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EDITORS: Jodi Byrd (University of Chicago), Kimberly Anne Coles (University of Maryland), Sharon P. Holland (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Greta LaFleur (Yale University)
RECLAIMING THE FRAME: BLACK CREATORS TRANSFORMING TELEVISION AND FILM UTILIZING A BELL HOOKS’ LOVE ETHIC
Deadline for abstract submissions: November 15, 2025
McFarland and Company, Publishers, Inc.
Contact email: DrLTbooks@gmail.com
Call for Abstracts: Reclaiming the Frame: Black Creators transforming television and Film utilizing a bell hooks’ Love Ethic
Collection Editor: LaToya T. Brackett, PhD
This year’s MCLLM theme invites exploration of how literature, language, and performance illuminate intersecting dimensions of justice. How are inherited forms, genres, and rhetorical strategies reactivated in contemporary struggles for equity? In what ways do linguistic, literary, and artistic practices navigate, resist, and respond to the abuse of power while imagining alternative futures?
MCLLM welcomes proposals from a wide range of disciplines and expression forms. The list below provides a sense of the topics the organizers are interested in seeing, but it is not an all-inclusive list. Please submit a proposal that represents your interpretation of our theme!
Petrocultures 2026: Situating Energy
TUD Dresden University of Technology
Aug 26-28, 2026
Submission Deadline for Abstracts: December 31, 2025
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Alexander A. Dunlap (Boston University), Jordan B. Kinder (NYU Steinhardt), Kathryn Yusoff (Queen Mary University of London)
Targeted CFP: Routledge International Handbook of Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms
Targeted Call For Papers
Routledge International Handbook of Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms
Co-edited by: Ela Przybyło (Illinois State University) and Yo-Ling Chen (Independent Scholar)
Deadline for abstracts: November 15, 2025 Contact email: globalacearo(at)gmail(dot)com
Cultures of violence and female resistance: receptions of ancient Greek myths from the 14th to the 21st century, in Europe and beyond
International conference • ERC AGRELITA
June 10-12, 2026 at the University of Caen Normandie
Call for papers
Call for Papers and Talks
Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm & Uppsala University, Sweden
22-23 April, 2026
Comics and Machines
Steering Committee:
Jan Baetens, Jaqueline Berndt, Jan von Bonsdorff, Gareth Brookes, Benoît Crucifix, Björn-Olav Dozo, Anna Foka, Isabelle Gribomont, Andre Holzapfel, Per Israelson, Gaëtan Le Coarer, Ilan Manouach, Pedro Moura, Everardo Reyes, Keith Tillford, Ray Whitcher
Call for Papers
MATHEMATICS AND ENGINEERING
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025
The Mind and the Machine: Mental Disability and Technology
George Washington University (GWU) English Graduate Student Association Symposium
Friday, 20 March, 2026
This virtual symposium invites papers that explore how mental disability and technology intersect in literature, film, and media.
By mental disability, we include conditions such as mental illness, neurodivergence, emotional distress, and psychological differences as represented across cultures.
By technology, we refer broadly to scientific, digital, or mechanical systems (such as medical instruments, typewriters, social media, surveillance systems, and artificial intelligence).
The Seventh International Deleuze and Guattari Studies in India Collective (DGSIC) Conference
February 25-28, 2026
“Culture without Organs (CWO): Machinic Thought, Transdisciplinary Assemblages, and Cartographies of Difference”
Organized by
Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
in collaboration with
Deleuze and Guattari Studies in India Collective (DGSIC)
The School for International Training (SIT) invites proposals from researchers and scholars to contribute to a roundtable discussion focused on the following areas: climate and the environment; development and inequality; education and social change; geopolitics and power; global health and well-being; identity and human resilience; and peace and justice.
14th Annual ESPRit conference: “Periodicals and the World”
9-11 September 2026, Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), Brussels
https://events.vub.be/periodicals-and-the-world
AI and Shakespeare: A British Shakespeare Association Virtual Conference: CFP
ALA Symposium “American Poetry” (March 27-28, 2026)
The recently formed Society for the Study of American Poetry will hold its second conference in partnership with the American Literature Association (ALA) from March 27–28, 2026, at the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Massachusetts. Organized by Dr. Alfred Bendixen (Princeton University), the gathering will feature a keynote address by Dr. Evie Shockley (Rutgers University), Director of Creative Writing and Writers House and Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English.
The Mind and the Machine: Mental Disability and Technology
George Washington University (GWU) English Graduate Student Association Symposium
Friday, 20 March, 2026
This virtual symposium invites papers that explore how mental disability and technology intersect in literature, film, and media.
By mental disability, we include conditions such as mental illness, neurodivergence, emotional distress, and psychological differences as represented across cultures.
By technology, we refer broadly to scientific, digital, or mechanical systems (such as medical instruments, typewriters, social media, surveillance systems, and artificial intelligence).
This call solicits essays for a critical collection provisionally titled, Other Mothers. The book seeks to update scholarship on mothers-in-the-academy from both critical perspectives on maternal theory as well as sociological frameworks. "Other mothers" might include mothers who have adopted, mothers who do not have residential custody of their children, women who have experienced fertility challenges, surrogate mothers, mothers utilizing surrogates, mothers with chronically ill children, mothers grieving the loss of children, and all others who face challenges outside the scope of traditional white, heterosexual, cisgender motherhood that have previously framed this discourse (in texts such as Mama PhD, Maternal Theory, etc).
Our moment is one in which information literacy is an increasingly vital skill. As misinformation invades everything from hallucinatory AI-generated online search results, to fallacious social media posts, to official statements from the highest levels of government, the ability to discern between facts, fiction, and opinion is as important as ever. Yet, as history reveals, our times are not entirely unprecedented. In particular, African Americans have long dealt with lies about who we are similarly promoted at every societal level.
Dear Colleagues,
The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at The Ohio State University is pleased to announce an upcoming conference as part of our biannual celebration of Popular Culture and the Deep Past (PCDP) in 2026. We warmly invite abstracts exploring topics related to medieval and Renaissance astrology and astronomy.Call for PapersStar Gazing: Astrology and Astronomy in the Medieval and Renaissance ImaginationPopular Culture and the Deep Past 2026
April 10-11, 2026
Online via Zoom & Ohio Union - The Ohio State University
The submission deadline for abstracts and panel proposals is December 19, 2025.
The Medievalism in Popular Culture Area (including Early to Later Middle Ages, Robin Hood, Arthurian Legend, Chaucer, Norse, and other materials connected to medieval studies) accepts papers on all topics that explore either popular culture during the Middle Ages or transcribe some aspect of the Middle Ages into the popular culture of later periods. These representations can occur in any genre, including film, television, novels, graphic novels, gaming, advertising, art, etc. For this year’s conference, I would like to encourage submissions on some of the following topics:
The American Academy of Religion, Western Region (AAR-WR) 2026 Annual Conference will be held in person, with some hybrid capabilities.
Call for Papers for a in person panel on 21st Century Latinx Children’s Literature and Media at the 2026 Annual MELUS Conference scheduled for Thursday, April 30 - Saturday, May 2, 2026.
According to the last three U.S. Census reports, the demographic of Latinx/Hispanic children has grown. Most recently, Latinx children account for about 1 in 4 of all children in the United States.
R. Murray Schafer: Reassessing His Work and Legacy
Eric Schmaltz, Dalhousie University, schmaltzeric@gmail.com Shannon Brown, Dalhousie University, slbrown@dal.ca
This special issue seeks to examine Indian science fiction and speculative fiction in general, as a critical archive where postcolonial enunciations of ‘space’ are actively produced, contested and reimagined through a variety of cultural texts. Our objective is to open a conversation about the overarching genre of Indian postcolonial Science Fiction and the way it interacts with the concept of ‘space’-- literal and/or cultural.
Co-editors Heather M. Porter and Michael Starr invite proposals or completed essays for an edited collection of scholarly works that explore the ground-breaking HBO series Sex and the City(1998 -2004) along with shows that came before and after, including the divisive …And Just Like That (2022-2025) which has just finished its three-season run. Proposals should demonstrate a clear methodology and strong thesis and a familiarity with prior and current conversations and publications concerning the series, and any incorporated series. The collection seeks to showcase a range of theoretical lenses; we are hence interested in diverse disciplinary approaches concerning a wide variety of topics.
“American Shorts 2026” will take place on October 29-31, 2026, at the School of Arts & Humanities of the University of Lisbon, Portugal.
American Shorts 2026 webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/americanshorts2026
Submission deadline: 10 June, 2026
Conference: 29-31 October, 2026
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
We live in a time marked by uncertainty, yet such historical junctures are not unprecedented. The 1980s likewise represented a period of profound instability and transition across multiple regions. In Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, this decade culminated in the fall of socialism, while in China it witnessed the transformation of Maoism into what became known as “socialism with Chinese characteristics.” These developments reoriented all the societies in question from relative cultural isolation to increasingly market-oriented and globally integrated economies in the 1990s.
Call for Book Chapters
Editors:
Dr. Muhsin Yanar, Visiting Researcher, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
Dr. Grace Halden, Reader, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
Dr. Russell Kilbourn, Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
Sciences and Fictions: Human Futures Beyond Boundaries
We seek chapters for the forthcoming edited collection Sciences and Fictions: Human Futures Beyond Boundaries.
Call for Papers
Interdisciplinary Foreign Studies (IFS)
About the Journal
CFP: The Medieval Comic
MEST Symposium, Indiana University Bloomington
March 6-8
Keynote from Dr. Albrecht Classen: "Laughter on the Stage, Laughter at Court, and Laughter in Public Spaces During the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time."
The Comic is a multivalent concept, which can pull or push scholarship in many directions. It has been at times described as a social balm, binding agent, and lubricant. This call for papers asks for submissions considering the various ways in which the Comic manifests in the medieval and medievalism, its implications, and importance.
Potential panels might consider:
Filmed and produced in Pittsburgh, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood is considered a classic of U.S. children’s television. In each episode, Mister Rogers talked with and learned from his (sometimes celebrity) neighbors before taking viewers on a Trolley ride into the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, where hand puppets like Daniel Tiger and X the Owl sang, explored, and learned together. Through stories, songs, conversations, and educational video segments, the show invited children to learn about the world around them as well as the complex universes inside themselves.
The Routledge Handbook to Star Wars
Edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Angelique Nairn, and Justin Matthews
The Editors invite abstract submissions for The Routledge Handbook to Star Wars. Contributions are encouraged from scholars across disciplines, including film and media studies, cultural studies, sociology, history, gender studies, literature, and related fields, as well as from those engaging with interdisciplinary approaches.
CFP Panel at ESSE Conference, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 31st August-4th September 2026
Panel #47
Communication skills are recognized as an integral component of professional competence in engineering education, complementing technical proficiency. English language educators play a significant role in developing communication skills among engineering students. Nevertheless, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in English most often overlook the inclusion of courses on science communication in the curriculum. As a result, research scholars in English who aspire to take up faculty positions in the engineering institutes do not get any formal training in science communication before entering academia. This FDP aims to bridge this gap by equipping English language educators with the skills necessary to become effective science communicators.
[AAAS 2026] Creating Reciprocal and Relational Spaces in Asian American Refugee Storytelling
Building Spaces of Freedom
Society for the Study of Southern Literature 2026 CFP
Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, March 28-31, 2026
The Society for the Study of Southern Literature seeks submissions for our biennial conference, which will take place March 28-31, 2026, at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Call for proposals
Edited collection: READING ROBERT GIPE
Deadline for abstracts: Dec. 1, 2025
Deadline for final drafts: Nov 1, 2026
Keynote Speakers: Michele Aaron (University of Warwick) and Jean-Baptiste Thoret (Université
de Poitiers)
Epistemologies and Pathways to Truth
Epistemologies and Pathways to Truth
The University of Maryland’s Graduate English Organization (GEO) invites proposals relating to the theme of “Epistemologies and Pathways to Truth” for our 19th annual graduate student conference, to be held in person on Friday, March 27, 2026 at UMD, College Park.
Issue 14.1: Open issue
Deadlines | June 1, 2026 (Convergence proposals)
September 15, 2026 (Essay submissions)
12–14 March 2026
Queer Bibliography in the South:
Space, Place, Community
Athens, GA and online
Queer Bibliography invites proposals for papers considering how gender, sexuality, and textuality intersect with place in the production of queer identity.
Call for paper
International Interdisciplinary Conference
University of South Brittany March 12-13, 2026
HCTI and TEMOS Laboratories
Gender and money, the gender of money and the money of gender
Paper proposals are welcome on any aspect of Hardy’s life, work, and legacy for the Twenty-Seventh International Hardy Conference and Festival (Dorchester, Dorset, UK; July 25th—August 1st 2026). Significant Hardy anniversaries in 2026 include the 150th anniversary of The Hand of Ethelberta, the 140th anniversary of The Mayor of Casterbridge, the 120th anniversary of The Dynasts (Part 2), and the 110th anniversary of Selected Poems. Proposals for papers on any of these anniversary texts are especially welcome.
Papers should be planned for delivery times of a maximum of 20 minutes (approximately 2000 words).
Whether we acknowledge it or not, the academy exists in relation to Indigenous people, indigeneity, and structures of settler colonial power. Yet, for many disciplines across the humanities, Indigenous Studies remains marginalized and under-theorized. This symposium invites work that engages the relationality between Indigenous Studies – a discipline grounded in the knowledges, practices, politics, and lives of Indigenous peoples – and other fields, crafts, and disciplines that might see themselves as independent of the concerns of Indigenous peoples and histories. We welcome Indigenous Studies scholars as well as scholars working in connection with any of the historical concerns of Indigenous Studies.
For the occident, a surprising cultural norm in India is that of men holding hands. Seen as unconventional and in sharp contrast to the West, the phenomenon symbolic of India (in particular) and South Asia at large became a project in 2018, whereby photographer Vincent Dolman created a series depicting an organic and intimate aspect of male friendship. Appreciating such uninhibitedness in a country given to rampant homophobia and toxic masculinity, Dolman, in one of his interviews, observes how such practices hold a mirror to society and societal conventions of masculine constructions and performances.
Islamic feminism, far from being an oxymoron, has emerged as an intellectual and political movement reclaiming interpretive authority within the Islamic tradition while advancing gender justice. It builds upon the work of pioneering scholars such as amina wadud, Asma Barlas, Fatema Mernissi, Sa'diyya Shaikh, miriam cooke, and Aysha Hidayatullah, who have demonstrated that patriarchal interpretations of Qur n and Hadich are historically contingent rather than divinely mandated.
Duplicity/Duplicität: Betwixt intimates and strangers.
Opening Symposium of the collaborative research project Studies in Remoteness. Sensoria of Absence, Distance and Neglect.
https://userblogs.fu-berlin.de/remoteness/winter-symposium-2026/
https://www.nsuweb.org/circle-1-studies-in-remoteness-sensoria-of-absenc...
January 29-31 2026.
The Shape of Love: Material and Metaphysical
“What is Love?” has remained an enduring query for philosophers and mystics across centuries, with hundreds of theories and beliefs modifying its ontological standing and apprehension. From classical philosophers to more modern thinkers, questions and explanations about love have permeated through the very fabric of civilization in many forms; through philosophy, theology, literature, and art, love has found many expressions and definitions.
Call for additional chapters for an edited collection (under consideration by publisher): proposals due November 16, 2025
Land of the Free, Home of the Brave?: American Children’s Literature in an Era of Heightened Censorship
In a country advocating, loudly, the rights of the individual, what about child readers? Are they granted an expansive vision of their world? What rights do children have where books are concerned?
Call for Submissions
Queering Sikh Identity and Desire through Lyrical Uprisings and the Poetics of Becoming
We invite poets from India and its diaspora to submit work that explores queerness in relation to their Sikh identity, sexuality, and the body. You do not need to identify as LGBTQIA+ to contribute—this call is open to those navigating self-discovery through poetry, as well as those who affirm and celebrate their queerness on the page.