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College Art Association Annual Conference
18-21 February 2026 | Chicago, IL USA
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Session16720.html
“Dissent Nearby: Diasporic & LGBTQ+ Resistance”*
*guaranteed session with Sponsorship from the Society of Contemporary Art Historians
Over the past decade, as the opioid epidemic turned into an even deadlier fentanyl epidemic, many colleges developed and implemented collegiate recovery programs “designed to provide an educational opportunity alongside other recovery supports to ensure that students do not have to sacrifice one for the other” (ARHE, 2024). As Nichols et al. (2025) relate, “Descriptive and observational research suggests that CRPs tend to reach the most at-risk students.”
'The Soliloquist Journal' seeks submissions of poems and soliloquies for Fall 2025 issue
Theme for Fall 2025 issue: "Voices in Transition”
This theme explores moments of change, transformation, and evolution in our
personal and collective experiences - whether it's seasonal transitions, life
phases, social changes, or internal shifts in perspective.
Website: The Soliloquist Journal
SUBTHEMES:
SUSANNE K. LANGER: Artistic Angles, Philosophical Circles, Poetic Dots, and Technical LinesVienna University of Technology, Austria. 26–29 May 2026. Call opens: 1 September 2025Deadline: 1 October 2025 Organized in collaboration with the Research Unit Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics ATTP at the Vienna University of Technology and the IVC Institute Vienna Circle at the University of Vienna, this conference illuminates the history and relevance of Susanne K.
Call for Papers: Historical Fiction in / and the Anthropocene
One-Day Online Workshop of the Historical Fictions Research Network
29 November 2025 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)
15 min talks
The Historical Fictions Research Network, an interdisciplinary and international network of scholars examining historical fictions, i.e. narratives of the past in a variety of popular media, is happy to organise its third one-day winter workshop on the topic of “Historical Fiction in / and the Anthropocene”.
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Contested Bodies: Corporeality in Contemporary India
Edited by Dr. Shivshankar Rajmohan. & Dr. Sushant Kishore
Department of English, School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, TN, India
The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 53rd annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Feb. 19-21, 2026, at the University of Louisville (https://artsandsciences.louisville.edu/news-events/conferences/louisville-conference-literature-and-culture).
The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 53rd annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Feb. 19-21, 2026, at the University of Louisville (https://artsandsciences.louisville.edu/news-events/conferences/louisville-conference-literature-and-culture).
Throughout the past century, many theoretical approaches have put the indexical properties of the photographic image at the center of documentary's claims to the real. In today’s discussions of social media platforms, arguments about fakery, falsity, and deception abound across genres, from political deep fakes to more “innocuous” lifestyle influencing. Remarked on are the ways platforms such as Instagram and TikTok offer mesh-ups, montages, appropriated footage, nostalgic clips, and media plucked from their original contexts.
Rhetorical Society of America Conference
May 21-24, 2026
Portland, OR
“An Unassailable and Monumental Dignity”: Baldwin’s Rhetoric of Struggle
In 1963, speaking to a group of Oakland high school students about organizing for rights, suffrage, and economic change James Baldwin remarked that, “The measure of one’s dignity depends on one’s estimate of one’s self.” Dignity, for Baldwin, was born of independence, and forged through struggle against an oppressive social structure.
We are pleased to announce the 5th Hawaiʻi International Conference on English Language and Literature Studies (HICELLS 2026), which will be held at the Univrsity of Hawaii at Hilo on March 13 - 14, 2026. This year's conference theme is "Teaching and Learning English Language and Literature in a Changing World: Global Trends and Transformative Practices," aims to explore the emerging global trends in English language teaching and literary studies, including curriculum innovation, assessment practices, digital integration, and multilingual education.
CALL FOR PAPERS
13th International George Moore Conference
May 5-7, 2026
at
Atlantic Technological University, Mayo
&
Moore Hall
George Moore: Landscape and Memory
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
Date and location: 23-25 June 2026, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
Keynote speakers: Sarah Werner, independent book historian; Renske Hoff, University of Utrecht; Aditi Nafde, Newcastle University
Description: Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures (REBPAF) is a Marie Curie Doctoral Training Network coordinated by the University of Galway, which focuses on the ways in which 15th- and 16th-century book producers (scribes, printers, entrepreneurs) negotiated the dynamic relations between the manuscript and the printed book and adapted to the evolving challenges of the market. It also explores the continuing relevance of these cultural and economic negotiations to the modern world.
Dear Colleagues,
Please consider submitting a paper proposal to the panel, "Boccaccio and Boccaccian Medievalisms: Representatives of Gender in Storytelling" for the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The dates of the conference are May 14-16, 2026. The deadline to submit a paper proposal is September 15. This panel will be in person and is organized by Italian Studies@Kalamazoo.
Description
Telangana Journal of Higher Education (TJHE)
Call for Papers
Volume 1 Issue 2 (July-December 2025)
In Sarah Orne Jewett’s 1886 short story “A White Heron”, young protagonist Sylvia is approached by an itinerant hunter and asked to expose the location of the white heron’s nest. The threat to health, growth, and integrity here is complex, both for Sylvia and the heron, as well as the hunter. The central concept of the nest, as a space simultaneously protected and vulnerable, mundane and coveted, nourishing and abused, is an influential object and space in the narrative.
6 de noviembre 2025. Formato online
II Jornadas Intermediales Intercátedras
Organizadas por las Cátedras de Literatura en las Artes Audiovisuales y Performáticas y de Pensamiento Audiovisual
Versión en inglés abajo
‘Theory Today’ working group [USC] is organizing an Online theory workshop on the theme of contemporary fascism with one of the most insightful thinkers on the topic―Alberto Toscano. The workshop will take place on October 17, 2025 via Zoom, and will have the following schedule:
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October 17, 2025
Session 1 | Toscano: Contours of Contemporary Fascism [10 am to 1 pm PST]
- Workshop session focused on reading and discussing primary texts, including Marx, Badiou, Negri, et al.
Theory Today [USC] is organizing a two-day theory workshop with one of the preeminent and prolific theorists of our time, Prof. Todd McGowan. The workshop will take place on March 12-13, 2026, at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), and will have the following schedule:
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Day 1 : March 12, 2026
Session 1 | McGowan: Foundations of Thinking [10 am to 1 pm]
- Workshop session focused on reading and discussing primary texts, including Hegel, Kant, Marx, and Lacan.
As Toni Morrison notes in Playing in the Dark, the construction of Africanist ideologies that misread and/or misrepresent Black identities is as American as apple pie. The white gaze has historically and contemporaneously controlled what is known and unknown about African Americans, just as the ingestion of Africanist ideologies has shaped how many people of the African diaspora see themselves. However, the cultural productions of African American people have frequently not only asserted the heterogeneity of African American communities, contesting Africanist collectivization, but have also affirmed ways of knowing beyond the cultural and systemic erasure of Black personhood and agency.
Call for Chapters: Religion, Conversion and Cultural Memory in
Indo-Caribbean Women’s Writing
Edited by:
Prof. Nandini C. Sen, University of Delhi
Sahin Shah, University of Delhi
Contact emails:
nandinicsen@bharati.du.ac.in | sahin.shah@gargi.du.ac.in
Established in 2018 and revealed in 2020, TALLER ELECTRIC MARRONAGE (EM) began when a group of Black/Latina, queer, writers, and artists decided to plot points across their escape matrix. Inspired by the petit marronage of our ancestors, we steal away on the electric platform, share our journeys and offer what we find along the way. EM now invites submissions pertaining to the key theme: “In the time of war.”
With the recent and highly acclaimed AMC adaptation of Interview with the Vampire and AMC’s broader acquisition of Anne Rice’s literary corpus, The Vampire Chronicles have found renewed cultural relevance. As Season 3 enters production, we invite reexaminations of the legacy and transformation of Rice’s vampiric work across media, genres, and generations.
Academia in Crisis: How Feminist Rhetorical Scholars Respond
Summer 2026 Special Issue of Peitho
Editors: Patty Wilde, Erin Costello Wecker, and Justine Trinh
“What hurts? And how do we go on living while it hurts?”
–mimi khúc
Lonesome Dove at 40: McMurtry, Mythmaking, and the Reimagining of the American Southwest
A Larry McMurtry Symposium
November 14–15, 2025 Southern Methodist University | Dallas, Texas Co-Sponsored by SMU English’s Narrative Now Initative and the Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Organizers:
Dr. Christopher González
English, SMU
[ctgonzalez@smu.edu]
Dr. Ariel Ron
History, SMU
[aron@mail.smu.edu]
Abel Fenwick
English, U of Arkansas
[fenwick@uark.edu]
Writing about extinction is an aporetic coming together of our current geological reality and imagination that borders on speculation. It is an act that opens up the ecological, the ontological, and simultaneously interrogates the disappearance of humans from the planetary scene. The space of imagination imagining its own annihilation is a precarious zone for the writer, one that also discharges a kind of nervousness for the reader. The crisis facing us now is how to disentangle extinction as a kind of placelessness, as empty space beyond time. How do we, as a species on the edge of the Sixth Mass Extinction, make sense of Rosi Braidotti’s statement, “‘We’ are in this together, but We are not one and the same”?
Rooted in the ancient tradition of fabula, the concept of fabulation (or fonction fabulatrice) was perhaps most explicitly introduced to the modern philosophical lexicon by Henri Bergson, who described it as a “special faculty of voluntary hallucination.” It was later revisited by Gilles Deleuze, both with and without Félix Guattari, as a “speech act, an act of speech” that transgresses the boundary between the personal and the political, producing “collective utterances.”
Dalit and Adivasi Ecologies:
Representations in Literature and Culture
The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association invites submissions for a Fall 2025 issue on the theme of “Health in/of the Humanities.”
“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.” So reads an inscription on the tomb of the fictional author Kilgore Trout in Kurt Vonnegut’s 1973 novel Breakfast of Champions. While darkly serio-comic, the novel’s exploration of how “ideas or the lack of them can cause disease” raises genuine questions about the relationship between the humanities and health that inform the theme of the fall 2025 issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association.
Dear colleagues,
We are excited to invite chapter proposals for a forthcoming edited collection tentatively titled Precarious Pedagogies: Teaching Praxis of the New Majority. As the title suggests, this collection will center the voices of writing instructors working off the tenure track in a variety of precarious positions, though we also invite submissions from writing program administrators and tenured/tenure-track faculty who can speak to the programmatic and institutional impacts of contingent instruction. The collection is under contract with the WAC Clearinghouse for inclusion in the Precarity and Contingency book series, due out in 2027.
The song lyric occupies little space in academia, where it is less studied, less appreciated, and perceived as less-than other kinds of writing. Despite music’s ubiquitous cultural presence, the song lyric—as creative work—suffers from what renown songwriter Jimmy Webb calls a “status problem”: songwriters do not enjoy the same standing as writers of other kinds of traditionally studied literature. The most common way that song lyrics have earned scholarly attention is by conflating the form with the poem. Goldstein’s (1969) The Poetry of Rock is one of the first books to attend to lyrics as poetry.
This panel examines the ways contemporary US American literature, film, and television texts engage with mass incarceration and even anticipate recent expansions of the US prison-industrial complex, including the rapid proliferation of ICE detention centers and the resurgence of historical carceral symbols, such as the proposed reopening of Alcatraz. As the US continues to grapple with mass incarceration, militarized policing, and the criminalization of migration, writers and creators have responded with powerful cultural texts that illuminate the racialized, gendered, and profit-driven machineries of confinement. Significantly, these texts often refuse to treat today’s carceral regime as new or exceptional.
In 2025 alone, public arts and humanities organizations have faced constant and systemic threats to their funding, their missions, and their ongoing goals to provide communities with access to the arts. The Trump administration's demolition of funding to the National Endowment for the Humanities immediately harmed the ongoing projects of organizations across the country, while imperiling most of the state humanities councils across the country. More recently, the rescindment of National Endowment for the Arts grants affected the publishing missions of nonprofit, independent publishers like Graywolf and Milkweed, while also shredding the community outreach efforts of public arts, literary arts, and literacy programs across the nation.
This will be a session of the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. March 5-8, 2026.
https://www.nemla.org/convention.html | https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21790
Modality: Hybrid: The session will be held in-person but a few remote presentations may be included.
This edited volume seeks to collect scholarship on the treatment of political themes and world-building in the Star Wars franchise since Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012. Scholars have thoroughly explored political topics in George Lucas’s works, but have paid less attention to how Star Wars projects under Disney have continued, changed, or challenged the franchise’s approach to politics. To advance the scholarship on this subject, we welcome proposals from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, including literary criticism, cultural history, political science, film studies, and fandom studies.
Possible / Suggested Topics:
Material Poetics: Drafting, Duration, Form
One-day conference at Stewart House, Russell Square.
Event date: November 5, 2025.
The conference is jointly supported by Techne and the Poetics Research Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Keynote speakers: Professor Cole Swensen and Professor Jeanne Heuving
Dear friends, colleagues, and students,
We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for the third issue of the NEW BENJAMIN STUDIES yearbook, centred around the theme “Walter Benjamin in Times of Crisis”.
The editorial collective of NBS is pleased to welcome Anna Migliorini (Florence) and Ana María Miranda Mora (Utrecht) as guest editors for the issue.
Call for Submissions: "THRESHOLDS" A Micro Fiction Anthology
Deadline: August 25, 2025
Website: Fresh Words: An International Literary Magazine - Announcements
Submission Email: specialanthologyfreshwordsmag@gmail.com
We are seeking compelling micro fiction (100-200 words) that explores moments of transition, transformation, and the spaces in between for our upcoming anthology "THRESHOLDS."
Main Theme: Thresholds
Latinx Visions 2.0
ONE PLANET—MANY WORLDS
CALL FOR PAPERS
ONLINE CONFERENCE
November 3-7, 2025
Co-Organizers: Matthew David Goodwin, Cathryn Merla-Watson, Taryne Jade Taylor
The International Journal of James Bond Studies is now accepting submissions for Volume 9.
State of the Nation Film and TV in Britain: Representations of the Social, Political, and Cultural Landscape.
How might we illustrate, explore, and begin to define the ‘state of the nation’ film and television text? This edited collection, in collaboration with Intellect, invites consideration of these questions. We are particularly keen for considerations of contemporary nominees such as Adolescence (2025) and Mr Bates vs The Post Office (2024).
Call for Papers: Empirical Crossings: Art, Science, and Society
First Issue – No Article Processing Charges (APC)
We are pleased to announce the launch of Empirical Crossings: Art, Science, and Society, an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to fostering scholarly engagement across diverse fields of knowledge. The first issue is scheduled for release next month, and we invite contributions from scholars worldwide. Early-stage researchers and doctoral students are highly welcome. Outstanding master's students' work will also be warmly welcomed to submit.
The editors invite abstracts for a forthcoming edited volume entitled Disney: A Companion, which will offer a comprehensive critical exploration of The Walt Disney Company’s cultural, historical, aesthetic, political, and industrial significance. The Companion is intended for the Peter Lang Genre Fiction and Film Companion series (https://www.peterlang.com/series/gffc), and aims to bring together a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives that interrogate Disney’s enduring legacy and its evolving role in global media and culture.
Call for SubmissionsRoots of Change: The Power and Promise of Black Men in EducationEditors: Emily Allen Williams, Ph.D. & Kendrick Johnson, Ph.D.
About the Anthology
In education, we often hear that teachers are the heartbeat of our schools. But within that heartbeat, there is a specific, often overlooked rhythm—the voices of Black men who shape the minds of future generations.
Roots of Change: The Power and Promise of Black Men in Education is an anthology that seeks to amplify the diverse and powerful voices of Black male educators who have long been silenced in educational spaces.
A great number of Gothic fiction productions explicitly address themes such as gender roles and reproduction from diverse perspectives, which at times hold opposing viewpoints on certain aspects of these topics. The ability to gestate is often considered one of the key indicators of sexual difference. However, the subject of gestation and child-upbringing is not usually addressed in Gothic fiction, aside from iconic examples such as Rosemary’s Baby (1968). As Russ (2007: 25) has stated, these processes are often not described in many texts. Frequently, the women in these stories are either young and childless or middle-aged, with their children already grown and secure (ibid.).
Medieval Classics (Re)Illustrated: A Medieval Comics Project Team-up (Hybrid)
61st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI), Thursday, 14 May, through Saturday, 16 May, 2026
Co-sponsored by Medieval Comics Project, International Arthurian Society/North American Branch, International Society for the Study of Medievalism
Co-organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College, and Siân Echard, University of British Columbia
The affordances of speculative fiction to provide not only specific examples, but also schemas, for alternate ways of knowing and being are well known. Suvin identified the novum as the central feature of science fiction, a feature which made it possible to consider humanity not generally nor as "fixed and supernaturally determined", but rather in terms of "which [human]? in what kind of world?: and why such a [human] in such a kind of world? (10).
For the 41st Issue, the graduate-run peer-reviewed journal Invisible Culture, housed within the Visual & Cultural Studies Program at the University of Rochester, the journal is calling for articles on the theme of labor.
CFP: Proposals Requested for Modernism in British & World Literature: A (Re)consideration (updated)
Deadline for submissions:
October 1, 2025
Note on Updated Proposal:
CFP: Werner Herzog’s Life as a Film Director: A Multidisciplinary Collection
Proposals due October 1, 2025
OVERVIEW: