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The forming of the five senses is a labour of the entire history of the world down to the present.
— Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
Lose your mind and come to your senses.
— Frederich (Fritz) Perls, Gestalt Therapy Verbatim (1969)
JEASA - Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia - permanent call deadline for submissions: 31 May 2026; 30 September 2026 full name / name of organization: Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia contact email: marilena.parlati@unipd.it
CFP Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia
Special Issue: Minding the Present. Bodies, Places, Matter in and between Australia and Europe
Deadline for proposals: 15 March 2026
Taking its cue from a very vibrant conference held in Padova (Italy) in September 2025, the Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia is seeking articles that examine the shaping experiences, identities, and perceptions of the present as a catalyst to urgent action both in Australia—with a special alertness to the very rooted cultures of Indigenous Australia—and in the complex relations between Europe and Australia.
CFP – Extended Deadline – May 1, 2026
Interdisciplinary Humanities invites submissions for a special double issue dedicated to exploring Gothic literature. This double issue will be divided into two areas: one focusing on creative and scholarly activity, and the other on pedagogy in K-12 and higher education.
Volume 1: Gothic Literature: Creative Activity and Research
Creative and Scholarly Activity
We seek contributions that delve into the rich and diverse world of Gothic literature. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Call for Papers:
I am pleased to share a call for chapter proposals for an edited collection currently in development titled Black Feminist Practices and AI in the Composition Classroom: Memoir, Pedagogy, and Futures. This volume invites scholars, teachers, and practitioners to explore how Black Feminist rhetorical traditions can guide ethical, humanizing, and culturally responsive uses of artificial intelligence in writing instruction.
No Longer in the “Waiting Room of Literary History”:
Accounting for Nineteenth-Century Indian Fiction
A Special Issue of The Global South, Fall 2028
CFP | Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society (PEHS) session
American Literature Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, May 20-23, 2026
Hopkins’s America, Then & Now
The Journal of Epistolary Studies is looking to build its fall 2026 issue and is seeking papers in any area of letters and letter writing, including epistolary fiction. Please submit at the journal's website (https://jes-ojs-utrgv.tdl.org/jes/index.php/jes) or query the editor by email.
CFP “A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy” Conference, February 27–28, 2026
The conference builds on a growing body of research that examines the theological, cultural, and political intersections of democracy, citizenship, and power. Participants will investigate how worldviews and faith traditions have informed concepts of governance, belonging, and personhood from the founding era to the present. The conference will highlight not only the Haudenosaunee Influence on American Democracy but also the historic and present contributions to Democratic thought by Black, Indigenous, and Latine communities, contributions which are often forgotten and ignored.
Featured Speakers
The Second Quarry Farm Graduate Student Workshop: “From Seminar Paper to Academic Article”The Center for Mark Twain Studies is happy to announce their second Graduate Student Workshop: “From Seminar Paper to Academic Article.” This in-person workshop will provide an intensive writing experience for students to transform a seminar or conference paper into an article ready to submit for publication. Although all approaches are welcome—and interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged – the paper must give substantial attention to Twain.
Elmira 2026: The Tenth International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies
Conference Theme: Irreverence, Rebellion, and Resilience
Science Fiction & Fantasy (SFF) continue to offer new ways of considering the relationships between gender and genre. This conference is interested in how women – writers, characters, fans – use, negotiate, and operate in SFF.
We are particularly interested in papers that have an interdisciplinary and/or creative focus. We welcome papers which consider how this operates across multiple forms, including text, film, TV and videogames.
This conference is open to students and researchers at any stage of their career.
We are pleased to invite participants to a four-day intensive book reading workshop on Antonio Gramsci (online), focused on questions of hegemony, culture, subaltern politics, and political struggle. This workshop brings together students, scholars, researchers, activists, and readers for a sustained and collective engagement with Gramsci’s writings. Written largely under conditions of imprisonment and censorship, Gramsci’s work challenges us to think about power not only as domination, but as consent, culture, and everyday common sense.
CFP: Precarity Reimagined—Working-Class Representation since 2020
The last few years have seen the publication of a number of fantasy novels for young people written by authors from the postcolonial diaspora, including Tomi Adeyemi’s Legacy of Orisha trilogy, Jordan Ifueko’s Raybearer series, Nnedi Okarofor’s The Nsibidi Scripts series and Roshani Chokshi’s The Gilded Wolves series. Additionally, there are YA fantasy series that deal with hierarchies and inequities resulting from colonization and settler colonialism, such as Naomi Novik’s Scholomance series and Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves duology.
Late Bowie: legacy, mortality and the archival impulse
Call for Papers
Kingston University, UK
Abstract
The “end of the world” names a methodological problem before it names an apocalypse: how do humanities scholars and artist-researchers think, make, and teach when climate disruption, extinction, extractive infrastructures, forced displacement, and slow violence reformat what counts as evidence, what counts as futurity, and what counts as responsibility? This conference convenes research and practice across film, theatre, performance, and allied arts to ask how (post)Anthropocene conditions are not only represented but produced, felt, and negotiated through aesthetic forms, production systems, embodied publics, and more-than-human milieus.
Conference online (via Zoom): 26-27 February 2026
CFP:
Coined by Marianne Hirsch in the 1990s, the term postmemory by now entered various disciplines who search to understand how memory form our identity and how we position, articulate or just make sense of our place in the society and our relations with it. The term postmemory problematizes the concept of memory by bringing attention to the memories that are not exactly personal but that keep on shaping one’s life and one’s way of seeing the world.
(Extended Deadline)
MEMORY
University of Virginia Department of English Graduate Symposium
March 27 & 28, 2026
Dates: Thursday 25 June - Friday 26 June 2026
Venue: Jesus College, University of Cambridge
The Anaïs Nin Foundation and Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal are pleased to announce the inaugural Anaïs Nin Essay Prize. We are seeking submissions of scholarly essays centered on the work, influence, relationships, or legacy of Anaïs Nin. Essays should aim to extend the academic conversation around her contributions to literature, art, and culture.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Culture, Food, and Literature in the New Millennium (Hybrid)
March 25-26, 2026
School of Liberal Arts
University of Management and Technology, Lahore
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
1725 to 2025: Historical & Contemporary Links Between Scotland and South Asia
Symposium date: 14 April 2026
Organisers: Dr Sheelalipi Sahana, Dr Fatima Z. Naveed
Symposium venue: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
"The Scottish connection with India really began in and around 1725…It is only from the 1720s that a remarkable number of Scots begin to appear abroad as servants of the East India Company.” (McGilvary 2011)
MICHIGAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, ARTS & LETTERS 614 Superior Street, Alma College, Alma, MI 48801 - Fax: 989-463-7970 - michiganacademy@alma.edu Call for Papers Women's & Gender Studies
INVITATION 2026 conference: Friday, March 27, 2026, virtual conference held via Zoom.
You are invited to submit a 200-word abstract of the paper you wish to present at the conference.
PROCEDURES Abstract submission deadline is 1/23/26.
Presentations are up to 20 minutes each, followed by discussion.
Undergraduates may present faculty co-authored or sponsored papers (section leaders may require proof that paper/research was reviewed by a faculty sponsor).
Call for Papers: Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture
Special Issue: ‘Black Migrant Musicking in Contemporary Brazil’
Editors: Rose Satiko Hikiji, Jasper Chalcraft and Caetano Maschio Santos
Submissions due: 30 April 2026
View the full call here>>
MLA Annual Convention 2027
Los Angeles, California | 7–10 January 2027
Empathy in Action: Critical Perspectives from the Arts and Humanities
ARTS & HUMANITIES INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLOQUIUM
(Please read the full CfP before sending a proposal)
Deadline for abstract submissions: 20 March 2026
Notifications of acceptance: by 01 April 2026
Analog Game Studies and Game in Lab are proud to announce Generation Analog 2026. This year’s online conference will take place July 16-17, 2026. The online event is free and open to the public with registration. All presentations will be recorded and made available after the event. Check out the presentations from previous years via AGS’s YouTube channel (like and subscribe).
Translators, Texts, and Contexts: Reclaiming Human Agency in the Age of AIHosted by the Department of Translation, Lingnan University, Hong Kong11-12 December 2026 | M+, Kowloon, Hong Kong
As artificial intelligence (AI) sweeps through the landscape of language mediation, the classical trio of Translators, Texts, and Contexts remains central to understanding the art, ethics, and politics of translation. While AI tools offer unprecedented efficiencies in text processing, they often lack the human capacity for nuanced judgment and cultural contextualisation that remain essential to traditional translation studies scholarship.
Queer Ecologies Across Socialisms
15-16 October 2026
University of Regensburg, October 15-16, 2026 | CfP deadline: Feb 15, 2026
Organizers: Martyna Miernecka, Paweł Matusz
In literary and arts research on socialist worlds, both queer studies and environmental histories have been expanding – yet we still lack approaches that would systematically integrate these strands across global state socialisms. This conference responds to that gap by inviting work that reads queer practices alongside institutional and environmental policies and traces the queer ecological impulses emerging from socialist contexts across the globe.
Food& (https://foodand.eu/) is an experimental publishing project based in Berlin that examines encounters between food and wider social, cultural and political contexts. Previous issues have addressed themes such as Food & Bathrooms, Food & Nuclear War, Food & Gravity and Fast Food & Patents. Food& invites contributions for its upcoming themed issue on Food and Censorship. The issue explores how questions of restriction, regulation, visibility, silence and control shape the production, circulation and mediation of food, food knowledge and food cultures.
The International Congress on Narrative and Aesthetics in Film, Series, TV, and Audiovisual Experimentation is a platform for discussion and dissemination of studies and projects related to audiovisual creation in its various areas of production and distribution. It encompasses research related to cinematography and film history across a wide range of fields (sociology, industry, aesthetics, etc.), formats (fiction, documentary, animation, music videos, etc.), and genres (from thrillers and comedies to the connections between film and comics or video games).
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 the arts. Researchers are invited to submit their manuscripts in English, Arabic, and French.
Presentation
ATRAS Journal is inviting researchers from the international academic community to submit their unpublished manuscripts for publication.
Accepted papers after review will be published for volume 7, issue 2 on July 15th, 2026
Osgood Perkins is emerging as one of the most significant directors of horror in the 21st century. His films are wildly diverse and have elicited an equally wild diversity of response from viewers and critics. Perkins has thought a lot about horror, has frequently spoken about its larger meanings in interviews, and is committed to its centrality as a genre – something he articulates in this 2025 conversation with Interview Magazine:
The journal Studies in Popular Culture publishes reviews of books in the field. If you are interested in reviewing a book submitted to the journal or would like to suggest one to review, please contact the Book Reviews Editor, Caesar Perkowski, at cperkowski@gordonstate.edu. If you have not already reviewed a book for the journal, please include either a CV or a brief description of your interests and qualifications in the email.
Members of the Popular Culture Association in the South who have published a book are encouraged to inform the Book Reviews Editor of that fact.
The Department of English and Cultural Studies, School of Humanities and Performing Arts, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Delhi NCR Campus, is hosting its 3rd International Conference on Global Digital Cultures: Texts, Technologies, and Audiences (Hybrid Mode).
Date: 23 - 24 February, 2026
In the era of rapid technological change, digitalization, globalization, and platformization are reshaping film, media, and creative industries. This conference critically explores the intersections of texts, technologies, and audiences in global digital cultures, with a focus on South Asia and the Global South.
Welcome to Hawkins: A Special Issue on Stranger Things
Slayage plans a special issue on Stranger Things for publication in late June 2026. Slayage is an international and interdisciplinary refereed scholarly journal concerned with the “fuzzy set” with Buffy the Vampire Slayer at its center, and Stranger Things, a multi-season television series with kick-ass heroines, the irruption of the supernatural into the mundane, high-stakes action, strong characterizations, snarky humor, and an emphasis on relationships and the complexities of queerness and race, fits our definition nicely. It’s even got a Hellmouth in a library!
Call for Papers: Perspectives on Netflix’s Ripley
I am pleased to announce a call for papers for the first edited volume devoted to the Netflix limited series Ripley (Zaillian, 2024). Perspectives on Netflix’s Ripley seeks to explore the myriad ways in which this striking adaptation reimagines Patricia Highsmith’s iconic character for a new era of streaming television. I invite proposals from scholars, practitioners, and critics whose work engages with adaptation, media studies, sexuality, and screen cultures.
About the Volume
Since September of 2025 the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University has housed a new publication called The Pittsburgh Review of Books (or PRoB), available at http://www.pghrev.com
Edited by author and Public Humanities Special Faculty Ed Simon, PRoB is a home for engaged, creative, and interdisciplinary cultural criticism and analysis across the humanities. The tone of the publication is similar to other para-academic publications intended for both specialists and a general audience. Currently we are particularly interested in analysis that intersects with breaking news that can be produced by scholars quickly.
Studiolo is a series of essays on objects, books, and early technologies, written in the spirit of the chockablock Renaissance study from which it takes its name and published monthly at the Pittsburgh Review of Books (http://www.pghrev.com)
Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds
Special Issue 3/2026
“Save State: Ethics, Politics, and Poetics of Game Preservation”
Guest Editors: Paweł Frelik (University of Warsaw), Magdalena Kozyra (SWPS University), Tomasz Z. Majkowski (Jagiellonian University)
Latina/o/x Literature and Culture Society, ALA, Chicago, Illinois, May 20-23, 2026
This year, the Latina/o/x Literature & Culture Society welcomes submissions focusing on diverse topics, including literary genre, single authors, children’s literature, speculative fiction, comparative analyses, as well as cultural studies approaches. The society also encourages a variety of theoretical and interdisciplinary prisms, and a variety of panel types, including traditional paper sessions, roundtable discussions, and sessions dedicated to the teaching of Latina/o/x literature and culture.
February, 26-28, 2026 at Freed-Hardeman University
The Tennessee Philological Association (TPA) is now accepting submissions for the 2026 Conference to be held at Freed-Hardeman University February 26-28, 2026.
The organizers the University of South Carolina Beaufort's Interdisciplinary Studies Conference, "Balm: Binding Art, Life, Medicine," invite proposals for this year's event. This interdisciplinary conference on Narrative Medicine and Health Humanities will be held virtually on Thursday, March 26th and on the Bluffton campus on Friday, March 27th. We are extending the submission deadline from February 1st to February 15th to allow undergraduate scholars to generate potential contributions. Topics of Interest
We welcome interdisciplinary proposals that explore, interrogate, or illuminate the central theme, including but not limited to:
Joyce Studies Annual Call for Papers.
JAMES JOYCE; OR, THE IMITATION MACHINE
The development of Large Language Models (LLM) that can output language resembling human-made work have reinvigorated questions regarding the machine in literary production and scholarship.
Call for Papers and Workshops: “History up for Debate: Literature, Storytelling and the Imagined Past”
1-2 July 2026, University of Salzburg, Department of English and American Studies, Unipark Nonntal
Conference within the Framework of the Salzburg Conferences on English Literature and Culture (SEC)
Organisers: Dorothea Flothow, Julia Hartinger, Sarah Herbe, Christopher Herzog, Eva-Maria Kubin, Markus Oppolzer, and Elisabeth Schober
Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture is seeking reviews for upcoming issues. The journal welcomes reviews of a wide range of queer media and cultural artefacts. Like other academic journals, Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture publishes reviews of recently released books on queer subject matter. Consistent with the journal's overall focus, however, we also strongly encourage the submission and publication of reviews pertaining to significant films, musical recordings, plays, television series, video games, exhibitions, and related cultural artefacts that are of relevance to queerness in its various forms.
***DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JAN. 15th 2026***
Medieval Engagements with Disability
This edited volume aims to explore the concept of veleno, that is poison, in its material and symbolic
dimensions, examining how it functions as a cultural construct and/or a discursive category within
Italian literature—considered in dialogue with cultural practices and discursive uses of language—
from the Middle Ages to the contemporary period.
Across Italian cultural history, poison operates on a threshold between pharmakon (in its Derridean
sense) and toxin, between language that heals or contaminates, between scientific knowledge and
moral accountability. Far from being confined to medical or chemical meanings, poison emerges as a