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Call for Papers II -- Queer and Trans of Color Critique: Colonial Legacies, Decolonial Futures
Call for Papers I: The Haunting of the Past, Memory, and Archive
CFP — Edited Volume
Watery Worlds: Decolonial Ecologies and the Mediterranean
This edited volume explores water as a decolonial, ecological, and affective force across Mediterranean geographies, including but not limited to contemporary Turkey. Rather than treating water as background or metaphor, the volume considers it a central analytic force shaping experiences of colonialism, displacement, border-making, memory, and belonging.
Call for Book Chapters
Influence of Indian Philosophers on Indian Writings in English: A Socio-Cultural Perspective
Editors: Dr. Ashutosh Singh and Dr. Sahabuddin Ahamed
deadline for submission extended: 15 February, 2026
Penn State’s Center for American Literary Studies presents
Urgent Lessons from Antifascist Works of American Literature and Culture
Friday, December 12, 2025, Noon—1:00 p.m. EST via Zoom
Register here
https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QD77CICpR267kwXJgIB56g
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email
Call for Papers for Western Literature Association’s guaranteed panel at the 2026 American Literature Association Meeting (Chicago, May 20-23)
This year’s general call seeks proposals related to any aspect of the study of literature of the American West. Papers on single texts or single authors are welcome, though comparative, transnational, and/or multiethnic approaches are especially encouraged. Graduate students are encouraged to apply.
Centre for Global Migrations Symposium
Crossing Borders
Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka | University of Otago
17-18 February 2026
Keynotes: Anne McNevin | Simon Barber & Gabriella Makerita Hinetu Brayne
Call for Submissions! The Lamp is seeking submissions for its 2026 issue (Volume 16)!
The Lamp is an international literary journal dedicated to showcasing the creative writing of graduate and professional students. If you write poetry, short fiction, scripts, creative nonfiction, or any other form of textual art, please submit your work to The Lamp at thelampeditor@gmail.com. The deadline is Sunday, 11 January 2026. Please follow our submission guidelines below.
Submission Guidelines:
Panel: New Spanish/Latin American Cinema-Spanish Peninsular
Theme: Celebrating 25 Years of Twenty-First-Century Spanish Cinema
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) 2026
Conference Dates: October 8–10, 2026
Location: Marriott Courtyard, Ogden, Utah
Reinventing Borderlines in a Transnational World
April 10-11, 2026
Higher Institute of Human Sciences of Tunis- University Tunis El Manar
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Stevens and Fiction | American Literature Association 2026 | Chicago, IL | May 2026
Since 1975, pacificREVIEW: A West Coast Arts Review Annual (formerly Pacific Poetry and Fiction Review) has thrived as an experimental editorial cohort made up of driven, wily, undergraduates & graduate students in the department of english and Comparative Literature, san diego state university, san diego, ca 92182-6020. This year, we take on comix again!
Since its inception, Verge has championed the role of special issues in making visible key questions in Global Asias scholarship while also suggesting new possibilities in the field. Maintaining this commitment, we invite proposals from potential guest editors for issue 14.2, a special issue slated for publication in Fall 2028.
Bloomsbury - Trans Studies Book Series
CALL FOR CHAPTERS
Transgender Entanglements: The shape and limits of transgender
Edited by Levi C. R. Hord and Wendy Gay Pearson
The relationship between music, sound, and memory has become a focal point of scholarly inquiry in recent years, illuminating the intricate connections between auditory experiences, cognitive functions, and how these might be written down or discussed in a wider dialogue within culture. Researchers have begun to explore the way various musical elements, such as melody, rhythm, and harmony, can evoke specific memories and emotional responses, thereby influencing individual recollection and perception of past events.
Call for Papers from the Carson McCullers Society
American Literature Association Annual Convention, May 20-23, 2026, Chicago, IL
The Short Fiction of Carson McCullers: New Directions in Scholarship
Bluesky: @invivoarts.bsky.social
Pour le français, voir ci-dessous / Para español, ver abajo
IN VIVO ARTS - CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd ISSUE
VIRTUALITIES
Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference 2026
“Building Spaces of Freedom,” March 28th-31st at Fisk University, Nashville, TN
Panel: The Future of Southern Studies
Building on the 2026 theme, Building Spaces of Freedom, this panel seeks work that imagines where southern studies is going and who will help carry it forward. The Emerging Scholars Organization (ESO) invites papers from emerging scholars for an open-call panel that looks ahead toward the next questions, methods, and interventions shaping southern studies.
Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference 2026
“Building Spaces of Freedom,” March 28th-31st at Fisk University, Nashville, TN
Panel: Building Emerging Spaces of Freedom
The Emerging Scholars Organization (ESO) invites papers that center emerging perspectives on SSSL’s conference theme, Building Spaces of Freedom. This panel foregrounds the ongoing labor of emerging scholars who navigate long histories of exclusion, gatekeeping, and uneven access while also reshaping southern studies through new interventions, methods, and archival practices.
“When Humans are On the Menu: Cannibalism and Modernity”
BAMS/MSA 2026
Loughborough, UK, 1-4 July 2026
I’m seeking abstracts for papers exploring representations of cannibalism in global modernist literature and culture for BAMS/MSA 2026. I’m planning this as an entirely virtual panel, but I am open to an in-person panel if that is everyone’s preference!
2026 Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Annual Conference: Oppositions
May 28 - 30, 2026
Fully Online
Deadline for Submissions: Friday, December 19, 2025
The representation of fatness in media has long been a subject of scrutiny, often intertwined with discourses of desirability, stigma, humor, and social control. Whether in films, advertisements, cartoons, or social media, fat bodies are frequently portrayed through the lens of excess, deviance, or comic relief, shaping cultural perceptions and reinforcing existing hierarchies of appearance and worth. This issue seeks to explore the multiple ways in which fatness is constructed and negotiated across various media forms, interrogating its intersections with gender, sexuality, class, power, and social anxieties.
Apologies for crossposting.
Call for Papers: Performing Islam
Special Issue: 'Performing Islamophobia'
A Critical and Anthropological Study of Politics, Poetics and Representation in Europe
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/performing-islam#call-for-papers
CFP | Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society (PEHS) session
American Literature Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, May 20-23, 2026
Hopkins’s America, Then & Now
This workshop of the annual conference of the French Society of Anglophone Studies aims to tackle the topic of emancipation in audiovisual productions of the English-speaking world. Emancipation, as a film subject, refers to narratives of liberation or liberating struggles against forms of oppression, beginning with historical films that depict the liberation of a people or identity group(s). In the U.S.
The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) welcomes proposals for its annual conference, hosted by the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France.
This year's conference invites papers on any topic relating to histories of women and gender non-conforming people in the Americas, but encourages proposals for papers, panels or roundtables that explore the subject of confinement.
CFP: Second Annual UNCG Game Studies Conference
Give and Take: Transactional Experiences in Gaming
Friday and Saturday, March 20-21, 2026
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Abstracts are invited on, but not limited to, the following sub-themes:
• Digital Transformations in Literary Studies
• Artificial Intelligence and Literary Criticism
• Hybrid Genres, Graphic Narratives, and New Media
• Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
• Trauma, Memory, and Narrative Representation
• Identity, Intersectionality, and Representation
• Postcolonialism, Neocolonialism, and Cultural Identity
• Tribal Literatures, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and Forest Ecologies
• Dalit Literatures and Narratives of Marginality
• Language, Multilingualism, and Cultural Diversity
• Translation, Transculturation, and Cross-Cultural Mediation
After supportive discussions with Routledge, we are pleased to share the call for contributions to a proposed new edited collection. Planned for publication by Routledge in 2027, this new book is intended as a companion volume to Time and Performer Training (published by Routledge in 2019).
The book will be co-edited by Mark Evans, Libby Worth and Ranjana Dave.
Call for papers – Series of Workshops on Sacred Writing Traditions
The HaZen (Handschriftenzentrum) project, based at the Institute for Jewish Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, would like to invite international researchers to three workshops in Berlin.
We are pleased to announce that the IV SEDERI International Conference for Graduate Students of Early Modern English Studies will be held on 21, 22, 23 October 2026 at the University of Jaén (Jaén, Spain). This event is part of an initiative born within SEDERI, the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies, which seeks to provide a platform where students, PhD candidates and early career researchers from around the globe can gather to exchange different ideas, views, and opinions on the study of the English language and its literature, history and culture of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
MARIA DE JESUS RELVAS (Universidade Aberta, Portugal)
Drama and theatre have long served as dynamic mediums through which societies narrate their myths, record their histories, and preserve traditions. The interplay of myth, history, and tradition shapes the content and form of dramatic expression, influencing storytelling techniques, character archetypes, and performance styles across different cultures and time periods.
The 37th Society for Animation Studies Conference will take place in the city of Pittsburgh (USA) from June 15 to 18, 2026 (with optional excursions to follow on June 19-20). It will be hosted by the Pennsylvania Expanded Animation Alliance (PA XAA), a consortium of faculty from local universities (including Carnegie Mellon University, Point Park University, Robert Morris University, and the University of Pittsburgh) in concert with the Children’s Museum Pittsburgh. The event will also be hybrid, with additional details to follow.
Plenary Lecture: Professor Daniel Cook (University of Dundee)
Artist’s Talk: Martin Rowson (in conversation with Brigitte Friant-Kessler)
Venue: St. Bride Library (London, U.K.)
Dates: 23–25 September 2026
Post-Fossil Fuel Futures
in Popular Culture
Ecology & Culture Area
Popular Culture Association 56th National Conference
Atlanta on April 8-11, 2026
Submissions open until November 30
Guest editor: Maxime Fecteau
Primordial and born of Chaos, Gaia wears many faces. In Hesiod’s Theogony she is a fertile, earth-bodied mother; she is also an insurgent force—ally to the Titans and to violent births. This constitutive ambivalence—nourishing ground and upheaval, regeneration and revolt—guides the 15th issue of MuseMedusa. We follow the figure to probe the regimes of time and action it exceeds, while noting how modern representational devices have narrowed its plurality of faces (Latour, 1991; 2015). In short, understanding Gaia today means holding Greek myth together with attention to planetary change.
The Asian Studies section is currently accepting paper and panel proposals for the 68th Annual Conference of the World Social Science Association. The conference will be held at the Clyde Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from March 25th through 28th, 2026.
The Asian Studies section welcomes research on the historical, cultural, social, and political aspects of the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Pacific, and East Asia. Previous panels have explored Asian immigrant women’s participation management, governance in China, contemporary Japanese digital culture, and feminist readings of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa. We encourage innovative and critical approaches that address contemporary and historical issues.
Miloš Forman: Between Europe and Hollywood
Symposium organized by the Department of Theatre and Film Studies, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Friday, April 24, 2026
Univerzitní 3, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Special Issue: 'Moving Violations: Asian Crime Films'
Special Issue Editors: Victor Fan, Kristof Van den Troost, and Earl Jackson
Explorations: A Journal of Language and Literature is a peer-refereed online journal published by the University of Opole, Poland (for more information and the current issue see http://www.explorations.uni.opole.pl).
Call for Chapters
Feminine Rage: A Companion
I have a thing about feminine rage. I get a lot of [scripts of] men doing really terrible things and women sitting silently whilst one tear slowly falls. I’m like, ‘No, no, no, no, no. We get mad. And we get angry. – Anya Taylor-Joy
A Two-Day International Conference on Environmental Humanities: A Multidisciplinary Dialogue on Ecological Agency and Crisis
Organised by the Department of English, Women's Christian College, Kolkata (affiliated to the University of Calcutta),
in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame, Australia, Transilvania University of Brasov (Romania) & Spadina Literary Review (Canada)
DATES OF CONFERENCE: April 22, 2026 (WEDNESDAY) & April 23, 2026 (THURSDAY)
VENUE: WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, KOLKATA, INDIA
MODE: HYBRID (both online and in-person)
CONCEPT NOTE
Today, all countries that were colonized by France have gained their independence, yet discussions about its legacy continue. Many films, documentaries, literary works, speeches, and critical writings contribute to the ongoing conversation about liberty and justice in relation to independence. A 2024 documentary produced by Wandrille Lanos, titled Haïti, la rançon de l'indépendance, explores how liberty and justice were interpreted during Haiti’s struggle for independence. From September 22 to 26, 2025, during the United Nations General Debate at the 80th Session, the current president of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, argued that colonization should be recognized as one of the greatest crimes against humanity.
Call for Proposals: Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory
April 10–12, 2026
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
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Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) insisted on “imagining a future which might be radically and constitutionally other.” The urgency of this task rested on his understanding of Critical Theory “as a way of keeping the negative alive in a period in which praxis, the unity of the negative and the positive, itself seems suspended.” We invite proposals for papers on Jameson’s work and its implications for the future of critical theory.
Memories & Dreams: Exploring Perspectives on Past, Future and Possibility in Materials for Young People
Call for Paper Proposals
Deadline for Submission: Friday, January 30th, 2026
A peer-reviewed graduate student conference on children’s literature, media, and culture.
University of British Columbia | Unceded traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Vancouver, Canada | Friday July 17th & Saturday July 18th, 2026
"Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open" - Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia.
Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference 2026
“Building Spaces of Freedom,” March 28th-31st at Fisk University, Nashville, TN
Panel:
Medical Humanities Across Species
https://ucgradconference20.wixsite.com/utopian-impulses We are excited to share the CfP for this year’s interdisciplinary graduate student conference at the University of Cincinnati titled Utopian Impulses in the 2020s! We're also pleased to announce that Dr. Angela Laflen will be this year's keynote speaker. See bio below: "Dr. Angela Laflen is Associate Professor of English at California State University, Sacramento, and author of Critical Data Storytelling in the Composition Classroom (Utah State UP 2025).
Concept Note:
Theories, or to be precise, Literary and Cultural theories are various (though at
times, overlapping) frameworks or tools used to interpret a given text.
Etymologically, the term, ‘theory’ comes from the Greek ‘Theoria’ which, broadly,
means contemplation and speculation. Every theory proposes its own interpretative
strategies and modes of extracting meaning, helping us to “discriminate between
experiences and evaluate them,” as Richards would have said. Given that meanings
of texts can hardly be considered final, theories shore up our analytical approaches
as well as selection or rejection of meanings.
Theories that have been native to literature, that is, the ones focusing on the
EXTENDED: Call for Proposals: Edited Volume, North Meridian Press, “Subtle Body Horror.”
LEO SEWELL ASSEMBLAGE SCULPTURE (Pennsylvania, born 1945) Seated Woman. Assembled from toys, coins, bits and fragments of metal, glass, wood, and plastic.
Call for Proposals
Anthology Editors: Kailey Tedesco & Mauve Perle Tahat
We invite contributions for Subtle Body Horror, an anthology exploring the intersections of embodiment, pain, and transformation.
The title plays on the idea of the “subtle body," the energetic or spiritual body, and the notion of “subtle” as slight, creeping, or insidious.
The CUNY Graduate Center’s Cinema Studies Group invites you to:CLAWS
A graduate student conference organized by the student-run Cinema Studies Group, with support from Film and Media Cultures and the Doctoral Graduate Student Council.
Conference Date: March 13th, 2026, 9:00 am- 5:00 pm
Location: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY (rooms TBA)
Keynote Speaker: TBA
Proposals Due: December 15th, 2025