Beyond Human: Unruly Senses of Being, Knowing, and Feeling Existence

UCSD Literature Department Graduate Student Conference  

University of California, San Diego 

In-Person, May 15-16, 2026

Call For Submissions
31st Annual Significations Graduate Student Conference
California State University, Los Angeles
Department of English

Conference Date: April 24, 2026
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2026

IN/ACTIVITY

Starting from a sense of our own activity as literary and cultural scholars, the organizers of Significations invite graduate students to share their work on the theme of In/Activity. We welcome submissions that interpret, examine, and analyze the theme broadly. Possible topics of discussion can include, but are not limited to, the following:

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 14TH

The University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group Conference presents:

The 28th Annual University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group Conference

The State of the Unions

April 23rd-25th, Gainesville (FL)

Keynote speakers: Sianne Ngai, Anna Kornbluh

Nicole LaRose Alumni Keynote Speaker: Ryan Kerr

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is holding our annual virtual conference, ACH 2026, from June 24 to 26, 2026. We are excited to announce that we have extended our call for papers to February 23, 2026: https://ach2026.ach.org/en/cfp/. 

 Deadline Extended - March 1st 2026

Call For Chapter Proposals – The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Modernisms

Editors: Ruth Clemens, John Greaney, Maebh Long, Barry Sheils

This year’s MCLLM theme invites exploration of how literature, language, and performance illuminate intersecting dimensions of justice. How are inherited forms, genres, and rhetorical strategies reactivated in contemporary struggles for equity? In what ways do linguistic, literary, and artistic practices navigate, resist, and respond to the abuse of power while imagining alternative futures? 

MCLLM welcomes proposals from a wide range of disciplines and expression forms. The list below provides a sense of the topics the organizers are interested in seeing, but it is not an all-inclusive list. Please submit a proposal that represents your interpretation of our theme! 

Call for Papers

2026 EALA Annual Conference

From Technē to Technology

Conference Organizers: ROC English and American Literature Association (EALA, Taiwan) and Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Sun Yat-sen University

Date: October 17, 2026

Venue: National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

[The deadline for abstract submission is extended to February 14, 2026]

UCD Centre for Gender, Feminisms & Sexualities - 2nd CGFS Conference  Call for Papers: 'Thinking Gender Justice: Oppression, Resistance, Liberation' University College Dublin, Ireland, 17-19 June 2026  Proposal Deadline: 27 February 2026. Notifications: 9 March 2026Registration opens 6 MarchProposal Submission form: https://forms.gle/4qkYr9riQ1yWgnwR7

The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce its annual essay prize competition for 2026, open to all, on the subject of
Placing Katherine Mansfield

The winner will receive a cash prize of £200 and the winning essay will be considered for publication in Katherine Mansfield Studies, vol. 19 (2027), the peer-reviewed yearbook of the Katherine Mansfield Society, published by Edinburgh University Press.

The distinguished panel of judges will comprise:
PROFESSOR JANET M. WILSON
University of Northampton, UK
Chair of the Judging Panel
DR CHRIS MOURANT
University of Birmingham, UK
JOHN WOOD
Independent Scholar

MLA Annual Convention 2027
Los Angeles, California | 7–10 January 2027

This special session invites proposals that examine current challenges and emerging trends in the teaching of Spanish language, Hispanic literature, and culture in both university and secondary education contexts. We seek contributions that critically reflect on pedagogical practices in a rapidly evolving academic, technological, and social landscape, offering innovative, reflective, or praxis-oriented perspectives.

Call for Papers: Film, Fashion & Consumption

Special Issue: 'Dress Against: Aesthetics of Power and Normativity in Contemporary Cinema'

Guest Editor : Danae Ioannou

Submission deadline: 31 August 2026

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/film-fashion-consumption#call-for-papers

Reconstructing the Electronic Superhighway:
Radical Media Art and Techno-Community at the Margins of the Global Village

Edited Volume
Abstracts Due: April 30, 2026
Editors: Kelly Donahey and Erin Gordon
Submissions Portal: https://submit.kellydonahey.com/index.php/cfp/index.

Journal Cedoua

2026 – n.º 52

The Cedoua Journal (RevCedoua), published in digital and open-access format, is issued annually by the Centre for Studies on Spatial Planning, Urbanism and the Environment of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra. The Journal is dedicated to the publication of original scholarly works of a legal or interdisciplinary nature that reflect advanced research on issues related to spatial planning, urbanism and the environment, contributing to the identification and proposal of solutions to relevant problems in these fields.

10×10 Photobooks is pleased to announce a new grant cycle and call for applications as part of its annual photobook research grants program to encourage and support scholarship on under-explored topics in photobook history.

Information and Submission at: 

https://10x10photobooks.org/research-grants-cycle5-call/

The deadline for submissions for the new cycle of 10×10 research grants is midnight ET 23 March 2026.

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We are pleased to announce that the theme for Volume 13 of Ceræ is Fame and Fortune. We invite submissions to both the conference and the journal on this theme.

What roles do ‘hierarchy’ and ‘egality’, as values and practices, play in the everyday lives of South Asian traditions? Hierarchy as a value in the social life of Hinduism has been much discussed. Scholarship has tended to contrast a transhistorical Hindu hierarchy with egalitarian elements of Muslim, Christian, Buddhist and Sikh thought in South Asia, framing ubiquitous caste-like social forms among the latter traditions as anomalous. Yet careful studies of everyday life in the religious traditions of South Asia suggest that a far more heterogeneous set of social imaginaries and a far more complex entanglement of hierarchy and egality are, in fact, shaping the trajectory of both inter-caste and inter-religious relations and practices.

Frank Lloyd Wright began wintering in the Sonoran Desert in the late 1920s, where the region’s extreme climate and tectonic landscape shaped by sun, erosion, and wind profoundly influenced his thinking about architecture. How did Wright respond to the beautiful yet hostile desert environment?

CALL FOR PAPERSTeaching Authentic Thinking in the Age of AI: Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice

Editors: Trent M. Kays, PhD (Augusta University); Rosita Scerbo, PhD (Georgia State University); and Stefanie Sevcik, PhD (Mercer University)

THE PROBLEM

Students carry ChatGPT in their pockets. They can generate competent essays in seconds. Traditional assignments become trivial to automate.

How should we teach?

Call for papers

Sensation: The Sounds, Visions, and Words of David Bowie

Academic conference, University of Agder, Norway

29. – 30. September 2026

The American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) invites proposals for a Virtual Seminar Series held during the month of June 2026 over Zoom. This seminar series will take place in lieu of the 2026 AAALS conference.

Seminars can be of two types:A) panel or B) roundtable. Panels can have between 2 to 3 speakers. Roundtables can have 4 to 5 speakers.

“There is more savagery, more brutality, in the pages of Wuthering Heights than in any novel of the nineteenth century, and, for good measure, more beauty too, more poetry, and, what is more unusual, a complete lack of sexual emotion…” Daphne du Maurier.

The LLC 19th-Century American Forum welcomes proposals for papers exploring the vibrant landscape of pop culture in the nineteenth-century USA, from vaudeville to sheet music to moving pictures. How have these examples contributed to Hollywood's legacy? Send 250-word abstracts and 100-word bios to DeLisa Hawkes (ddhawk@wm.edu) by Friday, March 20, 2026.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Impregnable: Mediated Meanings of the Body in Resistance

Impregnability has many strong meanings - not becoming pregnant but also capable of withstanding assault. It's a term that lives in connotative alignment with infertility, of non- and un-reproducibility, but it also carries presence over absence, power over victimization. Think protesters who link arms to create an impregnable wall of resistance. Think castles that cannot be stormed. Indeed, the word literally means “unable to be defeated or destroyed; unassailable.”