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ASA 2026: Childhood in the Meantime (Children and Youth Studies Caucus)

updated: 
Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 11:00pm
Children and Youth Studies Caucus
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

“Childhood in the Meantime: Interrupting Temporalities of Youth”

American Studies Association, Chicago, Oct. 22-25, 2026

The Children and Youth Studies Caucus seek panelists for a session entitled “Childhood in the Meantime: Interrupting Temporalities of Youth” for the American Studies Association 2026 meeting. We seek papers that consider the multiple temporalities that children are expected to inhabit: normative developmental timelines, trajectories oriented toward futures that adhere to the state-sanctioned scripts for proper adult citizenship, and culturally-accepted deviations of “sideways growth” that can ultimately be assimilated into dominant narratives of childhood presents and futures.

Academic Labor: Research and Artistry (ALRA) Special Issue on art and engagement as critical response

updated: 
Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 10:59pm
Academic Labor: Research & Artistry special issue CFP
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 16, 2026

We are pleased to announce the CFP for a special 2026 issue of Academic Labor: Research and Artistry (ALRA) on Art & Engagement as Critical Response (300 word proposal deadline: 1/16/26).  In the spirit of recognizing the ongoing precarities of higher education–both internal (neoliberalism, systemic institutional inequities) and external (crisis of public confidence in U.S. universities/colleges, threats to academic freedom), we invite proposals for a special issue of ALRA on art and engagement as critical response  to the invisibility, illegibility, and silencing faced by much of the academic labor force.

Beneath Visibility: Unsettling Vocal, Visual, and Narrative Certainty for NECS 2026

updated: 
Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 10:58pm
European Network for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 10, 2026

Queer and minor audiovisual practices increasingly challenge the assumption that any form of visibility offers a reliable route to recognition or to political and evidentiary clarity. This panel asks how, rather than treating visibility or audibility as stable states, we might attend to the ways vocal fabulations, relational and spatial practices of telling, and imaginative or speculative interventions unsettle the evidentiary burdens traditionally placed on marginalized histories. In other words, we are interested in forms that make presence felt without fully disclosing it, and in the tensions that emerge when bodies, voices, images, and testimonies exceed the representational frames built to contain them.

Call for Participation Workshop on Creativity and Artificial Intelligence at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, March 28, 2026

updated: 
Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 10:58pm
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Call for Participation

Workshop on Creativity and Artificial Intelligence

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

March 28, 2026

 

Keynote Speaker: Richard Jean So, Duke University

The Global Digital Humanities Working Group of Central New York Humanities Corridor is pleased to host a 1-day workshop on creativity and artificial intelligence at Hobart and William Smith Colleges on March 28, 2026. 

Christian–Muslim Encounters and Dialogues over the Centuries: The Christian–Muslim Relationship for Bringing Peace and Harmony

updated: 
Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 10:58pm
MDPI, Religions
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 31, 2026

The historical relationship between Muslims and Christians dates back to the seventh century C.E., when Islam began to spread throughout the Middle East, Africa, and the Indian subcontinent; by the early eighth century, parts of Europe were under Muslim control. Consequently, this Special Issue seeks to understand Christian–Muslim interactions over the centuries. Recent studies of Syriac texts reveal early interactions between Christians and Muslims, the beginning of centuries of Christian–Muslim dialogues, debates, and perspectives that continue into the present day.

The Legacy of Ted Hughes

updated: 
Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 10:57pm
The Ted Hughes Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 28, 2026

THE LEGACY OF TED HUGHES

Call for papers for an international conference to be held at Pembroke College,Cambridge15-18 September 2026

Transdisciplinary Forum on Art, Culture, History, and Theory

updated: 
Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 10:57pm
Kaarnamaa Institute of Art and Visual Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 5, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

The First Transdisciplinary Forum on Art, Culture, History, and Theory

May 2026, Online 

 

The Global Forum on Art, Culture, History, and Theory (ACHT) hosted by Kaarnamaa Institute of Art and Visual Culture invites submissions.  

Shirley Jackson Studies: Shirley Jackson and Animality

updated: 
Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 10:57pm
Shirley Jackson Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 1, 2026

Call for Proposals for Vol. 4, Issue 1–Jackson & Animality [deadline extended: Feb. 1, 2026]

GIFCon 2026 - The Technologies of the Fantastic

updated: 
Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 10:56pm
Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, University of Glasgow
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 18, 2026

The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic is excited to announce the call for papers for Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations (GIFCon) 2026, to be held online on 13-15 May, with the theme of ‘The Technologies of the Fantastic’.

Innovative Strategies for Teaching and Researching Washington Irving (ALA 2026)

updated: 
Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 10:56pm
The Washington Irving Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 23, 2026

The Washington Irving Society (washingtonirvingsociety.org) invites papers discussing innovative ways to teach and/or research Washington Irving and his texts, for the American Literature Association Conference in Chicago, May 20-23, 2026. We welcome papers offering new insight into “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” and also encourage insightful studies into other Irving texts. Please send an abstract of approximately 250 words plus a brief bio to Dr.

Poetry and Media in Action

updated: 
Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 10:56pm
University of Southern California/ The Locomotive
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 28, 2026

The blog section of Locomotive Magazine is seeking submissions of poems and multimedia media works (including photos, caricatures, short video essays, and short films) that address contemporary issues, including but not limited to:

  • Social justice

  • Gender

  • Class

  • Race

Breaking Cycles of Violence: Psychohistorical Perspectives on Individual and Collective Healing

updated: 
Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 10:55pm
International Psychohistorical Association (IPhA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 10, 2026

INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOHISTORICAL ASSOCIATION’S 49th ANNUAL CONFERENCE

 MAY 29-31, 2026, VIRTUALLY ON ZOOM

THEME: Breaking Cycles of Violence: Psychohistorical Perspectives on Individual and Collective Healing

What Is This Conference About?

How do we break the cycles of violence — within ourselves, our families, and our societies — that perpetuate suffering across generations? What can psychohistory contribute to understanding and transforming these deep patterns? The 2026 IPhA Annual Conference invites scholars, clinicians, educators, and activists to explore these vital questions from both individual and collective perspectives.

Thoreau and Abolition: ALA 2026 Chicago

updated: 
Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 10:55pm
The Thoreau Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

American Literature Association

May 20-23, 2026

Chicago, IL

 

Thoreau and Abolition

This roundtable seeks to explore Thoreau’s relation to the abolitionist movement, whether through his antislavery writings, his biography, or the legacies and afterlives of some of his more famous essays such as “Civil Disobedience.” We are interested in papers that explore any aspect of his political and/or abolitionist thought, his political-economic critiques, or the intertwinement of Thoreau’s ecological and antislavery thinking. We also welcome papers that consider how turning to Thoreau or the politics of nineteenth-century abolition in these terrible times provides us with political paths forward.

Thoreau, Place, and Travel: ALA 2026 Chicago

updated: 
Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 10:55pm
The Thoreau Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

American Literature Association

May 20-23, 2026

Chicago, IL

 

Thoreau, Place, and Travel

2026 Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium

updated: 
Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 10:55pm
2026 Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 31, 2026

English

The University of Florida, the University of North Florida, the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, and the Transborder Digital Humanities Center and Consortium (TBDH) at the University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) will host the fourth annual Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium from September 8-10, 2026, in person at the UT San Antonio-Downtown campus. The symposium will also offer virtual sessions the week of September 21, 2026. 

The Intellectual in the 21st Century: Agency, Ethics, and the Ever-changing Global Dynamics

updated: 
Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 10:55pm
Bouchra Benlemlih
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

In his delineation of the moral commitment of thinkers, Edward Said notes that “the proliferation of intellectuals has expanded into the very large number of fields in which intellectuals have become the object of study.” This self-reflexivity drives Said and other prominent scholars to grapple with the ever-changing global dynamics. The public role of the intellectual is therefore to critically engage in political life, rejecting moral detachment as ethical bankruptcy, emphasizing the responsibility of the intelligentsia, and cultivating anti-parochial modes of thought. They stand as a counterforce to the global corporate economic and political agendas that marginalize the human being and attempts to overwhelm human agency.

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