Greetings, fellow scholars of Middle-earth!

Gentle reminder to all that we are still taking abstracts for our Call for Papers for the 2026 Popular Culture Association National Conference in Atlanta! Let's make this the best year ever for exploring the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and his ongoing legacy.

We recognize growing concerns surrounding travel and the challenges it presents. To ensure everyone can participate, we will happily accept remote papers! These can be submitted as either pre-recorded video presentations or delivered live via Zoom. 

Call for Submissions to Conversations:

Margaret Fuller Society’s Special Issue on “Protest” 

Speculative Futures in CanLit

Call for Papers

Article submissions in English or French are invited for a special 50th-anniversary issue of Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne on the theme of Speculative Futures in CanLit. The issue will be co-edited by John Clement Ball, Laura Moss, and Cynthia Sugars, and with a submission deadline of 15 May 2026.

This issue invites submissions on the myriad manifestations of the “speculative” and “future” in the field of Canadian literature, from submissions about speculative fiction and cultural texts, to environmental and/or political futures, to speculations about the future of Canadian literature itself.

Call for Papers II -- Queer and Trans of Color Critique: Colonial Legacies, Decolonial Futures

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.

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

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

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

Stevens and Fiction | American Literature Association 2026 | Chicago, IL | May 2026

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.

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.

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Bluesky: @invivoarts.bsky.social 

Pour le français, voir ci-dessous / Para español, ver abajo   

                                                             IN VIVO ARTS - CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd ISSUE

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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.

2026 Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Annual Conference: Oppositions

May 28 - 30, 2026

Fully Online

Deadline for Submissions: Friday, December 19, 2025

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

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.

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

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.

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)

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. 

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

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.

Special Issue Call for Papers

Special Issue: 'Moving Violations: Asian Crime Films'

Special Issue Editors: Victor Fan, Kristof Van den Troost, and Earl Jackson

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