In the collective global imaginary, humans seemingly write the world in isolation. We dictate the climate, biodiversity, and natural resources but we also control the ways in which the world is perceived through literature. This roundtable considers how literature is a co-constitutive process written through connectivity across time and space, landscapes, species, environments, and voices by humans and more-than-humans.

DEADLINE: April 5, 2026

In light of the recent resurgence in scholarly work on the writings of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, we are proposing an MLA volume on “Approaches to Teaching the Works of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.” Freeman’s oeuvre is extensive, and her work intersects with queer studies, disability studies, animal studies, food studies, Gothic studies, ecocriticism, labor history, and more. The MLA will decide whether to commission a book based on the quality and quantity of survey responses, so if you are a scholar who engages Freeman in the classroom, we would appreciate it if you would complete the survey. If you are interested in contributing to this volume, we also invite you to submit a proposal.

Call for Papers (CFP) for ISBN Edited Volume
Edited Volume Title: Body Politics in Literature

About the Volume

The body in literature is never neutral; it is a site where power is exercised, identities are shaped, and social meanings are constantly negotiated. Rather than viewing the body as a purely biological entity, literary texts reveal it as something produced through cultural norms, political structures, and ideological forces. This edited volume, Body Politics in Literature, aims to investigate how writers across different periods and traditions represent the body as a space of control, conflict, and transformation.

**Call for Papers for the 17th Annual Conference of the Association for Research in the Fantastic

Violence and the Fantastic
University of Cologne
September 17-19, 2026

Submission Guidelines 

• The deadline for submissions is March 20th, 2026. Please submit a 300-word abstract with a short 50-word bio to our conference email address: otherothering@gmail.com

• We are only accepting submissions written in the English language 

• Each participant is allocated 15 minutes for their presentation

• Successful applicants will receive an invitation to the conference by 2nd April, 2026

Concept of other and othering 

The Journal of Therapeutic and Applied Geek and Gaming Culture (TAGGC) is a new academic journal for professionals studying the intersections of Geek and Gaming cultures and mental health to share their work. 

Between Then and Now: Performing Archives

The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, 23-24 June 2026

Convened by the Performance Research Group, Manchester School of Theatre, Manchester Metropolitan University

Call for contributions

The way our current globally interconnected and digitally enabled capitalist formation continuously reshapes itself to reinforce categories of class and overarching capitalist structures requires analyses that engage and critique these adaptive forces of capital. Responding to this need, this seminar seeks to examine the relationship of texts to a global capitalist economy by asking how class and capitalism function within and exert force upon texts and their contexts—in film, literature, art, video games, social media, and other extratextual spaces such as fan sites. In concert with this year’s theme, we also invite examinations of representations of the capitalist ruling class and the material and ideological effects of these representations.

Conteseting Scientific Literacies: New Tools for a New WorldEdited by Meg M. Marquardt and Lourdes Cardozo Gaibisso, Mississippi State UniversitySend questions and proposals to: contestingsciliteracy@gmail.com 

Call for Papers: MLA 2027 - Los Angeles

The William Morris Society in the United States is soliciting proposals for two panels at next year's MLA (January 7-10, 2027 in Los Angeles). You are warmly invited to submit proposals for either session. Please submit your proposals to the email addresses listed with each CFP. Submissions must be received by March 22.

William Morris, Labor & the Nineteenth Century

Extended Deadline (MLA 2027): William Morris, Collections Technology & the Virtual Archive

Call for Papers: MLA 2027 - Los Angeles

The William Morris Society in the United States is soliciting proposals for two panels at next year's MLA (January 7-10, 2027 in Los Angeles). You are warmly invited to submit proposals for either session. Please submit your proposals to the email addresses listed with each CFP. Submissions must be received by March 22.

William Morris, Collections Technology & the Virtual Archive

See below for a call for papers to the upcoming ASAP (Association for the Arts of the Present), which takes place in Madison, WI on October 15-17, 2026. We invite contributions on the narrative dimensions of any contemporary "brainrot" or "slop" media- with particular interest in genre, grand narrative, minimal narrative, short form, segmentivity, seriality, plot, character, etc.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Title: Welsh, Irish, and Polish Migration and Diaspora to Argentina

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

In recent years, critiques of human exceptionalism and extractivism have prompted scholars to reconsider the role of translation as a communicative practice capable of engaging with nonhuman voices. Dominant strands of Western thought, from Descartes to Heidegger, have long reinforced the perceived superiority of humans over other forms of life and expression. Challenging this hierarchy requires not only rethinking human–nonhuman relations but also reconsidering how communication itself is understood within translation studies.

JSR: Journal for the Study of Radicalism—an academic journal published by Michigan State University Press—announces a call for articles and book reviews.JSR seeks articles on political and religious forms of radicalism across the political spectrum. "Radicalism" here refers not to social reform, but to those who seek through violent or non-violent means to bring about sudden political transformation. In particular, we are interested in articles that consider such topics as both historical or contemporary anarchist figures or groups, ecological radicalism, antifa, communism, and radical violence.

I am creating a panel for the OAH 2027 conference in San Francisco. Its focus will be women's engagement with the lived and natural environment, indigeneity, and ecofeminism. My paper will also include women's photography from México and the U.S. in the 19th century. I am open to any theory or topics while maintaining a focus on women and the environment. I'm presenting at OAH 2026 in Philly if you'd want to meet up and chat about 2027. tmorgan@ccp.edu

Conference dates: December 10-11, 2026

Location: University of Verona, Verona (Italy) – hybrid

Organiser: Prof. Emanuel Stelzer (emanuel.stelzer@univr.it)

he Jagiellonian University’s Comparative Civilization Studies Research Club cordially invites you to the International Academic Conference titled “In the Shadow of the Sky — speculative worlds, xenolinguistic futures, and UFO imagery in postmodern media.”

Date and venue: May 29–30, 2026, at the Institute of Comparative Studies of Civilisations, Jagiellonian University, 52 Grodzka Street, Kraków
Format: hybrid, May 29–30, 2026 

In a world increasingly marked by geopolitical strife, cultural polarization, and digital fragmentation, literature continues to stand as one of humanity’s most profound instruments for fostering peace, empathy, and human solidarity. From ancient oral traditions to contemporary narratives, literary expression has served as a repository of shared human experience—preserving collective memory, resisting violence, and envisioning alternative futures grounded in compassion and coexistence. The pursuit and preservation of peace have remained among the fundamental purposes and aesthetic aspirations of literature since antiquity.

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
English Nineteenth-Century Literature Panel
October 8-10, 2026
Ogden, Utah
Abstract Deadline: April 1, 2026

The 2026 Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association welcomes abstracts related to English Nineteenth-Century Literature. Ranging from the Regency to the Victorian era, the Nineteenth Century was an eclectic time facing significant social, political, and economic changes. Considering this period of change (and perhaps even how our own time is one of change) we invite abstracts dealing with how 19th Century British Literature explored topics such as, but not limited to:

Evidence, Experience, and Authority in Contested Knowledge

International Interdisciplinary Workshop 

Online | 27 - 28 August 2026

When we want to convince others of our beliefs, we usually offer arguments, and, crucially, evidence. Sometimes this evidence is mundane and undisputed; more often it is complex, contested, or ambiguous. But what happens when claims concern phenomena that, by their very nature, resist empirical verification?

Act quickly! Less than one month remains before the editorial deadline for Volume 53 of The Victorians Institute Journal.

Through April 1st, we are still accepting manuscripts between 7k-9k words on any aspect of Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and culture for publication in Volume 53 of the journal, which will be published later this year.

estrema: interdisciplinary journal of humanities, a digital and open access journal from the Centre of Comparative Studies, at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (CEComp-FLUL), has an open call for submissions for the 1st issue of its 5th volume, until June 9th 2026. The previous issue featured reflections around the theme of Speculative Fiction. In 2026, we are launching estrema’s first call for papers specifically oriented towards the potentialities of art and images in technical contemporaneity.

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