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CFP for Futures of Memory Conference 2027
Performing the Past, Witnessing (for) the Future: Memory in the Posthumanist Era
This peer-reviewed fast-track collection seeks to publish innovative approaches to teaching Aphra Behn’s work, building on existing critical and pedagogical scholarship.
We do invite essays on Behn’s most-taught work, Oroonoko, but we aim particularly to give sustained attention to the full range of her literary life, and are especially interested in proposals about works that have been shown to be amenable to modern undergraduate teaching: the plays, the shorter fiction, the poems.
PKMS Graduate Student Conference and Workshop: Dinner Party Medieval Studies
Thursday, February 18 – Friday, February 19 2027
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Postcolonial Interventions invites scholarly articles for the January 2027 issue on the theme of Popular Culture and the Rise of the Right.
The 34th Annual NINE Spring Training Conference (March 3-6, 2027) invites original unpublished papers that study all aspects of baseball, with particular emphasis on history, literature, and social policy implications. Abstracts only, not to exceed 300 words, should be submitted by December 4, 2026, to co-directors Willie Steele (wdsteele@lipscomb.edu) and David Pegram (david.pegram@paradisevalley.edu) for the abstract committee’s consideration. We ask that you please copy your submission to both of us.
This is the second call for papers for the edited volume tentatively titled ‘Visual Propaganda in an Era of Instability’. Based on distinct case studies explored in a wide range of book chapters, the main objective of the volume is to analyse the role of the image in driving public opinion and perception. The first call for papers generated a strong response and resulted in a number of high-quality contributions. During the review process, however, it became clear that several important dimensions of contemporary visual propaganda remained underrepresented. To address these gaps, we are issuing a second call for papers and expanding the historical timeframe under consideration from 2020 onwards to 2014 onwards.
We would like to invite you to join and contribute to the 2nd Shapeshifters Symposium: Plasticity – Here, There, and Everywhere. This symposium brings together people interested in plasticity from a broad range of perspectives, from the natural and formal sciences to the social sciences, humanities, and art. During the symposium, we hope to further expand the concept of plasticity across disciplines.
Who are we? We are a group of interdisciplinary researchers working on the concept of plasticity, sponsored by the Dutch Centre for Unusual Collaborations.
Date & Venue
Call for Chapters: Digital Assessment Ecosystems and Learning Analytics
Book Title: Digital Assessment Ecosystems and Learning Analytics: Bridging Pedagogical Evaluation and Social Equity Publisher: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
An International Conference on Climate Change and Epistemic Recovery: Indigenous Pathways
Submission of abstract: 1 October 2026
Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2026
Organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, in academic collaboration with the Department of English, Bodoland University, Kokrajhar
Concept Note:
ICMS 2027 Deadline Extended to September 22nd, 2026. Still accepting abstracts for the session "Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Medievalisms in British Literature"
CALL FOR PAPERSBetter MenHealing Masculinity and Dismantling Patriarchy From Within
What would it mean for a man to come home to himself?
Not the patriarchal self shaped by silence and performance, but the divine masculine. Patriarchy teaches men that strength has no needs, that manhood means enduring and providing. What does it look like to reclaim a masculine self that knows how to grieve and how to celebrate, how to ask for help and how to offer it, how to listen and how to share?
"Hogg’s Worlds Now"The James Hogg Society is delighted to announce that we will be holding a conference at the University of Glasgow on July 2-4, 2027. We warmly invite paper proposals that engage with any aspect of Hogg’s life and writing and with the broader community of authors associated with Scottish Romanticism. The first volume of The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg was published over thirty years ago now, and the edition is still ongoing, with several collections of Hogg’s periodical publications recently released.
Sonic mismatches in contemporary audiovisual media
Abstract
CALL FOR CHAPTERS
TITLE: Siri Hustvedt, Gender, and the Critical Medical Humanities
Rationale and Scope
Call for Proposals: Sessions, Panels, Papers
Come join a vivid and diverse community of scholars and professionals to discuss the history and depiction of the sea through a popular culture perspective!
We are considering proposals for individual papers, panels, creative sessions, and roundtables. Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour slots, typically with four papers or speakers per session. Scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, and working professionals are all encouraged to submit. Proposals may include (but are not restricted to):
Call for Proposals
Submissions due:
Editors: Michael Domínguez and Julia Reade
Teaching Protest, Teaching as Protest: Pedagogies and Narratives in Contentious Times
Call for Proposals: AI and the Humanities An Interdisciplinary Conference Hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee Southern
March 6-7, 2027 | Pulaski, Tennessee
Proposal Deadline: October 20, 2026
The University of Tennessee Southern is pleased to announce an interdisciplinary conference exploring the crucial intersection of AI and the Humanities.
Conference dates: March 6-7, 2027
Submission deadline: October 20, 2026
Location: University of Tennessee Southern, Pulaski, TN
Call for Proposals:
REVISED – August 17, 2026
International Federation for Theatre Research Conference
28 June – 2 July 2027
Nafplion – Greece
University of the Peloponnese
Department of Performing and Digital Arts
Theme:
Hybridity - Rethinking borders and boundaries in theatre/performance and beyond
Celebrating 70 years of IFTR (1957-2027) @Nafplio
IFTR African and Caribbean Theatre and Performance Working Group
Website
https://www.iftr-african-and-caribbean-theatre-and-performance.com/
Dear Colleagues,
Please circulate the following CFP for NeMLA 2027, particularly among colleagues working in the fields of posthumanism, ecocriticism, the Anthropocene, or New Materialism. Thank you and have a great semester!
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NeMla session: Ecologies of the Human and Nonhuman in Italian Literature
The Military Gaze: War, Intelligence and Security on Twenty-First-Century Screens
Edited Collection
ed. Jo Coghlan, University of New England, Australia
The Military Gaze: War, Intelligence and Security on Twenty-First-Century Screens
This session explores how Indigenous literary and cultural productions transform histories of colonial violence, dispossession, and erasure into acts of community witness and collective empowerment. Across Native American, First Nations, and other Indigenous traditions, writers have challenged state-controlled narratives that render Indigenous experiences invisible, replacing imposed silence with storytelling practices rooted in survivance, kinship, and communal memory.
Three decades on, the founding categories of trauma theory: belatedness, aporia, the unspeakable, the event that cannot be claimed, remain largely those of a single archive: European, modernist, post-Holocaust. Stef Craps’s decolonising critique (2010; 2013; 2014) has exposed the field’s marginalisation of non-Western suffering, its universalisation of a Euro-American psycho-diagnostic invention, its prescription of fragmentary modernist techniques as its defining form, and its neglect of the connections between metropolitan and other histories of violence. Yet that critique has been prosecuted largely through postcolonial and Anglophone Global South materials.
From Christopher Strachey’s Love Letter Generator to today’s generative AI writing tools and multimodal models, AI technologies are reshaping how literary works are created, adapted, and circulated across media. Texts can now be generated, illustrated, voiced, animated, and transformed into comics, audiobooks, visual art, and video, prompting renewed questions about creativity, form, authorship, authenticity, and human agency.This seminar asks: Can AI-generated literature and art be understood as forms of artificial creativity? Does AI expand, automate, or redefine human creativity? How does human–AI collaboration challenge traditional ideas of authorship and authenticity?
Biomythographies: Self-Fabulation in the Time of Autotheory
The construction of archives has long been a fraught process that brings dominant ways of knowing, which are often Western and colonial, into conflict with cultural knowledge.
We seek submissions on unruly (re)readings of the medieval that drive a wedge into Derrida's
conception of differánce between the signifier and signified of the sign. Various modern media
types, including but not limited to literature, film, television, animation, TTRPGs, video game RPGS,
comics and graphic novels, podcasts, etc., offer an array of opportunities for exploring what we
make of the "medieval" and why. We are interested in work that engages more than
traditional examples of medievalism, especially that which might speak for or represent
perspectives traditionally deemed "unruly." Under-represented paradigms encouraged!
This panel will investigate representations of Korea, Koreanness, and Korean women's bodies and consider how these representations serve as a site for the reproduction of the sexualized and gendered relationship between the US and South Korea. It will also interrogate these racialized bodies as the site for the articulation of trauma, memory, and historical discontinuities or, alternatively, as potential sites of empowerment.
It will consider how Korean nationalism, national unity, and diaspora are complicated by gender and body politics, and how we may envision gaining agency through depictions of the colonized and militarized Korean peninsula and Korean/American women's bodies as represented in literary, film, and other cultural iterations.
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for its 2027–2028 research fellowship program. Up to 50 fellowships will be awarded to support projects that require substantial on-site use of the center’s internationally renowned collections in the humanities.
Fellowships are open to graduate students, current and former academic faculty at any career stage, and independent researchers — including journalists and artists — whose work engages deeply with archival materials. Residency lengths range from one week to two months, with stipends provided to support travel and research.
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 22, 2026
Social Inclusion, peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index and Scopus, welcomes new and exciting research papers for its upcoming issue "Legal Perspectives on Balancing Life and Work in the 21st Century," edited by Melanie Hack (University of Bergen) and Lisa Waddington (University of Maastricht).
About the issue:
"The Power of Repetition"
Chairs: Curtis Browne (Brown University) and Chi Le (Brown University)
In Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV throws down a gauntlet: “When
human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain
profoundly human.” What does it mean to remain “profoundly human” in a technological society?
Are any of the advancements that we have come to perceive as essential to western standards of living
at odds with human flourishing? What are the implications, benefits, and costs of the relationship
between humanity and technology? The Braniff Graduate Student Association (BGSA) invites
undergraduate students in all liberal arts disciplines to consider these questions at the Braniff
Undergraduate Conference in the Liberal Arts (BUCLA) on February 5-6, 2027.
The Corporate Uncanny
Edited Collection | Vernon Press
Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2026
Vernon Press has accepted the proposal for The Corporate Uncanny, an interdisciplinary edited collection examining how contemporary media represent—and make experiential—the strange familiarity of corporate power.
Subject: Call for Papers: War Literature and Trauma Studies at CEA 2027
Call for Papers: War Literature and Trauma Studies at CEA 2027
Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri
The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on [special topic title] for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
We are open to multiple gateways, literary and interdisciplinary, to War Literature and Trauma Studies.
Call for Papers, September 2026
Entanglements: Regimes of Extraction and The Literary Imagination of Place
Co-editors: Dr. Gayathri Goel and Dr. Jennifer Horwitz
As mass movements and resistance struggles from Reconstruction and Indigenous sovereignty through women’s liberation and civil rights activism make clear, American history has been indelibly shaped by divergent, contradictory, and deeply contested understandings of a common political language centered on “freedom.” Far from a static, settled, or predetermined concept, Eric Foner contends that “freedom” has proved “a terrain of conflict, open to very different and sometimes contradictory interpretations.” The story of the United States is, in no small part, a contest over what it means to be free.
Society for Cinema & Media Studies – Translation/Publication Committee
in collaboration with
JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
CALL FOR TRANSLATIONS, 2026-2027
The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature invites essay proposals for a forthcoming issue of the peer-reviewed journal Midwestern Miscellany on the topic of Comics and the Midwest, to be guest-edited by Rachael Price (rprice@abac.edu), Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.
The American Midwest has served as a key locale in comics and graphic novels, both as a setting for some of the most famous stories in this format and as an important center of newspaper and comic-book publishing. This volume seeks to explore the importance of the Midwest in comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels, from the early twentieth century to the present. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature invites essay proposals for a forthcoming issue of the peer-reviewed journal Midwestern Miscellany on the topic of Midwestern Drama, to be guest-edited by Marilyn Atlas (atlas@ohio.edu).
Organised by University College Dublin and AMPS this conference explores how towns, cities and regions can respond to climate change, social challenges and urban transformation. Bringing together architecture, planning, sustainability, conservation, public health and community perspectives it is explicitly interdisciplinary and explores practical, critical and conceptual approaches to creating more resilient, inclusive, healthy and livable places.
Dublin itself provides a compelling setting for the event, combining historic neighbourhoods, Georgian architecture, modernist housing, docklands regeneration, expanding transport, diverse cultural history and sometimes contentious community issues.
We seek submissions on unruly (re)readings of the medieval that drive a wedge into Derrida's conception of differánce between the signifier and signfied of the sign. Various modern media types, including but not limited to literature, film, television, animation, TTRPGs, video game RPGS, comics and graphic novels, podcasts, etc., offer an array of opportunities for exploring what we make of the "medieval" and why. We are interested in work that engages more than traditional examples of medievalism, especially that which might speak for or represent perspectives traditionally deemed "unruly." Under-represented paradigms encouraged.
Look Again: (Re)Vision for Community Empowermentsubmit here: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/22356 Accepted Panel for NeMLA 2027, Chairs: Audrey Peterson-McCann (University at Albany, SUNY ) Yolande Schutter (University at Albany, SUNY) contact email: apeterson-mccann@albany.edu
Special Issue: Climate Adaptation
Adaptation (OUP)
Deadline for papers: 30 January 2028
Submit: https://academic.oup.com/adaptation
(early papers accepted for continuous publication)
Ed. Robert Geal and Deborah Cartmell
Call for papers
Radiophonic Intermediality in
Contemporary Theatre and Performance
When Get Out was released in 2017, Jordan Peele’s landmark debut feature signified a major inflection point in the history of horror. Not only did the film garner a rare blend of blockbuster commercial success and critical reputability perhaps not seen since The Silence of the Lambs (1991) or The Sixth Sense (1999), but it also broke through the confines of genre to become a larger pop cultural phenomenon.
The Corporate Uncanny
Edited Collection | Vernon Press
Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2026
Vernon Press has accepted the proposal for The Corporate Uncanny, an interdisciplinary edited collection examining how contemporary media represent—and make experiential—the strange familiarity of corporate power.
Call for Papers: Composition and Rhetoric: Practice at CEA 2027
Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri
The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Composition and Rhetoric: Practice for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
Subject: Call for Papers: Writing Centers at CEA 2027
Call for Papers: Writing Centers at CEA 2027
Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri
The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Writing Centers for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
CONFERENCE IN BOSTON, MA - March 24-27, 2027
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.
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on BIPOC & Asian American Literature for our 2027 annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
We welcome a wide range of approaches, periods, genres, and traditions. In keeping with the conference theme of “Gateways,” proposals might take up any of the questions and possibilities suggested below in the general call for papers as they relate to BIPOC & Asian American literature.
The deadline for abstract submissions is 11/01/2026.
Conference Theme: Gateways