This edited volume emerges from a seminar panel that I proposed for the 2026 annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) earlier this year. 

Volume Rationale: 

The edited volume seeks to understand the interdisciplinary field of Death Studies through the lens of decolonisation. 

Death Studies is a field of study that not only draws from a host of disciplines like anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology but also cuts across fields such as bereavement studies, trauma studies, and health humanities. 

I am writing to invite you to consider submitting a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, an edited scholarly volume that examines the evolving role of diversity, equity, and inclusion within American democracy and educational institutions. I encourage you to invite friends/colleagues outside of the Appalachian region, too.

As the section editor for The Women’s Experience, I am writing to invite you to consider submitting a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, an edited scholarly volume that examines the evolving role of diversity, equity, and inclusion within American democracy and educational institutions.  

The Women’s Experience section seeks rigorous, thoughtful, and evidence-based analyses that examine gender equity, intersectionality, and the evolving role(s) of women in society at the present moment. 

International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies [IJHASS]

http://deepublisher.com/Jnl/hass/Home.html

ISSN : 1831-622N 2974-5862 (Print)

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Paper Submission 

Call for papers

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.

 “Virginia Woolf: Sound and Rhythm in Translation”, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE VIRGINIA WOOLFISTANBUL, TURKEY deadline for submissions: April 30, 2026 full name / name of organization: 35th International Conference Virginia Woolf
https://www.bilgi.edu.tr/en/academic/virginia-woolf-conference-2026/  contact email: woolftranssound26@gmail.com 

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS 

35th International Conference Virginia Woolf 

Open Forum “Virginia Woolf: Sound and Rhythm in Translation”, Istambul, Jun 24-Jun 28, 2026 

This panel explores how women writers and female characters in French and francophone literature resist, reconfigure, and expose gendered hierarchies of power embedded within social, political, and cultural “ruling classes.” In keeping with this year’s conference theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” the session examines how literary texts interrogate the mechanisms through which authority, patriarchal, colonial, aristocratic, bourgeois, or religious, is contested.

Call for Proposals

6th Annual Corridors: Blue Ridge Writing & Rhetoric Conference

Saturday, September 19, 2026

Radford University  |  Radford, Virginia

Conference Theme

Writing Home: Where the Power of Place Meets the Page 

Description

Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association 123rd Annual Conference 2026

November 12-15, 2026--Seattle, WA USA

"The Intersection of France and Iran/Persia in Literature and Film"

The socio-political and cultural relationship between France and Iran has long been shaped in various ways, including literary, cinematic, and linguistic representation. This panel explores the intertextual and visual intersections between these two cultures in literature and film, spanning from the ancient period to the present.

The 123rd Annual PAMLA Conference will be held in person November 12–15, 2026, in Seattle, Washington.

The standing Gothic Studies panel welcomes papers on any aspect of Gothic studies across a wide range of periods, media, and cultural contexts. The Gothic has long served as a flexible and transgressive mode through which writers and creators explore fear, desire, memory, identity, and social conflict. From classic literary texts to contemporary film, television, gaming, and digital media, Gothic forms continue to evolve and adapt across cultures and historical moments.

Languages travel. We are here to listen.
The Antonym Online is now open for submissions.
We invite translators from across the world to bring voices across linguistic borders and into English. We are committed to publishing works that carry the texture, rhythm, and cultural nuance of their original language while finding new life in translation.
What we are looking for:
Translated short stories
Translated poetry
Translated non-fiction
We accept translations from any language into English.
Submission Guidelines:

Call for Papers

International Conference for Student Researchers:

Communication in the Age of AI: Transformations, Politics, and Society

Organizer:

AAB College

In partnership: 

Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies

Vol. 53 No. 1 | March 2027

Call for Papers

From Neurodiversity to Neurocosmopolitanism:

Literature, Science, Politics

Guest Editor

Manuel Herrero-Puertas (National Taiwan University)

Deadline for Submissions: July 15, 2026

44th Annual West Indian Literature Conference

Freedom, Creative Spirit, & the Poetic Imagination

Where: University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus

When: October 7-11, 2026

Abstracts: Proposals are to be submitted by June 1, 2026

How can you free people? . . . When every move you make is to get them to accept conditions of unfreedom, when you use power to twist and corrupt what it is to be human, when you ask people to accept shame as triumph and indignity as progress? —Earl Lovelace, Salt (1996)

The "Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies" session invites submissions that discuss memory, identity, representation, or intersectionality pertaining to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer literature, media, or culture. You may, should you wish, engage in the conference theme of “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” but any topic on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer literature or culture is welcome.

Some topics of particular interest this year include:

• The homoerotic gaze in media

• Power and culture relating to gay, lesbian, transgender, or queer stories/histories

• Queer-coded representation in art or literature

1956 was a year of theatrical milestones. Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night was published posthumously while The Diary of Anne Frank won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. And, of course, the American Society for Theatre Research was founded. O’Neill’s meditation on troubled family dynamics and addiction would go on to win the Pulitzer in 1957. The previous year, the Pulitzer went to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a Tennessee Williams play about alcoholism and (potentially) sublimated queer desire. In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry became the first Black woman to have a play produced on Broadway when A Raisin in the Sun premiered.

“Home-Making: Reinventing Home

in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures”

November 20-21, 2026

Venue: Sousse, Tunisia

Call for Papers

Call for Additional Chapters

Global Bollywood: Cultural Appropriation, Streaming Media, and the Politics of Representation (Routledge)

Editor: Dr. Tanima Kumari

The proposed edited volume Global Bollywood: Cultural Appropriation, Streaming Media, and the Politics of Representation has received a preliminary expression of interest from Routledge. 

A number of submissions have already been received, and several chapters have been reviewed and confirmed for inclusion.

Table of Contents

Part I: Cultural Appropriation and Hybridity

Dear colleagues,

Submit a Manuscript to the Journal

Sport in Society

For a Special Issue on

Artificial Intelligence and Sport from Social and Scholarly PerspectivesAbstract deadline01 May 2026Manuscript deadline01 December 2026 Special Issue Editor(s)

Shu Wan, University at Buffalo
shuwan@buffalo.edu

Huijie Zhang, South China Normal University
huijiezhang199@163.com

Ekphrasis, the verbal representation of visual representation, is one of art’s oldest preoccupations. Over the past decade, we have seen a rise in British and Irish innovative ekphrastic poetry and visual art that responds to poetry. Concurrently, there has been a new wave of interest in the efficacy and function of ekphrasis, that focuses on its role as a type of creative practice and a way of thinking through aesthetic judgement. Despite all this activity, no formal consideration of the field of ekphrasis itself has emerged. Ekphrasis underwent a paradigmatic shift in which it was no longer defined by its ‘paragonal’ energy.

War Literature Today: Ecology, Violence, and the Novel

A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787). This special issue belongs to the section "Literature in the Humanities".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2027 | Viewed by 69

Since 2014, the eTEXTS: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference has served as a platform for the examination and exploration of diverse "texts" from English-speaking countries of Ango-Saxon heritage. By bringing together scholars, doctoral students, and early-career professionals, the conference fosters scientific debates and critical discussions that drive forward our understanding of literature and culture.

Tentative Title- Cross Imagination and Literary Production: African Writers and Indian Characters, Indo- African Writers and African Characters

Globalectics is the interrelationship of all things, the mutual containment of the local and the global.”
— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing (2012)