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International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies (IJHAS)
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHASS/Home.html
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International Journal of Education (IJE)
ISSN : 2348 - 1552
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJEMS/Home.html
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Call for Papers
Philip K. Dick at 100: Fiction, Philosophy, and Cultural Afterlives
Edited Volume (Centenary Collection)
Editors:
Assoc.Prof.Dr. Ercan Gürova
Ankara University, Turkey
Prof. dr Mladen Jakovljević
University of Priština in Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia
“Under consideration for publication by a reputable international academic publisher.”
Literature, Technology, and the Body
PAMLA 2026, Seattle, November 12-15
https://www.pamla.org/pamla2026/
This panel invites papers that examine any aspect of literary treatments of the human body in relationship to technology—especially medical and industrial technologies—past and present. In particular, the panel is interested in literary interrogations of the ways that technology mediates the subject of the body into the public-political and manages populations of subjects/bodies.
Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism
A Transdisciplinary Conference
July 16-17, 2026
July 16: In person participation at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park (and online)
July 17: Fully online
Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/01/21/ecopoetics2026/
Fees** (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)
**Prices exclude Eventbrite fees
Call for Presentations:
Disability and Horror: A Companion
Call for Chapters
International Journal of Digital Humanities
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJDHS/Home.html
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“Feel the Force”: The first 50 years of Star Wars
A PopCRN Conference
Join us for a free virtual conference exploring the Star Wars universe and its enduring cultural impact to be held online from 4th-5th May 2027.
Australia from Below: Lived Histories and Material Cultures of Everyday Life
The editors of Australia from Below: Lived Histories and Material Cultures of Everyday Lifeareinviting you submit a research article, essay, creative work, poetic or other creative work reflecting the diversity of ways in which lived experience and material culture can be explored.
Call for Book Chapters
Heated Rivalry: Queer Joy and Intimate Masculinity on Television
** Under review with a major international publisher **
August 3-5, 2026
Southern Utah University - Utah Shakespeare Festival
The Wooden O Symposium is a cross-disciplinary conference exploring the impact of Shakespeare's plays on culture and history, from his time to the present. This face-to-face conference aims to foster research in the field of Shakespeare Studies and to provide connections between academia and professional theatre productions through our partnership with the Utah Shakespeare Festival. The Wooden O Symposium limits participation to 25 presenters to ensure robust conversation and feedback as we strive to create a community of scholars engaged with the work of Shakespeare.
2026 Pacific Ancient Modern Langauges Association (November 12-15) in Seattle
"I Think I'm Gonna Die in this House": Spatiality and Class in Film & Literature
submission link:
https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/20015
Abstract:
Edited Volume
Call for Contributions
Call for Book Chapters
Title: Folk and Culture: Tradition, Resistance and Nurture
Publisher: VLC Media Publication
VLC Media Publication offers ISBN-certified, peer-reviewed publications with national and international circulation.
Editors:
Dr. Naresh K Vats, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indrapratha University, New Delhi, India
Dr. Chetna Tiwari, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indrapratha University, New Delhi, India
Scope of the Volume:
Call for Book Chapters
Title:
Adivasi Writings in India: History, Memory, and Contemporary Expressions
Editors:
Dr Chetna Tiwari, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India
Dr Naresh K Vats, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India
Publisher:
Vedant Knowledge Systems Pvt Ltd
Book Details:
Artificial Intelligence, Faith, and Epistemic Coherence
Session Organizer: Dr. Houman Mehrabian, University Canada West
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Alfred Hermida, University of British Columbia
We invite chapter proposals for an edited collection titled Metafictional Horror Cinema: The Screen as Mirror, to be submitted to the UWP Horror Studies series. The volume explores how horror cinema reflects on its own formal strategies, lays bare its narrative and technological mechanisms, and confronts viewers with unsettling modes of self-awareness.
The volume will explore the role of metafiction within horror cinema, from postmodern genre revisions and reflexive found-footage films to avant-garde and hybrid works that fracture narrative logic, collapse diegetic boundaries, break the fourth wall, or explicitly implicate the viewer in acts of spectatorship and violence.
The American Literature II: Literature after 1870 Permanent Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) is seeking proposals for this year’s in-person convention in Chicago, Illinois. This year’s theme for the conference is “After the Archive”; accordingly, the Permanent Section encourages presentations that focus on the notion of the archive. Some questions to be considered in context of American literature after 1870 are:
INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL CONFERENCE
SILENCE(D): ILLUSORY ABSENCES AND DENIED PRESENCES
University of Florence (Italy), 26th-27th October 2026
Link to the call for papers (in Italian and English): https://www.dottoratolinletcult.unifi.it/upload/sub/News/CallForPapers_Silcenced_UNIFI%20(1).pdf
Panel: Technoscience in Literature and Culture (special session)
The 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference will be held in person from Nov 12-15 in Seattle, Washington. This interdisciplinary special session invites papers that explore science and technology from social and cultural perspectives. We welcome papers that involve the natural or material sciences (such as biology, ecology, chemistry, physics, medicine, and engineering), engage with time (whether through a particular period or a long arc of development), and/or consider place (at the local or global scales). Such works can include, but are not limited to:
Seeking on papers about opacity in contemporary literature and art for a panel at ASAP (Association for the Study of Arts of the Present) 2026 Convention. Please send an abstract and a short bio to Sané Bhattarai (bhattsan@gvsu.edu) or Moya (Moyang) Li (moyang.li@csulb.edu) by April 24.
The American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) is putting together a pre-constituted panel for submission to the 2026 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) conference, held November 12-15, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency in Seattle, Washington. PAMLA ‘s 2026 theme is “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict.” Following this, AHSA is accepting a range of papers on “Comic Leadership.” We invite submissions that consider the role of comedy in politics. Often, comedy is used to “takedown” and “critique” those in power through satire and parody, but what can comedy offer for enacting new political paths forward?
Session Abstract: The genre of African American poetry has a long legacy of both preserving tradition and evolving to suit current times and places. This session invites discussion of the defining features that have been maintained over time as well as patterns of bold experimentation. Rather than seeing tradition and innovation as opposing aesthetic directions, this session hopes to examine ways they have co-existed in this genre and been mutually fruitful.
This creative panel of artists is a chance for us to express our everyday struggles with Mental Health issues and to show them from our perspective in a way that is freeing and opens the door to a stronger understanding of others and ourselves.
Call for Papers: International Journal of Fashion Studies
Special Issue: 'Clothing and Dress in Times of Mass Violence'
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-fashion-studies#call-for-papers
International Holocaust Cinema is a planned collection edited by Dr. Elyce Rae Helford (professor of English, Middle Tennessee State University) with support from Edinburgh University Press for publication in 2027.
I seek chapters on famous or lesser-known Holocaust-themed films from diverse nations/national cinemas. Each chapter should have a specific thesis as well as attention to cultural context, production history, and/or other important elements for those interested in learning more about the film – for research, teaching, or personal interest.
UVA Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXIX
Undergraduate Sessions
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise
September 17-19, 2026
Keynote Address:
“Arthur's Great Death in Malory and its Afterlives”
Karen Cherewatuk, Saint Olaf College
Call for Presenters: The Veterans Studies standing session examines all facets of military life and the veteran experience as exhibited in literature, theater, film, and poetry, written about or by military veterans. Of particular interest is work on the transition from military to civilian life, and the resulting cultural, social, and personal impact of this transition.
Archives are not neutral: they tell stories about who counts, whose experiences are remembered, and whose are erased. For centuries, racial hierarchies have shaped the preservation of knowledge, leaving silences where Black, Indigenous, and other marginalized voices should be. The Antiracism Permanent Section of the MMLA invites submissions that move beyond critique, asking how we can reimagine, rebuild, and transform the archive to reflect justice, equity, and shared humanity.We are especially interested in work that explores:
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2026 Virtual Summer Symposium, July 26, 2026
This one-day virtual event on July 26, 2026 is in addition to our 3-day conference in November to accommodate scholars outside the Mid-Atlantic region and those for whom an in-person event is otherwise inaccessible. We greatly encourage international scholars to submit for this dynamic, one-day event!
The figure of the witch (both real and imagined) is inherently political and potentially contentious. Each wave of feminism has reflected on shifting considerations of the witch as evocative of issues around gender, power and, more recently, intersectional aspects of identity. More recent critical engagement with witches and witchcraft reflects a transition, transcending disciplinary boundaries and positioning the witch in line with shifting contemporary debates. This shift moves the witch beyond the symbolic or the individual to consider both the interconnected and disparate nature of the witch. We can, instead, see the witch as a key component in movements of political change, as activist alongside the spiritual expl
CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposed Edited Volume
Beyond the Mainstream: Dalit Narratives and Narratives of Social Exclusion from Eastern and North-Eastern India
Editors
Dr. Roshni Subba
Assistant Professor, Department of English
University of Calcutta
Injam Ahmed Molla
Independent Researcher(UGC NET Qualified)
About the Volume
Though getting it together may signal a practice of spontaneous collectivity, “get it together” is also a gendered command—one which affiliates a performance of femininity with certain aesthetic expectations and demands the unbounded work of love, care, and social reproduction. How do we understand the aesthetics of femininity in a moment where feminism has been defanged of its oppositionality, when it functions as an alibi for the tide of fascism in the form of TERFs and girlbosses? Everyday injunctions toward norms of femininity appear in the form of “Get Ready With Me” videos, Planned Parenthood’s decision to offer Botox, ceaseless trend cycles, and the normalization of weight loss medication, with Serena Williams as its icon.
How does the novel resist? Both as an action (movement, predicate) and as a form (structure, construction) how does the novel as a genre engage in resistance? Of what, too, is the novel resistant? Studies of the novel have long emphasized the genre’s capacity to control and coerce, as in the work of D. A. Miller and Nancy Armstrong, to name a couple. This panel instead invites papers that approach the novel as a resistant structure and a form of resistance. What might it mean to read the novel not as an instrument of control, but as a site of formal, aesthetic, or material resistance?
Short Stories (Fiction/Non-fiction) INVITED for
Climate Change, Disasters, and Global Narratives: Collection of Short Stories
Edited by:
Dr. Gurpreet Kaur
Assistant Professor & Head
Post Graduate Department of English
Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Khalsa College
Sri Anandpur Sahib, Punjab, India
and
Jacobus Bracker
Hamburg University of Technology,
Indian Knowledge System Cell,
Post Graduate Department of English,
And
Post Graduate Department of Economics,
SRI GURU TEG BAHADUR KHALSA COLLEGE,
SRI ANANDPUR SAHIB-140118,
PUNJAB, INDIA
organizes
Two-days International Conference
(Offline Mode)
On
Indian Knowledge System: Perspectives and Imperatives
(6-7 August, 2026)
Exploring the overlapping cultural and literary impacts of Taylor Swift, this session considers her songs, legacy, political endeavors, friendships, feuds, collaborations, and fandom especially through this year's themes of culture, power, and conflict. We ask: What might lively, critical analysis of Taylor Swift offer to cultural and literary studies?
Call for Papers // Society of Early Americanists // 2027
“Queer Humors”
The Journal of Dracula Studies is open for submissions for its upcoming 2026 issue. We invite manuscripts of scholarly articles (4000-6000 words) on any of the following: Bram Stoker, the novel Dracula, the historical Dracula, the vampire in literature including folklore, fiction, film, popular culture, and related topics. Submissions should be sent electronically (as an e-mail attachment in .docx). Please indicate the title of your submission in the subject line of your e-mail.
link for abstract submission: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScFPhqcIfUje5A_VuJjReJHlwjtc_Tz...
Seminar to be held in Hybrid ModeConcept Note:
CALLING ALL 2SLGBTQ+ WRITERS WHO EXPERIENCED RELIGIOUS TRAUMA. I am excited to announce this Call for Submissions for my new anthology of creative nonfiction narratives! Entitled Queer and Trembling: Stories of LGBTQ+ Religious Trauma, this anthology will bring together a collection of stories about 2SLGBTQ+ religious trauma from Christian contexts, whether they be evangelical, fundamentalist, Pentecostal, Catholic, Mormon, Jehovah's Witness, Orthodox, etc. The collection is under contract with Jessica Kingsley Publishers (an imprint of Hachette UK) and will likely be released in 2028.
International Conference
Resisting Abandonment: Language, Culture, and Ecology
Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact
Glendon College, York University (Toronto, Canada)
October 15–16, 2026
The Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact invites you to an interdisciplinary conference that will explore the ways in which ecology intersects with language contact, cultural transformation, and pedagogical practice.
This special issue brings together innovative and interdisciplinary comics scholarship that rethinks the epistemic, aesthetic, political, material, and decolonial aspects of comics across the Global South. These forms prompt renewed reflection and inquiry into what it means to draw knowledge, memory, community, dissent, and futurity, while simultaneously interrogating the foundational categories of representation, authorship, narrative form, and colonial epistemology.
Call for Papers
ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, and MAGIC
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2026 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 25-27, 2026
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 30, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026
The MISH UJ Academic Society and the Student Council of the Interfaculty Individual Studies in the Humanities at the Jagiellonian University cordially invite both active and passive participation in the International Academic Conference Science and Humanities: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Bioethics.The conference will be held on site on 29–30 May 2026 at Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian University. Call for Papers
Submissions are accepted until 16 April 2026, 11:59 p.m.
Presentations should not exceed 15 minutes.Submission form:
Creative Textual Reuse & Research (PAMLA Conference in Seattle, November 2026)
A one-day symposium at NC State University on
Ethics and Agentic AI
https://sites.google.com/view/ai-society-at-nc-state/current-events/news...
Twenty-Fifth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of Split, Croatia, 30 June - 2 July 2027
Founded in 2003, the New Directions in the Humanities Research Network is brought together by a common interest in established traditions in the humanities while at the same time developing innovative practices and setting a renewed agenda for their future. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
Information, Medium & Society: Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Publishing Studies, University of Split, Croatia, 30 June - 2 July 2027
Information, Medium & Society: The Publishing Studies Research Network was founded in 2003 with the inaugural International Conference on the Future of the Book. Since then, the Research Network has expanded its scope in two phases. The first was in 2009 when it became the Books, Publishing, and Libraries Research. In this iteration, the Research Network began to look beyond the book as the primary site of investigation. In 2019 the network underwent another change, to become Information, Medium & Society - The Publishing Studies Research Network.
Editors: Elise Boxer (Dakota), University of South Dakota and Travis Franks, Utah State University, Department of English