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RADIATION: Connection Across Distance
A Cross-disciplinary Conference
Arnolfini, Bristol, UK 12 – 14 Nov 2026
Call for Papers (Rolling Basis)
Karto-Teka Gdańska
An interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the University of Gdańsk and the Pomeranian Philosophical-Theological Society, Karto-Teka Gdańska invites submissions on an ongoing, rolling basis for future online-first publication.
Founded in 2017, Karto-Teka Gdańska is an international, peer-reviewed journal committed to interdisciplinary dialogue across the humanities, philosophy, history, theology, cultural studies, and related fields.
Scope and Focus
Over the last years, there has been a burgeoning debate about the Eastern multicultural space, ranging from Eastern Europe, Middle East and South Asian countries to the Far East, which has been intrinsically coupled with significant cultural and economic dynamism; however, such diverse and multi-layered areas have also been the subject of all sorts of misrepresentations and misinterpretations. Future trajectory of the Eastern mind-set might provide a basis for the emergence of new civilizations in this new century and new millennium. This section attempts to explore the outcomes of the various encounters between Eastern and Western cultural conventions in relation to literature, arts, social sciences, media studies and other fields, by carefully examining
PAEDEIA: NSU Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences, and LawCall for Papers
Vol. 2, 2026
*"Online First" publication upon acceptance
*Expected print publication in December 2026
Call for papers
Architectures of Deceit:
Impostors and Con Artists in Contemporary Film and Media
The Literature and Popular Culture area for the 2026 Northeast Popular Culture Association conference is accepting paper and panel proposals from faculty and graduate students. NEPCA’s 2026 virtual annual conference will be held from Thursday, October 15-Saturday, October 17, 2026. Sessions will take place on Zoom through Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. More information on the conference can be found here: https://www.northeastpca.org/call-for-papers
250-word abstracts are due by June 15, 2026 at 5 pm.
Setting the stage: a theatre and performance dissertation writing group
Writing a dissertation can be lonely: we want to change that. Many of us first fell in love with theater because — through exploratory rehearsals, late-night tech runs, and joyful opening nights — we found camaraderie and connection, both of which can feel distant in graduate school. If theater is best practiced with others, how can our research and writing processes be shaped by the same commitment to community-building?
This panel title borrows from the article "Granola and Guns: The Rise of Conspirituality" hosted on McGill University's Office for Science and Society that attempts to define and locate in American society a perplexing mindset that blends countercultural mystical thinking and conservative paranoia. "Conspirituality," which PennState defines as "a belief system that blends new age spiritual beliefs and conspiracy theorizing," has also been branded the "crunchy-to-fascism" pipeline, demonstrating how an openness to crystal healing, chakra opening, sonic baths, and celestial alignment has led many—often well-to-do white women—towards "Pastel QAnon," anti-vaxx, and an embrace of alt-right beliefs.
This edited volume explores the interrelations between disability and addiction within Japanese literary literature. By focusing strictly on literary representations—and excluding media studies—this collection aims to examine how embodiment, social normativity, and deviance are negotiated through culturally specific frameworks.
The editors invite contributions for the following four sections
1. Disability in Japanese Literature (3 Articles)
Names of Proposed Editor(s) and academic affiliation:
Prof. Om Prakash Dwivedi, Director, Faculty of Humanities & Liberal Arts Chandigarh University Uttar Pradesh, India
Dr. Madhurima Nayak, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Chandigarh University Uttar Pradesh, India
Prof. Debajyoti Biswas, Department of English, Bodoland University, India
Aim & Intellectual Scope of Issue
Whether we teach at an R1 university, liberal arts college, community college, or other institution, our work as scholars depends upon our students. Within the context of generative AI, declining support for the Humanities, and the rapidly changing landscape of higher education, this roundtable places pedagogy at the center by inviting participants to share practical, classroom-tested approaches to teaching the Renaissance at the college level.
Call for papers for the online conference
“Metalinguistic awareness in additional language learning: current issues and future directions”
Conference dates: September 30-October 1, 2026
Call For Papers
Indigeneity and Sustainable Foodways: Planetary Challenges
from the Global South
Editors:
Shreyasi Dasgupta, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur
University
Sayan Mazumder, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur
University
Debashree Dattaray, Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University
CFP NEPCA Monsters & the Montrous Area 2026
The Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (a.k.a. NEPCA) seeks proposals for inclusion in NEPCA’s 2026 annual conference.
The event will run as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 15th, through Saturday, October 17th. Virtual sessions will take place via Zoom throughout the day on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Registration will open up in mid-July. The registration fee is expected to be around 50 USD.
FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks submissions to our blog, available at BLOG | Femspec
Those interested in publishing on the Femspec blog do NOT need to be subscribed to the journal.
Call for Articlesfor the 12th issue ofCurrents: A Journal of Young English Philology Thought and Review
on the theme of
Home, Homecoming, Homesickness
INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL CONFERENCE
SILENCE(D): ILLUSORY ABSENCES AND DENIED PRESENCES
University of Florence (Italy), 26th-27th October 2026
Link to the call for papers (in Italian and English): https://www.dottoratolinletcult.unifi.it/upload/sub/News/CallForPapers_Silcenced_UNIFI%20(1).pdf
Synchronicity and Intuition: Exploring Meaningful Coincidences and Inner Knowing
an online transdisciplinary conference
June 15-16, 2026
Online, Via Zoom
Proposal deadline: May 15, 2026
Fees:
£100 (for both presenters and attendees)
Prices exclude booking fees
Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/03/16/synchronicity/
CFP:
Actors, Acting, and Activism: Performing Eugene O’Neill’s Plays
“A population does not renew itself only through the cycle of births and deaths, but also through the interplay of inward and outward migration.” – François Héran
In April 2026, I attended Shauna M. Morgan, Angel Dye, and Madison (Mocha) Hunter's College Language Association panel discussion: “Scripting Soul Work: The Infusive Praxis of Poet-Scholars.” In their talk, each panelist discussed—in prose like fashion—her relationship with her creative and scholarly self, and, in the spirit of Barbara Christian's 1987 “The Race for Theory,” they argued the significance of creative writing to Black and brown folk scholarship and being, which they supported with a reading of their selected poetic works.
Continuing the interdisciplinary tradition of the International Language, Literature and Culture (LLC) Conference Series, the 12th International Language, Literature and Culture Conference, jointly organized by Çankaya University and Bournemouth University, will be hosted by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Süleyman Demirel University on 21–24 October 2026. Scholars and researchers are cordially invited to contribute to the conference under the theme “Human, Environment and Ecology.”
FEMINANIMALS
Representations of Women and/as Animals in Literature, Arts, and Other Media
University of Oxford, Oriel College
14-16 April 2027
Keynote speakers: Prof Chloë Taylor (University of Alberta) and Dr Kaori Nagai (University of Kent)
Roundtable with Queer Kinship Network led by Prof Charlotte Ross (University of Oxford)
Organising committee: Dr Fanny Clemente (University of Oxford), Dr Greta Colombani (independent scholar), Dr Cécile Bishop (University of Oxford)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Speculative Embodiment: Dramaturgical Approaches to Subtext in Shakespeare
Special Session | PAMLA 123rd Annual Conference
Conference Dates: November 12–15, 2026
Location: Hyatt Regency Seattle, 808 Howell St., Seattle, WA 98101
Abstract Deadline: May 25, 2026
Format: In-person only
Session Area: Drama, Theater, and Performance / British and Anglophone
Presiding Officers: Kristen Tregar (Independent Scholar) and Sam Kolodezh (University of California – San Diego)
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Manuscripts and Textual Criticism (Panel / In-Person)Presiding Officer: Kathryn Vulic (Western Washington University)
Pedagogy and Praxis (Panel / In-Person)Presiding Officer: Kathryn Vulic (Western Washington University)
The Pedagogy and Praxis roundtable will explore all aspects of pedagogy and teaching praxis as experienced or theorized by English, Modern Languages, and Humanities educators. Topics of interest might include:
· Theoretical and practical responses to the rise of large language model/generative AI
· Classroom methods and assignments that foster students’ literary analysis skills and that reduce reliance of AI tools
· Recent trends in higher education and high school teaching of the humanities
· Innovations and emerging research in pedagogy
Call for Papers: American Music Special Issue on Vocality in the Americas
Deadline to indicate interest: May 15
Deadline to send preliminary submission information: June 15
CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECIAL ISSUE ON VOCALITY IN THE AMERICAS
The editorial team at American Music invites submissions for a special issue exploring vocality in the Americas. Considering vocality as an ontological and epistemological process—a vocal way of knowing the world and of being in the world, constructed intersubjectively by both singers/speakers and listeners—we encourage contributions that engage with one or more of the following themes:
CALL FOR PAPERS: TOURISM, RELIGION, AND POLITICS
“Open Theology” (https://www.degruyterbrill.com/opth) invites submissions for the special issue “Tourism, Religion, and Politics: The Influence of Political Environments on Religious Tourism,” edited by Dr. Caglar Ezikoglu.
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Open Philosophy (https://www.degruyterbrill.com/opphil) invites submissions for the topical issue "Kant's Concept of Spontaneity and its Legacy in Later Theories of Subjectivity," edited by Jessica Segesta (University of Palermo, Italy) and Valentina Dafne De Vita (University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany).
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New Imago Forum
University of Essex (UK)
11 – 13 December 2026
Background
**Call for Papers, Reviews, and Creative Pieces**
Gothic Nature: New Directions in Ecohorror and the EcoGothic
Issue VI: Unthemed Issue
Deadline for abstracts and pitches: 25th July 2026
‘You cannot adapt to extinction’. —Vanessa Nakate
‘The development of ecocriticism itself can been read as a type of Gothic story. If imagined figuratively as if it were a horror film, the field of ecocriticism is at a point where it is confronting the monster that has been hidden in the basement’. —Tom J. Hillard
Call for Proposals: Mapping Post-Truth Across Disciplines Conference
Key Information
Proposals due June 30th, 2026 to posttruthconference@gmail.com
Decision of acceptance communicated by July 15th, end of day
Dates: October 29th-30th, 2026
Location: University of Memphis, specific locations TBD
Fee: TBD
Call for Book Chapters
Theme: Prisms of Interpretation: Analysing Literature in English
Multani Mal Modi College is pleased to announce a call for chapter contributions for an upcoming book publication. The theme of the proposed volume is:
‘Prisms of Interpretation: Analysing Literature in English’
Society for the Study of Affect (SSA)
#MAKE: Methods, Atmospheres, Knowledges, Energies
Vancouver, BC, October 23 to 25, 2026
Abstracts due May 29, 2026
Submit here: https://affectsociety.com/make/conference/?submit=paper&stream_id=30
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Meta Mazaj, University of Pennsylvania
Professor Katarzyna Marciniak, Occidental College
Call for Papers
CFP: Football and Performance
Editors: Eero Laine, Noe Montez, and Shannon Walsh
We are currently seeking chapter abstracts for an edited volume on football and performance. Theatre and performance studies allow us a unique view towards the ways that sports extend into civic space, politics, and daily life. How can the disciplines of theatre, dance, and performance studies serve as an analytic for sport, generally, and American football, in particular?
The CFP for "Language Teaching and Technology: From Gaming to AI" is now open via this link for the PAMLA 2026 conference, from the 12th to the 15th of November 2026, in Seattle.
Literature/Film Quarterly (LFQ) is an internationally recognized, open-access journal specializing in adaptation studies. Published entirely online, LFQ makes all content freely available to readers worldwide. We publish quarterly and manuscripts often progress from initial submission through peer review to publication in less than one year. 2023 marked our 50th year of continuous publication. Visit our website for current issues, online archives (dating to 2017), and complete submission guidelines: https://lfq.salisbury.edu/
Please see here for full details: https://www.wethecivic.org/submit
Scroll to the bottom of this page for submission form: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/wtc/
Essays, Reported Pieces, Criticism, Art & Visual, Video & Hybrid Forms
In 2026, the United States marks 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence—a document that promised liberty and justice for all and delivered them to very few.
This anniversary will be loud. It will be choreographed.
And Nonprofit Quarterly, in community with nonprofit and media partners, will contest it.
The Phenomenology of the Stand-up Comic: Toward a Sociology of Gendered Humour
CFP 2026 · De/Naturated
Genealogies of the Natural, Forms of the Artificial, Ecologies of the Limit
What do we call “nature”? And what political, social, biological, and symbolic orders are historically legitimized in its name?
Travel and Tourism Studies as a discipline continues to gain popularity in academia, in part because of its inter-disciplinary nature. The Travel and Tourism area seeks papers that discuss and explore any aspect of travel and/or tourism. Topics for this area include, but are not limited to, the following:
- travel and gender/race/class
- personal travel narratives
- heritage tourism
- material culture and tourism
- the impacts of the political climate on travel
International Conference for PhD Students and Young Researchers
UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI
6-7 OCTOBER 2026
«Maligno animo et lingua detractoria»:
the Art of Slander from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age
Call for Chapter Contributions
An Edited Volume: Ecofeminism and Islam in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Editor: Dr. Gabrie’l J. Atchison
Proposed Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.
As the series editor for Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives for Bloomsbury Publishing, I am writing to invite you to consider submitting a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in Ecofeminism and Islam in the Middle East and North America (MENA).
Poverty in the South is too often discussed at a distance. Flattened into stereotype, policy language, nostalgia, or shame, it is rarely given the complexity, dignity, and literary force it deserves.
Hand to Mouth seeks new work by Southern writers whose lives have been shaped by poverty. We are interested in writing that reflects on poverty as lived experience, inherited condition, social structure, class passage, stigma, kinship, resourcefulness, hunger, desire, labor, and survival.
Mike Flanagan has emerged over the past fifteen years as one of the most prolific and recognizable horror creators in film and television, working across low-budget independent cinema, studio-backed films, and prestige limited series. Yet despite his prominence, versatility, and authorial trademarks, especially his collaborations with recurring actors and other artistic partners, he has received little sustained scholarly attention.
Call for Papers
University of Delaware’s 8th CMCS Conference in Material Culture
April 2-3, 2027
What’s the Matter with Description?
Form, Practice, and Material Culture
Keynote Speaker
Susan Stewart
(Princeton University)
2027 marks the 50th anniversary of the film now generally known as Episode IV: A New Hope, the first instalment in the hugely successful Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas. As beloved as it is divisive, Star Wars now straddles multiple decades and generations while proliferating across narrative media (novels, comics, games, animation, TV). It provides a series of compelling case studies in the relationship between creativity and commerce, from the foundation of Lucasfilm during the New Hollywood period to the 21st century Disney-era, and it has developed via a complex interplay between cutting-edge technological innovation, nostalgia, and mythmaking.
The second International Conference on Globalisation in Languages, Education, Culture and Communication (GLECC2026) is going to be held 28-30 July 2026, Manchester, UK. (https://glecc.org/2026/). The submission deadline has now been extended to May 18, 2026.
Keynote speakers confirmed:
1. “Translation, Chinese Texts, and World Literature” by Professor Yifeng Sun, University of Macau, China.
2. “Confucianism's Global Potential: Fresh Perspectives on Fathering From the Sixth Century to Now” by Dr Derek Hird, Lancaster University, UK.
Kala Pani Crossings #4:
Jahaji bhai / Jahaji behen: Fraught Legacies, New Kinships, Reimagined Solidarities
Institut Français de Pondicherry / French Institute of Pondicherry
in partnership with EMMA (University of Montpellier Paul-Valéry),
IHRIM (ENS-Lyon, France), VALE (Sorbonne University)
& DIRE and LCF (University of Reunion Island)
Dates: February 16-17, 2027
Venue: IFP (French Institute of Pondicherry)