Atras Journal: Call for Papers - Varia

Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2026

Atras Journal is now inviting scholars from around the globe to submit their unpublished manuscripts for publication. The journal aims to contribute to the body of knowledge by publishing original papers in the fields of literature, gender studies, cultural studies, linguistics, education, language studies, translation, social sciences, and arts. Researchers are invited to submit their manuscripts in English, Arabic, and French.

Presentation 

We are inviting abstracts of papers on “Culinary Crossovers: Authenticity and Ambiguity in Reimagining Food Heritage in South Asia”, to be published in a special issue for the Journal of Food, Culture & Society (Taylor and Francis, Scopus Q1). In this special issue, we aim to probe into culinary histories and practices as appended to cultural/collective memory, where the idealised and marketable concept of “authenticity” emerges as a “palimpsest” conditioned by competing ideologies of nostalgia and privilege afforded by the ability to relocate.

4th Annual Billy Joe Turner Symposium
Title: Soul & Syntax: The Evolution of Expression through Art, Dance, and Literature
Dates: April 15–17, 2026
Location: Texas Southern University – Houston, TX
Format: In-Person Conference

Middle Cinema, Realism, and Everyday Life: Rethinking the Cinema of Sai Paranjpye

Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute to learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.

The 1st International Symposium on Archipelagic Studies ‘The Island and the Archipelagic Dimension’, to be held at the University of Madeira from the 23rd to 24th of October 2025, aims to reflect on issues of insularity and archipelagos in the conception of today's world, marked by environmental crises, new trends in human development and reinterpretations of place and its dynamics.

Deadline extended to June 9

Overview

Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (UVC) announces a call for assignments at the intersection of race and dis/ability. Anyone with relevant professional interests is encouraged to apply, but the organizers are especially interested in submissions from early-career scholars and those with backgrounds that are underrepresented in Victorian Studies.

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La historia del continente latinoamericano ha estado marcada por numerosas manifestaciones de violencia, guerras, dictaduras, revoluciones y exilios. Estos fenómenos han dejado una honda marca en las narrativas producidas en el continente, en especial a lo largo de los siglos XX y XXI. Una de las formas más visibles de estas huellas es la del miedo que deja impreso en el panorama afectivo de los individuos y ciudadanos. Este miedo que aparece de maneras tan diversas como frecuentes en la literatura del continente, no obstante, no ha recibido la suficiente atención por parte de la crítica.

Established in recent decades as a research area in its own right, the study of ecology in the Renaissance has diversified into several distinct but related fields. The conference aims at taking stock of the broad range of meanings, creating conversations between the existing areas and inquiring into possible directions onward. We suggest a range of both literal and more metaphorical conceptions of ‘ecology’ in which nature, broadly defined, may be considered both an object of study and an agent of change or stasis.

Veterans Studies is a growing field of research that addresses the significant impact of military personnel transitioning from active duty to civilian life with an emphasis on the veteran experience. This session invites papers that explore the many facets of military life exhibited in literature, theater, film, and poetry written about or by military veterans as well as scholarly explorations of the veteran experience. We welcome proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related.

The 53rd annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 (LCLC) invites submissions of critical, creative, and hybrid work exploring 20th- and 21st-century literature and culture. We welcome submissions in English, Spanish, French, and, occasionally, other languages. We encourage group proposals that cross institutional, disciplinary, and/or experiential boundaries.

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.

We encourage panel proposals as well as individual submissions.

Papers are generally 15–20 minutes in length. We also encourage works in progress, and informal presentations. 

This area considers the intersection of politics, civic life, and popular culture. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

• Political actions that involve pop culture, including banning or attacking elements of pop culture

Call for Papers: SAMLA 97 – Atlanta, GA (Nov 6–8, 2025)
Session ID: 19280
Title: Borderland Cartographies in the Global South: Postcolonial Cinema, Identity, and National Allegories
Session Type: Special
Area: Film Studies / Asian / Asian American Studies

The 97th annual SAMLA Conference is taking place Thursday, November, 6, through Saturday, November, 8, 2025, at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, GA.  For more information, see https://southatlanticmla.org/.

PAMLA: A Gathering of Horrors, Terrors, and Monstrosities Panel, 11/20/25-11/23/25, San Francisco

European Journal of American Culture *Open Call for Papers*

The European Journal of American Culture (EJAC) is an academic, peer-reviewed journal for scholars, academics and students from many disciplines with a common involvement in the interdisciplinary study of America and American culture, drawing on a variety of approaches and encompassing the whole evolution of the country.

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Please direct any general inquiries to Erica Tortolani at etort.phd@gmail.com.  

Call for Papers: Journal of Digital Media & Policy (JDMP)

Special Issue: ‘Metaverse Futures: Policy, Power, and the Digital Media Landscape’

#JDMPJournal

Guest Editors:

Brighton Nyagadza, York St John University, London Campus, United Kingdom

Abu Bashar, Gulf University, Kingdom of Bahrain

Eugine Tafadzwa Maziriri, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Tamer M. Alkadash, Gulf University, Kingdom of Bahrain

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The word apocalypse contains a paradox. In common usage, it means, “a disaster resulting in drastic, irreversible damage to human society or the environment, esp. on a global scale; a cataclysm” (OED); but the word’s roots come from the ancient Greek for “unveiling." 

                  Apocalypse contains both end and beginning, annihilation and exaltation. The apocalyptic promises death and destruction, yes, but also, knowledge and transformation.  The apocalypse is above all a threshold. Thus, as an object of inquiry, apocalypse calls for the examination of perspective and perception, as much as of semiotics and the historical. 

This panel invites scholarship that explores how sound—broadly understood as an aesthetic, material, and theoretical force—functions within and shapes literature, music, performance, and visual media to riff on history and modulate experience. We seek contributions that investigate how sound operates both as a method and a site of creative invention—where dominant narratives are unsettled and histories that resist closure come into audible presence. Sonic form becomes a space where the unfinished, the fugitive, and the refused emerge through rhythm, echo, distortion, repetition, and resonance.

Conference Call for Papers

Kingston University, UK, 28th and 29th October 2025

Terminal Futures: JG Ballard In The 21st Century

Kingston School of Art, Kingston University

#Kingston2025

October 28th and 29th 2025

Call For Papers

Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, September 11th and 12th September, 2025

The 2025 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.

Virtual sessions will take place via Zoom throughout the day on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Registration will open up in mid-July. 

The Storytelling & Narrative area explores the multifaceted nature and role of storytelling and narrative. We invite submissions from all theoretical and methodological perspectives. Submissions should have a connection to how storytelling and narrative plays a role in popular culture including, but not limited to, topics such as:

“[Minor poets are poets] who may have a strong personal appeal to certain readers. . . This poet may not be very important, you should say defiantly, but his work is good for me.” –T. S. Eliot