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The Negative Journal is Calling for Papers for its third issue, co-edited by Dr Julie Reshe (editor-in-chief) and Dr Aaron Aquilina (guest editor). This is a general call for papers that also invites a special cluster on queer negativity.
Call for Papers: General Issue
Call for Papers
“Horror (Literary & Cinematic)”
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to greet you. We would like to invite you to contribute to a dossier on multilingualism in the New World, tentatively to be published next year in the journal e-Humanista (University of California, Santa Barbara).
e-Humanista is a peer-reviewed academic journal, founded in 1999, dedicated to the study of the cultures and languages of the Iberian Peninsula and the Hispanic world, primarily from the Middle Ages through the early modern period. It publishes three volumes a year, along with special issues, and provides open access with no publication fees for authors.
Topics of Interest
TITLE: Siri Hustvedt, Gender, and the Critical Medical Humanities
Rationale and Scope
PCA Annual Conference, March 24-27, 2027: Boston, Massachusetts
The Collecting and Collectibles Area invites proposals exploring how “collecting” has become an embodiment of the economic, political, environmental, and digital precarities that shape contemporary popular culture. Collecting now operates as a dynamic source for epistemic production, constantly redefining how popular culture is constructed, construed, mediated, valorized, historicized, and even contested.
Disciplines of humanities have undergone a radical transformation in scholarship and pedagogy since the beginning of the new millennium. The computer has become a professional apparatus and most of the texts we come across have been “digital born”: they are produced, stored, circulated, accessed, read and critiqued digitally. The texts can be accessed through any digital devices from anywhere at any time by any number of individuals, including interlocutors. In the digital space, texts are archived to data, clusters of data become databases, and institutionalised databases of archive constitute archives. Reading has increasingly become computational, often across online platforms monitored through algorithmic logic.
Stony Brook University’s English Graduate Department, in collaboration with the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Department, invites abstracts and proposals from current graduate students and independent scholars across different disciplines and theoretical backgrounds for its annual spring conference on Friday, Feb. 26, 2027, at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, NY. This year’s conference theme is “Across Time and Space.”
Critical Themes 2027 Call For Papers / Submit here
Graduate Student Conference @ MA Media Studies, The New School
Tech-gnosis
“Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
Call for Papers (submission deadline October 31, 2026)
Fairy Tales Area, American Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, 2027
Boston, MA, March 24–27, 2027
The Fairy Tales Area of the Popular Culture Association invites proposals for individual papers, panels, and roundtables for the 2027 annual conference in Boston, MA, March 24-27.
Geographies” Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia,
May 13-16, 2027.
Refugee Archives
How has the novel been adapted to account for refugee crises around the world? In an essay first
published in 1943, Hannah Arendt proclaimed that “Contemporary history has created a new
kind of human beings [sic]—the kind that are put in concentration camps by their foes and in
internment camps by their friends.” Displaced persons belong nowhere and their stories—as
mediated through the novel—disrupt the novel’s national horizons. Their experiences demand
VILLAINS AND CREATURES
FILM REVIEWS FOR THE QUINT
Byung-Chul Han’s slim volumes of philosophy now circulate widely in English, with more than twenty books translated since 2015. These books offer a cosmopolitan account of a digital age in which technology allows power to seduce rather than repress, and in which contemplation and even idleness become essential for the survival of love and community. His accounts of burnout, transparency, psychopolitics, the “infocracy,” the disappearance of ritual and of things, the loss or expulsion of the other, the necessity of shared time, and the crisis of narration have also travelled far beyond academic philosophy.
Call for Submissions: 2nd URISE International Symposium 2027
Texts, Tunes, and Textures: Music, Literature, and Fashion as Cultural Expression
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The Four Horsemen of the Bropocalypse: Power and Culture Under a Tech Oligarchy
March 25-27, Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Bloomington
In an era marked by profound social, political, environmental and technological transformations, drama and theatre remain essential forms of artistic expression and critical engagement. Through performance, theatre explores questions of identity, representation, memory, conflict and belonging, while creating opportunities for dialogue across cultures and disciplines. Theatre not only reflects the complexities of contemporary life but also creates imaginative spaces for questioning, reinterpreting and reshaping our understanding of society.
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
4th T-LitCon Folk & Lore: Stories of Yore, Stories for Posterity
Conference Language English
Venue Online (on Zoom)
Fee None (free of charge)
Organizer Department of English Language and Literature at
İstanbul Topkapı University
Submission Link https://forms.gle/sbTbpRLVfmjxQbTB7
Submission Deadline January 10, 2027 (Sun)
Conference Dates February 20–21, 2027 (Sat & Sun)
Contact t-litcon@topkapi.edu.tr
CALL FOR PAPERS
Call for Papers: American Literature Association (ALA)
Boston, May 2027
Proposed Panel: Lyric Occasions
Date: Saturday 27th February 2027
Venue: Wolfson Research Exchange, University of Warwick Library (Coventry, UK)
Organiser: Francesca Luppino
Abstract deadline: 30 November 2026
Notification of acceptance: 11 December 2026
Registration deadline: 5 February 2027
Provisional programme: available by mid‑December
Format: in-person only (no hybrid/online options)
Between XVII.34 (2027): Resonances and Polysemy: Musical Forms and Meanings in the Literary Text.
Editors:
Stefano Franceschini (Roma Tre University), Fiorenzo Iuliano (University of Cagliari)
Submission Deadline: 27 May 2027
Publication Date: 15 December 2027
Submission Website: http://www.betweenjournal.it/
2027 ASCA Workshop | Keynotes: Eugenie Brinkema, Lee Edelman, Robyn Wiegman | Monday, May 31—Wednesday, June 2, University of Amsterdam
In 2007, Director Anne Lewis documented Hispanic/Latinx Appalachian "workers who speak about their lives, work, disappointments, and hope." Since that time, a significant boom of Hispanic/Latinx individuals has gained further recognition in Appalachian culture and community. Bands such as Appalatin and Che Apalache have been formed, academic papers have been written on migration patterns and demographic analysis, and oral history narratives have been collected. The very presence of these individuals has been established in the physical, factual realm of nonfiction spaces. However, very little has been explored in terms of Hispanic Appalachian fiction.
American Literature Association 38th Annual Conference
May 26-29, 2027: Boston, MA
The John Dos Passos Society invites proposals for the following panels:
Sacco and Vanzetti at 100: A Roundtable Hosted by the John Dos Passos Society
Abstract DEADLINE EXTENED to 10/11/2026!
We are very excited to share a CFP for a roundtable we are chairing at NeMLA 2027: “Creating Community in the AI Age: Empowerment in English Classrooms"! The more we talk about AI in education, the more I find myself thinking about what we don’t want to lose. What's happening to connection and a sense of belonging in our classrooms? How can literature and writing still bring people together, encourage empathy where students feel that their voices matter?
This VIRTUAL panel invites papers on “Narrative Medicine and Community Empowerment in Asian and Arab Graphic Narratives” for NeMLA 58th Annual Convention to be held on March 6-9, 2027.
Journal “Temas de Integração”
2026 – n.º 47
Launched in 1996, Revista Temas de Integração (RTI) was conceived as a forum for reflection on the newly established European Union and other regional integration movements that were then shaping a world marked by accelerated post–Cold War globalisation, in which citizenship and democracy assumed a central role. Now published digitally and in open access, RTI welcomes articles in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese on the emergence, development, consolidation, and even contestation of regional integration spaces, approached from a range of disciplinary perspectives beyond law.
"Moveable Feasts: Biblical Allusions and Uses of the Spiritual in Welty’s Work":
Panel at American Literature Association Annual Conference May 26-29, 2027 in Boston
"Towards Theories of Character and Quirk in Eudora Welty's Fiction":
Panel at American Literature Association Annual Conference May 26-29, 2027 in Boston
5th Singapore Literature Conference July 31, 2027
Poetry Festival Singapore (PFS) and the Singapore Literature Conference (SLC) are commemorating ASEAN's 60th anniversary with the theme "Common Ground."
#MeTooAcademia:
Ten Years of Research,
Activism, and Coalition
Friday, September 24 –
Saturday, September 25, 2027
Fully Online
Keynote Speakers:
Tarana Burke and Jericho Brown
Society for Classical Studies 159th Annual Meeting
January 6-9, 2028
Denver, CO
Call for Papers for an
Organizer-Refereed Panel (ORP)
Panel Title: Back to the Land? Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultivation in the Ancient Mediterranean
Organized by Katie Dennis (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Kirsten Traudt (Yale University)
The Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University is thrilled to host the 12th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium on March 4-6, 2027.
The Post45 Graduate Symposium seeks graduate-level works-in-progress related to post-1945 media, arts, literature, textual or visual objects, digital platforms, politics, and culture. We welcome submissions that expand our conception of objects and meaning-making post-1945 or place them in comparative, transnational, or hemispheric frames. We especially welcome contributions that foreground the importance of race, gender, class, and sexuality to post-45 studies.
Historically, disabled people have relied on community care for kinship and survival in an unaccommodating, if not hostile, world. These communities of care allowed disabled individuals and their allies to scaffold support structures outside of social services that demanded compliance and relied on charity. Disabled communities have often coalesced at the fringes of society in asylums, freak shows, and other institutions. Even so, the stereotypical understanding of disability is that of passivity, isolation, and dependence rather than action, community, and interdependence.
Jia, H., Díaz-Cintas, J., & Baños, R. (2026). Call for Papers: Audiovisual Translation into English for Global Audiences.Translation Review, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1080/07374836.2026.2717965
Call for Papers: Audiovisual Translation into English for Global Audiences
Special Issue of Translation Review (August 2028)
Guest Editors:
Huihuang Jia (University College London)
Call for Papers: International Journal of Community Music
Special Issue: ‘Music Making with Children in Care’
To view the full call click here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-community-music#call-for-papers
CFP: Community Confidence: A Collection of Writing Center Self-Efficacies
Edited by Kendyl Harmeling, Katie Garahan, and Megan Keaton
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Call for Papers · Annual Conference
MELUS 2027 | Albuquerque, New Mexico
“Imaginaries and Insurgencies: Speculative Visions in Multiethnic Culture”
Hosted by the MELUS Ad Hoc Conference Committee
Venue: Isleta Resort & Casino, Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico
Conference Dates: Thursday, April 8 – Sunday, April 11, 2027
Optional welcome activities will take place Wednesday evening, April 7. The conference concludes Sunday morning, April 11.
We invite proposals for papers to be presented at the international conference Female Spaces in the Medieval World, to be held at the University of Amsterdam on 2, 3 and 4 June 2027.
Myth in Literature and MusicUniversity of Angers, France, 30 June – 3 July 2027
The Interdisciplinary Center for Research on Heritage in Arts and Languages (CIRPaLL) at the University of Angers is proud to host the 15th Conference of the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA) on Myth in Literature and Music from 30 June to 3 July 2027 at the Maison de la Recherche Germaine Tillionin Angers, France.
Update: The deadline for submissions has been extended to Sunday, October 11, 2026, to submit for the 2027 conference.
The Techno-Material Rhetorics of Food and Cooking Collection Editors
TLA Magazine: Inaugural Issue — December 2026
Submission Deadline: 31 October 2026
Expected Publication Date: 31 December 2026
Publication Format: Digital
Editorial Review: Internal editorial review
Submission Portal: https://illcr.com/tla/tla-magazine/#submit-your-work
Magazine Website: https://illcr.com/tla/tla-magazine/
Contact: tla@illcr.com
The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies (JOTSS)
Binghamton University’s 2nd Annual Issue
Call for Papers
Submission Deadline - December 13th, 2026 at 11:59 PM EST
Submission Website: https://orb.binghamton.edu/jotss/
Introduction and Journal Scope:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Intersections 2027: 'Embodiment'
Technology, Performance and Equity
Conference Date: Thursday 14th January 2027
at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London
with hybrid/remote attendance possible
The postgraduate research community at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama invites proposals from PGR and Early Career scholars, practitioners, artists and culture and performance workers for participation in our annual PGR conference, Intersections 2027.
This University of Porto conference marks the 55th anniversary of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention. It explores heritage across art, architecture, history, museums, digital culture, tourism, sustainability and communities, making it fully interdisciplinary.
Taking place in Porto, it is held in a city that characterizes the issues at play: a coastal city, a historic maritime centre and Europe’s first protected wine region. Its core is a World Heritage Site and a National Monument of Portugal.
From this unique setting, the conference considers questions of heritage globally.
Publications by UCL Press & Intellect Books.
This online study day, the first co-organized by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) and the Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA), will bring together scholars from both societies to share knowledge and build expertise about understudied popular authors and genres, complex multidisciplinary forms, and the material print genre of socialist periodicals.
Call for Submissions
https://zorafestival.org/call-for-submissions/
The 38th Annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities invites submissions for its Placemaking Conference, to be held in Historic Eatonville, Florida, on January 28-29, 2027.
Call for Papers: International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles
Special Issue: ‘Sustainable Fashion and Textile Futures: Intersections of Heritage, Craft and Innovation’
Special Issue Guest Editors
Pratibha Mishra
Professor & HoD, Department of Fashion Design & Department of Interior Design, School of Architecture & Design, Manipal University Jaipur, India
pratibha.mishra@jaipur.manipal.edu
Deepshikha Sharma
Jewish Life between Locality and Mobility
Penn Graduate Conference in Jewish Studies, February 28–March 1, 2027