The erotic is a point of infinite signification, a navel in humanity’s symbolic circuit. However, despite its resistance to formalization, it is always in the process of not being written. As Octavio Paz insists, the erotic is a metaphor indelible to the human. As such, it is unsurprising that the manifestations of the erotic in subjective embodied experience are variable and correspond to equally plural treatments of it across the academic panorama. This diverse archive is bound by certain distinguishable threads, in terms of the potentiality of the erotic, its singular relation to language, and to the sphere of sexuality.

The 2026 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 15th through Saturday October 17th.

We are looking forward to another engaging and rewarding conference for new and seasoned members alike. We are seeking proposals for panels and presentations for this year’s conference, including proposals for the Philosophy, Belief, and Pop Culture Area.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literature and Popular Music

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary handbook will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in late 2027.

This collection explores how literature and popular music intersect, influence each other, and create new possibilities for artistic expression, and seeks to map the rich terrain where these two cultural forms meet. We will work from broad definitions of both literature and popular music, encompassing work from traditional novels and poetry to digital narratives and graphic novels, from classical and folk sound traditions to electric and contemporary electronic music.

Call for Papers: Global Hip Hop Studies

Special Issue: ‘Hip-Hop Diaspora: Memory, Technology and the Politics of Electric Infrastructure’

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/global-hip-hop-studies#call-for-papers

Guest editors

Pablo D. Herrera Veitia, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Francesca D’Amico Cuthbert, University of Toronto, Canada

Myrtle D. Millares, University of Toronto, Canada

Dennis Howard, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

Indian psychoanalysis consistently finds itself in a space of translation—concepts and praxis generated through Euro-American epistemes are translated on the page and in the clinician’s office. Concepts forged in specific Euro-American contexts encounter Indian affective, political and cultural worlds that resist and reshape them. In India, these juxtapositions between lived worlds and psychoanalytic theory have often been navigated through recourse to Hindu mythology, or rarely, through strict adherence to European epistemes.

We are pleased to announce that the PAMLA 2026 Conference will be held at the lovely Hyatt Regency Seattle in Seattle, Washington! The conference will begin on Thursday morning, November 12, and continue through Sunday afternoon, November 15, 2026.

The 2026 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person at the Hyatt Regency. There will be no virtual or hybrid sessions or papers: the entire conference is being held in-person. So, please join us for an in-person intellectual, cultural, and social experience in the heart of one of the loveliest and most vibrant of cities: Seattle.

Reception, including reading, listening and viewing, occurs at the tail-end of a complex process of production and reproduction that can create a significant distance between the authors who begin the process and the individual recipients who enact multiple, unique endings in their idiosyncratic experience. With an acknowledgement of the digital reproduction that enables this online conference to occur, we invite papers that address the impact of reproduction at any stage of this process. We especially welcome papers that address the impact of reproduction on the textual, material and cultural meaning of the work, text or image that is reproduced on, amongst others:

The annual graduate student conference organized by the Division of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California is now accepting applications. EXTENDED submission deadline is June 15, 2026.

This year’s conference invites proposals that engage broadly with the theme, Delirium. 

It will take place on October 23–24, 2026, at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, with Professor Eugenie Brinkema joining for the Keynote. 

We welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplines and methodological approaches, including creative works.

South Atlantic MLA Conference 
November 5-7, 2026 
In-Person Conference 
Atlanta, GA 

Panel Proposal: “Intertextual ‘Innerleckchuls’: Reading O’Connor in Conversation” 

The Flannery O’Connor Society seeks abstract proposal submissions for a panel to be held at SAMLA’s annual conference (November 5-7, 2026) in Atlanta, GA.  

Seeking critical and critical-creative presentations for a proposed panel at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture After 1900, Feb.18-20 2027

Performing Data in Australasia

Performance Paradigm Volume 21

Guest Editors 

Mara Davis Johnson (U of Wollongong), Benjamin Laird (Flinders U/Australian Creative Histories and Futures), Sarah Thomasson (Te Herenga Waka – Victoria U of Wellington/U of Queensland), James Wenley (Te Herenga Waka – Victoria U of Wellington). 

Call for Papers

The Triumph of the Therapeutic Revisited: The Politics of Self-Care and Self-Improvement in Contemporary American Culture

Guest editors: Alexandra Bacalu & Dragoș Manea

Call for Peer Reviewers

The Dragon Lode, the journal of the Children’s Literature and Reading Special Interest Group of the International Literacy Association, invites interested scholars, educators, and researchers to serve as peer reviewers.

We are seeking reviewers with expertise in children’s and young adult literature, K–12 literacy education, literacy pedagogy, teacher education, library and media studies, critical literacy, multicultural and diverse literature, and related fields. Peer reviewers play an essential role in supporting the journal’s mission by offering thoughtful, constructive, and timely feedback to authors.

Call for Papers & Proposals:
2026 Youth Symposium: Youth Agency and Activism in an Age of Precarity

The Intersection of Research, Civil Society, and Young People

The University of Tokyo Komaba Campus, Tokyo, Japan

September 7-8, 2026 (Hybrid)

Organized by
East Asia Young Scholars Association (EAYSA)

Concept Note

If You Rebuild It, They Will Come: Reimagining Higher Ed with Pedagogies of Hope

“Hope is a discipline.”  Mariame Kaba We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice. (2021) 

“We must dare to imagine and to dream. It is precisely in hopeless times that the act of teaching becomes a radical gesture of hope.” Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Hope (1994)

The Animal Studies standing session seeks papers broadly related to the intersection of literature or media and animal studies, across genres and national literatures, with a special—but not exclusive —interest in proposals that engage with the 2026 PAMLA conference theme, "Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict." As such, it aims to enliven the conversation surrounding the conference theme through animal studies and literature, while making cross-disciplinary pathways with science, conservation, and public policy.

For PAMLA 2026 123rd Annual Conference (Seattle, WA) – Nov. 12-15, 2026

Call for Papers

Decolonial Imaginations in Indian Writings in English: Indigenous Knowledge, Memory, and Resistance

Deadline for submissions: August 31, 2026

Publisher: Authorspress, New Delhi, India

Editors:

Dr. Ashutosh Singh, Assistant Professor, Department of English and Foreign Language, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Chhattisgarh, India

3rd Call for Chapter Proposals
for Essay Collection

How Scripted TV Series Portray Social Media’s Power to Shape Culture

This edited collection invites scholars to consider how an episode or series of scripted television (from 2000 to present) has portrayed social media’s power to shape culture—for better and/or for worse.

20032. The Picaro and Picaresque Fiction "The Picaro and Picaresque Fiction" examines variations on theme of the picaro from its sixteenth-century Spanish origins to the present day. What does this recurring impish rapscallion have to offer readers in different political and historical contexts?

Call for Papers: Social Work & Society, Special Issue 2/2027
“Constructing time - Temporalities of transition processes in the welfare state”
Guest-Editors: Anemari Karacic, Ariana Kellmer, Daniela Böhringer (University of Duisburg-Essen)

EXTENDED CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

The Works of Elaine May
SCREEN STORYTELLERS book series
Bloomsbury Academic

Editor: Jonathan Winchell

New deadline for abstract submissions: June 30, 2026

The proposed edited volume, The Works of Elaine May, has received preliminary interest from the SCREEN STORYTELLERS series editor. Nine chapters have been reviewed and confirmed for inclusion (see below).

I am currently seeking additional chapters on:

• Primary Colors
• Such Good Friends
• Nichols and May (comedy)

Call for Contributors:

 Special Issue of Mortality: Hauntology

Editors:

Robert Spinelli (rspinelli@ncis.org); Katie Clary (mclary@coastal.edu)

Abstract:

Call for book chapters: