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The Negative Journal is Calling for Papers for its third issue, co-edited by Dr Julie Reshe (editor-in-chief) and Dr Aaron Aquilina (guest editor). This is a general call for papers that also invites a special cluster on queer negativity.
Call for Papers: General Issue
Call for Papers
“Horror (Literary & Cinematic)”
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026
TITLE: Siri Hustvedt, Gender, and the Critical Medical Humanities
Rationale and Scope
American Literature Association 38th Annual Conference
May 26-29, 2027: Boston, MA
The John Dos Passos Society invites proposals for the following panels:
Sacco and Vanzetti at 100: A Roundtable Hosted by the John Dos Passos Society
Abstract DEADLINE EXTENED to 10/11/2026!
We are very excited to share a CFP for a roundtable we are chairing at NeMLA 2027: “Creating Community in the AI Age: Empowerment in English Classrooms"! The more we talk about AI in education, the more I find myself thinking about what we don’t want to lose. What's happening to connection and a sense of belonging in our classrooms? How can literature and writing still bring people together, encourage empathy where students feel that their voices matter?
PCA Annual Conference, March 24-27, 2027: Boston, Massachusetts
The Collecting and Collectibles Area invites proposals exploring how “collecting” has become an embodiment of the economic, political, environmental, and digital precarities that shape contemporary popular culture. Collecting now operates as a dynamic source for epistemic production, constantly redefining how popular culture is constructed, construed, mediated, valorized, historicized, and even contested.
This VIRTUAL panel invites papers on “Narrative Medicine and Community Empowerment in Asian and Arab Graphic Narratives” for NeMLA 58th Annual Convention to be held on March 6-9, 2027.
Journal “Temas de Integração”
2026 – n.º 47
Launched in 1996, Revista Temas de Integração (RTI) was conceived as a forum for reflection on the newly established European Union and other regional integration movements that were then shaping a world marked by accelerated post–Cold War globalisation, in which citizenship and democracy assumed a central role. Now published digitally and in open access, RTI welcomes articles in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese on the emergence, development, consolidation, and even contestation of regional integration spaces, approached from a range of disciplinary perspectives beyond law.
"Moveable Feasts: Biblical Allusions and Uses of the Spiritual in Welty’s Work":
Panel at American Literature Association Annual Conference May 26-29, 2027 in Boston
"Towards Theories of Character and Quirk in Eudora Welty's Fiction":
Panel at American Literature Association Annual Conference May 26-29, 2027 in Boston
5th Singapore Literature Conference July 31, 2027
Poetry Festival Singapore (PFS) and the Singapore Literature Conference (SLC) are commemorating ASEAN's 60th anniversary with the theme "Common Ground."
#MeTooAcademia:
Ten Years of Research,
Activism, and Coalition
Friday, September 24 –
Saturday, September 25, 2027
Fully Online
Keynote Speakers:
Tarana Burke and Jericho Brown
Society for Classical Studies 159th Annual Meeting
January 6-9, 2028
Denver, CO
Call for Papers for an
Organizer-Refereed Panel (ORP)
Panel Title: Back to the Land? Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultivation in the Ancient Mediterranean
Organized by Katie Dennis (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Kirsten Traudt (Yale University)
The Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University is thrilled to host the 12th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium on March 4-6, 2027.
The Post45 Graduate Symposium seeks graduate-level works-in-progress related to post-1945 media, arts, literature, textual or visual objects, digital platforms, politics, and culture. We welcome submissions that expand our conception of objects and meaning-making post-1945 or place them in comparative, transnational, or hemispheric frames. We especially welcome contributions that foreground the importance of race, gender, class, and sexuality to post-45 studies.
Historically, disabled people have relied on community care for kinship and survival in an unaccommodating, if not hostile, world. These communities of care allowed disabled individuals and their allies to scaffold support structures outside of social services that demanded compliance and relied on charity. Disabled communities have often coalesced at the fringes of society in asylums, freak shows, and other institutions. Even so, the stereotypical understanding of disability is that of passivity, isolation, and dependence rather than action, community, and interdependence.
Jia, H., Díaz-Cintas, J., & Baños, R. (2026). Call for Papers: Audiovisual Translation into English for Global Audiences.Translation Review, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1080/07374836.2026.2717965
Call for Papers: Audiovisual Translation into English for Global Audiences
Special Issue of Translation Review (August 2028)
Guest Editors:
Huihuang Jia (University College London)
Call for Papers: International Journal of Community Music
Special Issue: ‘Music Making with Children in Care’
To view the full call click here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-community-music#call-for-papers
CFP: Community Confidence: A Collection of Writing Center Self-Efficacies
Edited by Kendyl Harmeling, Katie Garahan, and Megan Keaton
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Call for Papers · Annual Conference
MELUS 2027 | Albuquerque, New Mexico
“Imaginaries and Insurgencies: Speculative Visions in Multiethnic Culture”
Hosted by the MELUS Ad Hoc Conference Committee
Venue: Isleta Resort & Casino, Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico
Conference Dates: Thursday, April 8 – Sunday, April 11, 2027
Optional welcome activities will take place Wednesday evening, April 7. The conference concludes Sunday morning, April 11.
We invite proposals for papers to be presented at the international conference Female Spaces in the Medieval World, to be held at the University of Amsterdam on 2, 3 and 4 June 2027.
Myth in Literature and MusicUniversity of Angers, France, 30 June – 3 July 2027
The Interdisciplinary Center for Research on Heritage in Arts and Languages (CIRPaLL) at the University of Angers is proud to host the 15th Conference of the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA) on Myth in Literature and Music from 30 June to 3 July 2027 at the Maison de la Recherche Germaine Tillionin Angers, France.
Update: The deadline for submissions has been extended to Sunday, October 11, 2026, to submit for the 2027 conference.
The Techno-Material Rhetorics of Food and Cooking Collection Editors
TLA Magazine: Inaugural Issue — December 2026
Submission Deadline: 31 October 2026
Expected Publication Date: 31 December 2026
Publication Format: Digital
Editorial Review: Internal editorial review
Submission Portal: https://illcr.com/tla/tla-magazine/#submit-your-work
Magazine Website: https://illcr.com/tla/tla-magazine/
Contact: tla@illcr.com
The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies (JOTSS)
Binghamton University’s 2nd Annual Issue
Call for Papers
Submission Deadline - December 13th, 2026 at 11:59 PM EST
Submission Website: https://orb.binghamton.edu/jotss/
Introduction and Journal Scope:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Intersections 2027: 'Embodiment'
Technology, Performance and Equity
Conference Date: Thursday 14th January 2027
at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London
with hybrid/remote attendance possible
The postgraduate research community at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama invites proposals from PGR and Early Career scholars, practitioners, artists and culture and performance workers for participation in our annual PGR conference, Intersections 2027.
This University of Porto conference marks the 55th anniversary of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention. It explores heritage across art, architecture, history, museums, digital culture, tourism, sustainability and communities, making it fully interdisciplinary.
Taking place in Porto, it is held in a city that characterizes the issues at play: a coastal city, a historic maritime centre and Europe’s first protected wine region. Its core is a World Heritage Site and a National Monument of Portugal.
From this unique setting, the conference considers questions of heritage globally.
Publications by UCL Press & Intellect Books.
This online study day, the first co-organized by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) and the Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA), will bring together scholars from both societies to share knowledge and build expertise about understudied popular authors and genres, complex multidisciplinary forms, and the material print genre of socialist periodicals.
Call for Submissions
https://zorafestival.org/call-for-submissions/
The 38th Annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities invites submissions for its Placemaking Conference, to be held in Historic Eatonville, Florida, on January 28-29, 2027.
Call for Papers: International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles
Special Issue: ‘Sustainable Fashion and Textile Futures: Intersections of Heritage, Craft and Innovation’
Special Issue Guest Editors
Pratibha Mishra
Professor & HoD, Department of Fashion Design & Department of Interior Design, School of Architecture & Design, Manipal University Jaipur, India
pratibha.mishra@jaipur.manipal.edu
Deepshikha Sharma
Jewish Life between Locality and Mobility
Penn Graduate Conference in Jewish Studies, February 28–March 1, 2027
We are pleased to invite submissions for Environmental Futures and Storytelling: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Literature and Public Policy, to be held at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, on 15–16 January 2027. The conference explores how narratives shape environmental imagination and practice with three broad strands: Imagining Environmental Futures; Narratives, Policy and Environmental Governance; and Storytelling as Environmental Method.
Panel Title: Supporting the Well-Being of Students and Instructors in a Transitional Time
Modality: Virtual Only: All presentations will be delivered via Zoom regardless of whether the presenters are in-person
Format: 3-4 presentations/papers, 15-20 minutes per presenter
This Northeast Modern Language Association Board sponsored roundtable for the 58th Annual NeMLA Convention in Newport, Rhode Island (March 6-9, 2027) looks at issues and challenges posed by AI to humanities journals—how AI affects journal circulation, how prevalent AI generated submissions are, and whether peer review will ever be outsourced to LLMs—and connecting these to current predictions about the impending decline of the scholarly paper and journal as static objects and primary scholarly outputs.
Intégrité is a scholarly journal published biannually by the Faith and Learning Committee and the Humanities Division at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis, Missouri. Published both online (https://www.mobap.edu/about-mbu/publications/integrite/) and in print, it welcomes essays for a special issue (Fall 2027) on “Elvis Presley and Theology.”
2027 marks the 50th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death on August 16, 1977.
Call for Papers: JAWS: Journal of Art & Writing 13.2
To view the full call click here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/jaws-journal-of-art-writing#call-for-papers
JAWS: Journal of Art & Writing is currently accepting submissions for issue 13.2. This unthemed issue aims to reflect the range of work taking place at the intersections of art and writing across myriad contexts.
Amidst the collective and intimate violations of authoritarianism (and its contemporary attendants like neoliberalism, genocide, and geocide), devotees of poetry and the arts face pressures to justify the value of their study. This pressure comes not only from the regimes that depend on circulating demonizing platitudes and the profit-oriented institutions that host our studies, but also from the telescoping scales of suffering itself. To what extent can poetry actually “empower communities”? What fantasies do academics often indulge about the “power” of their work, and how might poetry help us experience ways of being and valuing that scramble binaries like power/weakness, large/small, global/local, innocence/irony?
Indigenous Worlds in Transition: Society, Ecology, and Justice Among Tribal and Marginalised Communities
deadline for submission: 20 December, 2026
full name/ name of organization
Dr. Sarita Pandey, Jananayak Chandrashekhar University, Ballia; Prof. Prabha Shankar Dwivedi, Banaras Hindu University
contact email: indigenousworldscfp@gmail.com
Call for Papers for the Edited Volume: Indigenous Worlds in Transition: Society, Ecology, and Justice Among Tribal and Marginalised Communities
***AS A PART OF THE 18th SAAS Conference “Negotiating Identity and Power: Resistance, Rebellion, and Resilience in U.S. Literature and Culture”***
The AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University (ACGIS) and The Maydan, the Center’s public-facing scholarship platform, present the Ninth Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies to be held virtually on Thursday, December 3, 2026.
Please refer to the application procedures detailed below. The deadline for applications is 11:59pm EST on October 1, 2026.
The Colloquium invites advanced graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in the social sciences and humanities to submit reviews on noteworthy books published since January 1, 2025 in the field of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies.
Marking thirty years since the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, often remembered in South Korea as the “IMF crisis,” this panel reflects on contested forms of Korean and Korean/American belonging in its aftermath. The IMF crisis was not only a national economic crisis that profoundly reshaped South Korea’s economy and social formations; it also precipitated movements of Korean people beyond their homes, producing family separation and forced movement. Nearly thirty years later, Korean diasporic cultural forms increasingly reckon with the crisis and its repercussions, with Min Jin Lee’s forthcoming novel American Hagwon (2026) also taking up this historical context.
36TH ANNUAL BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES CONFERENCE
MARCH 5-6 2027
GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY ARMSTRONG CAMPUS, SAVANNAH, GA
The BCPS Conference, inaugurated in 1992, is the oldest and longest-running annual meetings of its kind in the U.S. We call for presentations situated in colonial and postcolonial histories, literatures, creative and performing arts, politics, economics, and all other aspects of the countries formerly colonized by Britain and other European powers.
Call for Papers: Horror Studies
Special Issue: 'What Did Get Out Get Us?'
Abstracts due: 31 October 2026
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/horror-studies#call-for-papers
Subject: Call for Papers: Children’s and Young Adult Literature at CEA 2027
Call for Papers: [Children’s and Young Adult Literature] at CEA 2027
Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri
The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Children’s and Young Adult Literature for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
CFP: International Connections and Disconnections in 1950s Literature and Culture
Online symposium: February 19, 2027.
The Carson McCullers Society proposes the following two panels for the 2027 American Literature Association conference to be held in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 26-29, 2027. The work of graduate students and early career scholars is particularly encouraged and welcomed.
Please send a 250-word abstract and a brief bio to Erin Bell at bellee@udmercy.edu and Melanie A. Marotta at mmarotta@georgiasouthern.edu by January 8, 2027 and include ALA Proposal in the email subject line. These panels will be in-person only.
In light of challenges posed by the rapidly changing world, including the environmental crisis, accelerated digitalization, and the implementation of AI technologies, media researchers and intermedial scholars have increasingly turned their attention to questions of ecology, material processes, and nonhuman agency. This shift reflects a growing recognition of the need to reconsider and expand media-centred approaches and to engage critically with broader questions that extend beyond mediation itself.
Culinary Traditions of Northeast India: Culture, Identity and Literature
Download the full CFP: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WRJ9nKuKoOIJUgqCaQFUVl_T3bfI_JfZ/view?u...
Concept Note
Decolonising the Digital: Social Justice, Inclusion, and Equitable Knowledge Production
deadline for submissions:
September 20, 2026
full name / name of organization:
DHARTI 2026 Biennial Conference
contact email:
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
DHARTI 2026 Biennial ConferenceDecolonising the Digital: Social Justice, Inclusion, and Equitable Knowledge Production
18–20 December 2026
KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India