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The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale will host its fourth annual conference via Zoom May 1-2. This conference is completely free. We will be accepting proposals for presentations through April 4th.
Call for Proposals
MLA 2027 (Los Angeles)
Special Session
We are proposing a special session for the 2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles on "Edited Collections: Tips and Tricks to Successful Publishing." This special session will be a roundtable featuring six presenters with the following format:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are invited for the 18th and 19th issues of the peer-reviewed journal of bi-annual frequency: TRIVIUM A Multi disciplinary Journal of Humanities of Chandernagore College. The scope of the journal includes humanities and social sciences, commerce and management without mathematical application.
Guidelines for Submission
Children’s accounts of violence occupy a paradoxical space in public discourse: they are framed as both essential, unquestionable evidence, and, sometimes at the same time, as unreliable and prone to outside influence. Both framings rely on cultural constructions of the child’s “innocence.” This panel invites papers examining narratives of violence told by children, with a particular interest in experiences of institutional or state violence. How do these narratives complicate familiar tropes of children as voiceless victims in need of saving, or of certain topics as exclusively “adult” or “childish”? How do child narrators themselves exploit, resist, and play with or into these tropes?
MLA 2027 – Early American and Sexuality Studies Forum
“The Body Before Sex”
This collaborative panel by the Early American LLC and Sexuality Studies TC of the Modern Language Association aims to bring forward trans, environmental, and affect methodologies to consider the historically and culturally specific ways the body and sex intersect and depart. We are particularly interested in papers that stretch and transgress temporal and spatial domains, offering critical juxtapositions that reexamine the materialities and temporalities that make visible the body before it becomes associated with, and attached to, sex.
Global Music History and Northern Europe in the 18th and 19th Centuries
University of Copenhagen, 15–16 May 2026
Deadline for proposals: 15 Feb. 2026
We invite proposals for papers exploring global music histories connected to Northern Europe in the long 18th and 19thcenturies.
This session will be devoted to academic novels and academic administration. Panelists will consider what these novels (as well as television and films centered in academia) have to say about how higher education institutions are run, and what we might learn about how—and how not—to run them. Equally interested in literary studies (genre, form, representation) and Critical University Studies (history, politics, current events).
Stories and histories of power, 24-25 Septembre 2026.
Confirmed Keynote speaker : Peter Boxall
Based on the premise that any account is the result of a re-ordered selection in facts which is the mark of the power of the author and/or the institution or cultural group they stand for., this conference will examine factual and fictional narratives of power in the English-speaking world.
CFP for MLA 2027 (7-10 January, 2027), Los Angeles: Guaranteed ACIS Panel
Emancipations in Irish Literature and Culture
While Los Angeles has regularly been called the “City of Angels,” historian Kelly Lytle Hernández has argued that a more appropriate epithet would be the “City of Inmates,” as Los Angeles has historically been a site for innovations in imprisonment, surveilling, policing, and oppressing various communities for their race, ethnicity, class status, sexuality, and other out-group identifications. Literature and cinema have long been fertile sites for examining the ramifications of police- and prison-centric ideologies within American society and culture, particularly for a city that defined itself by cinema.
Fat has been ever-present in public imagination in various forms. Fat is perceived as a
public enemy and “demonized in medicine and public policy” (Blank 2020). It is “adored by chefs
and nutritional faddists, desired and abhorred when it comes to sex, and continually courted by a
multi-billion-dollar fitness and weight-loss industry” (Blank 2020). Yet, ‘Fat’ as an area of
academic research has remained remarkably underdeveloped in the Humanities and Social
Sciences domain. Only recently, it has emerged as a vibrant interdisciplinary field that interrogates
The International Vladimir Nabokov Society seeks paper proposals for presentations on the following themes for the Modern Language Association’s Annual Convention (January 7-10, 2027, Los Angeles):
Nabokov, Freedom, and Anti-Authoritarianism
The International Vladimir Nabokov Society seeks paper proposals for presentations on the following themes for the Modern Language Association’s Annual Convention (January 7-10, 2027, Los Angeles):
Nabokov in the ‘70s / Nabokov’s Afterlife
Call for ChaptersInvoking History: Power, Bodies, BDSM
Edited Volume (proposed for Routledge)
About the Volume
Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) Prague, Czech Republic
August 20–21, 2026
Call for Papers Deadline for proposals: April 1, 2026
Conference Directors: Petra Dominková (FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic), Thomas Ballhausen (Inter-University Organization Arts & Knowledges + Mozarteum University Salzburg, Austria)
Multiple Marginalities: Intersectional Resistance(s) in Canadian Comics/Graphic Novels
A special issue of Studies in Canadian Literature
Venues:
INHA – Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art
Académie du Climat
Université Paris 8 | Vincennes – Saint-Denis
Proposals should be sent to: extractivisms2@gmail.com before 30/03/2026
Organising Committee: LAE Network (Literatures, Arts, Extractivisms):
Christian Alonso, University of Lleida
David Castañer, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Fortunata Calabro, University of Barcelona
Christian Galdón, École Polytechnique, Paris 8
Alessia Gervasone, University of Barcelona
Benoît Turquety, Université Paris 8
Book Chapters on African and Australian Women, 500-1500.
We invite additional submissions for Lands of the Lost, an edited collection that explores extinct animal parks real, imagined, unrealized, or yet to be. Our goal is to bring together multi-disciplinary perspectives to examine parks across time and space, across fact and fiction. We seek to understand how these projects, which reconstitute and enclose long-extinct life forms, intersect with histories of science, capitalism, imperialism, environmental change, and more.
Irish Studies: Legacies and Futures
Special Issue 3/2026
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia
Guest editors
Brian Ó Conchubhair (University of Notre Dame) boconch1@nd.edu
The Margaret Atwood Society invites paper proposals for an online panel on testimony and resistance in Margaret Atwood’s work. In keeping with the MLA 2027 presidential theme, this panel welcomes papers that examine how Atwood’s narratives represent coercion and constraint while also tracing the risk and agency at stake in claiming liberatory space. Possible topics include but are not limited to:
• Testimony, witnessing, and the politics of voice
• Surveillance, secrecy, confession, and the archive
• Gendered power, reproductive politics, and bodily autonomy
• Critical reception and adaptation
The Margaret Atwood Society invites paper proposals for an online panel focusing on how Atwood’s writing engages religious and spiritual practices and the supernatural. We welcome proposals that consider how Atwood’s works mobilize the sacred, the ritual, the metaphysical, and/or the ghostly as vehicles for meaning-making, ethical reflection, and narrative strategy. Possible topics include but are not limited to:
· Religion as ideology
· Spirituality and folk belief outside institutional frameworks
· Myth, ritual, and cosmology
· Scriptural and prophetic discursive modes
· Haunting, spectrality, and divided subjectivity
The London Arts-Based Research Centre
Women who Create: The Feminine and the Arts
A Transdisciplinary Conference
Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/11/18/women-who-create-2026/
March 28-30, 2026
Where:
March 28-29: In person participation at Cambridge University and online
March 30: Fully online
Fees (for both presenters and attendees):
195 GBP (in person)
100 GBP (Online)
Prices exclude eventbrite fees
Abstract: Deadline February 22, 2026
Sacred Arts 2026:
Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Artistic Expression and Ritual
Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/12/11/sacred-arts-2026/
University of Oxford
and online
May 16-17, 2026
Registration fees (for both attendees and presenters):
*EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR CHAPTER SUBMISSIONS*
Call for Papers (proposals)
CONTRIBUTION TO EDITED VOLUME (Please read the full CfP before sending a proposal)
Mediated Masculinities in European networks: Discourse and performativity in the Information Age
NEW Deadline for abstract submissions: March 1, 2026
Notifications of acceptance: March 10, 2026
Deadline for first draft after notification of acceptance: April 30, 2026
Call for Abstracts: 12th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education
Dates: May 18 - 19, 2026
Venue: ARCOTEL Wimberger Wien, Neubaugürte, 34-36, 1070, Vienna, Austria
CPD Accreditation
As a Certified CPD Accredited Provider (Provider Number #785414), this conference offers 18 CPD credit hours, providing attendees with valuable recognition for their professional development. Verification is available at https://thecpdregister.com/view/eurasia-conferences-816429.
CALL FOR PAPERS
for a joint symposium to be hosted by the
Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society and Lydia Maria Child Society
Williamsburg, Virginia
June 24-27, 2026
(Extended deadline for proposals: February 20, 2026)
The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society and the Lydia Maria Child Society invite proposals for a joint symposium to be held on the campus of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, June 24-27, 2026.
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I am seeking short (3,500-word) chapters for The Works of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, which will be an edited volume dedicated to Didion and Dunne’s lives in film.
The American couple were a prolific and popular screenwriting team despite being much better known for their respective novels, memoirs, and journalism. Accordingly, the volume will take into account both their produced and many unproduced screenplays—the latter of which are held in Didion and Dunne’s papers at the New York Public Library.
Since the turn of the millennium, migration to Europe has significantly increased. Individuals have come to this continent often fleeing conflict and political instability as well as seeking improved social and economic wellbeing. For migrants, engagement in religious practice is a key resource in the post-migration period. Religious activities and infrastructure offer practical and spiritual support, as well as being a source of social belonging for newly arriving migrants. These factors often help individuals navigate structural inequalities, for example, facilitating access to social services.
Oxford Literary Review 49.2: SETI and the Cosmic Turn in the Environmental Humanities, Edited by Timothy Clark and Philippe Lynes
OLR devotes itself to outstanding writing in deconstruction, literary theory, psychoanalytic theory, political theory and related forms of exploratory thought. OLR 49.2, to be published by Edinburgh University Press in late 2027, is planned to direct the journal’s distinctive mode of enquiry on the philosophy, culture and assumptions of SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o stands as one of the most formidable literary and intellectual voices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Novelist, playwright, theorist, memoirist, and advocate of linguistic decolonisation, Ngũgĩ’s work continues to shape debates on coloniality, nationalism, language politics, global capitalism, and epistemic justice.
Call for Papers:
Listening to Possible Worlds
Sound and Music in Speculative Literature and Culture
22-23 October 2026, Leiden University, the Netherlands (in-person)
Confirmed keynote speakers are Anna Snaith (King’s College London) and Chris Tonelli (University of Groningen)
International Journal of Digital Humanities (IJDHS)
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJDHS/Home.html
*** February Issue***
Scope
We invite papers on automobility and/or transportation infrastructure in any aspect of literary and cultural studies. We are particularly interested in exploring how representations of vehicles address questions of social and environmental justice.
This is a proposed special session for the 2027 MLA convention in Los Angeles, 7-10 January. We plan to hold the session in person.
Please email abstract (250 words) and author bio (100 words) by March 3 to both organizers:
Govind Narayan Ponnuchamy, Northwestern University (gnarayan@u.northwestern.edu )Ben Jamieson Stanley, University of Delaware (bstanley@udel.edu )
We are inviting contributions to our panel "Global Asias and Francosphères: Intersections, Exchanges, Tensions," proposed as a special session for the MLA convention in Los Angeles, CA (January 7-10, 2027). We welcome papers that draw on conceptions of the global, the translocal, and/or the relational offered by the Global Asias and Francosphères frameworks to examine francophone Asian forms (textual, visual, etc.) and exchanges.
Call for Papers — MLA 2027 (Los Angeles)
Black Motherhood in the African Diaspora: Narrating Care, Resilience, and Futures
Across African diasporic literary traditions, Black motherhood emerges as a crucial site through which histories of slavery, empire, migration, and racial capitalism are negotiated and reimagined. Literary representations of motherhood register both the intimate labor of care and the broader structural pressures shaping diasporic life, often producing alternative temporalities, ethical frameworks, and speculative futures.
Opening Sequences: The Narrative Architecture of TV Titles
This edited volume proposes the first critical anthology devoted to television title sequences as a distinct and influential mode of visual storytelling. By treating opening titles as complex aesthetic and narrative artefacts, this volume seeks to establish a new interdisciplinary space for the study of title design, inviting scholars to rethink how beginnings shape meaning, memory, and emotional architecture in serial television.
CALL FOR PAPERS
vol. 7/2026
Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature (e-ISSN: 2719-8111) is an international multidisciplinary periodical that welcomes for review any innovative and challenging research article encroaching upon the fields of literature, linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies.
The editorial board encourages researchers and young scholars to submit their article proposals that comprise with the profile of the journal. The proposals can be sent in English, German, French, Spanish, Catalan and Polish. The manuscript submitted for publication is to be original and unpublished. It should not have been simultaneously submitted for review in any other journal.
It was a few years after the eve of Senegal’s independence that the first film made by an African was produced, as a way of offering an African account of Black struggles and living conditions. Ousmane Sembène viewed cinema as a more powerful medium for conveying African realities because it does not require literacy to grasp its message, making it a more effective tool for explaining the lived realities of Africa. A similar approach can be observed in the work of Alain Kassanda, especially in his documentary Colette and Justin, which not only revisits the historical context surrounding Patrice Lumumba and his death, but also dismantles claims often associated with Africans that are in fact inherited from colonialism, such as the non-schooling of girls.
Call for Participants: Medieval Studies, Leadership, and Public Humanities Advocacy
MLA 2027 (Los Angeles)
Forum: French Medieval Language and Literature
Roundtable Session
CFP: The Body, Anatomy, and Aesthetics
Special Issue: Art & the Public Sphere
Call for Book Proposals
VoyGull Press | Emerging Voices Series, Edited Volumes, Handbook Series
VoyGull Publishing Centre Ltd UK
Diamond Open Access Publisher in Social Sciences & Humanities
About VoyGull Press
VoyGull Press is the publishing imprint of VoyGull Publishing Centre Ltd, a UK-based academic publisher committed to democratizing scholarly knowledge. As a young and ambitious publisher, we are building a new model for academic publishing that is grounded in equity, accessibility, and intellectual rigour.
In an era marked by digital mediation, political polarization, and heightened ethical scrutiny, humour has become a high-stake cultural practice: jokes travel rapidly, provoke backlash, generate solidarity, and often become flashpoints for debates around offence, free speech, and accountability. In the twenty-first century, humour has emerged as one of the most powerful, contested, and ubiquitous modes of cultural expression. Circulating across literary texts, theatrical stages, digital platforms, popular media, and everyday social interactions, humour today functions not merely as entertainment but as a deeply performative, political, and ethical practice.
We are looking for contributions to a working group at the 2027 MLA Annual Convention in Los Angeles. The panel will discuss the evolution of magical realism in the 21st century, formally, medially, and geographically. Besides the fundamental elements of magical realism scholarship covering literature and film in South-American and European contexts, the scope of the presentations will extend to geocultural locations such as Africa, the Middle East, East- and South-East Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, and to theoretical approaches including literary trauma theory, postcolonial studies, ecocriticism, and virtual reality theory.
Call for Proposals:
Italian Americans and the Making of America:
Design, Diaspora, and the Architecture of Belonging
58th Annual Conference of the Italian American Studies Association
November 5-8, 2026
Tufts University, Medford, MA
https://italianamericanstudies.submittable.com/submit/348486/58th-annual-iasa-conference-at-tufts-university
More Terrors than her Reason Could JustifyA 200th Anniversary Celebration of Ann Radcliffe’s Posthumous Publications
22nd/23rd August 2026 (Online)
Beyond Conventional Screens: New Approaches to Audiovisual Storytelling - Call for Chapter Proposals
Edited by Sotiris Petridis
Scholarly discussions on environmental concerns have long been Euro-American-centric. In his 2005 essay, Rob Nixon critiques literary representations of environmentalism as an “offshoot of American Studies,” which has excluded non-American and non-Western perspectives on environmental degradation from critical inquiry. Nixon highlights Nigeria’s Abacha regime’s execution of Saro-Wiwa, a writer, activist and poet, who died fighting for his Ogoni people’s farmlands and the encroachment of their fishing waters by American and European conglomerates, supported by the local despotic regime. Nixon observes that Saro-Wiwa’s writings have received little attention from ecocriticism scholars (2005).
MLA 2027 Los Angeles
The last few years have seen growing interest in theorist Stuart Hall’s work and its relation to psychoanalysis. Jacqueline Rose devoted a lecture to the topic (later reprinted in The New York Review of Books as “The Analyst”). More attention has been given to what Hall had to say about psychoanalytic thought between the lines in his work, but also in more direct ways, such as in his 1987 paper “Psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies.” Further, psychosocial theorists like Stephen Frosh have commented on Rose’s reflections on Hall and offered their own takes on why thinking about Hall vis-à-vis psychoanalysis may be overdue and worthwhile.
Under capitalism, we live separated from life. Capital’s extractive colonizing domination keeps us separated from nature, from each other, and from our own bodies, denying us a symbiotic and regenerative relationship with the natural world and with each other. Yet, certain types of bindings are integral to capitalism: capitalism depends on the combination of labour and nature for the production of value; the “emergence of capitalist accumulation and the reproduction of capitalist production” depends on “acts of violent dispossession”, on “tearing Indigenous societies, peasants, and other small-scale, self-sufficient agricultural producers from the source of their livelihood––the land” (Coulthard 2014).