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.

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 

Updating Ecocriticism: Perspectives from Gen Z

Eds. Başak Ağın and Lenka Filipova

Graduate Students in English Interdisciplinary Conference 2026

Call for Papers on the Theme: “Transformation”

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville – March 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.

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 

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 

Call for Abstracts

Edited Book: Small Museums and Art Galleries in Canada

Editor: Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD

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
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.

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

Irish-American(s and) Periodicals

Kirsten McLeod and Tim Lanzendörfer

Sponsored by the Research Society for American Periodicals