This panel invites papers that engage with aspects of performance, mediated by concepts of gender, in English and Anglophone theatre and drama. The panel is not restricted to any particular period, but preference may be given to proposals that engage with British theatre from 1500 to 1800.

Please submit abstracts through the NeMLA portal: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21738

Conference Details

We are seeking papers for the "Kafka's Fiction" panel at the 57th annual Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), which will be held between March 5-8 in Pittsburgh, PA. You can find more information about the event on NeMLA's website: https://www.nemla.org/convention.html

Modality

Hybrid: The session will be held in-person but a few remote presentations may be included.

Panel Abstract

From Lisa Barlow’s claim of being “Mormon 2.0,” to Meredith Marks’ immortal declaration about “the rumors and the nastiness,” The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City has captured imaginations far beyond Utah. The show is at once high drama, cultural export, and local funhouse mirror—inviting us to think seriously (and playfully) about how Salt Lake City is represented, interpreted, and mythologized.

This event will bring together fans, critics, scholars, and community members for a day of lively discussion, re-enactment, and reflection. We are less interested in the strict application of academic methods than in thoughtful, stimulating insights rooted in local culture, fandom, and appreciation.

The CUNY Graduate Center French Department invites submissions for our Spring 2026 student conference on the theme of “étrangeté.”

Étrangeté evades easy translation. It encompasses "strangeness," "foreignness," and "otherness," offering expansive variability. Etrangeté inhabits both the self and the other. It arises through external judgment and internal reflection alike. It can be unsettling, absurd, and beautiful.

57th NeMLA Annual Convention, March 5-8, 2026 in Pittsburgh, PA

The emergence of Age and Disability Studies as critical fields of inquiry has paved the way for pioneering work tracing the historical construction of age and disability within cultures, revising cultural artifacts that shape hegemonic discourses of normalcy/difference, and advancing innovative approaches to (re)imagine more inclusive and empathetic ways of social coexistence. Despite the growing body of work within these fields, numerous cultural texts remain underexplored, misunderstood, or in need of what Adrienne Rich (1972) describes as re-vision—a fresh critical examination that infuses the text with new life.

"That Ain't a Girl, That's a Fighter" – (Million Dollar Baby)

Name of Organisation: Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)

Contact email: literarydruid@gmail.com  

Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.

The Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies (formerly CACLALS)

Annual Conference — 4-6 June, 2026

Hybrid Format — In-Person & Online Presentations Welcome

Proposal Deadline: December 31, 2026
Location, Montreal (TBA)
Keynote Speaker(s) TBA

250 word abstracts and 2-page CVs should be submitted to organizers by  September 26, 2025 . Please find the individual panel statements and the organizers' contact information below.

Please note: these panels will be submitted for the in-person AAAS conference in Honolulu, Hawai’i, April 2-4, 2026.

Submission Deadline |September 26, 2023.

Archipelagic (Re)Formations of Global Southeast Asias

Submit 250 word abstracts and

2-page CV by September 26, 2025 to

Call for Abstracts for book chapters

Media and Outer Space: Communication, Media Studies and Understanding the Cosmos 

Following recent confirmation of firm interest from Palgrave Macmillan, we are seeking contributions to a forthcoming volume, titled Media and Outer Space: Communication, Media Studies and Understanding the Cosmos, intended to explore the role of media and communications studies as a way of understanding humanity’s current and future explorations of outer space.  

Call For Papers: “Steinbeck in Times of Crisis”

March 11-13th, 2026
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

The International Society of Steinbeck Scholars invites proposals related to the ways in which John Steinbeck’s work offers insights into human experience during moments of crisis—including personal, social, cultural, political, or ecological. We seek contributions that broaden understanding of how Steinbeck's writing addresses such themes as conflict, collaboration, resolution, resilience, and survival, and how these resonate in today's world.

Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing invites scholarly notes for its next volume. Up to 2,500 words, notes may include preliminary results of a study, responses to recent content in DH, comments on a current issue of concern, or other brief insights related to critical thinking and writing.

DH publishes, on a rolling basis, a range of scholarly work--from research articles to notes--on writing and critical thinking pedagogy. For more information about DH, please visit the journal at the WAC Clearinghouse of Colorado State University: https://wac.colostate.edu/double-helix/.

VOLUNTEER POSITION OPENINGS

Femspec needs volunteers to fill the following positions:

• Peer Review Coordinator - This person would be in charge of coordinating the scholarly peer review process for the journal. The Coordinator would liaise with authors who submit to the journal, would pass their submissions on to peer reviewers, and would return reviewers' comments to the authors.

• Book Review Editor - This person would coordinate book reviews for the journal. The Editor would be in charge of obtaining books to review, distributing books to volunteer reviewers, and coordinating the submission of book reviews.

The Object(s) of Literature

July 15-17, 2026

Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL), Unicamp

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”.

This HYBRID session seeks papers that explore the ways ecocriticism intersects with, informs, or is expanded by other critical approaches, orientations, and disciplines. We encourage analyses that merge ecocritical frameworks with studies of gender/sexuality, queer identities, race/ethnicity, religion, dis/ability status, postcolonialism, Indigenous studies, or from methodologies outside of the humanities. What can dialogue across these intersections of medieval and modern temporal and spatial ecologies teach us and how can we think anew with them? We encourage proposals from graduate students and early career as well as more established researchers.

Call for Papers

Adaptations and Retellings 2026

 Adaptations and retellings, much like nostalgia, are deeply tied to the past. They confront the challenges of integrating past elements into the present and often engage with each other in this process.

https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/apocalyptica/apocalypoetics

Apocalyptica is an international, interdisciplinary, open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at Heidelberg University.

Dear Colleagues,

Call for articles for the English Record's 2026 issue!

How do ELA teachers create moments of joy for their students, their communities, and themselves? How do ELA teachers support learning that centers justice in today’s classrooms, especially in this current political climate? What other questions, insights, and ideas about joy and justice do you have as an ELA teacher? We enthusiastically invite classroom teachers, department leaders, building and district administrators, teacher educators, preservice teachers, and students to submit manuscripts.

More info here: www.nysecteach.org/news/the-english-record/

Society for Cinema & Media Studies – Translation/Publication Committee
in collaboration with
JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies

CALL FOR TRANSLATIONS, 2025-2026 

Chair: Sanjukta Banerjee, York University

This special issue of Critical Ethnic Studies is devoted to the transnational exploration of caste domination and anti-caste social movements and theories, with emphasis on the interrelation of caste and race in the history and geography of empire. Often portrayed by Hindu nationalists as a declining social category particular to South Asia and steeped in ancient religious tradition, the recent growth in critical scholarship on caste in both South Asian studies and among critical ethnic studies scholars has asserted the continuing and growing relevance of caste politics in the midst of rising fascisms globally.

Call for Applications

2026 Penn State Global Asias Summer Institute

VITALIZING GLOBAL ASIAS: ARTIFACTS & ARCHIVES

Penn State University and the Global Asias Initiative invites applicants for its annual Global Asias Summer Institute, to be held June 8012, 2026. SI2026, co-directed by Neelima Jeychandran (VCUarts Qatar), Monica Merlin (VCUarts Qatar), and Tina Chen (Penn State), will focus on the topic of “Vitalizing Global Asias: Artifacts & Archives.”