Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Annual Interdisciplinary Spring Academy Conference
Heidelberg, Germany, March 23-27, 2026

The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for its annual Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion to be held from March 23-27, 2026.

The HCA Spring Academy provides 20 international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and thoroughly discuss their ongoing Ph.D. projects. The conference offers a forum for Ph.D. candidates in which they can present their research candidly and receive valuable feedback.

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

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.

Call for Abstracts!

Classic Rock and Philosophy: Dispatches from the Dark Side of the Moon

Edited by Joshua Heter and Richard Greene

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/.

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

Connect on WhatsApp +91 9807740808

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.

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.

This is a call for chapter proposals on the FX Channel's 2023 docuseries "Dear Mama: The Saga of Afeni and Tupac Shakur" for the FX Reader, an anthology of FX's best original TV series, which is under a two-volume book contract with Syracuse University Press.  The docuseries explores the lives and legacies of Tupac Shakur and his mother Afeni, who was a Black Panther Party activist.

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.

Media in Full Bloom

A Central Valley Interdisciplinary Conference for Graduate and Undergraduate Students on Film, Television, and Media Studies

Sponsored by the Warrior Bookworms & Wordsmiths, the English Club at Stan State

Contact Email: Warriorwordsmiths@gmail.com

Conference Date: March 13th, 2026

Location: Stanislaus State University, Turlock, CA

Deadline for Submissions: December 15th, 2025

Call for Submissions

The Arthur Miller Online Teaching and Learning Center www.amotlc.com  warmly welcomes contributions that reflect diverse perspectives on teaching Arthur Miller’s works. Submissions may include, but are not limited to:

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

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

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.

Editors: Arpan Mitra (Ph.D. Research Scholar, St. Xavier’s University) and Dr. Bidisha Kantha (Assistant Professor of English, Xavier Law School, St.  Xavier’s University, Kolkata)

Publisher: DeGruyter Brill has expressed initial interest in this collection

DEADLINE EXTENDED TILL NOVEMBER 5, 2025.

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

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.  

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of the most adapted, parodied, and referenced works of Gothic fiction. Even those who have never read the novella know the “story,” or at least the twist: Henry Jekyll becomes Edward Hyde to live a double life, disconnected from societal pressures and expectations. Many, if not all, of these media adaptations add, edit, or remove elements from the story, making it a hybrid narrative, one part Stevenson’s and one part the adapter’s. 

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.

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.