CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

THE W. FRANKLIN EVANS REVIEW
Inaugural Fall 2026 Issue

Theme: Leadership, Legacy, and Transformation

The W. Franklin Evans Honors College at Voorhees University invites undergraduate and graduate students from colleges and universities worldwide to submit original work for the inaugural Fall 2026 issue of The W. Franklin Evans Review: A Peer-Reviewed, Refereed Journal of Student Leadership, Scholarship, and Creative Expression.

The journal provides an international platform for emerging scholars, leaders, writers, artists, and creators whose work examines leadership, service, innovation, identity, resilience, ethical decision-making, legacy, and positive social transformation.

The 12th International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature is organized by different universities and research centers.

The conference will be dedicated to current issues of linguistics, languages, dialects, literature and translation.

All are cordially invited to present their research regarding current issues of linguistics, languages, dialects, literature and translation in English, Arabic or Persian.

Call for Papers

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://swpaca.org

Submissions open: September 1, 2026

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026

Overview

MVSA 2027 

Detection: Exploring, Innovating Locating, Uncovering

(April 1-3, 2027, Minneapolis, MN)

Dystopian literature is replete with examples of both individuals who resist and communities of resilience and resistance which model values and activities that stand in contrast to and in spite of the dystopian settings of the story. This panel seeks to bring together critical investigations of dystopian literature which attempt to bring to the fore lessons that can be learned to help us (re)imagine just communities amidst a world of political, economic and ecological decline and regression.

Mode of Presentation: Hybrid: The session will be held in-person but a few remote presentations may be included.

Medieval and Early Modern People and their Things

People perceive the world and their place in it through interacting with objects. Through these subject-object relationships, people experience the potential of materials, both naturally sourced and manmade, as physical resources that can be perceived. A number of concerns arise with the use of these materials amidst acts of meaning-making. How do people use subject-object relationships in negotiating their treatment of objects to define their world views? To innovate new ways of engaging with and replicating the world around them? And how does that process continue to influence how we create future realities for ourselves and others?

While Indigenous literary studies has grown substantially over the past several decades, comparative approaches that place Indigenous texts, traditions, and intellectual frameworks in conversation with one another remain relatively rare. Too often, Indigenous texts are incorporated into comparative, world, or global literary frameworks without meaningful engagement with Indigenous studies scholarship, or are read primarily through the organizing categories of nation, region, empire, or postcoloniality. This seminar seeks to create a space for comparative Indigenous literary inquiry that centers Indigenous texts, epistemologies, and methods on their own terms.

How do we study reading practices of the modernist era? After the development of what Richard Altick (1957) famously called the “democracy of print” in the nineteenth century, and the move toward mass literacy in the Anglophone world, how did  the act of reading and readership get transformed? Virginia Woolf’s 1926 essay, “How Should One Read a Book?” called reading the “most arduous and exhausting of occupations” and made the case for a discerning reader who would give the writer the “benefit of every doubt.” While the modernist era championed close reading with the evolution of New Criticism and I.A.

“That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebulae, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.”
– Q to Jean-Luc Picard. From Star Trek – The Next Generation, “All Good Things” (Season 7, Episode 25)

AACS 2027: Archipelagic Sovereignties

In June 2027, we invite you to join us on Gadigal Country at the University of Sydney for the Australian Association for Caribbean Studies (AACS) conference, organised by the Discipline of English and Writing and the United States Studies Centre (USSC), and held from the 10th to the 12th of June, 2027. AACS conferences are interdisciplinary, and papers on all topics relating to the Caribbean are considered, including from the natural sciences.

For 2027, we invite presenters to explore archipelagic sovereignties.

This seminar opens up discussions on past and ongoing debates around indigeneity and indigenous lives. In America, the aboriginals assumed the title “First Nations” to distinguish their identity from that of the non-indigenous people. Historically, the European colonizers have classified the tribes for the sake of academic interest, colonial justification and administrative purposes. The British in India developed criminal ethnography archives and aspired to have systematic anthropometric methods to identify so-called ‘criminal tribes’.

This seminar asks what it means to teach the “world” in fields such as world cinema, world literature, comparative literature, and global media studies. Courses organized around the world often promise breadth, diversity, and cross-cultural understanding, but they also face practical and conceptual problems. What counts as the world? How does the nation appear in “world” courses? How do syllabi balance coverage, depth, translation, historical context, aesthetics, and political urgency? How do institutional expectations and restrictions mold the student imagination of the “world”? How does the positionality of the instructor presuppose, structure, or influence the “world” classroom? 

In-Person Seminar at American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) in Houston, TX, May 20-23, 2027.

Call for Contributors: Paid Research & Analysis Writing (Remote, Freelance)

The Pivot Academic — an independent research and analysis platform based in Hong Kong — invites undergraduate and postgraduate students, recent graduates, and independent scholars to join our global contributor network.

WHO WE ARE

The Pivot Academic is a decentralized intellectual hub founded by a team of European scholars. We publish rigorous, evidence-based analysis on the forces reshaping our world, and we connect independent researchers with a global audience. No institutional affiliation or prior publication record is required — what matters is the rigor of your argument, the originality of your perspective, and the integrity of your evidence.

This is a call for papers by

Call for Proposals: Special Issue on Pauline E. Hopkins for New England Quarterly

The special issue of our open access, Q2 journal explores how contemporary literary, artistic and cultural practices engage with, interrogate, and imagine decolonial ecologies. While decolonial ecology is best understood as a constellation of different ideas, schools, and disciplines, Malcom Ferdinand’s insistence on the politicization of ecology offers a useful point of departure. In his book, Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World (2019; English trans. 2022), Ferdinand identifies a “double fracture” in modernity:the colonial fracture, which produces hierarchies among people, and the environmental fracture, which separates humans from nature, treating the latter as an object of exploitation.

JAMS@MAGS

Co(n)texts: Journal of Language, Literature and CultureVolume 1, Issue 1: Reimagining the Humanities: New Directions in Language, Literature and Culture

Submission Deadline: 31 October 2026

The inaugural issue of Co(n)texts: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal of the Department of English, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, seeks to explore emerging directions in humanities scholarship. We invite original and unpublished research that rethinks established paradigms, engages with contemporary theoretical debates, and offers innovative perspectives on language, literature, culture, and their intersections.

American Literature Association

May 26-29, 2027

Boston, MA

Roundtable on James Finley’s Abolition and the Rise of US Environmentalism

The Thoreau Society seeks papers for a roundtable on James Finley’s recently released Abolition and the Rise of US Environmentalism: The Literature and Politics of Free Soil (University of North Carolina Press, 2026). Papers may respond to or extend Finley’s book in part or in whole, and may include topics such as:

-Abolition and environmentalism

-The Free-Soil movement

-Settler colonization and abolition

-Racial capitalism 

-Abolition then and now

Journal of Medieval Worlds Call for Submissions

Environmental racism predates its own name. The term entered public discourse in 1982, but the conditions behind it, namely exposure to hazard and unequal claim to safety, go back to slavery itself. Historian Carl Zimring traces this to a basic split in American thought: white meant clean, Black meant dirty. That split decided who did the dirtiest, most dangerous work, and who lived closest to pollution, for generations. In 1968, Memphis sanitation workers went on strike over exactly that: unsafe, degrading labour shaped by the same racial split. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis while there in support of the very strike. That split still operates today.

Call for papers

Stories of Collective Authorship in Architecture

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