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Editors: María Eugenia Crusetand Aleksander Bednarski
Proposals (500 words): May 15, 2026
Completed chapters (7,000 words): September 15, 2026
Languages: English and/or Spanish
Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
Vol. 53 No. 1 | March 2027
Call for Papers
From Neurodiversity to Neurocosmopolitanism:
Literature, Science, Politics
Guest Editor
Manuel Herrero-Puertas (National Taiwan University)
Deadline for Submissions: July 15, 2026
CALL FOR PAPERS
Send your abstracts to: congress@iasa-world.org by 31st May, 2026.
44th Annual West Indian Literature Conference
Freedom, Creative Spirit, & the Poetic Imagination
Where: University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus
When: October 7-11, 2026
Abstracts: Proposals are to be submitted by June 1, 2026
How can you free people? . . . When every move you make is to get them to accept conditions of unfreedom, when you use power to twist and corrupt what it is to be human, when you ask people to accept shame as triumph and indignity as progress? —Earl Lovelace, Salt (1996)
The "Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies" session invites submissions that discuss memory, identity, representation, or intersectionality pertaining to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer literature, media, or culture. You may, should you wish, engage in the conference theme of “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” but any topic on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer literature or culture is welcome.
Some topics of particular interest this year include:
• The homoerotic gaze in media
• Power and culture relating to gay, lesbian, transgender, or queer stories/histories
• Queer-coded representation in art or literature
Call for SubmissionsComparative Media Panel (In-Person)
PAMLA Conference 2026Primary Area - Secondary Area:
Film and Media Studies - Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, ConflictSession Chair:
Violet Luxton (Claremont Graduate University)
violet.luxton2@cgu.edu PAPER PROPOSAL DEADLINE: MAY 25, 2026
1956 was a year of theatrical milestones. Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night was published posthumously while The Diary of Anne Frank won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. And, of course, the American Society for Theatre Research was founded. O’Neill’s meditation on troubled family dynamics and addiction would go on to win the Pulitzer in 1957. The previous year, the Pulitzer went to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a Tennessee Williams play about alcoholism and (potentially) sublimated queer desire. In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry became the first Black woman to have a play produced on Broadway when A Raisin in the Sun premiered.
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online from Thursday, October 15th, to Saturday, October 17th, 2026.
We encourage panel proposals as well as individual submissions.
Papers are generally 15-20 minutes in length. We also encourage works in progress, and informal presentations.
This area considers the intersection of politics, civic life, and popular culture. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
Political actions that involve pop culture, including banning or attacking elements of pop culture
“Home-Making: Reinventing Home
in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures”
November 20-21, 2026
Venue: Sousse, Tunisia
Call for Papers
Otherness: Essays & Studies
Otherness and Folklore – Special issue Call for Papers
Folklore is all about Otherness. It imagines the other as that which is beyond the scope of the ordinary and the real. It evokes the monstrous, the divine, and the outsider. It invokes magic through ritual, and it empowers the repressed. The other, in folklore, is welcomed into the everyday and woven into the fabric of our communities. It becomes an altered version of alterity, a homely version of the uncanny: an other that we can be intimate with.
Call for Additional Chapters
Global Bollywood: Cultural Appropriation, Streaming Media, and the Politics of Representation (Routledge)
Editor: Dr. Tanima Kumari
The proposed edited volume Global Bollywood: Cultural Appropriation, Streaming Media, and the Politics of Representation has received a preliminary expression of interest from Routledge.
A number of submissions have already been received, and several chapters have been reviewed and confirmed for inclusion.
Table of Contents
Part I: Cultural Appropriation and Hybridity
Dear colleagues,
https://jnr2.hcommons.org/ | ISSN: 1759-3085
Call for Submissions
We are currently inviting submissions for our next open issue on any aspect of cultural practice in Northern Europe in the period 1430-1650, including but not limited to the following disciplines:
☞ Literature
☞ Art & Architectural History
☞ Musicology
☞ Philosophy
☞ Theology
☞ Political Studies
☞ History
☞ Rhetorics
☞ Dance & Performance
☞ Manuscript and Archival Studies
Submit a Manuscript to the Journal
Sport in Society
For a Special Issue on
Artificial Intelligence and Sport from Social and Scholarly PerspectivesAbstract deadline01 May 2026Manuscript deadline01 December 2026 Special Issue Editor(s)
Shu Wan, University at Buffalo
shuwan@buffalo.edu
Huijie Zhang, South China Normal University
huijiezhang199@163.com
Ekphrasis, the verbal representation of visual representation, is one of art’s oldest preoccupations. Over the past decade, we have seen a rise in British and Irish innovative ekphrastic poetry and visual art that responds to poetry. Concurrently, there has been a new wave of interest in the efficacy and function of ekphrasis, that focuses on its role as a type of creative practice and a way of thinking through aesthetic judgement. Despite all this activity, no formal consideration of the field of ekphrasis itself has emerged. Ekphrasis underwent a paradigmatic shift in which it was no longer defined by its ‘paragonal’ energy.
This special issue aims to cultivate greater convergence and contribute to the broader discourse on cross-cultural exchange, particularly in contexts beyond the Euro-American center. We encourage investigations into how cultural values, ideological frameworks, and aesthetic sensibilities shape the translation and reception of children’s literature across diverse cultural contexts. We also encourage the integration of new theoretical lenses and trends, such as transcreation, affect theory, audiovisual translation, cognitive translation studies, and interdisciplinary approaches to gender and ecology, and the impact of AI, in the discussion of translational convergences and divergences in global children’s literature.
War Literature Today: Ecology, Violence, and the Novel
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787). This special issue belongs to the section "Literature in the Humanities".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2027 | Viewed by 69
1st DL2 International Workshop
Date: 3-4 December 2026
Venue: Hybrid - University of Alicante (campus) and online
Paper submission deadline: 30th September 2026
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 1st DL2 International Workshop, which will be held in hybrid format on 3rd and 4th December 2026 at the University of Alicante and online. We kindly ask you to distribute this invitation among your colleagues and staff.
Since 2014, the eTEXTS: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference has served as a platform for the examination and exploration of diverse "texts" from English-speaking countries of Ango-Saxon heritage. By bringing together scholars, doctoral students, and early-career professionals, the conference fosters scientific debates and critical discussions that drive forward our understanding of literature and culture.
The East Asian Translation Studies conference aims to provide a platform for translators and researchers working in the East Asian context to exchange ideas on issues related to translation.
Previous EATS conferences have been held at the University of East Anglia, UK (2014); Meiji University, Japan (2016); Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (2019); Université Paris Cité, France (2022); and the University of Queensland, Australia (2024). They have centered on questions of the circulation of translation within East Asia, constructing/deconstructing East Asia, changing identities of East Asia observed in translation, universals in East Asian translation, and negotiating the borders of translation and East Asia.
Literature, Technology, and the Body
PAMLA 2026, Seattle, November 12-15
https://www.pamla.org/pamla2026/
This panel invites papers that examine any aspect of literary treatments of the human body in relationship to technology—especially medical and industrial technologies—past and present. In particular, the panel is interested in literary interrogations of the ways that technology mediates the subject of the body into the public-political and manages populations of subjects/bodies.
“Feel the Force”: The first 50 years of Star Wars
A PopCRN Conference
Join us for a free virtual conference exploring the Star Wars universe and its enduring cultural impact to be held online from 4th-5th May 2027.
Edited Volume
Call for Contributions
Call for Book Chapters
Title: Folk and Culture: Tradition, Resistance and Nurture
Publisher: VLC Media Publication
VLC Media Publication offers ISBN-certified, peer-reviewed publications with national and international circulation.
Editors:
Dr. Naresh K Vats, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indrapratha University, New Delhi, India
Dr. Chetna Tiwari, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indrapratha University, New Delhi, India
Scope of the Volume:
Call for Book Chapters
Title:
Adivasi Writings in India: History, Memory, and Contemporary Expressions
Editors:
Dr Chetna Tiwari, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India
Dr Naresh K Vats, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India
Publisher:
Vedant Knowledge Systems Pvt Ltd
Book Details:
We invite chapter proposals for an edited collection titled Metafictional Horror Cinema: The Screen as Mirror, to be submitted to the UWP Horror Studies series. The volume explores how horror cinema reflects on its own formal strategies, lays bare its narrative and technological mechanisms, and confronts viewers with unsettling modes of self-awareness.
The volume will explore the role of metafiction within horror cinema, from postmodern genre revisions and reflexive found-footage films to avant-garde and hybrid works that fracture narrative logic, collapse diegetic boundaries, break the fourth wall, or explicitly implicate the viewer in acts of spectatorship and violence.
The American Literature II: Literature after 1870 Permanent Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) is seeking proposals for this year’s in-person convention in Chicago, Illinois. This year’s theme for the conference is “After the Archive”; accordingly, the Permanent Section encourages presentations that focus on the notion of the archive. Some questions to be considered in context of American literature after 1870 are:
Seeking on papers about opacity in contemporary literature and art for a panel at ASAP (Association for the Study of Arts of the Present) 2026 Convention. Please send an abstract and a short bio to Sané Bhattarai (bhattsan@gvsu.edu) or Moya (Moyang) Li (moyang.li@csulb.edu) by April 24.
The American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) is putting together a pre-constituted panel for submission to the 2026 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) conference, held November 12-15, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency in Seattle, Washington. PAMLA ‘s 2026 theme is “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict.” Following this, AHSA is accepting a range of papers on “Comic Leadership.” We invite submissions that consider the role of comedy in politics. Often, comedy is used to “takedown” and “critique” those in power through satire and parody, but what can comedy offer for enacting new political paths forward?
Session Abstract: The genre of African American poetry has a long legacy of both preserving tradition and evolving to suit current times and places. This session invites discussion of the defining features that have been maintained over time as well as patterns of bold experimentation. Rather than seeing tradition and innovation as opposing aesthetic directions, this session hopes to examine ways they have co-existed in this genre and been mutually fruitful.
This creative panel of artists is a chance for us to express our everyday struggles with Mental Health issues and to show them from our perspective in a way that is freeing and opens the door to a stronger understanding of others and ourselves.
Call for Papers: International Journal of Fashion Studies
Special Issue: 'Clothing and Dress in Times of Mass Violence'
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-fashion-studies#call-for-papers
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2026 Virtual Summer Symposium, July 26, 2026
This one-day virtual event on July 26, 2026 is in addition to our 3-day conference in November to accommodate scholars outside the Mid-Atlantic region and those for whom an in-person event is otherwise inaccessible. We greatly encourage international scholars to submit for this dynamic, one-day event!
The figure of the witch (both real and imagined) is inherently political and potentially contentious. Each wave of feminism has reflected on shifting considerations of the witch as evocative of issues around gender, power and, more recently, intersectional aspects of identity. More recent critical engagement with witches and witchcraft reflects a transition, transcending disciplinary boundaries and positioning the witch in line with shifting contemporary debates. This shift moves the witch beyond the symbolic or the individual to consider both the interconnected and disparate nature of the witch. We can, instead, see the witch as a key component in movements of political change, as activist alongside the spiritual expl
CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposed Edited Volume
Beyond the Mainstream: Dalit Narratives and Narratives of Social Exclusion from Eastern and North-Eastern India
Editors
Dr. Roshni Subba
Assistant Professor, Department of English
University of Calcutta
Injam Ahmed Molla
Independent Researcher(UGC NET Qualified)
About the Volume
Though getting it together may signal a practice of spontaneous collectivity, “get it together” is also a gendered command—one which affiliates a performance of femininity with certain aesthetic expectations and demands the unbounded work of love, care, and social reproduction. How do we understand the aesthetics of femininity in a moment where feminism has been defanged of its oppositionality, when it functions as an alibi for the tide of fascism in the form of TERFs and girlbosses? Everyday injunctions toward norms of femininity appear in the form of “Get Ready With Me” videos, Planned Parenthood’s decision to offer Botox, ceaseless trend cycles, and the normalization of weight loss medication, with Serena Williams as its icon.
How does the novel resist? Both as an action (movement, predicate) and as a form (structure, construction) how does the novel as a genre engage in resistance? Of what, too, is the novel resistant? Studies of the novel have long emphasized the genre’s capacity to control and coerce, as in the work of D. A. Miller and Nancy Armstrong, to name a couple. This panel instead invites papers that approach the novel as a resistant structure and a form of resistance. What might it mean to read the novel not as an instrument of control, but as a site of formal, aesthetic, or material resistance?
Short Stories (Fiction/Non-fiction) INVITED for
Climate Change, Disasters, and Global Narratives: Collection of Short Stories
Edited by:
Dr. Gurpreet Kaur
Assistant Professor & Head
Post Graduate Department of English
Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Khalsa College
Sri Anandpur Sahib, Punjab, India
and
Jacobus Bracker
Hamburg University of Technology,
Exploring the overlapping cultural and literary impacts of Taylor Swift, this session considers her songs, legacy, political endeavors, friendships, feuds, collaborations, and fandom especially through this year's themes of culture, power, and conflict. We ask: What might lively, critical analysis of Taylor Swift offer to cultural and literary studies?
Call for Papers // Society of Early Americanists // 2027
“Queer Humors”
The Journal of Dracula Studies is open for submissions for its upcoming 2026 issue. We invite manuscripts of scholarly articles (4000-6000 words) on any of the following: Bram Stoker, the novel Dracula, the historical Dracula, the vampire in literature including folklore, fiction, film, popular culture, and related topics. Submissions should be sent electronically (as an e-mail attachment in .docx). Please indicate the title of your submission in the subject line of your e-mail.
CALLING ALL 2SLGBTQ+ WRITERS WHO EXPERIENCED RELIGIOUS TRAUMA. I am excited to announce this Call for Submissions for my new anthology of creative nonfiction narratives! Entitled Queer and Trembling: Stories of LGBTQ+ Religious Trauma, this anthology will bring together a collection of stories about 2SLGBTQ+ religious trauma from Christian contexts, whether they be evangelical, fundamentalist, Pentecostal, Catholic, Mormon, Jehovah's Witness, Orthodox, etc. The collection is under contract with Jessica Kingsley Publishers (an imprint of Hachette UK) and will likely be released in 2028.
International Conference
Resisting Abandonment: Language, Culture, and Ecology
Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact
Glendon College, York University (Toronto, Canada)
October 15–16, 2026
The Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact invites you to an interdisciplinary conference that will explore the ways in which ecology intersects with language contact, cultural transformation, and pedagogical practice.
This special issue brings together innovative and interdisciplinary comics scholarship that rethinks the epistemic, aesthetic, political, material, and decolonial aspects of comics across the Global South. These forms prompt renewed reflection and inquiry into what it means to draw knowledge, memory, community, dissent, and futurity, while simultaneously interrogating the foundational categories of representation, authorship, narrative form, and colonial epistemology.
Call for Papers
ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, and MAGIC
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2026 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 25-27, 2026
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 30, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026
The MISH UJ Academic Society and the Student Council of the Interfaculty Individual Studies in the Humanities at the Jagiellonian University cordially invite both active and passive participation in the International Academic Conference Science and Humanities: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Bioethics.The conference will be held on site on 29–30 May 2026 at Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian University. Call for Papers
Submissions are accepted until 16 April 2026, 11:59 p.m.
Presentations should not exceed 15 minutes.Submission form:
A one-day symposium at NC State University on
Ethics and Agentic AI
https://sites.google.com/view/ai-society-at-nc-state/current-events/news...
Twenty-Fifth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of Split, Croatia, 30 June - 2 July 2027
Founded in 2003, the New Directions in the Humanities Research Network is brought together by a common interest in established traditions in the humanities while at the same time developing innovative practices and setting a renewed agenda for their future. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
Information, Medium & Society: Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Publishing Studies, University of Split, Croatia, 30 June - 2 July 2027
Information, Medium & Society: The Publishing Studies Research Network was founded in 2003 with the inaugural International Conference on the Future of the Book. Since then, the Research Network has expanded its scope in two phases. The first was in 2009 when it became the Books, Publishing, and Libraries Research. In this iteration, the Research Network began to look beyond the book as the primary site of investigation. In 2019 the network underwent another change, to become Information, Medium & Society - The Publishing Studies Research Network.
Editors: Elise Boxer (Dakota), University of South Dakota and Travis Franks, Utah State University, Department of English