Frank Lloyd Wright began wintering in the Sonoran Desert in the late 1920s, where the region’s extreme climate and tectonic landscape shaped by sun, erosion, and wind profoundly influenced his thinking about architecture. How did Wright respond to the beautiful yet hostile desert environment?

CALL FOR PAPERSTeaching Authentic Thinking in the Age of AI: Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice

Editors: Trent M. Kays, PhD (Augusta University); Rosita Scerbo, PhD (Georgia State University); and Stefanie Sevcik, PhD (Mercer University)

THE PROBLEM

Students carry ChatGPT in their pockets. They can generate competent essays in seconds. Traditional assignments become trivial to automate.

How should we teach?

Call for papers

Sensation: The Sounds, Visions, and Words of David Bowie

Academic conference, University of Agder, Norway

29. – 30. September 2026

The American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) invites proposals for a Virtual Seminar Series held during the month of June 2026 over Zoom. This seminar series will take place in lieu of the 2026 AAALS conference.

Seminars can be of two types:A) panel or B) roundtable. Panels can have between 2 to 3 speakers. Roundtables can have 4 to 5 speakers.

The LLC 19th-Century American Forum welcomes proposals for papers exploring the vibrant landscape of pop culture in the nineteenth-century USA, from vaudeville to sheet music to moving pictures. How have these examples contributed to Hollywood's legacy? Send 250-word abstracts and 100-word bios to DeLisa Hawkes (ddhawk@wm.edu) by Friday, March 20, 2026.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Impregnable: Mediated Meanings of the Body in Resistance

Impregnability has many strong meanings - not becoming pregnant but also capable of withstanding assault. It's a term that lives in connotative alignment with infertility, of non- and un-reproducibility, but it also carries presence over absence, power over victimization. Think protesters who link arms to create an impregnable wall of resistance. Think castles that cannot be stormed. Indeed, the word literally means “unable to be defeated or destroyed; unassailable.”

ESSE 2026 conference, Santiago de Compostela (SPAIN)

31st August - 4st September 2026

Seminar 61.- Violence in Early Modern English Drama: From Stage to Screen

From the brutality of Titus Andronicus to the psychological torment of The Duchess of Malfi, early modern English drama is saturated with violence—performed or described, symbolic or spectacular. This seminar will explore how violence has functioned as a dramatic, cultural, and ideological force in early modern English theatre, and how its representations have evolved across time, including contemporary screen adaptations and TV series that borrow early modern tropes of violence, such as House of Cards or Game of Thrones.

Manchester and beyond: Oasis, identity and performance.

Call for book chapters

On the occasion of (What’s The Story) Morning Glory’s 30th anniversary and the band’s phenomenal 2025 reunion, multidisciplinary contributions within the fields of cultural studies, literature, history, musicology, linguistics, and political science (among others) are sought for an edited volume examining Oasis’s place in British popular culture. 

Call for Papers

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies invites submissions for the New issue of the journal - a general issue on literature, theatre and culture studies.

The Nagoya Gifu Chapter of JALT (Japan Association for Language Teaching) is seeking papers on EFL (English as a foreign language) topics. We are a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal.

See past issues of our journal here:

https://sites.google.com/view/nagoyajaltpublication2020/the-jalt-nagoya-...

See the submission guidelines page and link for submissions here:

https://sites.google.com/view/nagoyajaltpublication2020/the-jalt-nagoya-...

Call for Papers! Conference + Festival Title:  TIMES IN BETWEEN 2026 - Folklore and Borderlands: Tales of Order and Identity.

Call for Chapters

Over the past 10–15 years, children, adolescents, and youth worldwide have lived through overlapping emergencies: the COVID-19 pandemic; intensified border regimes, migration control, and detention; racialized and colonial state violence; war and occupation; environmental disaster; and the erosion of social and educational safety nets. These crises shape not only early childhood, but also adolescent identity formation, schooling, embodiment, political consciousness, and future-making. 

MELUS 2026

Austin, Texas

Women of Color Caucus (WOCC)

Conference Dates: Thursday, April 30 – Saturday, May 2, 2026

Genre-blurring as Feminist Practice and Methodology (WOCC scholarship panel)

The Department of Foreign Language Education at Middle East Technical University is pleased to announce the call for the 28th British Novelists International Conference. This year’s theme is Ali Smith and Her Work. The conference will be held on 3-4 December 2026 in Ankara, Turkey.

We invite submissions from a broad range of disciplines, including literary studies, cultural studies, environmental humanities, queer studies, narrative studies, media studies, philosophy, sociology, and fine arts. We welcome papers on any aspect of Ali Smith’s work from any theoretical perspective. Proposals by graduate students are also welcome.

MELUS 2026

Austin, Texas

Women of Color Caucus (WOCC)

Conference Dates: Thursday, April 30 – Saturday, May 2, 2026

Equity and Ethics in Digital Spaces and AI (WOCC roundtable)

Leonard Cohen 2026

Global Perspectives on a Multi-disciplinary Artist

Ghent University, Belgium

Oct. 6-8, 2026

https://cohen2026.ugent.be/en

Ecology and the Human Being in German Literature and Other Media (planned, 2026)

Book Series: Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology

About the Series

The book series Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology, published by Istanbul University Press, is dedicated to interdisciplinary research in German literary and cultural studies. It brings together approaches from literary studies, cultural studies, media studies, philosophy, history, and related disciplines, with the aim of rethinking German philology in dialogue with contemporary theoretical and societal debates.

Published and forthcoming volumes include:

The American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) invites proposals for a Virtual Seminar Series held during the month of June 2026 over Zoom. This seminar series will take place in lieu of the 2026 AAALS conference.

For this guaranteed session of the TC Religion and Literature forum at the January 2027 MLA convention, we invite papers focusing on literatures of migration and spirituality. Given the convention’s location in Los Angeles, we especially welcome proposals that consider authors and texts with connections to LA and the city as a site of contact, dialogue, and religious syncretism.

Papers might consider, for example:

-       Memoirs of migration in place and faith

-       Religious affect in literatures of exile and precarity

-       Indigenous survival and reemergent spiritual practices in and around LA

-       Sacred spaces and urban geography

CFP: Lydia Maria Child Society

American Literature Association Conference in Chicago
20–23 May 2026 at the Palmer House

https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/

Revised Deadline: January 26, 2026

Political Rhetoric and Emotions in the Work of Lydia Maria Child

Speculative Narratives Beyond Consensus Reality: Navigating the Senses from Wonder to Horror
International Interdisciplinary Conference
29th – 30th June and 1st July, 2026

Venue: Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Conference Organisers: Popular Culture Group

We invite scholars, researchers, and artists to submit abstracts for the upcoming academic conference, Speculative Narratives Beyond Consensus Reality: Navigating the Senses from Wonder to Horror. This event will explore the transformative potential of speculative narratives – across literature, film, visual arts, and other media – in breaking free from the boundaries of “consensus reality.”

The Jadavpur University Sociology Consortium (JUSC) invites original papers based upon the theme of "Rethinking Development: State, Society and Consciousness" for PERSPECTIVES, a hybrid-mode paper presentation to be held as part of its annual academic conclave, Lifeworld 2025–26. Themes for the paper presentation involve, but are not limited to:

Call for Papers: Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds

Special Issue: ‘Save State: Ethics, Politics and Poetics of Video Game Preservation’

Guest Editors: Paweł Frelik (University of Warsaw), Magdalena Kozyra (SWPS University), Tomasz Z. Majkowski (Jagiellonian University) 

Important Dates 

• Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 March 2026

• Notification of Acceptance: 10 March 2026

• Full Article Submission: 15 June 2026

• Peer Review Returned: 1 August 2026

• Revised Article Submission: 31 August 2026

The recent Mandarin Chinese translation of The Canterbury Tales (Linking Publishing, 2025) by Dr. Francis K. H. So offers a timely opportunity to reflect on the growing presence, vitality, and diversity of Chaucerian studies outside the Anglophone world. This significant contribution not only opens new avenues for engaging with Geoffrey Chaucer’s language and narrative art, but also foregrounds the crucial role of translation, pedagogy, and local scholarly traditions in shaping how Chaucer is read, interpreted, and taught across different linguistic and cultural contexts.