“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”

– Franz Kafka, letter to Oskar Pollak, 27th January 1904

We are delighted to announce that Errant is now open for submissions to its fifth issue.

Handbook of Religions and Migration: Global and Multi-Tradition Perspectives (Springer)

Editors:

İhsan Çapcıoğlu, Ankara University

Fadime Apaydın, University of California, Riverside

Nevfel Akyar, Manisa Celal Bayar University

Editorial Note: In line with our editorial commitment to developing a major reference handbook comparable to leading works in the field, the submission deadline has been extended briefly in order to further strengthen the volume’s global, multi-religious, and cross-traditional comparative dimensions.

We invite you to submit scholarly or creative work to the 91st Annual Conference of the Indiana College English Association. As a regional affiliate of the College English Association, anyone in our region (Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky) is encouraged to participate.

The CCCC’s 2027 Convention (April 14-17, 2027 in Miwaukee, WI) invites us to “imagine and design” our preferable, potentially even preposterous, writing futures; this panel imagines those futures through place-based education (PBE).

RADIATION: Connection Across Distance

A Cross-disciplinary Conference

Arnolfini, Bristol, UK 12 – 14 Nov 2026

Over the last years, there has been a burgeoning debate about the Eastern multicultural space, ranging from Eastern Europe, Middle East and South Asian countries to the Far East, which has been intrinsically coupled with significant cultural and economic dynamism; however, such diverse and multi-layered areas have also been the subject of all sorts of misrepresentations and misinterpretations. Future trajectory of the Eastern mind-set might provide a basis for the emergence of new civilizations in this new century and new millennium. This section attempts to explore the outcomes of the various encounters between Eastern and Western cultural conventions in relation to literature, arts, social sciences, media studies and other fields, by carefully examining

Call for papers

Architectures of Deceit:

Impostors and Con Artists in Contemporary Film and Media

This panel title borrows from the article "Granola and Guns: The Rise of Conspirituality" hosted on McGill University's Office for Science and Society that attempts to define and locate in American society a perplexing mindset that blends countercultural mystical thinking and conservative paranoia. "Conspirituality," which PennState defines as "a belief system that blends new age spiritual beliefs and conspiracy theorizing," has also been branded the "crunchy-to-fascism" pipeline, demonstrating how an openness to crystal healing, chakra opening, sonic baths, and celestial alignment has led many—often well-to-do white women—towards "Pastel QAnon," anti-vaxx, and an embrace of alt-right beliefs.

Names of Proposed Editor(s) and academic affiliation:

Prof. Om Prakash Dwivedi, Director, Faculty of Humanities & Liberal Arts Chandigarh University Uttar Pradesh, India 

Dr. Madhurima Nayak, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Chandigarh University Uttar Pradesh, India

Prof. Debajyoti Biswas, Department of English, Bodoland University, India

Aim & Intellectual Scope of Issue

Call for papers for the online conference  

“Metalinguistic awareness in additional language learning: current issues and future directions” 

Conference dates: September 30-October 1, 2026 

CFP NEPCA Monsters & the Montrous Area 2026

The Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (a.k.a. NEPCA) seeks proposals for inclusion in NEPCA’s 2026 annual conference.

The event will run as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 15th, through Saturday, October 17th. Virtual sessions will take place via Zoom throughout the day on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Registration will open up in mid-July. The registration fee is expected to be around 50 USD.

Call for Articlesfor the 12th issue ofCurrents: A Journal of Young English Philology Thought and Review

on the theme of

Home, Homecoming, Homesickness

View the CFP as a pdf file

Over the last years, there has been a burgeoning debate about the Eastern multicultural space, ranging from Eastern Europe, Middle East and South Asian countries to the Far East, which has been intrinsically coupled with significant cultural and economic dynamism; however, such diverse and multi-layered areas have also been the subject of all sorts of misrepresentations and misinterpretations. Future trajectory of the Eastern mind-set might provide a basis for the emergence of new civilizations in this new century and new millennium.

Continuing the interdisciplinary tradition of the International Language, Literature and Culture (LLC) Conference Series, the 12th International Language, Literature and Culture Conference, jointly organized by Çankaya University and Bournemouth University, will be hosted by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Süleyman Demirel University on 21–24 October 2026. Scholars and researchers are cordially invited to contribute to the conference under the theme “Human, Environment and Ecology.”

CALL FOR PAPERS

Speculative Embodiment: Dramaturgical Approaches to Subtext in Shakespeare
Special Session | PAMLA 123rd Annual Conference

Conference Dates: November 12–15, 2026
Location: Hyatt Regency Seattle, 808 Howell St., Seattle, WA 98101
Abstract Deadline: May 25, 2026
Format: In-person only
Session Area: Drama, Theater, and Performance / British and Anglophone
Presiding Officers: Kristen Tregar (Independent Scholar) and Sam Kolodezh (University of California – San Diego)

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Pedagogy and Praxis (Panel / In-Person)Presiding Officer: Kathryn Vulic (Western Washington University)

The Pedagogy and Praxis roundtable will explore all aspects of pedagogy and teaching praxis as experienced or theorized by English, Modern Languages, and Humanities educators. Topics of interest might include:

· Theoretical and practical responses to the rise of large language model/generative AI

· Classroom methods and assignments that foster students’ literary analysis skills and that reduce reliance of AI tools

· Recent trends in higher education and high school teaching of the humanities

· Innovations and emerging research in pedagogy

CALL FOR PAPERS: TOURISM, RELIGION, AND POLITICS 

“Open Theology” (https://www.degruyterbrill.com/opth)  invites submissions for the special issue “Tourism, Religion, and Politics: The Influence of Political Environments on Religious Tourism,” edited by Dr. Caglar Ezikoglu.

DESCRIPTION

New Imago Forum

University of Essex (UK)

11 – 13 December 2026

Background

Call for Proposals: Mapping Post-Truth Across Disciplines Conference

Key Information
Proposals due June 30th, 2026 to posttruthconference@gmail.com
Decision of acceptance communicated by July 15th, end of day

Dates: October 29th-30th, 2026
Location: University of Memphis, specific locations TBD
Fee: TBD

Society for the Study of Affect (SSA)
#MAKE: Methods, Atmospheres, Knowledges, Energies
Vancouver, BC, October 23 to 25, 2026

Abstracts due May 29, 2026
Submit here: https://affectsociety.com/make/conference/?submit=paper&stream_id=30 

In April 2026, I attended Shauna M. Morgan, Angel Dye, and Madison (Mocha) Hunter's College Language Association panel discussion: “Scripting Soul Work: The Infusive Praxis of Poet-Scholars.” In their talk, each panelist discussed—in prose like fashion—her relationship with her creative and scholarly self, and, in the spirit of Barbara Christian's 1987 “The Race for Theory,” they argued the significance of creative writing to Black and brown folk scholarship and being, which they supported with a reading of their selected poetic works.

Literature/Film Quarterly (LFQ) is an internationally recognized, open-access journal specializing in adaptation studies. Published entirely online, LFQ makes all content freely available to readers worldwide. We publish quarterly and manuscripts often progress from initial submission through peer review to publication in less than one year. 2023 marked our 50th year of continuous publication. Visit our website for current issues, online archives (dating to 2017), and complete submission guidelines: https://lfq.salisbury.edu/

The Phenomenology of the Stand-up Comic: Toward a Sociology of Gendered Humour

Travel and Tourism Studies as a discipline continues to gain popularity in academia, in part because of its inter-disciplinary nature. The Travel and Tourism area seeks papers that discuss and explore any aspect of travel and/or tourism. Topics for this area include, but are not limited to, the following:

- travel and gender/race/class
- personal travel narratives
- heritage tourism
- material culture and tourism
- the impacts of the political climate on travel