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New Perspectives on Creature Features (additional chapters)
Edited by
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Project Overview and Rationale
2026: 09-15-26: CFP Holy Grail, Batman? Expanding Knowledge of the Grail Legends in Popular Culture (Online) (9/15/2026; ICMS Kalamazoo/Online 5/13-15/2027)
Holy Grail, Batman? Expanding Knowledge of the Grail Legends in Popular Culture (Online)
62nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI), Thursday, 13 May, through Saturday, 15 May, 2026
Co-sponsored by Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain, Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
The rise of the superhero is one of the most significant cultural developments of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Since the debut of Superman in Action Comics #1 (April 18, 1938), superheroes have evolved from colorful comic-book figures into powerful global symbols that shape conversations about politics, morality, identity, technology, gender, race, mythology, trauma, and resistance. What began with the imaginative vision of Jerry Siegel (writer) and Joe Shuster (artist) has expanded into a worldwide phenomenon spanning comics, film, television, literature, gaming, digital media, and academic discourse.
Workshop at the Renaissaince Society of America's annual meeting (Philadelphia. March 11-13, 2027)
Gothic Nature is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that engages with the Gothic conceptions of, and relationship to, the natural world. For the TV and film review section of its sixth issue, the journal seeks reviews for ecoGothic television series and films released in the last couple of years (2023–2026). Issue VI of the journal is unthemed, so there is no restriction on the types of film and TV we’d like reviews for. As a general guideline, we’d be interested to see reviews of the following (please note that this is not an exhaustive list, reviews of other relevant films and programmes are more than welcome):
Film:
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 Chapters – Edited volume
The Cultural Life of Beds: Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Materiality, Bodies and Power
University of New England, Australia
For publication with an international publisher
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:
Fostering Interpretive Communities in the Classroom and Research through Adaptation Studies (Roundtable) (Virtual)
Co-organizers Michael A. Torregrossa and Carl B. Sell
Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 30 September 2026
58th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Salve Regina University (Newport, RI)/Online.
Hybrid event: 6-9 March 2027
Surrealism and Arts-Based Research:
Bridging the Imagination and Reality Divide
A Transdisciplinary Conference
Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/06/17/surrealism-2026/
Conference Dates: September 29-30, 2026
Location: Online
Proposal Deadline: September 10, 2026
Fees:
£100 (for both presenters and attendees)
Prices exclude booking fees
Call for Papers
Call for Chapters
The Routledge Handbook of Hip Hop and Sport, Culture, and Activism
Conference: 2-4 December 2026
Gdańsk (Poland) and online (via Zoom)
Date Extended till August 30, 2026
Food in Literature, Film and Culture
Consortium: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies is pleased to invite original and unpublished research articles for its Sp
This special issue will be edited by Dr. Sabuj Sarkar, Editor-in-Chief, Consortium: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies.
Concept Note:
Storytelling, from the metamorphic narratives of the Indian epics such as the Mahabharata and the Ramayana and Ovid’s ancient transmutations to the evolving interfaces of the present, has been an act of survival through transformation. Metamorphosis is the underlying imperative of the twenty-first century; it is not just a biological inevitability but a relentless ontological pulse beating beneath the surface of our global narratives. We inhabit a world amid a grand moulting, where the traditional mediums of storytelling, like the printed page, the physical body, and the ancestral soil, are being reshaped under the pressures of a planetary crisis.
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.
For the Northeast Modern Language Association's 58th Annual Convention in Newport, RI March 6-9, 2027.
The panel will be Hybrid: The session will be held in-person but a few remote presentations may be included.
Global Anglophone / Cultural Studies and Media Studies
Apocalypse or Utopia: Whose End of the World?
Fusion or Fracture in the Hundred Acre Woods: Community in Adaptations of Winnie-the-Pooh (Virtual)
Co-organizers Michael A. Torregrossa and Carl B. Sell
Sponsored by Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association
Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 30 September 2026
58th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Salve Regina University (Newport, RI)/Online.
Hybrid event: 6-9 March 2027
This session’s modality is Virtual Only, meaning all presentations will be delivered via Zoom regardless of whether the presenters are in-person.
This panel session seeks to explore the cultural fascination surrounding "The Backrooms," an internet 'creepypasta' about an abandoned office building with endless corridors that became a popular YouTube series and most recently, a blockbuster horror film. What are the Backrooms? Do they represent an artificial or alien intelligence attempting to simulate reality? Are they a glitch in the imperfect fabric of an unstable universe? Are they a metaphor for the subconscious, techno-paranoia, wasteland necrocapitalism, corporate control, or the internet itself? Or is this all just a retelling of the Greek myth of the Labyrinth for a Gen Z audience?
Deadline: October 31, 2026
At this stage, while proposals across all areas remain welcome, we are particularly interested in submissions that broaden the range of topics covered so far. Especially encouraged are proposals focusing on religious pluralism and faith traditions beyond Catholicism; Islam and the post-9/11 context; religion and the culture wars; members of the White House staff and other political actors; the later seasons; and the cultural legacy of The West Wing and its place in changing representations of American political leadership.
The original call for papers appears below.
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 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.
2026 marks multiple milestones for the legacy of legendary Afrofuturist author Octavia E. Butler: fifty years since the publication of her first novel, Patternmaster (1976), and the twentieth anniversary of her passing, on February 24, 2006. It also marks the announcement of a film version of one of her most famous and most prophetic works, Parable of the Sower (1993), as well as the surprise republishing of her disavowed novel, Survivor (1978), for the first time since the 1980s. These anniversaries arrive at a moment when Butler’s work continues to gain public attention for its prescience and political relevance, and as she continues to amass scholarly attention across scholarly disciplines.
Tom Stoppard Conference – 28-29 January 2027 – Sorbonne Université
Co-organisers: EMMA (Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry) and VALE (Sorbonne Université)
Sixty years after the premiere of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at London’s Old Vic Theatre (1967), and just over a year after the death of Sir Tom Stoppard on 29 November 2025, this international conference seeks to pay tribute to one of the playwrights who most profoundly shaped British theatre in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Contemporary philosophy and modern aesthetics have long stressed the potential of cinema to engage itself in the act of thinking and philosophical reflections through the presentation and assembly of moving images and sound. This presumed capacity to think and philosophize is realized by its spectators, who engage with the visual, auditory, and textual elements interwoven in films, resulting in a fusion that sparks novel thoughts and philosophical insights.
Despite the international prominence of Stanisław Lem and, more recently, Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher, Polish science fiction and speculative literature remain strikingly underrepresented in English-language scholarship. Existing criticism tends to orbit a small number of canonical figures and a handful of frequently revisited texts, leaving a rich, historically complex tradition, spanning censorship-era political allegory, post-1989 transformation, contemporary literary crossover, and a distinct national cinema largely unexamined outside of Polish-language scholarship.
International Conference
Vladimir Nabokov: Contemporary Reception and Creative Legacy
April 28-30, 2027
Bordeaux Montaigne University
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Vladimir Nabokov’s passing, the French Vladimir Nabokov Society, in collaboration with the University of Bordeaux-Montaigne and the International Vladimir Nabokov Society, organizes its 10th International Conference, to be held April 28-30, 2027 in Bordeaux, France.
NeMLA2027 NORTHEAST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION 58th Annual Convention SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND March 6-9, 2027
This session invites submissions addressing films that represent the construction of identity through community within a colonial or postcolonial context. Possible topics might include postcolonial legacies in contemporary urban cinema (banlieue; borderlands); comparative analysis of films across colonial and postcolonial contexts; the role of space in structuring narratives of resistance; filmic representations of assertion of and resistance to state power; film as a means of intercultural and intertextual dialogue.