Call For Papers

Issue VI: Re - Defining Work

Perspectives is a bilingual double-blind peer-reviewed, annual E-journal published by Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi with eISSN 2583 - 4762.

An emerging and essential field of academic enquiry, with numerous avenues of interdisciplinary interventions, is the concept of ‘Work’.

The 21st century is grappling with an influx of AI, and the increasing pressure to automate has raised some critical questions about the nature and concept of work, and its relationship with societies and cultures.

The 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. 

Call for Submissions – Woman Scream Cause For fifteen years, the international Woman Scream (Grito de Mujer) cause has united voices from around the globe through poetry, art, and storytelling, amplifying awareness for women’s and girls’ rights. We now invite poets, short story writers, and visual artists to submit original work for our upcoming printed volume. This is an opportunity to contribute your creativity to a global movement that uses art as a form of activism, solidarity, and change.Participation is open worldwide to creators over 18.

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners (2025) was released by the director’s production company, Proximity Media, to massive fanfare. According to The Tennessee Tribune, Sinners is the first horror film in thirty-five years to earn a grade of ‘A’ on CinemaScore exit polls and boasts “nearly unanimous rave reviews” (April 24-30, 2025). A massive box office success, Sinners raked in a stunning $45.6 million during its debut weekend. This figure, as well as other factors, have invited comparisons to Jordan Peele’s Us (2019), the current record holder for biggest debut of an original film ($71 million).

37th Annual Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Conference

DeLand, Florida

April 17-18, 2026

Call for Papers

The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society, an organization of over 200 members worldwide, invites paper proposals on topics related to Rawlings’s life and works.  

Topics might include the following:

Embracing Glocality:

New Perspectives on Arab and Anglophone Arab Literature and Film

Glocalization—the simultaneous presence of global and local dynamics—offers a critical lens through which to examine Arab and Anglophone Arab cultural production. This special issue invites papers that explore how literary and cinematic texts from or about the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region reflect, negotiate, or resist the pressures of global cultural flows while rooted in specific local contexts.

This Seminar Session for the Renaissance Society of America 2026 Conference in San Francisco, CA is still seeking participants! This session is sponsored by ACMRS. 

Panel: International Congress for Medieval Studies, University of Western Michigan, Kalamzoo (May 14-16 2026)

11th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture: “Humanities in the Digital Age” 

https://www.academia.edu/129910678/11th_International_Conference_on_Lang... October 2025, Batman, Türkiye

Keynote speakers: Prof. Dr. Hywel Dix, Bournemouth University & Prof. Dr. Adelheid Rundholz, JCS University

Call for Short Stories

Anthology Title: 1947 Partition: Third-Generation Tales from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Beyond (An Anthology of Short Stories)

Medieval Temporalities and Comics

Leeds International Medieval Congress, 6th-9th July 2026

Hybrid Session

Co-organized by Natalie Hopwood, University of Leeds and Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College (The Medieval Comics Project)

This session aims to discuss the lasting legacy of the medieval on modern comics, sequential art, manga, and related media, and how the medieval continues to affect us today. We invite proposals for 20 minute papers about topics including, but not limited to:

ReFocus: The Films of Gerard Damiano

Weeks after the death of Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro last year, her daughter Andrea Skinner disclosed the sexual abuse she'd suffered as a child—abuse about which Munro had known and stayed silent. The disclosure is but one of many revelations in recent years to upend the legacy of a cultural icon. Neil Gaiman, Louis CK, Jean Vanier, and Avital Ronell are only a few public figures to be reassessed in the wake of accounts of sexual abuse. Similarly, disputed claims to Indigenous ancestry touted by artists including novelist Joseph Boyden and singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie have generated outrage and heartbreak among Indigenous groups and innumerable admirers, compounding generational traumas.

Call for Papers on The Beatles and Media Today

Special Issue of Rock Music Studies

Guest-edited by Shannon Howard (Auburn University Montgomery), Tom Grochowski (St. Joseph’s University, NY) and Richard D. Driver (McLennan Community College) 

From the iconic Orient Express to the shadowy alleys of urban noir, and to the contemporary invisible highways of cyberspace, transportation and mobility have long played an important role in crime fiction. Traditional detective fiction often relied on transportation as both setting and symbol, underscoring how mobility can conceal, isolate, or reveal, shaping the very structure of mystery and detection. In the digital age, mobility is no longer confined to physical movement; it also encompasses virtual travel, data flows, and algorithmic surveillance.

INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

TENNYSON 2026: ECOLOGY, LANDSCAPE, ENVIRONMENT

LINCOLN, UK, 14-17TH JULY 2026

**Deadline for Abstracts (300 w max.) and Bio (150 w max.)**

31 JANUARY 2026

 Edited by Professor Meenakshi Bharat (University of Delhi) and Dr. Blythe Worthy (University of Sydney)
Under preparation for submission to the ReFocus: International Directors series, Edinburgh University Press

Call for papers

29 July 2025

Special Issue: Contemporary India and Hindi Cinema

Journal: Women Studies International Forum

Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/324617/contemporary-india-and-hindi-cinema

Submission of abstracts: 30 September 2025

Submission of full manuscript: 31 July 2026

Abstract

Concept Note & CFP on

Crisis and Hope in Contemporary South Asia

Crisis can be understood as any event or a series of events that disrupts, destabilizes, and threatens the everyday individual, social, and political order, leading to moments of transition and transformation that are often challenging to comprehend. The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented accruement of crises on a planetary scale manifesting as economic and environmental exploitation, geopolitical conflicts, pandemics and public health emergencies, and financial and economic turmoil, making the world an increasingly volatile and uncertain space.

ASANOR biannual conference 2026
June 4-6, Kristiansand, Norway CONSTITUTING THE US IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Proposal deadline: October 15, 2025

https://asanor.org/2026-conference/

The 2026 American Studies Association of Norway Conference looks back to its early years for inspiration. The very first themed ASANOR seminar was titled “The Bicentennial of the US Constitution.” Many years later we return to this document, not only to revisit its cultural and historical significance but also to ask what it means to invoke the Constitution now, in a time of intensifying democratic crisis and rising illiberalism.

Call for Proposals: Edited volume on screenwriter, actor, director, and comedienne Elaine May

SCREEN STORYTELLERS

The Works of Elaine May

Edited by Jonathan Winchell

This edited volume on the works of Elaine May will be a book in the SCREEN STORYTELLERS series published by Bloomsbury Academic. Seeking 250-word abstracts for previously unpublished chapters on Elaine May’s work as a screenwriter and comedy writer. Final chapters will be 3,000-3,500 words, written for an audience of student readers.

RSA 2026

San Francisco - February 19–21, 2026

Reimagining Disability through “Disability Intimacy”

Relatable! Exploring Difference & Relationality in Creative Writing Studies (CFP)

Proposal Deadline: September 5th, 2025

Conference Dates: November 7th & 8th, 2025

The Creative Writing Studies Organization is now accepting proposals for our online fall conference, to be held the weekend of November 7, 2025. In holding our conference virtually in alternating years, we hope to continue building Creative Writing Studies scholarship across borders and time zones while maintaining the felt benefits of in-person gatherings. This year, the CWSC seeks proposals that help us expand and refine our understandings of relationality.