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Digital Dirges: Video Games, Elegy, and the Rhetoric of Loss
(McFarland, Studies in Gaming series)
Editors:
Marc A. Ouellette, Old Dominion University (mouellet@odu.edu)
David Metzger, Old Dominion University (dmetzger@odu.edu)
In her 1991 article “Scolding Brides and Bridling Scolds: Taming the Woman's Unruly Member,” Lynda Boose describes Kate’s final speech in The Taming of the Shrew as “a textual moment in which, in Althusserian terms, the play quite overtly ‘interpellates,’ or hails, its women viewers to an imaginary relationship with the ideology of the discourse being played out on stage.” This panel builds on Boose’s reading by examining texts that both assume an audience of women and interpellate the reader in a meaningful way. During a period when relatively few women were literate, texts that hail women had to find a way to reach their audience. Boose’s stage example is one way to attract women’s attention.
This interdisciplinary panel aims to explore how women’s work is made manifest in material culture and literary texts. This panel defines “work” broadly. Work might include actions performed, actions in the process of being completed, or the result of labor. Panelists are invited to explore the materials women produced during the early modern period – objects we still have access to and those that would be used or discarded during the period – as well as narratives and depictions of women’s work. Of particular interest are discussions around how and why certain actions or products were gendered in response to religious doctrine or practical divisions of labor.
Call for Papers: Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies
Special Issue: ‘Rapa Nui Now’ – Issue 14.2
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-new-zealand-pacific-studies#call-for-papers
Alternative Edens: “Whole Earth” Imagination and the Politics of Hospitality
Panel at the 2026 SAMLA Conference (Nov. 5-7, 2026 Atlanta, GA)
Due date for paper proposals: September 1, 2026
Submission link: https://samla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19711
Sovereignties in Crisis: Human, Environment, Technology, and the Pharmakon
2026 Situations International Conference
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, October 22-23, 2026
Keynote Speakers: Koonchung Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University), Yuk Hui (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Featured Speaker: Winnie Yee (Hong Kong University)
YOUTH AND CULTURE IN NORTHEAST INDIA: INTERSECTIONS AND PERSPECTIVES
Introduction
Youth represent a powerful social force shaping contemporary societies through their engagement with identity, creativity, social transformation, and cultural negotiation. In India’s Northeast—a region distinguished by rich ethnic diversity, complex histories, and evolving socio-political realities—youth culture offers a critical lens to understand how societies adapt to rapid change while preserving cultural continuity. Young people in the region occupy a dynamic space where tradition, globalization, technological transformation, and regional aspirations intersect.
Call for Papers: The Legacy of Norman Bates: Essays on the Psycho Franchise
Editor: Shane H Weathers, Bowling Green State University
Editors Introduction:
Call for Proposals
Special Issue of Philosophy, Politics and Critique
62nd International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 13 - 15, 2027)
Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Hybrid Session (Virtual and In-person session)
A quarter century has elapsed since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, both the successful ones targeting the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the unsuccessful one targeting the Capitol.
Appropriately for a word broadly defined as “having a mixed character,” the idea of “hybridity” has elicited contradictory interpretation since its inception in the Greek word hybris. While the word could mean miscegenation, shame, wantonness, outrage, and even violence, the term carried the alternate but equally valid connotation of thinking and moving beyond human limitations. Despite a shift fromclassical beliefs through Christianity, hybrid figures such as the centaur and satyr continued to proliferate throughout the Renaissance, evoking both wonder and terror. While sometimes considered blasphemous, these classical hybrids were also allegorized to fit into Renaissance ethical and religious frameworks.
Religion, Morality, and the American Presidency: The West Wing at 30
Edited by Ilaria W. Biano
Deadline: September 30, 2026
Premiering in 1999, The West Wing quickly became one of the most influential television portrayals of American political life. Through its depiction of the Bartlet administration, the series offered a powerful narrative of the presidency as a site of moral deliberation, civic responsibility, and public leadership. The show remains a significant reference point in discussions of political authority, democratic institutions, and the ethical responsibilities of governance.
Special Issue: ‘Veteran & Post-Military Appearance & Dress’
Guest Editor: Matt Porter, Social Redress, USA
Special Issue: ‘Cowboy Carter: Reimagining the American West through Fashion, Music and Performance’
Guest editors:
Elizabeth Kealy-Morris, Manchester Fashion Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Sonya Abrego, Fordham University, USA
Robb Hernández, Fordham University, USA
Special Issue: ‘Fatness, Fashion and Profession in India’
Guest Editors
Kishan Kumar Mishra, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, India (kishan_m@hs.iitr.ac.in)
Neha Kumari, Sri Balaji University, Pune, India (nk0007788@gmail.com)
Call for Papers
Embodied Ecologies and Sacred Landscapes: Interpreting Indian Knowledge Tradition on Island Spaces (ISOIS 2026)
December 14-15, 2026
Concept Note:
Indian knowledge traditions have long imagined land, water, and life-worlds as sacred, relational, and more-than-human, weaving together rituals, narratives, cosmologies, and practices of care that exceed modern disciplinary boundaries. Island spaces—whether riverine sandbars, coastal archipelagos, sacred groves on hill-islands, or temple-tanks experienced as spiritual islands—offer particularly rich terrains for exploring embodied ecologies, ritualised forms of dwelling, and ecological memory.
Call for Chapters
ReFocus: The Films of Gaspar Noé
Edited by Florian Zappe
Edinburgh University Press ReFocus: The International Directors Series
Series Editors: Gary D. Rhodes, Robert Singer, Stefanie Van de Peer, Nuno Barradas Jorge
The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 54th annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Feb. 18-20, 2027, at the University of Louisville (https://events.louisville.edu/conferences/list-conferences/louisville-conference-literature-and-culture).
In 1996, Carl Sagan warned us of a time when people would lose their ability to question, “when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few . . . when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.” Maybe Mr Sagan was somewhat pessimistic when writing The Demon-Haunted World. But then again, in times of conspiracy theories, Ancient Aliens, Antivaxxers, and Holocaust Deniers, the Age of Information appears just as capable of spreading dangerous frauds and charlatans as it is of disseminating reliable scholarship.
Panel: Ecocriticism (standing session) co-sponsored by ASLE
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sat July 25, 2026
Submission link: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/20212.
Conference: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
Conference Theme: "Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict”
Location and Date: Seattle, Washington (USA), Nov 12-15
The Text, an International Peer Reviewed Online Journal of Language, Literature and Critical Theory (ISSN: 2581-9526)invites original, unpublished research papers for January 2027 issue.
Indexed in:
1. Google Scholar
2. ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
3. IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research)
4. Citefactor (Directory Indexing of International Research Journals)
5. DRJI (The Directory of Research Journal Indexing)
The IX edition of the Congress will take place on 17, 18, 19 and 20 November 2026. Sessions on 17 and 18 November will be held online, while sessions on 19 and 20 November will take place in person at the Auditorium of the Congress Centre "Ciutat d'Elx" (Elche, Spain). There are 3 participation options:
> Option 1: In this modality, the proposals submitted will follow the main thematic line of the new edition of the Congress: The origins of the fantastic genre in audiovisual culture.
Creativity and Praxis:
The Politics of Aesthetics in an Age of Polycrisis
An International Interdisciplinary Symposium, 1-2 October 2026
J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice
Adelaide University
North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia
Keynote Readings and Lectures by:
J.M. Coetzee
Anna Funder
Nam Le
Amy Villarejo
Verschwinden: Disappearing into Providence
Rhode Island as a Literary Constellation
Call for papers: Panel at the 2027 NeMLA conference (March 6 - 9, Newport, RI)
Due date for paper proposals: September 30, 2027
Submission link: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/22479
In the hope of connecting our academic endeavors more closely to the places and times we find ourselves in, this panel proposes Rhode Island, and close by Providence in particular, as a nodal point for a constellation of German, American, and European literatures, histories, and cultural memories.
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo13-15 May 2027
Special Session (Hybrid)
Tattooing, a form of bodily modification, has existed as a global phenomenon for centuries, persevering within the distant and near past alike. Yet, only recently have these images embedded in flesh been subjected to thorough scholarly inquiry. This panel invites papers that examine a wide range of issues pertaining to medieval tattoos, including practices of tattooing during the global Middle Ages, recent advances in tattoo archaeology, and modern tattoos portraying medieval themes. Scholars exploring the misuse (and abuse) of medieval images and symbols for contemporary tattoos are especially encouraged to apply. This session allows for both in-person and virtual presentations.
Call for Papers | Society of Early Americanists
American Literature Association | “The American Novel: Forms, Genres, and Traditions”
November 5–7, 2026 | Santa Fe, NM
The Novel in/and Early America
For this upcoming ALA Symposium, the SEA invites papers and presentations that deal with any aspect of “The American Novel: Forms, Genres, and Traditions” prior to (approximately) 1830. Topics might include (but are not limited to):
This CfP contains two individual sessions grouped under the rubric 'Rethinking Ecotheory' for the 62nd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Please see information for both sessions and separate links to apply below! Both sessions are sponsored by Medieval Ecocriticisms. Abstracts for both sessions are due by September 15th, 2026. Please contact the organizers Hunter (hap48@cornell.edu) and Basil (basil.price@oneonta.edu) with any questions.
Overview
Panel: Technoscience in Literature and Culture (special session)
(SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SAT, JULY 25, 2026)