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Call for Papers
“Horror (Literary & Cinematic)”
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026
The Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University is thrilled to host the 12th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium on March 4-6, 2027.
The Post45 Graduate Symposium seeks graduate-level works-in-progress related to post-1945 media, arts, literature, textual or visual objects, digital platforms, politics, and culture. We welcome submissions that expand our conception of objects and meaning-making post-1945 or place them in comparative, transnational, or hemispheric frames. We especially welcome contributions that foreground the importance of race, gender, class, and sexuality to post-45 studies.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Intersections 2027: 'Embodiment'
Technology, Performance and Equity
Conference Date: Thursday 14th January 2027
at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London
with hybrid/remote attendance possible
The postgraduate research community at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama invites proposals from PGR and Early Career scholars, practitioners, artists and culture and performance workers for participation in our annual PGR conference, Intersections 2027.
***AS A PART OF THE 18th SAAS Conference “Negotiating Identity and Power: Resistance, Rebellion, and Resilience in U.S. Literature and Culture”***
Call for Papers: Horror Studies
Special Issue: 'What Did Get Out Get Us?'
Abstracts due: 31 October 2026
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/horror-studies#call-for-papers
Call for Papers: International Journal of Disney Studies
Special Issue: 'Mickey and Minnie at 100'
To view the full call click here>>
Call for Papers
“War & Culture”
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026
The Black Sitcom: A Comprehensive Survey with Critical Essays
1950 – 2000
The relation between a theory and its so-called “object” always poses the danger of reducing an art form (in this case film) to a mere instance testifying to the validity of the theory. In this way, the theory provides the “genus” of which a given film will be a mere “species”. The application of psychoanalytic ideas or Marxist concepts to film would therefore run the risk of depriving the specificity and singularity of the object in favour of the hegemony of the theory. Here, theory would truly live up to its theological vocation (the “theo” in theory refers to God) standing transcendentally above its “object” upon which it would cast its daunting shadow.
Call for Papers
THE AMERICAN WEST
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026
Call for Papers for III TFO International Seminar Titled "Thinking Beyond Species: Cinema in the Anthropocene" in Collaboration with Alliance University, Bengaluru on 30-31 October, 2026
Call for Papers
Shakespeare in Pop Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026
The graduate students of the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, are organising an interdisciplinary conference on the theme
of Cracks & Crossovers, exploring their presence and reflection in visual
culture, performances and media practices. The theme responds to the
urgency of living in a time when systemic limits become visible through cracks.
It asks how we register the differences between categories such as crisis,
fragment and fracture. Do these terms signal a definitive rupture or an ongoing
change? Or do our times demand a new perspective that allows the cracks to
speak? Taking a cue from The Cracked Mirror (2012), the conference seeks to
CALL FOR PAPERS
In Brightest Day: Race, Justice, and the Speculative in HBO's Lanterns and the Green Lantern Mythos
Proposed for New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative -- The Ohio State University Press
Edited by Julian C. Chambliss, Ritesh Khandelwal, and Harry M. Foster (Michigan State University)
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: October 15, 2026
Send abstracts (300-500 words) and a bio (approx. 100 words) to greenlanternbookproject@gmail.com with the subject line "Lanterns CFP -- [your surname]."
OVERVIEW
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Eating for a Green Future
Literature, Culture, and the Politics of Food in Contemporary India
Edited by
Dr. Manisha Mohanty (Assistant Professor, S'O'A University & Fulbright-Nehru Fellow)
Dr. Shashibhusan Nayak (MLA Bibliography Fellow, MLA)
Dr. Sonali Das (Assistant Professor, S’O’A University)
War does not end; it migrates even after the guns fall silent, crawling into bodies, landscapes, archives, and the grammar of storytelling itself. This seminar inquires into how societies of South Asia and the Middle East, so often positioned as sites of conflicts rather than as theorists of their aftermath, have produced their own vocabularies for narrating what survives war. Michael Rothberg (2009) argues that memories of distinct historical violence do not compete for scarce recognition but can be mutually constitutive.
Special Call for Book Chapters
We are pleased to announce a Special Call for Book Chapters for the forthcoming edited volume Beyond Pathology: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Dementia Studies in Humanities, which brings together interdisciplinary humanities scholarship that reconceptualises dementia through diverse representations of lived, narrated, and mediated experiences of the condition.
If American mass media is an ecosystem, we cast the press as predators, and the celebrity as their prey. We envision the reporters grouped in a posse, arranged for an ambush. Camera flashes crack as they capture their quarry. By now, these perceptions have become truisms that obscure our own role as consumers in a matrix of violence, spectatorship, and stardom. If we condemn the paparazzi for their alleged violence, we also continue to revise and revisit their heyday in the age of print media. This seminar seeks papers that explore how violent desire—of the spectator, the press, the star – shaped the profusion of tabloid and true crime print culture across the Americas.
CALL FOR PAPERS: OBSCURA - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HORROR AND CONTEMPORARY MEDIA CULTURE (EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE NOW OPEN)Dear Colleagues,We are pleased to invite you to participate in Obscura: International Conference on Horror and Contemporary Media Culture, organized by the research group at the University of Seville.This conference aims to establish an international and interdisciplinary academic forum to analyze horror as a backbone of contemporary narrative (cinema, television, video games, and digital platforms), bridging academic theory with professional practice and the media industry.We are currently in the second submission period (extended deadline).
This panel will explore Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and related texts at MLA 2027 Convention in Los Angeles. Please send your 250 word abstract on relevant themes like homecoming and the oceanic by August 30, to Ennuri Jo (she/her) at ennurijo@upenn.edu.
Christopher Nolan’s much-awaited film The Odyssey was released in IMAX on July 17, 2027.
Bloomsbury Publishing
Call for Book Chapters
Chapters from scholars of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives will be given preferences
Trees and Environment in Literature and Cinema
Technological systems are routinely narrated through a rhetoric of the “high-tech”: futuristic, frictionless, dematerialized, and planetary in scale. Such rhetoric directs the attention of media technologies toward the newest platform, the most advanced infrastructure, the most spectacular feat of engineering. Yet every high-tech system is sustained by processes that are decidedly low-tech: extraction of raw materials, energy consumption at industrial scale, manual and low-wage labor, informal repair and maintenance, grassroots appropriation, and amateur practice operating at the margins of official technological narratives. The “high” is never self-sufficient; it is built on, and constantly obscures, the “low.”
The Lives and Legacies of Medieval Comics: A Commemoration of Ninety Years of Hal Foster's Prince Valiant (Hybrid)
62nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI), Thursday, 13 May, through Saturday, 15 May, 2026
Co-sponsored by Medieval Comics Project, Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
Co-organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College, and Carl B Sell, University of Pittsburgh
Rationale
20032. The Picaro and Picaresque Fiction "The Picaro and Picaresque Fiction" examines variations on theme of the picaro from its sixteenth-century Spanish origins to the present day. What does this recurring impish rapscallion have to offer readers in different political and historical contexts?
Deep Cut Magazine, an independent literary magazine, is seeking academic articles on horror for its inaugural issue, to be published December 2026. Academic work will be published alongside original fiction and reprints (by invitation) in an open-access electronic magazine.
While the focus must be on some element of horror as a genre, the scope of the call is purposefully broad: research may focus on literature, film, popular culture, gender studies, history, and more. Interdisciplinary approaches are strongly encouraged.
Call for Papers: Interdisciplinary Symposium on “Reproducing Dystopias”
Deadline for Submission: September 7th at 5:00 PM
Institution: The Center for Modern Studies PGR Forum, University of York
Organisers: Brianna Frentzko, University of York (brianna.frentzko@york.ac.uk) and Megan Woodward, University of York (megan.woodward@york.ac.uk)
AP Photo from Jacquelyn Martin (Deadline; 25 June 2022)
Abstract
About the book: Human machine interfacing can be as simple as pressing a button or as complex and entangled (also entangling) as inserting a brain chip into the skull. science fiction. Humans with implants, prosthetic and hybrid humans with electronic and mechanical extensions are yet another level are no longer science fiction. Yet, human-machine interfacing has started long before the invention of these technologies. Machines did communicate with us and tell us about themselves even before chatbots were invented. The clanking of a hammer on the anvil tells us that it is old and dull. The whistle of a microwave tells us that dinner is ready. The process of interfacing is not a one-way process.
The II International Congress of Videogames, Virtual Environments and Interactive Creation is an event of scientific and academic dissemination whose objective is the diffusion of studies related to the field of videogames, digital art and online and virtual environments, in its wide range of topics and media: development of ludic and interactive platforms; video game studies (Game Studies); initiatives around eSports; expressions of Digital Art, Virtual and Augmented Reality, and Artificial Intelligence applied to ludic or plastic creation; projects in networked communities and mobile devices; e-learning platforms; games and digital artistic works and their imbrications with cinema, animation, music, comics, etc.