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Call for Papers on The Beatles and Media Today
Special Issue of Rock Music Studies
Guest-edited by Shannon Howard (Auburn University Montgomery), Tom Grochowski (St. Joseph’s University, NY) and Richard D. Driver (McLennan Community College)
Studies in American Humor, the journal of the American Humor Studies Association, invites submissions of scholarly papers for a special issue of the journal to appear in fall 2027, edited by Wesley Scott McMasters and Todd Nathan Thompson. The topic of this special issue is “Periodicals, Period: Humor and Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers and Magazines.” This special issue will be an extension of a well-received panel on this topic (co-sponsored by the American Humor Studies Association and the Research Society for American Periodicals) at the 2025 American Literature Association conference.
From the iconic Orient Express to the shadowy alleys of urban noir, and to the contemporary invisible highways of cyberspace, transportation and mobility have long played an important role in crime fiction. Traditional detective fiction often relied on transportation as both setting and symbol, underscoring how mobility can conceal, isolate, or reveal, shaping the very structure of mystery and detection. In the digital age, mobility is no longer confined to physical movement; it also encompasses virtual travel, data flows, and algorithmic surveillance.
INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
TENNYSON 2026: ECOLOGY, LANDSCAPE, ENVIRONMENT
LINCOLN, UK, 14-17TH JULY 2026
**Deadline for Abstracts (300 w max.) and Bio (150 w max.)**
31 JANUARY 2026
Migration stories from the Global South are rarely neutral, since they are often born of struggle, shaped by colonial history, economic precarity, or climate collapse, and told in defiance of imposed silences. This panel proposes to examine how writers, scholars, and creative artists across the Global South turn to cultural production to challenge the hegemonic knowledge systems that structure how migration is seen, narrated, and understood, particularly in the Global North. From refugee testimonies and borderland fiction to diasporic films and grassroots media, these works assert the validity of local ways of knowing, remembering, and imagining movement.
Edited by Professor Meenakshi Bharat (University of Delhi) and Dr. Blythe Worthy (University of Sydney)
Under preparation for submission to the ReFocus: International Directors series, Edinburgh University Press
Simon J James was a prolific scholar and a pioneer of Victorian and Edwardian studies. He passed away on 11 June 2025 and this issue is dedicated to his memory. Simon wrote on H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Sherlock Holmes. His monograph, Maps of Utopia: H. G. Wells, Modernity and the End of Culture (Oxford University Press, 2012), remains the finest and most comprehensive study of Wells’s aesthetics to date.
Call for papers
29 July 2025
Special Issue: Contemporary India and Hindi Cinema
Journal: Women Studies International Forum
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/324617/contemporary-india-and-hindi-cinema
Submission of abstracts: 30 September 2025
Submission of full manuscript: 31 July 2026
"The Imagined Woman: The Phantasmic 'Woman' in the Middle Ages"In-Person Panel, sponsored by Magistra: A Journal of Women's Spirituality in History.Organized by Dr. Anne Crafton, Kristina Kummerer, and Dr.
Abstract
Type: Paper Session
Concept Note & CFP on
Crisis and Hope in Contemporary South Asia
Crisis can be understood as any event or a series of events that disrupts, destabilizes, and threatens the everyday individual, social, and political order, leading to moments of transition and transformation that are often challenging to comprehend. The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented accruement of crises on a planetary scale manifesting as economic and environmental exploitation, geopolitical conflicts, pandemics and public health emergencies, and financial and economic turmoil, making the world an increasingly volatile and uncertain space.
Special Issue of the William Carlos Williams Review: Williams’s Latin American and Caribbean Heritage
ASANOR biannual conference 2026
June 4-6, Kristiansand, Norway CONSTITUTING THE US IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Proposal deadline: October 15, 2025
https://asanor.org/2026-conference/
The 2026 American Studies Association of Norway Conference looks back to its early years for inspiration. The very first themed ASANOR seminar was titled “The Bicentennial of the US Constitution.” Many years later we return to this document, not only to revisit its cultural and historical significance but also to ask what it means to invoke the Constitution now, in a time of intensifying democratic crisis and rising illiberalism.
The Richard D. Gooder Essay Prize
This prize, named in memory of Richard Gooder (1934-2017), one of the journal’s founding editors, is aimed at doctoral students.
The Cambridge Quarterly is a journal of literary and cultural criticism with a broad remit. Our focus is largely on scholarship on Anglophone literature, but we also welcome work on writing in languages other than English.
Call for Proposals: Edited volume on screenwriter, actor, director, and comedienne Elaine May
SCREEN STORYTELLERS
The Works of Elaine May
Edited by Jonathan Winchell
This edited volume on the works of Elaine May will be a book in the SCREEN STORYTELLERS series published by Bloomsbury Academic. Seeking 250-word abstracts for previously unpublished chapters on Elaine May’s work as a screenwriter and comedy writer. Final chapters will be 3,000-3,500 words, written for an audience of student readers.
To submit an abstract, visit the ICMS website. All abstracts are due on September 15.
Boccaccio and Boccaccian Medievalisms: Representations of Gender in Medieval Storytelling
RSA 2026
San Francisco - February 19–21, 2026
Reimagining Disability through “Disability Intimacy”
“Hush! Practicing Silence in Literature and Culture”
University of Freiburg, Germany | April 15-17, 2026
Deadline for Submission: September 15, 2025
Relatable! Exploring Difference & Relationality in Creative Writing Studies (CFP)
Proposal Deadline: September 5th, 2025
Conference Dates: November 7th & 8th, 2025
The Creative Writing Studies Organization is now accepting proposals for our online fall conference, to be held the weekend of November 7, 2025. In holding our conference virtually in alternating years, we hope to continue building Creative Writing Studies scholarship across borders and time zones while maintaining the felt benefits of in-person gatherings. This year, the CWSC seeks proposals that help us expand and refine our understandings of relationality.
Please note the extended deadline of September 1, 2025, for proposals
CFP: Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America, Vol. 2
Edited by Cathy Rex (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire: rexcj@uwec.edu)
and Shevaun Watson (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: watsonse@uwm.edu)
We are soliciting scholarly essays (5,000-8,000 words) for inclusion in a follow-up volume to
our edited collection, Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America, published
Call for Panel Participants
College Art Association Annual Conference
18-21 February 2026 | Chicago, IL USA
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Session16720.html
“Dissent Nearby: Diasporic & LGBTQ+ Resistance”*
*guaranteed session with Sponsorship from the Society of Contemporary Art Historians
Over the past decade, as the opioid epidemic turned into an even deadlier fentanyl epidemic, many colleges developed and implemented collegiate recovery programs “designed to provide an educational opportunity alongside other recovery supports to ensure that students do not have to sacrifice one for the other” (ARHE, 2024). As Nichols et al. (2025) relate, “Descriptive and observational research suggests that CRPs tend to reach the most at-risk students.”
'The Soliloquist Journal' seeks submissions of poems and soliloquies for Fall 2025 issue
Theme for Fall 2025 issue: "Voices in Transition”
This theme explores moments of change, transformation, and evolution in our
personal and collective experiences - whether it's seasonal transitions, life
phases, social changes, or internal shifts in perspective.
Website: The Soliloquist Journal
SUBTHEMES:
SUSANNE K. LANGER: Artistic Angles, Philosophical Circles, Poetic Dots, and Technical LinesVienna University of Technology, Austria. 26–29 May 2026. Call opens: 1 September 2025Deadline: 1 October 2025 Organized in collaboration with the Research Unit Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics ATTP at the Vienna University of Technology and the IVC Institute Vienna Circle at the University of Vienna, this conference illuminates the history and relevance of Susanne K.
Call for Papers: Historical Fiction in / and the Anthropocene
One-Day Online Workshop of the Historical Fictions Research Network
29 November 2025 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)
15 min talks
The Historical Fictions Research Network, an interdisciplinary and international network of scholars examining historical fictions, i.e. narratives of the past in a variety of popular media, is happy to organise its third one-day winter workshop on the topic of “Historical Fiction in / and the Anthropocene”.
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Contested Bodies: Corporeality in Contemporary India
Edited by Dr. Shivshankar Rajmohan. & Dr. Sushant Kishore
Department of English, School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, TN, India
The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 53rd annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Feb. 19-21, 2026, at the University of Louisville (https://artsandsciences.louisville.edu/news-events/conferences/louisville-conference-literature-and-culture).
The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 53rd annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Feb. 19-21, 2026, at the University of Louisville (https://artsandsciences.louisville.edu/news-events/conferences/louisville-conference-literature-and-culture).
Throughout the past century, many theoretical approaches have put the indexical properties of the photographic image at the center of documentary's claims to the real. In today’s discussions of social media platforms, arguments about fakery, falsity, and deception abound across genres, from political deep fakes to more “innocuous” lifestyle influencing. Remarked on are the ways platforms such as Instagram and TikTok offer mesh-ups, montages, appropriated footage, nostalgic clips, and media plucked from their original contexts.
Rhetorical Society of America Conference
May 21-24, 2026
Portland, OR
“An Unassailable and Monumental Dignity”: Baldwin’s Rhetoric of Struggle
In 1963, speaking to a group of Oakland high school students about organizing for rights, suffrage, and economic change James Baldwin remarked that, “The measure of one’s dignity depends on one’s estimate of one’s self.” Dignity, for Baldwin, was born of independence, and forged through struggle against an oppressive social structure.
We are pleased to announce the 5th Hawaiʻi International Conference on English Language and Literature Studies (HICELLS 2026), which will be held at the Univrsity of Hawaii at Hilo on March 13 - 14, 2026. This year's conference theme is "Teaching and Learning English Language and Literature in a Changing World: Global Trends and Transformative Practices," aims to explore the emerging global trends in English language teaching and literary studies, including curriculum innovation, assessment practices, digital integration, and multilingual education.
CALL FOR PAPERS
13th International George Moore Conference
May 5-7, 2026
at
Atlantic Technological University, Mayo
&
Moore Hall
George Moore: Landscape and Memory
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
Date and location: 23-25 June 2026, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
Keynote speakers: Sarah Werner, independent book historian; Renske Hoff, University of Utrecht; Aditi Nafde, Newcastle University
Description: Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures (REBPAF) is a Marie Curie Doctoral Training Network coordinated by the University of Galway, which focuses on the ways in which 15th- and 16th-century book producers (scribes, printers, entrepreneurs) negotiated the dynamic relations between the manuscript and the printed book and adapted to the evolving challenges of the market. It also explores the continuing relevance of these cultural and economic negotiations to the modern world.
Dear Colleagues,
Please consider submitting a paper proposal to the panel, "Boccaccio and Boccaccian Medievalisms: Representatives of Gender in Storytelling" for the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The dates of the conference are May 14-16, 2026. The deadline to submit a paper proposal is September 15. This panel will be in person and is organized by Italian Studies@Kalamazoo.
Description
Telangana Journal of Higher Education (TJHE)
Call for Papers
Volume 1 Issue 2 (July-December 2025)
In Sarah Orne Jewett’s 1886 short story “A White Heron”, young protagonist Sylvia is approached by an itinerant hunter and asked to expose the location of the white heron’s nest. The threat to health, growth, and integrity here is complex, both for Sylvia and the heron, as well as the hunter. The central concept of the nest, as a space simultaneously protected and vulnerable, mundane and coveted, nourishing and abused, is an influential object and space in the narrative.
6 de noviembre 2025. Formato online
II Jornadas Intermediales Intercátedras
Organizadas por las Cátedras de Literatura en las Artes Audiovisuales y Performáticas y de Pensamiento Audiovisual
Versión en inglés abajo
‘Theory Today’ working group [USC] is organizing an Online theory workshop on the theme of contemporary fascism with one of the most insightful thinkers on the topic―Alberto Toscano. The workshop will take place on October 17, 2025 via Zoom, and will have the following schedule:
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October 17, 2025
Session 1 | Toscano: Contours of Contemporary Fascism [10 am to 1 pm PST]
- Workshop session focused on reading and discussing primary texts, including Marx, Badiou, Negri, et al.
Theory Today [USC] is organizing a two-day theory workshop with one of the preeminent and prolific theorists of our time, Prof. Todd McGowan. The workshop will take place on March 12-13, 2026, at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), and will have the following schedule:
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Day 1 : March 12, 2026
Session 1 | McGowan: Foundations of Thinking [10 am to 1 pm]
- Workshop session focused on reading and discussing primary texts, including Hegel, Kant, Marx, and Lacan.
As Toni Morrison notes in Playing in the Dark, the construction of Africanist ideologies that misread and/or misrepresent Black identities is as American as apple pie. The white gaze has historically and contemporaneously controlled what is known and unknown about African Americans, just as the ingestion of Africanist ideologies has shaped how many people of the African diaspora see themselves. However, the cultural productions of African American people have frequently not only asserted the heterogeneity of African American communities, contesting Africanist collectivization, but have also affirmed ways of knowing beyond the cultural and systemic erasure of Black personhood and agency.
Call for Chapters: Religion, Conversion and Cultural Memory in
Indo-Caribbean Women’s Writing
Edited by:
Prof. Nandini C. Sen, University of Delhi
Sahin Shah, University of Delhi
Contact emails:
nandinicsen@bharati.du.ac.in | sahin.shah@gargi.du.ac.in
Established in 2018 and revealed in 2020, TALLER ELECTRIC MARRONAGE (EM) began when a group of Black/Latina, queer, writers, and artists decided to plot points across their escape matrix. Inspired by the petit marronage of our ancestors, we steal away on the electric platform, share our journeys and offer what we find along the way. EM now invites submissions pertaining to the key theme: “In the time of war.”
With the recent and highly acclaimed AMC adaptation of Interview with the Vampire and AMC’s broader acquisition of Anne Rice’s literary corpus, The Vampire Chronicles have found renewed cultural relevance. As Season 3 enters production, we invite reexaminations of the legacy and transformation of Rice’s vampiric work across media, genres, and generations.
Academia in Crisis: How Feminist Rhetorical Scholars Respond
Summer 2026 Special Issue of Peitho
Editors: Patty Wilde, Erin Costello Wecker, and Justine Trinh
“What hurts? And how do we go on living while it hurts?”
–mimi khúc
Writing about extinction is an aporetic coming together of our current geological reality and imagination that borders on speculation. It is an act that opens up the ecological, the ontological, and simultaneously interrogates the disappearance of humans from the planetary scene. The space of imagination imagining its own annihilation is a precarious zone for the writer, one that also discharges a kind of nervousness for the reader. The crisis facing us now is how to disentangle extinction as a kind of placelessness, as empty space beyond time. How do we, as a species on the edge of the Sixth Mass Extinction, make sense of Rosi Braidotti’s statement, “‘We’ are in this together, but We are not one and the same”?
Rooted in the ancient tradition of fabula, the concept of fabulation (or fonction fabulatrice) was perhaps most explicitly introduced to the modern philosophical lexicon by Henri Bergson, who described it as a “special faculty of voluntary hallucination.” It was later revisited by Gilles Deleuze, both with and without Félix Guattari, as a “speech act, an act of speech” that transgresses the boundary between the personal and the political, producing “collective utterances.”
Dalit and Adivasi Ecologies:
Representations in Literature and Culture
The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association invites submissions for a Fall 2025 issue on the theme of “Health in/of the Humanities.”
“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.” So reads an inscription on the tomb of the fictional author Kilgore Trout in Kurt Vonnegut’s 1973 novel Breakfast of Champions. While darkly serio-comic, the novel’s exploration of how “ideas or the lack of them can cause disease” raises genuine questions about the relationship between the humanities and health that inform the theme of the fall 2025 issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association.