The Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies publishes interdisciplinary and cross-cultural articles and interviews on literature, history, politics, and art whose focus, settings, or subjects involve colonialism and its aftermath, with an emphasis on the former British Empire.

James Baldwin ends his “Open Letter to My Sister, Angela Y. Davis” about her imprisonment, the health of the country, and the responsibility of intellectuals, with the assertion that: 

If we know, and do nothing, we are worse than the murderers hired in our name. If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own—which it is—and render impassable with our bodies the corridor to the gas chamber. For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.

How might scholarship today render such corridors impassable? What is our responsibility, and what are we willing to risk? 

Apologies for crossposting.

Call for Papers: Journal of Contemporary Painting Special Issue & Symposium

Special Issue: ‘Conversations between Painting, Fashion and Textiles’

One-day symposium: ‘Painted Garments’

Friday 22 May 2026

The Hub, Camberwell College of Arts, Bonar Road, London SE15 5FB

Keynote: Delaine Le Bas

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-contemporary-painting#call-for-papers

Deadlines

The Cambridge Handbook of Postcolonial Law and Literature is a collection of essays analyzing the relationship between English Common Law and Anglophone literature in the colonial and postcolonial world. The collection is largely complete, but can accommodate a few more essays.   The editors particularly welcome submissions on Disability Studies, Ecological Studies, and/or essays that focus on the Caribbean.  

This year’s ICSAH meeting approaches the Art of Mediation as a framework for understanding cross-cultural interaction in history. Throughout time, individuals, institutions, communities, and cultural forms—ranging from language and performance to visual and material culture—have acted as mediators between societies. In negotiating religious difference, political conflict, economic rivalry, and artistic exchange, they shaped the shared spaces where civilisations met, interacted, and coexisted.

CFP for Special Issue in IMAGO MUNDI: The International Journal for the History of Cartography

“Maps and the Imagination”

In light of the ongoing “cartographic turn” in literary studies and recent critical attempts to

“remap” the field of cartographic history, we are seeking contributions for a special issue that

examines the relationship between maps (from historical prints to digital creations) and the

imagination (from the impact of maps on literary and visual arts to earthworks and new media).

Following the growing interest in cartographic imaginaries, documented, for example, in studies

The Cultural Studies Cell

Department of English and Cultural Studies, Central Campus

In collaboration with

Department of Media Studies, Central Campus

CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore

Organizes

An International Conference (Hybrid)on

Urban/Media Infrastructures

March 5-7, 2026

Call for Expressions of Interest: Book Reviews Editor for The London Journal

The London Journal is seeking expressions of interest for the role of Joint Book Reviews Editor.

This role will cover the period from roughly 1800 to the present, joining Kirstin Barnard, who covers the medieval and early modern periods. The Book Reviews Editors are full members of the Editorial Board.

POSTHUMANISM AND CONTEMPORARY ARTISTIC PRACTICES 

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM 7-8 May 2026

Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre

Gedimino Ave. 42, 01110 Vilnius, Lithuania

Call for Papers: Elizabeth von Arnim and Pomerania EXTENDED DEADLINE

Institute of Literature and New Media at the University of Szczecin, Poland invites you to take part in the international academic conference on the 160th anniversary of the birth and 85th anniversary of the death of the author Elizabeth von Arnim and Pomerania

6-7 June 2026

Confirmed plenary speakers:
Dr Jennifer Shepherd, The Open University Belfast, Northern Ireland
prof. Noreen O’Connor, King’s College, Pennsylvania, USA

The next Conference on John Milton will be held at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT from 22–24 October 2026.

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers addressing any aspect of Milton's life or work, including papers that explore connections between Milton and other writers or artists of the time period (or beyond). Proposals for panels or sessions are also welcome.

Please send abstracts of 150–200 words along with a CV to jason_kerr@byu.edu by 31 January 2026. UPDATE: the submission deadline has been extended to 2 March 2026.

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.

“Global Early Modern Environmental Crises: Modes of Extraction, Settler Colonialism, and Empire” 

The Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) is putting together a guaranteed MLA panel for the 2027 Annual Convention in Los Angeles, CA, USA (7-10 January) on global early modern environmental crises with a focus on human interactions with the earth tied to imperial pursuits, settler colonialism, conflicts in worldviews, and methods of extraction. We hope to feature scholars with expertise in different linguistic traditions to foster cross-cultural discussions. 

Possible topics include but are not limited to: 

The intersection of Rhetoric and Communication continues to attract the interest of many scholars, particularly within the fields of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The scope of analysis is wide-ranging, encompassing literature and culture, language studies and advertising, communication studies and politics, among other domains.

Inspired by the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s 2025 exhibition From Haworth to Eternity,

Brontë Studies invites new and original articles of no more than 7,500 words that respond to the theme of ‘the Brontës and adaptation’ across film, screen, and the visual and performing arts—including digital, transmedia, and other emerging media forms. The special issue will be published in 2027.

Event Date & Location: October 16th – 18th, 2026, at the Hilton Peachtree City, 2443 HWY 54 West, Peachtree City, Georgia, 30269

Deadline for Submissions: Friday, May 1, 2026

Name of Organization: Multiverse Convention

Organization Website: https://www.multiversecon.org

Contact Email: Kenneth Broome, Jr., Learn@Multiversecon.org

CONVENTION THEME:

Women, Literature and Art in Republican China

A Special Issue in Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 57, nos. 1-8 [TBD], 2028

Abstracts Due: April 1, 2026

Manuscripts Due: October 30, 2026

Special Issue Editor(s): Lang Wang and Ying Xiong

Submissions Portal: par e-mail

Hotels are often the first destination of any traveler. Not just a place to unpack and sleep, they are often one’s first exposure to a new culture, a base of operations, and an enormous factor in travel experience outcomes. Given their essential role in travel, hotels especially cater to the tourism industry. In Discourses in Place (2003), Scollon and Scollon develop an important, multi-faceted framework for analyzing text in space, arguing “we can only interpret the meaning of public texts like road signs, notices and brand logos by considering the social and physical world that surrounds them” (1).

Please note this is a call for potential SITE AND PROGRAM DIRECTORS to organize the 2028 Hemingway Society Conference. We are not accepting individual paper or panel proposals at this time.

The Hemingway Society Welcomes Preliminary Site Proposals for 2028 Conference

The executive board of the Hemingway Society (hemingwaysociety.org) welcomes preliminary proposals for our 2028 international conference. Please share this call widely with your professional networks.

Teams wishing to be considered should submit to Hemingway Society President Verna Kale (vlk123@psu.edu) a letter of interest that includes the following information:

Edited Volume: Nam June Paik as a California Artist:

West Coast Experiments, Networks, and Legacies

Feminisms Against Fascism: Consortium-Wide Graduate Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

DATES: April 23 (evening) & April 24 (all day)

WHERE: Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang College of the Liberal Arts, The New School, 65 West 11th Street, New York, NY, Room B500

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Judith Butler

The Gender & Sexualities Studies Institute at The New School invites submissions for our annual, in-person convening in New York City. This year, we bring together scholars, artists, writers, activists, and students to address the topic of Feminisms Against Fascism.

DEADLINE EXTENDED to 15 February 2026

Conference: Contagion, Information, Territory

Leiden University (Leiden, the Netherlands), 17-19 June 2026

Keynote speakers:

Dr. Ramon Amaro (Design Academy Eindhoven)

Prof. Dr. Jasbir Puar (University of British Columbia)

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