Beyond Conventional Screens: New Approaches to Audiovisual Storytelling - Call for Chapter Proposals

Edited by Sotiris Petridis 

• Deadline for proposals: 01 June 2026
• Notification of Acceptance: by mid-June 2026
• Deadline for chapters: 15 November 2026

2027 will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the passing of radical ecologist and labor organizer Judi Bari. Best known for her leadership in the 1990 Redwood Summer campaign in Northern California, Bari sought to overcome the entrenched division between environmentalists and timber workers by identifying corporate capital as the common force exploiting both labor and forests. Her politics extended beyond direct action and formal organizing to include music, storytelling as agitation, and public spectacle, all mobilized to cultivate ecological consciousness within a framework of working-class solidarity.

The Forum Section invites scholars to reflect on the different ways that their research and/or pedagogy has intertwined with their lives in relation to the theme of the Volume. It is a more immediate exploration of how one’s research is shaped out of one’s personal experiences and positionalities. This section was introduced in 2023, encouraging contributors to experiment with styles outside academic writing to tease out the intricacies of pedagogy, research, and lived experience. Forum pieces can be more personal and self-reflective, and can include open ended enquiries. There are aspects of research that never make it to the research paper.

DEADLINE UPDATED TO JUNE 1ST 2026 due to late application demand. Please continue to share widely.

CFP: “American Carnage”

Canadian Association for American Studies, October 23-25, 2026 (In person at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)

NEW: Visit our website: https://american-carnage.ca

Indian Knowledge System Cell,

Post Graduate Department of English,

And

Post Graduate Department of Economics,

SRI GURU TEG BAHADUR KHALSA COLLEGE,

SRI ANANDPUR SAHIB-140118,

PUNJAB, INDIA

organizes

Two-days International Conference

On

Indian Knowledge System: Perspectives and Imperatives

(6-7 August, 2026)

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism
A Transdisciplinary Conference
July 16-17, 2026
July 16: In person participation at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park (and online)
July 17: Fully online
Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/01/21/ecopoetics2026/

Fees** (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)
**Prices exclude Eventbrite fees

Call for Presentations:

The Aquatic Presence-Absence in World Literatures

Critical Language and Literary Studies (CLLS) invites original, unpublished research articles for a themed issue to be published in Fall 2026. The theme is examining aquatic presences and absences in world literatures.

Translating Resistance:
Literary Activism in Conflict and Solidarity

• Hosted by The Translation Research & Instruction Program (TRIP) at Binghamton University
• October 3–4, 2026

Funded in part by The International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) Regional Workshop Fund

• Professor Samah Selim (Rutgers University, USA)
• Dr. Ruth Abou Rached (University of Manchester, UK) 

Scholars, researchers, and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this two-day workshop, hosted by Binghamton University (SUNY), to be held in New York on October 3–4, 2026. 

Australia from Below: Lived Histories and Material Cultures of Everyday Life

The editors of Australia from Below: Lived Histories and Material Cultures of Everyday Lifeareinviting you submit a research article, essay, creative work, poetic or other creative work reflecting the diversity of ways in which lived experience and material culture can be explored.

The Mid-Atlantic Review is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published annually by the College English Association Mid-Atlantic Group (CEAMAG). The journal specializes in literary and cultural criticism, discussions of pedagogy, public humanities work, reviews of scholarly books published in the last two years, personal essays concerned with the teaching of English, photographs and visual art related to the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, and creative writing clearly related to the humanities, teaching, or the craft and art of writing. The Mid-Atlantic Review is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography and available to scholars through the EBSCO and ProQuest Literature databases.

PAMLA Seattle (2026) - November 12-15, all in-person conference 

2027 is the centenary year of the birth of US American poet and Pulitzer Prize-winner, Galway Kinnell (1927-2014). This session seeks to celebrate his life and legacy while pointing to future thematic and prosodic engagement in Kinnellian studies. Papers offering approaches to any aspect of Kinnell’s work are invited and most welcome.

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You are invited to submit a paper to the session "Passing Novels Now and Then:Gender, Class" at the 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Languagae Association (PAMLA) conference in Seatlle, WA from Nov. 12-15, 2026.

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You are invited to submit a paper proposal to the session "International Bildungsroman" at the 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Languagae Association (PAMLA) conference in Seatlle, WA from Nov. 12-15, 2026.

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The "Animals & Culture" Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association's call for papers for our 2026 virtual conference is live!   See our details below (or at https://www.northeastpca.org/conference-areas): 

The "Animals & Culture" area explores the complex and multifaceted intersections between animals, animal representations, society, and popular culture.

"Narratives of Displacement" International Conference

17-18 October 2026 - London /Online

organised by

London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research 

"AI and Society: Ethics, Creativity and Power in the Digital Age"International Conference30-31 January 2027 – London / Online

organised by

London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

Artificial Intelligence is no longer a speculative horizon — it is an active force reshaping how we work, create, govern, communicate and understand what it means to be human. From generative AI and automated decision-making to algorithmic governance and digital surveillance, AI technologies are transforming social structures, cultural production and everyday life at an unprecedented pace.

Submissions open: June 15, 2026 – August 1, 2026

Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies welcomes submissions for its October 2026 issue, which seeks to reconsider how literature translates bodily experience into writing and visibility, and how the body, in turn, discloses and shapes literary meaning.

University of Surrey

27-28 September 2026

Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Fall Conference October 15th to 17th - Online 

Call for Papers: Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies Area 

Please submit abstracts of 250–400 words and a short 100-word bio to the linked form below.

The Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies area, part of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Fall Online Conference (October 15–17, 2026), features the newly established conference area and Digital Swift Symposium, a curated space for interdisciplinary scholarship on popular music, fandom, gender, authorship, and digital culture.

In our current postdigital condition, digital technology is so deeply embedded in everyday life that the distinction between technical and natural is becoming increasingly blurred and images have become mere byproducts of our embodied co-existence with digital media. At the same time, we see that visual forms are continuously rendered obsolete by the rapidly evolving algorithmic processes. In new media, we are no longer even looking at “the image” any more, but rather always only at a version of an image that can be infinitely modified. Cameras are regularly used to connect the eye and the machine in a way that serves no aesthetic goal, creating purely “operational images” (Harun Farocki).

We’re delighted to announce a new online event to mark Dickens’s passing. On this occasion, our theme does not dwell on the Inimitable’s death, but focuses instead on his ever-expanding life on the big and small screen. Dickens was first adapted for silent cinema in 1901, and since then his work has appeared countless times on film and television. Since Dickens’s Bicentenary in 2012, a number of significant screen adaptations have appeared, including Armando Iannucci’s Personal History of David Copperfield (2019), Steven Knight’s Great Expectations (2023), two Artful Dodger character adaptations, and multiple versions of A Christmas Carol.

The 123rd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in Seattle at the Hyatt Regency Seattle, from Thursday, November 12, to Sunday, November 15, 2026. 

Cultural History: 

In keeping with the presidential theme of the 2026 MMLA Conference, “After the Archives,” to be held in Chicago from November 12-14, 2026, papers that incorporate and/or interrogate the archives are welcomed for this year’s panel on American Literature before 1870.

We seek original research articles from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences on the theme of climate narratives of the future for the online research resource Climate Adaptation, an Oxford Intersection. 

What is Climate Adaptation and the Oxford Intersections?

Climate Adaptation is one of several recently announced Oxford Intersections from Oxford University Press. Each Oxford Intersection is an edited resource that deals with an urgent, cross-disciplinary theme (others include AI in Society, Borders, and Gender Justice). Each Intersection contains several sections.