This is a Call for Papers for a special issue titled, "Mapping the Diverse Horizons of Oral History in India: Theory, Method, Practice." The central idea of the special issue is to map the multiple directions in which oral history is evolving within India today and to highlight its significance in understanding lives, histories, and identities that often remain outside conventional archives. The issue will be published in collaboration with The Oral History Review [ https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/uohr20  Scopus, Q1].

We invite interested individuals to send us an abstract based on the following themes, but not limited to:

NATIONAL SEMINAR ONDigital Futures and Beyond: Emerging Paradigms in English Studies

27 December 2025

Organised by
Department of English, Hill-Top Degree College, Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha
Venue: Seminar Hall, Hill-Top Degree College
Website:www.hilltopdegreecollegemohana.edu.in

 Invitation

Perennially understudied, Eurasia – as both a geographical and conceptual constellation – opens up a novel and fertile space for scholarly contributions. This call for papers invites submissions that engage with the region’s alternative media, information, and communications histories, bridging past and future frameworks, methodologies and forms.

ATHE 2026

“ACTIVATING IMAGINATION IN/AND COMMUNITY”
July 22–26, 2026  |  Baltimore, Maryland

This year’s conference theme, "Activating Imagination in/and Community," asks us to think deeply and courageously about the role of theatre and performance in shaping our shared presents and collective futures. It challenges us to contemplate not just what we do, but how and with whom we do it, while recognizing that, in the face of growing political repression and institutional instability, our collaborations—across disciplines, communities, and identities—are simultaneously more vulnerable and vital than ever.

Institute for the Humanities, University of Manitoba, February 5–6, 2026

The Institute for Humanities at the University of Manitoba invites proposals for papers and panel presentations for the international conference Identity in Motion: Literary Representations of Refugees, Exiles, and Immigrants. This conference seeks to explore the diverse literary portrayals of displacement, migration, exile, and the refugee experience across genres, languages, and cultures. We welcome interdisciplinary approaches, including but not limited to literary studies, cultural studies, history, and sociology.

Website: westcoastreview.org

West Coast Review (SDSU Press) is seeking art, flash fiction, short stories, and any creative prose that falls in-between. This includes creative non-fiction, memoires, craft essays and experimental prose pieces. We accept all genres--we just want pieces that are bold and embrace the diversity found on the west coast!

Guidelines:

We accept simultaneous submissions, but please withdraw your submission if accepted elsewhere. We do not accept previously published work. We do not consider work posted to blogs, personal websites, or social media to be previously published. We do not accept work that has been created with AI.

FOR LANCELOT ANDREWES

September 25th 2026 marks the 400th anniversary of Lancelot Andrewes’ death. It also marks the 100th anniversary of an essay by T. S. Eliot which appeared first in the TLS and was later collected into the volume named after it: For Lancelot Andrewes. This essay instigated modern critical interest in Andrewes’ intellectual and imaginative legacy, and is a significant event not just for sermon studies but for the conjunction of modernism and early modernism, and the influence of the renaissance period on the poets and thinkers of the twentieth century and beyond.

Queering food in the 21st Century

Generally, the notion of identity is misinterpreted to be something concrete or even an inherited attribute and hence resistant to changes. However, as we delve deeper into the idea of self and the factors that constitute it, a fact becomes evident: that an individual’s identity is in fact not very rigid but rather fluid and dynamic in nature. A number of societal factors influence the construction of the character that an individual identifies themselves with. Through a close textual analysis of The Last White Man (2022) by Mohsin Hamid, this paper aims to explore the concept of identity in contrast to its conventional definition of something unalterable, and rather look at it as an idea that is constantly in motion.

The Black Theatre Association (BTA), a focus group of the Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), invites submissions for our upcoming 2026 Summer Conference in Baltimore, MD, from July 22-26, 2026.

Theme: Revival and Rejuvenation

Call for papers

XIV Global IABA Conference 2026

International Auto/Biography Association

RESIST TO EXIST:

Life writing, democracy, and conceivable futures

State University of Bahia (UNEB)

Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

July 21-24, 2026

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS--January 30, 2026

The Journal of Research in Contemporary World Literature (indexed in Scopus) invites original, unpublished research articles for a special issue dedicated to Contemporary African and Arabic Literature. This issue seeks contributions that explore literary production, cross-cultural encounters, postcolonial and decolonial aesthetics, migration and diaspora, oral and performance traditions, and new media literatures within African and Arabic-speaking contexts. The journal is a peer-reviewed, open-access quarterly that publishes in English.

Themes and Topics

We are pleased to announce that the 42nd International Conference on Psychology and the Arts will be held at University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, England, UK, June 23-June 26, 2026. The University of Essex, with three campuses, was founded as a research university by public charter in 1965, and is one of the original plate glass universities. With a commitment to academic excellence and diversity, The University of Essex’s Colchester campus is “a world in one place,” home to 15,000 students from over 130 countries.

RMMLA 2026 – Call for Papers
Asian Drama and Performance Panel
 
REVOLUTIONARY BODIES
Staging Thought and Affect on the Asian Stage
How do bodies on Asian stages think, feel, and make worlds?
This panel explores the performing body as a site where concepts are articulated and affects are distributed. Inspired by Emily Wilcox’s Revolutionary Bodies and theoretical work by Bruno Latour, Rita Felski, Susan Leigh Foster, André Lepecki, among others, we consider the body not as a mute vehicle for meaning, but as an interface that negotiates power, history, and desire.

Call for Papers to the special issue “Dalit Studies in India: Interrogating Epistemological Injuries and Silences” for Global South Literary Studies

Special issue editors:

Arunima Ray, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, India

Milind E. Awad, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Austerity 

April 10-11, 2026 

 The 2026 edition of the Equinoxes graduate student conference at Brown University 

Call for Papers

Spark: HKCAL Postgraduate Lightning Talks

Theme: Emerging Voices – Testing Ideas in Research on Hong Kong

Date: 5-6 June 2026 (online)

The Hong Kong Cultures, Arts and Languages (HKCAL) Research Network invites submissions for Spark: HKCAL Postgraduate Lightning Talks, to be held on 12-13 June 2026.

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Special Sub Call!Issue 8’s theme is: CollageOpen: Dec 1, 2025 - Jan. 31, 2026

                                                                             Seeking Poetry and artworks!

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We’re inviting you to take scissors to much of our Archive!

A Two-Day International Conference on

Beyond Binaries: Interrogating the Multiplicity of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Society

21st and 22nd January, 2026

Organized by

Centre for Gender Studies

And

Department of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies

Swami Vivekananda University

Concept Note:

Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is devoting a special issue to Genevieve Taggard, her career and legacy. Given the interdisciplinary nature of Women’s Studies, and the breadth and depth of Taggard’s multi-faceted artistic, cultural, and political undertakings, proposals are sought for essays that demonstrate Taggard’s wide-ranging literary and political legacy and her significance to our present moment. 

Topics may include but are not limited to:

Environmental Histories of New England, 1600-2025

Friday, September 18, 2026

Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA

Global Indigeneities and Life Narratives: Special Issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly—Deadline Extension

A Special Issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
 
Guest Editor: J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, 
Eric and Wendy Schmidt Professor of Indigenous Studies and Anthropology, Princeton University
 
Submit: 400-word abstracts to kauanui@princeton.edu by December 12, 2025

Crossings: A Journal of English Studies is an annual double-blind peer-reviewed journal of scholarly articles and book reviews. The articles involve, but are not limited to, issues related to language, literature, culture, and pedagogy. It is a discursive platform to critically examine human behavior and communication, and their larger role in society as well as in knowledge production.

CROSSINGS: A JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES (ISSN 2071-1107; E-ISSN 2958-3179) is inviting scholarly articles for its Volume 17 to be published in 2026. 

Submission Deadline: March 31, 2026

Proverbs and Popular Wisdom in Early Modern Literature and Culture

An International and Interdisciplinary Conference

1-3 July 2026

School of Arts and Humanities, University of Hull