial capitalism are negotiated and reimagined. Literary representations of motherhood register both the intimate labor of care and the broader structural pressures shaping diasporic life, often producing alternative temporalities, ethical frameworks, and speculative futures.
Opening Sequences: The Narrative Architecture of TV Titles
This edited volume proposes the first critical anthology devoted to television title sequences as a distinct and influential mode of visual storytelling. By treating opening titles as complex aesthetic and narrative artefacts, this volume seeks to establish a new interdisciplinary space for the study of title design, inviting scholars to rethink how beginnings shape meaning, memory, and emotional architecture in serial television.
CALL FOR PAPERS
vol. 7/2026
Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature (e-ISSN: 2719-8111) is an international multidisciplinary periodical that welcomes for review any innovative and challenging research article encroaching upon the fields of literature, linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies.
The editorial board encourages researchers and young scholars to submit their article proposals that comprise with the profile of the journal. The proposals can be sent in English, German, French, Spanish, Catalan and Polish. The manuscript submitted for publication is to be original and unpublished. It should not have been simultaneously submitted for review in any other journal.
It was a few years after the eve of Senegal’s independence that the first film made by an African was produced, as a way of offering an African account of Black struggles and living conditions. Ousmane Sembène viewed cinema as a more powerful medium for conveying African realities because it does not require literacy to grasp its message, making it a more effective tool for explaining the lived realities of Africa. A similar approach can be observed in the work of Alain Kassanda, especially in his documentary Colette and Justin, which not only revisits the historical context surrounding Patrice Lumumba and his death, but also dismantles claims often associated with Africans that are in fact inherited from colonialism, such as the non-schooling of girls.
Call for Participants: Medieval Studies, Leadership, and Public Humanities Advocacy
MLA 2027 (Los Angeles)
Forum: French Medieval Language and Literature
Roundtable Session
CFP: The Body, Anatomy, and Aesthetics
Special Issue: Art & the Public Sphere
Call for Book Proposals
VoyGull Press | Emerging Voices Series, Edited Volumes, Handbook Series
VoyGull Publishing Centre Ltd UK
Diamond Open Access Publisher in Social Sciences & Humanities
About VoyGull Press
VoyGull Press is the publishing imprint of VoyGull Publishing Centre Ltd, a UK-based academic publisher committed to democratizing scholarly knowledge. As a young and ambitious publisher, we are building a new model for academic publishing that is grounded in equity, accessibility, and intellectual rigour.
In an era marked by digital mediation, political polarization, and heightened ethical scrutiny, humour has become a high-stake cultural practice: jokes travel rapidly, provoke backlash, generate solidarity, and often become flashpoints for debates around offence, free speech, and accountability. In the twenty-first century, humour has emerged as one of the most powerful, contested, and ubiquitous modes of cultural expression. Circulating across literary texts, theatrical stages, digital platforms, popular media, and everyday social interactions, humour today functions not merely as entertainment but as a deeply performative, political, and ethical practice.
We are looking for contributions to a working group at the 2027 MLA Annual Convention in Los Angeles. The panel will discuss the evolution of magical realism in the 21st century, formally, medially, and geographically. Besides the fundamental elements of magical realism scholarship covering literature and film in South-American and European contexts, the scope of the presentations will extend to geocultural locations such as Africa, the Middle East, East- and South-East Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, and to theoretical approaches including literary trauma theory, postcolonial studies, ecocriticism, and virtual reality theory.
Call for Proposals:
Italian Americans and the Making of America:
Design, Diaspora, and the Architecture of Belonging
58th Annual Conference of the Italian American Studies Association
November 5-8, 2026
Tufts University, Medford, MA
https://italianamericanstudies.submittable.com/submit/348486/58th-annual-iasa-conference-at-tufts-university
More Terrors than her Reason Could JustifyA 200th Anniversary Celebration of Ann Radcliffe’s Posthumous Publications
22nd/23rd August 2026 (Online)
MLA 2027 Los Angeles
The last few years have seen growing interest in theorist Stuart Hall’s work and its relation to psychoanalysis. Jacqueline Rose devoted a lecture to the topic (later reprinted in The New York Review of Books as “The Analyst”). More attention has been given to what Hall had to say about psychoanalytic thought between the lines in his work, but also in more direct ways, such as in his 1987 paper “Psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies.” Further, psychosocial theorists like Stephen Frosh have commented on Rose’s reflections on Hall and offered their own takes on why thinking about Hall vis-à-vis psychoanalysis may be overdue and worthwhile.
Under capitalism, we live separated from life. Capital’s extractive colonizing domination keeps us separated from nature, from each other, and from our own bodies, denying us a symbiotic and regenerative relationship with the natural world and with each other. Yet, certain types of bindings are integral to capitalism: capitalism depends on the combination of labour and nature for the production of value; the “emergence of capitalist accumulation and the reproduction of capitalist production” depends on “acts of violent dispossession”, on “tearing Indigenous societies, peasants, and other small-scale, self-sufficient agricultural producers from the source of their livelihood––the land” (Coulthard 2014).
“Creativity, Resistance and Social Change”International Conference13-14 June 2026 - Accra, Ghana / Online
organised by
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
Across history and cultures, creativity has played a central role in resisting injustice, challenging dominant narratives and imagining alternative social futures. From storytelling, music and visual art to literature, performance, digital media and everyday creative practices, acts of creation often emerge in response to exclusion, oppression or crisis. Creativity can unite communities, give voice to marginalised experiences and sustain collective struggles for dignity, justice and transformation.
Wilde West Coast
The Oscar Wilde Society invites abstracts for a special session at the 2027 MLA (Modern Language Association) Convention in Los Angeles, January 7–10 2027.
In athletics, athletes are often described as ‘throwing down the gauntlet’ when they record a particularly impressive jump, race, throw, indicating a raise in the competition stakes, a nod to their fellow competitors that they are the champion to beat. In the 2001 movie A Knight’s Tale, jousting enthusiasts are depicted like modern day sports fans, with Ulrich’s friends even singing a football chant in the pub.
The song lyric occupies little space in academia, where it is less studied, less appreciated, and perceived as less-than other kinds of writing. Despite music’s ubiquitous cultural presence, the song lyric—as creative work—suffers from what renown songwriter Jimmy Webb calls a “status problem”: songwriters do not enjoy the same standing as writers of other kinds of traditionally studied literature. The most common way that song lyrics have earned scholarly attention is by conflating the form with the poem. Goldstein’s (1969) The Poetry of Rock is one of the first books to attend to lyrics as poetry.
Call for Papers
International Conference on Ecocriticism and Environmental Studies10-11 October 2026 – London/Onlineorganised byLondon Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
International Conference on Myths, Archetypes and Symbols:“Models and Alternatives” 26-27 September 2026 – London/Online
organised by
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
International Conference on Poetry Studies:“Poetry Between Creation and Interpretation”19-20 September 2026 – London / Onlineorganised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
“Beyond Labels”: International Conferenceon Disability, Different Ability and Neurodiversity12-13 September 2026Birkbeck, University of London / Online
organised by
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
Disability, different ability and neurodiversity are concepts that traverse boundaries, challenging disciplines to rethink foundational assumptions about identity, culture and power. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring together scholars from different fields to critically examine the shifting narratives, representations and lived experiences surrounding ability and difference.
Fifth Annual Beverly Lyon Clark Children’s Literature Symposium
Trees: In Relation
Saturday, 11 April 2026 at Wheaton College (Norton, MA)
Postcolonial Interventions invites scholarly articles for an OPEN ISSUE to be published in June 2026. As the journal enters its eleventh year, we are hoping to continue critical exploration of emerging voices and recent literary creations while remaining mindful of the various threats associated with older imperial aggressions, re-appearing across the globe, fissures within nation states, multiple forms of exclusionary violence and widening inequality and precarity. The next issue of Postcolonial Interventions seeks to explore such issues and more based on postcolonial experiences across the world.
Submission Guidelines:
LORETO COLLEGE, KOLKATA
Call for Book Chapters
Theme: Marginalized Identities: Dimensions, Perspectives and Problems
The Research and Development Cell of Loreto College is pleased to announce a call for chapter contributions for an upcoming book publication. The theme of the proposed volume is:
‘Marginalized Identities: Dimensions, Perspectives and Problems’
This publication aims to present interdisciplinary insights into the lived realities, challenges, and representations of marginalized identities across various contexts.
Seeking 250-word proposals that engage with Filipino/a/x placemaking in literature, ecology, media, the arts, and the built environment. Particularly interested in proposals that bring together some combination of urban humanities, Global Asias, and archipelagic thinking.
Questions in Black sound and sonic geographies
American Association of Geography
Panel Presentation
What are the spatial contours of black sound? What are some iterations, notes, scripts, or possibilities within the emerging field of black sonic ecologies and black sonic geographies? How can one detect or follow a “black sense of place” (McKittrick 2011)? What is being listened to and what is being heard? What have you been taught or teaching yourself to hear?
What do you consider noise? Who and what hears black sound as a nuisance? What does noise, nuisance generate?
The Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies publishes interdisciplinary and cross-cultural articles and interviews on literature, history, politics, and art whose focus, settings, or subjects involve colonialism and its aftermath, with an emphasis on the former British Empire.
“We are here to begin to achieve the American Revolution.”
– James Baldwin, Foley Square, 1963
Did Baldwin mean it? Do we, who take him down from the shelf, mean it? What would it mean to pick up the idea again, with or against Baldwin? Is it too late, for America, for revolution, for both? Or is the time now finally ripe?
For the American Studies Association convention in Chicago in 2026, James Baldwin Review invites proposals for a roundtable that takes this starting point as an occasion to leap into the unknown.
Please send abstracts of 250 words to jbr@wustl.edu by February 20, 2026.
James Baldwin ends his “Open Letter to My Sister, Angela Y. Davis” about her imprisonment, the health of the country, and the responsibility of intellectuals, with the assertion that:
If we know, and do nothing, we are worse than the murderers hired in our name. If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own—which it is—and render impassable with our bodies the corridor to the gas chamber. For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.
How might scholarship today render such corridors impassable? What is our responsibility, and what are we willing to risk?
The Gaskell Journal invites applications for the position of co-Editor.
The Gaskell Journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published annually, dedicated to disseminating the most authoritative, dynamic and agenda-setting research in Gaskell Studies. It is owned by the Gaskell Society and is distributed to its members, as well as being indexed in various academic databases (for more details, see The Gaskell Journal – The annual Journal of the Gaskell Society). In a typical issue, the journal publishes 3-4 original articles, 3-4 book reviews, and reports from the Society’s branches across the UK and the world.