Tl;dr: Higher education is failing to effectively communicate with the public, including communicating disciplinary knowledge and the value of higher education. We're looking for ways it can do both more effectively.

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Communicating Disciplinary Knowledge and the Value of Higher Education

Zachary Beare, North Carolina State University

Marcus Meade, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Following confirmation of firm interest from Routledge, Anna Batori is seeking contributions for the forthcoming volume ‘Eastern European Genre Cinema: Forms, Histories, and Transnational Circulation’.

Space and place continuously serve as sources of inspiration in video games and various other interactive media, within which they have a specific way of representing and operationalizing fear and dread. Interactive works can turn fear into a set of narrative and game design sequences that are problems and solutions for the experience of playing and reading. For example, how to structure attention, limit knowledge, choreograph movement, regulate pace, and distribute safety and danger.

RSTEM symposium 05.02.26

Call for PapersRe-Sounding the Early Modern: Art, Power, and the Global Soundscape of the Dutch Masters

The Texas Tech University Vernacular Music Center, in collaboration with the Talkington College of Visual and Performing Arts and the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, invites proposals for a one-day interdisciplinary symposium exploring the cultural, historical, economic, and sonic worlds of the Early Modern.

Humans have long believed we are distinct from other animals in our rationality, self-consciousness, and use of language. Why, then, do writers, artists, and even scientists so often use anthropomorphism to interpret the behaviors of animals, plants, and even nonliving things such as trains, teapots, and toys? What are the repercussions of this tendency to understand the world in terms of human social and cultural identities?

1st International Congress on Theory and Historiography of Gender Studies at FES Acatlán

Colloquium Dates: November 9–13, 2026

MODALITY: Hybrid

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Seminar on Theory and Historiography of Gender Studies of the Facultad de Estudios Superiores Acatlán (FES Acatlán-UNAM) proposes a space for reflection and discussion on new perspectives in women’s and gender studies within their diverse historical and social contexts. In this regard, we invite researchers from the social sciences and humanities to submit papers with a gender perspective (faculty members, researchers, and students currently working on their theses).

Covid Legacies: Long-Term Social and Cultural Effects

International Conference // Koç University & Sabancı University, Istanbul, October 9–11, 2026

Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2026 (via covidlegacies@gmail.com)

2026 Dress and Body Association Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Dress and Body Association invites submissions for the organization’s seventh annual conference, which will be held on November 7-8, 2026. Consistent with our long-term goals for inclusivity and sustainability, all activities will be 100% online.

Join our Google Group to learn about opportunities and converse with members of the DBA year-round! Email to request membership: dress.body.assoc@gmail.com.

Opening the Archives of Dress and the Body

This special session, taking its inspiration from the conference theme “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” invites presentations that challenge the assumption that adaptation is primarily an industry-driven practice shaped by Anglo-American cultural and legal frameworks. In these systems, intellectual property laws define adaptation as a derivative process, regulating authorship, ownership, and revenue streams. What happens when we shift the focus to the Mediterranean, the Middle East, or South Asia? In these contexts, adaptation often emerges through more fluid practices of transmission, performance, and reinterpretation/inspiration, where the boundaries between original and adaptation are less rigid.

Deadline Extended to 25th May

Call for Papers

MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Conference 2026

Media and Sustainability

University of Reading,

Minghella Studios, Whiteknights Campus

Reading RG6 6BT

9th September 2026

Organising committee: Babsie Keulemans, Emir Anday and Elizabeth Heaney

Any questions about the conference or the submission process can be directed to:

Babsie Keulemans – e.l.keulemans@pgr.reading.ac.uk 

Call For Papers for Italian Ecofeminism and Literature

Deadline for Submissions: August 1, 2026

Notification date: September 1, 2026

Full name / Name of organization: Nicole C. (Civitano) Dittmer, PhD

Contact email: ncdittmer@gmail.com

Free of taxes! Open Access Journal

Academic Journal: Em Tese (ISSN 1982-0739) OA
Submission format: .doc or .docx, font 12, spacing 1,5, from 10 to 20 pages long.
Submission guidelines: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/emt/about/submissions 
Submission system: OJS 3.0
Journal homepage: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/emt/index
Questions: lauraribaraujo@gmail.com

This panel examines how writers challenge dominant structures of authority in/through narratives of sexual violence. Legal and cultural frameworks often dictate how sexual violence is recognized, narrated, and believed, shaping whose stories are legible and whose are dismissed. This session explores how survivors and writers resist these constraints through alternative narrative strategies, fragmentation, silence, poetic form, visual storytelling and more. It attends to how narrative operates as a site of power, shaping not only representation but the conditions under which sexual violence is acknowledged, legitimized, or denied.

Special Issue: The Subject and its Estrangements

‘The wounds of the Spirit heal, and leave no scars behind.’ Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit 

Beyond Conventional Screens: New Approaches to Audiovisual Storytelling - Call for Chapter Proposals

Edited by Sotiris Petridis 

• Deadline for proposals: 01 June 2026
• Notification of Acceptance: by mid-June 2026
• Deadline for chapters: 15 November 2026

--- DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL 25 MAY 2026! ---

You will receive a decision no later that 1 July 2026. 

The conference runs from 29 September - 1 October. On-site attendance only. The conference is held in Aarhus, Denmark. 

See full programme here: https://conferences.au.dk/gastro/programme 

Read more about contributions and send your paper proposal: https://conferences.au.dk/gastro/call-for-contributions 

About the conference

 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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"Let Us Tell An Old Story Anew": Revising / Reinventing / Reimagining Disney

Disney’s Maleficent (2014), a live-action retelling of their animated classic, Sleeping Beauty (1957), begins with a narrator challenging us to re-see the stories we’ve been told before. The entire movie, in fact, revolves around correcting past perceptions, ones that Disney originally shaped and is now choosing to reshape. Maleficent is just one example of a spate of live-action remakes and other ways Disney has reimagined itself in the twenty-first century. Such reimaginings invite research into how and why Disney feels the need to make us see them anew.

This session is part of the 2026 PAMLA Conference in Seattle, 11/12-11/15

Call for Papers

Encountering the Human(ities): Anxiety, Storytelling, Futurity

Department of English and Modern Languages

North South University

Dhaka, Bangladesh

30-31 October, 2026 (Friday-Saturday)

Hybrid Event

This year is the 550th anniversary of William Caxton’s establishment of the first printing press in England in 1476. We invite papers for a two-day conference on Caxton’s career, texts, and contexts. Abstracts of up to 300 words to be sent to shaw.worth@all-souls.ox.ac.uk and jacob.ridley@ell.ox.ac.uk by 10 June 2026.

This is a call for papers for an international 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 main historical period under investigation is from 2020 onwards: a time that is marked by significant social, cultural, political and ideological tensions. Whilst visual propaganda is not a new phenomenon, and contributors are very welcome to reference historical precedents, the main focus of the volume will be on the growing impact of visual propaganda since 2020.

Howard University | March 17–18, 2027

Hosted by the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and the Black Press Research Collective

In March 1827, just over fifty years after the United States Declaration of Independence, Freedom’s Journal, the first Black newspaper in North America, declared: “We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us.”

In March 2027, we mark the bicentennial of the Black Press, celebrating 200 years of Black journalism as one of the most vital and enduring institutions in American public life.

Call for Proposals: Art, Aura, and the Algorithm 2026 PNCA Symposium | October 1–3, 2026 Pacific Northwest College of Art at Willamette University 511 NW Broadway, Portland, Oregon Free and open to the public

Keynote: Sasha Stiles