Call for Proposals: Star Trek and the CourtroomAn Edited Collection on Justice, Law, and the Trial in Star Trek

We invite proposals for an edited volume examining trial and courtroom episodes across the Star Trek franchise. From “Court Martial” (TOS) to “Ad Astra per Aspera” (SNW), Star Trek has used the trial format to explore questions of personhood, justice, military law, civil rights, ethical responsibility, and the limits of legal systems. These episodes serve as philosophical laboratories, testing the boundaries of law when confronted with, for example, artificial intelligence, alien cultures, time travel, and evolving definitions of sentience and citizenship.

Conference online: 20-21 August 2026

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: 

Theme: Is it a Wonderful Life?

Wonder (n.): a feeling of surprise or awe, caused by something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable

Wonder (v.): to feel some doubt or curiosity; to be desirous to know or learn.

Wondrous (adj.): marvelous; wonderful. 

PAMLA 2026 is pleased to present Pacific Northwest Literatures (https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/20023)!

Past and present, the Pacific Northwest has functioned in literature as a dynamic space defined by transition, ecological precarity, and socio-political friction. This panel explores writers of fiction, poetry, memoir, and non-fiction whose work investigates the unique sense of place, history, and culture defining the region. We welcome papers that engage with the tensions between industry and preservation, indigenous sovereignty, labor movements, and the mythologies of the western wilderness.

PAMLA 2026 is pleased to present New Directions in Mark Twain Studies (co-sponsored by the Mark Twain Circle) (https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/20184)!

Animal Adaptations

We invite proposals for a small number of additional chapters for an edited volume on animal adaptations, edited by Justyna Włodarczyk (University of Warsaw) and Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck).

The Indian diaspora is the largest diaspora community in the world, with an approximate population of 35.4 million. From the migration of the indentured labour force during the colonial period to the mass immigration of educated Indians to overseas countries in the late twentieth century, the Indian diaspora has indeed become a global phenomenon. Expanding migration circuits, job and business opportunities, shifting lifestyles, skilled and semi-skilled labour force, among others, have resulted in significant socioeconomic mobility, especially over the last 25 years. Besides making significant contributions to varied fields, the Indian diaspora has also arguably brought changes in how others have traditionally seen India.

Often, when thinking of academia, the ideas of books, writing, and theory are what make up the idea of the scholar. Many scholars who speak about activism, liberation, mutual aid, living in a collective community, and many other topics of concern for the JOAA team, do not always live the practice they write. This year, we are hoping to disrupt this focus on the blueprints of freedom and look into the way folks are working in the world to build, support, create, and live praxis in their lives.   

Call for Papers:

Cluster on Refusal in Migrant and Refugee Lifemaking

Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly

Convener: Monisha Das Gupta
Submission length: 6,000-8,000 words, including the list of references

India is poised to press home its civilisational charisma and unique advantages in the quest to realise its goals under the mission Viksit Bharat 2047. Fuelled by conceptual, imaginative and practical inputs derived from the continuously preserved Indian Knowledge Systems (Bharatiya Jñāna Paramparā), India’s developmental mission is not for its own exclusive benefit; rather, it is to guide the world in its anxious search for an alternative holistic paradigm of growth that preserves the universal core of human life and values, restores our vital spiritual connections with natural environments and rejuvenates an organic sense of community even as global enterprise prospers and enables a sense of economic well-being and security in people.

CFP: History and Popular Uses of the Past – NEPCA Virtual Fall Conference 2026

Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2026 (at 5 pm EDT)

Contact email:

Hannah Sophie Schiffner, h.schiffner@zeppelin-university.net

The History and Popular Uses of the Past Area invites submissions for the Northeast Popular Culture Association’s (NEPCA) annual conference to be held online October 15th – 17th, 2026.

The First Global Algorithmacy Conference

Acronym
ALGOCON 2026

Web page
https://algorithmacy.com

Location
La Brea Pitch Lake, Trinidad and Tobago

Submission deadline
15 August 2026

Notification due
Rolling (public review on the PR thread, typically within ~5 business days of submission); final decisions by September 1 2026

Final version due
At acceptance — accepted papers are published with their full review history on the public repository

We invite proposals for individual papers for the critical mixed race studies panel at the annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) in Seattle, Washington, from November 12-15, 2026. 

Paper proposals are due by June 6, 2026.

The deadline for abstract submission has been extended until 30 June, 2026.

PAMLA 2026 is pleased to present A Ryan Coogler Roundtable: Reimagining Black Futures and Histories (

We invite you to submit an abstract and bio by June 17, 2026, to participate in a Modern Language Association (MLA) 2027 seminar, "Queer Literary Studies NOW." Seminar participants will precirculate 1500-word papers on the theme, and we will discuss the papers and the larger theme during the seminar on the first day of the MLA 2027 conference. MLA 2027 will take place in Los Angeles, California, January 7-10, 2027. Participants must be MLA members and register for the conference.

Call for Papers
The Playful Monster
24–25 September 2026

20th Century Southern Women Writers Conference
presented by the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society
​October 15-18, 2026Springfield, Kentucky 

Language programs across the United States are navigating a period of significant uncertainty marked by declining enrollments, the loss of federal funding, shifting institutional priorities, and increasing budget constraints. In many cases, these pressures reflect broader institutional and political dynamics in which decisions about resource allocation, curricular value, and program viability are shaped by structures of power within higher education. As a result, language programs often find themselves particularly vulnerable within these hierarchies, with some facing downsizing or closure.

Hogg’s Worlds Now

Theorizing Gender, Sex and Sexuality through Speculative Literatures

Edited Volume — Call for Contributions

Editors: Drs. Joshua Horton (Arizona State University) and Sandra Cox (Southeast Missouri State University)

contact emails: jthorto2@asu.edu and scox@semo.edu

Deadlines:

Abstracts (200-300 words) due September 30, 2026

Completed drafts (5000-8000 words, including MLA style citations and minimal endnotes) of accepted chapters due February 28, 2027

Overview:

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