Call for Papers: The Legacy of Norman Bates: Essays on the Psycho Franchise

Editor: Shane H Weathers, Bowling Green State University

Editors Introduction:

The 123rd Annual PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) Conference will be held in person, November 12–15, 2026, in Seattle, Washington.

This session is part of the 2026 PAMLA Conference in Seattle, 11/12-11/15

Call for Papers

Encountering the Human(ities): Anxiety, Storytelling, Futurity

Department of English and Modern Languages

North South University

Dhaka, Bangladesh

30-31 October, 2026 (Friday-Saturday)

Hybrid Event

"Melville Revivals"

PAMLA 2026

November 12-15, 2026

Seattle, Washington (Hyatt Regency Seattle, 808 Howell Street)

The CCCC’s 2027 Convention (April 14-17, 2027 in Miwaukee, WI) invites us to “imagine and design” our preferable, potentially even preposterous, writing futures; this panel imagines those futures through place-based education (PBE).

This year is the 550th anniversary of William Caxton’s establishment of the first printing press in England in 1476. We invite papers for a two-day conference on Caxton’s career, texts, and contexts. Abstracts of up to 300 words to be sent to shaw.worth@all-souls.ox.ac.uk and jacob.ridley@ell.ox.ac.uk by 10 June 2026.

This is a call for papers for an international edited volume tentatively titled ‘Visual Propaganda in an Era of Instability’. Based on distinct case studies explored in a wide range of book chapters, the main objective of the volume is to analyse the role of the image in driving public opinion and perception. The main historical period under investigation is from 2020 onwards: a time that is marked by significant social, cultural, political and ideological tensions. Whilst visual propaganda is not a new phenomenon, and contributors are very welcome to reference historical precedents, the main focus of the volume will be on the growing impact of visual propaganda since 2020.

Howard University | March 17–18, 2027

Hosted by the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and the Black Press Research Collective

In March 1827, just over fifty years after the United States Declaration of Independence, Freedom’s Journal, the first Black newspaper in North America, declared: “We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us.”

In March 2027, we mark the bicentennial of the Black Press, celebrating 200 years of Black journalism as one of the most vital and enduring institutions in American public life.

Call for Proposals: Art, Aura, and the Algorithm 2026 PNCA Symposium | October 1–3, 2026 Pacific Northwest College of Art at Willamette University 511 NW Broadway, Portland, Oregon Free and open to the public

Keynote: Sasha Stiles

The Cultures of Philosophy team at the University of Exeter invites proposals for the online workshop Teaching Early Modern Women’s Writing Between Literature and Philosophy: Pedagogy and Practice. The aim of this workshop is to share case studies and best practice regarding the teaching of early modern women’s philosophical writing in HE, across languages, disciplines and national settings. We intend to bring together teachers and researchers in HE with members of subject organisations to reflect on what’s working and what could be changed to improve the visibility of and engagement with early modern women’s philosophical writing, broadly conceived.

Silly Old Bear? A Companion to Adaptations, Appropriations, and Transformations of Winnie-the-Pooh

Organized by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)

Please submit proposals by 1 August 2026

We are pleased to announce an open call for bids to host the 2027 Post45 Graduate Symposium. The Post45 Graduate Symposium is a two-day event, typically held in Spring, which brings together graduate students and faculty members working on post-1945 arts, literature, media, and culture. Around fifteen graduate students each submit a work-in-progress and convene in a workshop-style setting along with faculty respondents to discuss each participant's work. 

In the past two decades, scholars of environmental literature have begun expanding the Euro-American canons and contexts that have long dominated ecocriticism and publication, teaching, and reading practices in the West. The perspectives on humans’ relationship with the nonhuman world that emerge from alternate global sites often complicate and even challenge the values and priorities of Western environmental scholarship and activism.

This interdisciplinary seminar/workshop will bring researchers, academicians, professionals, and students to explore the transformative role of artificial intelligence in sustainable agriculture, environmental resilience, ecological humanities, and contemporary education. The presentations on AIGS-2026 will focus on emerging themes, including:
·      AI and Smart Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture
·      Climate Resilience and Water Sustainability
·      Sustainable Agriculture in Hilly Regions
·      Emerging Pollution and Environmental Monitoring
·      Citizen Science and Big Data Analytics
·      Indigenous Knowledge and Rural Sustainability
·      AI in Education and Digital Pedagogy

PAMLA Panel Proposal, November 2026: Mourning as Social Protest, Andrea Fishman, Presiding Officer

The Comparative Literature session, like its namesake discipline, strives to be broad, inclusive, and interdisciplinary. We therefore welcome proposals that touch on multiple works of literature and strive to make use of more than traditional comparative studies, borrowing analytic or interpretive practices from other disciplines such as philosophy, film and media studies, digital humanities, cultural or art history.

Proposals that engage with the conference theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” are welcome but not required. The panel welcomes clear, thoughtful, and well-researched proposals in Comparative Literature that demonstrate engagement with relevant scholarship.

The GPA is accepting submissions for its 2026-2027 volume of The Journal of the Georgia Philological Association.  Papers focused on literature, language, composition, history, philosophy, translation, the general humanities, interdisciplinary studies, and pedagogy will be considered.

Please send submissions to Editor-in-Chief, at jgpasubmissions@gmail.com by Sept. 30, 2026.

Please visit our website for more information on submitting to the journal: https://www.mga.edu/arts-letters/english/gpa/index.php

CALL FOR PAPERS

Displaced Dialogues: Performance and Identity in Dalit and Tribal South Asian Diaspora

Introduction

Call for Panel Proposals

Renaissance Conference of Southern California (RCSC)-Sponsored Panels for RSA Philadelphia

Renaissance Society of America Conference

Philadelphia, USA March 11–13, 2027

CFP Deadline: August 15, 2026

Call for Articles

OTAGO GERMAN STUDIES (OGS), Vol. 33 (https://otagogermanstudies.otago.ac.nz/ogs)

University of Otago – Dunedin | Ōtepoti

New Zealand | Aotearoa

Daniel Spoerri: Collecting, Consuming, Conserving

Retrospective and Prospective Views

The editorial board of OTAGO GERMAN STUDIES invites submissions for a forthcoming

edited volume dedicated to the life and work of Daniel Spoerri (1930–2024), the Swiss-born

TYCA Northeast

61st Annual Conference

2026 Call for Proposals

October 2 - 3, 2026

Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square

25 S Queen St, Lancaster, PA 17603

Proposal Deadline: Monday, June 1, 2026

Submission Link: https://www.tycanortheast.org/

Conference Theme: Meeting the Moment: Connecting the Past, Present, and Future in English Studies

Call for Papers
The Playful Monster
24–25 September 2026

International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies [IJHASS]

http://deepublisher.com/Jnl/hass/Home.html

ISSN : 1831-622N 2974-5862 (Print)

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