The Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University is thrilled to host the 12th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium on March 4-6, 2027.

The Post45 Graduate Symposium seeks graduate-level works-in-progress related to post-1945 media, arts, literature, textual or visual objects, digital platforms, politics, and culture. We welcome submissions that expand our conception of objects and meaning-making post-1945 or place them in comparative, transnational, or hemispheric frames. We especially welcome contributions that foreground the importance of race, gender, class, and sexuality to post-45 studies.

Reminder: Teaching the Nineteenth Century in Today's University

NeMLA 2027 Annual Convention in Newport, RI, March 6-9, 2027

Abstracts due 9/30

In an environment of increasing digital distraction, courses exploring nineteenth-century literature and culture ask students to engage with some of literature’s lengthiest texts. How can we encourage meaningful engagement with nineteenth century “loose, baggy monsters” in today’s university? What resources can we call upon to better engage our students and support their learning in light of the rise of AI and the challenges of online distraction?

Concept note

How can practice-based approaches to research and teaching contribute to the creation of alternative democratic spaces within universities?

Special Issue website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/literature/special_issues/B781Q58SAM

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Literature will collect essays addressing the reception, influence, adaptation, or incorporation of literature from the Greco–Roman world into later theatre, film, and television. The Greeks and Romans pioneered a wide range of performed literary styles like tragic and comic drama, or epic and lyric poetry, as well as developing extensive mythic story networks and what we now recognize as formal histories, etc. Some of these works remain among the most influential and beloved writings ever produced by humanity.

The 35th Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference: Palm Springs, CA, March 24-27, 2027“Design”

Call for Papers

Mystery / Detective Fiction Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://swpaca.org

Submissions open: September 1, 2026

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026

¡AfroLatinxs Presente!, AfroLatinx Pasados

Special Issue of Pasados: Recovering History, Imagining Latinidad

Deadline for article submissions: January 5, 2027

 Papers on any aspect of William Blake’s poetry and composite art are welcome on this 200th anniversary of his death and the 270th of his birth for the NEMLA conference The 58th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention will take place from March 6–9, 2027, at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island.

ALEA, revue internationale d'art et de recherche (ISSN 3130-477X) is an annual, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published online by ALEA (Association de la Lueur Éclairante de l'Art), a nonprofit association based in Paris. Under the editorship of Dr. Marie Goehner-David (Université de Strasbourg), the journal invites submissions for its inaugural issue.

International Conference

Université de Montréal

February 5-7, 2027

          Call for Papers

     Geo-Medical Syndemics: Earthquakes, Geotrauma, and Mental Health in the Planetary Imagination

          NEW DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS SEPTEMBER 30, 2026

Architectures of Deceit provides a timely analysis of how and why imposture has emerged as a shared media logic across cinema, television, streaming platforms, and networked culture.

The volume offers a new critical lens for examining how contemporary screen culture negotiates identity, class mobility, institutional legitimacy, technological change, and the erosion of social and public trust. It traces a trajectory from fictional impostors and narratives of real-world fraud to deceptive media infrastructures and machine-generated images.

 The volume is organized into four parts:

Part I — Constructing a Legible Self: Class, Identity, and Recognition

WANT TO EDIT AN ISSUE OF A JOURNAL?

• The Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities (JURH) is looking for guest editors for our Summer 2027 issue.

WHAT IS JURH?

• JURH is an annual journal that provides a national forum to showcase the best in undergraduate Humanities research. Click here to learn more about JURH.

• JURH is governed by a board of nationally recognized scholars and overseen by Dr. Lara Karpenko, Professor of English, and Director of the Center for the Humanities at Carroll University and Dr. Lauri Dietz, Executive Director, Center for Faculty Development, Loyola University, Chicago.

Call for Papers

“A Golden Age? Global Historical Fictions and Political Nostalgia” 

One-Day Online Workshop of the Historical Fictions Research Network

28 November 2026 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)

15 min talks

Narrative is among the most enduring and adaptive structures of human meaning-making. Across millennia, it has evolved from oral performance and manuscript cultures to print, cinema, broadcast television, digital platforms, and now algorithmically curated streaming environments and AI-assisted compositions.

The Journal for the New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (JNNHP) invites submissions for its special on Derrick Bell and the History of Africana Philosophy, to be published in Fall 2028. Derrick Bell, the founder of Critical Race Theory, produced one of the most innovative, insightful, and transformative ideas in the 20th century. His philosophical insights continue to challenge how western liberal nations contend with questions of civil rights, human rights, immigration, policing, and education.

About the Event 

The Michigan State University (MSU) Comics Forum is a triennial gathering of scholars, creators, librarians, and fans committed to exploring comics culture. The Forum reflects MSU's sustained investment in comics as an area of research, teaching, digital humanities, and public engagement. The Forum welcomes proposals from across disciplines. All presentations must focus on the medium of comics, broadly understood — including graphic novels, serial comics, webcomics, experimental and hybrid forms, zines, and related graphic practices. 

2027 Themes 

This year's Forum invites scholarship organized around the following thematic and methodological priorities 

CFP: The medieval reception of Greek antiquity The Annual Conference of the Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies at the University of South Florida. April 22-24, 2027. Attendance is in person at the USF campus, Tampa, FL. This interdisciplinary conference will explore the reception of ancient Greek texts in the Middle Ages (roughly, 500–1400 CE). We seek contributions treating the influence of Greek texts on, e.g., medieval philosophy, theology, science, historiography, education, literature, and art. Contributions may fall into the following (non-exhaustive) categories:

                                                       Animal Studies Across Disciplines Symposium
                                                                     April 7th-April 9th 2027
                                                                     Arizona State University
                                                                        Polytechnic Campus

Yale 6th Annual Symposium for Accessibility and Disability: Call for Proposals

Crip Translations: Access, Technology, Context

CALL FOR PAPERS

Zora Neale Hurston Society & The Zora Neale Hurston Forum
International Conference 2027

“Jump at de Sun: Zora Neale Hurston’s Global Legacy, Scholarship & Future”

January 7, 2027 | Virtual International Conference

In celebration of Zora Neale Hurston’s 136th birthday, the Zora Neale Hurston Society, in connection with its scholarly journal, The Zora Neale Hurston Forum, invites scholars, educators, graduate students, independent scholars, writers, artists, and interdisciplinary thinkers from around the world to participate in its 2027 International Conference.

Editors Introduction:

While John Carpenter’s Halloween catapulted the slasher subgenre to the front of popular culture, Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th (1980) cemented the formula with a higher body count and an increased focus on sex, violence, and gore. Alongside Black Christmas, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Halloween, the Friday the 13th series helped establish many of the conventions that fans are now accustomed to, and its first sequel introduced an iconic killer with Jason Voorhees. The success of the original film led to a franchise comprised of twelve theatrical films as of 2026, in addition to a short film released in 2025 and a 2026 television series.

Call For Papers: ASLE 2027, “Territory, Terroir, Terror” 22-24 June 2027. University of Maryland, College Park. 

Seminar Title: Extraterrestrial Evolutions: Posthuman Subjectivity and Alien Ecologies

 Contact: D.E. St. John, University of Alabama in Huntsville, dej0009@uah.edu

Environmental Hope: Genres and Methods

Environmental humanists and literary scholars have many genres for theorizing environmental fear, injustice, despair, or pessimism. Environmental gothic, noir, picaresque, horror, and crime fiction are all genres theoretically defined by and committed to engaging with exploitation and terror in historically and formally specific ways. And the hermeneutic of suspicion, devoted to diagnosing and revealing obscured forces and causes, is especially attuned to those that produce systemic violence. We know how to read for necropolitics, colonialism and neocolonialism, anti-Blackness, objectification, and misogyny.