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250-500 worded abstracts to be sent to the session organisers at:
In her introduction to Science in the Archives (2017), Lorraine Daston explores the way that scientific archives function as “repository” of scientific empiricism (10), a process through which scientists preserve scientific findings. What is occluded in this understanding, Daston explains, is that, when scientists ‘convert’ the natural world into its ‘second nature’—i.e. data—the conditions for that translation are controlled, selective, entangled, slowed, sped up, and digitized (10). Daston’s research helps us to consider how science arbitrarily constructs archivable data at an increasing rate: “more people are manipulating more information in more ways, and all at a tempo that baffles ‘what next?’ predictions” (10).
Event: University of Washington English Department Writing Programs’ Praxis Conference
Theme: Writing With
Date: Fri May 29, 2026
Location: Seattle, Washington, United States (University of Washington, Seattle campus)
CFP SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 13, 11:59pm PST (UPDATE: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 16, 11:59pm PST)
We are pleased to invite proposals for the University of Washington English Department Writing Programs’ sixth annual Praxis Conference, which will be held at the University of Washing, Seattle campus on Friday, May 29th, 2026.
The journal Korpusgermanistik invites submissions for its June 2026 issue. The journal provides an international platform for research across the full spectrum of German Studies, including linguistics, literary studies, cultural studies, and media studies.
All submissions undergo a double-blind peer-review process.
Important Dates
Submission
Authors are kindly asked to submit their full manuscripts via the journal’s online submission system:
Please ensure that your manuscript follows the author guidelines available on the journal website.
On December 9, 2014, the release of Ezell Ford’s autopsy report inspired an 18-day protest held in
record-breaking cold in front of LAPD headquarters. The evidence confirming that Ford had been shot by
police at close range inspired a group of dance activists, led by Black Lives Matter founding member Dr.
Shamell Bell, not only to occupy space but also to move within it. The protest represented what she coined
“street dance activism” based on “radical joy” and “collecting freedom dreaming.”
The Pleasures and Problems of Pooh
The 3rd Biennial kidlit@hollins Children’s Literature Symposium
On Zoom
Friday-Sunday, July 10-12, 2026
Hollins University Graduate Programs in Children’s Literature
Chaired by Lisa Rowe Fraustino
This year’s hundredth anniversary of A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh, published in 1926, provides a springboard for reflection on the role of classic children’s literature. This online symposium seeks presentation proposals from authors, illustrators, librarians, publishers, educators, and scholars in any field. Possible topics for exploration include:
“I Put a Spell on You” @ 70: 3rd Annual Goth Music and Subculture Symposium
Theme: “Hyphenated Hauntings: Examining Proto-goth and Goth-adjacent Bands”
Submission Deadline:
June 12, 2026
Symposium Date:
August 15, 2026
Format:
Online (via Zoom, Pacific)
Abstract:
200 words
Biographical Statement, inclusive of position, institutional affiliation, previous publications, accolades, research interests, etc.
Time Zone
Submit to:
Children’s accounts of violence occupy a paradoxical space in public discourse: they are framed as both essential, unquestionable evidence, and, sometimes at the same time, as unreliable and prone to outside influence. Both framings rely on cultural constructions of the child’s “innocence.” This panel invites papers examining narratives of violence told by children, with a particular interest in experiences of institutional or state violence. How do these narratives complicate familiar tropes of children as voiceless victims in need of saving, or of certain topics as exclusively “adult” or “childish”? How do child narrators themselves exploit, resist, and play with or into these tropes?
Session CFP:
Seeking presentations addressing multilingualism and linguistic rights in South Asian literature and culture for a guaranteed panel of the MLA-allied South Asian Literary Association. 300-word abstract and short CV.
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, March 15, 2026
Hans-Georg Erney, Georgia Southern U (herney@georgiasouthern.edu )
Special note for the contributors:
Please focus on the text that represents migration from the Global South to the Global North.
The text under consideration should be published after 2000, though it can focus on migration that happened at any time in history.
Please take a minimum of one and a maximum of two migration/refugee narratives for analysis.
Please mention within the abstract the theoretical background clearly that one wants to apply.
The text under consideration should be either written in English or translated into English.
Date of conference: 28-29 August, 2026
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 5 July 2026
Online, international, interdisciplinary conference titled:
A Letter to Video Games:The Mechanisms of Emotions
Video Game and Memory
Call for Book Chapters
"To live an age, yet remember so little…
Perhaps I should be thankful?”
Quirrel, NPC in Hollow Knight (2017)
BABEL AFIAL journal. Dept of English, French and German, University of Vigo, Spain. Call for Papers for No. 35, Special Issue: “BABEL/S IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: LINGUISTIC AND LITERARY NEGOTIATIONS, CULTURAL (MIS)ENCOUNTERS AND TEXTUAL VARIATIONS IN THE ANGLOPHONE WORLD”. Deadline: 31 March 2026. Contact info: babelafial@uvigo.gal. Journal info (both English & Spanish versions) at: https://revistas.uvigo.es/index.php/AFIAL/announcement/view/38
Recent archival initiatives have made accessible significant bodies of media work by writers associated with the Black Arts Movement, including projects in film, radio, and television. These rediscoveries invite renewed attention to the movement’s engagement with broadcast and screen media and challenge the longstanding emphasis on poetry, theater, and print culture in scholarship on the period.
“The poetry of witness reclaims the social from the political and in so doing defends the individual against illegitimate forms of coercion.”- Carolyn Forché
“But is it enough that a poem “remembers” when we are now entrenched in an era of total recall?”– Cathy Park Hong, “Against Witness“
Unearthed invites submissions for an upcoming issue devoted to witnessing in a time of social and ecological rupture. We welcome work that refuses to look away from injustice and chronicles radical resilience.
CALL FOR PAPERS
October 23–24, 2026
Children, Literature, and the Christian Imagination
An International Conference
Keynote Speaker: Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Screenwriter, Novelist, and Children’s Laureate (UK)
The University of St. Michael’s College invites proposals of individual papers or panels for a conference on the theme of Children, Literature, and the Christian Imagination. The keynote will take place on the evening of October 23 and the conference will take place the following day, October 24, 2026.
We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume titled Intergenerational Trauma, Memory, Truth, and Resilience Within Indigenous Communities. Across global contexts, Indigenous communities continue to confront the layered consequences of land dispossession, forced assimilation, cultural suppression, environmental destruction, and systemic inequities. Yet alongside trauma exists profound resilience—expressed through story, ceremony, language revitalization, artistic expression, community mobilization, and intergenerational renewal.
See for details and submission https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/9804
Call for ProposalsEthos in Contemporary Contexts: Authority, Identity, and Trust in Contemporary RhetoricEdited, Academic Collection
Natures in Translation: AI, Ethics and Environmental Conservation
Lancaster University, UK
1-2 October 2026
Conference funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and BRAID
Abstract submission deadline: 20 April 2026
Confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. Ursula K. Heise (UCLA), Prof. Şebnem Susam-Saraeva (Edinburgh University).
Confirmed keynote performance: Khairani Barokka
Panel on the rewards, risks, and ethics of public humanities approaches in the undergraduate classroom. Some possible topics: public project assignments, public writing, community-engaged learning, university/humanities in current political climate, faculty-student collaboration.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, March 20, 2026
Please send 250-500-word abstracts & CVs to Roya Biggie, Knox College (royabiggie@gmail.com ) and Danica Savonick, SUNY Cortland (danicasavonick@gmail.com ).
This is a guaranteed panel for the MLA's Teaching of Literature Forum. This roundtable discusses experiences and pedagogical approaches to teaching literature under authoritarianism and state violence widely conceived. Panelists discuss whitewashing and erasing literary histories, global efforts at repressing liberatory literacy, heightened classroom surveillance, teaching anti-fascist literature, and more.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, March 27, 2026
Please send 250-500-word abstracts and CVs to Danica Savonick (danicasavonick@gmail.com ) and Brandi Locke (blocke@udel.edu).
Humanities Bulletin - Call for papers
Submission Deadline: April 25, 2026
Vol. 9, No. 1 - May, 2026
ISSN 2517-4266
Humanities Bulletin is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed Journal which features original studies and reviews in the various branches of Humanities, including History, Literature, Philosophy, Arts.
This journal is not allied with any specific school of thinking or cultural tradition; instead, it encourages dialogue between ideas and people with different points of view. Our aim is to bring together different international scholars, in order to promote the dialogue between cultures, ideas and new academic researches.
The Journal is hosted by London Academic Publishing, London, UK.
Speaking of the agency of nature is now common practice. The biosphere is recognised as being life sustaining and its vitality essential to human existence. Following thinkers such as Felix Guattari, nature has also been recognised has having subjective qualities, inseparable from the meaning and values humans attribute to life and the visions we conjure of what constitutes a just and habitable future. The philosophical legacy of Immanuel Kant looms large over this aesthetic terrain, notably his work on the beautiful and the sublime, which still compels us to consider the complex relationship between humans and life-world systems.
This panel seeks papers that explore the early modern relationship between loss and melancholy for the Sixteenth Century Society Conference to be held in Chicago, 29-31 October 2026. In his Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Robert Burton writes, “Now go and brag of thy present happiness… thou seest in what a brittle state thou art, how soon thou mayst be dejected… by bad diet, bad air, a small loss, a little sorrow or discontent.” Bereavement permeates the early modern landscape, appearing in paintings, prints, poems, plays, ego documents, and legal testimony, among many other sources. It may involve the loss of love, friends, honor, possessions, homeland, freedom, political stability, or even religious conviction.
Call for Papers: Journal of Fandom Studies
Special Issue: ‘Heated Rivalry: Queering Sports in Popular Culture’
Guest Editors:
Yvonne Gonzales, University of Southern California
Kirsten Crowe, University of Southern California
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-fandom-studies#call-for-papers
We invite submissions for the upcoming issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in SEPTEMBER. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography, ERIH Plus, DOAJ, EBSCO and Gale Cengage.
* Deadline is the end of JULY but we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.
* Original works, not published elsewhere or related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication.
* Please note that all manuscripts will be closely examined through Turnitin once they are received by the journal.
Call for Papers: Temporalities: The Sixth Annual Critical Femininities Conference
The Critical Femininities Network invites abstracts from scholars, researchers, activists, and artists for the sixth annual Critical Femininities Conference on the theme of ‘Temporalities.’ The conference will take place virtually on August 7 - 9, 2026.
Coming of Age on Screen: Youthful Subjectivities in Contemporary Indian Media
Guest Editors:
Dr. Shreyansh Jain, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Christ (Deemed-to-be-University), Delhi-NCR, Ghaziabad, India.
Dr. Ruchi, School of Business, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India.
Link to the Journal: https://cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/cinej/announcement/view/6
MLA 2027 Panel Proposal Emancipatory Narratives through Place-Based PedagogyHow does centering humanities classrooms "in place" allow students to create emancipatory, future-oriented, regional narratives? Seeking presenters interested in unpacking the role of emplaced humanities and place-based strategies. 250-word abstracts and one-page CV: katharine.trostel@ursuline.edu. https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Paper33079.html
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, March 25, 2026
TITLE: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Emancipatory Activities at the Crossroads of Academic Freedom
DESCRIPTION: In honor of the 60th anniversary of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, the MLA Committee on Higher Education Practices (HEP) seeks paper proposals regarding contemplation, design, and/or implementation of emancipatory activities in literature, language, and writing classrooms.
Topics might include (but are certainly not limited to) the following:
CFP: ALTERNATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF BELONGING IN TRANS LIVES
Deadline for proposals: April 10, 2026
The Marlowe Society of America invites paper proposals for a sponsored panel at the annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Society Conference, to be held in Chicago from October 29th-31st.
This panel welcomes new scholarship on the works, life, and afterlives of Christopher Marlowe. We especially encourage papers that situate Marlowe in conversation with contemporaries, institutions, or transnational frameworks in the early modern period.
We welcome proposals from scholars at all career stages. Papers should be 15–20 minutes in length.
Call for Papers
Home, Homecoming, Homesickness.
Online International Emerging Scholars’ Conference
20—21 April 2026
The Civic Humanities: New Approaches to Democratic Futures
Eliot Society MMLA CFP 2026
The Science and Literature Forum is seeking abstracts for a panel at MLA 2027, “Food, Science, and Literature”:
California alone grows half of the fruits and vegetables in the US. This panel brings together scholars examining literature of food, food science, food justice, and agriculture in California and beyond.
Please submit a 250-word abstract and bio to jmize@saic.edu by Friday, March 20th.
Dear colleagues,
We invite proposals for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention (MLA 2027) in Los Angeles, to be held January 7–10, 2027, titled “Romanian, Hungarian and Other Emancipatory Narratives.”
Call for Papers: MLA 2027 - Los Angeles
The William Morris Society in the United States is soliciting proposals for two panels at next year's MLA (January 7-10, 2027 in Los Angeles). You are warmly invited to submit proposals for either session. Please submit your proposals to the email addresses listed with each CFP. Submissions must be received by March 15.
William Morris, Collections Technology & the Virtual Archive
Call for Papers: MLA 2027 - Los Angeles
The William Morris Society in the United States is soliciting proposals for two panels at next year's MLA (January 7-10, 2027 in Los Angeles). You are warmly invited to submit proposals for either session. Please submit your proposals to the email addresses listed with each CFP. Submissions must be received by March 15.
William Morris, Labor & the Nineteenth Century
Dedalus: Portuguese Journal of Comparative Literature
Call for Papers
Greece and Germany — Literature, Philosophy, Culture, and the Arts
Dedalus, Vol. 30 (2026)
We invite original scholarly contributions for an edited comprehensive volume dedicated to
the histories, aesthetics, industries, and cultural politics of cinema in Bhutan. As Bhutanese
filmmaking gains increasing regional and global visibility—through both popular and festival
circuits—this volume seeks to offer the first sustained, interdisciplinary mapping of its
cinematic landscape.
As the flagship journal of Northwestern’s Environment, Culture, and Society cluster, Lime’s second symposium takes its thematic inspiration from a site familiar to all Chicagoans, and so too for our neighbors around the Great Lakes region. We seek to mobilize the productive multivalence of the shore, the collision point between formlessness and form, known and unknown, or the sanctioned and the unruly, as a metaphoric image for the transgressive encounters initiated by work in the environmental humanities.
FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks volunteers to fill the following role:
CREATIVE WRITING EDITOR
Duties Include:
Coordinating the peer review process for creative writing submissions to the journal. The Creative Writing Editor would liaise with authors who submit to the journal, would pass their submissions on to peer reviewers, and would return reviewers' comments to the authors.
Attending collective meetings on a regular basis (now Thursday 12:30 PM EST) - meetings are held every week during production, then move to every other week afterward
Preferred Qualifications:
FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks volunteers to fill the following role:
Proofreader
Duties include:
Proofreading all material to be published in the journal. This includes scholarly articles, book and media reviews, event coverage, and other material. Note that proofreading is restricted to correcting errors of grammar, punctuation, citation, and phrasing - the Proofreader will not be reviewing or altering the content of the submitted material (this is covered in the peer review process).
“A population does not renew itself only through the cycle of births and deaths, but also through the interplay of inward and outward migration.” – François Héran
Call for Papers: The LLC Puerto Rican Forum of the Modern Language Association
invites paper proposals for the 2027 convention in Los Angeles that engage in a
nuanced analysis and reassessment of the trajectory of Puertorriqueñidad in the arts
over the last quarter of a century that critically addresses music, visuality, and
language.
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During the transition between the 20th and 21st centuries, Puerto Rican artists helped
lead the charge of what at the time was denominated the Latin Boom. Artists like Ricky Martin,
Since the release of the Canadian-produced streaming TV show Heated Rivalry, the show and its actors have exploded across traditional and social media, prompting wide discussions about sexuality in sports and the female consumption of MM (male/male) romance. Based on the Game Changers novel series by Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry follows the illicit romance between two male hockey players. In the months since, both NHL ticket and queer romance novel sales have skyrocketed; parodies of Heated Rivalry have popped up on SNL and off-Broadway stages.
Inviting 250-300 words abstracts focusing on intersections between Critical AI and literary/cultural texts to explore how AI driven surveillance and security systems reinforce or counter racism against the South Asian communities in the US.
CALL FOR PAPERS2026 Technology for Second Language Learning ConferenceOctober 15-16, 2026Hybrid (Online & Iowa State University)
The Constructed Agents theme provides a forum for exploring how humans develop their understanding of AI agents from their exposure to representations of agents in literature and film. The conference explores how and to what extent representations of non-human sentient agents such as Frankenstein’s creature in Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel and Hal in 2001 Space Odyssey may shape views of today’s language-using AI agents including those for language learning.
