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Probing Humanities, Positioning Human-(i)-ties: New Paradigms and Shifts in the 21st century
CONCEPT NOTE
Two-day International Conference
26-27 February 2026
VSES, VIPS-TC
The XVIII James Joyce Italian Foundation Conference in Rome
Joyce’s “World of Words”
Conference Dates: 4-6 February 2026
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: November 9, 2025
SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS WILL BE NOTIFIED BY
NOVEMBER 30, 2025
Keynote speakers:
▪ Declan Kiberd, University of Notre Dame
▪ Annalisa Volpone, University of Perugia
Petrocultures is a sub-discipline in the humanities which contends with the ways fossil fuels shape interpersonal, social and cultural lives. Despite the field’s rapid expansion, there has been little concentrated work to date on the relationship between energy culture and popular music. What Stephanie LeMenager calls the ‘aesthetics of petroleum’ holds a particularly strong resonance with music cultures. Understanding the ways oil culture has structured ways of life requires attention to the music that exemplifies, glamorises and critiques petromodernity.
The Faculty of Langagues and Literautre, University of Central Pubjab (UCP), Lahore, Pakistan is organizing its 2nd International Conference on January 8-9, 2026 on the theme of The Second Coming of Humanities. The conference will be hybrid, in-person as well as online. Abstract submission deadline Extended: Nov 10, 2025.
Coaching, Kindness, and Culture:
Psychology, Sports, the Arts, Leadership…& Ted Lasso
A Transdisciplinary conference
Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/07/09/coaching-kindness-and-culture/
Date: November 15-16, 2025
November 15: In person participation in Richmond, London (and online)
November 16: Fully online
JOIN CEA IN THE QUEEN CITY
On May 20, 1775—a year before the signing of the Declaration of Independence—the citizens of North Carolina declared their own independence from Great Britain in the Mecklenberg Declaration. Today, more than 250 years later, North Carolinians continue to celebrate “Meck Dec” and their history as “a free and independent people.” In the spirit of public proclamation and historic resolve, the College English Association announces its 55th annual conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, and our theme, DECLARATIONS. The CEA conference features papers, panels, and roundtables that address our discipline from multiple perspectives.
Call for Papers
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025
Barry J. Faulk Brady Harrison
Department of English Department of English
Florida State University University of Montana
bfaulk@fsu.edu brady.harrison@mso.umt.edu
CFP: Dylan's Late Styles
PCA/ACA Fat Studies 2026 Call for Papers/Presentations/Panels
Deadline: 11.30.25
PCA Fat Studies Area Call for Papers
FAN STUDIES
The Fan Studies Area, formerly Fan Culture & Theory, of the PCA welcomes papers, presentations, panels, and roundtable discussions that cover all aspects of fandom for inclusion at the PCA National Conference in Atlanta, Georgia on April 8-11, 2026. The conference proposal system will be opening to submissions on Sept. 1, 2025. Please see the pcaaca.org website for more information on submitting your proposals.
Proposal Deadline: December 15, 2025
Under consideration with a major academic press
Following the Eisner Award–winning success of The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader (University Press of Mississippi, 2022), we are now curating a second volume to extend, deepen, and diversify queer comics scholarship.
The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (https://pcaaca.org/) annual conference will be held April 8-11, 2026, at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis in Atlanta, Georgia. Scholars from a wide variety of disciplines will meet to share their Popular Culture research and interests.
The Libraries, Archives & Museums area is soliciting papers dealing with any aspect of Popular Culture as it pertains to libraries, archives, museums, or related areas. Possible topics include:
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
2026 National Conference Atlanta, Georgia, April 8-11
Art, Architecture, and Design Culture
CALL FOR PAPERS
It’s in their Blood:
Television Series and the Representation of Violence in the 21st Century
International conference hosted by
Metropolitan University Prague and
ULICES – University of Lisbon Center for English Studies,
School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon.
6-7 March, 2026
Online
The recent IRSCL 2025 Congress, titled “Borders, Migration, and Liminality in Children’s Literature,” held in Salamanca (Spain), offered a unique opportunity to examine these themes from a multiplicity of perspectives — literary, aesthetic, cultural, linguistic and pedagogical. Building on the dialogues initiated at the congress, this Special Issue invites contributions that explore how children’s and young adult literature (and related media) negotiate, represent, and theorize experiences of migration and border-crossing, and how they open up liminal spaces for the redefinition of childhood in a changing world.
Concordia University, Tiohtià:ke (Montreal)
4 – 7 June 2026
DEADLINE: 21 November 2025
Title: Audience Reactions to Shakespeare Then and Now
Chairs: Alexandra Lukawski (Western University; alukawsk@uwo.ca); Alice Hinchliffe (University of Guelph; ahinchli@uoguelph.ca)
Call for Papers (CFP)
The annual Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Graduate Student Workshop will be held on Monday, June 16, 2026 (the day before our annual conference begins) at the DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois.
Every year, the Association holds it annual conference, usually a two-day affair, as well as a graduate student workshop, usually held the day before the annual conference. The 2026 annual meeting will be held at the DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois from June 17-18th.
Uprooted Law: Reflecting on the Origins and Outgrowths of Law
EDITORS: Jodi Byrd (University of Chicago), Kimberly Anne Coles (University of Maryland), Sharon P. Holland (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Greta LaFleur (Yale University)
RECLAIMING THE FRAME: BLACK CREATORS TRANSFORMING TELEVISION AND FILM UTILIZING A BELL HOOKS’ LOVE ETHIC
Deadline for abstract submissions: November 15, 2025
McFarland and Company, Publishers, Inc.
Contact email: DrLTbooks@gmail.com
Call for Abstracts: Reclaiming the Frame: Black Creators transforming television and Film utilizing a bell hooks’ Love Ethic
Collection Editor: LaToya T. Brackett, PhD
This year’s MCLLM theme invites exploration of how literature, language, and performance illuminate intersecting dimensions of justice. How are inherited forms, genres, and rhetorical strategies reactivated in contemporary struggles for equity? In what ways do linguistic, literary, and artistic practices navigate, resist, and respond to the abuse of power while imagining alternative futures?
MCLLM welcomes proposals from a wide range of disciplines and expression forms. The list below provides a sense of the topics the organizers are interested in seeing, but it is not an all-inclusive list. Please submit a proposal that represents your interpretation of our theme!
Petrocultures 2026: Situating Energy
TUD Dresden University of Technology
Aug 26-28, 2026
Submission Deadline for Abstracts: December 31, 2025
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Alexander A. Dunlap (Boston University), Jordan B. Kinder (NYU Steinhardt), Kathryn Yusoff (Queen Mary University of London)
Targeted CFP: Routledge International Handbook of Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms
Targeted Call For Papers
Routledge International Handbook of Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms
Co-edited by: Ela Przybyło (Illinois State University) and Yo-Ling Chen (Independent Scholar)
Deadline for abstracts: November 15, 2025 Contact email: globalacearo(at)gmail(dot)com
Cultures of violence and female resistance: receptions of ancient Greek myths from the 14th to the 21st century, in Europe and beyond
International conference • ERC AGRELITA
June 10-12, 2026 at the University of Caen Normandie
Call for papers
Call for Papers and Talks
Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm & Uppsala University, Sweden
22-23 April, 2026
Comics and Machines
Steering Committee:
Jan Baetens, Jaqueline Berndt, Jan von Bonsdorff, Gareth Brookes, Benoît Crucifix, Björn-Olav Dozo, Anna Foka, Isabelle Gribomont, Andre Holzapfel, Per Israelson, Gaëtan Le Coarer, Ilan Manouach, Pedro Moura, Everardo Reyes, Keith Tillford, Ray Whitcher
Call for Papers
MATHEMATICS AND ENGINEERING
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025
The Mind and the Machine: Mental Disability and Technology
George Washington University (GWU) English Graduate Student Association Symposium
Friday, 20 March, 2026
This virtual symposium invites papers that explore how mental disability and technology intersect in literature, film, and media.
By mental disability, we include conditions such as mental illness, neurodivergence, emotional distress, and psychological differences as represented across cultures.
By technology, we refer broadly to scientific, digital, or mechanical systems (such as medical instruments, typewriters, social media, surveillance systems, and artificial intelligence).
The Seventh International Deleuze and Guattari Studies in India Collective (DGSIC) Conference
February 25-28, 2026
“Culture without Organs (CWO): Machinic Thought, Transdisciplinary Assemblages, and Cartographies of Difference”
Organized by
Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
in collaboration with
Deleuze and Guattari Studies in India Collective (DGSIC)
The School for International Training (SIT) invites proposals from researchers and scholars to contribute to a roundtable discussion focused on the following areas: climate and the environment; development and inequality; education and social change; geopolitics and power; global health and well-being; identity and human resilience; and peace and justice.
14th Annual ESPRit conference: “Periodicals and the World”
9-11 September 2026, Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), Brussels
https://events.vub.be/periodicals-and-the-world
AI and Shakespeare: A British Shakespeare Association Virtual Conference: CFP
ALA Symposium “American Poetry” (March 27-28, 2026)
The recently formed Society for the Study of American Poetry will hold its second conference in partnership with the American Literature Association (ALA) from March 27–28, 2026, at the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Massachusetts. Organized by Dr. Alfred Bendixen (Princeton University), the gathering will feature a keynote address by Dr. Evie Shockley (Rutgers University), Director of Creative Writing and Writers House and Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English.
The Mind and the Machine: Mental Disability and Technology
George Washington University (GWU) English Graduate Student Association Symposium
Friday, 20 March, 2026
This virtual symposium invites papers that explore how mental disability and technology intersect in literature, film, and media.
By mental disability, we include conditions such as mental illness, neurodivergence, emotional distress, and psychological differences as represented across cultures.
By technology, we refer broadly to scientific, digital, or mechanical systems (such as medical instruments, typewriters, social media, surveillance systems, and artificial intelligence).
This call solicits essays for a critical collection provisionally titled, Other Mothers. The book seeks to update scholarship on mothers-in-the-academy from both critical perspectives on maternal theory as well as sociological frameworks. "Other mothers" might include mothers who have adopted, mothers who do not have residential custody of their children, women who have experienced fertility challenges, surrogate mothers, mothers utilizing surrogates, mothers with chronically ill children, mothers grieving the loss of children, and all others who face challenges outside the scope of traditional white, heterosexual, cisgender motherhood that have previously framed this discourse (in texts such as Mama PhD, Maternal Theory, etc).
Our moment is one in which information literacy is an increasingly vital skill. As misinformation invades everything from hallucinatory AI-generated online search results, to fallacious social media posts, to official statements from the highest levels of government, the ability to discern between facts, fiction, and opinion is as important as ever. Yet, as history reveals, our times are not entirely unprecedented. In particular, African Americans have long dealt with lies about who we are similarly promoted at every societal level.
Dear Colleagues,
The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at The Ohio State University is pleased to announce an upcoming conference as part of our biannual celebration of Popular Culture and the Deep Past (PCDP) in 2026. We warmly invite abstracts exploring topics related to medieval and Renaissance astrology and astronomy.Call for PapersStar Gazing: Astrology and Astronomy in the Medieval and Renaissance ImaginationPopular Culture and the Deep Past 2026
April 10-11, 2026
Online via Zoom & Ohio Union - The Ohio State University
The submission deadline for abstracts and panel proposals is December 19, 2025.
The Medievalism in Popular Culture Area (including Early to Later Middle Ages, Robin Hood, Arthurian Legend, Chaucer, Norse, and other materials connected to medieval studies) accepts papers on all topics that explore either popular culture during the Middle Ages or transcribe some aspect of the Middle Ages into the popular culture of later periods. These representations can occur in any genre, including film, television, novels, graphic novels, gaming, advertising, art, etc. For this year’s conference, I would like to encourage submissions on some of the following topics:
The American Academy of Religion, Western Region (AAR-WR) 2026 Annual Conference will be held in person, with some hybrid capabilities.
Call for Papers for a in person panel on 21st Century Latinx Children’s Literature and Media at the 2026 Annual MELUS Conference scheduled for Thursday, April 30 - Saturday, May 2, 2026.
According to the last three U.S. Census reports, the demographic of Latinx/Hispanic children has grown. Most recently, Latinx children account for about 1 in 4 of all children in the United States.
R. Murray Schafer: Reassessing His Work and Legacy
Eric Schmaltz, Dalhousie University, schmaltzeric@gmail.com Shannon Brown, Dalhousie University, slbrown@dal.ca
This special issue seeks to examine Indian science fiction and speculative fiction in general, as a critical archive where postcolonial enunciations of ‘space’ are actively produced, contested and reimagined through a variety of cultural texts. Our objective is to open a conversation about the overarching genre of Indian postcolonial Science Fiction and the way it interacts with the concept of ‘space’-- literal and/or cultural.
Co-editors Heather M. Porter and Michael Starr invite proposals or completed essays for an edited collection of scholarly works that explore the ground-breaking HBO series Sex and the City(1998 -2004) along with shows that came before and after, including the divisive …And Just Like That (2022-2025) which has just finished its three-season run. Proposals should demonstrate a clear methodology and strong thesis and a familiarity with prior and current conversations and publications concerning the series, and any incorporated series. The collection seeks to showcase a range of theoretical lenses; we are hence interested in diverse disciplinary approaches concerning a wide variety of topics.
“American Shorts 2026” will take place on October 29-31, 2026, at the School of Arts & Humanities of the University of Lisbon, Portugal.
American Shorts 2026 webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/americanshorts2026
Submission deadline: 10 June, 2026
Conference: 29-31 October, 2026
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
We live in a time marked by uncertainty, yet such historical junctures are not unprecedented. The 1980s likewise represented a period of profound instability and transition across multiple regions. In Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, this decade culminated in the fall of socialism, while in China it witnessed the transformation of Maoism into what became known as “socialism with Chinese characteristics.” These developments reoriented all the societies in question from relative cultural isolation to increasingly market-oriented and globally integrated economies in the 1990s.
Call for Book Chapters
Editors:
Dr. Muhsin Yanar, Visiting Researcher, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
Dr. Grace Halden, Reader, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
Dr. Russell Kilbourn, Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
Sciences and Fictions: Human Futures Beyond Boundaries
We seek chapters for the forthcoming edited collection Sciences and Fictions: Human Futures Beyond Boundaries.
Call for Papers
Interdisciplinary Foreign Studies (IFS)
About the Journal
CFP: The Medieval Comic
MEST Symposium, Indiana University Bloomington
March 6-8
Keynote from Dr. Albrecht Classen: "Laughter on the Stage, Laughter at Court, and Laughter in Public Spaces During the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time."
The Comic is a multivalent concept, which can pull or push scholarship in many directions. It has been at times described as a social balm, binding agent, and lubricant. This call for papers asks for submissions considering the various ways in which the Comic manifests in the medieval and medievalism, its implications, and importance.
Potential panels might consider:
Filmed and produced in Pittsburgh, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood is considered a classic of U.S. children’s television. In each episode, Mister Rogers talked with and learned from his (sometimes celebrity) neighbors before taking viewers on a Trolley ride into the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, where hand puppets like Daniel Tiger and X the Owl sang, explored, and learned together. Through stories, songs, conversations, and educational video segments, the show invited children to learn about the world around them as well as the complex universes inside themselves.
The Routledge Handbook to Star Wars
Edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Angelique Nairn, and Justin Matthews
The Editors invite abstract submissions for The Routledge Handbook to Star Wars. Contributions are encouraged from scholars across disciplines, including film and media studies, cultural studies, sociology, history, gender studies, literature, and related fields, as well as from those engaging with interdisciplinary approaches.