cultural studies and historical approaches

Over the last two decades, we have seen a surge of scholarship at the intersection of Food Studies and New Materialist theory. Thinkers like Elspeth Probyn (2000; 2016), Jane Bennett (2010), Annemarie Mol (2021; 2024), and Kyla Wazana Tompkins (2024) explore the diverse ways in which edible matter acts on our bodies, wills, and dispositions, in multilayered entanglements that involve water, minerals, fungi, bacteria, plants, as well as human and nonhuman animals. These material-discursive networks urge us to rethink not only our notions of agency but also our ways of being, knowing, and relating.

Changeling Country: Neurodivergence, Disability and the Irish Imaginary

An edited volume proposed for Vernon Press, Irish Studies series Editor: Tess Ezzy — Director, Neurodivergent Creative Methods Lab; PhD candidate, University of New England

Inspired by the emptiness of the National Mall celebration of America’s 250th, we invite 300 word abstracts that consider enclosure and vacancy in Americana and its related aesthetic categories, like the Western and Southern Gothic.

Presenters might engage with a variety of fields, especially black, feminist, and indigenous studies, and take up media across time periods, including contemporary art by Bisa Butler and Jeffrey Gibson, Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, Aleshea Harris’ Is God Is, and many more.

https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Paper36527.html 

The Société Rencesvals, Pan-American Branch, wishes to honor Lynn T. Ramey in celebration of 25 years since the publication of her first monograph, Christian, Saracen, and Genre in Medieval French Literature. We invite proposals that engage directly with the central ideas, arguments, and/or methodologies explored by Ramey in her work, and which discuss the representation of Muslims by Romance language authors c. 1100-1500 (Italian, Old Occitan, Old French, Medieval Castilian, for instance). We are especially interested in papers that give particular attention to themes of gender and race as they relate to epic depictions of Muslim-Christian relations in chansons de geste, chivalric romances, and lyric poetry.

Now We Are Six at One Hundred: Affect, Atmosphere, and Ordinary Feeling in A. A. Milne's Hundred Acre Wood

Edited Collection for the Children's Literature Association Series: Centennial Studies

Call for Abstracts

In 2027, A. A. Milne's Now We Are Six reaches its centenary. This is the second collection of children's verse and the third book in the Pooh sequence, following When We Were Very Young (1924) and Winnie-the-Pooh (1926). It contains 35 poems, all illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. Unlike the prose Pooh books, it is a collection of self-contained poems. The poems move between several interconnected worlds:

“Did I request thee, Maker?”: Contemporary Cyborgs and Androids and Their Pre-Modern Antecedents

Nonfiction film and media have played a crucial role in advocating for animal welfare, rights and liberation. Although short videos and a number of documentaries were produced and distributed with activist purposes during the 1980s, it is during the so-called “documentary renaissance” of the early twenty-first century, together with the communicative advances of digital media, that nonfiction moving images emerged as a medium capable of reaching more mainstream audiences, becoming  a central cultural tool for instigating transformative change in humans’ speciesist practices and attitudes toward nonhuman animals.

Call for Book Chapters (Scopus)
Date Extended till Sep 15, 2026
We are open to all, but preference will be given to international contributors 
Disability in Literature and Cinema 

 Concept Note: 

                                                           Call for Chapters

            The Routledge Handbook of Hip Hop and Sport, Culture, and Activism

CALL FOR CHAPTER CONTRIBUTIONS

Gender and Health in South Asia

An Edited Volume

Edited by Dr. Sakshi Srivastava & Dr. Pratyusha Pramanik, Assistant Professors Chandigarh University

Call for Papers

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan has expressed interest in this book project.

The idea of home is curious concept for African Americans. Though integral to the development and sustainability of the United States, the social death and cultural trauma of slavery render this country inhospitable to Black bodies and the psyches that inhabit them. African Americans are both at home and homeless. This tenuousness places them in a liminal space in which identity is simultaneously self-asserted and assigned, multifaceted, while limited, a fount of agency and a tool for impotence. The intersectional nature of Black femininity further complicates notions of identity and American hospitality. Black men have unsuccessfully employed patriarchy as an intraracial tool to combat the aforementioned social death.

Conference online: 27-28 August 2026 (online)

CFP:

Special Issue Editors

Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay, University of Milan 

Christina Banalopoulou, University of Milan 

Dear Colleagues,

"Interface" calls for papers for a conference on the topic: “Creativity before and in the Age of AI: Literature, Languages and Cultures in Times of Instability”

Conference Date: November 27-29, 2026

Conference Place: National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Abstract Submission Deadline: September 26, 2026