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George Orwell, 1984
The Flannery O’Connor Society
The Society for the Study of Southern Literature
March 28th-31st, 2026
Fisk University
Nashville, TN
The Flannery O’Connor Society invites abstracts (of about 300 words) to be submitted for participation in an open topics panel on Flannery O’Connor’s life and work at the biannual conference of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature.
General Issue | Rolling Submissions
The Critical Gender Studies Journal / Revista Crítica de Estudios de Género invites submissions for its upcoming general issue. We welcome original research articles, theoretical essays, creative interventions, and reviews that explore the multifaceted dimensions of gender and sexuality across diverse contexts and disciplines.
After an enriching interdisciplinary conference in 2025, Heavy Childhoods 2026 will run under the title “Curating Future Nostalgia in Heavy Times”
Translating Modernities: Language, Selfhood, and Literary Futures in Asia
This proposed panel explores how modernities across Asia have been shaped not only through contact with the West but through acts of translation-linguistic, cultural, and epistemic-within and across Asian languages. It asks how writers and thinkers, negotiating between vernaculars and global idioms, forged new vocabularies of selfhood and community that redefined what it meant to be "modern."
Irish-American(s and) Periodicals
Kirsten McLeod and Tim Lanzendörfer
Sponsored by the Research Society for American Periodicals
RSAP Article Prize 2024-2025
Deadline for submissions: 15 December, 2025
https://www.periodicalresearch.org/rsap-article-prize-2024-2025/
Contact: Kirsten Macleod, kirsten.macleod@newcastle.ac.uk
The Research Society for American Periodicals invites submissions for its 2024-25 Article Prize.
Volume 2, Issue 1 (Open Issue, January 2026) Call for Papers
Extended Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30.11.2025
CFP Link: https://www.entanglements.in/call-for-papers-docs/CFP_Entanglements%202.1_Jan%202026.pdf
(Note: Kindly ignore the old deadline in the link. Follow the revised extended deadline.)
Call for Papers: 2026 Yale Korean Philosophy of Religion and Theology Graduate Conference
The Yale Korean Philosophy of Religion and Theology Graduate Conference is pleased to announce its second annual conference. We invite presenters from graduate students and emerging scholars working in philosophy of religion, theology, and religious thought within Korean studies. We especially welcome proposals that challenge, expand, and reinterpret the concept of “Korean” in religious discourses, while engaging in dialogue with political theory, comparative religious studies, sociology and anthropology, critical literary studies, intellectual history, and other related disciplines.
Oceanic Fictions in Indian Languages and Beyond
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 Dickens Project is excited to announce a new week-long Victorianist Writing Retreat, held at UC Santa Cruz as part of our annual summer Dickens Universe conference. This retreat offers scholars who are not affiliated with Dickens Project consortium institutions the opportunity to attend the Universe, as well as to dedicate time during the week to writing in community.
In 2026, the Dickens Universe, including the Victorianist Writing Retreat, will take place from July 26-August 1. While the 2026 Universe will be focused on Bleak House, participants in the retreat need not be writing on Bleak House or on Dickens. Scholars working in any area of global British nineteenth-century studies are free to apply.
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
The Final Frontier: Race, Ecology & Colonialism in Space Opera
Edited by Mikail Boz & Cenk Tan
Editors’ Introduction
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
REIMAGINING FRANKENSTEIN IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Cross-Cultural Adaptations in Visual Culture
Edited by Cenk Tan & Defne Ersin Tutan
Editors’ Introduction
MIRROR 2025
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
NEW DIRECTIONS IN NARRATOLOGY
Organised by
PG Department of English, St. Joseph’s College of Arts & Science (Autonomous), Manjakuppam, Cuddalore.
Date : 12th December 2025, Friday
Time : 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
Venue : St. Joseph’s College of Arts & Science (Autonomous), Cuddalore.
Mode : Offline and Online presentations are accepted.
Key Note Speakers:
Dr. S. Samuel Rufus, PhD
Associate Professor of English
& Dean, International Programmes
Madras Christian College (Autonomous), Chennai, India.
The ground falling from beneath your feet, the cliff’s edge barely holding you aloft, the free fall in open air. Cinematic representations of falling and nearly plummeting from great heights have long been around as an arbiter of suspense and a literal visualization of the classic “cliffhanger,” with origins to such a visual tracing back to the silent film era and actor Harold Lloyd dangling from the hands of a clock in Safety Last! (1923) Falling and dizzying heights have been featured over the years in a variety of forms and often successfully serve as a device to drive the plot forward or signify its climax. We see examples of villains and heroes alike battling on skyscrapers in DC and Marvel universe adaptations.
Bridges and Borders: Material Actualities
March 19-21, 2026 | Proposals Due by January 15th, 2026
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) and on Zoom
Bridges and Borders is an annual, interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference presented by the Carnegie Mellon University Department of English in collaboration with the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Applied Linguistics.
CONTACT: bridgesandborders@andrew.cmu.edu
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: TBA.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Call For Papers
The Erotica, Sexuality, Pornography, & Kink Area of the National Popular Culture Association (PCA) invites scholars to participate in the PCA’s annual conference. Details of the conference can be found at https://pcaaca.org/page/submissionguidelines
Astrology in Focus:
Navigating Art, Psyche, and Knowledge
A Transdisciplinary Conference
January 18-20, 2026
Proposal Submission Deadline: December 1, 2025
Format: Online
Fee: 100 GBP
Call for Papers:
“Astrology represents the sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity”, Carl Jung
Unwrapping Christmas Through Arts-Based Research: A Transdisciplinary Conference
Proposal Submission Deadline: November 9, 2025
Conference Dates: December 8-9, 2025
Location: online
Fees: £100 (non-members)
Call for Papers
Call for Papers for a special issue of the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry on “Concrete and Visual Poetries in Britain, Ireland, and Beyond”, edited by Colin Herd and Greg Thomas.
Send 250-300 word abstracts for 5,000-7,000-word articles to ConcreteAndVisualPoetries@gmail.com by 10 January 2026.
The 17th Annual Research, Art, Writing Conference
February 21st, 2026, Saturday, University of Texas at DallasCall For Papers: RAW 2026
Call for Papers
Food and Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025
Call for Papers
Food and Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025
Special issue of Comunicazioni Sociali: Journal of Media, Performing Arts and Cultural Studies
Embodied Rhythms. Interdisciplinary Takes on the Perception of Rhythm in Reality, Arts, Cinematic and Immersive Experience
Edited by Adriano D’Aloia, Ruggero Eugeni, and Maria Alessandra Umiltà
In recent years, the study of rhythm has regained centrality across multiple disciplinary fields — from film and media theory to cognitive neuroscience, from aesthetics to performance studies. This special issue aims to explore rhythm as an embodied and perceptual structure that organizes audiovisual experience in both cinematic and immersive environments.
The College of Arts and Humanities at Bethune-Cookman University welcomes proposals for the annual Zora Neale Hurston Conference, which will be held virtually on February 12-13, 2026. “Their Eyes were Watching Words: Publishing, Editing, and Censorship” is a tribute to Hurston’s skilled navigation of the complex world of publishing and censorship. Our invited speakers this year are Roxane Gay and Dana Williams.
You are invited to submit scholarly, pedagogical, or creative proposals exploring any of the following:
The English department at Duke University is thrilled to host the 11th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium on February 20-21, 2026.
The Post45 Graduate Symposium seeks graduate-level works-in-progress related to post-1945 media, arts, literature, textual or visual objects, digital platforms, politics, and culture. We welcome submissions that expand our conception of objects and meaning-making post-1945 or place them in comparative, transnational, or hemispheric frames. We especially welcome contributions that foreground the importance of race, gender, class, and sexuality to post-45 studies.
Monstrous Bodies: From Frankenstein to the Posthuman
Saint Louis University Madrid, April 23-24, 2026
Call for Abstracts
Tracks and Practices: Rethinking Artist Residencies
Symposium, part of OULU 2026 – European Capital of Culture
21–22 August 2026 | Oulu & Varjakka, Finland
As part of the project Tiny Spaces – Deep Connections, we invite proposals for participation in the upcoming symposium Tracks and Practices: Rethinking Artist Residencies, taking place between Oulu and Varjakka on Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd August 2026.
Call for Chapters: Bodies That Breathe – The Politics of Air, Health, and Survival
Volume 1 of the “Earth and Us” Book Series
Earth and Us is a twelve-volume inquiry into how environmental breakdown and social inequality intertwine, bringing together feminist, queer, and decolonial perspectives. The inaugural volume, Bodies That Breathe, explores the politics of air, health, and survival.
17 th Debrupa Bal Memorial International Students’ Seminar
2-3 December 2025
Organized by the students of
Department of Comparative Literature
Jadavpur University
CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECTATORIAL-ITY: RECEPTION/ REGENERATION/ REPRODUCTION
2nd Call for Chapter Proposals
for Essay Collection
How Scripted TV Series Portray Social Media’s Power to Shape Culture
Announcing
The 2026 First Book Institute
May 31-June 6, 2026
Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University
Co-Directors
Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature
Sean X. Goudie, Director of the Center for American Literary Studies and Past Winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book
Call for Presentations for the Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture Association
We invite presentations about War after 1945, covering any of the following general topics with special attention to popular culture:
Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War, Iraq, Afghanistan; Cold War and Global War on Terrorism; military interventions and peacekeeping missions involving Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. We particularly welcome papers that look at pop culture in light of the 25th anniversary of 9/11.
Presentations may focus on writers and artists: original fiction, poetry, memoirs, drama, art, music, film, and television.
Panel Title:
Transnational Black Childhood and Practices of Maronnage
Conference:
Rutgers University-Camden, Childhood Studies Department
“The Transnational Child Strikes Back: Transnational Desires and Childhoods of Empire ”
June 11-13th, 2026
Camden NJ
Organiser Contact Info:
Samira Abdur-Rahman, The College of New Jersey, abdurras@tcnj.edu
Panel Description:
GC Secular journal invites submissions of original fiction and non-fiction for its first edition devoted to World Cinema. The aim of this issue is to open a space for writing that responds to cinema across languages, regions, and cultures, and to highlight how film travels, transforms, and shapes public imagination. We welcome analytical, creative, and research-oriented work that engages with cinema as an artform, a cultural memory, and a global conversation.
About the Theme
This special panel to be held in the Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association seeks 15-20 minute conference presentations from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives examining any and all aspects of the emerging trend of “reality shifting” in relation to popular culture, particularly that of Generation Z.
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Call for Papers
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
NEW Submission Deadline: November 14, 2025
The Generational Studies area of the Popular Culture Association welcomes proposals for papers on any and every topic related to America’s generations including: Baby Boomers, Generation Jones, Generation X, Xennials, Millennials (Gen Y), and iGen (Gen Z). If your paper is accepted, you will be presenting at the 2026 Popular Culture Association national conference, held at the Marriott Marquis in Atlanta, April 8-1.
We invite submissions from individuals and organized panels (3 or 4 persons), focusing on topics related to:
The Journalism & Media Culture area of the Popular Culture Association requests proposals on diverse topics, including journalism and media-related issues and subjects that can be local, regional, national, and/or international and can deal with historical or contemporary times. If your paper is accepted, you will be presenting at the 2026 Popular Culture Association national conference, held at the Marriott Marquis in Atlanta, April 8-1.
Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour slots, typically with four papers or speakers that do not exceed 15 minutes each. We can also accept proposals for special panels and for sessions organized around a journalism/media-related theme.
CALL FOR PAPERS
for a joint symposium to be hosted by the
Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society and Lydia Maria Child Society
Williamsburg, Virginia
June 24-27, 2026
(Deadline for proposals: February 5, 2026)
The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society and the Lydia Maria Child Society invite proposals for a joint symposium to be held on the campus of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, June 24-27, 2026.
Feeling haunted by that unfinished conference proposal? We've got just the Halloween treat for you: a two-week extension -- now accepted through November 14!
Mathematics and engineering are often confined to academic settings, yet they form the foundation of life and popular culture alike. When we examine engineering marvels in movies, books, and other media, we uncover rich symbolism and deeper meanings that reveal how these disciplines shape our understanding of the world.
Panels are now forming on topics related to all aspects of mathematics and engineering and their intersection with popular culture. Possible topics may include (but are not limited to):
Call for Papers—DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Myth and Fairy Tales Area
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
EXTENDED proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2025
Mystery / Detective Fiction Area
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
EXTENDED proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2025
Poems Invited for dec 2025 Issue of Taj Mahal Review 48th Issue
Memory, Myth, and Meaning: Cather in Dialogue with America 250
Willa Cather Spring Conference | Thursday, June 4 - Saturday, June 6, 2026
This year marks the centennial of My Mortal Enemy, one of Cather’s least affirmative works and one not produced in the Cather Scholarly Edition (translation: much important work remains to be done!) We invite papers on new approaches to My Mortal Enemy, including but not limited to the following considerations of style, form, provenance, and themes:
Deadline for proposals has been extended to 15 November 2025!
This edited volume extends the project initiated by the Korean Studies 2025 special section “Feminist Korean Studies,” which deployed feminist critique across digital media, popular culture, legal discourse, public health, neoliberalism, and postcoloniality. Building on that foundation, the volume invites interdisciplinary, interregional, and bilingual feminist scholarship to address pressing global and regional developments: the rise of right-wing authoritarianism, intensified anti-feminist backlash in South Korea, and the persistent marginalization of feminist discourse in Anglophone Korean Studies.
Call for papers – International PhD and early-career symposium
Seeing the Other Empire: British Travel Writing and Imperial Rivalry in Europe and the Near East, 1783–1914
University of Strasbourg, 24 April 2026
Organisers: Arman Martirosyan and Suheyla-Hacer Sahin
Research group SEARCH (UR 2325)
In 2025, broad legislative and cultural backlash is focused on eliminating even the idea of trans people from public space. When public space is inaccessible, online communities have, for more than the past twenty years, been a place where trans people can still find one another, self-represent, and build their own publics. Now the walled world of the app economy, organized personal attacks, discriminatory social media algorithms, ID verification laws, and government intervention are changing the internet too. At such a moment, understanding the ways that trans people navigate their digital worlds is more important than ever.