The LSL Language Change Forum invites proposals for the following panels at the 2027 MLA Annual Conference in Los Angeles:

Empowering Language Change

This guaranteed panel invites papers examining how linguistic changes enable—and emerge from—emancipatory practices across spoken, written, digital, pedagogical, and/or related contexts.

Listening to Language Change: Evidence of Emancipation

This guaranteed panel invites papers examining how emancipatory movements become visible through linguistic changes—historically, contemporarily, or in imagined futures—across disciplines.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS (DEADLINE EXTENDED)

Somos Lesbianas: Critical Reflections on Latina/e Lesbian Legacies and Futures

Edited by Dr. Meagan Solomon (https://www.meagansolomon.com/)

Papers on Joseph Conrad and reading, including close reading, book culture, intertextuality, Conrad’s own reading, Conrad’s global readers, and the challenges of reading Conrad in the age of artificial intelligence. This is one of several planned panels for the Joseph Conrad Society of America Allied Organization at the Modern Language Association Convention in January 2027. Email 300 word proposals and a 100-word biography to Jana Giles, giles@ulm.edu. Deadline: March 22, 2026.

For further information and to see the call posted on the MLA website, see: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/index.html.

How might theatre and performance come to confront the global rise of populism, while setting the stage for, and potentially provoking a reconceptualization of, emancipatory ways of being in the world? Please send 250-word abstracts and brief bios to Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay, University of Milan (ertug.altinay@unimi.it) and Sharon Lois Mazer, Auckland University of Technology (sharon.mazer@aut.ac.nz)

As the section editor for The Women’s Experience, I am writing to invite you to consider submitting a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, an edited scholarly volume that examines the evolving role of diversity, equity, and inclusion within American democracy and educational institutions.  

The Women’s Experience section seeks rigorous, thoughtful, and evidence-based analyses that examine gender equity, intersectionality, and the evolving role(s) of women in society at the present moment. 

This issue of Ampersand: An American Studies Journal invites submissions that take up the concept of the “American assemblage”. 

Theme Collection: Sovereign AI and Digital Sovereignty

Submission deadline

Thursday, 31 December  2026

Let’s call it “time work”: Those practices that negotiate the relations between the living and the dead. Time work is not merely conducted by archivists and historians, but by grave diggers and undertakers, documentary filmmakers and memoirists, politicians, war journalists, practitioners of living traditions, speakers of dead languages, as well as by any and all who keep something – a story, a trinket, an heirloom, a song – holding onto it to remember. Time work is not easily done without feeling; It is driven by the weight of mattering, it is attention called by the fact that now – this, ‘our’ now – is in-part composed by the shadows of what and who came before.

International Conference 

Women Filmmakers and New Feminist Cinemas in France, Great Britain, and the USA in the 21st Century 

21-22-23 October 2026, Université Toulouse 2 Jean-Jaurès, France 

The American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) and the Disability in Theatre and
Performance focus group (DTaP) invite submissions of conference-length essays (8-10 pages)
from current graduate students or early-career scholars, particularly those who have yet to
present at a major conference. Accepted submissions will present at our emerging scholars joint
debut panel during the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference held in
Baltimore, MD from July 22nd-26th, 2026. Submissions are encouraged to align with the ATHE
2026 Conference theme, “ACTIVATING IMAGINATION IN/AND COMMUNITY,” and address
pressing questions including, but not limited to:

Concept Note

Two-Day International Conference (likely to be ICSSR Sponsored) on  “Loss of Indigenous Knowledge in the Age of Digital Humanities: Preservation, Power, and the Politics of Representation” (Hybrid Mode)

The Activist Author: Contemporary Forms and Historical Precedents of Activist Literature

Dates and Location:

November 9th & 10th, 2026.

UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).

Confirmed Keynote speakers:

Sara Dimick: Northwestern University; author of Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures.

Juan Meneses: UNC Charlotte; author of Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent and editor of Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination.

We invite in-person or hybrid submissions on any aspect of the medieval studies and their related topics, as well as short reports on ongoing projects, research or funding opportunities, or pedagogical approaches you’d like to share. We also invite in-person and hybrid individual or panel round table submissions addressing the following topics: 

Throughout its consolidation as an academic discipline, museum studies have tended to gravitate around major national and international museums, their emblematic collections, and the management models they have established as standards. These institutions, mostly located in urban centers and supported by solid structures of funding, research, and public outreach, have shaped a “canon” that has influenced not only academic agendas but also collective imaginaries about what a museum is (and what it should be).

In 1966, Seamus Heaney published Death of a Naturalist, the collection that would launch his career and establish him firmly in the public eye as a poet of place whose local accents and autobiographical bent marked a new direction in twentieth century Irish poetry. In the same year, Heaney accepted a lectureship at his alma mater, Queen’s University Belfast, and made his first appearance on Ireland’s Late Late show, reading Blackberry Picking and gaining a mass audience thanks to the power of broadcast media. 

Call for Papers:

The Art of Storytelling: Archetypes in Focus A Transdisciplinary Conference

May 30-31, 2026

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/02/24/storytelling-2026/

Where:

Oxford University (and Online)

Fees:

£180 (In person participation)

£100 (Online participation)

This panel seesion for the 2026 RMMLA Conference to be held Ocober 8-10, 2026 in Ogden, Utah, seeks papers that explore all aspects of English literature of the twentieth century to present, namely proposals that look at British or ex-patriot artists and/or works by those authors whose English Commonwealth residency influenced their art since 1900. Interdisciplinary approaches to anlyses of the literature are welcome.

Call for Nominations:

In keeping with the Lydia Maria Child Society’s goal of honoring and continuing Child’s legacy, the Society is pleased to recognize Humanities scholars who have demonstrated a commitment to social justice through teaching, research, and/or service.

Call for Papers: Society of Music Production Research (SMPR) Conference 2026

The Society of Music Production Research (SMPR) conference will be hosted at the University of Huddersfield, UK,  9–11 September 2026.

The call for proposals is currently open, with a submission deadline of 2 March 2026.

Further details about the conference, along with the full call for proposals and submission form, can be found at the link below:

Call for Book Chapters

Title:

Adivasi Writings in India: History, Memory, and Contemporary Expressions

Editors:

Dr Chetna Tiwari, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India

Dr Naresh K Vats, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India

Publisher:

Vedant Knowledge Systems Pvt Ltd

www.MyVedant.com

Book Details:

Two conferences, one in Halle (Saale) and the other in Atlanta (Georgia), aim to bring together researchers interested in the Francke Foundations in Halle, the English missionary societies, and the founding of the colony of Georgia. While the conference in Halle will focus on a systematic comparison between these institutions, the conference in Atlanta will address the social consequences. The main question is what types of social order the Protestant reform movements in Prussia, England, and Georgia promoted.

 Renewing Faith, Improving Society. A Comparison of Protestant Reform Movements in Prussia, England, and Georgia (first half of the 18th century)

Literature and Global Popular Music 2027 Modern Language Association Adaptation Forum Call for Papers How does literature travel through global popular music? How do novels, poems, plays, and other literary forms resonate when translated into sound, lyrics, stage performance, music videos, and media circulation across borders?This guaranteed session invites studies of musical adaptations that illuminate the cultural, social, and political resonances of literary works. How do literary forms find new life in global popular music? In what ways do these adaptations reshape questions of identity, memory, translation, and power across national and linguistic boundaries?Possible topics include (but are not limited to): 

Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (ISSN 2993-1053) is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective. It provides a unique, international forum for innovative critical approaches to cosmopolitanism emerging from literatures, cultures, media, and the arts in dialogue with other areas of the humanities and social sciences, across temporal, spatial, and linguistic boundaries.

What does it mean to do Black queer/trans studies now? Amidst intensifying state violence both in and outside of the academy, this graduate conference is an invitation to explore the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and power through a global lens. The conference will be a space for inter- and cross-disciplinary dialogue amongst scholars of Black queer and trans life and politics, capaciously defined.