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Call for Papers
War & 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 Papers
Horror (Literary & Cinematic)
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
We invite proposals for individual papers for the critical mixed race studies panel at the annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) in Seattle, Washington, from November 12-15, 2026.
Paper proposals are due by May 25, 2026.
We are inviting select chapters at this stage as majority of the entries for the volume have been finalised. Apart from the topics mentioned below, prospective contributors are free to propose other topics, but if we have already finalised paper/s on said area, we may have to decline such proposals. For details regarding the concept and theme of the volume, please visit the-handbook-of-bengali-cinema, the original CFP for the volume. Priority will be given to quality proposals in the below areas:
Thematic:
Nandan and the Politics of State Support for Culture
Bengal-isms in Cinema in Bengali
Genres/Movements:
APPLICATION DEADLINE: MAY 15, 2026
Submissions are now being accepted for Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)'s Disability Studies session, which meets at the 123rd annual conference, Nov. 12-15, 2026 in Seattle, Washington.
Disability Studies is a vibrant, interdisciplinary field that examines the ways disability is constructed across society, culture, and history. This session engages with texts from a wide range of genres, media, cultures, and historical periods, analyzed through the lens of disability theory and/or lived experiences of disability. Papers explore physical, sensory, cognitive, and/or mental disabilities, as well as issues related to pain, chronic illness, and invisible disabilities.
"Melville Revivals"
PAMLA 2026
November 12-15, 2026
Seattle, Washington (Hyatt Regency Seattle, 808 Howell Street)
**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
The Journal of Therapeutic and Applied Geek and Gaming Culture (TAGGC) is a new academic journal for professionals studying the intersections of Geek and Gaming cultures and mental health to share their work.
The way our current globally interconnected and digitally enabled capitalist formation continuously reshapes itself to reinforce categories of class and overarching capitalist structures requires analyses that engage and critique these adaptive forces of capital. Responding to this need, this seminar seeks to examine the relationship of texts to a global capitalist economy by asking how class and capitalism function within and exert force upon texts and their contexts—in film, literature, art, video games, social media, and other extratextual spaces such as fan sites. In concert with this year’s theme, we also invite examinations of representations of the capitalist ruling class and the material and ideological effects of these representations.
See below for a call for papers to the upcoming ASAP (Association for the Arts of the Present), which takes place in Madison, WI on October 15-17, 2026. We invite contributions on the narrative dimensions of any contemporary "brainrot" or "slop" media- with particular interest in genre, grand narrative, minimal narrative, short form, segmentivity, seriality, plot, character, etc.
Conference Dates - Nov. 12th to 15th
Location: Seattle, Washington (USA)
estrema: interdisciplinary journal of humanities, a digital and open access journal from the Centre of Comparative Studies, at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (CEComp-FLUL), has an open call for submissions for the 1st issue of its 5th volume, until June 9th 2026. The previous issue featured reflections around the theme of Speculative Fiction. In 2026, we are launching estrema’s first call for papers specifically oriented towards the potentialities of art and images in technical contemporaneity.
shooting
the action of filming or photographing a scene, film, etc.
Hospitality is often understood as an act of welcome, yet it also raises complex questions about boundaries, authority, and belonging. Drawing on the philosophical framework of Jacques Derrida—who describes hospitality as a tension between openness to the stranger and the conditions that regulate entry—this panel invites proposals that explore how hospitality functions as a pedagogical framework for teaching reading, writing, and interpretation. Proposals may explore hospitality through literary analysis, composition pedagogy, rhetorical theory, cultural studies, or interdisciplinary approaches.
Conference online (via Zoom): 16-17 April 2026
CFP:
Affects, emotions and perceptions have always been at the center of philosophical discussion. Yet the so-called “Affective turn” in social studies and humanities is a relatively new phenomenon inspired by Deleuze and Guattari´s influential works among others. Affective turn challenges the still dominant representational approach in semiotics, discourse analysis and text analyses of all kinds.
Special issue of the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies
We are issuing a brief second call for papers for the special issue Motherhoods around the World in the peer-reviewed, Scopus indexed journal, the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies.
Due to the withdrawal of one or two previously accepted contributions, additional article slots have become available.
The Ninth Annual Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference at StokerCon 2026Conference Date: Friday, June 5, 2026Conference Location: The Westin Pittsburgh1000 Penn AvenuePittsburgh, PA 1522and via HopinConference Website: https://www.stokercon.com/Stokercon 2026 will be the tenth anniversary of Stokercon, and the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference is delighted to be a part of this banner year.
Special issue of the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies
We are issuing a brief second call for papers for the special issue Distinctly Canadian Voices in the peer-reviewed, Scopus indexed journal, the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies.
Due to the withdrawal of one or two previously accepted contributions, additional article slots have become available.
We invite new submissions that explore the representations of Canada and Canadians in fields as diverse as literature, film, television, visual art, and other media, both in Anglophone and Francophone contexts.
Contribute to a Special Issue of the Pop Culture Studies Journal on TOYS!
Volume Editor: Jonathan Alexandratos
Abstract: ~500 words due by April 25th to the editor via email at jsalexan@gmail.com.
Overview:
Paper. Film. TV screen. Sound recording. Internet. These are common ways popular culture reaches us. However, while scholarship around comics, movies, TV shows, music, and online media expands, one pop culture area too often remains under-explored: toys.
Special Session Proposal for the 2027 MLA Convention (Los Angeles, 7–10 January 2027).
This MLA 2027 special session, “Unfinished Histories: Literary and Cultural Acts of Hope,” explores radical hope as an emancipatory and dynamic framework for examining how literature, film, and art cultivate creative and relational modes of remembrance. Rather than approaching the past solely through paradigms of loss, grievance, or melancholia, the panel asks how cultural narratives open generative spaces for imagining unfinished futures.
On December 9, 2014, the release of Ezell Ford’s autopsy report inspired an 18-day protest held in
record-breaking cold in front of LAPD headquarters. The evidence confirming that Ford had been shot by
police at close range inspired a group of dance activists, led by Black Lives Matter founding member Dr.
Shamell Bell, not only to occupy space but also to move within it. The protest represented what she coined
“street dance activism” based on “radical joy” and “collecting freedom dreaming.”
Video Game and Memory
Call for Book Chapters
"To live an age, yet remember so little…
Perhaps I should be thankful?”
Quirrel, NPC in Hollow Knight (2017)
Recent archival initiatives have made accessible significant bodies of media work by writers associated with the Black Arts Movement, including projects in film, radio, and television. These rediscoveries invite renewed attention to the movement’s engagement with broadcast and screen media and challenge the longstanding emphasis on poetry, theater, and print culture in scholarship on the period.
Call for Papers: Journal of Fandom Studies
Special Issue: ‘Heated Rivalry: Queering Sports in Popular Culture’
Guest Editors:
Yvonne Gonzales, University of Southern California
Kirsten Crowe, University of Southern California
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-fandom-studies#call-for-papers
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
CFP: ALTERNATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF BELONGING IN TRANS LIVES
Deadline for proposals: April 10, 2026
Dear colleagues,
We invite proposals for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention (MLA 2027) in Los Angeles, to be held January 7–10, 2027, titled “Romanian, Hungarian and Other Emancipatory Narratives.”
We invite original scholarly contributions for an edited comprehensive volume dedicated to
the histories, aesthetics, industries, and cultural politics of cinema in Bhutan. As Bhutanese
filmmaking gains increasing regional and global visibility—through both popular and festival
circuits—this volume seeks to offer the first sustained, interdisciplinary mapping of its
cinematic landscape.
Since the release of the Canadian-produced streaming TV show Heated Rivalry, the show and its actors have exploded across traditional and social media, prompting wide discussions about sexuality in sports and the female consumption of MM (male/male) romance. Based on the Game Changers novel series by Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry follows the illicit romance between two male hockey players. In the months since, both NHL ticket and queer romance novel sales have skyrocketed; parodies of Heated Rivalry have popped up on SNL and off-Broadway stages.
Call for Papers: Contemporary Approaches to Film Noir (#MLA27)
Modern Language Association (MLA) 2027 Convention
Los Angeles, CA
7–10 January 2027
Film noir has evolved far beyond its mid-century origins, and has become a versatile and vital site for representing and intervening into contemporary realities. In preparation for an MLA 2027 special session proposal, this panel seeks papers that investigate noir films with cutting-edge approaches. We invite papers that engage with the following topics, including, but are not limited to:
Femspec seeks a guest peer reviewer to review an article submission about the television series The Orville.
Qualifications:
1. The applicant has watched the series.
2. The applicant possesses an MA or PhD in English, Women's and Gender Studies, or a related field, or is an advanced graduate student pursuing a degree in one of these fields.
Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist academic journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres. Femspec publishes both academic scholarship and creative writing.