This special issue seeks to examine Indian science fiction and speculative fiction in general, as a critical archive where postcolonial enunciations of ‘space’ are actively produced, contested and reimagined through a variety of cultural texts. Our objective is to open a conversation about the overarching genre of Indian postcolonial Science Fiction and the way it interacts with the concept of ‘space’-- literal and/or cultural.

Call for Book Chapters

Editors:
Dr. Muhsin Yanar, Visiting Researcher, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
Dr. Grace Halden, Reader, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
Dr. Russell Kilbourn, Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

Sciences and Fictions: Human Futures Beyond Boundaries

We seek chapters for the forthcoming edited collection Sciences and Fictions: Human Futures Beyond Boundaries.

The Routledge Handbook to Star Wars

Edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Angelique Nairn, and Justin Matthews

The Editors invite abstract submissions for The Routledge Handbook to Star Wars. Contributions are encouraged from scholars across disciplines, including film and media studies, cultural studies, sociology, history, gender studies, literature, and related fields, as well as from those engaging with interdisciplinary approaches.

Communication skills are recognized as an integral component of professional competence in engineering education, complementing technical proficiency. English language educators play a significant role in developing communication skills among engineering students. Nevertheless, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in English most often overlook the inclusion of courses on science communication in the curriculum. As a result, research scholars in English who aspire to take up faculty positions in the engineering institutes do not get any formal training in science communication before entering academia. This FDP aims to bridge this gap by equipping English language educators with the skills necessary to become effective science communicators.

Building Spaces of Freedom
Society for the Study of Southern Literature 2026 CFP
Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, March 28-31, 2026

The Society for the Study of Southern Literature seeks submissions for our biennial conference, which will take place March 28-31, 2026, at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Keynote Speakers: Michele Aaron (University of Warwick) and Jean-Baptiste Thoret (Université
de Poitiers)

12–14 March 2026

Queer Bibliography in the South:

Space, Place, Community

Athens, GA and online

Queer Bibliography invites proposals for papers considering how gender, sexuality, and textuality intersect with place in the production of queer identity.

Whether we acknowledge it or not, the academy exists in relation to Indigenous people, indigeneity, and structures of settler colonial power. Yet, for many disciplines across the humanities, Indigenous Studies remains marginalized and under-theorized. This symposium invites work that engages the relationality between Indigenous Studies – a discipline grounded in the knowledges, practices, politics, and lives of Indigenous peoples – and other fields, crafts, and disciplines that might see themselves as independent of the concerns of Indigenous peoples and histories. We welcome Indigenous Studies scholars as well as scholars working in connection with any of the historical concerns of Indigenous Studies.

Islamic feminism, far from being an oxymoron, has emerged as an intellectual and political movement reclaiming interpretive authority within the Islamic tradition while advancing gender justice. It builds upon the work of pioneering scholars such as amina wadud, Asma Barlas, Fatema Mernissi, Sa'diyya Shaikh, miriam cooke, and Aysha Hidayatullah, who have demonstrated that patriarchal interpretations of Qur n and Hadich are historically contingent rather than divinely mandated.

The Shape of Love: Material and Metaphysical

“What is Love?” has remained an enduring query for philosophers and mystics across centuries, with hundreds of theories and beliefs modifying its ontological standing and apprehension. From classical philosophers to more modern thinkers, questions and explanations about love have permeated through the very fabric of civilization in many forms; through philosophy, theology, literature, and art, love has found many expressions and definitions.

Call for Submissions

Queering Sikh Identity and Desire through Lyrical Uprisings and the Poetics of Becoming

We invite poets from India and its diaspora to submit work that explores queerness in relation to their Sikh identity, sexuality, and the body. You do not need to identify as LGBTQIA+ to contribute—this call is open to those navigating self-discovery through poetry, as well as those who affirm and celebrate their queerness on the page.

7TH ANNUAL MODERN LITERATURES & LINGUISTICS INTERDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE CONFERENCE

“Beyond Fracture: Reimagining Futures through Divergence and Convergence”

Constructing New Paths Across Division, Resistance, and Solidarity

Florida State University, Tallahassee Campus

March 5-6, 2026

Submission Deadline: October 17, 2025

Submit Abstracts Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9Eg_pf3fbRWz-67bQY8DeLQ4tkIl-...

Status Quaestionis 2026

Post-truth and populism in politics, communication and discourse

Edited by Massimiliano Demata and Donatella Montini

Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) Sponsored Workshop on 

Precarity and Human Life: Reflections of Artificial Intelligence in Literature and Popular Culture 2.0

Date: 15th-19th December 2025

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

The online issue of Negotiations: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, the bi-annual journal of the Department of English, University of North Bengal,  has been published. The journal is now inviting submissions for its December, 2025 issue. The details of the journal can be found at https://negotiations.nbu.ac.in . All details regarding the submission procedure, processes of free registration, current issue, style sheet can be obtained from the journal website.

Peace in the Age of Forever Wars

Temple University

April 3–4, 2026

In celebration of our 15th year anniversary, we are delighted to open our Call for Papers for the 2026 Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North. The conference shall be held on April 16th to 18th 2026, in the Edda auditorium at Háskóli Íslands and online. The conference is an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate students (master’s and doctoral level) and early career researchers working in the field of medieval northern studies. Students who have not given papers at an academic conference before are especially encouraged to submit. 

We are currently accepting abstract submissions for the fifteenth annual 

Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North. 

Call for FULL Chapters:

Update: The manuscript is nearly finished however some of the planned chapters have fallen through. I need a replacement chapter, possibly two, in short order. Please review the CFC details below and contact me with any questions: maureenfadem@gmail.com

The Routledge Research Companion to Toni Morrison

Editor: Maureen E. Ruprecht, CUNY

This is a call for chapters for The Routledge Research Companion to Toni Morrison. This companion text is intended for a scholarly audience and as support for newer Morrison scholars as they approach their research.

Edouard Glissant and Michael Wiedorn call us to “think” with or like a geography. Evolving out of cultural studies, island and archipelagic studies have spurred a conversation regarding the connection between geography and culture. While Glissant and Wiedorn were particularly preoccupied with thinking (like) an archipelago, it is possible yet to conceive of other modes of geographical thought. Transatlantic, island, and even aquatic matrices of culture and geography have been well documented and studied. This panel welcomes submissions in the field of archipelagic and island studies and is particularly interested in papers exploring methods of geographical thought, the relationship between geography and culture, in the US South.

The Western genre has been widely read within the confines of a national cinema and culture of the United States. However, the field of Film Studies has increasingly sought to emancipate the Western genre from discourses of American myth and identity, instead exploring its ongoing production, circulation, and reception beyond the borders of the United States (including Miller 2013; Higgins 2015; Mayer 2022, among many more). This body of work has significantly expanded our understanding of the Western’s transnational dimensions by highlighting the genre’s local rewritings on a global scale, and unpacking the complex transcultural negotiations involved in appropriating what is often considered an inherently American genre.

[re]frame is an online academic space that aims to amplify and foster early career scholarship as well as provide space for academic dialogue in postcolonial studies and related fields of study. Our academic blog is committed to investigating and problematising the complexities of forms of colonial, anticolonial, and decolonial patterns, phenomena, and infrastructures, as well as how they manifest in literary and cultural studies. Formed under the aegis of the GAPS (Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies), [re]frame encourages investigations of academia and academic practices, such as the colonial legacies of universities and the coloniality of knowledge systems that inform epistemologies.

THE LANGUAGES OF FASHION: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON FASHION DISCOURSESFashion Highlight Journal Call for paper Issue 7 (2026)

Guest editors Benjamin Wild and Natalia Berger

Fashion has been personified as the younger sister of Death, a daughter of Caducity. It has been portrayed as a lifelong companion and described as capitalism’s favourite child. It has been conceptualised as a belief, a system, and an empire. These varied characterisations hint at fashion’s complexity as both cultural phenomenon and global industry.

Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries (https://cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/) is an open-access, mutually-anonymous peer-reviewed journal exploring the intersection of Defoe and/or his contemporaries and digital humanities.

We strongly encourage the submission of innovative digital and multimedia projects, as well as experimental essays and pedagogical approaches.

 Full submission guidelines and archived issues of the journal may be found on the website: https://cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/policies.html

 Call for Book Chapters

‘Mother(hood)’ in Anglophone Asian Literature: Representations, Interventions, and Critical Reframing