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CFP, Special Issue of The Lion and the Unicorn (Vol. 52.2 [2028])
Child’s Play:
Representation and Games in Children’s Media and Culture
(guest editor, Gretchen Papazian)
Deadline for 18-20-page/3,500-4,000-word submission: March 31, 2027
Host Institution: Sapienza University of Rome (Scientific Director: Prof. Federico Batini)
Conference Dates: December 2–3, 2026 (Rome) & December 4, 2026 (Perugia, Italy)
Official Website: www.sharedreadingaloud.com
I seek proposals for brief scholarly essays (3500-5000 words) that provide an overview of a chosen aspect of motherhood in the American imagination for a volume under contract with a new Bloomsbury series called Exploring the American Imagination: Ideals, Values, and Myths in Popular Culture.
These overview essays should cite a number of popular culture texts to provide an overview of the tensions and contradictions as well as the foundational beliefs inherent in various aspects of American motherhood. If there is an aspect of motherhood that you are interested in discussing, please propose it! Potential topics include:
Extended deadline for chapter proposals: 10 June 2026.
Call for Peer Reviewers
The Dragon Lode, the journal of the Children’s Literature and Reading Special Interest Group of the International Literacy Association, invites interested scholars, educators, and researchers to serve as peer reviewers.
We are seeking reviewers with expertise in children’s and young adult literature, K–12 literacy education, literacy pedagogy, teacher education, library and media studies, critical literacy, multicultural and diverse literature, and related fields. Peer reviewers play an essential role in supporting the journal’s mission by offering thoughtful, constructive, and timely feedback to authors.
Humans have long believed we are distinct from other animals in our rationality, self-consciousness, and use of language. Why, then, do writers, artists, and even scientists so often use anthropomorphism to interpret the behaviors of animals, plants, and even nonliving things such as trains, teapots, and toys? What are the repercussions of this tendency to understand the world in terms of human social and cultural identities?
Silly Old Bear? A Companion to Adaptations, Appropriations, and Transformations of Winnie-the-Pooh
Organized by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)
Please submit proposals by 1 August 2026
This edited volume explores the interrelations between disability and addiction within Japanese literary literature. By focusing strictly on literary representations—and excluding media studies—this collection aims to examine how embodiment, social normativity, and deviance are negotiated through culturally specific frameworks.
The editors invite contributions for the following four sections
1. Disability in Japanese Literature (3 Articles)
2026 Conference on Young Adult Literature - Louisiana (CYALL)
LSU Shreveport, November 6, 2026
Shreveport, LA
Deadline for proposal submissions is August 7, 2026
Novitas-ROYAL is an open-access, peer-reviewed, international journal of the Children’s Research Center. It is devoted to promoting scholarly exchange among researchers who are academically interested in the education of youth, with a focus on the teaching, learning, acquisition, and use of second/foreign languages, as well as issues related to linguistics and language sciences, cultures, and literatures. The primary aim of the journal is to help accumulate knowledge about how foreign languages, cultures, and literatures can change students' lives. The journal is only electronic (no print version). It is biannually published in April and October.
This special issue aims to cultivate greater convergence and contribute to the broader discourse on cross-cultural exchange, particularly in contexts beyond the Euro-American center. We encourage investigations into how cultural values, ideological frameworks, and aesthetic sensibilities shape the translation and reception of children’s literature across diverse cultural contexts. We also encourage the integration of new theoretical lenses and trends, such as transcreation, affect theory, audiovisual translation, cognitive translation studies, and interdisciplinary approaches to gender and ecology, and the impact of AI, in the discussion of translational convergences and divergences in global children’s literature.
At a time when some are attempting to rewrite the Humanities, it might be questioned as to how archives can not only be preserved but also utilized to fight for the future. Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture are deeply shaped by questions of memory, authority, and cultural transmission. Contributors are encouraged to consider the archive as an ever-evolving site of power that governs inclusion, exclusion, and interpretation. One might posit questions such as How do archival practices shape the stories available to young readers, and how might authors, educators, and scholars work against inherited silences and erasures?
Call for Papers
Tolkien in Popular Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2026 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 25-27, 2026
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 30, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026
Call for Proposals for
Easy and Early Readers in Children’s Literature and Culture: New Approaches to Theorizing Books for Beginning Readers (tentative title)
deadline for submissions:
August 1, 2026
full name / name of organization:
Jennifer Miskec, Longwood University and Annette Wannamaker, Eastern Michigan University
contact email:
Call for - Literary Musings Online - 2584-1459 - July 2026
Academic Journal
Research Academy
Aims and Objectives
Aims and Scope
Chenkaantal (E-ISSN: 2583-0481) is a pioneer Diamond Open Access Journal for Tamil studies. The journal is dedicated to the academic research of Tamil language, Tamil Literature, Tamil Culture, Tamil Linguistics and other modern trends in Tamil studies.
Call for
Aims and Scope of the Journal
**Call for Papers for the 17th Annual Conference of the Association for Research in the Fantastic
Violence and the Fantastic
University of Cologne
September 17-19, 2026
Please consider submitting a short (250 word) proposal for this guaranteed panel sponsored by the Robert Graves Society.
In “Narrating the Past,” British historian Alun Munslow defines “history as a ‘literature of fact’” (23), “an aesthetic undertaking” (17), and a “storied form of knowledge” (17). Continuing the conversations related to “Times and Places,” to be held at the 17th International Robert Graves Conference in Palma, Mallorca, Spain (July 2026), this panel deliberates Graves’s and his literary associates’ historical, geographic, and historiographic legacies.
The Editorial Board of “Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis” invites submissions of scholarly articles for the peer-reviewed thematic issue “Faces of Childhood: Representations and Experiences in Art and Society.”
The Pleasures and Problems of Pooh
The 3rd Biennial kidlit@hollins Children’s Literature Symposium
On Zoom
Friday-Sunday, July 10-12, 2026
Hollins University Graduate Programs in Children’s Literature
Chaired by Lisa Rowe Fraustino
This year’s hundredth anniversary of A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh, published in 1926, provides a springboard for reflection on the role of classic children’s literature. This online symposium seeks presentation proposals from authors, illustrators, librarians, publishers, educators, and scholars in any field. Possible topics for exploration include:
Children’s accounts of violence occupy a paradoxical space in public discourse: they are framed as both essential, unquestionable evidence, and, sometimes at the same time, as unreliable and prone to outside influence. Both framings rely on cultural constructions of the child’s “innocence.” This panel invites papers examining narratives of violence told by children, with a particular interest in experiences of institutional or state violence. How do these narratives complicate familiar tropes of children as voiceless victims in need of saving, or of certain topics as exclusively “adult” or “childish”? How do child narrators themselves exploit, resist, and play with or into these tropes?
CALL FOR PAPERS
October 23–24, 2026
Children, Literature, and the Christian Imagination
An International Conference
Keynote Speaker: Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Screenwriter, Novelist, and Children’s Laureate (UK)
The University of St. Michael’s College invites proposals of individual papers or panels for a conference on the theme of Children, Literature, and the Christian Imagination. The keynote will take place on the evening of October 23 and the conference will take place the following day, October 24, 2026.
Coming of Age on Screen: Youthful Subjectivities in Contemporary Indian Media
Guest Editors:
Dr. Shreyansh Jain, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Christ (Deemed-to-be-University), Delhi-NCR, Ghaziabad, India.
Dr. Ruchi, School of Business, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India.
Link to the Journal: https://cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/cinej/announcement/view/6
In the light of girl-centric third-wave feminism and critical regionalism, contemporary American and Canadian literary and cultural texts present innovative girlhoods enabling expansive and emancipatory processes. Please submit an abstract (250 words) and a short bionote.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, March 20, 2026
Mercedes Albert-Llacer, Universitat Jaume I (mllacer@uji.es)
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Paper33899.html
Non-guaranteed panel at MLA 2027 co-sponsored by the Children’s Literature Association and the MLA forum on Science and Literature. This panel seeks papers on how children’s and young adult literature has engaged the natural sciences across historical and contemporary contexts, including plants, animals, evolution, and the scientific study of the natural world. We invite papers exploring the diverse ways literature for children and young adults mediates knowledge of the natural world, sometimes to instruct, sometimes to inspire wonder, sometimes to question the very authority of empirical observation. How does a text balance the excitement of botanical, zoological, or ecological discovery with the weight of explanation?
Call for papers: Mythical Archipelagos: Islands, Narratives, and Imaginaries Across Cultures and Media
International Interdisciplinary Seminar
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)
14–15 May 2026 | Hybrid format
The seminar explores islands as mythical, symbolic, and narrative spaces across cultures and media. We welcome interdisciplinary contributions from island studies, environmental humanities, anthropology, cultural studies, linguistics, media studies, and related fields.
Abstract deadline: 30 March 2026
Full CFP and details:
Invisible Wounds: Reframing Adoption Narratives in Children's Literature
MLA 2027 Convention: January 7-10, 2027, in Los Angeles, California
CALL FOR PAPERS: 15th Annual Harry Potter Academic Conference (HPAC) at Chestnut Hill College
Friday and Saturday, October 23–24, 2026 (Eastern Time)
In person at Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Deadline for proposals: April 10, 2026