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Call For Papers for Italian Ecofeminism and Literature
Deadline for Submissions: August 1, 2026
Notification date: September 1, 2026
Full name / Name of organization: Nicole C. (Civitano) Dittmer, PhD
Contact email: ncdittmer@gmail.com
Call for Papers: The Legacy of Norman Bates: Essays on the Psycho Franchise
Editor: Shane H Weathers, Bowling Green State University
Editors Introduction:
International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHSS/Home.html
ISSN : 2349 - 219N
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Futuring Poetic Inquiry: A Return and Renewal10th International Symposium for Poetic Inquiry (ISPI)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
October 8-12, 2026 Proposal Submissions Due June 1, 2026 - EXTENDEDTo submit a proposal: Please visit the ISPI website for more information and to submit a proposal: ISPI website
International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies (IJHAS)
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
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International Journal of Education (IJE)
ISSN : 2348 - 1552
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJEMS/Home.html
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If You Rebuild It, They Will Come: Reimagining Higher Ed with Pedagogies of Hope
“Hope is a discipline.” Mariame Kaba We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice. (2021)
“We must dare to imagine and to dream. It is precisely in hopeless times that the act of teaching becomes a radical gesture of hope.” Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Hope (1994)
Throughout the history of political thought and cultural production, multitudes and mobs that stir up disturbance across the nation, whether revolutionary or reactionary, have frequently been portrayed by the images and metaphors of monstrosity. From the many-headed hydra which was adapted into a political discourse in the early modern age and later revisited by historians such as Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, to contemptuous terms toward the insurrectionists such as swarms or locusts described in Samuel Dolbee’s Locusts of Power, monstrosity and various of dehumanizing terms have long been employed as a signifier through which fears of insurrections are expressed.
Free of taxes! Open Access Journal
Academic Journal: Em Tese (ISSN 1982-0739) OA
Submission format: .doc or .docx, font 12, spacing 1,5, from 10 to 20 pages long.
Submission guidelines: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/emt/about/submissions
Submission system: OJS 3.0
Journal homepage: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/emt/index
Questions: lauraribaraujo@gmail.com
Futures and Frontiers of US American Culture(s) International Conference
30 September – 2 October 2026
John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität Berlin
Keynotes: Jenny Stümer (Universität Heidelberg) | Dan Hassler-Forest (Utrecht University)
Guest Editors:
Prof. Om Prakash Dwivedi, Director, Faculty of Humanities and Liberal Arts, Chandigarh University Uttar Pradesh, India
Dr. Aditya Anshu, Chair, Department of Social Science, Faculty of International Relations, Abu Dhabi University, U.A.E.
Dr. Madhurima Nayak, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Liberal Arts, Chandigarh University Uttar Pradesh, India
National Identities (Taylor and Francis), Scopus Q1
Concept Note
This panel examines how writers challenge dominant structures of authority in/through narratives of sexual violence. Legal and cultural frameworks often dictate how sexual violence is recognized, narrated, and believed, shaping whose stories are legible and whose are dismissed. This session explores how survivors and writers resist these constraints through alternative narrative strategies, fragmentation, silence, poetic form, visual storytelling and more. It attends to how narrative operates as a site of power, shaping not only representation but the conditions under which sexual violence is acknowledged, legitimized, or denied.
“Rhetorical Theory” (Standing Session)
Seattle, WA, Nov. 20-23
Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack (USC)
Email: leack@usc.edu
Abstract
This panel will explore recent movements in rhetorical theory writ large, either in connection with or apart from composition theory and practice. Special attention will be given to proposals that engage with the conference's theme.
Description
Conference Dates - Nov. 12th to 15th 2026
Location: Seattle, Washington (USA) - The Hyatt Regency Seattle
The 123rd Annual PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) Conference will be held in person, November 12–15, 2026, in Seattle, Washington.
Special Issue: The Subject and its Estrangements
‘The wounds of the Spirit heal, and leave no scars behind.’ Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit
CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS
Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference
Friday-Sunday, October 9-11, 2026
Horizon Convention Center | Muncie, Indiana
The Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association is accepting proposals for the organization’s 50th annual conference this October in Muncie, Indiana. Submit paper, abstract, or panel proposals (including the title of each presentation within the panel) with the appropriate keywords via the submissions website at https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels.
Beyond Conventional Screens: New Approaches to Audiovisual Storytelling - Call for Chapter Proposals
Edited by Sotiris Petridis
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.
Deadline Extended to 25th May
Call for Papers
MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Conference 2026
Media and Sustainability
University of Reading,
Minghella Studios, Whiteknights Campus
Reading RG6 6BT
9th September 2026
Organising committee: Babsie Keulemans, Emir Anday and Elizabeth Heaney
Any questions about the conference or the submission process can be directed to:
Babsie Keulemans – e.l.keulemans@pgr.reading.ac.uk
--- DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL 25 MAY 2026! ---
You will receive a decision no later that 1 July 2026.
The conference runs from 29 September - 1 October. On-site attendance only. The conference is held in Aarhus, Denmark.
See full programme here: https://conferences.au.dk/gastro/programme
Read more about contributions and send your paper proposal: https://conferences.au.dk/gastro/call-for-contributions
About the conference
The Forum Section invites scholars to reflect on the different ways that their research and/or pedagogy has intertwined with their lives in relation to the theme of the Volume. It is a more immediate exploration of how one’s research is shaped out of one’s personal experiences and positionalities. This section was introduced in 2023, encouraging contributors to experiment with styles outside academic writing to tease out the intricacies of pedagogy, research, and lived experience. Forum pieces can be more personal and self-reflective, and can include open ended enquiries. There are aspects of research that never make it to the research paper.
Adaptive Learning and Artificial Intelligence: Global Socio-Technical Discourses
2026 Global K-Culture Conference
August 20 (Thu.) ~ August 22 (Sat.), 2026 (3 days)
Chungbuk National University, Korea
Korean, English, or the presenter’s preferred language
Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2026
The Department of Global K-Culture at Chungbuk National University is pleased to invite submissions for the upcoming Global K-Culture Conference, aimed at fostering meaningful dialogue and the exchange of ideas among instructors and researchers working across diverse educational and cultural contexts.
International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies (IJHAS)
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHASS/Home.html
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Panel: Technoscience in Literature and Culture (special session)
The 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference will be held in person from Nov 12-15 in Seattle, Washington. This interdisciplinary special session invites papers that explore science and technology from social and cultural perspectives. We welcome papers that involve the natural or material sciences (such as biology, ecology, chemistry, physics, medicine, and engineering), engage with time (whether through a particular period or a long arc of development), and/or consider place (at the local or global scales). Such works can include, but are not limited to:
"Let Us Tell An Old Story Anew": Revising / Reinventing / Reimagining Disney
Disney’s Maleficent (2014), a live-action retelling of their animated classic, Sleeping Beauty (1957), begins with a narrator challenging us to re-see the stories we’ve been told before. The entire movie, in fact, revolves around correcting past perceptions, ones that Disney originally shaped and is now choosing to reshape. Maleficent is just one example of a spate of live-action remakes and other ways Disney has reimagined itself in the twenty-first century. Such reimaginings invite research into how and why Disney feels the need to make us see them anew.
International Symposium // University of Amsterdam March 18-19, 2027 (tentative) | Deadline for abstracts: 3 August 2026.
This session is part of the 2026 PAMLA Conference in Seattle, 11/12-11/15
APPEL À CHAPITRE
OUVRAGE COLLECTIF
Créer sous contrainte : l’art de contourner la censure
dans l’espace francophone (1940–aujourd’hui)
Argumentaire:
Call for Papers
Encountering the Human(ities): Anxiety, Storytelling, Futurity
Department of English and Modern Languages
North South University
Dhaka, Bangladesh
30-31 October, 2026 (Friday-Saturday)
Hybrid Event
Creative Textual Reuse & Research (PAMLA Conference in Seattle, November 2026)
"Melville Revivals"
PAMLA 2026
November 12-15, 2026
Seattle, Washington (Hyatt Regency Seattle, 808 Howell Street)
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS/CHAPTERS
maurer.press
Frankfurt am Main
Body and Mind:Contemporary Studies on Language and Literature — Volume 10, Maurer Press, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
We invite chapter proposals for Body and Mind, the tenth volume of the Contemporary Studies on Language and Literature series. This peer reviewed academic volume investigates the evolving relationships between corporeality, cognition, identity, and culture—relationships that have become increasingly central to contemporary scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
This year is the 550th anniversary of William Caxton’s establishment of the first printing press in England in 1476. We invite papers for a two-day conference on Caxton’s career, texts, and contexts. Abstracts of up to 300 words to be sent to shaw.worth@all-souls.ox.ac.uk and jacob.ridley@ell.ox.ac.uk by 10 June 2026.
The World Congress on Logic and Religion (WoCoLoR) series aims to provide a forum where scholars from a wide range of disciplines — including, but not limited to, logic, philosophy, mathematics, computer science, the humanities, psychology, linguistics, and the cognitive sciences — together with theologians from diverse religious traditions, can come together to exchange ideas on the latest developments concerning the relationship between logic and religion, reason and faith, and rational inquiry and divine revelation.
This is a call for papers for an international edited volume tentatively titled ‘Visual Propaganda in an Era of Instability’. Based on distinct case studies explored in a wide range of book chapters, the main objective of the volume is to analyse the role of the image in driving public opinion and perception. The main historical period under investigation is from 2020 onwards: a time that is marked by significant social, cultural, political and ideological tensions. Whilst visual propaganda is not a new phenomenon, and contributors are very welcome to reference historical precedents, the main focus of the volume will be on the growing impact of visual propaganda since 2020.
Conference online (via Zoom): 2-3 July 2026
CFP:
Howard University | March 17–18, 2027
Hosted by the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and the Black Press Research Collective
In March 1827, just over fifty years after the United States Declaration of Independence, Freedom’s Journal, the first Black newspaper in North America, declared: “We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us.”
In March 2027, we mark the bicentennial of the Black Press, celebrating 200 years of Black journalism as one of the most vital and enduring institutions in American public life.
Motion Lines: Depicting movement in the early 20th century
18 Nov. 2026, Université Paris Nanterre
Call for Proposals: Art, Aura, and the Algorithm 2026 PNCA Symposium | October 1–3, 2026 Pacific Northwest College of Art at Willamette University 511 NW Broadway, Portland, Oregon Free and open to the public
Keynote: Sasha Stiles
Haunted Futures 2026
University College Cork: 29th - 30th September 2026
Deadline for Submissions: July 24th, 2026
The Cultures of Philosophy team at the University of Exeter invites proposals for the online workshop Teaching Early Modern Women’s Writing Between Literature and Philosophy: Pedagogy and Practice. The aim of this workshop is to share case studies and best practice regarding the teaching of early modern women’s philosophical writing in HE, across languages, disciplines and national settings. We intend to bring together teachers and researchers in HE with members of subject organisations to reflect on what’s working and what could be changed to improve the visibility of and engagement with early modern women’s philosophical writing, broadly conceived.
The Intimacies of Kith seeks to bring together scholars who are also practitioners of poetry from Asian North American and Southeast Asian communities. Our goal is to create a shared space for poet-scholars to engage one another directly, creating opportunities for sustained dialogue across geographic and disciplinary boundaries.
Silly Old Bear? A Companion to Adaptations, Appropriations, and Transformations of Winnie-the-Pooh
Organized by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)
Please submit proposals by 1 August 2026
The "White World," as defined by Walter Rodney, determines who is white and who is black. To this, we add that the White World also dictates which women are enslaved and which may be free. It is difficult to envision the possibility of women’s liberation in the Global South without the complete dismantling of colonialism and Western imperialism. While women in many post-colonial patriarchal nations are exploited in myriad ways, it is a mistake to imagine that this exploitation—and the patriarchal mentality of the post-colonial world—is not profoundly shaped by Western influence. Many African and South American nations continue to funnel their resources to the West while their own populations suffer from hunger.
We are pleased to announce an open call for bids to host the 2027 Post45 Graduate Symposium. The Post45 Graduate Symposium is a two-day event, typically held in Spring, which brings together graduate students and faculty members working on post-1945 arts, literature, media, and culture. Around fifteen graduate students each submit a work-in-progress and convene in a workshop-style setting along with faculty respondents to discuss each participant's work.
In the past two decades, scholars of environmental literature have begun expanding the Euro-American canons and contexts that have long dominated ecocriticism and publication, teaching, and reading practices in the West. The perspectives on humans’ relationship with the nonhuman world that emerge from alternate global sites often complicate and even challenge the values and priorities of Western environmental scholarship and activism.
The Politics of Light in Neo-Victorian Fictions - Call for Contributions
The Victorian period saw the introduction of a multiplicity of overlapping technologies and cultural practices of lighting, which radically transformed labour and the medical sciences, reinvented the night and connected ideas of leisure and security, refashioned the domestic interior as well as the perception of public appearance, and greatly impacted architecture and urban planning, policing, warfare and, not least, philosophy and the arts.