Journal of Chinese Cinemas Special Issue CFP: Before, Besides, and Beyond the Taiwanese New Cinema

Rust Belt Studies Special Issue
The Regenerative Rust Belt: Environment, EcoLogy, Ecosystems

For too long, the narrative of the Rust Belt has been one of emptiness, decay, decline, and vacancy —
and often, our stories are neglected in the national sphere or controlled by cultural outsiders.

In this issue, we will consider the following and more :

How can the humanities imagine regenerative Rust Belt futures and learn from industrial history?
How can the humanities activate the environmental movement in new ways in the Rust Belt?
How can we use art, literature, and music to teach the environmental Rust Belt in the classroom?
How can we use the humanities to reflect on ecosystems both natural and human?

Kalamazoo 2026, session #7559: Lists as Sources
Any list serves as a direct “source” for the information it contains. A grocery list tells a shopper what to buy. But it may also serve as a source in several other fields: the history of advertising, the history of culinary trends, or the history of an individual family. This panel seeks papers that consider medieval lists that serve as sources in similarly direct and tangential ways. Such lists might include inventories, mnemonics, itineraries, bede rolls, and word lists, as well as lists in literature. We especially welcome papers that take the properties of lists into account in their analyses.

From its origins in racialised heredity science to its violent implementation in 20th-century state policies, eugenics has shaped how modern societies imagine health, heredity, and the value of life. Literature has long played a key role in this history – at times reflecting or affirming eugenic ideals, at others exposing their violence or imagining forms of life beyond them. 

Call for Abstracts--Seeking abstracts for articles for the forthcoming Bloomsbury Handbook to Kurt Vonnegut, which will include 25-35 brand-new essays on Vonnegut of about 5,000-6,000 words each.  The book will be part of a new series with Bloomsbury Publishing UK, aimed at an audience of post-graduates and above.  

Books already published in the series include volumes about Toni Morrison and F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others.

Beside You in the C19:

Elizabeth Freeman’s Legacies

The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Biennial Conference

March 12-14, 2026, Cincinnati, OH

CALL FOR PAPERS

MELUS 2026 | Austin, Texas

Beyond the Page: Storytelling Across Media and Borders in Precarious Times

Co-Hosted by Southern Methodist University and The University of Texas at Austin

Co-Organizers: Frederick Luis Aldama (UTexas-Austin) and Christopher González (SMU)

Conference Dates: Thursday, April 30 – Saturday, May 2, 2026
Optional outings and welcome activities will take place on Wednesday evening, April 29, and Sunday morning, May 3.

CONFERENCE THEME

This panel explores how Asian American literature, film, and television depict the diasporic struggle to assimilate, resist, and reconstruct identity within spaces and places in the United States. Spaces and places here refer to the urban/suburban/rural, the home, institutions, transitory spaces like highways, but also the lack of space, moments of displacement, and the absence of place. Where do we as readers and audiences find the Asian American physically? What are the affordances of such spaces and places in their construction of the Asian American individual? We welcome submissions that consider when and where Asian Americans can or cannot exist within the diasporic canon.

TWO-DAY NATIONAL CONFERENCE

 on

Precarity and Resistance:  Bengali Muslim Experience and Contemporary India

on

15-16 November 2025

(Tentative Dates)

Organised by

Bengali Academia for Social Empowerment (BASE), Kolkata, West Bengal

in collaboration with

Department of English, Nagar College, Nagar, Murshidabad, West Bengal &

Historical Fictions Research Conference, Erlangen (Germany),

19th-20th February 2026

Call for Papers

Deadline: 1st September 2025

Submission Form

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open: September 1, 2025

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025

Call for Papers

Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster in Culture

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open: September 1, 2025

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025

A guest-edited special issue of the journal SOUTHEAST OF NOW: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia. Editors: Louis Ho, Michelle Lim, Sushma Griffin Deadline for proposals and abstracts (in all formats):Nov 1, 2025 (please submit an abstract of 400-500 words, and a brief biographical note) Deadline for the submission of complete manuscripts for accepted proposals (in all formats):Mar 1, 2026 (please see below for more details about the submission formats) Please send all submissions for, and queries regarding, this issue to artecopol.seon@gmail.com. About the journal:Southeast of Now is a scholarly journal on art and visual cultur

Sixteenth International Conference on Food Studies, University of Osaka, Japan, 10-12 October 2026

Founded in 2011, the Food Studies Research Network is brought together around a common interest to explore new possibilities for sustainable food production and human nutrition, and associated impacts of food systems on culture. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

The Sixteenth International Conference on Food Studies calls for research addressing the following annual themes and special focus:

Call for Papers

Translation and Interpreting Research (TIR)
Official Journal of the Research Institute for Translation Studies, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran

This is an Emergency (Archive): Recording, Remembering, Resisting, Refusing Under Catastrophe 

Editors: Kathryn Manis, Bibhushana Poudyal, Patty Wilde, and Ma-Ya

MRDS continues its annual tradition of inviting all scholars new to the field of early drama studies—especially graduate students, recent PhDs, and early career researchers (within four years of receiving the degree)—to submit their work to the panel. The panel will consist of four papers and commentary from a respondent.

MRDS welcomes all approaches to early drama studies for this open-topic session. Proposed papers do not have to speak to the Congress’s proposed topic of “temporalities,” however, papers related to this general topic will be especially welcome.

This interdisciplinary (hybrid) conference considers the role of universities in war past and present. Historically, the university experience in war is of loss, displacement, depleting student numbers, reallocation of staff to expert roles to support the war effort, students and staff engaged in active duty, and campus buildings re-purposed. Universities also become key for a country’s postwar reconstruction. However, not all universities have direct experience of conflict. This conference considers how universities operate in war zones and the role universities play in non-conflict zones to support the academy and the communities they serve in war and displacement.

The 5th Annual Humanities Podcasting
Network Symposium: “Podcasting & Power”
Oct. 24th & 25, 2025 (Virtual)
Call For Panels and Presentations

SEND ALL SUBMISSIONS TO THIS LINK: https://forms.gle/8rfmnbBmYDoNKVxeA

Punk rock isn’t something you grow out of. Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is ‘give us some truth.’”
— Joe Strummer

Cultural Constellations: A Journal of Literature and Art

deadline for submissions: 

September 30, 2025

full name / name of organization: 

Cultural Constellations / University of Maryland Global Campus Europe

contact email: 

CulturalConstellations-Europe@UMGC.edu

For Reference:

https://europe.umgc.edu/content/dam/umgc-europe/documents/upload/cultura...

Cultural Constellations:  A Journal of Literature and Art

Call for Papers:

Global Committee Panel on

"Borders, Bridges and Belonging:

Neighborhoods in Global Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture"

Deadline: September 30, 2025

11:59 p.m. (Eastern US Standard Time)

Children's Literature Association Conference

May 28-30, 2026

Omni William Penn Hotel

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

While ancient Europe regarded India as a land of material wealth and proverbial wisdom, it also saw it as a land of man-like monkeys, banyan trees, and enormous elephants. Ancient Europeans perceived Indians as wearing bright colors, eating rice and meat, and lacking wine-drinking finesse. Today, portrayals of India in prose fiction, cinema, social media, and historiography have shifted from polarized images of Europe and India to narratives depicting a “Dark” and a “Shining” India. Characters in these texts strive to be part of an economically thriving “shining” India, even as they face social, cultural, and political challenges daily.

Magics, Marvels, Metamorphoses, and Monsters: Horrors of the Medieval Past, Present, and Future (Virtual)

Co-sponsored by Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association, Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, International Society for the Study of Medievalism

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College, and June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University