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Conference online (via Zoom): 2-3 July 2026
CFP:
Howard University | March 17–18, 2027
Hosted by the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and the Black Press Research Collective
In March 1827, just over fifty years after the United States Declaration of Independence, Freedom’s Journal, the first Black newspaper in North America, declared: “We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us.”
In March 2027, we mark the bicentennial of the Black Press, celebrating 200 years of Black journalism as one of the most vital and enduring institutions in American public life.
Motion Lines: Depicting movement in the early 20th century
18 Nov. 2026, Université Paris Nanterre
Call for Proposals: Art, Aura, and the Algorithm 2026 PNCA Symposium | October 1–3, 2026 Pacific Northwest College of Art at Willamette University 511 NW Broadway, Portland, Oregon Free and open to the public
Keynote: Sasha Stiles
Haunted Futures 2026
University College Cork: 29th - 30th September 2026
Deadline for Submissions: July 24th, 2026
The Cultures of Philosophy team at the University of Exeter invites proposals for the online workshop Teaching Early Modern Women’s Writing Between Literature and Philosophy: Pedagogy and Practice. The aim of this workshop is to share case studies and best practice regarding the teaching of early modern women’s philosophical writing in HE, across languages, disciplines and national settings. We intend to bring together teachers and researchers in HE with members of subject organisations to reflect on what’s working and what could be changed to improve the visibility of and engagement with early modern women’s philosophical writing, broadly conceived.
Silly Old Bear? A Companion to Adaptations, Appropriations, and Transformations of Winnie-the-Pooh
Organized by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)
Please submit proposals by 1 August 2026
The "White World," as defined by Walter Rodney, determines who is white and who is black. To this, we add that the White World also dictates which women are enslaved and which may be free. It is difficult to envision the possibility of women’s liberation in the Global South without the complete dismantling of colonialism and Western imperialism. While women in many post-colonial patriarchal nations are exploited in myriad ways, it is a mistake to imagine that this exploitation—and the patriarchal mentality of the post-colonial world—is not profoundly shaped by Western influence. Many African and South American nations continue to funnel their resources to the West while their own populations suffer from hunger.
We are pleased to announce an open call for bids to host the 2027 Post45 Graduate Symposium. The Post45 Graduate Symposium is a two-day event, typically held in Spring, which brings together graduate students and faculty members working on post-1945 arts, literature, media, and culture. Around fifteen graduate students each submit a work-in-progress and convene in a workshop-style setting along with faculty respondents to discuss each participant's work.
In the past two decades, scholars of environmental literature have begun expanding the Euro-American canons and contexts that have long dominated ecocriticism and publication, teaching, and reading practices in the West. The perspectives on humans’ relationship with the nonhuman world that emerge from alternate global sites often complicate and even challenge the values and priorities of Western environmental scholarship and activism.
The Politics of Light in Neo-Victorian Fictions - Call for Contributions
The Victorian period saw the introduction of a multiplicity of overlapping technologies and cultural practices of lighting, which radically transformed labour and the medical sciences, reinvented the night and connected ideas of leisure and security, refashioned the domestic interior as well as the perception of public appearance, and greatly impacted architecture and urban planning, policing, warfare and, not least, philosophy and the arts.
This interdisciplinary seminar/workshop will bring researchers, academicians, professionals, and students to explore the transformative role of artificial intelligence in sustainable agriculture, environmental resilience, ecological humanities, and contemporary education. The presentations on AIGS-2026 will focus on emerging themes, including:
· AI and Smart Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture
· Climate Resilience and Water Sustainability
· Sustainable Agriculture in Hilly Regions
· Emerging Pollution and Environmental Monitoring
· Citizen Science and Big Data Analytics
· Indigenous Knowledge and Rural Sustainability
· AI in Education and Digital Pedagogy
PAMLA Panel Proposal, November 2026: Mourning as Social Protest, Andrea Fishman, Presiding Officer
Abstracts are invited for a traditional panel session to be held at the annual meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, scheduled for 5-7 November 2026 at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel and Conference Center, Atlanta, GA, USA.
This session intends to explore the theme of “hospitality” in the works of Joseph Conrad in order to highlight how Conrad’s relationships both reflected and influenced his literary output throughout his career. Some relationships were more enduring than others, but all had an impact, often a profound impact, on his life and writing.
The Comparative Literature session, like its namesake discipline, strives to be broad, inclusive, and interdisciplinary. We therefore welcome proposals that touch on multiple works of literature and strive to make use of more than traditional comparative studies, borrowing analytic or interpretive practices from other disciplines such as philosophy, film and media studies, digital humanities, cultural or art history.
Proposals that engage with the conference theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” are welcome but not required. The panel welcomes clear, thoughtful, and well-researched proposals in Comparative Literature that demonstrate engagement with relevant scholarship.
Background & Rationale:
The GPA is accepting submissions for its 2026-2027 volume of The Journal of the Georgia Philological Association. Papers focused on literature, language, composition, history, philosophy, translation, the general humanities, interdisciplinary studies, and pedagogy will be considered.
Please send submissions to Editor-in-Chief, at jgpasubmissions@gmail.com by Sept. 30, 2026.
Please visit our website for more information on submitting to the journal: https://www.mga.edu/arts-letters/english/gpa/index.php
Dear colleagues, I am very happy to announce that Ontological Exhaustion Vol. 1, Special Issue of Angelaki, which was advertised here as a CFP, has been published online! A printed book with Routledge as well is upcoming in the next few months.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Displaced Dialogues: Performance and Identity in Dalit and Tribal South Asian Diaspora
Introduction
Call for Panel Proposals
Renaissance Conference of Southern California (RCSC)-Sponsored Panels for RSA Philadelphia
Renaissance Society of America Conference
Philadelphia, USA March 11–13, 2027
CFP Deadline: August 15, 2026
RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
68th Annual Conference
“Making the Renaissance Political Body”
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for our 68th Annual Conference, to be held at California State University, Fullerton on Saturday, September 26th, 2026
CALL FOR PAPERS
Call for Articles
OTAGO GERMAN STUDIES (OGS), Vol. 33 (https://otagogermanstudies.otago.ac.nz/ogs)
University of Otago – Dunedin | Ōtepoti
New Zealand | Aotearoa
Daniel Spoerri: Collecting, Consuming, Conserving
Retrospective and Prospective Views
The editorial board of OTAGO GERMAN STUDIES invites submissions for a forthcoming
edited volume dedicated to the life and work of Daniel Spoerri (1930–2024), the Swiss-born
Call for Papers
Journal of Avant-Garde Studies (JAGS), Open Issue
Editors-in-Chief: Éva Forgács, Benedikt Hjartarson, Cecilia Novero, Sami Sjöberg
Published biannually by Brill
About the Journal
TYCA Northeast
61st Annual Conference
2026 Call for Proposals
October 2 - 3, 2026
Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square
25 S Queen St, Lancaster, PA 17603
Proposal Deadline: Monday, June 1, 2026
Submission Link: https://www.tycanortheast.org/
Conference Theme: Meeting the Moment: Connecting the Past, Present, and Future in English Studies
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
– Franz Kafka, letter to Oskar Pollak, 27th January 1904
We are delighted to announce that Errant is now open for submissions to its fifth issue.
LFA 2026: ADAPTATION/NATION
LITERATURE/FILM ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
Elon University, Elon, NC
October 1st – 3rd 2026
SEEKING BOOK CHAPTER AUTHORS: Women and social media through a global lens - edited collection (under contract)
We are seeking authors for an interdisciplinary edited volume examining women’s roles in social media as both producers and consumers across global contexts. This collection explores the personal, political, social, and economic dimensions of this digital activity through the examination of global regions.
Chapters are organized by region. Remaining regions include:
Each chapter will contain the following sections:
The Writing, Speaking, and Argument Program, along with the Department of English and the Film and Media Studies Program at the University of Rochester are pleased to announce an upcoming undergraduate conference on horror, to be held October 23-25, 2026. The conference will featuring a keynote address by the University of Rochester’s own Jason Middleton, author of numerous articles on horror films, co-editor (with Aviva Briefel) of Labors of Fear: The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work (U of Texas P, 2023), and a featured expert on the AMC series Eli Roth’s History of Horror.
Handbook of Religions and Migration: Global and Multi-Tradition Perspectives (Springer)
Editors:
İhsan Çapcıoğlu, Ankara University
Fadime Apaydın, University of California, Riverside
Nevfel Akyar, Manisa Celal Bayar University
Editorial Note: In line with our editorial commitment to developing a major reference handbook comparable to leading works in the field, the submission deadline has been extended briefly in order to further strengthen the volume’s global, multi-religious, and cross-traditional comparative dimensions.
REMINDER: Submission deadline June 15th!
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: THE SOUTHERN GOTHIC AT PCAS/ACAS 2026
The Southern Gothic is not merely a regional offshoot of the Gothic tradition—it is a dynamic cultural mode shaped by the histories, violences, mythologies, and contradictions of the American South. Rooted in hauntings both literal and structural, the Southern Gothic interrogates race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, ecology, labor, memory, and the ongoing afterlives of history. Its borders—like its landscapes and bodies—are unstable, porous, and contested.
Call for Chapters
Edited Volume: Rethinking M.R. James: Antiquarianism, Horror, and the Supernatural
Editor: Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash, Fellow of Social Science Research Council
Introduction
Creative Textual Reuse & Research (PAMLA Conference in Seattle, November 2026)
"Melville Revivals"
PAMLA 2026
November 12-15, 2026
Seattle, Washington (Hyatt Regency Seattle, 808 Howell Street)
William Faulkner and Louise Erdrich
A Conference Sponsored by the Center for Faulkner Studies
Southeast Missouri State University
Cape Girardeau, Missouri
October 22-24, 2026
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.
Join the 2026 Graduate Conference at the University of Verona and explore how identities are shaped, challenged, and reimagined through language, literature, and culture.
“(De)Constructing Identities: Inclusive Practices of Naming” invites emerging scholars to engage with some of today’s most urgent debates on inclusion, representation, and power.
From feminist and queer studies to postcolonialism, disability studies, translation, and cultural memory, the conference offers a rich interdisciplinary dialogue.
Participants will investigate how naming practices influence social perception, identity formation, and political discourse across languag
Call for Papers (FINAL CALL - May 31, 2026)
Journal of West Indian Literature Special Issue on Caribbean Health Humanities
November 2027
Special issue editors: Jarrel De Matas and April Shemak
Small Screens, Big Stories: Storytelling, Seriality and Mobile Screen Culture
Evolution of Story IV
Deadline for chapter-track abstracts: 1 June 2026
Online symposium-only track open until March 2027
The CCCC’s 2027 Convention (April 14-17, 2027 in Miwaukee, WI) invites us to “imagine and design” our preferable, potentially even preposterous, writing futures; this panel imagines those futures through place-based education (PBE).
Dear Colleague, We invite you to contribute to a forthcoming edited volume, A Global Companion for Anti-Racist Education and Solidarity Work. This volume brings together educators, researchers, and community practitioners engaged in the everyday work of confronting racism and cultivating more just educational environments. Rather than treating anti-racist education as abstract or purely theoretical, this volume centers practice. We begin from the premise that some of the most generative forms of anti-racist work are already unfolding in classrooms, schools, community organizations, and local movements.
We invite you to submit scholarly or creative work to the 91st Annual Conference of the Indiana College English Association. As a regional affiliate of the College English Association, anyone in our region (Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky) is encouraged to participate.
RADIATION: Connection Across Distance
A Cross-disciplinary Conference
Arnolfini, Bristol, UK 12 – 14 Nov 2026
Call for Papers (Rolling Basis)
Karto-Teka Gdańska
An interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the University of Gdańsk and the Pomeranian Philosophical-Theological Society, Karto-Teka Gdańska invites submissions on an ongoing, rolling basis for future online-first publication.
Founded in 2017, Karto-Teka Gdańska is an international, peer-reviewed journal committed to interdisciplinary dialogue across the humanities, philosophy, history, theology, cultural studies, and related fields.
Scope and Focus
Over the last years, there has been a burgeoning debate about the Eastern multicultural space, ranging from Eastern Europe, Middle East and South Asian countries to the Far East, which has been intrinsically coupled with significant cultural and economic dynamism; however, such diverse and multi-layered areas have also been the subject of all sorts of misrepresentations and misinterpretations. Future trajectory of the Eastern mind-set might provide a basis for the emergence of new civilizations in this new century and new millennium. This section attempts to explore the outcomes of the various encounters between Eastern and Western cultural conventions in relation to literature, arts, social sciences, media studies and other fields, by carefully examining
PAEDEIA: NSU Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences, and LawCall for Papers
Vol. 2, 2026
*"Online First" publication upon acceptance
*Expected print publication in December 2026
Call for papers
Architectures of Deceit:
Impostors and Con Artists in Contemporary Film and Media
The Literature and Popular Culture area for the 2026 Northeast Popular Culture Association conference is accepting paper and panel proposals from faculty and graduate students. NEPCA’s 2026 virtual annual conference will be held from Thursday, October 15-Saturday, October 17, 2026. Sessions will take place on Zoom through Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. More information on the conference can be found here: https://www.northeastpca.org/call-for-papers
250-word abstracts are due by June 15, 2026 at 5 pm.
Setting the stage: a theatre and performance dissertation writing group
Writing a dissertation can be lonely: we want to change that. Many of us first fell in love with theater because — through exploratory rehearsals, late-night tech runs, and joyful opening nights — we found camaraderie and connection, both of which can feel distant in graduate school. If theater is best practiced with others, how can our research and writing processes be shaped by the same commitment to community-building?
This panel title borrows from the article "Granola and Guns: The Rise of Conspirituality" hosted on McGill University's Office for Science and Society that attempts to define and locate in American society a perplexing mindset that blends countercultural mystical thinking and conservative paranoia. "Conspirituality," which PennState defines as "a belief system that blends new age spiritual beliefs and conspiracy theorizing," has also been branded the "crunchy-to-fascism" pipeline, demonstrating how an openness to crystal healing, chakra opening, sonic baths, and celestial alignment has led many—often well-to-do white women—towards "Pastel QAnon," anti-vaxx, and an embrace of alt-right beliefs.