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The International Congress of Videogames, Virtual Environments and Interactive Creation is an event of scientific and academic dissemination whose objective is the diffusion of studies related to the field of videogames, digital art and online and virtual environments, in its wide range of topics and media: development of ludic and interactive platforms; video game studies (Game Studies); initiatives around eSports; expressions of Digital Art, Virtual and Augmented Reality, and Artificial Intelligence applied to ludic or plastic creation; projects in networked communities and mobile devices; e-learning platforms; games and digital artistic works and their imbrications with cinema, animation, music, comics, etc.
The Medieval Foremothers Society invites proposals for two hybrid sessions honoring Sharon Kinoshita (UC Santa Cruz) at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI in May 2026. Each year the Medieval Foremothers Society honors a scholar whose scholarship, teaching, and activism have laid foundations and built networks for modern medieval studies. Sharon Kinoshita is our 2026 Foremother because of her innovative research that cuts across disciplinary and geographic boundaries, which foregrounds crucial developments in postcolonial medieval studies, Mediterranean Studies, and the Global Middle Ages.
Call for Submissions – Woman Scream Cause For fifteen years, the international Woman Scream (Grito de Mujer) cause has united voices from around the globe through poetry, art, and storytelling, amplifying awareness for women’s and girls’ rights. We now invite poets, short story writers, and visual artists to submit original work for our upcoming printed volume. This is an opportunity to contribute your creativity to a global movement that uses art as a form of activism, solidarity, and change.Participation is open worldwide to creators over 18.
For an edited volume on "Datafied Decision-Making", we invite scholars at different career stages to submit short abstracts (400-500 words) from the disciplines of political science, law, sociology, environmental studies, science and technology studies, critical data studies and related fields that offer a critical perspective on the ethical, legal and societal consequences of algorithms and data practices.
More information on the call can be found here.
Ryan Coogler’s Sinners (2025) was released by the director’s production company, Proximity Media, to massive fanfare. According to The Tennessee Tribune, Sinners is the first horror film in thirty-five years to earn a grade of ‘A’ on CinemaScore exit polls and boasts “nearly unanimous rave reviews” (April 24-30, 2025). A massive box office success, Sinners raked in a stunning $45.6 million during its debut weekend. This figure, as well as other factors, have invited comparisons to Jordan Peele’s Us (2019), the current record holder for biggest debut of an original film ($71 million).
The 2026 American Studies Association of Norway Conference looks back to its early years for inspiration. The very first themed ASANOR seminar was titled “The Bicentennial of the US Constitution.” Many years later we return to this document, not only to revisit its cultural and historical significance but also to ask what it means to invoke the Constitution now, in a time of intensifying democratic crisis and rising illiberalism. From the expansion of executive power to attacks on voting rights, judicial independence, and press freedoms, many of the traditional pillars of U.S. liberal democracy are under threat. However, illiberalism is not new to the American experience.
37th Annual Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Conference
DeLand, Florida
April 17-18, 2026
Call for Papers
The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society, an organization of over 200 members worldwide, invites paper proposals on topics related to Rawlings’s life and works.
Topics might include the following:
Book Chapters on Severance for Edited Collection on Neoliberalism and Affect in Twenty-First Century Culture contact email: neoliberalismandaffect@gmail.com
“We’re people, not parts of people. Even with what little they gave us these are our lives. no one gets to just turn you off” - (Severance, S1.8)
Embracing Glocality:
New Perspectives on Arab and Anglophone Arab Literature and Film
Glocalization—the simultaneous presence of global and local dynamics—offers a critical lens through which to examine Arab and Anglophone Arab cultural production. This special issue invites papers that explore how literary and cinematic texts from or about the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region reflect, negotiate, or resist the pressures of global cultural flows while rooted in specific local contexts.
The University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada, Department of French, Hispanic, Italian Studies (FHIS)
November 20th – 21st, 2025
The Silence of Forgetting: Absence, Void, and Memory in Literature and Culture Graduate Conference
This Seminar Session for the Renaissance Society of America 2026 Conference in San Francisco, CA is still seeking participants! This session is sponsored by ACMRS.
Gendered Bodies and Digital Selfhood in Short-form Videos: Research from the Global South
CFP for Special Issue of Journal of Gender Studies
Panel: International Congress for Medieval Studies, University of Western Michigan, Kalamzoo (May 14-16 2026)
CFP: Rhetoric and/as Academic Leadership Leadership in academia is by nature a fraught enterprise for which few faculty find themselves adequately trained. Such work is made even more difficult in our current climate due to the shifting socioeconomic conditions of higher education that ask more of leaders while at the same time providing fewer material and structural resources to help them lead. As a result, many faculty are more reticent than ever to seek out or accept leadership positions, especially at the highly visible executive levels such as university presidencies, where political or personal failure comes at a high price.
11th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture: “Humanities in the Digital Age”
https://www.academia.edu/129910678/11th_International_Conference_on_Lang... October 2025, Batman, Türkiye
Keynote speakers: Prof. Dr. Hywel Dix, Bournemouth University & Prof. Dr. Adelheid Rundholz, JCS University
Call for Creative Pieces (Issue III)Thing-Poetry
Things bear world, World grants things.
Poetry, Language, Thought, Martin Heidegger1
Call for Short Stories
Anthology Title: 1947 Partition: Third-Generation Tales from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Beyond (An Anthology of Short Stories)
We seek panelists for Northeast MLA 2026, "The Name of the Witch."
Conference Details
57th NeMLA Annual Convention, March 5 - 8, 2026, Pittsburgh, PA. Visit https://www.nemla.org/convention/future.html for more details about the conference.
Modality
Panel / In Person Only: The session will be held fully in person at the hotel. No remote presentations will be included.
Submissions and Deadline
Medieval Temporalities and Comics
Leeds International Medieval Congress, 6th-9th July 2026
Hybrid Session
Co-organized by Natalie Hopwood, University of Leeds and Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College (The Medieval Comics Project)
This session aims to discuss the lasting legacy of the medieval on modern comics, sequential art, manga, and related media, and how the medieval continues to affect us today. We invite proposals for 20 minute papers about topics including, but not limited to:
Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Symbiosis International
(Deemed University), Pune, India, is delighted to announce the
International Conference on Media and Communication (ICMAC 2026), from
February 17–19, 2026.
ICMAC 2026, themed ‘Media Industries in the Platformisation Landscape:
Introspections, Iterations & Interventions’, invites critical
reflections on how digital platforms are reshaping media
industries—reconfiguring production, labour, circulation, and audience
engagement, particularly in the Global South.
Keynote Speakers
ReFocus: The Films of Gerard Damiano
The Royal Heraldry Society of Canada invites proposals for our roundtable, "Beyond the Blazon: Materializing Medieval Heraldry." Coats of arms are defined not by their physical representations but by the words of their blazons. Yet armorial objects, as interactive, material things, played a prominent role in shaping the arts, literature, and popular culture of the Middle Ages. This interdisciplinary session will explore object-based approaches to medieval heraldry, including investigations into the materiality and "lives" of armorial objects and their significance in medieval artistic expressions, literary portrayals, material culture, and historical accounts.
Potential topics may include but are not limited to:
Weeks after the death of Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro last year, her daughter Andrea Skinner disclosed the sexual abuse she'd suffered as a child—abuse about which Munro had known and stayed silent. The disclosure is but one of many revelations in recent years to upend the legacy of a cultural icon. Neil Gaiman, Louis CK, Jean Vanier, and Avital Ronell are only a few public figures to be reassessed in the wake of accounts of sexual abuse. Similarly, disputed claims to Indigenous ancestry touted by artists including novelist Joseph Boyden and singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie have generated outrage and heartbreak among Indigenous groups and innumerable admirers, compounding generational traumas.
Call for Papers
Session ID: 7516
This session seeks to explore how the historiography of medieval India was reimagined during the nineteenth century by a range of intellectual actors—including colonial scholars, nationalist thinkers, Dalit reformers, Hindu revivalists, and Muslim scholars. Moving beyond Eurocentric or nationalist binaries, the session investigates how India’s medieval past, from the emergence of the Delhi Sultanate to the decline of the Mughal Empire was actively constructed, contested, and institutionalized in this period.
Call for Papers on The Beatles and Media Today
Special Issue of Rock Music Studies
Guest-edited by Shannon Howard (Auburn University Montgomery), Tom Grochowski (St. Joseph’s University, NY) and Richard D. Driver (McLennan Community College)
Studies in American Humor, the journal of the American Humor Studies Association, invites submissions of scholarly papers for a special issue of the journal to appear in fall 2027, edited by Wesley Scott McMasters and Todd Nathan Thompson. The topic of this special issue is “Periodicals, Period: Humor and Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers and Magazines.” This special issue will be an extension of a well-received panel on this topic (co-sponsored by the American Humor Studies Association and the Research Society for American Periodicals) at the 2025 American Literature Association conference.
From the iconic Orient Express to the shadowy alleys of urban noir, and to the contemporary invisible highways of cyberspace, transportation and mobility have long played an important role in crime fiction. Traditional detective fiction often relied on transportation as both setting and symbol, underscoring how mobility can conceal, isolate, or reveal, shaping the very structure of mystery and detection. In the digital age, mobility is no longer confined to physical movement; it also encompasses virtual travel, data flows, and algorithmic surveillance.
INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
TENNYSON 2026: ECOLOGY, LANDSCAPE, ENVIRONMENT
LINCOLN, UK, 14-17TH JULY 2026
**Deadline for Abstracts (300 w max.) and Bio (150 w max.)**
31 JANUARY 2026
The South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference 2025.
SAMLA97, KNOWLEDGE: CALL FOR PAPERS (In-person), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Conference Date: November 6-8, 2025
Special Session/Panel on "Breath, Borders, and Belonging: Pandemic Literature and the Postcolonial Imagination"
Migration stories from the Global South are rarely neutral, since they are often born of struggle, shaped by colonial history, economic precarity, or climate collapse, and told in defiance of imposed silences. This panel proposes to examine how writers, scholars, and creative artists across the Global South turn to cultural production to challenge the hegemonic knowledge systems that structure how migration is seen, narrated, and understood, particularly in the Global North. From refugee testimonies and borderland fiction to diasporic films and grassroots media, these works assert the validity of local ways of knowing, remembering, and imagining movement.
Edited by Professor Meenakshi Bharat (University of Delhi) and Dr. Blythe Worthy (University of Sydney)
Under preparation for submission to the ReFocus: International Directors series, Edinburgh University Press
Simon J James was a prolific scholar and a pioneer of Victorian and Edwardian studies. He passed away on 11 June 2025 and this issue is dedicated to his memory. Simon wrote on H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Sherlock Holmes. His monograph, Maps of Utopia: H. G. Wells, Modernity and the End of Culture (Oxford University Press, 2012), remains the finest and most comprehensive study of Wells’s aesthetics to date.
Call for papers
29 July 2025
Special Issue: Contemporary India and Hindi Cinema
Journal: Women Studies International Forum
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/324617/contemporary-india-and-hindi-cinema
Submission of abstracts: 30 September 2025
Submission of full manuscript: 31 July 2026
"The Imagined Woman: The Phantasmic 'Woman' in the Middle Ages"In-Person Panel, sponsored by Magistra: A Journal of Women's Spirituality in History.Organized by Dr. Anne Crafton, Kristina Kummerer, and Dr.
Abstract
Type: Paper Session
Concept Note & CFP on
Crisis and Hope in Contemporary South Asia
Crisis can be understood as any event or a series of events that disrupts, destabilizes, and threatens the everyday individual, social, and political order, leading to moments of transition and transformation that are often challenging to comprehend. The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented accruement of crises on a planetary scale manifesting as economic and environmental exploitation, geopolitical conflicts, pandemics and public health emergencies, and financial and economic turmoil, making the world an increasingly volatile and uncertain space.
Special Issue of the William Carlos Williams Review: Williams’s Latin American and Caribbean Heritage
ASANOR biannual conference 2026
June 4-6, Kristiansand, Norway CONSTITUTING THE US IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Proposal deadline: October 15, 2025
https://asanor.org/2026-conference/
The 2026 American Studies Association of Norway Conference looks back to its early years for inspiration. The very first themed ASANOR seminar was titled “The Bicentennial of the US Constitution.” Many years later we return to this document, not only to revisit its cultural and historical significance but also to ask what it means to invoke the Constitution now, in a time of intensifying democratic crisis and rising illiberalism.
The Richard D. Gooder Essay Prize
This prize, named in memory of Richard Gooder (1934-2017), one of the journal’s founding editors, is aimed at doctoral students.
The Cambridge Quarterly is a journal of literary and cultural criticism with a broad remit. Our focus is largely on scholarship on Anglophone literature, but we also welcome work on writing in languages other than English.
Call for Proposals: Edited volume on screenwriter, actor, director, and comedienne Elaine May
SCREEN STORYTELLERS
The Works of Elaine May
Edited by Jonathan Winchell
This edited volume on the works of Elaine May will be a book in the SCREEN STORYTELLERS series published by Bloomsbury Academic. Seeking 250-word abstracts for previously unpublished chapters on Elaine May’s work as a screenwriter and comedy writer. Final chapters will be 3,000-3,500 words, written for an audience of student readers.
To submit an abstract, visit the ICMS website. All abstracts are due on September 15.
Boccaccio and Boccaccian Medievalisms: Representations of Gender in Medieval Storytelling
RSA 2026
San Francisco - February 19–21, 2026
Reimagining Disability through “Disability Intimacy”
“Hush! Practicing Silence in Literature and Culture”
University of Freiburg, Germany | April 15-17, 2026
Deadline for Submission: September 15, 2025
Relatable! Exploring Difference & Relationality in Creative Writing Studies (CFP)
Proposal Deadline: September 5th, 2025
Conference Dates: November 7th & 8th, 2025
The Creative Writing Studies Organization is now accepting proposals for our online fall conference, to be held the weekend of November 7, 2025. In holding our conference virtually in alternating years, we hope to continue building Creative Writing Studies scholarship across borders and time zones while maintaining the felt benefits of in-person gatherings. This year, the CWSC seeks proposals that help us expand and refine our understandings of relationality.
Please note the extended deadline of September 1, 2025, for proposals
CFP: Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America, Vol. 2
Edited by Cathy Rex (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire: rexcj@uwec.edu)
and Shevaun Watson (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: watsonse@uwm.edu)
We are soliciting scholarly essays (5,000-8,000 words) for inclusion in a follow-up volume to
our edited collection, Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America, published
Call for Panel Participants
College Art Association Annual Conference
18-21 February 2026 | Chicago, IL USA
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Session16720.html
“Dissent Nearby: Diasporic & LGBTQ+ Resistance”*
*guaranteed session with Sponsorship from the Society of Contemporary Art Historians
Over the past decade, as the opioid epidemic turned into an even deadlier fentanyl epidemic, many colleges developed and implemented collegiate recovery programs “designed to provide an educational opportunity alongside other recovery supports to ensure that students do not have to sacrifice one for the other” (ARHE, 2024). As Nichols et al. (2025) relate, “Descriptive and observational research suggests that CRPs tend to reach the most at-risk students.”