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The 2027 LSU Mardi Gras Conference
Geography of Liminality: Interdisciplinary Folk
“It’s a difficult thing to separate legend from story from memory from fact.”
Editors Introduction:
While John Carpenter’s Halloween catapulted the slasher subgenre to the front of popular culture, Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th (1980) cemented the formula with a higher body count and an increased focus on sex, violence, and gore. Alongside Black Christmas, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Halloween, the Friday the 13th series helped establish many of the conventions that fans are now accustomed to, and its first sequel introduced an iconic killer with Jason Voorhees. The success of the original film led to a franchise comprised of twelve theatrical films as of 2026, in addition to a short film released in 2025 and a 2026 television series.
Session for NeMLA 58th Conference Seeking Papers
We often think of community through a positive lens, but is community always a force for good? How might “community” be simulated, commodified, branded, weaponized, or made into a technology for compliance? Why does the vulnerability to authentic communities matter now in a world where technology has made connection more accessible than ever?
Call For Papers: ASLE 2027, “Territory, Terroir, Terror” 22-24 June 2027. University of Maryland, College Park.
Seminar Title: Extraterrestrial Evolutions: Posthuman Subjectivity and Alien Ecologies
Contact: D.E. St. John, University of Alabama in Huntsville, dej0009@uah.edu
Edited volume proposed for Manchester University Press's French Film Directors series
I am seeking two additional contributors for an edited volume devoted to the work of French filmmaker Nicole Garcia, currently in preparation for submission to Manchester University Press's French Film Directors series. The series editors have already expressed strong interest in the project.
Environmental Hope: Genres and Methods
Environmental humanists and literary scholars have many genres for theorizing environmental fear, injustice, despair, or pessimism. Environmental gothic, noir, picaresque, horror, and crime fiction are all genres theoretically defined by and committed to engaging with exploitation and terror in historically and formally specific ways. And the hermeneutic of suspicion, devoted to diagnosing and revealing obscured forces and causes, is especially attuned to those that produce systemic violence. We know how to read for necropolitics, colonialism and neocolonialism, anti-Blackness, objectification, and misogyny.
INAUGURAL INTER-HUMANITIES SYMPOSIUM AT FSU
“Borderless World: Text, Image, and Sound”
Florida State University, Tallahassee
April 1-2, 2027
Conference Theme: Gateways
For its 2027 annual conference, the College English Association (CEA) invites proposals for papers and panels that explore the theme of “Gateways” and their significance in literature, criticism, and pedagogy.
Call for Papers: Special Topic "The Profession" at CEA 2027
Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri
The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel
Call for Chapters
Architectures of Deceit: Fraud, Imposture, and Deception in Contemporary Screen Culture
(under consideration byEdinburgh University Press)
Narrative is among the most enduring and adaptive structures of human meaning-making. Across millennia, it has evolved from oral performance and manuscript cultures to print, cinema, broadcast television, digital platforms, and now algorithmically curated streaming environments and AI-assisted compositions.
Call For Papers
The Game Studies area of the National Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association Conference invites proposals for papers and panels on games and game studies for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference to be held on March 24-27, in Boston. The deadline for proposals is October 31. Please note this is earlier than previous years.
I. Topics of Interest
The organizers seek proposals and papers covering all aspects of gaming, gaming culture and game studies. Proposals can address any game medium (computer, social, console, tabletop, etc.) and all theoretical and methodological approaches are welcome.
Call for Chapters
Architectures of Deceit: Fraud, Imposture, and Deception in Contemporary Screen Culture
(under consideration byEdinburgh University Press)
Resources for American Literary Study (Penn State UP), a peer-reviewed journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship in American literature, invites submissions for our upcoming 2027 issues. Covering all periods and genres of American literature, RALS welcomes both traditional and digital approaches to archival and bibliographical analysis. We also welcome proposals for our "Prospects" series in which scholars forecast future developments (and identify scholarly gaps) in the study of major authors.
Instructions for submissions may be found @ http://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_rals.html.
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Mystery, Suspense, and True Crime for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
Art and/as Knowledge in American Contexts
Special Issue of the Polish Journal for American Studies
This special issue asks what American art knows – and how that knowledge is produced.
Theme: Technology, Ecology and Extinction: Narratives of Survival and Loss
Date: 5-6 March 2027, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Organisers: Symbiosis Centre for Media and Communication (SCMC), Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India
Abstract:
We would like to invite you to join and contribute to the 2nd Shapeshifters Symposium: Plasticity – Here, There, and Everywhere. This symposium brings together people interested in plasticity from a broad range of perspectives, from the natural and formal sciences to the social sciences, humanities, and art. During the symposium, we hope to further expand the concept of plasticity across disciplines.
Who are we? We are a group of interdisciplinary researchers working on the concept of plasticity, sponsored by the DutchCentre for Unusual Collaborations.
Date & Venue
19th – 21st November 2026, Utrecht, The Netherlands
The Winter's Tale: From Page to Stage
IASEMS Tempera Seminar 2027 University of Padova, Department of Language and Literary Studies, 7-9 June 2027
Convenors: Rocco Coronato, Alice Equestri, Alessandra Petrina
Scientific Committee: Rocco Coronato, Alice Equestri, Alessandra Petrina, and the IASEMS Executive Board
A Writer’s Palette: Colour in Late Modernist Literature
Special Issue CfP for Textual Practice
Guest Editors for the Special Issue
Carlos André Cordeiro de Oliveira (Federal Institute of Paraiba, Brazil)
Alfredo Adolfo Cordiviola (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)
Danielle Grace de Almeida (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)
Nishat Zaidi (Jamia Millia Islamia Central University, NewDelhi, India)
Paul Melo e Castro (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
In the 2000s and 2010s, social networking facilitated citizen-based activism of enormous significance like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo. But in the 2020s, corporate enshittification and government surveillance have restricted the reach of social networking tools. For example, Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter meant that many users left X rather than adapt their activist practices to the restrictive corporate environment (Tenbarge & Collier 2024). Instances such as the Trump administration’s use of social media posts to target international students during the Gaza protests caused many users to avoid social media altogether (Lonas Cochran 2025).
Call for Papers: Creative Writing at CEA 2027
Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri
The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Creative Writing for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities is a new peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of cultural and social issues related to complex cosmopolitan identities arising from mobile global childhoods which transcend conventional categories of migrancy and diaspora.
AI & Antiquity: Journal of Teaching and Technology in Ancient Studies invites contributions for its first Special Issue, Playing Antiquity: Video Games, Teaching and Historical Knowledge, to be published in June 2027.
Video games have become one of the major environments through which students and wider audiences encounter the ancient world. Yet their significance for Ancient Studies extends beyond questions of historical accuracy. Through mechanics, rules, maps, narratives, economies, political systems, and player choice, games transform particular interpretations of Antiquity into interactive and playable systems.
June, 17th and 18th 2027, Université de Rouen-Normandie
Storyworlds is an interdisciplinary journal of narrative studies. We publish cutting-edge research on storytelling practices across times, cultures, and media. The journal foregrounds research questions that cut across established disciplines and seeks to promote the understanding of narrative and storytelling as worldmaking—and worldbreaking—practices.
We currently have a number of books available or forthcoming for review.
The SMU Conference on AI-Era Teaching: Innovative Pedagogy and Reimagined Classrooms will take place at South Mediterranean University, Tunisia. This research-oriented event brings together scholars, educators, instructional designers, and researchers to explore evidence-based pedagogical innovation in technology-mediated and AI-enhanced learning environments. This conference provides an international platform to present academic research, foster interdisciplinary dialogue, and advance collaboration on the future of teaching and learning in the AI era.
AI and Sovereignty
Artificial intelligence is transforming the conditions through which power is exercised, distributed, and legitimized. The development and deployment of AI systems involve not only technological questions, but also fundamental issues concerning language, communication, authority, identity, autonomy, control, and sovereignty.
Hindutva and Capitalism in Contemporary India
Caste and Capitalism in Contemporary India
Animal Studies Across Disciplines Symposium
April 7th-April 9th 2027
Arizona State University
Polytechnic Campus
Call for Papers: Mystery, Suspense, and True Crime at CEA 2027
Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri
The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Mystery, Suspense, and True Crime for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
The Gothic Servant
deadline for submissions:
September 29, 2026
contact email:
full name / name of organization:
NeMLA
Conference will take place March 6-9, 2027 at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island
“Borderless World: Text, Image, and Sound”
Florida State University, Tallahassee
April 1-2, 2027
How do we imagine life beyond borders? How do disparate texts, images, sounds, bodies, languages, and histories become interconnected? What does it mean to inhabit a world where boundaries are unstable, permeable, or altogether absent? Conversely, how are borders constantly produced, negotiated, and challenged through acts of creation, interpretation, and community-building?
Call for Papers: Mystery, Suspense, and True Crime at CEA 2027
Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri
The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Mystery, Suspense, and True Crime for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
Call for Papers
The BCPS Conference, inaugurated in 1992, is the oldest and longest-running annual meeting of its kind in the U.S. We call for presentations situated in colonial and postcolonial histories, literatures, creative and performing arts, politics, economics, and all other aspects of the countries formerly colonized by Britain and other European powers.
Please join us at Georgia Southern University's Armstrong Campus in Savannah for the critical engagement, friendly community, and vibrant network that has been a hallmark of the BCPS Conference for over three decades.
We invite proposals situated in both thematic and geographic areas, including:
Travelling Cultural Heritage
Circulation and Digital Afterlives
Call for PapersCultural Heritage Lab International Conference4th edition
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
December 10-11, 2026
Call for Papers: BIPOC & Asian American Literature at CEA 2027 (4/1-4/3/27)
Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri
The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on BIPOC & Asian American Literature for our 2027 conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
International Workshop: Decolonising Utopia? Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives
5-6 February, Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus
How does financialization shift our relationship to the future? And what new insights emerge when we decenter northern approaches in our analysis?
Storyworlds is an interdisciplinary journal of narrative studies. We publish cutting-edge research on storytelling practices across times, cultures, and media. The journal foregrounds research questions that cut across established disciplines and seeks to promote the understanding of narrative and storytelling as worldmaking—and worldbreaking—practices.
We currently have a number of books available or forthcoming for review.
CFP for Futures of Memory Conference 2027
Performing the Past, Witnessing (for) the Future: Memory in the Posthumanist Era
This peer-reviewed fast-track collection seeks to publish innovative approaches to teaching Aphra Behn’s work, building on existing critical and pedagogical scholarship.
We do invite essays on Behn’s most-taught work, Oroonoko, but we aim particularly to give sustained attention to the full range of her literary life, and are especially interested in proposals about works that have been shown to be amenable to modern undergraduate teaching: the plays, the shorter fiction, the poems.
PKMS Graduate Student Conference and Workshop: Dinner Party Medieval Studies
Thursday, February 18 – Friday, February 19 2027
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Postcolonial Interventions invites scholarly articles for the January 2027 issue on the theme of Popular Culture and the Rise of the Right.
The 34th Annual NINE Spring Training Conference (March 3-6, 2027) invites original unpublished papers that study all aspects of baseball, with particular emphasis on history, literature, and social policy implications. Abstracts only, not to exceed 300 words, should be submitted by December 4, 2026, to co-directors Willie Steele (wdsteele@lipscomb.edu) and David Pegram (david.pegram@paradisevalley.edu) for the abstract committee’s consideration. We ask that you please copy your submission to both of us.
This is the second call for papers for the 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 first call for papers generated a strong response and resulted in a number of high-quality contributions. During the review process, however, it became clear that several important dimensions of contemporary visual propaganda remained underrepresented. To address these gaps, we are issuing a second call for papers and expanding the historical timeframe under consideration from 2020 onwards to 2014 onwards.
We would like to invite you to join and contribute to the 2nd Shapeshifters Symposium: Plasticity – Here, There, and Everywhere. This symposium brings together people interested in plasticity from a broad range of perspectives, from the natural and formal sciences to the social sciences, humanities, and art. During the symposium, we hope to further expand the concept of plasticity across disciplines.
Who are we? We are a group of interdisciplinary researchers working on the concept of plasticity, sponsored by the Dutch Centre for Unusual Collaborations.
Date & Venue
Call for Chapters: Digital Assessment Ecosystems and Learning Analytics
Book Title: Digital Assessment Ecosystems and Learning Analytics: Bridging Pedagogical Evaluation and Social Equity Publisher: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
An International Conference on Climate Change and Epistemic Recovery: Indigenous Pathways
Submission of abstract: 1 October 2026
Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2026
Organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, in academic collaboration with the Department of English, Bodoland University, Kokrajhar
Concept Note: