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Ischia & Naples Festival of Philosophy
12th Edition: Freedom
Conference: 24-26 September 2026
Keynote in English by Simona Forti (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Extended Submission Deadline: 1 May 2026
The Festival
Our Vision: Throughout Africa, the Americas, Europe, Asia, Black people have shared values and beliefs about God, the Cosmos and each other embodied in our spirituality. This edited volume is a celebration of shared African and African Diasporic Spirituality in all its vibrant, beautiful, and powerful iterations. We are inspired by the life-giving guidance of Harriet Tubman, Howard Thurman, Octavia Butler, Cheikh Anta Diop, Lama Rod Owens, Malidoma Patrice Somé, Sobonfu Somé, Tricia Hersey, Kaira Jewel Lingo, Cole Arthur Riley, Pauli Murray, William Barber, bell hooks, Thomas Sankara, Rev. William J. Barber, Jawanza Eric Clark, Flora Wilson Bridges, Dwight N. Hopkins, Peter J.
AbstractThis session welcomes contributions on the topic of literary, philosophical, or intellectual influences between any of the members of the Inklings, especially between J.R.R. Tolkien and Owen Barfield, and the robustness of those claims. Verlyn Flieger’s assertion in Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World, that the languages of Middle-earth developed just as Barfield says human languages do in real life, is perhaps the model of influence, and is well known, respected, and analyzed. But Flieger's argument remains almost entirely circumstantial.
Designed by Jean-François Vernay, the Routledge Literary BRAIN (Brain-Related Academic Investigations of Narratives) Focus Series combines the language of literary criticism with neurocognitive and health humanities methodologies or explanatory frameworks, providing an innovative way of blending literary analysis with health humanities and neurocognitive approaches.
This exciting BRAIN series is designed to convene conversations across interdisciplinary knowledges, covering all fiction and nonfiction sub-genres such as poetry, drama, novels, short-stories, memoirs, (auto)biographies, essays, etc.
This edited volume emerges from a seminar panel that I proposed for the 2026 annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) earlier this year.
Volume Rationale:
The edited volume seeks to understand the interdisciplinary field of Death Studies through the lens of decolonisation.
Death Studies is a field of study that not only draws from a host of disciplines like anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology but also cuts across fields such as bereavement studies, trauma studies, and health humanities.
Call for Papers
Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2026 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 25-27, 2026
Virtual Conference
Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026
As the section editor for The Queer Experience, I invite you to submit a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, an edited scholarly volume that examines the evolving role of diversity, equity, and inclusion within American democracy and educational institutions.
The Queer Experience section seeks rigorous, thoughtful, and evidence-based analyses that examine gender identity, sexuality, intersectionality, and the evolving role(s) of queer people in society at the present moment.
https://asap17.exordo.com/panels/79/contribute/dbf84dd0cbaee432095920794...
In her 2018 M Archive: After the End of the World, Alexis Pauline Gumbs writes: “you can have breathing and the reality of the radical black porousness of love (aka black feminist metaphysics aka us all of us, us) or you cannot. there is only both or neither. there is no either or. there is no this or that. there is only all" (7)
“Virginia Woolf: Sound and Rhythm in Translation”, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE VIRGINIA WOOLFISTANBUL, TURKEY deadline for submissions: April 30, 2026 full name / name of organization: 35th International Conference Virginia Woolf
https://www.bilgi.edu.tr/en/academic/virginia-woolf-conference-2026/ contact email: woolftranssound26@gmail.com
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
35th International Conference Virginia Woolf
Open Forum “Virginia Woolf: Sound and Rhythm in Translation”, Istambul, Jun 24-Jun 28, 2026
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Annual Conference 2026
November 12-15, 2026
Seattle, WA
Call for Paper:
Our Ruling Classes: Class, Power, Conflict
Submission Deadline: May 25, 2026
Subject: Asian Literatures and Cultures
Contact: Wentao Ma (University of California - San Diego) w4ma@ucsd.edu
This panel explores how women writers and female characters in French and francophone literature resist, reconfigure, and expose gendered hierarchies of power embedded within social, political, and cultural “ruling classes.” In keeping with this year’s conference theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” the session examines how literary texts interrogate the mechanisms through which authority, patriarchal, colonial, aristocratic, bourgeois, or religious, is contested.
“Rhetorical Theory” (Standing Session)
Seattle, WA, Nov. 20-23
Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack (USC)
Email: leack@usc.edu
Abstract
This panel will explore recent movements in rhetorical theory writ large, either in connection with or apart from composition theory and practice. Special attention will be given to proposals that engage with the conference's theme.
Description
CFP: Media, Press Freedom, and Cultural Production in an Authoritarian Age
Co-sponsored by the Union for Democratic Communications, Project Censored and the Park Center for Independent Media
Oct. 23-24, 2026
Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association 123rd Annual Conference 2026
November 12-15, 2026--Seattle, WA USA
"The Intersection of France and Iran/Persia in Literature and Film"
The socio-political and cultural relationship between France and Iran has long been shaped in various ways, including literary, cinematic, and linguistic representation. This panel explores the intertextual and visual intersections between these two cultures in literature and film, spanning from the ancient period to the present.
This panel explores how Francophone and Hispanophone fantastic literatures engage structures of power, hierarchy, and authority across diverse historical and cultural contexts.
From the nineteenth century to the present, Francophone and Hispanophone fantastic literatures have unsettled the boundaries between the real and the impossible. Emerging from interconnected histories shaped by imperial expansion, colonial violence, dictatorship, revolution, and migration, the fantastic operates not only as narrative hesitation, but as a subtle language of power. As theorists such as Tzvetan Todorov and David Roas have shown, ontological uncertainty is never merely aesthetic. It signals deeper crises of authority, perception, and legitimacy.
The 123rd Annual PAMLA Conference will be held in person November 12–15, 2026, in Seattle, Washington.
The standing Gothic Studies panel welcomes papers on any aspect of Gothic studies across a wide range of periods, media, and cultural contexts. The Gothic has long served as a flexible and transgressive mode through which writers and creators explore fear, desire, memory, identity, and social conflict. From classic literary texts to contemporary film, television, gaming, and digital media, Gothic forms continue to evolve and adapt across cultures and historical moments.
JLIC: CALL FOR ARTICLES FOR OPEN ISSUE 2028
Editors: María Eugenia Crusetand Aleksander Bednarski
Proposals (500 words): May 15, 2026
Completed chapters (7,000 words): September 15, 2026
Languages: English and/or Spanish
Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
Vol. 53 No. 1 | March 2027
Call for Papers
From Neurodiversity to Neurocosmopolitanism:
Literature, Science, Politics
Guest Editor
Manuel Herrero-Puertas (National Taiwan University)
Deadline for Submissions: July 15, 2026
CALL FOR PAPERS
Send your abstracts to: congress@iasa-world.org by 31st May, 2026.
44th Annual West Indian Literature Conference
Freedom, Creative Spirit, & the Poetic Imagination
Where: University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus
When: October 7-11, 2026
Abstracts: Proposals are to be submitted by June 1, 2026
How can you free people? . . . When every move you make is to get them to accept conditions of unfreedom, when you use power to twist and corrupt what it is to be human, when you ask people to accept shame as triumph and indignity as progress? —Earl Lovelace, Salt (1996)
The "Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies" session invites submissions that discuss memory, identity, representation, or intersectionality pertaining to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer literature, media, or culture. You may, should you wish, engage in the conference theme of “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” but any topic on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer literature or culture is welcome.
Some topics of particular interest this year include:
• The homoerotic gaze in media
• Power and culture relating to gay, lesbian, transgender, or queer stories/histories
• Queer-coded representation in art or literature
Call for SubmissionsComparative Media Panel (In-Person)
PAMLA Conference 2026Primary Area - Secondary Area:
Film and Media Studies - Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, ConflictSession Chair:
Violet Luxton (Claremont Graduate University)
violet.luxton2@cgu.edu PAPER PROPOSAL DEADLINE: MAY 25, 2026
1956 was a year of theatrical milestones. Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night was published posthumously while The Diary of Anne Frank won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. And, of course, the American Society for Theatre Research was founded. O’Neill’s meditation on troubled family dynamics and addiction would go on to win the Pulitzer in 1957. The previous year, the Pulitzer went to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a Tennessee Williams play about alcoholism and (potentially) sublimated queer desire. In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry became the first Black woman to have a play produced on Broadway when A Raisin in the Sun premiered.
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online from Thursday, October 15th, to Saturday, October 17th, 2026.
We encourage panel proposals as well as individual submissions.
Papers are generally 15-20 minutes in length. We also encourage works in progress, and informal presentations.
This area considers the intersection of politics, civic life, and popular culture. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
Political actions that involve pop culture, including banning or attacking elements of pop culture
“Home-Making: Reinventing Home
in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures”
November 20-21, 2026
Venue: Sousse, Tunisia
Call for Papers
Otherness: Essays & Studies
Otherness and Folklore – Special issue Call for Papers
Folklore is all about Otherness. It imagines the other as that which is beyond the scope of the ordinary and the real. It evokes the monstrous, the divine, and the outsider. It invokes magic through ritual, and it empowers the repressed. The other, in folklore, is welcomed into the everyday and woven into the fabric of our communities. It becomes an altered version of alterity, a homely version of the uncanny: an other that we can be intimate with.
Call for Additional Chapters
Global Bollywood: Cultural Appropriation, Streaming Media, and the Politics of Representation (Routledge)
Editor: Dr. Tanima Kumari
The proposed edited volume Global Bollywood: Cultural Appropriation, Streaming Media, and the Politics of Representation has received a preliminary expression of interest from Routledge.
A number of submissions have already been received, and several chapters have been reviewed and confirmed for inclusion.
Table of Contents
Part I: Cultural Appropriation and Hybridity
Dear colleagues,
https://jnr2.hcommons.org/ | ISSN: 1759-3085
Call for Submissions
We are currently inviting submissions for our next open issue on any aspect of cultural practice in Northern Europe in the period 1430-1650, including but not limited to the following disciplines:
☞ Literature
☞ Art & Architectural History
☞ Musicology
☞ Philosophy
☞ Theology
☞ Political Studies
☞ History
☞ Rhetorics
☞ Dance & Performance
☞ Manuscript and Archival Studies
Submit a Manuscript to the Journal
Sport in Society
For a Special Issue on
Artificial Intelligence and Sport from Social and Scholarly PerspectivesAbstract deadline01 May 2026Manuscript deadline01 December 2026 Special Issue Editor(s)
Shu Wan, University at Buffalo
shuwan@buffalo.edu
Huijie Zhang, South China Normal University
huijiezhang199@163.com
Ekphrasis, the verbal representation of visual representation, is one of art’s oldest preoccupations. Over the past decade, we have seen a rise in British and Irish innovative ekphrastic poetry and visual art that responds to poetry. Concurrently, there has been a new wave of interest in the efficacy and function of ekphrasis, that focuses on its role as a type of creative practice and a way of thinking through aesthetic judgement. Despite all this activity, no formal consideration of the field of ekphrasis itself has emerged. Ekphrasis underwent a paradigmatic shift in which it was no longer defined by its ‘paragonal’ energy.
This special issue aims to cultivate greater convergence and contribute to the broader discourse on cross-cultural exchange, particularly in contexts beyond the Euro-American center. We encourage investigations into how cultural values, ideological frameworks, and aesthetic sensibilities shape the translation and reception of children’s literature across diverse cultural contexts. We also encourage the integration of new theoretical lenses and trends, such as transcreation, affect theory, audiovisual translation, cognitive translation studies, and interdisciplinary approaches to gender and ecology, and the impact of AI, in the discussion of translational convergences and divergences in global children’s literature.
War Literature Today: Ecology, Violence, and the Novel
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787). This special issue belongs to the section "Literature in the Humanities".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2027 | Viewed by 69
1st DL2 International Workshop
Date: 3-4 December 2026
Venue: Hybrid - University of Alicante (campus) and online
Paper submission deadline: 30th September 2026
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 1st DL2 International Workshop, which will be held in hybrid format on 3rd and 4th December 2026 at the University of Alicante and online. We kindly ask you to distribute this invitation among your colleagues and staff.
Since 2014, the eTEXTS: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference has served as a platform for the examination and exploration of diverse "texts" from English-speaking countries of Ango-Saxon heritage. By bringing together scholars, doctoral students, and early-career professionals, the conference fosters scientific debates and critical discussions that drive forward our understanding of literature and culture.
The East Asian Translation Studies conference aims to provide a platform for translators and researchers working in the East Asian context to exchange ideas on issues related to translation.
Previous EATS conferences have been held at the University of East Anglia, UK (2014); Meiji University, Japan (2016); Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (2019); Université Paris Cité, France (2022); and the University of Queensland, Australia (2024). They have centered on questions of the circulation of translation within East Asia, constructing/deconstructing East Asia, changing identities of East Asia observed in translation, universals in East Asian translation, and negotiating the borders of translation and East Asia.
Tentative Title- Cross Imagination and Literary Production: African Writers and Indian Characters, Indo- African Writers and African Characters
Globalectics is the interrelationship of all things, the mutual containment of the local and the global.”
— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing (2012)
Call for Papers
Philip K. Dick at 100: Fiction, Philosophy, and Cultural Afterlives
Edited Volume (Centenary Collection)
Editors:
Assoc.Prof.Dr. Ercan Gürova
Ankara University, Turkey
Prof. dr Mladen Jakovljević
University of Priština in Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia
“Under consideration for publication by a reputable international academic publisher.”
Literature, Technology, and the Body
PAMLA 2026, Seattle, November 12-15
https://www.pamla.org/pamla2026/
This panel invites papers that examine any aspect of literary treatments of the human body in relationship to technology—especially medical and industrial technologies—past and present. In particular, the panel is interested in literary interrogations of the ways that technology mediates the subject of the body into the public-political and manages populations of subjects/bodies.
“Feel the Force”: The first 50 years of Star Wars
A PopCRN Conference
Join us for a free virtual conference exploring the Star Wars universe and its enduring cultural impact to be held online from 4th-5th May 2027.
August 3-5, 2026
Southern Utah University - Utah Shakespeare Festival
The Wooden O Symposium is a cross-disciplinary conference exploring the impact of Shakespeare's plays on culture and history, from his time to the present. This face-to-face conference aims to foster research in the field of Shakespeare Studies and to provide connections between academia and professional theatre productions through our partnership with the Utah Shakespeare Festival. The Wooden O Symposium limits participation to 25 presenters to ensure robust conversation and feedback as we strive to create a community of scholars engaged with the work of Shakespeare.
Edited Volume
Call for Contributions
Call for Book Chapters
Title: Folk and Culture: Tradition, Resistance and Nurture
Publisher: VLC Media Publication
VLC Media Publication offers ISBN-certified, peer-reviewed publications with national and international circulation.
Editors:
Dr. Naresh K Vats, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indrapratha University, New Delhi, India
Dr. Chetna Tiwari, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indrapratha University, New Delhi, India
Scope of the Volume:
Call for Book Chapters
Title:
Adivasi Writings in India: History, Memory, and Contemporary Expressions
Editors:
Dr Chetna Tiwari, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India
Dr Naresh K Vats, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India
Publisher:
Vedant Knowledge Systems Pvt Ltd
Book Details:
We invite chapter proposals for an edited collection titled Metafictional Horror Cinema: The Screen as Mirror, to be submitted to the UWP Horror Studies series. The volume explores how horror cinema reflects on its own formal strategies, lays bare its narrative and technological mechanisms, and confronts viewers with unsettling modes of self-awareness.
The volume will explore the role of metafiction within horror cinema, from postmodern genre revisions and reflexive found-footage films to avant-garde and hybrid works that fracture narrative logic, collapse diegetic boundaries, break the fourth wall, or explicitly implicate the viewer in acts of spectatorship and violence.
The American Literature II: Literature after 1870 Permanent Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) is seeking proposals for this year’s in-person convention in Chicago, Illinois. This year’s theme for the conference is “After the Archive”; accordingly, the Permanent Section encourages presentations that focus on the notion of the archive. Some questions to be considered in context of American literature after 1870 are:
Seeking on papers about opacity in contemporary literature and art for a panel at ASAP (Association for the Study of Arts of the Present) 2026 Convention. Please send an abstract and a short bio to Sané Bhattarai (bhattsan@gvsu.edu) or Moya (Moyang) Li (moyang.li@csulb.edu) by April 24.
The American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) is putting together a pre-constituted panel for submission to the 2026 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) conference, held November 12-15, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency in Seattle, Washington. PAMLA ‘s 2026 theme is “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict.” Following this, AHSA is accepting a range of papers on “Comic Leadership.” We invite submissions that consider the role of comedy in politics. Often, comedy is used to “takedown” and “critique” those in power through satire and parody, but what can comedy offer for enacting new political paths forward?
Session Abstract: The genre of African American poetry has a long legacy of both preserving tradition and evolving to suit current times and places. This session invites discussion of the defining features that have been maintained over time as well as patterns of bold experimentation. Rather than seeing tradition and innovation as opposing aesthetic directions, this session hopes to examine ways they have co-existed in this genre and been mutually fruitful.