Special Issue CFP – Living in Languages
“Becoming Translator: Ontological Shifts and Translational Praxis”
Abstracts due: August 30, 2025
Preliminary drafts due: November 30, 2025
Expected publication: Summer 2026

What happens to the translator in the act of translation?
This special edition of Living in Languages explores translation not only as the movement of
meaning across languages, but as a transformative ontological practice—one that acts upon the
translator, unsettling their assumptions, reconfiguring their relation to the world, and altering
their very being.

Visual Cultures of the Medical Modern

A two-day conference to be held at Azim Premji Bengaluru, 19th - 20th February, 2026 co-

organized by the English and Media Studies group

About the conference:

Call for papers "Literary and Artistic Expressions of Radical Ecology"

Special issue of Capitalism Nature Socialism

Editor: Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India

The Plantationocene: On Histories and Narratives of the Plantation

Special issue for Interdisciplinary Literary Studies

Editors:

Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India

Somasree Sarkar, Ghoshpukur College, University of North Bengal, India

Call for papers

Artificiality | Surfaciality

An international conference between

Rutgers University (NJ) and Aix-Marseille Université (France)

April 9-10, 2026

“En constatant, en notant la forme de leur flèche, le déplacement de leurs lignes, l'ensoleillement de leur surface, je sentais que je n'allais pas au bout de mon impression, que quelque chose était derrière ce mouvement, derrière cette clarté, quelque chose qu'ils semblaient contenir et dérober à la fois.”

Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann, 1913

Call for Chapters

Streamculture: The Aesthetics and Politics of Platformized Viewing

The English Department of the Faculty of Letters, History, Philosophy and Theology, West University of Timișoara, is pleased to announce its 34th international conference on British and American Studies, on the theme “Reconfiguring Borders and Boundaries in/through the Lens of Literature, Language and Culture,” which will be held on 14-16 May 2026. 

Theme statement:

How do we come to know health—our own or that of others? In a time marked by global crisis, inequality, and rapid technological change, lived experience offers vital, yet often marginalised, forms of knowledge. This one-day conference brings together Early Career Researchers across disciplines to explore health through the lens of lived experience: its stories, its silences, and its capacities for change.

The Claude McKay Society (CMKS), now  an author member society in the American Literature Association (ALA), will convene one or two panels at the ALA conference at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, May 20-24, 2026. Harlem Renaissance author McKay is presently enjoying a healthy resurgence.

Movements and MigrationsResearch Society for Victorian Periodicals, 2026 ConferenceTrinity College, Dublin, 23 - 25 July 2026

Call for Papers: Asian Cinema

Special Issue: 'Moving Violations: Asian Crime Films'

Special Issue Editors: Victor Fan, Kristof Van den Troost, and Earl Jackson

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/asian-cinema#call-for-papers

We invite scholars in religious studies and related fields to submit proposals for chapters
that will contribute to an edited volume on Metamodern Spiritualities. 
This volume will be the first of its kind to explore metamodernism as manifested in 21st century
religious/spiritual institutions, beliefs and practices. We seek contributions from
different disciplinary perspectives that critically adopt or adapt Vermeulen and Van den
Akker’s theory of metamodernism to contemporary religious/spiritual phenomena. We
welcome submissions that include, but are not limited to, theories and case studies of:

This interdisciplinary conference invites scholars to explore the rich and evolving relationship between Textual Studies and Memory Studies, two fields that while historically distinct offer vital and complementary insights into the construction, transmission, and contestation of cultural memory. In an era marked by the disruption and reconfiguration of once-stable social, cultural, and political structures, the questions raised by both disciplines feel increasingly urgent: How is the past preserved, edited, and transmitted through texts (where “text” is broadly conceived)? What role do textual forms, variants, and materialities play in shaping collective memory?

The Humanities Center at Texas Tech Annual Conference 2026:

“Humanity: Agency, Equality, Pleasure, Violence, Death”

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

April 25, 2026

Keynote Speaker:

Graham Harman,

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy,

Southern California Institute of Architecture

Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Call for Papers

Special Issue, Fall 2026: “Bad Moms”

Edited by Maik Stanitzke, Bentley University

Abstracts Due: Dec 1, 2025

Full Papers Due: January 18, 2026

This is a call for contributions to a special issue of the Journal of Feminist Scholarship organized around the figure of the “bad mom,” labor, and gender.

Despite the outsized influence of technology on everyday cultural practices and classrooms, its role has never been more contested. Indeed, even in the case that such practices are not digitized, our societal roles are increasingly governed by systemic expectations, rules, and algorithms. These expectations create hierarchies, enforce boundaries, and classify individuals and their work.

The CUNY Graduate Center Theatre and Performance department is holding in-person and virtual Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance open houses. Our in-person open house is on Thursday, November 13th at 5:30, and our Zoom open house will be on Tuesday, November 18th at 10am.

This will be a full event with talks from faculty and current students. Email Assistant Program Officer Patricia Goodson at pgoodson@gc.cuny.edu to RSVP and receive Zoom information.

Special Issue: ‘Discarded Bodies and the Crisis in Indian Cinema’

Call for Papers

Nightmare ‘26

The Northern School of Art: Thursday 2nd April 2026

Submission Deadline: Friday 13th February 2026

CFP: "If our lives are already written, it would take a courageous man to change the script"- The reciprocal relationship between horror cinema and video games

CFP: The Imposter
The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 99 (to be published Spring 2027)
Imposter is a loaded term that has invaded and fascinated media including accusations of
illegitimacy, fraud, and fakery. The imposter unsettles understandings of our media’s
truth, authority, and belonging. More than ever, the imposter feels unavoidable in our
lives: generative AI challenges the very idea of creativity, algorithms create debates
around curation and manipulation, and the evolving labor landscapes make us question
who is recognized as a legitimate media worker. Beyond technology, this figure is
political, social, and juridical. The imposter makes us think about precarity; precarity for

How do we mark transitions, generate transformational visions, and model alternate ways of being in a world imploding around us? How do we find joy while surrounded by brokenness? How do we heal when systems are structured against us? What rituals or practices can restore us, even speak to our souls? The next issue of Rejoinder explores the theme of ritual, healing, and world-making. Submissions (including essays, commentary, criticism, fiction, poetry, and artwork) should address this theme from feminist, queer, and social justice-inspired perspectives. We particularly welcome contributions at the intersection of scholarship and activism.

CFP: Under the Surface: Visibility and Politics deadline for submissions: December 15, 2025 full name / name of organization: The 17th Annual Research, Art, Writing (RAW) Conference contact email: rawconference@utdallas.edu 

Call for book chapters: Reading as Habitation. In Memoriam Ana-Karina Schneider

THE THIRD ANNUAL WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

A Century of Black History Commemorations

“The Impact and Meaning of Black History and Life Commemorations in Transforming the Status of

Black Peoples in the Modern World”

Morgan State University, April 2, 2026