Prospero Rivista di Letterature e Culture Straniere
A Journal of Foreign Literatures and Cultures
Call for Papers: Volume XXXI (2026):
NARRATIVES OF CRISIS IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN-LANGUAGE LITERATURES

Edited by Giannis Stamatellos and Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

Pluribus (stylized as PLUR1BUS) is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction television series created by Vince Gilligan. It premiered on in November 2025, and a second season has been ordered. 

Humanity is infected by an extraterrestrial virus and has muted into a peaceful and happy “Hive Mind.” The Hive is the shared consciousness of the infected people. However, 12 people are immune and not affected by the virus and react in various ways to the new reality.

Call for Papers

Horror (Literary & Cinematic)

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2026 SWPACA Summer Salon

June 25-27, 2026

Virtual Conference

https://swpaca.org/

Submissions open on March 30, 2026

Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026

The following is a cfp for a roundtable session at the forthcoming PAMLA 2026 conference to be hosted in Seattle, Washington, U.S. from Nov 12-15, 2026. 

Please contact Noah Gallego @noahrgallego for inquiries.

All abstracts must be submitted through the PAMLA submission portal. 

The deadline is May 15, 2026

This roundtable invites scholars across the disciplines and different stages in their academic career with an interest in horror to undertake critical investigations into specifically male-centered horror media. By “male-centered,” I am referring to texts that spotlight male identity and the male body, cis-, queer, and trans- included, as sites of fear and monstrosity.

Collecting, Collected, Collective:

Working With Hopkins

June 10 to 12, 2027

Proposals due: 26 October 2026

Transformative Language: Literacies of Mind, Body, and Soul

Southeast Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature

Samford University

Birmingham, AL

October 22-24, 2026

Submission Deadline:  July 1, 2026

Registration Deadline: September 1, 2026

Keynote Speaker: Jason Baxter (Director for the Center for Beauty and Culture at Benedictine University) 

Telangana Journal of Higher Education (TJHE)

Deadline: May 15, 2026

Across continents, the university is being rewritten in real time — its purposes questioned, its futures renegotiated. We would be delighted if you might enter this conversation in our forthcoming issue, where your work could help shape the terms of debate and extend it in new directions.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Telangana Journal of Higher Education (TJHE)

ISSN 3108-0693; Website: https://tgche.ac.in/telangana-journal-of-higher-education-tjhe/

Volume 2 Number 1 (January–June 2026)

We are inviting select chapters at this stage as majority of the entries for the volume have been finalised. Apart from the topics mentioned below, prospective contributors are free to propose other topics, but if we have already finalised paper/s on said area, we may have to decline such proposals. For details regarding the concept and theme of the volume, please visit the-handbook-of-bengali-cinema, the original CFP for the volume. Priority will be given to quality proposals in the below areas:

Thematic:

Nandan and the Politics of State Support for Culture

Bengal-isms in Cinema in Bengali

Genres/Movements:

To mark the eightieth anniversary of the Partition of India, we invite submissions for a Special Issue of Sikh Formations to be followed by an edited book volume. The issue will explore the past, present, and future legacies of the Partition in South Asia and beyond with special reference to the Sikhs.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: MAY 15, 2026

Submissions are now being accepted for Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)'s Disability Studies session, which meets at the 123rd annual conference, Nov. 12-15, 2026 in Seattle, Washington.

Disability Studies is a vibrant, interdisciplinary field that examines the ways disability is constructed across society, culture, and history. This session engages with texts from a wide range of genres, media, cultures, and historical periods, analyzed through the lens of disability theory and/or lived experiences of disability. Papers explore physical, sensory, cognitive, and/or mental disabilities, as well as issues related to pain, chronic illness, and invisible disabilities.

Call for - Literary Musings Online - 2584-1459 - July 2026

Academic Journal

Research Academy

Aims and Scope

Chenkaantal (E-ISSN: 2583-0481) is a pioneer Diamond Open Access Journal for Tamil studies. The journal is dedicated to the academic research of Tamil language, Tamil Literature, Tamil Culture, Tamil Linguistics and other modern trends in Tamil studies.

Call for

Name of Organisation: Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)

Contact email: literarydruid@gmail.com  

Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.

ephemer – Journal for Performance and Theater Research

3rd Call for Co-Editors

On Agitation
 

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Call for Applications: R.D. Mullen Fellowships
Named for the founder of our journal, Richard “Dale” Mullen (1915-1998), the Mullen
fellowships are awarded by Science Fiction Studies to support archival research in
topics related to science fiction, broadly construed.

We have two categories of awards:

Category 1
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Amount: Up to $3000: 1 award each year

II INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MYTH AND DRAMA:

CRISES, BORDERS, OTHERNESS

The Editorial Team of Words & Silences | Palabras & Silencios is pleased to invite submissions for articles and reviews in our upcoming 2026 edition. 

Published by the International Oral History Association (IOHA), the journal is a peer-reviewed, open-access digital publication, freely available online, that welcomes contributions from all individuals engaged in oral history, whether in academia, community-based projects, creative practices, or activist contexts.

For this edition, we are accepting submissions in three sections:

1. Special Topic: (Re)Thinking Oral History

Abstracts are sought for an accepted panel titled "Leadership for Twenty-First-Century Language Programs: Strategies and Pitfalls" at the 2026 PAMLA Convention, to be held in Seattle, WA on November 12-15, 2026. For additional information and to submit an abstract by May 15, navigate to: 

https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19893

Trans embodiments have been lived and conceptualized in multiple ways throughout the long and complex history of Southeast Europe. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, state institutions – through legal and medical frameworks grounded in early sexology – largely criminalized and pathologized transness. These classifications often entailed invasive and frequently involuntary legal and medical interventions, and were accompanied by profound social marginalization. At the same time, the reception and dissemination of sexological and juridical knowledge across Southeast Europe remained uneven, shaped by the divergent historical trajectories of the region’s post-imperial formations.

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS 

35th International Conference Virginia Woolf 

Open Forum “Virginia Woolf: Sound and Rhythm in Translation”, Istambul, Jun 24-Jun 28, 2026

Update: We are currently working to transform this forum into a hybrid format. When submitting your proposal, please indicate whether you would prefer to participate in person or online.

Dear colleagues, 

Faculty of Foreign Languages is pleased to announce two confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. Danimir Mandić (Faculty of Education, University of Belgrade) and Prof. Jozef Štefčik (Bratislava University of Economics and Business).

Our 15th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies will be held on 29 and 30 May 2026. The topic for this edition of our annual conference is

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Archival Abundance and Silences in Islamic Studies: A Graduate Conference 

Call for Proposals

October 2nd – 3rd 2026

Princeton University

Keynote Speaker: Nancy Khalek, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Associate Professor of History at Brown University 

Date of Conference: 23-25 April, 2026

(EXTENDED) Deadline for Abstract Submission: 31 March 2026

Online, international, interdisciplinary conference titled:

(In-)Visible Wounds: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Discrimination and Violence

CFP: WHAT MIRACLE: NEW REVELATIONS ON THE PROSE POEM

**The deadline for this CFP has now been extended to Wednesday, April 1.** 

October 15 and 16, 2026, in Rome, Italy