CALL FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS TO SERVE AS KEYNOTE AND PLENARY SPEAKERS: due by 2/08/26

The Undergraduate and Graduate Victorian Studies Association (UGSVA) is announcing our fourth annual online conference. The UGSVA conference is run by a team of undergraduate and graduate students primarily from Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada and Carroll University, Waukesha, WI. The conference will take place on Tuesday April 28st from about 9:00 AM-4:00 PM EST (time approximate) via Zoom.

Beginning with Jonathan Hickman’s House of X/Powers of X limited series, the Krakoan Age X-Men stories occur against the backdrop of the establishment of a post-scarcity and post-mortality mutant homeland on the living island of Krakoa. The Krakoan Age ran from 2019 and 2024 and included more than 500 issues spread across 80 different comic titles. Within this vast body of text, a dizzying plurality of story-types are explored, ranging from gritty police procedurals, to sprawling war stories, to cozy slice-of-life tales. The Krakoan Age stories are also notable in their creative and interesting engagement with religious stories and themes, particularly in series such as Way of X, Legion of X and The Onslaught Revelation.

The upcoming 34th Conference of the Association for Gender and Sexuality Studies (AEGS) will take place at the University of Oviedofrom May 20th and 22nd, 2026. It will be hosted by the Institute of Gender and Diversity (IUGEN-DIV), the INTERSECTIONS research group (Contemporary Literatures, Cultures, and Theories), and the Department of English, French, and German.

Perhaps the most relevant question we are facing today, both in and out of the university, is how to deal with AI. In academia, different disciplines handle this question in a myriad of ways, some insisting that to not embrace AI in the classroom is harmful to the students, while others believe the utilization of AI must weaken critical thinking skills. Regardless of the differing opinions on how to use it appropriately, no one disagrees that it is here to stay. Living through the development of this world-changing technology means that we are the ones facing the question of what it means to live well in the age of AI.

A Two-Day International Conference on Civilizational Literature Texts, Traditions, and Transcultural Dialogues across Civilizations

 Dates: 13 and 14th March, 2026

Venue: Dharwad, Karnataka, India

Mode: Hybrid

Organized by Dharwad Katte, in collaboration with Adikavi Sri Maharishi Valmiki University, Raichur, Janata Shikshana Samity, Dharwad and Peter Lang.

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Journal of Medieval Worlds

Call for Submissions

CFP: Special Issue on Appalachian Animal Studies

To be published in Spring 2027, co-edited by Drs. Kathryn Kirkpatrick and Jessica Cory

Whether it’s the relationships we have with our animal companions, the meat we (may not) eat, or the countless more-than-human species with whom we share this region, animals are important to our lives and to Appalachian spaces.

Scholarly book reviews sought for new book titled Madness and the Sea: A Literary History. To e published by Palgravve on March 26, 2026. Scholars with interests in the fields of Blue Humanities, Maritime literature, madness in literature and medical humanities and with links to review sites are welcome to contact me to arrange review copies.

Neither ‘queer’ nor ‘beginnings’ are easy to pin down. Queerness is infamous for its ability to slip away from definition; it encompasses – but is not reducible to – sexuality, gender, race, ability, class, politics, and more. Beginnings, too, wriggle from our grasp. Choose a beginning for any historical event, movement, or narrative and there is always something which precedes it. Are beginnings focused into an inciting event, or do they reside in the feelings which precipitate such events? Who gets to decide?

Wallace Stevens’s poetry abounds with animals, from the bucks and firecat of “Earthy Anecdote” to the “gold-feathered bird” of “Of Mere Being.” This session invites papers on Stevens’s animals and animal imagery across his oeuvre. How do animals in Stevens’s poems reflect or complicate his sense of human perception, subjectivity, and the environment? In what ways do they trouble distinctions between the human and the nonhuman, the domestic and the wild, the material and the symbolic?

Proposals might consider individual poems or sequences, the wider bestiary of The Collected Poems, or Stevens’s animals in relation to earlier, contemporaneous, or later writers.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey (JAST) 

2026 Fall Issue: Science Fiction and the American Imagination 

Guest Editor: Firuze Güzel, Ege University, Izmir, Türkiye

Deadline for Full-Text Submissions: July 15, 2026

The forming of the five senses is a labour of the entire history of the world down to the present.

— Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)

Lose your mind and come to your senses.

— Frederich (Fritz) Perls, Gestalt Therapy Verbatim (1969)

CFP Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia

Special Issue: Minding the Present. Bodies, Places, Matter in and between Australia and Europe

Deadline for proposals: 15 March 2026

Taking its cue from a very vibrant conference held in Padova (Italy) in September 2025, the Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia is seeking articles that examine the shaping experiences, identities, and perceptions of the present as a catalyst to urgent action both in Australia—with a special alertness to the very rooted cultures of Indigenous Australia—and in the complex relations between Europe and Australia.  

Call for Papers: 

I am pleased to share a call for chapter proposals for an edited collection currently in development titled Black Feminist Practices and AI in the Composition Classroom: Memoir, Pedagogy, and Futures. This volume invites scholars, teachers, and practitioners to explore how Black Feminist rhetorical traditions can guide ethical, humanizing, and culturally responsive uses of artificial intelligence in writing instruction.

CFP | Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society (PEHS) session 

American Literature Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, May 20-23, 2026

Hopkins’s America, Then & Now

CFP “A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy” Conference, February 27–28, 2026

The conference builds on a growing body of research that examines the theological, cultural, and political intersections of democracy, citizenship, and power. Participants will investigate how worldviews and faith traditions have informed concepts of governance, belonging, and personhood from the founding era to the present. The conference will highlight not only the Haudenosaunee Influence on American Democracy but also the historic and present contributions to Democratic thought by Black, Indigenous, and Latine communities, contributions which are often forgotten and ignored.

Featured Speakers

Elmira 2026: The Tenth International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies

Conference Theme: Irreverence, Rebellion, and Resilience

We are pleased to invite participants to a four-day intensive book reading workshop on Antonio Gramsci (online), focused on questions of hegemony, culture, subaltern politics, and political struggle. This workshop brings together students, scholars, researchers, activists, and readers for a sustained and collective engagement with Gramsci’s writings. Written largely under conditions of imprisonment and censorship, Gramsci’s work challenges us to think about power not only as domination, but as consent, culture, and everyday common sense.

The last few years have seen the publication of a number of fantasy novels for young people written by authors from the postcolonial diaspora, including Tomi Adeyemi’s Legacy of Orisha trilogy, Jordan Ifueko’s Raybearer series, Nnedi Okarofor’s The Nsibidi Scripts series and Roshani Chokshi’s The Gilded Wolves series. Additionally, there are YA fantasy series that deal with hierarchies and inequities resulting from colonization and settler colonialism, such as Naomi Novik’s Scholomance series and Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves duology.

Abstract 

The “end of the world” names a methodological problem before it names an apocalypse: how do humanities scholars and artist-researchers think, make, and teach when climate disruption, extinction, extractive infrastructures, forced displacement, and slow violence reformat what counts as evidence, what counts as futurity, and what counts as responsibility? This conference convenes research and practice across film, theatre, performance, and allied arts to ask how (post)Anthropocene conditions are not only represented but produced, felt, and negotiated through aesthetic forms, production systems, embodied publics, and more-than-human milieus. 

Caleidoscopio – Revista de Comunicação e Cultura is the journal of the Communication Sciences Department of ECATI, Lusófona University.

Now entering its second series, Caleidoscopio is being relaunched with the aim of consolidating its position as an open-access platform dedicated to critical research in communication sciences, with a special focus on the intersection of communication, media, and the arts in contemporary societies.

We invite submissions that engage with approaches from media theory, visual studies, philosophy of technology, cybernetics, or contemporary artistic practices. There are no article processing charges.

The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society will host two panels at the 37th Annual American Literature Association Conference, May 20-23, 2026 in Chicago. We invite proposals for presentations on any aspect of Gilman’s life and work.

Possible topics include but are by no means limited to:

• Gilman and the Female Gothic

• Gilman and Xenofeminism

• Gilman and First Wave Feminism

• Gilman and Medicine / the Health Humanities

• Gilman and Utopianism

• Gilman and Evolutionary Science

• Gilman and Religion

• Gilman and Queer Culture

[DEADLINE EXTENDED] LOOK! : a graduate student workshop 

Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender
Columbia University

April 17–18, 2026

Special thematic dossier 8.1 | Digital Projections and Screened Identities in US American Culture

Editors: Laura Álvarez Trigo (Universidad de Valladolid) and Anna Marta Marini (Freie Universität Berlin)