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Call for Papers for the Samuel Beckett Working Group at the IFTR World Congress in Melbourne, Australia, 6–10 July 2026
‘Nothing to be done’: What Samuel Beckett’s Theatre Does and What We Do with It
David Lynch’s death in January 2025 fixed his life, legacy, and body of work in concrete terms, seemingly at odds with his free and fluid approach to artistic expression characterized by limitless inspiration and interpretation. Only the end of his life could render his work ‘complete.’ But if death is not an ending, then where is, and wherefore, the filmmaker who no longer makes films?
Through this Call for Papers, the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) invites submission of proposals for breakout sessions and applications for the New Voices Breakout Speaker Grant at the 2026 JASNA Annual General Meeting (AGM) October 29-November 1, 2026 in Tucson, Arizona. The Call for Papers forms also include the application for the JASNA New Voices Breakout Speaker grant.
2026 AGM Theme: "Jane Austen's Bath Novels: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion."
Submission Deadline: November 30, 2025
Reading as a Political Act (Roundtable, NeMLA 2026)
Deadline for abstract submission: September 30, 2025
From book bans to executive orders, the question of academic freedom and the freedom to read has become increasingly urgent. In the wake of the 2024 election, debates around “parental rights” and ideological control have intensified, fueling challenges to literacy and intellectual freedom. According to preliminary data from the American Library Association, 1,128 unique titles were challenged between January 1 and August 31, 2024 (“American Library Association reveals preliminary data on 2024 book challenges,” September 23, 2024).
In 2025-2026, Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture will host two virtual mini-conferences consisting of four thematically-linked keywords actively shaping digital literary culture in the very online, very present moment. We are working at the bleeding edge of culture, and these mini-conferences are designed to be intimate, safe, and collaborative spaces to think with others about what we see emerging, as it is emerging.
Open Cultural Studies (www.degruyter.com/culture) invites submissions for a special issue entitled Post-Truth and Indigenous Environmental Justice in Canada: Myths, Media, and Reality.
Call for Abstracts!
Classic Rock and Philosophy: Dispatches from the Dark Side of the Moon
Edited by Joshua Heter and Richard Greene
Call for Papers
Stardom and Fandom
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025
The 57th annual NeMLA Convention is taking place Thursday, March 5, through Sunday, March 8, 2026, at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown in Pittsburgh, PA. For more information, see https://www.nemla.org/.
This panel explores the regenerative power of early modern drama and travel narratives, focusing on how these texts reimagine cultural encounters, expand geographic and imaginative boundaries, and challenge traditional understandings of self and the other, with particular emphasis on the Mediterranean as a vital site of exchange. In harmony with the conference theme of (Re)generation, this panel invites papers that investigate how Shakespeare and his contemporaries engaged with the Mediterranean as a space of constant (re)formation, where diverse cultures, languages, and religions converged, influencing both dramatic form and narrative structure.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Call for Research Article
For December 2025 Issue
Last date for Research Article Submission is 10th December 2025 for December Issue ,
The Creative Launcher
An International, Peer Reviewed Indexed, Refereed Journal in English
Indexed in MLA, ERIHPLUS, MIAR, Sherpa Romeo, World cat, Fatcat, Google Scholar, BASE, Crossref, EBSCO, Google Scholar, and World wide acknowledged.
Useful in Thesis submission and CAS promotion
Editor-in-chief: Dr. Ram Avadh Prajapati
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Each article will be published with DOI.
In an era defined by rapid social, technological, and environmental change, the concept of (Re)generation offers a vital framework for reimagining general education. This panel invites scholars, educators, and academic leaders to explore how the principles of (Re)generation can revitalize curricula, pedagogy, and institutional practices in ways that not only respond to the challenges of the present but also prepare us for the future.
This panel invites papers that engage with aspects of performance, mediated by concepts of gender, in English and Anglophone theatre and drama. The panel is not restricted to any particular period, but preference may be given to proposals that engage with British theatre from 1500 to 1800.
Please submit abstracts through the NeMLA portal: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21738
Twenty years ago, David Eng, Jack Halberstam, and the late José Esteban Muñoz asked “What’s Queer about Queer Studies Now?” in a special issue of Social Text. With this question, they invited the field’s overhaul through considerations of race, debates about temporality/futurity, and interrogations of the transnational assemblages that then shaped refugee and migrant life. At the same time the special issue deconstructed the privileged subjects of queer studies, it echoed, furthered, and made space for field-defining works in queer Latinx studies: Muñoz’s Disidentifications (1999), Juana Maria Rodríguez Queer Latinidad (2003), Richard T.
Conference Details
We are seeking papers for the "Kafka's Fiction" panel at the 57th annual Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), which will be held between March 5-8 in Pittsburgh, PA. You can find more information about the event on NeMLA's website: https://www.nemla.org/convention.html
Modality
Hybrid: The session will be held in-person but a few remote presentations may be included.
Panel Abstract
“Blacks in Boston” is a series of conferences conceived of by former Boston College Black
Studies Director Amanda V. Houston. Previous conferences have addressed subjects such as blacks in metropolitan Boston, the struggle for equal education, the relationships between Irish
and black Bostonians, the role of immigrants of African descent in the development, and evolution of Boston’s black communities, and black Bostonians and the media.
From Lisa Barlow’s claim of being “Mormon 2.0,” to Meredith Marks’ immortal declaration about “the rumors and the nastiness,” The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City has captured imaginations far beyond Utah. The show is at once high drama, cultural export, and local funhouse mirror—inviting us to think seriously (and playfully) about how Salt Lake City is represented, interpreted, and mythologized.
This event will bring together fans, critics, scholars, and community members for a day of lively discussion, re-enactment, and reflection. We are less interested in the strict application of academic methods than in thoughtful, stimulating insights rooted in local culture, fandom, and appreciation.
Abundant Silences: Artistic Strategies of Witness in Public Narratives
This seminar builds on successful past seminars on the roles and limits of narrative silences in showing care toward trauma and injustice.
The CUNY Graduate Center French Department invites submissions for our Spring 2026 student conference on the theme of “étrangeté.”
Étrangeté evades easy translation. It encompasses "strangeness," "foreignness," and "otherness," offering expansive variability. Etrangeté inhabits both the self and the other. It arises through external judgment and internal reflection alike. It can be unsettling, absurd, and beautiful.
Divination, Witchcraft & the Occult *SPECIAL TOPIC*
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
Popular Culture Association Conference
8-11 April 2026
Atlanta, GA, US
The broad interest in divination, witchcraft, and the occult has been part of popular culture for centuries. Scholars’ discomfort with the topic is often palpable: they tend to focus on intersections that feel more legitimate, e.g. legal ramifications (laws against occult practice, witch trials etc), or archival documents, or simply sticking to fictional accounts.
57th NeMLA Annual Convention, March 5-8, 2026 in Pittsburgh, PA
The emergence of Age and Disability Studies as critical fields of inquiry has paved the way for pioneering work tracing the historical construction of age and disability within cultures, revising cultural artifacts that shape hegemonic discourses of normalcy/difference, and advancing innovative approaches to (re)imagine more inclusive and empathetic ways of social coexistence. Despite the growing body of work within these fields, numerous cultural texts remain underexplored, misunderstood, or in need of what Adrienne Rich (1972) describes as re-vision—a fresh critical examination that infuses the text with new life.
57th NeMLA Annual Convention, March 5-8, 2026 in Pittsburgh, PA
"That Ain't a Girl, That's a Fighter" – (Million Dollar Baby)
We have come twenty-five years ahead in the 21st century. Wars have been an ongoing phenomenon contributing to the precarious nature of the world. Communicating has become challenging and mired by distractions in all phases of wars. The seminar invites critical interactions with the history of war, the ongoing scenarios of war globally and the mediums approaches for communication (and lack thereof) arising from wars on national and international frontiers across the globe.
Some of the themes that participants could explore are:
- The War in Ukraine and Communications
- The Great World Wars and the Communication Crisis
- The Ethics of War and Communication
- AI and Communication in the Age of War
Name of Organisation: Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)
Contact email: literarydruid@gmail.com
Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.
This edited volume seeks to provide a comprehensive and multidisciplinary analysis of the profound and often overlooked impacts of climate change on children in India. As highlighted According to UNICEF, India ranks among the most vulnerable countries to climate shocks, with Millions of children are affected by extreme weather events annually. This volume aims to move beyond a general understanding, and delve into the specific mechanisms through which Climate change threatens the health, safety, education, and long-term well-being of India's children.
The Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies (formerly CACLALS)
Annual Conference — 4-6 June, 2026
Hybrid Format — In-Person & Online Presentations Welcome
Proposal Deadline: December 31, 2026
Location, Montreal (TBA)
Keynote Speaker(s) TBA
Call for Proposals
University of Florida’s Writing Program
Spring 2026 Conference on Pedagogy, Practice, and Philosophy
Conference date: Saturday, February 7, 2026
Theme: Meaningful Writing
The University of Florida’s Writing Program invites proposals for our annual Conference on Pedagogy, Practice, and Philosophy. This year’s theme, Meaningful Writing, asks us to reflect on the writing experiences that matter most to our students, our classrooms, and ourselves.
250 word abstracts and 2-page CVs should be submitted to organizers by September 26, 2025 . Please find the individual panel statements and the organizers' contact information below.
Please note: these panels will be submitted for the in-person AAAS conference in Honolulu, Hawai’i, April 2-4, 2026.
Submission Deadline |September 26, 2023.
Archipelagic (Re)Formations of Global Southeast Asias
Submit 250 word abstracts and
2-page CV by September 26, 2025 to
This seminar for the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting in Montreal, Canada from February 26-March 1, 2026 invites explorations of the entanglements between health, disease, and the urban space in the 21st century as they are represented in literary and cultural texts from the Global South. Building on the well-established spatial turn in literary and cultural studies, the seminar will bring together the frameworks of health/medical humanities and literary urban studies as a productive site of dialogue to examine the variegated intersections of spatialities and diseases in contemporary cities, with an emphasis on urbanities of the Global South.
Call for Abstracts for book chapters
Media and Outer Space: Communication, Media Studies and Understanding the Cosmos
Following recent confirmation of firm interest from Palgrave Macmillan, we are seeking contributions to a forthcoming volume, titled Media and Outer Space: Communication, Media Studies and Understanding the Cosmos, intended to explore the role of media and communications studies as a way of understanding humanity’s current and future explorations of outer space.
CONCEPT NOTE
Call For Papers: “Steinbeck in Times of Crisis”
March 11-13th, 2026
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
The International Society of Steinbeck Scholars invites proposals related to the ways in which John Steinbeck’s work offers insights into human experience during moments of crisis—including personal, social, cultural, political, or ecological. We seek contributions that broaden understanding of how Steinbeck's writing addresses such themes as conflict, collaboration, resolution, resilience, and survival, and how these resonate in today's world.
Melancholic Cosmopolitanism: On Alternative Temporalities as Decolonization
Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing invites scholarly notes for its next volume. Up to 2,500 words, notes may include preliminary results of a study, responses to recent content in DH, comments on a current issue of concern, or other brief insights related to critical thinking and writing.
DH publishes, on a rolling basis, a range of scholarly work--from research articles to notes--on writing and critical thinking pedagogy. For more information about DH, please visit the journal at the WAC Clearinghouse of Colorado State University: https://wac.colostate.edu/double-helix/.
CFP: Humanities Bulletin 8.2, November 2025
Special Issue: Reading to Know, Learning to Hear, Engaging in Respect and Love within an Intercultural Frame
Editors: Prof. Dr. Carla Locatelli and Dr. Victor Pricopi
Humanities Bulletin, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal in the field of Arts and Humanities, invites submissions of paper proposals for its Special Issue scheduled for November 2025.
VOLUNTEER POSITION OPENINGS
Femspec needs volunteers to fill the following positions:
Peer Review Coordinator - This person would be in charge of coordinating the scholarly peer review process for the journal. The Coordinator would liaise with authors who submit to the journal, would pass their submissions on to peer reviewers, and would return reviewers' comments to the authors.
Book Review Editor - This person would coordinate book reviews for the journal. The Editor would be in charge of obtaining books to review, distributing books to volunteer reviewers, and coordinating the submission of book reviews.
Call for Book Chapters
Future Spectralities: Raising Ghosts, Conjuring Black Futurity
Edited by Viola Marchi (University of Bern) and Marco Petrelli (University of Pisa)
If, as Dionne Brand writes, “Black experience in any modern city or town in the Americas is a haunting” (25), what does it mean to be haunted—and to haunt—in African American literature and thought? The aim of the proposed collection is to explore the many ghosts and forms of spectrality that populate twenty-first century Black literary, artistic, and theoretical production, their functions, and the relation they entertain with the dimension of the future.
The Object(s) of Literature
July 15-17, 2026
Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL), Unicamp
Call for Papers
Deadline:
15 September 2025
Organizers
Grace Catherine Greiner
g.c.greiner@uu.nl
Jennifer Rabedeau
jbr263@cornell.edu
Call for Papers: Historical Fiction in / and the Anthropocene
One-Day Online Workshop of the Historical Fictions Research Network
29 November 2025 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)
15 min talks
The Historical Fictions Research Network, an interdisciplinary and international network of scholars examining historical fictions, i.e. narratives of the past in a variety of popular media, is happy to organise its third one-day winter workshop on the topic of “Historical Fiction in / and the Anthropocene”.
Session title: Watery Landscapes, Systems, and Bodies
Medieval Ecocriticisms seeks papers offering ecocritical, historical, archaeological, and other interdisciplinary approaches to water in the medieval world. Presenters may addresses questions such as: How did medieval peoples encounter / engineer water in their communities and bodies? What meanings did water accrue in religious, literary, or historical contexts? How do medieval histories of water connect with modern marine studies? And, finally, what new approaches to water studies or blue humanities might we offer?
This HYBRID session seeks papers that explore the ways ecocriticism intersects with, informs, or is expanded by other critical approaches, orientations, and disciplines. We encourage analyses that merge ecocritical frameworks with studies of gender/sexuality, queer identities, race/ethnicity, religion, dis/ability status, postcolonialism, Indigenous studies, or from methodologies outside of the humanities. What can dialogue across these intersections of medieval and modern temporal and spatial ecologies teach us and how can we think anew with them? We encourage proposals from graduate students and early career as well as more established researchers.
The CUNY Graduate Center French Department invites submissions for our Spring 2026 student conference on the theme of “étrangeté.”
Étrangeté evades easy translation. It encompasses "strangeness," "foreignness," and "otherness," offering expansive variability. Etrangeté inhabits both the self and the other. It arises through external judgment and internal reflection alike. It can be unsettling, absurd, and beautiful.
Call for Papers
Adaptations and Retellings 2026
Adaptations and retellings, much like nostalgia, are deeply tied to the past. They confront the challenges of integrating past elements into the present and often engage with each other in this process.
Roundtable: 'Companion Texts' and Regenerated Feminist Pedagogy (NEMLA 2026 Pittsburgh)
https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/apocalyptica/apocalypoetics
Apocalyptica is an international, interdisciplinary, open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at Heidelberg University.
Annual conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), February 26 - March 1, 2026, Montreal, Canada.
Proposal submissions are welcome through the ACLA website: https://www.acla.org/seminar/14147d29-1e1d-440c-981a-0d7a9b022666
Dear Colleagues,
The 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association will be held in person at the Palais des congrès de Montréal, February 26 - March 1, 2026.
In moments of rupture—whether personal, political, or planetary—narratives frequently stage ethical crises that challenge and destabilize established frameworks of responsibility, relationality, and judgment. How do literature and film illuminate the fragile, often invisible networks of moral obligation that bind us to one another, particularly when these ties are strained by trauma, contingency, or crisis?