Bulgaria-based (or Bulgarian-abroad) scholars of literature, reading and/or writing in English, are invited to a one-day conference in Blagoevgrad on October 10th 2026, to present projects-in-progress to an audience of interested peers from around the country. 

Hosted at the American University in Bulgaria, by the Department of Literature, Theatre, and Film, the conference will provide a hub for colleagues from across the nation to gather together, showcase and discuss each other’s work in progress, and chart the future of English-language literary study in Bulgaria. Papers will be combined into themed panels, with plenty of time in each panel dedicated for questions, discussion, and feedback.

CFP: Football and Performance

Editors: Eero Laine, Noe Montez, and Shannon Walsh

We are currently seeking chapter abstracts for an edited volume on football and performance. Theatre and performance studies allow us a unique view towards the ways that sports extend into civic space, politics, and daily life. How can the disciplines of theatre, dance, and performance studies serve as an analytic for sport, generally, and American football, in particular?

The 2027 CLA Online Research Conference is a forum for researchers of children’s literature to share their work and exchange ideas. The conference is supported by the Children’s Literature Assembly of NCTE’s Endowment Fund and will be held on Friday, February 19th, 2027.

The CLA Online Research Conference seeks proposals that explore this year's conference theme of Children’s Literature in a Changing World: Research in Theory & Praxis.

A variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, presented by established and emerging scholars, are welcomed and encouraged.

Potential topics could explore:

European Comic Art invites proposals for a special issue on ‘Francophone Graphic Narratives/Bande dessinée: Authority and Resistance’. This issue will examine how francophone graphic narratives engage with, challenge, and reimagine authority in its many forms – political, cultural, institutional, and aesthetic – and how they forge practices of resistance and dissent.

Panel: Precarious and Obsolete Spaces in the Novel

We form strong attachments with the spaces we inhabit, which shape us as we shape them. Spaces house our memories, provide opportunities for encounters, and alter our individual and collective identities. But what happens when these locations deteriorate, become obsolete, or disappear entirely? This panel invites papers considering representations of neglected, abandoned, or otherwise ephemeral spaces in novels from any period or location. We welcome papers on places and spaces of any scale: buildings, towns and cities, landscapes, even nations and worlds.  

Conference Location: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Special Call for Book Chapters 

We are pleased to announce a Special Call for Book Chapters for the forthcoming edited volume Beyond Pathology: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Dementia Studies in Humanities, which brings together interdisciplinary humanities scholarship that reconceptualises dementia through diverse representations of lived, narrated, and mediated experiences of the condition.

CALL FOR PAPERS: OBSCURA - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HORROR AND CONTEMPORARY MEDIA CULTURE (EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE NOW OPEN)Dear Colleagues,We are pleased to invite you to participate in Obscura: International Conference on Horror and Contemporary Media Culture, organized by the research group at the University of Seville.This conference aims to establish an international and interdisciplinary academic forum to analyze horror as a backbone of contemporary narrative (cinema, television, video games, and digital platforms), bridging academic theory with professional practice and the media industry.We are currently in the second submission period (extended deadline).

Call for Papers

Roundtable by the Sea

Literary Festival and Conference

Saint Andrews, New Brunswick

November 12-15, 2026

Call for Book Chapters       

Trees and Environment in Literature and Cinema

“Feel the Force”: The first 50 years of Star Wars

A PopCRN Conference

Join us for a free virtual conference exploring the Star Wars universe and its enduring cultural impact to be held online from 4th-5th May 2027.

The Artificial Mind: Art and Philosophy after AI

24-25 September 2026

National Gallery of Art

22 Konstitucijos Ave. 

Vilnius, Lithuania

The title “Artificial Mind” references Claude Lévi-Strauss’ The Savage Mind (La Pensée sauvage (1962), a foundational work in anthropology, in which he argues that “savage” and “civilized” thought share the same epistemological architecture – differing not in structure but in mode of operations. While the “civilized” engineer works with purpose-built concepts and tools toward a specific end, the “savage” bricoleur thinks with whatever is at hand, constructing new meanings from fragments.

Call for papers, international conference, University of Nantes, 24 and 25 March 2027

The Subversive Work of Gayl Jones Beyond Borders: Rediscovering a “Liberating Voice” of the Black Atlantic World

The Lives and Legacies of Medieval Comics: A Commemoration of Ninety Years of Hal Foster's Prince Valiant (Hybrid)

62nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI), Thursday, 13 May, through Saturday, 15 May, 2026

Co-sponsored by Medieval Comics Project, Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

Co-organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College, and Carl B Sell, University of Pittsburgh

Rationale 

Jordan Peele’s Us is a critically acclaimed horror original about government-manufactured clones that are forced to mimic the lives of the people who live on the surface like stringless puppets. While Peele focuses more on a physical tethering, there is a psychological tethering that can be gleamed from this piece, specifically as it relates to the idea of double consciousness. In his work “The Striving of the Negro People,” W.E.B. Du Bois describes this idea as “this sense of always looking at oneself through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt or pity.

Bhāratīya Jñāna Paramparā, another name for Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS), is a comprehensive body of knowledge which has been accumulated over millennia. Indian Knowledge Systems encompasses philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, medicine (Ayurveda), government, ecology, the arts, and sustainable living. It is based on books such as the Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, and treatises like the Arthashastra, Charaka Samhita, and Sushruta Samhita. This Knowledge systems place a strong emphasis on interconnection, moral behaviour, and harmony with the natural world - principles embodied in ideas such as Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (the world is one family).

This session invites 15-20-minute papers that attend to the partial and resistant ways queerness and transness emerge in medieval archives. Torn pages, smudged images, misplaced marginalia, and fragmentary traces all signal forms of queer archival participation. In reimagining archival potential how might medievalists access, interpret, or refuse archival legibility? Contributions may address explicitly socio-political queer identities and communities, as well as approaching the archive itself as a site structured by both queer and trans abundance and absence.

Abstract

Human machine interfacing can be as simple as pressing a button or as complex and entangled (also entangling) as inserting a brain chip into the skull. science fiction. Humans with implants, prosthetic and hybrid humans with electronic and mechanical extensions are yet another level are no longer science fiction.  Yet, human-machine interfacing has started long before the invention of these technologies. Machines did communicate with us and tell us about themselves even before chatbots were invented. The clanking of a hammer on the anvil tells us that it is old and dull. The whistle of a microwave tells us that dinner is ready. The process of interfacing is not a one-way process. Through it, humans also communicate with the machine.

The II International Congress of Videogames, Virtual Environments and Interactive Creation is an event of scientific and academic dissemination whose objective is the diffusion of studies related to the field of videogames, digital art and online and virtual environments, in its wide range of topics and media: development of ludic and interactive platforms; video game studies (Game Studies); initiatives around eSports; expressions of Digital Art, Virtual and Augmented Reality, and Artificial Intelligence applied to ludic or plastic creation; projects in networked communities and mobile devices; e-learning platforms; games and digital artistic works and their imbrications with cinema, animation, music, comics, etc. 

This session explores how women's bodies function as contested archives of trauma, sites of testimony that dominant social, legal and political structures have often silenced or delegitimised. Drawing on feminist trauma theory, postcolonial critique and affect studies, it examines bodily memory as a form of somatic knowledge that exceeds conventional language and probes the tension between trauma's structural unspeakability and the ethical urgency of testimony and witnessing.

Bhāratīya Jñāna Paramparā, another name for Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS), is a comprehensive body of knowledge which has been accumulated over millennia. Indian Knowledge Systems encompasses philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, medicine (Ayurveda), government, ecology, the arts, and sustainable living. It is based on books such as the Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, and treatises like the Arthashastra, Charaka Samhita, and Sushruta Samhita. This Knowledge systems place a strong emphasis on interconnection, moral behaviour, and harmony with the natural world - principles embodied in ideas such as Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (the world is one family).

The precarity of a volatile political environment, economic distress, unchecked genocide, and a global pandemic have pushed many Americans to the brink of late capitalist fatalism, dissociation, or gallows humor. In Rethinking Therapeutic Culture (2015), Timothy Aubry and Trysh Travis draw attention to our cultural “therapeutic orientation” that is so ubiquitous, we hardly notice it, as most Americans attempt to seek some kind of mental health support (1). Therapeutic culture perpetuates the mythos that self requires cultivation and improvement: “its economic, ethical, intellectual, and emotional possibilities are not predetermined by heredity or inherited social position” (5).

Editors: Dana Lee Baker and Matthew Mendez Garcia
Publisher: Edward Elger Publishing
Submission deadline for abstracts: 1 January 2027

We invite proposals for entries in an edited academic handbook on the politics of neurodiversity. This volume will bring together interdisciplinary perspectives on neurodiversity as a political, cultural, institutional, legal, and epistemic phenomenon.

American Literature Association: “Music and the American Literary Imagination” Symposium

January 28-30, 2027 in Nashville, Tennessee

CFP: “Sounding the Subject in the Nineteenth Century”