Issue 14.2:The Cultural Labor of Internationalism: Reorienting Solidarities in Times of StruggleEdited by Yawen Li, Ajay Bhardwaj, Anup Grewal, and Nicolai Volland. Deadlines | verge@psu.eduConvergence proposals: September 30, 2026Essays: May 15, 2027On the Theme    As militarism, authoritarianism, and chauvinistic nationalism ascend globally, and “Asia” becomes a contested site in geopolitical rivalries, the need to imagine alternative forms of solidarity, including forms of grassroots internationalism, becomes ever more urgent.

April 2-3, 2027

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, Indiana USA

Call for Papers

This panel explores archives beyond the traditional frame and instead as embodied spaces of cultural memory and histories inscribed on skin. Building upon Hortense Spillers’ important essay Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe (1987), we seek papers from humanities scholars in the French and Francophone worlds that reframe the body not as a passive victim but as a living text, a site of memory, and an alternative space that rescripts official records. By retracing histories through the reading of the body, we can activate affect, unleash unexpected memories, and create generative spaces for art that centres on cultural knowledge to empower communities.

We invite proposals for an anthology about drag in Appalachia. The collection aims to explore drag’s artistry, history, and cultural power. We welcome scholars, performers, and community storytellers whose work illuminates the region’s queer lineages, traditions, politics, creativity, and beyond. We especially invite pieces that examine drag as labor, community care, spiritual practice, historical reclamation, or engagement with Appalachia’s diverse cultural landscapes.

This panel examines how 21st-century Latin American women writers mobilize animality as a speculative practice to rethink the limits of the human. Moving beyond metaphor or allegory, these texts stage multispecies intimacies—zones of proximity in which human–animal lives become entangled across bodies, affects, and environments, unsettling stable distinctions among species, subjectivities, and forms of agency.

Call for Papers: Luxury Studies: The In Pursuit of Luxury Journal

Special Issue: 'Time to Change'

Submission deadline: 30 July 2026

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/luxury-studies#call-for-papers

Call for Proposals/Abstracts

Journal: Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (https://jcla.in/)

Special Issue: Writing Orality

Guest Editor: Dr. Natasa Thoudam

Email: submissionindiasnortheast@gmail.com

Submissions Invited for Upcoming Issues

Dear Colleagues and Researchers,

The Editorial Board of the Journal of Travel Literature Studies (JTLS) warmly invites scholars, experts, and young researchers from the global academic community to submit their original, unpublished manuscripts for our upcoming issues.

Greetings!

Embrace the opportunity to present your work at this year's PAMLA Conference (Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association) which will be held in Seattle, Washington from Nov. 12-15, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel with a beautiful welcome event set to take place on the evening of Nov. 11.

https://www.pamla.org/pamla2026/

"Diaspora, Exile, and Colonial Memory in Literature, Film, and Art"

IV. International Symposium on Clothing Culture in Social Sciences btw. 21.–23.10.2026 at the Marmara University, Istanbul

Planned as a continuation of the SOBİTÜRK Symposium, the SOBİTÜRK 2026 themed around Clothing Culture aims to examine the phenomenon of clothing from a multidisciplinary social sciences perspective. Among the primary objectives of the symposium are to investigate the transformations of clothing culture throughout cultural geography from past to present and to discuss the interaction between traditional clothing patterns and modern/global fashion understandings.

“Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets”
- ANDY WARHOL

Drawing on the arpillera as both an aesthetic practice and a critical model, this seminar explores how 21st-century Latin American women’s writing can be read through constellations, transnational and uneven archives, and relational frameworks. Rather than organizing analysis along national or canonical lines, it approaches texts as dynamic assemblages that weave together bodies, territories, affects, and political histories.

Technological futures are not given. They are made, and they can be made differently. EMERGE 2026: Contested Futures takes place at a moment when AI systems have become central to the organization of economic power, political control, and social sorting, while democratic institutions struggle to keep pace and ecological costs mount. Rather than treating technological change as inevitable or neutral, the conference invites critical reflection on how emerging technologies are developed, governed, narrated, and contested.

eds. Kate Genevieve, Jessica Hurley, Juan Francisco Salazar

An anthology marking fifty years since the launch of NASA’s Voyager mission and the Golden Record, inviting outer space studies and artistic contributions to grow just, plural futures for the second space age. This volume takes the Voyager Golden Record as a catalyst for creatively rethinking planetary futures. Bringing together artists with historians of science, STS scholars, ethnographers and community practitioners engaged with outer space, the book combines critique with reparative and imaginative work. 

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to submit your contributions to IEEE GEM 2026 – Games, Entertainment & Media Conference, which will take place in Berlin, Germany, from September 5 to 7, 2026.

IEEE GEM 2026 will be held in conjunction with ICCE-Berlin, as part of IFA – Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin, one of the world’s leading trade shows for consumer technology and electronics.

Literary and Cultural Perspectives on Communities in Fiction

Guest editors

Adrián Arana-Armesto (Universidad del País Vasco)

Patricia García Santos (Universidad de Córdoba)

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research (JACLR)

Deadline: 15th February 2027

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: RAIN AND ROOTSA Nature & Earth Haiku Anthology

Fresh Words – An International Literary Magazine

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/announcements

Key Dates

• Submission Deadline: August 15, 2026

Illness is rarely a purely private experience, yet for women it has historically been rendered invisible: sequestered within domestic walls, dismissed by medical institutions, and silenced in the cultural record. This session examines how film and literature in Spanish and Portuguese bring female sickness out of the shadows, transforming what is often hidden and isolated into a site of testimony, intimacy, and meaning.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | The Soliloquist Journal ( https://thesoliloquistmagazine.my.canva.site/#submit )
Theme: The Architecture of Solitude

Deadline: July 10, 2026

Publication: July 15, 2026

Solitude is rarely a vast, empty space—it is built. It has walls we erect to protect our innermost selves, windows through which we watch a noisy world, drafty corners of loneliness, and sacred sanctuaries of deliberate peace.

Soapbox 8.0: call for papers

Ways of Structuring

peer reviewed; open to critical and artistic work. 

If structures are determinate and determining, as they have come to seem through the interventions of poststructuralist theory, then ‘ways of structuring’ names a contradiction.  The plurality of ‘ways’ sits in tension with the fixity of ‘structure,’ evoking the very qualities of contingency and flexibility that the concept seems to negate.  For this upcoming issue, we welcome academic and artistic contributions that explore this tension.

The Southeastern Renaissance Conference (SRC) invites submissions for presentation at our 83rd Annual Meeting, which will be hosted by the University of Tennessee Knoxville and its Marco Institute, to be held from Friday, October 23 to Saturday, October 24, 2026.
The organizers will consider papers on any topic related to the Early Modern / Renaissance period.

In keeping with the presidential theme of the 2026 MMLA Conference, “After the Archives,” to be held in Chicago from November 12-14, 2026, papers that incorporate and/or interrogate the archives are welcomed for this year’s panel on American Literature before 1870.

Futures and Frontiers of US American Culture(s) International Conference

30 September – 2 October 2026

John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität Berlin

Keynotes: Jenny Stümer (Universität Heidelberg) | Dan Hassler-Forest (Utrecht University)

Acceptance/rejection will be communicated shortly after the extended deadline has passed.

Throughout the history of political thought and cultural production, multitudes and mobs that stir up disturbance across the nation, whether revolutionary or reactionary, have frequently been portrayed by the images and metaphors of monstrosity. From the many-headed hydra which was adapted into a political discourse in the early modern age and later revisited by historians such as Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, to contemptuous terms toward the insurrectionists such as swarms or locusts described in Samuel Dolbee’s Locusts of Power, monstrosity and various of dehumanizing terms have long been employed as a signifier through which fears of insurrections are expressed.