Imagining the Impossible: International Journal for the Fantastic in Contemporary Media

CFP for Volume 5, Issue 1 (2026) Theme: Ciphers and Codes

Call for Papers

Pets and Pet-Owner Relationships in Literary Texts of the Long Eighteenth Century

(Edited Collection)

                                                                             Graduate Research Meet

                                                                                     11th Edition

                              Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences: Trends, Methods and Challenges

Concept Note:

The paradigmatic scene in a Western – witnessed in numerous movies, such as High Noon (1952), The Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957), or Tombstone (1993), as well as in classic western novels, such as Louis L’Amour’s The Lonesome Gods (1983) or Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove (1985) – is that of a confrontation between a sheriff and a bandit: it suggests the forces of civilization taking hold on the frontier, even if tentatively, and ultimately a triumph of the order imposed to protect those in need of protection.

LANGUAGE AND THE INEFFABLE: EXPRESSING THE INEXPRESSIBLE

8th Annual International Comparative Literature Conference Louisiana State University March 27-28, 2026 (Friday-Saturday) Virtual Format

Conference Theme

What happens when language encounters its own limits? This year's conference explores how writers, thinkers, and artists across cultures and centuries have grappled with expressing experiences that seem to transcend ordinary language—the mystical, the traumatic, the sublime, the deeply personal, and the utterly foreign.

PERFORMANCE MATTERS
https://performancematters-thejournal.com/

Call for Papers: “On Being There”

Fourth Alumni Research Conference on Linguistics, Literature, Didactics and Communication – 2025

Prishtina: 01.11.2025 - 01.11.2025

Organizer:

AAB College - Faculty of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Mass Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Public Administration

In partnership with:

Call for Papers

The consolidation of food studies as a serious academic discipline has coincided with the extraordinary proliferation of food-related cultural forms—ranging from memoirs, cookbooks, and culinary novels to food documentaries, blogs, and digital platforms. These developments remind us that food is not merely a biological necessity, but a symbolic system that mediates between the material and the cultural, the everyday and the aesthetic, the policy and the political. Food operates simultaneously as a sensory artefact, an archive of memory, and a site of political contestation. As anthropologist Brillat-Savarin famously suggested in 1825, “Tell me what you eat, I will tell you what you are.”

CFP: Handbook on Digital Activism Overview & Scope

https://paromitapain.com/call-for-chapter-proposals-digitalactivism/

Proposal Guidelines

Each proposal should include:

SEXTANT (ISSN 2990-8124) is an online journal which navigates the lenses of masculinities, sexualities, and decolonialities.

SEXTANT aims to shift our understanding of these subjects while looking at the ways they intersect, especially in areas that are often overlooked. 

SEXTANT features the work of researchers, activists, and artists, welcoming submissions in a wide variety of mediums, such as research papers, book reviews, creative writing, visual art, and digital projects.

Now accepting submissions for Volume 3, Issue 2. Deadline for submissions is November 17, 2025.

Journal Literatūra, Vilnius University

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Cultural Imaginaries of (Dis)Trust 

Though more to know could not be more to trust,
From whence thou camest, how tended on: but rest
Unquestion’d welcome and undoubted blest.
Give me some help here, ho! If thou proceed
As high as word, my deed shall match thy meed.

Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies

Vol. 52 No. 2 | September 2026

Call for Papers

Transitional Justice?

Representing Legacies of Violence in Asian and Transpacific Frames

Guest Editors

Soo Yeon Kim (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)

Guy Beauregard (National Taiwan University)

Marx and Marxism have always had a fraught relationship with geographies beyond Western Europe. In Orientalism, Edward Said famously argues that Marx’s writings on India express sympathy for the suffering of the colonized but ultimately reproduce Romantic Orientalist tropes through concepts like the “Asiatic Mode of Production” and “Oriental Despotism.” Cedric Robinson critiques Marx for severing the analysis of slavery from that of capitalism and argues that Marxism’s emphasis on the industrial working class sidelines other (racialized) actors in revolutionary struggles and proves ill-equipped to interrogate anti-imperialist movements in the 20th century.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — Mini Plays Review | December 2025 Issue
Theme: UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Deadline      December 15, 2025  
Format:       1-Minute Plays and Monologues  
Length:       Maximum one page (A4 size)  
Submission Email: miniplaysmag@gmail.comWebsite: 

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The curtain didn’t close. The letter was never sent. The apology… still unspoken.

Mini Plays Review invites you to explore the weight of what’s left hanging — the stories suspended mid-air, the emotions caught in the throat, the promises half-made and paths not taken.

Colleges and universities across the country are under attack.  Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives have lost funding and faced multiple challenges to curriculum.  DEI offices have been shuttered, and support groups have been eliminated.  Much of the effect has been felt in the Humanities, which has always served as a space for free discussion of writing and literature that embraces diversity.  Such conversation is in many ways our lifeblood.

The editors of Sargasso invite submissions for a volume on post-narrative futures in Caribbean letters and cultures that will engage works of literature, art, and culture that challenge, subvert, reimagine, and transcend, dominant colonial, postcolonial, and traditional forms of narrative.

This is a call for chapter abstracts for an upcoming edited volume exploring the cultural, narrative, musical, and global fandom implications of the animated film K-Pop Demon Hunters. The volume will be published as part of the Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies book series (https://tinyurl.com/rbtm8fve).

BOSS: The Biannual Online-Journal of Springsteen Studies (http://boss.mcgill.ca/) is an open-access academic journal that publishes peer-reviewed essays on Bruce Springsteen. The editors of BOSS are currently soliciting papers for the journal’s seventh edition, with an expected publication date of December 2026.

Edited Collection Dark Skies Appalachia

Proposal Deadline: 20 October 2025

Estimated Publication Date: 2027

Call for Papers: Dark Skies Appalachia

We invite proposals for contributions to Dark Skies Appalachia, a multidisciplinary collection which will explore the influence of a dark night sky on identity, culture, and sense of place in the Appalachian region, as well as the ecological and human impacts of light pollution and efforts to protect dark skies in and beyond the region. 

CFP: Media Futures The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 98 (to be published Fall 2026) Special Issue Theme: Media have always been a tool for us to imagine our possible futures. Dystopias, utopias, robotic dominance or human climate catastrophe, media help humanity play out the hopes, dreams, or nightmares of what’s to come. Scholarship on media futures has often focused on representations of the future, but also on how cultural and technological changes have shaped and are shaping everything from media production, creative labor, distribution, and audience reception. Algorithmic engines that shape taste help to determine what individuals choose to watch, A.I.

Special Issue Title: Long Modernism, Altered Natures 

Guest Editors: Matthew Gannon, Patrick Whitmarsh, and Kate Marshall

Deadline for Abstracts: 30 November 2025

Deadline for Manuscript Drafts: 31 July 2026

In the Anthropocene, human activities profoundly reshape the climate and environment, disrupting ecological balance and transforming humans into a potent geological force. Dominant strands of Western thought from Descartes to Heidegger have contributed to reinforcing this perceived superiority of humans over other beings, thereby calcifying a dichotomy between the human and the non-human. In the field of translation studies, this human-centered focus has historically been echoed through the discipline’s sustained attention to human languages and culture. However, posthumanism and post-anthropocentrism, which advocate the interconnectedness between humans and non-humans, have challenged the centrality of anthropos in translation. 

EXTENDED DEADLINE (OCTOBER 1, 2025) - Killing It In The Classroom: Teaching the Young Adult Detective Genre

For more than a decade, the jihadist group Boko Haram—whose name roughly means “Western education is a sin”—has profoundly shaped Nigeria’s political, social, and cultural landscape. The violence perpetrated by the Islamist group—including the regular abduction of children—has caused thousands of deaths, forced population displacements, and a major humanitarian and security crisis, particularly in the northeast of the country.