International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies (IJHAS)

ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)

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Edited Volume: Rethinking M.R. James: Antiquarianism, Horror, and the Supernatural

Editor: Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash, Fellow of Social Science Research Council

Introduction

"Melville Revivals"

PAMLA 2026

November 12-15, 2026

Seattle, Washington (Hyatt Regency Seattle, 808 Howell Street)

Perhaps the most relevant question we are facing today, both in and out of the university, is how to deal with AI. In academia, different disciplines handle this question in a myriad of ways, some insisting that to not embrace AI in the classroom is harmful to the students, while others believe the utilization of AI must weaken critical thinking skills. Regardless of the differing opinions on how to use it appropriately, no one disagrees that it is here to stay. Living through the development of this world-changing technology means that we are the ones facing the question of what it means to live well in the age of AI.

Join the 2026 Graduate Conference at the University of Verona and explore how identities are shaped, challenged, and reimagined through language, literature, and culture.
“(De)Constructing Identities: Inclusive Practices of Naming” invites emerging scholars to engage with some of today’s most urgent debates on inclusion, representation, and power.
From feminist and queer studies to postcolonialism, disability studies, translation, and cultural memory, the conference offers a rich interdisciplinary dialogue.
Participants will investigate how naming practices influence social perception, identity formation, and political discourse across languag

Small Screens, Big Stories: Storytelling, Seriality and Mobile Screen Culture

Evolution of Story IV

Deadline for chapter-track abstracts: 1 June 2026
Online symposium-only track open until March 2027

Dear Colleague, We invite you to contribute to a forthcoming edited volume, A Global Companion for Anti-Racist Education and Solidarity Work. This volume brings together educators, researchers, and community practitioners engaged in the everyday work of confronting racism and cultivating more just educational environments. Rather than treating anti-racist education as abstract or purely theoretical, this volume centers practice. We begin from the premise that some of the most generative forms of anti-racist work are already unfolding in classrooms, schools, community organizations, and local movements.

RADIATION: Connection Across Distance

A Cross-disciplinary Conference

Arnolfini, Bristol, UK 12 – 14 Nov 2026

Over the last years, there has been a burgeoning debate about the Eastern multicultural space, ranging from Eastern Europe, Middle East and South Asian countries to the Far East, which has been intrinsically coupled with significant cultural and economic dynamism; however, such diverse and multi-layered areas have also been the subject of all sorts of misrepresentations and misinterpretations. Future trajectory of the Eastern mind-set might provide a basis for the emergence of new civilizations in this new century and new millennium. This section attempts to explore the outcomes of the various encounters between Eastern and Western cultural conventions in relation to literature, arts, social sciences, media studies and other fields, by carefully examining

Handbook of Religions and Migration: Global and Multi-Tradition Perspectives (Springer)

Editors:

İhsan Çapcıoğlu, Ankara University

Fadime Apaydın, University of California, Riverside

Nevfel Akyar, Manisa Celal Bayar University

Editorial Note: In line with our editorial commitment to developing a major reference handbook comparable to leading works in the field, the submission deadline has been extended briefly in order to further strengthen the volume’s global, multi-religious, and cross-traditional comparative dimensions.

The Indian diaspora is the largest diaspora community in the world, with an approximate population of 35.4 million. From the migration of the indentured labour force during the colonial period to the mass immigration of educated Indians to overseas countries in the late twentieth century, the Indian diaspora has indeed become a global phenomenon. Expanding migration circuits, job and business opportunities, shifting lifestyles, skilled and semi-skilled labour force, among others, have resulted in significant socioeconomic mobility, especially over the last 25 years. Besides making significant contributions to varied fields, the Indian diaspora has also arguably brought changes in how others have traditionally seen India.

Setting the stage: a theatre and performance dissertation writing group

Writing a dissertation can be lonely: we want to change that. Many of us first fell in love with theater because — through exploratory rehearsals, late-night tech runs, and joyful opening nights — we found camaraderie and connection, both of which can feel distant in graduate school. If theater is best practiced with others, how can our research and writing processes be shaped by the same commitment to community-building? 

This edited volume explores the interrelations between disability and addiction within Japanese literary literature. By focusing strictly on literary representations—and excluding media studies—this collection aims to examine how embodiment, social normativity, and deviance are negotiated through culturally specific frameworks.

The editors invite contributions for the following four sections

1. Disability in Japanese Literature (3 Articles)

Whether we teach at an R1 university, liberal arts college, community college, or other institution, our work as scholars depends upon our students. Within the context of generative AI, declining support for the Humanities, and the rapidly changing landscape of higher education, this roundtable places pedagogy at the center by inviting participants to share practical, classroom-tested approaches to teaching the Renaissance at the college level.

Call For Papers

Indigeneity and Sustainable Foodways: Planetary Challenges

from the Global South

Editors:

Shreyasi Dasgupta, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur

University

Sayan Mazumder, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur

University

Debashree Dattaray, Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University

FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks submissions to our blog, available at BLOG | Femspec

Those interested in publishing on the Femspec blog do NOT need to be subscribed to the journal.

Dear Colleagues,  A replacement chapter is needed in swift order for a scholarly collection soon to be published. In short, in this volume, we're insisting on a sustained merger of political justice, critical justice studies, and debt studies within the worlds of "postcolonial" (and adjacent) criticism and theory. That's the question/prompt, everything else is open — region, approach, methodology, disciplinary swathe. For a quite specific sense of what we’re doing, it's something like this: This is a Call for Papers for a new collection: Imperial Debt: Colonial Theft, Postcolonial Repair.

2026 Global K-Culture Conference

August 20 (Thu.) ~ August 22 (Sat.), 2026 (3 days)

Chungbuk National University, Korea

Korean, English, or the presenter’s preferred language

Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2026

The Department of Global K-Culture at Chungbuk National University is pleased to invite submissions for the upcoming Global K-Culture Conference, aimed at fostering meaningful dialogue and the exchange of ideas among instructors and researchers working across diverse educational and cultural contexts.

CFP:

Actors, Acting, and Activism: Performing Eugene O’Neill’s Plays

“A population does not renew itself only through the cycle of births and deaths, but also through the interplay of inward and outward migration.” – François Héran

Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2026 Annual Conference, November 5-7, 2026 in Baltimore, MD

FEMINANIMALS
Representations of Women and/as Animals in Literature, Arts, and Other Media

University of Oxford, Oriel College

14-16 April 2027

Keynote speakers: Prof Chloë Taylor (University of Alberta) and Dr Kaori Nagai (University of Kent)

Roundtable with Queer Kinship Network led by Prof Charlotte Ross (University of Oxford)

Organising committee: Dr Fanny Clemente (University of Oxford), Dr Greta Colombani (independent scholar), Dr Cécile Bishop (University of Oxford)

Manuscripts and Textual Criticism (Panel / In-Person)Presiding Officer: Kathryn Vulic (Western Washington University)

Call for Papers: American Music Special Issue on Vocality in the Americas

Deadline to indicate interest: May 15

Deadline to send preliminary submission information: June 15

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL ISSUE ON VOCALITY IN THE AMERICAS

The editorial team at American Music invites submissions for a special issue exploring vocality in the Americas. Considering vocality as an ontological and epistemological process—a vocal way of knowing the world and of being in the world, constructed intersubjectively by both singers/speakers and listeners—we encourage contributions that engage with one or more of the following themes: