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University of Delaware’s 8th CMCS Conference in Material Culture
April 2-3, 2027
What’s the Matter with Description?
Form, Practice, and Material Culture
Keynote Speaker
Susan Stewart
(Princeton University)
2027 marks the 50th anniversary of the film now generally known as Episode IV: A New Hope, the first instalment in the hugely successful Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas. As beloved as it is divisive, Star Wars now straddles multiple decades and generations while proliferating across narrative media (novels, comics, games, animation, TV). It provides a series of compelling case studies in the relationship between creativity and commerce, from the foundation of Lucasfilm during the New Hollywood period to the 21st century Disney-era, and it has developed via a complex interplay between cutting-edge technological innovation, nostalgia, and mythmaking.
The second International Conference on Globalisation in Languages, Education, Culture and Communication (GLECC2026) is going to be held 28-30 July 2026, Manchester, UK. (https://glecc.org/2026/). The submission deadline has now been extended to May 18, 2026.
Keynote speakers confirmed:
1. “Translation, Chinese Texts, and World Literature” by Professor Yifeng Sun, University of Macau, China.
2. “Confucianism's Global Potential: Fresh Perspectives on Fathering From the Sixth Century to Now” by Dr Derek Hird, Lancaster University, UK.
Kala Pani Crossings #4:
Jahaji bhai / Jahaji behen: Fraught Legacies, New Kinships, Reimagined Solidarities
Institut Français de Pondicherry / French Institute of Pondicherry
in partnership with EMMA (University of Montpellier Paul-Valéry),
IHRIM (ENS-Lyon, France), VALE (Sorbonne University)
& DIRE and LCF (University of Reunion Island)
Dates: February 16-17, 2027
Venue: IFP (French Institute of Pondicherry)
The 2026 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium: “Artists On/Off the Record: Living Archives and Embodied Memory”
ImprovLab, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
September 10-11, 2026
Deadline for Abstracts: May 31, 2026
Call for Contributions and Book Reviews for PSA
Newsletter #35: Postcolonial/Decolonial Water Stories
We invite submissions exploring the dynamic intersections between colonialism (past and ongoing)
and water/waterscapes through a humanities perspective. As many scholars have pointed out,
“Unequal access to water and the political processes that direct management are fundamentally
rooted in colonialism” (Hartwig, Jackson, Markham & Osborne 2023, p. 31) Water – oceans, rivers,
seas, and wetlands – has long been central to colonial histories, shaping routes of conquest,
migration, trade, and resistance. In literary texts and other cultural productions, waterscapes often
As Section Editor for The Latinx and Hispanic Experience, I am reaching out to invite you to submit a chapter to this section of the forthcoming volume, The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, edited by Dr. James S. Bridgeforth, Dr. Jamie Penven, and Dr. Theodore Ransaw.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Green Wall: Narrating Ethnicity, Belonging, and Environmental Nativism in South Asian Cultural Production
Guest Editors
Dr. Mansi Bose, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India
&
Dr. Pratyusha Pramanik, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India
Rationale
Intégrité is a scholarly journal published biannually by the Faith and Learning Committee and the Humanities Division at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis, Missouri. Published both online (https://www.mobap.edu/about-mbu/publications/integrite/) and in print, it welcomes essays for a special issue (Fall 2027) on “Elvis Presley and Theology.”
2027 marks the 50th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death on August 16, 1977.
SPECTATOR 47.1 — SPEED - CALL FOR PAPERS/BOOK REVIEWS
DIVISION OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Spectator is seeking papers and reviews for issue 47.1, Speed, themed around USC’s 2025 First Forum Conference on the same topic organized by Minji Kim and Tanushree Sharma. Their call for submissions on this theme is copied below:
The contemporary moment is often thought of synonymously with the idea of speed. The 20th
and 21st centuries were marked by rapidly ascending rates of movement: the movement of
Adolfo Ibáñez University and the consortium of institutions sponsoring this event are delighted to invite you to the 2027 World Congress of the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, centered on the theme “Global Imaginaries, Maritime Power, and Intercontinental Circulations: the Ambivalent Legacies of the Long Nineteenth Century.” The congress will be held in Viña del Mar, overlooking the port city of Valparaíso.
Contemporary social, ecological, technological, and existential crises compel a rethinking of what it means to exist, to coexist, and to take form in a posthuman world.
Geomythology is an emerging field invented by the geoscientist Dorothy Vitaliano in 1968 but has ancient roots in figures such as the mythographer Euhemerus (3rd century B.C.) as well as modern predecessors like Robert Hooke (1635-1703), the “English Leonardo,” and Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), the father of modern paleontology. It has been featured in recent panels at literary and scientific conferences. Geomythology seeks to discover proto-scientific information in ancient and medieval myths, legends, and tales. Often, this information is encoded in stories originally told by eyewitnesses to make sense of traumatic events such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis.
Call for Papers
Edited Volume on Religion, Transhumanism, and Posthumanism
Working Title:
Gods and men? Post- and Transhumanism in Interfaith Perspective
Overview
We invite contributions to an edited academic volume offering a critical theological reflection on transhumanism and posthumanism from an interfaith perspective. While these developments have already generated a growing body of religious and theological responses, this volume seeks to move beyond initial engagements by critically assessing their assumptions, methods, and conclusions.
Second and Final Call for papers
Sensation: The Sounds, Visions, and Words of David Bowie
Academic conference, University of Agder, Norway 29. – 30. September 2026
Call for Papers: Eldridge Bulletin of Advanced Inquiry | Arts and Humanities Series | London, UK
Inaugural Issue (General Topic)
Submission Deadline: 31 May 2026
#OpenAccess
Reduced publication fees available for this issue.
Web: https://london-ap.uk/eldridge-bulletin/humanities/
Email: eldridge@lapub.co.uk
Textual Embodiments: Remediating Meaning Across the Disciplines
Rome Link Campus University, September 11-12, 2026
Call for Papers: Representation of Violence in South Asian Graphic Narratives and Comics
Dear colleagues,
Are you planning your summer writing projects—or revising an article and considering where to submit it? The editors of Nineteenth Century Studies are now accepting submissions for the 2027 volume. The deadline for consideration is October 1, 2026; submissions received after this date may be considered for the 2028 volume.
Call for Chapters
Edited Volume: Chornobyl in Video Games: Memory, Simulation, and Post-Apocalyptic Play
Editor: Yaraslau Kot
Affiliation: Assistant Professor at University of Warsaw; Researcher at European Humanities University
Publisher: [TBA]
Call for Submissions: Invisibility & The Raft of Hope: A 75th-Anniversary Reflection on Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
Deadline: June 15, 2026
Contact: qal0815@utulsa.edu
STREAM STREAM ORGANIZER(S)
Meha Gupta CUNY Graduate Center mgupta@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Soham Sen University of New Mexico sen.soham.26@gmail.com
Chênière journal call-for-papers
Volume 10
Chênière, an online, interdisciplinary undergraduate journal based at Nicholls State University, invites papers for its tenth volume. Chênière is an MLA-indexed journal that welcomes submissions from any humanities field, broadly speaking, from history, communication, English, religion, art, music, and everything in between. The journal welcomes submissions from any undergraduate work but particularly caters to students from the Gulf Coast and the American South, broadly speaking. The subject matter for this issue is completely open topic.
The history of work and labour has long occupied a central place within European social history, offering a key lens through which to examine social relations, hierarchies, forms of power, and economic formations across the longue durée. Rather than approaching work solely as an economic function, historical scholarship has increasingly foregrounded work as a lived social experience –one that has shaped identities, values, and modes of belonging.
Dear colleagues and friends,
We warmly invite scholars to submit papers for the DPRK Cities Research Group’s 5th International Conference at the Soongsil Institute for Peace and Unification, Soongsil University, supported by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.
This conference explores how marketization, technological change, and governance reshape civic space and everyday life in cities under authoritarian and transitional regimes. Moving beyond state-level analysis, it focuses on cities as key sites where control, adaptation, and agency are negotiated in practice.
This panel invites discussions of Steinbeck's complicated imagination of American life and culture in his novels and nonfiction. Alternately fraught and adoring, critical and laudatory, his works attend with specificity to Americanness as a unique and discernible identity in the first half of the twentieth century. Especially encouraged are papers that attend to the tensions and disjunctures in Steinbeck’s descriptions of American society, including his treatment of gender, decolonial readings of his novels, and approaches that expose often contradictory relationships that extend among people, places, and power in his body of work.
Part of the PAMLA Conference in Seattle, WA from November 12, 2026 - November 15, 2026.
Call for Papers Speculative Narratives Beyond Consensus Reality: Navigating the Senses from Wonder to Horror International Interdisciplinary Conference 29 th – 30th June and 1st July, 2026 https://speculativenarratives.com/ NEW Deadline for submission of abstracts: 10th May 2026Venue: Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, Portugal Conference Organisers: Popular Culture Group We invite scholars, researchers, and artists to submit abstracts for the upcoming academic conference, Speculative Narratives Beyond Consensus Reality: Navigating the Senses from Wonder to Horror.
Call for Papers
SMU’s ERAH Graduate Conference
English | History | Anthropology
Date: October 10-11, 2026
Location: SMU Main Campus, Dallas, TX
Theme: Movement & Borderlands
Submission Deadline: August 28, 2026
Keynotes: Dr. Tim Bowman | Dr. Elda María Román
We invite proposals for a small number of additional chapters for an edited volume on animal adaptations, edited by Justyna Włodarczyk (University of Warsaw) and Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck).
Abstract:
This panel reexamines life writing in the age of Generative AI, asking who controls the conditions under which individuals narrate their own lives. Submissions reflecting on how AI corporations and Generative AI models are reshaping life writing practices across textual, digital, and visual formats, or on the consequences of such practices for authorship, equity, and cultural power, are especially welcome.
Description:
Society for the Study of Affect (SSA)
#MAKE: Methods, Atmospheres, Knowledges, Energies
Vancouver, BC, October 23 to 25, 2026
Abstracts due May 29, 2026
Submit here: https://affectsociety.com/make/conference/?submit=paper&stream_id=10
S16. Insurgent Residues of Extraction
A Matter of Life and Death
Call for Papers: Victorians Institute Conference 2026
September 11-13, 2026, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Knoxville, TN
Following along from the urgency of last year’s theme, Victorian Studies: Who Cares? this year’s theme asks conference participants to consider matters of life and death in the Victorian era. What did it mean to live and die in Victorian England? How are matters of life and death reflected in the literature of the time?
Artificial Intelligence, Faith, and Epistemic Coherence
Session Organizer: Dr. Houman Mehrabian, University Canada West
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Alfred Hermida, University of British Columbia
2027 will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the passing of radical ecologist and labor organizer Judi Bari. Best known for her leadership in the 1990 Redwood Summer campaign in Northern California, Bari sought to overcome the entrenched division between environmentalists and timber workers by identifying corporate capital as the common force exploiting both labor and forests. Her politics extended beyond direct action and formal organizing to include music, storytelling as agitation, and public spectacle, all mobilized to cultivate ecological consciousness within a framework of working-class solidarity.
Date of conference: 28-29 August, 2026
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 5 July 2026
Online, international, interdisciplinary conference titled:
A Letter to Video Games:The Mechanisms of Emotions
DEADLINE UPDATED TO JUNE 1ST 2026 due to late application demand. Please continue to share widely.
CFP: “American Carnage”
Canadian Association for American Studies, October 23-25, 2026 (In person at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
NEW: Visit our website: https://american-carnage.ca
Indian Knowledge System Cell,
Post Graduate Department of English,
And
Post Graduate Department of Economics,
SRI GURU TEG BAHADUR KHALSA COLLEGE,
SRI ANANDPUR SAHIB-140118,
PUNJAB, INDIA
organizes
Two-days International Conference
On
Indian Knowledge System: Perspectives and Imperatives
(6-7 August, 2026)
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Late Diagnosis and Neurodivergence:Autoethnographies and Creative Narratives of Recognition
Edited by Tess Ezzy | University of New England Proposals due: 31 July 2026 | Final works due: 30 November 2026
2026 Pacific Ancient Modern Langauges Association (November 12-15) in person in Seattle
"I Think I'm Gonna Die in this House": Spatiality and Class in Film & Literature
submission link:
https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/20015
Abstract:
Call for Papers – 2nd International CLOSURE Conference
Tropes of Comics and Manga
Kiel, November 19–21, 2026
Translating Resistance:
Literary Activism in Conflict and Solidarity
Funded in part by The International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) Regional Workshop Fund
Scholars, researchers, and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this two-day workshop, hosted by Binghamton University (SUNY), to be held in New York on October 3–4, 2026.
The Mid-Atlantic Review is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published annually by the College English Association Mid-Atlantic Group (CEAMAG). The journal specializes in literary and cultural criticism, discussions of pedagogy, public humanities work, reviews of scholarly books published in the last two years, personal essays concerned with the teaching of English, photographs and visual art related to the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, and creative writing clearly related to the humanities, teaching, or the craft and art of writing. The Mid-Atlantic Review is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography and available to scholars through the EBSCO and ProQuest Literature databases.
Uncharismatic Aliens: Weird Life on Earth and Beyond in Science Fiction and Bio Art
International Conference – Porto, Portugal
(June 5th 2026)
You are invited to submit a paper to the session "Passing Novels Now and Then:Gender, Class" at the 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Languagae Association (PAMLA) conference in Seatlle, WA from Nov. 12-15, 2026.
Description:
You are invited to submit a paper proposal to the session "(Almost) Fifty Tears Later: Reception of Octavia Butler's Kindred" at the 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Languagae Association (PAMLA) conference in Seatlle, WA from Nov. 12-15, 2026.
You are invited to submit a paper proposal to the session "International Bildungsroman" at the 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Languagae Association (PAMLA) conference in Seatlle, WA from Nov. 12-15, 2026.
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Gender (In)Equity (SDG #5) and the Global South
The "Animals & Culture" Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association's call for papers for our 2026 virtual conference is live! See our details below (or at https://www.northeastpca.org/conference-areas):
The "Animals & Culture" area explores the complex and multifaceted intersections between animals, animal representations, society, and popular culture.
International Conference on Gender Studies: “Gender and Crime”5-6 September 2026 – London/Onlineorganised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary ResearchThe relationship between gender and crime has long been a subject of scholarly interest across a wide range of disciplines. Gender influences how crime is committed, experienced, represented, prosecuted and remembered. It shapes both the realities of criminal behaviour and the social, cultural and institutional responses to it.This international conference invites scholars to examine the link between gender and crime from interdisciplinary perspectives.
"Narratives of Displacement" International Conference
17-18 October 2026 - London /Online
organised by