Children’s accounts of violence occupy a paradoxical space in public discourse: they are framed as both essential, unquestionable evidence, and, sometimes at the same time, as unreliable and prone to outside influence. Both framings rely on cultural constructions of the child’s “innocence.” This panel invites papers examining narratives of violence told by children, with a particular interest in experiences of institutional or state violence. How do these narratives complicate familiar tropes of children as voiceless victims in need of saving, or of certain topics as exclusively “adult” or “childish”?  How do child narrators themselves exploit, resist, and play with or into these tropes?

Seeking presentations addressing multilingualism and linguistic rights in South Asian literature and culture for a guaranteed panel of the MLA-allied South Asian Literary Association. 300-word abstract and short CV.

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, March 15, 2026

Hans-Georg Erney, Georgia Southern U (herney@georgiasouthern.edu )

Date of conference: 28-29 August, 2026

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 5 July 2026

Online, international, interdisciplinary conference titled:

A Letter to Video Games:The Mechanisms of Emotions

International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology 

  ISSN: 0975-3826(online); 0975-4660 (Print)

https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJCST/Home.html

*** March Issue***

Submission System 

Scope & Topics                                                  

Video Game and Memory

Call for Book Chapters

"To live an age, yet remember so little…
 Perhaps I should be thankful?”
 Quirrel, NPC in Hollow Knight (2017)
 

BABEL AFIAL journal. Dept of English, French and German, University of Vigo, Spain. Call for Papers for No. 35, Special Issue: “BABEL/S IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: LINGUISTIC AND LITERARY NEGOTIATIONS, CULTURAL (MIS)ENCOUNTERS AND TEXTUAL VARIATIONS IN THE ANGLOPHONE WORLD”. Deadline:  31 March 2026. Contact info: babelafial@uvigo.gal. Journal info (both English & Spanish versions) at: https://revistas.uvigo.es/index.php/AFIAL/announcement/view/38

Recent archival initiatives have made accessible significant bodies of media work by writers associated with the Black Arts Movement, including projects in film, radio, and television. These rediscoveries invite renewed attention to the movement’s engagement with broadcast and screen media and challenge the longstanding emphasis on poetry, theater, and print culture in scholarship on the period.

CALL FOR PAPERS

October 23–24, 2026

Children, Literature, and the Christian Imagination

An International Conference

Keynote Speaker: Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Screenwriter, Novelist, and Children’s Laureate (UK)

The University of St. Michael’s College invites proposals of individual papers or panels for a conference on the theme of Children, Literature, and the Christian Imagination. The keynote will take place on the evening of October 23 and the conference will take place the following day, October 24, 2026.

Call for ProposalsEthos in Contemporary Contexts: Authority, Identity, and Trust in Contemporary RhetoricEdited, Academic Collection

Panel on the rewards, risks, and ethics of public humanities approaches in the undergraduate classroom. Some possible topics: public project assignments, public writing, community-engaged learning, university/humanities in current political climate, faculty-student collaboration.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, March 20, 2026

Please send 250-500-word abstracts & CVs to Roya Biggie, Knox College (royabiggie@gmail.com ) and Danica Savonick, SUNY Cortland (danicasavonick@gmail.com ).

Humanities Bulletin - Call for papers
Submission Deadline: April 25, 2026
Vol. 9, No. 1 - May, 2026

ISSN 2517-4266

Humanities Bulletin is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed Journal which features original studies and reviews in the various branches of Humanities, including History, Literature, Philosophy, Arts.
This journal is not allied with any specific school of thinking or cultural tradition; instead, it encourages dialogue between ideas and people with different points of view. Our aim is to bring together different international scholars, in order to promote the dialogue between cultures, ideas and new academic researches.
The Journal is hosted by London Academic Publishing, London, UK.

This panel seeks papers that explore the early modern relationship between loss and melancholy for the Sixteenth Century Society Conference to be held in Chicago, 29-31 October 2026. In his Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Robert Burton writes, “Now go and brag of thy present happiness… thou seest in what a brittle state thou art, how soon thou mayst be dejected… by bad diet, bad air, a small loss, a little sorrow or discontent.” Bereavement permeates the early modern landscape, appearing in paintings, prints, poems, plays, ego documents, and legal testimony, among many other sources. It may involve the loss of love, friends, honor, possessions, homeland, freedom, political stability, or even religious conviction.

We invite submissions for the upcoming issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in SEPTEMBER. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography, ERIH Plus, DOAJ, EBSCO and Gale Cengage.

* Deadline is the end of JULY but we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.

* Original works, not published elsewhere or related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication.

* Please note that all manuscripts will be closely examined through Turnitin once they are received by the journal.

Archival Abundance and Silences in Islamic Studies: A Graduate Conference 

Call for Proposals

October 2nd – 3rd 2026

Princeton University

Keynote Speaker: Nancy Khalek, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Associate Professor of History at Brown University 

Theme: The Other Side of the Looking Glass 

MLA ‘27 Guaranteed Session:

TITLE:  Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Emancipatory Activities at the Crossroads of Academic Freedom

DESCRIPTION:  In honor of the 60th anniversary of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, the MLA Committee on Higher Education Practices (HEP) seeks paper proposals regarding contemplation, design, and/or implementation of emancipatory activities in literature, language, and writing classrooms.

Topics might include (but are certainly not limited to) the following:

CFP: ALTERNATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF BELONGING IN TRANS LIVES

Deadline for proposals: April 10, 2026

Call for Papers

                                                                        Home, Homecoming, Homesickness.

Online International Emerging Scholars’ Conference

20—21 April 2026

Eliot Society MMLA CFP 2026

Dear colleagues,

We invite proposals for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention (MLA 2027) in Los Angeles, to be held January 7–10, 2027, titled “Romanian, Hungarian and Other Emancipatory Narratives.”

Call for Papers: MLA 2027 - Los Angeles

The William Morris Society in the United States is soliciting proposals for two panels at next year's MLA (January 7-10, 2027 in Los Angeles). You are warmly invited to submit proposals for either session. Please submit your proposals to the email addresses listed with each CFP. Submissions must be received by March 15.

William Morris, Labor & the Nineteenth Century

                                                                 Call for Abstracts (Circle 3)  

                                        Literature and the Arts as Sites of Resistance and Solidarities
                                                 24 July -31 July 2026, Saulkrasti, Latvia

Focus

Literature and the Arts as tools for intersubjective transformation, resistance, and the forging of solidarities.

Framing Questions

As the flagship journal of Northwestern’s Environment, Culture, and Society cluster, Lime’s second symposium takes its thematic inspiration from a site familiar to all Chicagoans, and so too for our neighbors around the Great Lakes region. We seek to mobilize the productive multivalence of the shore, the collision point between formlessness and form, known and unknown, or the sanctioned and the unruly, as a metaphoric image for the transgressive encounters initiated by work in the environmental humanities.

FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks volunteers to fill the following role:

Proofreader

Duties include:

Proofreading all material to be published in the journal.  This includes scholarly articles, book and media reviews, event coverage, and other material.  Note that proofreading is restricted to correcting errors of grammar, punctuation, citation, and phrasing - the Proofreader will not be reviewing or altering the content of the submitted material (this is covered in the peer review process).