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ART, AESTHETICS, AND VISUALITY IN CULTURE AND LITERATURE

updated: 
Saturday, November 8, 2025 - 11:40pm
Handique Girls' College, Guwahati, Assam
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
(To be Published by the National Publisher AUTHORSPRESS INDIA with ISBN and DOI)

Extended Deadline- 15th November 2025

ART, AESTHETICS, AND VISUALITY IN CULTURE AND LITERATURE

Artificiality | Surfaciality - International conference on AI

updated: 
Saturday, November 8, 2025 - 5:12pm
Stéphane Eckert
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 20, 2026

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

 

5th Biennial John Dos Passos Society Conference: Ponta do Sol, Madeira, Portugal (May 20-23, 2026)

updated: 
Saturday, November 8, 2025 - 6:59am
John Dos Passos Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 1, 2026

The John Dos Passos Society is proud to announce its 2026 biennial conference in Ponta do Sol, Madeira Island, Portugal. The conference will be held at the John Dos Passos Cultural Center in the municipality of Ponta do Sol, the home of the author's Portuguese ancestors.

We invite abstracts for twenty-minute presentations dealing with any aspect of John Dos Passos’s life, works, and/or professional relationships. Comparative approaches are also welcome.

Captivating Criminality 13: Crime Fiction, Conflict, and Representation

updated: 
Friday, November 7, 2025 - 3:35pm
International Crime Fiction Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

The International Crime Fiction Association is delighted to announce the thirteenth Captivating Criminality conference, held from Thursday, 25 June to Saturday, 27 June 2026 at Bamberg, Germany, with a workshop for ECR/PGR on Wednesday, 24 June 2025. This year’s topic, crime fiction, conflict, and representation, attempts to appeal to researchers of crime fiction in all its variety and presented on various media, ranging from the “classical” detective novel via filmic representations of crime to podcasts and social media. As a genre of fundamentally human expression, much of crime fiction from all places and times is concerned with discussions of both conflict and representation.

34th Conference on British and American Studies: Reconfiguring Borders and Boundaries in/through the Lens of Literature, Language and Culture

updated: 
Friday, November 7, 2025 - 3:34pm
West University of Timisoara
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

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. 

10th Annual Global Souths CFP

updated: 
Friday, November 7, 2025 - 3:34pm
Department of English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

10th Annual Global Souths Conference

March 12-14 2026

Outside the Margins: Where We Are and Who We Are

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana 

Health in Our Hands: Bridging lived experiences of health from patient, community, biomedical and artistic perspectives

updated: 
Friday, November 7, 2025 - 3:34pm
Birkbeck, University of London
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

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.

Updating Ecocriticism: Perspectives from Gen Z

updated: 
Friday, November 7, 2025 - 3:25pm
Lenka Filipova / Freie Universität Berlin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 17, 2025

Updating Ecocriticism: Perspectives from Gen Z

Eds. Başak Ağın and Lenka Filipova

"Transformation" GSE Interdisciplinary Conference 2026

updated: 
Friday, November 7, 2025 - 10:59am
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville - Graduate Students in English Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 12, 2026

Graduate Students in English Interdisciplinary Conference 2026

Call for Papers on the Theme: “Transformation”

University of Arkansas at FayettevilleMarch 14-15, 2026

 

The Graduate Students in English at University of Arkansas in Fayetteville invite proposals on the theme “Transformation,” a topic as broad as the literary and academic canons themselves. As we bear witness to changes in higher education landscapes across disciplines, we might consider how our own perceptions have evolved, what has been reliable in scholarship historically, and what needs to adapt.

“Collecting in/as Crisis”

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 10:29pm
Popular Cultural Association/2026 PCA 56th National Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

The “Collecting and Collectibles Area” of the Popular Culture Association invites papers on “Collecting in/as Crisis” for the 2026 National PCA/ACA Conference to be held in Atlanta, GA, USA on April 8-11, 2026. We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “Collecting in/as Crisis” and particularly address how collections/collectibles and their institutions and practices involve or respond to natural, cultural, economic, environmental, health, epistemic crises, etc.  

  

Possible topics for presentations include but are not limited to:

·         Collecting as systemic violence

·         Collecting as cultural erasure

Claude McKay, ALA Conference, Chicago, May 20-24, 2026

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:31pm
Claude McKay Society, American Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 9, 2026

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.

Cultures of Waste; International conference

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:28pm
Department of Liberal Arts. Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India.
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 20, 2025

Call for Abstracts: “Cultures of Waste” International conference (Offline)

Deadline for abstract submissions: Dec 20, 2025

Full name / name of organization: Department of Liberal Arts. Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India and UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies, Department of English, The University of Hyderabad

Contact email: culturesofwaste@gmail.com

Deadline Extended - CFP Stardom & Fandom, SW Popular / American Cultura Assn Conference

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:24pm
Lynn Zubernis / West Chester University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 14, 2025

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

Stardom and Fandom

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

NEW Submission Deadline: November 14, 2025

 

Call for Papers - Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics - Vol. 49, No. 1, Spring 2026

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:24pm
Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (JCLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

We are now accepting submissions for our next regular issue. Manuscripts in MS Word (5,000–10,000 words) adhering to the MLA 9th edition formatting guidelines should be sent to editor@jcla.in.

Website: jcla.in

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Comparative_Literature_and_Aest...

METAMODERN SPIRITUALITIES

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:24pm
LINDA C CERIELLO
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 1, 2026

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:

American Literature Association Panel | Don't Look Away: The Monstrous, the Gothic, and Survivance in the Worlds of Stephen Graham Jones

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:24pm
Billy J. Stratton / Stephen Graham Jones Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 26, 2026

Don't Look Away: The Monstrous, the Gothic, and Survivance in the Worlds of Stephen Graham Jones

Organized by the Stephen Graham Jones Society

Chair: Dr. Billy J. Stratton, University of Denver

The Stephen Graham Jones Society invites proposals for a panel at the 2026 American Literature Association (ALA) meeting. We welcome submissions from emerging and established scholars investigating the vast, ever-expanding body of work by Stephen Graham Jones. This panel will focus on the recent and ongoing scholarship surrounding his horror fiction, as well as its significant pedagogical value in the contemporary classroom.

STS 2026: Materiality, Memory, Forgetting - Cross-currents in Textual Studies and Memory Studies

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:23pm
Society for Textual Scholarship
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 1, 2026

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?

Free Exchange Graduate Conference 2026 - Alterity: Thresholds of the Possible

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:23pm
University of Calgary English Department Graduate Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 9, 2026

The University of Calgary English Department Graduate Association cordially invites both critical and creative proposals for our annual Free Exchange Graduate Conference, taking place from March 20-21, 2026. Going back nearly 20 years, Free Exchange is a transdisciplinary conference that aims to bring together emerging scholars from across Canada and beyond in the spirit of collaboration and knowledge creation.

Humanities Center at Texas Tech Annual Conference in the Humanities 2026: "Humanity" (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, April 25, 2026)

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:23pm
Humanities Center at Texas Tech
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 9, 2026

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

"Bad Moms" [special issue CFP]

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:23pm
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

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.

Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster Area

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:23pm
Shane Trayers/ SWPACA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 14, 2025

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) 

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

NEW submission deadline: November 14, 2025 

Gaming Across Boundaries: Interactive Technology in Education and Culture

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:23pm
UK Gaines Center for the Humanities Research Cooperative - Digital Pedagogies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 2, 2026

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.

ALA 2026 - Bonnie Jo Campbell and the Fiction of the American Midwest

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:23pm
Bonnie Jo Campbell Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 1, 2026

The Bonnie Jo Campbell Society is sponsoring a panel at the upcoming American Literature Association Conference in Chicago, IL (May 20-23, 2026).

As a native Michigander, Campbell is associated strongly with the American Midwest, where much of her fiction takes place. This panel hopes to interrogate that relationship, either through analyses of the Midwest in Campbell's work, or in relationships with other Midwestern writers and their fiction.

Please send an abstract (200 words) and a brief bio to Dr. Ross Tangedal (ross.tangedal@uwsp.edu) for consideration by January 1, 2026.

PhD Open House - Theatre and Performance CUNY Graduate Center

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:23pm
Theatre and Performance Department, CUNY GC
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

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.

Disability Studies, Dramatic Texts, and Performance

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:22pm
Comparative Drama Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

48th Annual Comparative Drama Conference 

Conference Dates: July 9-11, 2026

Location: Madison, Wisconsin (hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Deadline for Abstract Submission: December 10, 2025

 

Disability Studies, Dramatic Texts, and Performance 

Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:22pm
Tufts University History of Art and Architecture
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 21, 2025

Call for Papers: Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance | March 27, 2026

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Diana Martinez, Assistant Professor of Architecture, UC Berkeley

Graduate Student Symposium

Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Tufts University, Medford, MA

The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University invites graduate students to submit paper proposals for the 2026 Graduate Symposium titled Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance, which will be held on March 27, 2026, in Medford, MA. 

Nightmare 26 - "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

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:19pm
Dr David Edwards / The Northern School of Art, Hartlepool, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 13, 2026

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

Call for Papers: Theory and Criticism Focus Group- ATHE 2026 Communities of Imagination and Theoretical Futures

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:08pm
Theory and Criticism Focus Group- ATHE 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 8, 2025

Call for Papers: Theory and Criticism Focus Group- ATHE 2026Communities of Imagination and Theoretical FuturesBaltimore, Maryland- July 22-26, 2026 Call for Complete Session Proposals and Roundtable SubmissionsSponsored by the Theory and Criticism Focus GroupComplete Session ProposalsThe Theory and Criticism focus group seeks proposals for the general conference that include a variety of approaches and inquiries into the theme “Communities of Imagination and Theoretical Futures.” We encourage multidisciplinary submissions from across the various subfields of theatre and performance studies and seek participants from a range of focus groups.Our focus group welcomes and embraces a multitude of approaches and definitions of theory, criticism

The Imposter - Velvet Light Trap Issue #99

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:05pm
Velvet Light Trap - UT Austin
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 31, 2026

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

Call for Proposals - Feral Feminisms

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:05pm
Feral Feminisms: An Open Access Feminist Online Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Please see this Call for Proposals for an upcoming special issue of Feral Feminisms: 

 https://feralfeminisms.com/cfps/ 

This special issue, “Scrapwork: Foraging Feminist Fragments” will be guest edited by Dr. Amber Moore (University of British Columbia) and Dr. Kaye Hare (University Canada West). 

Rejoinder Call for Submissions -- Ritual, Healing, and World-Making

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:05pm
Rejoinder Journal/Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

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.

Postcolonial Environments: Re-Grounding the Discipline in the State of Emergency

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:05pm
Louisiana State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

36th Annual Mardi Gras Conference

Postcolonial Environments: Re-Grounding the Discipline in the State of Emergency

Date: February 12-13, 2026

Location: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

 

2026 RAW CFP _Under the Surface: Visibility and Politics

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:05pm
The 17th Annual Research, Art, Writing (RAW) Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 5, 2025

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 

Memory, Myth, and Meaning: Cather in Dialogue with America 250

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:04pm
Willa Cather Foundation
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 2, 2026

Memory, Myth, and Meaning: Cather in Dialogue with America 250

Willa Cather Spring Conference | Thursday, June 4 - Saturday, June 6, 2026 

This year marks the centennial of My Mortal Enemy, one of Cather’s least affirmative works and one not produced in the Cather Scholarly Edition (translation: much important work remains to be done!)  We invite papers on new approaches to My Mortal Enemy, including but not limited to the following considerations of style, form, provenance, and themes:

Discourses '26, Mount Carmel College

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:04pm
Mount Carmel College, Bangalore - Department of Communication Skills & Department of History
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

 

THE DEPARTMENTS OF 

COMMUNICATION STUDIES AND HISTORY

Mount Carmel College, Autonomous present 

 

DISCOURSES '26

FOOD, HISTORY AND MIGRATION 

21st and 22nd of January, 2026

 

CONCEPT NOTE 

 

Small Museums and Art Galleries in Canada

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:00pm
Dr. Matthew Ryan Smith
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 1, 2026

Call for Abstracts

Edited Book: Small Museums and Art Galleries in Canada

Editor: Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD

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”

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:00pm
Morgan State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

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

 

The Long Middle Ages

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:00pm
Natalie Hopwood and Saaleha Iqbal / Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 28, 2025

We are excited to announce a new interdisciplinary seminar series for postgraduate students and early career researchers on the Long Middle Ages, a period covering the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern Periods. This series aims to bring together scholars working across this period to establish new connectivity and inclusivity between these disciplines, and to provide a more relaxed space for new and emerging researchers to present and test out ideas.

The Flannery O’Connor Society Open Topics Panel at The Society for the Study of Southern Literature

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 2:59pm
Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 12, 2025

The Flannery O’Connor Society
The Society for the Study of Southern Literature
March 28th-31st, 2026
Fisk University
Nashville, TN

The Flannery O’Connor Society invites abstracts (of about 300 words) to be submitted for participation in an open topics panel on Flannery O’Connor’s life and work at the biannual conference of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature.

GENERAL ISSUE (VOL 2 NO 2 2025)

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 2:59pm
Critical Gender Studies Journal / Revista Crítica de Estudios de Género
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 4, 2025

General Issue | Rolling Submissions

The Critical Gender Studies Journal / Revista Crítica de Estudios de Género invites submissions for its upcoming general issue. We welcome original research articles, theoretical essays, creative interventions, and reviews that explore the multifaceted dimensions of gender and sexuality across diverse contexts and disciplines.

Heavy Childhoods Conference

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 2:59pm
University of Huddersfield, Dr Ruth Barratt-Peacock
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

After an enriching interdisciplinary conference in 2025, Heavy Childhoods 2026 will run under the title “Curating Future Nostalgia in Heavy Times”

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