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International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies
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Scope
The End: Reclaiming the Beginning
Dates: December 17–19, 2026
Venue: Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea
Host: The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK)
Keynote Speakers
Why does it seem so productive today to be simultaneously the subject and object of one’s writing? This workshop starts from the premise that certain writing and artistic practices position the theorizing self as a mediator between the subject and larger scales of social organization.
Conference: 18-19 June 2026
in person (Gdańsk, Poland) and online
CFP:
How do we remember and represent our migration experiences? Who is involved in these processes? How does history remember these events? What helps migrants and societies to adapt? The significance of these and related questions have made their way into our daily lives, from the refugee crisis to policy decisions, individual psychotherapy to (re)building identities, communities, and memories.
Ecology and the Human Being in German Literature and Other Media (planned, 2026)
Book Series: Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology
About the Series
The book series Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology, published by Istanbul University Press, is dedicated to interdisciplinary research in German literary and cultural studies. It brings together approaches from literary studies, cultural studies, media studies, philosophy, history, and related disciplines, with the aim of rethinking German philology in dialogue with contemporary theoretical and societal debates.
Published and forthcoming volumes include:
Special Issue: Journal of Modern Periodical Studies: Wartime Periodicals
Co-edited by Sarah Cornish, Paula Derdiger, and Amanda Sigler
The Collectively Reimagining Global Politics Taft Research Group and the University of Cincinnati School of Public and International Affairs Graduate Student Association are organizing our Annual Symposium titled "Radical Hope: Reimagining Justice in Insecure and Precarious Times," March 26-27, 2026, at University of Cincinnati.
Academic Journal: Em Tese (ISSN 1982-0739)
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
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.
Editors: Federico Bertoni (University of Bologna), Gabriele D’Amato (University of L’Aquila and Ghent University), Luca Diani (University of L’Aquila), Massimo Fusillo (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
For this guaranteed session of the TC Religion and Literature forum at the January 2027 MLA convention, we invite papers focusing on literatures of migration and spirituality. Given the convention’s location in Los Angeles, we especially welcome proposals that consider authors and texts with connections to LA and the city as a site of contact, dialogue, and religious syncretism.
Papers might consider, for example:
- Memoirs of migration in place and faith
- Religious affect in literatures of exile and precarity
- Indigenous survival and reemergent spiritual practices in and around LA
- Sacred spaces and urban geography
CFP for a Special Session on "Books and Reading in Hispanic Queer Culture"2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles (7-10 January 2027) Proposals sought on the roles of books, print culture or reading in the consolidation of queer identities or communities in Spanish-speaking or Hispanic contexts. Send 200-250-word abstracts and 100-word bios. Submissions in English or Spanish are welcome.
Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Jeffrey Zamostny, Kansas State University (jzamostny@ksu.edu )
CFP: Lydia Maria Child Society
American Literature Association Conference in Chicago
20–23 May 2026 at the Palmer House
https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/
Revised Deadline: January 26, 2026
Political Rhetoric and Emotions in the Work of Lydia Maria Child
The Victorians Institute Journal (VIJ) is still accepting submissions through April 1st for Volume 53, which will be published later this year. The VIJ is an award-winning scholarly journal of Victorian and Edwardian literary and cultural studies. The VIJ publishes a variety of pieces, including articles, reviews, and rare texts. For further details on the Victorians Institute Journal, visit
Speculative Narratives Beyond Consensus Reality: Navigating the Senses from Wonder to Horror
International Interdisciplinary Conference
29th – 30th June and 1st July, 2026
Venue: Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Conference Organisers: Popular Culture Group
We invite scholars, researchers, and artists to submit abstracts for the upcoming academic conference, Speculative Narratives Beyond Consensus Reality: Navigating the Senses from Wonder to Horror. This event will explore the transformative potential of speculative narratives – across literature, film, visual arts, and other media – in breaking free from the boundaries of “consensus reality.”
The Australasian Modernist Studies Network and Modernist Studies in Asia present
JOINT AMSN / MSIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
NOVEMBER 19-21, 2026
In 1916, interviewed for the New York Times, the poet-diplomat Robert Underwood Johnson took up the “new movement” in poetry: “There is an intoxication about the way our contemporary poets fling themselves into a dauntless quest for self-expression.” “Alas!,” he went on, “this is just the trouble! For intoxication is no more desirable in poetry than in the household. Intoxication is not the state of mind in which, as Matthew Arnold says, one may ‘see life clearly and see it whole’.”
SDSU Press Presents
[caption] the journal of visual cultural studies
Issue 001 – “CAPTION THIS”
[caption] emerges from the collision of theory and spectacle. Annual, audacious, and gloriously hybrid, the journal stages encounters between scholarship and image-making—where Arbus’s restless gaze meets the ghosts of Benjamin, Mulvey, and Stuart Hall. We publish work that refuses to choose between seeing and thinking, between the archive and the avant-garde.
The Jadavpur University Sociology Consortium (JUSC) invites original papers based upon the theme of "Rethinking Development: State, Society and Consciousness" for PERSPECTIVES, a hybrid-mode paper presentation to be held as part of its annual academic conclave, Lifeworld 2025–26. Themes for the paper presentation involve, but are not limited to:
Extended Deadline: February 15, 2026!
Call for Papers
Knowledge in the Age of AI: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Learning, Writing, and Teaching
The English Graduate Organization at North Dakota State University (NDSU) invites proposals for the 2026 Red River Valley Graduate Student Conference, April 10-11, 2026, on the beautiful NDSU campus in Fargo, North Dakota.
Call for Presenters Submit to present for the 2nd Annual Black Scholars in Podcasting Virtual Conference “Picture Me Storytelling”, Saturday, March 28, 2026, 1 pm CST / 2 pm EST via Zoom. The deadline for submission is February 11, 2026, with notification expected by February 16, 2026.Please use the Google form (linked) to make your submission: https://forms.gle/7b6Bs3PUwSfWaCMv7 This is a call for active scholar podcasters, faculty who teach with podcasts, and/or whose current research agenda includes podcasting.
Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture: “Slop” and “Nostalgia”
May 14th, 2026
Virtual Mini-Conference
DLC+ is excited to announce the second installment of its Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture series, mini-conferences devoted to studying the most pressing and emerging concepts actively shaping digital literary culture.
Call for Papers: Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds
Special Issue: ‘Save State: Ethics, Politics and Poetics of Video Game Preservation’
Guest Editors: Paweł Frelik (University of Warsaw), Magdalena Kozyra (SWPS University), Tomasz Z. Majkowski (Jagiellonian University)
Important Dates
Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 March 2026
Notification of Acceptance: 10 March 2026
Full Article Submission: 15 June 2026
Peer Review Returned: 1 August 2026
Revised Article Submission: 31 August 2026
Accelerationism Revisited
15 June 2026, University College Dublin, Ireland
Guest Speaker: Hari Kunzru, interviewed by Mark O’Connell
Further speakers TBC
The recent Mandarin Chinese translation of The Canterbury Tales (Linking Publishing, 2025) by Dr. Francis K. H. So offers a timely opportunity to reflect on the growing presence, vitality, and diversity of Chaucerian studies outside the Anglophone world. This significant contribution not only opens new avenues for engaging with Geoffrey Chaucer’s language and narrative art, but also foregrounds the crucial role of translation, pedagogy, and local scholarly traditions in shaping how Chaucer is read, interpreted, and taught across different linguistic and cultural contexts.
A conference hosted by the graduate students of the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study
Keynote TBA
March 15 at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
While last year’s Media Study conference asked us to imagine artistic and research creation during the world’s prescribed end, this year we imagine methods of existing, creating, and remediating beyond our present moment.
Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism
A Transdisciplinary Conference
July 18-19, 2026
July 18: In person participation at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park (and online)
July 19: Fully online
Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/01/21/ecopoetics2026/
Fees** (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)
**Prices exclude Eventbrite fees
Call for Presentations:
In 2016, Oxford Dictionaries named “post-truth” its Word of the Year, marking a shift towards skepticism of facts and scientific institutions alongside the rising influence of emotion and opinion in shaping public knowledge. In the decade since, we have witnessed the further erosion of consensus truth as multiple constructions of the “real” proliferate throughout divergent media ecosystems, accelerated by emerging technologies and polarizing political orientations towards race, gender, class, and sexuality.
The Dos Passos Society has extended the deadline for its 2026 biennial conference in Posta do Sol, Madeira, by one week to February 8th. We do hope you will join us in Madeira this May for a celebration of the life and works of one of America's greatest chroniclers of the twentieth century.
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The John Dos Passos Society is proud to announce its 2026 biennial conference in Ponta do Sol, Madeira Island, Portugal. The conference will be held at the John Dos Passos Cultural Center in the municipality of Ponta do Sol, the home of the author's Portuguese ancestors.
Chapters for The Handbook of Ecofeminism
deadline for submissions: February 13, 2026
full name / name of organization: Nicole C. Dittmer, PhD
contact email: ncdittmer@gmail.com
In 1974, Françoise d’Eaubonne coined the term ecofeminism in Le féminisme ou la mort, foregrounding the intertwined domination of women and nature and calling for the liberation of both from systems of exploitation. Since its emergence, ecofeminism has inspired scholars and activists across disciplines and global contexts.
International Journal of Education (IJE)
ISSN : 2348 - 1552
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***JanuaryIssue***
Scope
Jürgen Habermas suggested that it is through communicative action, that is reasoned and open discourse, that we transmit, change, and recreate cultural knowledge, and that in so-doing we can achieve mutual understanding.
Communicative action and communicative rationality are self-reflexive dialogues through which we can learn from others, question dominant paradigms, and advocate for cultural change.
International Symposium: SDGs through Hindu Worldviews – Spiritual Care in a VUCA–BANI World
February 25–26, 2026 | IIT (BHU), Varanasi | Hybrid (Online + Offline)
International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education (IJITE)
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****** JanuaryIssue******
Scope
Our present conjuncture demands urgent engagement with the now of gender. Authoritarian resurgence, border militarization, algorithmic
governance, climate precarity, and uneven recoveries from overlapping pandemics shape how gender is lived, and resisted across diverse contexts: from settler colonial democracies to postcolonial nation-states and stateless territories. Anti-trans legislation, family policing, and reproductive surveillance intensify biopolitical control, while migration regimes, humanitarian aid economies, and asylum adjudication render certain genders and kinship forms precariously provisional.
Concept Note
Crossroads of Literary Creation:
Fact, Fiction, and Everything In-between
A Transdisciplinary Conference
Online, February 11-12, 2026
Conference page: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/12/06/crossroads-of-literary-creation/
Participation fee: £100
Prices exclude eventbrite fees
Call for Papers:
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie” – Stephen King
“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.” – Doris Lessing
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of the most adapted, parodied, and referenced works of Gothic fiction. Even those who have never read the novella know the “story,” or at least the twist: Henry Jekyll becomes Edward Hyde to live a double life, disconnected from societal pressures and expectations. Many, if not all, of these media adaptations add, edit, or remove elements from the story, making it a hybrid narrative, one part Stevenson’s and one part the adapter’s.
In a Conference Far, Far Away…Traversing Forms of the Folkloric (Graduate Student Conference)
New York University: Friday, May 1, 2026
Circus Historical Society Convention 2026
The 2026 Circus Historical Society Convention will be held in Baraboo Wisconsin from June 10 – 13, 2026. Convention will conclude with Baraboo’s Big Top Parade. Registration and other information will be available soon.
Call for Papers
Proposals are now being accepted for Convention presentations on any subject related to circus history. We invite proposals for single speakers and groups. All proposals must be received using the online form by March 31, 2026. Visit https://circushistory.org/next-convention/ to submit your proposal today.
2026 CHS Student Prize
Conference online (via Zoom): 12-13 March 2026
CFP:
Centre for Comparative Literature, Bhasha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati,
in collaboration with
Department of Yogic Art and Science, Vinaya Bhavana, Visva-Bharati
presents
Of Clay and Dust
6 days extensive body movement workshop
Body awareness
Narrative based movements
Body conditioning
Introduction to Odissi with marshal arts like Mayurbhanj Chhau and Kalaripayattu
Introduction to basic Abhinaya
How to work with musicians and script
How to develop performance
Facilitated by Monami Nandy
February 16-21, 2026
Venue: Dhyana Kutir, Yoga Village Premises, Vinaya Bhavana, Visva-Bharati
“Unfinished Declarations: Independence, Identity, and Imagination in American Culture”
Hosted by the Irish Association for American Studies
Date: 24th and 25th April 2026
Location: Ulster University, Coleraine Campus, Northern Ireland
Miloš Forman: Between Europe and Hollywood
Symposium organized by the Department of Theatre and Film Studies, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Friday, April 24, 2026
Univerzitní 3, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Our conference theme, “All Things Made New: Creation, Re-creation, and Redemption,” aims to explore the multifaceted dimensions of the creative and re-creative acts embedded in our discipline practices and the works we study. As a number of Christian scholars have pointed out, reading and writing literature is one way we can carry out our responsibility to establish a world that pleases and praises God by cultivating its potential. Just as Adam and Eve cultivated the fruits of the Garden of Eden, so are we to cultivate the talents and abilities God has given us in all areas: technology, literature, art, music, science, social and political structures, etc.
Global Perestroika and Soviet Literatures
Conference and Subsequent Edited Volume
University of Dresden, March 18–21, 2027
Organizers:
Klavdia Smola (Technology University of Dresden)
Naomi Caffee (Reed College)
Zachary Hicks (UC Berkeley)
Endnotes is the annual graduate conference of the Department of English Language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, which is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam First Nation. The English Graduate Caucus invites proposal submissions for presentations, panels, and creative or multidisciplinary works on the theme of Environment, Extraction, Evolution.
“What do I want from literature, anyway?
A new way of living, a new way to talk
About the trees that doesn’t endanger them”
- Billy-Ray Belcourt, “Endnotes”
29th Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference
University of Mississippi
August 8th—9th, 2026
Call for Submissions
Supernatural South(s): The Monstrous, The Fantastic, The Grotesque, The Speculative and So On…
The Southern Writers/Southern Writing Conference (SW/SW) is an interdisciplinary conference, welcoming graduate students, creative writers, activists, and community members with interest in the U.S. or Global South from all departments and fields of study. The 29th meeting of SW/SW will be held at the University of Mississippi from August 8th-August 9th, 2026.
CFP: “American Carnage”
Canadian Association for American Studies, October 23-25, 2026 (In person at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
“Channels and Chokepoints: Tracing the Pathways of Long Nineteenth-Century Indian Fiction”
Sponsored by the NAVSA Empire & Colonialism Caucus