Proposing a panel or panels on postmodern-era US Fiction for this year’s American Literature Association Conference, which will happen in Chicago from May 20-23.

A one-day symposium hosted by the Contemporary Intimacies, Sexualities and Genders (CISG) Research Group at Manchester Metropolitan University. 

22 April 2026 10-4, Manchester Metropolitan University, Oxford Road, Manchester, M15 6EB. 

Critical Studies on Bianca Pitzorno, edited by Anna Finozzi and Dalila Forni

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The University of British Columbia is currently seeking educational materials to populate our Pop Pedagogies Archive page. This will be an open-access resource library for educators teaching students at a variety of levels. We are looking for contributions of teaching materials relevant to the intersection of popular culture and education. Submissions can range from course syllabi to individual lesson plans and unit outlines. All contributors will retain the rights to their submitted materials. 

Humour in Arts-Based Research

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/11/22/humour-2026/

Conference Date: January 28-29, 2026

Format: Online Virtual Conference

Fees: £100 for non-members (excluding Eventbrite fees)

          15% discount for LABRC Members

 Call for Papers: 

"Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing." – Mark Twain

Call for Papers for an Anthology

“The Colours of Pride: Queer Identities in Literature and Culture”

Submit to minimelow2025@gmail.com

Submissions close on 15 January 2026

Submit your paper to: minimelow2025@gmail.com  

Papers are invited for an anthology to be brought out by a reputed international publisher on the theme, “The Colours of Pride: Queer Identities in Literature and Culture.” 

The Department of English and Communications at South Carolina State University invites proposals for 20-minute individual papers, panels of 3–4 presenters, roundtable discussions, and creative performances or multimedia presentations for the 2026 SC State Intersectional Studies Remote Conference (ISC), which will be held on Friday, March 27, 2026 via Zoom. In addition to proposals from faculty affiliated with higher education institutions, we welcome proposals from independent scholars, graduate students, and undergraduate students from all fields and disciplines. 

A small forest area that holds ecological, historical, cultural, religious and spiritual value, and is protected by the local community, can be understood as a ‘Sacred Grove’. The term ‘sacred’ signifies the importance of these groves as they protect different species despite depletion of forest areas around them. The prohibition to collect or remove any resources from these sacred groves conserve plants, parasites, animals, herbs, and even maintain the water and soil compositions (Khan et al, 2008). As a result, these sites serve as living records of geographical and ecological past, making them invaluable spaces for scientific research.

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.

In 2025, with emerging AI, FaceTime, and robot companions, we acknowledge that the future has arrived and still remains to be explored. We invite scholars, artists, and critical theorists to contribute to our annual conference celebrating Afrofuturism and the work of Gregory J. Hampton. Hampton explored how Black writers engage with identity, power, and possibility. His work has significantly shaped modern views of Black speculative fiction, Afrofuturism, and African American literary studies. Hampton's critical analyses of authors like Octavia Butler and Samuel R.

Call for Papers

Philip K. Dick at 100: Fiction, Philosophy, and Cultural Afterlives

Edited Volume (Centenary Collection)

Editor:
Ercan Gürova, Ph.D.
Ankara University, Turkey

“Under consideration for publication by a reputable international academic publisher.”

The Medieval Comics Project would like to organize a session on comics for the 46th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum to be held at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire, on Friday and Saturday, 10-11 April 2026.

Presentations can be in-person or remote. 

Possible topics might include 

• “comics” of the medieval and/or Renaissance eras

• comics adaptations of medieval and/or Renaissance literary texts

• comics depictions of medieval and/or Renaissance historical events

Call for Proposals –- Oxford Handbook of the Harlem Renaissance

Text and Texture: Rethinking Materiality in Adaptation Studies

[Edited Collection]

Concept Note

The Margaret Fuller Society invites proposals for a panel at ALA 2026 about teaching in difficult times. As we head into the spring 2026 semester—the mid-point in an academic year when students and educators read U.S. literature amidst rising book bans, closing degree programs and DEI offices, and even the dismantling of the Department of Education—many of us are facing existential crises about how to do what matters to us most. How to support our students? How to sustain our disciplines? How to teach in ways that do justice to our subjects? The most basic day-to-day parts of our teaching lives have never felt more vulnerable—or more urgent.

The Media Mapper project is accepting proposals for the Spring Semester Symposium, which will be held on April 17, 2026, at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Please submit your proposals to Ennuri Jo (ennuri.jo@asc.upenn.edu) by Monday, January 12, 2026 11:59pm EST. 

CARGC invites early-career film and media scholars, doctoral candidates, and multimodal media practitioners to try out a new digital humanities tool, Media Mapper, and present their creation to the Annenberg and the UPenn community in CARGC’s Spring Semester Symposium. 

This issue explores storytelling as a discursive practice that reimagines underground waterscapes imaginaries. In an era of rapid urbanisation, overextraction, and environmental degradation, attention to the subterranean is no longer optional but critical—both imaginatively and materially. Groundwater already supports the livelihoods of more than 1 billion urban residents in Asia and 150 million in Latin America, including those in megacities such as Beijing, Jakarta, and Mexico City, yet it remains underacknowledged and increasingly imperilled (British Geological Survey 2). Across Europe, over 15% of mapped aquifers are classified as overexploited or contaminated, representing 26% of aquifer surface area (Sentek et al.).

MEMORY

University of Virginia Department of English Graduate Symposium

March 27 & 28, 2026

This collection gathers essays centered on how the performance of early modern drama has provided a method both for engaging with the problem of tyranny and for acts of resistance across different periods and in global contexts. How can the staging of early modern drama help us better understand ideas about, and responses to, repression, persecution, totalitarianism, and opposition? In what ways do early modern plays, when performed at particular historical moments and in particular cultural contexts, provide a means both for reflecting political attitudes and anxieties and for shaping political change? What role does early modern drama in performance have to play—if any—in helping diagnose, confront, and challenge tyranny? 

This special issue of Frontiers investigates how feminism, even as a discourse of resistance, participates in hegemonic projects. We invite papers that examine the connections between feminism, conservatism, and conservative ideologies during the long twentieth century within the context of the Americas (including North, Central, and South America, the Caribbean, as well as indigenous lands and communities). We welcome crosstemporal and transgeographic approaches, since we aim to put together a comparative, humanistic interdisciplinary analysis that explores how culture articulates and mobilizes notions of femininity, conservative politics, and complex ideological affiliations in transnational, local, border, and/or oceanic frameworks.

Creativitas: Critical Explorations in Literary Studies invites scholarly contributions for its annual issue exploring the profound significance of plants to human culture, literature, history, and thought. We seek essays that examine the complex relationships between humans and botanical life from arts, humanities, and social science perspectives.

            Plant blindness remains a significant challenge in cultural representation and environmental awareness. This perceptual tendency causes us to overlook plants in favour of animal life. Yet botanical life constitutes the foundation of all terrestrial ecosystems. Plants remain central to human survival, economy, and imagination.

This conference seeks to critically investigate the potentials and pitfalls of the "material

turn" through the medium of sound. We invite submissions that test, challenge, or refine

materialist theories by examining the "acoustic state": from the state of matter in

vibration, the political State's governance of the sonic realm to the affect of the social.

The recent "material turn" challenges us to reconsider the foundations of the

humanities, the production of the voice, [anti/]biography of bodies (human or

non-human; musical or otherwise), embodiment and the social and politicized

The Charles Olson Society will sponsor a session at the upcoming ALA Conference, to be held in Chicago, May 20th – 23rd.