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3rd International H/Story Seminar
Communism in Historical Fiction
02.04.2026
online
University of Silesia in Katowice
Institute of Literary Studies
H/Story Research Group
Cadernos de Fraseoloxía Galega (CFG), an international journal on phraseological and paremiological research edited by Centro Ramón Piñeiro para a Investigación en Humanidades (Xunta de Galicia), is seeking submissions of contributions for its twenty-eight issue. Even though the deadline is permanently open, only manuscripts received by October 24, 2026 will be considered for issue 28.
The Popular Arts Conference (PAC) invites submissions for our 19th Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, September 3-7, 2026.
PAC is an annual academic conference for the studies of the popular arts, including science/speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and other media; comic books and graphic novels; anime and manga; tabletop and video gaming; etc., presented to a mixed audience of scholars and fans. The mission of PAC is to promote scholarship on popular culture and to encourage engagement between scholars and fans in order to deepen our understanding of the popular arts. PAC presentations are peer reviewed, based on scholarly research.
CALL FOR PAPERS
‘Stars and Screen’
Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium
May 16, 2026
The ‘Stars and Screen’ Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium is an Interdisciplinary Symposium dedicated to Film History, Archival Research, Cinema and Media History.
Proposals are due: February 1, 2026.
See the Call for Papers, more information and submit proposals on the
Stars and Screen website:
The organizing committee of the South Asia Graduate Student Conference (SAGSC-XXIII) at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce its twenty-third annual conference: “Resonant Boundaries: (Inter)disciplinarity in and about South Asia.” This year’s conference will take place on March 5th-6th, 2026. We cordially invite papers from independent scholars and graduate students at any stage of study and in any discipline from universities across the world.
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS: MONTRÉAL 2026
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE
The 2026 CSRS/SCÉR conference will be held in person at l’Université de Montréal (Montréal, Québec) from Saturday June 6, 2026, to Monday June 8, 2026.
NETSOL: New Trends in Social and Liberal Sciences
An Interdisciplinary Journal - ISSN 2469-4002
CALL FOR PAPERS
Faculty-owned and faculty-run interdisciplinary journal NETSOL welcomes submissions from all scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
NETSOL has been housed at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley since 2016.
NETSOL is a peer-reviewed biannual academic e-journal publishing original research articles and book reviews. All articles go through a double-blind peer-review process.
We are soliciting chapter proposals for an edited volume titled “Documentation of/as Violence.” In this volume, we seek to explore how documentation, or the lack thereof, can function in capacities that both enforce and protect against violence. We understand documents, and documentation, through two primary functions: surveillance and preservation. The collection of materials capturing violence enacted upon marginalized communities, as well as how the practice of documentation itself can be a violent action of surveillance experienced by marginalized communities complicate the function of representation in library and archival collections.
In 2021, the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) issued a position statement on “the Role of Reading in the College Writing Classroom”. In this statement, 4Cs “affirm[ed] the need to develop accessible and effective reading pedagogies in college writing classrooms” because it would help student performance across the university and in students’ roles as citizens in a democracy. The statement correctly notes that reading pedagogy is an issue writing studies has not taken up in a robust way for about 30 years and that it is now receiving attention at four-year institutions, though reading pedagogy has long been addressed at two-year schools.
Deliberate Poetics: Erasure, Materiality, and the Politics of the Page
CFP: Soap Opera and Serialized Storytelling Area of the Popular Culture Association
Keynote speakers:
Hannah Williams, Reader in the History of Art, Queen Mary University of London
Daniel Foliard, Professor of Modern History, Université Paris Cité
Juxtapositions: Research and Scholarship in Haiku seeks academic essays for a special themed section in Juxta 12: AI and haiku (as well as related poetic forms such as haibun, haiga, senryu, and tanka). Topics may be wide-ranging, including tributes to haijin who have influenced the author’s work by engaging/not engaging AI tools to write in someone else’s style.
Guidelines:
Deadline: July 15, 2026
For the Annual Conference in Atlanta, April 8-11, 2026, PCA will be piloting poster sessions. Poster sessions allow scholars to share their research and ideas in a less formal setting compared to traditional presentations while still being part of the program.
If the proposal is accepted, presenters should create a poster presentation that visually summarizes their topic, highlighting such things as their main argument, their research methods, and overall conclusions.
Poster sessions will be scheduled in a four hour block (8 a.m. - 12 p.m. or 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.). Presenters should be ready to set up and take down at those times and will need to schedule a 90 minute block in which to be with their posters.
For close to nine hundred years, Gawain has been a favorite hero in Arthurian myth, especially when it comes to his appearance in the late fourteenth century chivalric romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. While scholarship on the poem continues to expand in many fascinating ways, David Lowery’s 2021 film adaptation, The Green Knight, has changed the way scholars can approach and teach the medieval poem. We have a contract with Boydell and Brewer and confirmed contributors; however, we have lost a few contributors and are looking for one or two more chapters for the book.
orum: Issues about Part-Time and Full-Time Contingent Faculty is a peer-reviewed journal published by NCTE and CCCC to address working conditions, professional life, activism, and perspectives of non-tenure-track faculty. This special issue will be published in the fall of 2026. The submission deadline is January 20, 2026. Issues of identity shape not only who we are as faculty, but also how we perform and the connections we make in the classroom. Identifying one’s place, not just as an educator but as a person, has unique implications for part-time and contingent faculty in higher learning, both in and outside the academic spaces they take up.
Conference Title: Entangled Histories, Shared Futures: South Asia and Africa
Date: June 4 - 5, 2026
Venue: Zanzibar, Tanzania
Aims & Rationale:
Volcanic Materiality: Cultural Phenomena in the Age of the Anthropocene
Editor: Dewey W. Hall
Call for Contributions
Call for Papers American Literature Association (ALA) 2026, Chicago
The American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) plans to offer two panels.
One panel, “Teaching with Humor” will explore, through specific examples, how humor, in its many forms—literary, visual, performative—can enhance the learning process and make it vivid and more engaging. The panel will examine the multiple ways that teachers in disciplines such as literature and other humanities can employ the humor found in literary texts, cartoons, films, songs, memes and media for a richer understanding of the subject matter.
Rural Futures/Todhchaí na Tuaithe:
Social and Environmental Justice in Ireland
Sacred Heart University, Dingle, Ireland
June 8-10, 2026
The inaugural three-day Rural Futures conference at Sacred Heart University’s campus in Dingle, Ireland, will feature keynote speaker Nessa Cronin (University of Galway), and a plenary conversation on the future of rural Irish literature with authors Belinda McKeon (Maynooth University) and Mike McCormack (University of Galway).
Orbit: A Journal of American Literature
Call for Contributions: Special Issue on the Systems Novel in the Twenty-First Century
Guest editor: Ali Dehdarirad (University of Rome, Sapienza)
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Literature/Film Quarterly on “Female Adaptations, Female Sources”
Guest Editor: Betty Kaklamanidou (Aristotle University)