Call for Papers: Special Issue of Literature/Film Quarterly on “Female Adaptations, Female Sources”

Guest Editor: Betty Kaklamanidou (Aristotle University)

Listening: The Dark Side of Literature, Art and Thought / À L'Écoute: le côté obscur de la littérature, de l’art et de la pensée

Special issue of L’Atelier https://ojs.parisnanterre.fr/index.php/la 18.1 (april 2027) 

Guest Editor: Adrienne Janus Proposals (approximately 350 words) in English or in French should be sent to Adrienne Janus [adrienne.janus@univ-tours.fr] and Anne Ullmo [anne.ullmo@univ-tours.fr] by 15 Feb. 2026

The Music Graduate Student Organization at the University of Pittsburgh welcomes proposals for 20-minute paper presentations, performance demonstrations, or work that integrates research and practice for its 2026 conference, “Sonic Power: Speculation, Surveillance, and Strength.” We invite students, researchers, musicians, sound artists, and practitioners from diverse disciplines to consider how sound organizes power and how people reorganize power through sound. Sonic life shapes worlds, whether in the hush of archival erasure, the loudness of protest, or the sorting of listening within media infrastructures.

Call for Book Chapters: Mythological Motifs in German Narratives

The study of mythology transcends the boundaries of time, space, and medium. Myths have always been an integral part of human storytelling, shaping collective identities, cultural ideologies, and individual imaginations. From ancient oral traditions and epics to contemporary literature, cinema, graphic novels, and digital media, mythological motifs continue to evolve and find expression across genres and media.

Call for Book Chapters

Reimagining Futures in Steampunk, Cyberpunk, and Solarpunk Narratives

CALL FOR PAPERS

‘Stars and Screen’
Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium 
May 16, 2026 
https://starsandscreen.blogspot.com/?m=0

The ‘Stars and Screen’ Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium is an Interdisciplinary Symposium dedicated to Film History, Archival Research, Cinema and Media History.

The CÉMA is pleased to announce the forthcoming conference ‘Beowulf & circulations,’ to be held in Paris at the Institut Historique Allemand and the Sorbonne on March 13-14, 2026, with keynotes by Irina Dumitrescu (Universität Bonn) and Francis Leneghan (Oxford University). A public reading of Beowulf is scheduled on Friday 13 March evening.

The text of Beowulf was consigned in writing over two centuries after its initial oral composition. It is extant in only one manuscript, yet resonates in at least Andreas (from another codex), and once circulated as part of a thriving oral literary economy now no longer retrievable.

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Call for Papers
Lives Remembered: Trans Narratives of Memory

Bloomsbury's Trans Studies series
Editors: Dr. Arpana Venu & Dr. Neethu P Antony
VIT-AP University, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh

About the Volume

Living in Languages Journal

Living in Languages invites submissions of book reviews and review essays for forthcoming issues. We welcome critical engagements with recent publications, new translations or retranslations of literary/theoretical works, performances, exhibitions, and digital projects that speak to translation studies and its intersections across the humanities and social sciences.

DEADLINE EXTENDED ONLY FOR ACADEMIC ARTICLES AND BOOK REVIEWS

Call for papers

Artificiality | Surfaciality

An international conference between

Rutgers University (NJ) and Aix-Marseille Université (France)

April 9-10, 2026

“En constatant, en notant la forme de leur flèche, le déplacement de leurs lignes, l'ensoleillement de leur surface, je sentais que je n'allais pas au bout de mon impression, que quelque chose était derrière ce mouvement, derrière cette clarté, quelque chose qu'ils semblaient contenir et dérober à la fois.”

Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann, 1913

The English Department of the Faculty of Letters, History, Philosophy and Theology, West University of Timișoara, is pleased to announce its 34th international conference on British and American Studies, on the theme “Reconfiguring Borders and Boundaries in/through the Lens of Literature, Language and Culture,” which will be held on 14-16 May 2026. 

Theme statement:

How do we come to know health—our own or that of others? In a time marked by global crisis, inequality, and rapid technological change, lived experience offers vital, yet often marginalised, forms of knowledge. This one-day conference brings together Early Career Researchers across disciplines to explore health through the lens of lived experience: its stories, its silences, and its capacities for change.

The Claude McKay Society (CMKS), now  an author member society in the American Literature Association (ALA), will convene one or two panels at the ALA conference at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, May 20-24, 2026. Harlem Renaissance author McKay is presently enjoying a healthy resurgence.

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

Stardom and Fandom

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

NEW Submission Deadline: November 14, 2025

We are now accepting submissions for our next regular issue. Manuscripts in MS Word (5,000–10,000 words) adhering to the MLA 9th edition formatting guidelines should be sent to editor@jcla.in.

Website: jcla.in

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Comparative_Literature_and_Aest...

Don't Look Away: The Monstrous, the Gothic, and Survivance in the Worlds of Stephen Graham Jones

Organized by the Stephen Graham Jones Society

Chair: Dr. Billy J. Stratton, University of Denver

The Stephen Graham Jones Society invites proposals for a panel at the 2026 American Literature Association (ALA) meeting. We welcome submissions from emerging and established scholars investigating the vast, ever-expanding body of work by Stephen Graham Jones. This panel will focus on the recent and ongoing scholarship surrounding his horror fiction, as well as its significant pedagogical value in the contemporary classroom.

The University of Calgary English Department Graduate Association cordially invites both critical and creative proposals for our annual Free Exchange Graduate Conference, taking place from March 20-21, 2026. Going back nearly 20 years, Free Exchange is a transdisciplinary conference that aims to bring together emerging scholars from across Canada and beyond in the spirit of collaboration and knowledge creation.

Call for Papers:

Black Performing Arts: Sound, Movement, Image, Text

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2025

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) 

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

NEW submission deadline: November 14, 2025 

The Bonnie Jo Campbell Society is sponsoring a panel at the upcoming American Literature Association Conference in Chicago, IL (May 20-23, 2026).

As a native Michigander, Campbell is associated strongly with the American Midwest, where much of her fiction takes place. This panel hopes to interrogate that relationship, either through analyses of the Midwest in Campbell's work, or in relationships with other Midwestern writers and their fiction.

Please send an abstract (200 words) and a brief bio to Dr. Ross Tangedal (ross.tangedal@uwsp.edu) for consideration by January 1, 2026.

48th Annual Comparative Drama Conference 

Conference Dates: July 9-11, 2026

Location: Madison, Wisconsin (hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Deadline for Abstract Submission: December 10, 2025

Disability Studies, Dramatic Texts, and Performance 

Call for Papers: Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance | March 27, 2026

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Diana Martinez, Assistant Professor of Architecture, UC Berkeley

Graduate Student Symposium

Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Tufts University, Medford, MA

The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University invites graduate students to submit paper proposals for the 2026 Graduate Symposium titled Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance, which will be held on March 27, 2026, in Medford, MA. 

Call for Papers: Theory and Criticism Focus Group- ATHE 2026Communities of Imagination and Theoretical FuturesBaltimore, Maryland- July 22-26, 2026 Call for Complete Session Proposals and Roundtable SubmissionsSponsored by the Theory and Criticism Focus GroupComplete Session ProposalsThe Theory and Criticism focus group seeks proposals for the general conference that include a variety of approaches and inquiries into the theme “Communities of Imagination and Theoretical Futures.” We encourage multidisciplinary submissions from across the various subfields of theatre and performance studies and seek participants from a range of focus groups.Our focus group welcomes and embraces a multitude of approaches and definitions of theory, criticism