Baldur’s Gate 3 (Larian Studios, 2023) represents a milestone in the evolution of narrative gaming. As both an heir to Dungeons & Dragons and a contemporary work of interactive storytelling, the game synthesizes centuries of myth, moral inquiry, and imaginative world-building into a playable form. This edited collection seeks essays that investigate how Baldur’s Gate 3 draws upon, reinterprets, and transforms literary and philosophical traditions—from the medieval and Renaissance periods through modern fantasy and posthuman theory—to create new modes of narrative, ethics, and embodiment.

European Journal of Theatre and Performance (EJTP)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Mobilising Heritage: Dance, Theatre, and Performance in the Age of (In)Tangibility

Guest editors:

Timmy De Laet, Franz Anton Cramer, Vicky Kämpfe, and Dunja Njaradi

(proposal deadline: 25 January 2026)

The purpose of this issue is to understand the experiences and practices of people living in different geographical contexts. If someone believes that Christianity caused conflict and wars throughout history, this issue suggests that understanding each other's experiences and practices can promote harmony, especially in Asian and Western contexts. The integration of diverse thoughts benefits the well-being of the world. This issue will not only provide a platform to engage with such religious harmony but also serve as a valuable resource for researchers in understanding different experiences and practices.

American Literature Association

May 20-23, 2026

Palmer House, Chicago, IL 

The Richard Wright Society announces two sessions on Wright to take place at the 37th Annual American Literature Association Conference.

Rethinking Richard Wright’s Depiction and Analysis of Gender and Sexuality

Motherhood Unbound: Global Pathways of Motherhood Across Cultures and Disciplines

Cornell EGSO Conference 2026: Effervescence

Deadline for Submissions: January 5th, 2026

Conference Date: March 20th, 2026

Call for Academic and Creative Proposals

“This impulse to violence had been in her for a long time, growing, feeding, until finally she had blown up in a thousand pieces... Yes, a one-way ticket, she thought. I've had one since the day I was born. The train was on the track.”

—Ann Petry, The Street

Call for Papers for the International Conference on “Reading Disruptions, Mapping Alterities: of Australian Trans-Tendings, and India in an Age of Reimagined Plurilaterals” to be held on 03.02.26-04.02.26

International Symposium: SDGs through Hindu Worldviews – Spiritual Care in a VUCA–BANI World
February 25–26, 2026 | IIT (BHU), Varanasi | Hybrid (Online + Offline)

How do we mark transitions, generate transformational visions, and model alternate ways of being in a world imploding around us? How do we find joy while surrounded by brokenness? How do we heal when systems are structured against us? What rituals or practices can restore us, even speak to our souls? The next issue of Rejoinder explores the theme of ritual, healing, and world-making. Submissions (including essays, commentary, criticism, fiction, poetry, and artwork) should address this theme from feminist, queer, and social justice-inspired perspectives. We particularly welcome contributions at the intersection of scholarship and activism.

We are seeking chapter proposals for The Routledge Companion to the Posthuman in Literature and Culture. This new interdisciplinary volume seeks to foreground the representation of the posthuman: as a figure that often appears within certain genres (eg New Weird Fiction, Solarpunk, Autofiction), as an image deployed by specific authors and filmmakers (eg Nnedi Okorafor, Kazuo Ishiguro, Alex Garland), as a discourse that supports the proliferation of “studies” within academia (eg Animal Studies, Surveillance Studies, Affect Studies), and as a growing presence in college classrooms around the world.

We are living in a rapidly changing world. For the last many decades, the contemporary world has been undergoing fundamental shifts and transformations in the social structures, systems, organisations, institutions, values, norms, and functions of a society. These social changes are often driven by technological breakthroughs, the penetration of social media, economic globalisation, ecological crises, war, disease, disorder, and so on, along with shifts in cultural and social paradigms.

Proposed Panel (in-person) at International Seminar on Cultures of Body, Bodies of Culture: Thinking Plurality Today, organised by the Department of English, University of North Bengal.

In a provocative article titled Digging Wells While Houses Burn (2006), David Gordon White argues that certain studies of religion actively stoke supremacist ideologies and politics. The only way to avoid this unsavoury collaboration is to rethink the way we do our work — the stories we choose to tell, and the methods we use to tell them. According to White, academics of religion who fail to engage with this responsibility are “digging wells while houses burn”, ignoring devastating realities that urgently demand their attention. In this context, we invite scholars of all religions, across all disciplines, to reflect on the relationship between their academic work, on the one hand, and violence and supremacy, on the other.

Special Issue for LIT / The Anger Issue: Women’s Writing and Anger in Ireland

Deadline for full essays: July 15, 2026

Conference: Collective Memory in Contemporary Fiction Films

University of Ottawa, June 11-12, 2026  

Abstract: Collective memory and remembrance occupy an important place in film: whether through various themes that explore individual and national histories of; through the act of spectating (the act of watching a film), where the audience contributes their interpretation of the film; or where the audience uses their own memories to make sense of the narrative.

School of Humanities and Performing Arts

Department of English and Cultural Studies

Central Campus

CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Bangalore

Organizes 

Mélange

An MA in English with Communication Studies Initiative

&

A Student Led - Postgraduate International Conference on

Archives of the Anthropocene: Writing Contemporary Humanities

Date: February 27, 2026

NTU Press Call for Monograph on Humanities & Social Science 2026-2027

Publish Your Research with NTU Press: Global Impact and Scholarly Excellence

NTU Press invites you to submit your manuscript proposal for consideration in our Monograph on Humanities & Social Science 2026-2027 initiative. We’re looking for innovative and interdisciplinary research from Taiwan and the global academic community, aligned with current scholarly trends.

Call for Papers: 

“How Children’s Culture Fights Adult Authoritarians; or, Improvising Against the Machine”

American Studies Association, Chicago, Oct. 22-25, 2026

We are pleased to announce the CFP for a special 2026 issue of Academic Labor: Research and Artistry (ALRA) on Art & Engagement as Critical Response (300 word proposal deadline: 1/16/26).  In the spirit of recognizing the ongoing precarities of higher education–both internal (neoliberalism, systemic institutional inequities) and external (crisis of public confidence in U.S. universities/colleges, threats to academic freedom), we invite proposals for a special issue of ALRA on art and engagement as critical response  to the invisibility, illegibility, and silencing faced by much of the academic labor force.

Call for Participation

Workshop on Creativity and Artificial Intelligence

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

March 28, 2026

Keynote Speaker: Richard Jean So, Duke University

The Global Digital Humanities Working Group of Central New York Humanities Corridor is pleased to host a 1-day workshop on creativity and artificial intelligence at Hobart and William Smith Colleges on March 28, 2026. 

THE LEGACY OF TED HUGHES

Call for papers for an international conference to be held at Pembroke College,Cambridge15-18 September 2026

Extended Deadline

Conference: March 20, 2026

Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA

Contact email: slb322@lehigh.edu

The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic is excited to announce the call for papers for Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations (GIFCon) 2026, to be held online on 13-15 May, with the theme of ‘The Technologies of the Fantastic’.

The blog section of Locomotive Magazine is seeking submissions of poems and multimedia media works (including photos, caricatures, short video essays, and short films) that address contemporary issues, including but not limited to:

• Social justice

• Gender

• Class

• Race