This year’s MCLLM theme invites exploration of how literature, language, and performance illuminate intersecting dimensions of justice. How are inherited forms, genres, and rhetorical strategies reactivated in contemporary struggles for equity? In what ways do linguistic, literary, and artistic practices navigate, resist, and respond to the abuse of power while imagining alternative futures? 

MCLLM welcomes proposals from a wide range of disciplines and expression forms. The list below provides a sense of the topics the organizers are interested in seeing, but it is not an all-inclusive list. Please submit a proposal that represents your interpretation of our theme! 

UCD Centre for Gender, Feminisms & Sexualities - 2nd CGFS Conference  Call for Papers: 'Thinking Gender Justice: Oppression, Resistance, Liberation' University College Dublin, Ireland, 17-19 June 2026  Proposal Deadline: 27 February 2026. Notifications: 9 March 2026Registration opens 6 MarchProposal Submission form: https://forms.gle/4qkYr9riQ1yWgnwR7

The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce its annual essay prize competition for 2026, open to all, on the subject of
Placing Katherine Mansfield

The winner will receive a cash prize of £200 and the winning essay will be considered for publication in Katherine Mansfield Studies, vol. 19 (2027), the peer-reviewed yearbook of the Katherine Mansfield Society, published by Edinburgh University Press.

The distinguished panel of judges will comprise:
PROFESSOR JANET M. WILSON
University of Northampton, UK
Chair of the Judging Panel
DR CHRIS MOURANT
University of Birmingham, UK
JOHN WOOD
Independent Scholar

MLA Annual Convention 2027
Los Angeles, California | 7–10 January 2027

This special session invites proposals that examine current challenges and emerging trends in the teaching of Spanish language, Hispanic literature, and culture in both university and secondary education contexts. We seek contributions that critically reflect on pedagogical practices in a rapidly evolving academic, technological, and social landscape, offering innovative, reflective, or praxis-oriented perspectives.

Call for Papers: Film, Fashion & Consumption

Special Issue: 'Dress Against: Aesthetics of Power and Normativity in Contemporary Cinema'

Guest Editor : Danae Ioannou

Submission deadline: 31 August 2026

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/film-fashion-consumption#call-for-papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos

Call for Contributions

Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos invites submissions for

its 30th volume (2026). The journal is an international, peer-reviewed, English- language publication dedicated to U.S. Studies in their broadest sense, including literary, cultural, historical, artistic, and critical perspectives. Published annually by the University of Seville and supported by the Spanish Association for American Studies, the journal has contributed to advancing U.S. Studies scholarship since 1992.

Scope and Review Process

On November 26, 1976, the Sex Pistols released “Anarchy in the UK” in Great Britain, the first single from what would become Never Mind the Bollocks, Here Comes the Sex Pistols the following year. This conference – part of a larger project involving a series of events in Bordeaux and a collaboration with the Lycée Magendie (Magendie high school) – takes as it starting point the 50th anniversary of the release, on November 26, 2026, while seeking to investigate the meaning of such a celebration.

This panel examines configurations of masculinity that have emerged in conjunction with contemporary global political, technological, and cultural shifts in the last decade. We invite papers that engage with films across geographical contexts. Please submit a 250-word abstract and bio.

Deadline for submissions: March 10, 2026.

Megha Anwer, Purdue University (manwer@purdue.edu) and Anupama Arora, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (aarora@umassd.edu)

We are pleased to announce that the theme for our 3rd annual online Conference is Fame and Fortune. We invite submissions to both the conference and the journal on this theme.

This year, we turn our attention to the intricate, invisible, but often tangible webs that bound the early modern world together. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were defined by a profound density of connection - a world of intense social binding, material circulation, and intellectual exchange. From the “knot intrinsicate” of Cleopatra’s demise to the conspiracy of rumours that entraps Othello, early modern drama is obsessed with the architecture of entanglement.

Call for contributions: Audience Participation as Vernacular Practice

We are seeking contributions for an edited volume on the subject of audience participation across performance forms and traditions, focusing on practices that evolve among audience communities, rather than being led by performance makers or artists.

This volume will be published by State University of New York Press as part of the series Studies in Vernacular Music.

Apologies for crossposting.

Call for Papers: Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion

Special Issue: 'Beau Brummell'

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/critical-studies-in-mens-fashion#call-for-papers

Falmouth Horror & Gaming 2026

7th, 8th and 9th July 2026

Call for Book Chapters

From Page to Screen: An Examination of Comic Book to Television Adaptation

Edited by Ryan Twomey and Sebastian Sparrevohn

The Henry James Society

CALL FOR PAPERS

Modern Language Association Convention

7 to 10 January 2027 – Los Angeles, California

The Art of Seeing Wrongly: Evil and Moral Perception in Henry James

“He had no talent for good, but he had a great talent for evil.”

La frontera entre México y los Estados Unidos trasciende su mera definición geopolítica. Más allá de ser una simple demarcación territorial, esta línea divisoria se ha convertido en un espacio dinámico y multifacético que encarna la complejidad de las relaciones entre dos naciones con historias entrelazadas. Es un lugar de encuentro y desencuentro, de intercambio y conflicto, de esperanza y desilusión. Es un terreno fértil donde florece una identidad única, ni completamente mexicana ni totalmente estadounidense, sino una vibrante amalgama que desafía las categorías convencionales. La frontera es testigo de historias de migración, de sueños perseguidos y de vidas transformadas con el cruce de dos realidades.

Call for Participation:

Visual Culture Papers at the 2026 American Studies Association

October 22-25, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois

JOCPC is now accepting articles for the Summer 2026 issue focusing on the topic of children and health. We have kept this theme open-ended and invite works across a wide range of disciplines where researchers are addressing children’s health within various media including literature, film and television, video-sharing platforms, gaming, photography, art, folktales, advertising. This may include but is not limited to:

Children and disease

Child mortality

Histories of children’s health

Historical fiction and child health/wellbeing

Culturally specific practices

Family remedies

Gendered approaches to child health

Roles of race and class in access to healthcare

Neglect and abuse

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies invites submissions for the New issue of the journal - a general issue on Literature and Drama Studies. 

Indexed by MLA and EBSCO databases.

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal that serves as a forum for multi- and interdisciplinary discussions across Literature and Drama Studies, providing academicians, scholars, professionals and students with the opportunity to disseminate their research to a diverse audience of peers and professionals.

The second issue aims to cover literary and theatrical works in general.

Instructions for Authors

International Conference on Innovations in Technology for Humanity (IIHTC 2026)  invites original research contribution from different fields as mentioned in topics provided that the context of the work is clearly explained. Papers must be submitted on or before the last date of paper submission. After this deadline, you will not be able to register new papers, however you will be able to edit the information of existing submitted papers. 

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Akaki Tsereteli State University in Kutaisi, Georgia will host a two-day international biennial multidisciplinary conference on American studies. The conference is dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the birth of John Dos Passos, honoring his enduring literary legacy and critical contribution to modern American literature. It is organized by Prof. Vakhtang Amaglobeli Center for American Studies at ATSU, ATSU Foreign Affairs and Development Office and John Dos Passos Association of Georgia.
The conference will be held at ATSU (59 Tamar Mepe st., Kutaisi 4600, Georgia) on October 23-24, 2026.

Call for Proposals: The Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) Annual Conference

Global Fallouts: Moving Peace and Justice Forward in Times of Uncertainty
October 2-4, 2026
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University

• Proposal Submission Deadline: April 15, 2026
• Early Bird Registration: Before May 1, 2026
• Draft Schedule Released: June 1, 2026

Skip me right to the proposal submission form!

Call for Chapters

Over the past 10–15 years, children, adolescents, and youth worldwide have lived through overlapping emergencies: the COVID-19 pandemic; intensified border regimes, migration control, and detention; racialized and colonial state violence; war and occupation; environmental disaster; and the erosion of social and educational safety nets. These crises shape not only early childhood, but also adolescent identity formation, schooling, embodiment, political consciousness, and future-making.