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The American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) invites submissions for a proposed panel for the American Literature Association (ALA) 2027 symposium “Music and the American Literary Imagination,” to be held January 28-30, 2027, in Nashville, TN.
27th & 28th May 2027 (In-Person, Newcastle University, UK) Since their inception, video games have been defined by, and grounded in, space and place: from the maze in The Temple of Rom (1982) to the Hyrulian depths in Tears of the Kingdom (2023), from the Holy Land of the Crusades in Assassin’s Creed (2007) to the noirish city of Detroit: Become Human (2018), and from the farms of Stardew Valley (2016) to the depths of Hell in Hades (2020), video games have been concerned with the relationship between the player-character, place, mobility, and game-play mechanics. This conference asks how place and space have been represented in and mobilised in video games: we are interested in spaces of imagina
Every act of communication, interpretation, and representation is an act of framing. In literary analysis, a “frame” might define genre, direct narrative perspective, or position a text within a historical moment. In linguistics, frames organize semantic understanding, govern pragmatic interaction, and underpin metaphor. In translation and interpreting, frames are negotiated, shifted, and sometimes shattered in the movement between languages and cultures. They are the selective filters that highlight certain elements while relegating others to the background, the conceptual structures that allow us to categorize, interpret, and communicate complex realities.
The structure of Joan of Arc's early phase invites comparison to archetypal heroic narrative: reluctant departure, rejected petitioner, gatekeepers to persuade or evade, and the acquisition of skills and resolve before the great undertaking. Whether such comparisons illuminate Joan’s experience, distort it, or reveal more about her interpreters than Joan herself is the question this panel opens. What do we actually know about Joan before she became Joan? How have scholars, hagiographers, filmmakers, and popular adapters handled the silence and ambiguity of her early life? When Joan is made to fit a pattern, which Joan gets left out?
Thirty-Fourth International Conference on Learning, Aristotle University of Thessalonki, Thessaloniki, Greece, 7-9 July 2027
Founded in 1989, The Learner Research Network is brought together around a common concern for learning in all its sites, formal and informal, and at all levels, from early childhood, to schools, colleges and universities, and adult, community and workplace education. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
Seventeenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, 14-15 April 2027
Founded in 2010, the Constructed Environment Research Network is brought together by a common shared interest in human configurations of the environment and the interactions among the constructed, social and natural environments. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
Seventeenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment will address the following annual themes and special focus:
Twenty-Third International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, 8-9 April 2027
Founded in 2005, the Technology, Knowledge & Society Research Network is brought together by a shared interest in the complex and subtle relationships between technology, knowledge and society.
Twenty-Third International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Societyfor research addressing the following annual themes and special focus:
2027 Special Focus—THE CYBER-SOCIAL CONDITION: Knowledge, Learning, and Human Futures
Theme 1: Histories of Technology
Theme 2: Knowledge Makers
Theme 3: Social Realities
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting
University of Houston | May 20–23, 2027
Paper proposal deadline: September 22, 2026
What kinds of responses do encounters with nonhuman life, elemental forces, and damaged environments demand? How might environmental damage implicate us in debts that cannot be settled, repaid, or made good?
The digital infrastructure in today’s world mirrors the colonial administrative structure with its control over data, policing user’s behavior, and pushing narratives for the majoritarian political power. The global tech giants have as much sway in geopolitics as the global leaders themselves. Previously the conditions of colonization created an unequal economic infrastructure that marginalizes the local communities, and even after independence from the colonial power, the trade relations remain that of a colonial appendage. Similarly, the upkeep of the digital sphere is not without its economic and environmental hazards.
Call for Abstracts / Papers for a Special Issue of MatLit (Materialities of Literature / Materialidades da Literatura), vol. 12, 2027, edited by Fabio Durao and Tim Lanzendörfer
https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/matlit/announcement/view/359
The "Forms" of Academic Work
Editors: Fabio Durão (UNICAMP) and Tim Lanzendörfer (Frankfurt University)
PAEDEIA: NSU Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences, and LawCall for Papers
Vol. 2, 2026
*"Online First" publication upon acceptance
*Expected print publication in December 2026
PLEASE CLICK THE FOLLOWING LINK Submit
Aging & Social Change: Seventeenth Interdisciplinary Conference, University de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, 3-5 November 2027
NeMLA's 58th Annual Convention
March 6-9, 2027, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
This panel invites proposals exploring how rhetoric and composition scholars and teachers can develop what bell hooks, Paulo Freire, and other educators in the field call critical consciousness, or our ability to recognize and analyze oppressive political, economic, and social forces shaping society and to take action. Critical consciousness provides a foundation for cultivating students’ civic reasoning and civic literacy skills across diverse institutional and disciplinary contexts.
Seventeenth International Conference on Food Studies, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France, 9-10 September 2027
Founded in 2011, the Food Studies Research Network is brought together around a common interest to explore new possibilities for sustainable food production and human nutrition, and associated impacts of food systems on culture. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
The Seventeenth International Conference on Food Studies calls for research addressing the following themes.
At this moment in higher education—as our students wrestle with digital distractions, a deeply competitive job market, rising loneliness, and the complex role of GenAI in their academic lives—it is worth remembering that “educational relationships are central to student learning, motivation, well-being, and persistence” (Jibilian 4 May 2025; Puckett and Felten 2026).
38th Annual Conference of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society
May 7-8, 2027
Gainesville, Florida
The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society, an organization of 200+ members worldwide, invites paper proposals on topics related to Rawlings’ life and works. Papers should be 20-30 minutes.
Topics related to rawlings may include:
RSAJournal, no. 38 (2027) - Call For Papers: Contested Meanings of Freedom in the United States
Guest editors: Dr. Janine Giordano Drake (Indiana University Bloomington) and Dr. Matthew E. Stanley (University of Arkansas)
This roundtable will examine Asian American representation in 21st-century television and film, to engage in conversation on if or how films or TV shows that feature or foreground Asian American characters have realized the aspiration of a more authentic, nuanced, and diverse representation.
About the Symposium
Weather in 19th-century Literature and Art in the Age of the Anthropocene concerns the question of evidence of weather-related changes due to anthropogenic emissions induced, in part, by industrial capitalism. While humanity has been considered to be largely responsible for weather-related changes regarding shifts in wind current patterns, varying levels of precipitation, and drought-like conditions induced by an increase in anthropogenic emissions, leading Paul Crutzen to declare a new geologic epoch in Cuernavaca, Mexico (2000) during a gathering of atmospheric chemists, the conditions continued to be exacerbated by the close of the 19th-century.
Description: Since the 1990s, there has been an ever-growing list of adaptions on early modern women, from Elizabeth (1998) to The Tudors, to Reign, to Mary Queen of Scotts (2018), to the countless depictions of Anne Boleyn. Each of these productions attempt to negotiate a happy medium between maintaining historical accuracy and entertaining a modern audience who may not be familiar with or care about the complicated politics of the early modern world. Adaptions of early modern women are not limited to the screen, but can also be found in music, art, and pop culture.
Description: While many works of literature have been translated across the globe, there are still many texts that have been neglected in translation studies. If we compare Germans Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm to Ion Creanga, a 19th century Moldovan/Romanian author who adapted some of their stories into Romanian, we can recognize at once that untranslated voices can marginalize literary communities. Creanga’s “Capru cu trei iezi” (or The Goat and Her Three Kids), an adaptation of “The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats” by the Brothers Grimm, has been told to every Romanian child at bedtime since the turn of the 20th century, and yet, most outside of the country have not heard his version.
The 35th Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference:
DESIGN
March 24-27, 2027
Palm Springs, CA
Conference: 24-25 September 2026 (online, via Zoom)
Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Marzia Dessi - The European Graduate School [EGS] Saas Fee, Switzerland
Professor Ryan Habermeyer - Salisbury University, USA
CFP:
The Journal of Humanities publishes original research articles, scholarly opinions, and reviews in classics, fine and performing arts, communication, literature, linguistics, theology, and philosophy. While maintaining a pluralistic and non-partisan approach, the journal prioritises studies focused on Southern, Central, and Eastern Africa, aiming to foster critical and theoretical debates within the humanities across the region. (part of the African Journals Initiative AJI by Pluto Journals and the African Books Collective)
ISSN: 1016-0728 (print) | ISSN: 2948-0094 (online)
PLEASE CLICK THE FOLLOWING LINK SubmitAbout
Vol. 2, 2026
*"Online First" publication upon acceptance
*Expected print publication in December 2026
TO SUBMIT YOUR PAPER, PLEASE CLICK THE FOLLOWING LINK Submit
Panel on the rewards, risks, and ethics of public humanities approaches in the undergraduate classroom. Some possible topics: public project assignments, public writing, community-engaged learning, university/humanities in current political climate, faculty-student collaboration.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, August 15, 2026
17th International D.H. Lawrence Conference,
02-08 July 2028
Lawrence and the Mediterranean
Co-sponsored by the English Department of Aix-Marseille University, France, the English Department of Paris Nanterre University, France and the D. H. Lawrence Society of North America
Conference Dates: 02-08 July 2028 (Sunday-Saturday)
Conference Site: Aix-en-Provence, France (Aix-Marseille University)
Call for Papers
Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence and World Literature
An old dream in world literature studies is to be able to read it all — world enough and time. With large language models, we now have access to information systems that have, in a sense, "read" it all, and that allow us to ask questions we have not been able to ask before. Like the internet, LLMs constitute a global information structure, but one that is more profound in its capacity to inform, interpret, respond, and translate. The development of AI in recent years has provided new infrastructure for academic inquiry with significant implications for world literature as a field.
The Classroom as Counter-Archive: Place-Based Pedagogies of Community Empowerment
Education is an ideal means of empowerment, for it enables students to take ownership of the historical and personal archives that stand for their communities. This panel regards the classroom as a privileged site of such empowerment—particularly for students from immigrant families—and seeks proposals on how to equip them to become active agents in producing their own interpretations of the cultural and spatial memory they share with their forebears.
Nineteenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 20-22 January 2027
Founded in 2009, the Climate Change: Impacts & Responses Research Network is brought together by a common concern for the science of, and social responses to, climate change. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
Eighteenth International Conference on The Image, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada, 13-15 October 2027
Founded in 2010, The Image Research Network is brought together around a shared interest in the nature and function of image making and images. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
The Eighteenth International Conference on The Image will address the following annual themes and special focus:
Twelfth International Conference on Communication & Media Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada, 13-15 October 2027
Founded in 2015, the Communication & Media Studies Research Network offers an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of the role of the media and communications in society. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
The Twelfth International Conference on Communication & Media Studies will address the following annual themes and special focus:
Twentieth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, 13-15 September 2027
Founded in 2008, The Inclusive Museum Research Network is brought together by a shared concern for the future role of the museum and how it can become more inclusive. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
The Twentieth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum will address the following annual themes and special focus:
Twenty-Second International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, 15-17 July 2027
Founded in 2006, the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Research Network is brought together by a common interest in disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, within and across the various social sciences, and between the social, natural and applied sciences. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
Thirty-Fourth International Conference on Learning, Aristotle University of Thessalonki, Thessaloniki, Greece, 7-9 July 2027
Founded in 1989, The Learner Research Network is brought together around a common concern for learning in all its sites, formal and informal, and at all levels, from early childhood, to schools, colleges and universities, and adult, community and workplace education. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
Seventeenth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society, University of Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France, 24-25 June 2027
Founded in 2011, the Religion in Society Research Network explores the relationship between religion in society and the changing nature of spirituality. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
Seventeenth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society will address the following annual themes and special focus:
Eighteenth International Conference on Sport & Society, Federal Fluminense University, Niterói, Brazil, 17-18 June 2027
Founded in 2010, the Sport & Society Research Network is brought together around a common interest in cultural, political, and economic relationships of sport to society. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions
Eighteenth International Conference on Sport & Society will address the following annual themes and special focus:
Twelfth International Conference on Tourism & Leisure Studies, Federal Fluminense University, Niterói, Brazil, 17-18 June 2027
Founded in 2015, the Tourism & Leisure Studies Research Network is brought together to explore the economic, cultural and organizational aspects of tourism and leisure. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
Twelfth International Conference on Tourism & Leisure Studies will address the following annual themes and special focus:
Twenty-Second International Conference on the Arts in Society, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 9-11 June 2027
Twenty-Seventh International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland, 3-4 June 2027
Twentieth International Conference on e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, 8-9 April 2027
Founded in 2006, the e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies Research Network is brought together around a common concern for new technologies in learning, and an interest to explore possibilities for innovative pedagogies offered by new information and communications technologies.
Twentieth International Conference on e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies
calls for research addressing the following annual themes and special focus:
2027 Special Focus—THE CYBER-SOCIAL CONDITION: Knowledge, Learning, and Human Futures
Mediapolis Themed Dossier: “Urban Deathscapes: Media, Spaces of Death, and the Contemporary City” (Vol. 11, No. 3)
Edited by: Susana Viegas (NOVA FCSH)
Twenty-Third International Conference on
Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability, University of the Witwatersrand,, South Africa, 20-22 January 2027
Founded in 2005, the On Sustainability Research Network is brought together by a common concern for sustainability from a holistic perspective, where environmental, cultural, economic, and social interests intersect. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
Special thematic dossier 8.2 | Aesthetics, Performance, Discourse and Spectacle in the Age of Trumpism
Editor: Anna Marta Marini (JFKI–Freie Universität Berlin)