This peer reviewed edited collection will be part of McFarland & Company, Inc.’s Studies in Gaming series.

The 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference will take place this November in Seattle, Washington, from November 12-15. The PAMLA 2026 conference is entirely in-person. We do not under any circumstances allow papers to be given virtually, online, or in absentia.

We are open to a wide range of papers dealing with French and Francophone literature and culture. However, we are very much interested in proposals that engage with the special conference theme of "Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict." Possible areas of focus include:

Legitimacy and political authority

Leadership and the figure of the ruler

Colonial rule and postcolonial elites

Event Title:                    Truth in (Contemporary) SocietyEvent date:                    Monday, 29th & 30th June 2026
Location:                       Workroom 3, 38 Mappin St, University of Sheffield

Greetings everyone!

We are excited to announce the commencement of abstract submissions for the fifth volume of Sophia Luminous.

Sophia Luminous ( ISSN: 3048-6211) is a national-level, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary online research journal for students, published by Sophia College for Women (Autonomous), Mumbai, India. It is devoted to the discussion of the innovative, novel, and contemporary areas of research by undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and early researchers from an array of disciplines.

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world,” claims Percy Bysshe Shelley at the end of his well-known essay A Defence of Poetry, based on the idea that poetry is connatural with the origin of the human. Poetry is one of the most prestigious genres in the literary tradition, if not the most. Whether we go back to its public and ritual function in shamanic chants or in Homeric epic, or we think of its circulation in multimedia formats on digital consumption platforms on the internet, poetry has existed both as an artistic mode of verbal language and as a literary genre that encapsulates the virtues of literature.

JFA Presents: The Ruthven Literary Bulletin – FOCUSED ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS

Issue Editor: Elizabeth Schechter

Call for Papers

In the Introduction to In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, Margaret Atwood makes a clear distinction between science fiction and speculative fiction: the former concerns events that could not happen; the latter draws on developments that could happen or that have already occurred in some historical form. The distinction was publicly contested, including in an exchange with Ursula K. Le Guin, and Atwood insists her terminology was descriptive rather than hierarchical. She places The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) within the speculative category on the grounds that nothing in the novel exceeds documented historical precedent (Atwood 5–6). This conference takes Atwood at her word.

Theme: The Other Side of the Looking Glass 

29th Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference 

University of Mississippi

August 8th—9th, 2026

Call for Submissions

Supernatural South(s): The Monstrous, The Fantastic, The Grotesque, The Speculative and So On…

The Southern Writers/Southern Writing Conference (SW/SW) is an interdisciplinary conference, welcoming graduate students, creative writers, activists, and community members with interest in the U.S. or Global South from all departments and fields of study. The 29th meeting of SW/SW will be held at the University of Mississippi from August 8th-August 9th, 2026. 

UVA Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXIX (9/17-19) deadline for submissions: June 26, 2026 full name / name of organization: University of Virginia-Wise Center for Medieval-Renaissance Studies contact email: kjt9t@uvawise.edu 

Opening Sequences: The Narrative Architecture of TV Titles

This edited volume proposes the first critical anthology devoted to television title sequences as a distinct and influential mode of visual storytelling. By treating opening titles as complex aesthetic and narrative artefacts, this volume seeks to establish a new interdisciplinary space for the study of title design, inviting scholars to rethink how beginnings shape meaning, memory, and emotional architecture in serial television.

Literary Inspirations

(A Peer reviewed Journal of Research in English Language and Literature)

ISSN:3108-3269 (Print)

Call for Papers - Volume 2 (2026)

Guidelines for Contributors:

We warmly invite original, unpublished and high-quality scholarly articles in any area of English Language and

Literature, book reviews and creative writings for publication in the second volume of our journal . All submissions

Extended deadline for Re-thinking Trauma: Cinema, Performance, and Mediation International Conference

Ekphrasis Center for Transdisciplinary, Liberal Arts and Creative Technologies Research Department of Theatre and Film, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania September 2–4, 2026

DEADLINE EXTENDED: May 1st, 2026

CFP: The Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA)

2026 MMLA Convention—12-14 November 2026—Chicago, IL

Convention Dates: November 12-14, 2026
Convention Location: voco Chicago Downtown-Riverwalk (350 W. Wolf Point Plaza Building 1, Chicago, IL 60654)

2026 Convention Theme: “After the Archive.”

Convention Panel: Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies Permanent Section

Theme: After the Archive: Archival Recovery, BIPOC Pedagogical Labor, and Lived Resistance

Call for Presenters: The Veterans Studies standing session examines all facets of military life and the veteran experience as exhibited in literature, theater, film, and poetry, written about or by military veterans. Of particular interest is work on the transition from military to civilian life, and the resulting cultural, social, and personal impact of this transition. 

Traditional cultures and nationalism in Asia

Description

FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks submissions for cover art.

Are you a visual artist?  Does your work engage with representations of the feminine or speculative?  If so, please consider submitting your artwork to FEMSPEC to be considered as cover art!

FEMSPEC publishes two issues per year and uses voluntary submissions of visual art as cover art for each issue.

It is NOT necessary to subscribe to the journal to submit art for consideration.  If your piece is selected to be used as cover art, you will receive a free print copy of that issue.

Archives are not neutral: they tell stories about who counts, whose experiences are remembered, and whose are erased. For centuries, racial hierarchies have shaped the preservation of knowledge, leaving silences where Black, Indigenous, and other marginalized voices should be. The Antiracism Permanent Section of the MMLA invites submissions that move beyond critique, asking how we can reimagine, rebuild, and transform the archive to reflect justice, equity, and shared humanity.We are especially interested in work that explores:

Since the international success of Aterrados and Cuando acecha la maldad, both directed by Demián Rugna, Argentine horror cinema has gained renewed global visibility and critical attention. This resurgence has sparked increasing scholarly interest in the field, positioning Argentine horror as a key site for the exploration of national anxieties, aesthetic innovation, and transnational circulation.

MMLA 2026 Convention Theme: "After the Archive"  (https://mmla.memberclicks.net/call-for-papers)Meeting Dates: 12-14 November 2026Meeting Location: voco Chicago Downtown (350 W Wolf Point Plaza)

Presentation Length: 15 Minutes (7-8 Double-Spaced Pages)
Submission Materials: 250-Word Abstract and CV
Submission Deadline: April 25, 2026

Call for Papers

“U.S. Drama, Theatre and Performance at the Festival mondial du théâtre de Nancy, 1963-1983”

One-day symposium

Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France

Date: Friday, March 26, 2027

Have you marked your calendar for Atla Annual 2026? As announced in November, Atla signed a three-year agreement to co-locate the annual conference with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings. This year, Atla Annual will take place November 20 through 23, 2026, in Denver, Colorado. 

Like the previous four iterations of the conference, Atla Annual 2026 will be a hybrid event. Regardless of your plan to join us in person or online, we hope you will consider submitting a conference proposal.

To investigate how various disciplines respond to Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Demon Copperhead, editors Megan Krupa and Thomas Alan Holmes solicit chapter proposals for an edited collection of scholarly essays. Set in southwest Virginia during the opioid crisis, Kingsolver’s novel converses with Dickens’ David Copperfield, providing commentary about relevant social influences ranging from the global economy and international extractive industries to domestic social services, sports fandom, education, and family structure.

Animal Studies Panel, MMLA ("After the Archive") Chicago November 12-14 Sea Creatures, Then and Now“When the abyss stares back, it demands recognition.” Stacy Alaimo’s newest book—The Abyss Stares Back: Encounters With Deep-Sea Life—challenges us to explore encounters with marine life, intimacies partly enabled by science but offering opportunities for literature and art. This panel seeks papers on any aspect of creaturely marine life and its myriad relationships with human existence. Although traditional AV will not be available for this panel, participants are both allowed and encouraged to share a QR code through which audience members may access their presentations.