Seeking papers on queer poetics and criticism for a supple program on "other traditions" and (punning) "queeries". Contributors might consider models such as: Eileen Myles, whose essays and lectures construct a literary history inseparable from aesthetic inheritance; the New Narrative Writers; Anne Carson; Heather Love; José Muñoz; Elizabeth Freeman; the New York School poets and painters; and Wayne Koestenbaum, whose work models engagements with cultural history that amount to queer methodology in practice. Papers on related topics or their complications are enthusiastically sought.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Aging & Social Change: Seventeenth Interdisciplinary Conference, University de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, 3-5 November 2027

Twentieth Global Studies Conference, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, 15-17 July 2027

Call for Papers

Medievalisms Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://swpaca.org

Submissions open: September 1, 2026

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026

Call for Papers

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

Annual Conference

48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://swpaca.org/

Submissions open: September 1, 2026

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026

In her resolute commitment to telling stories about Black life without the white gaze, Toni Morrison articulated a model of community empowerment grounded in local knowledge, intra-communal collaboration, and the self-reflexive narration of Black worlds. While Morrison remains one of the most visible public advocates of this aesthetic and ethical orientation, practices of Black worldmaking across African and diasporic literatures have long exceeded mere response to anti-Blackness. Even under conditions structured by racial violence, coloniality, displacement, and social rupture, Black communities have continually generated modes of life, relation, memory, and imagination that assert the possibility of worlds otherwise.

Step right up! Circus and sideshow have long occupied a distinctive place within popular culture, functioning as community sites for entertainment, business, logistics, spectacle, performance, and insider culture. Circus and sideshow continually shape how we view the extraordinary. 

The organizers of the PCA’s special topic on UFOs, Cryptids, Conspiracies, and the Paranormal welcome proposals for papers and presentations from an interdisciplinary range of fields, including sociology, literature, media studies, anthropology, folklore, religion, history, political science, medieval studies, rhetoric, education, and bibliography. Papers in this area will not seek to prove or disprove the reality of any of the stigmatized subjects under discussion; instead, they will explore the cultural forces at work in their origin and development, their form and content, and the audiences that receive them.

Call for Papers_Entanglements_Volume 3, Issue 1 (Open Issue) Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30.10.2026

Tentative Publication Date: 30 January 2027

CFP link: https://www.entanglements.in/call-for-papers-docs/CFP_Entanglements%203.1_Aug-2026.pdf

The Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of New Mexico invites proposals for three
sponsored sessions for ICMS 2027. Proposals must be submitted through the ICMS Confex
Portal (https://shorturl.at/d05So) by 15 September 2026, including title, 300 word abstract and
50 word description.

Conference online (via Zoom)

8-9 October 2026

Deadline for proposals: 18 September 2026

CFP: 

Through an interdisciplinary approach drawing from rhetorical, gender, and literary studies, this panel explores how immigrant and diasporic communities, who are often socially marginalized in the West, create hospitality for each other. In particular, food sites and practices make belonging possible in otherwise displaced circumstances. For example, Michelle Zauner’s memoir Crying in H Mart (2021) shows how ethnic grocery stores and restaurants are material spaces in which cultural memory is archived especially across generations. Similarly, Chithra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel The Mistress of Spices (1997) showcases how food stores can offer healing and sanctuary for a community.

Modern Language Association sessio Los Angeles 

Staging Endings:Cultural Representations of Ageing, End of Life, and Care

This is a final call for papers for the Journal of Beat Studies' 14th volume, welcoming new and renewed contributions on any Beat Generation or Beat Generation-adjacent relevant subject (including the New York School, Black Mountain College, San Francisco Renaissance, Umbra Writers Workshop, etc.). The journal is interested in essays that reconsider familiar figures, recover overlooked ones, and explore the connections as well as any frictions between these overlapping scenes and their legacies.

The interdisciplinary field of Interactive Digital Narratives (IDNs) combines immersive technologies with the timeless art of storytelling. IDN offers transformative ways to engage audiences, preserve cultural heritage and address social and educational challenges. From branching narratives in video games, to immersive virtual reality experiences and interactive installations, IDNs push the boundaries of how stories can be created and experienced.

This roundtable seeks to put in conversation Blue Humanities from around the world, exploring how literature, cultural texts, and film can inform, reveal, or create new ideological perspectives on water. Informed by Blue Humanities, as well as a global movement to protect water’s right to flow and be free from pollution (Ecuador Constitution of 2008: Rights of Nature, Policy Brief: Water rights in Chile, Canada Water Act of 1985, among others), this timely roundtable connects directly with NeMLA’s 58th Annual Convention theme of Empowering Communities. As the theme specifies, cultural knowledge serves as a source of empowerment, and literature, cultural texts, and film are primary ways that cultural knowledge is shared amongst communities.

West Coast Review (SDSU Press) is seeking art, flash fiction, short stories, and any creative prose that falls in-between. This includes creative non-fiction, memoires, craft essays and experimental prose pieces. We accept all genres--we just want pieces that are bold and embrace the diversity found on the west coast!

Guidelines:

We are currently accepting flash fiction, short stories, and any creative prose that falls in-between (this includes creative non-fiction, craft essays, and experimental work). Our maximum word count is 5000 words. For flash fiction, we accept up to three stories in a single submission.

What strategies can paper ephemera teach us in the digital age? This panel invites conversations by writing instructors, educators, poets, and artists exploring the work that happens at/within the margins of writing. Both literally and figuratively, we take an expansive scope to the term “margins,” imagining not only the writing that appears on the space of the printed page, but writing that would normally be scrapped, discarded, remixed, or ephemeralized. This can include digital ephemera, such as “disappearing” messages in Instagram or other communication services. At another angle: margins can also mean the liminality of writing, the furthermost edges of what’s often standard and visible.

We are seeking chapter proposals for a new edited collection entitled Modern Meta Myths, examining intersections of mythic adaptation/reception with critical self-awareness. The collection aims to bring together a diverse array of chapters, working through different methodologies, generic focuses, and analyzing adaptations/receptions of various world mythological traditions. We define “myth” broadly, to include legends, fairy tales, religious stories, even folk tales, in addition to more traditional bodies of mythology. In particular, we’re excited to read proposals about world mythic engagement beyond the Euro-American tradition.

In his seminal and final film Black Is…Black Ain’t, the documentarian Marlon Riggs utilizes a pot of gumbo to articulate his thesis that Blackness necessitates an identity built on multiplicity, complication, and depth, a production requiring expansiveness in its sustained attention (Riggs 1995). Such a vision contests and destabilizes narratives depicted within the film that sought to limit Black identities and identifications, and it cuts against the second half of his title, which suggests Blackness in terms of negation, evasion, and minimization. The title to this conference continues a conversation with Riggs and also with Ralph Ellison, Ama Ata Aidoo, Toni Morrison, Stuart Hall, and centuries of international Black thought.

 Society for Reformation Research (SRR) welcomes 20 minute papers across the disciplines for our four Virtual Sessions at the 62nd Medieval Congress May 13-15, 2027. Focus on the Long Reformation (medieval roots to current iterations).

Sessions are:

Call for Proposals: Sessions, Panels, Papers

Come join a vivid and diverse community of scholars and professionals to discuss the history and depiction of the sea through a popular culture perspective!

We are considering proposals for individual papers, panels, creative sessions, and roundtables. Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour slots, typically with four papers or speakers per session. Scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, and working professionals are all encouraged to submit. Proposals may include (but are not restricted to):

What if craft is not the lesser twin of art, but another theory of making, one in which the hand thinks, the material answers, and form emerges through a dialogue with earth, fibre, clay, metal, wood, stone, pigment, or thread? What if the translator is not a mere carrier but a craftsperson, whose hands weaves culture, sound, meaning and memory? Is craft merely an act of mechanical repetition, or is it a profound performance of material translation? Is translation a routine reproduction or a craftsperson of cultural artefacts?