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This in-person panel invites 250-word abstracts that examine women’s narratives, (self)representations, and forms of agency within resistance movements across film and digital platforms.
Related topics are welcome to be discussed.
The Journal of Popular Romance Studies is calling for papers for its special issue on Sport Romance.
Call for Paper
The Politics of Ableism: Gender, Sexuality, and Disability in Literature and Media
Edited by Habib Tekin & Nizara Hazarika
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
The Superhero Project: 10th Global Meeting
SUPERVILLAINS & ANTI-HEROES
Friday 4th to Sunday 6th September 2026
The View Hotel, Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
“I don’t want to kill you! What would I do without you? Go back to ripping off mob dealers? No, no, no! No. You… you… complete… me.” – The Joker (The Dark Knight, 2008)
Present-day cultural and political shifts are producing seismic impacts upon Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies programs and curricula across geopolitical contexts. This session explores new currents, approaches and strategies for teaching WGS in the classroom. (In-Person Session)
Deadline: Sunday, March 15, 2026
Send proposals of 200-words with a shot bio to Ryan Calabretta-Sajder (rcalabretta@gmail.com) and Victoria Muñoz (vmunoz@adelphi.edu)
Butoh Symposium, Kingston University London, 17-18 September, 2026
We will be holding a Butoh Symposium over two days and two evenings, 17-18 September 2026, at the Main Auditorium of Kingston University’s award-winning Town House Building, in south-west London. The Symposium is organised by researchers attached to the School of Art’s Visual Cultures Research Centre at Kingston University’s School of Art faculty. This symposium follows on from our recent successful symposia of 2024-25 on the work of Antonin Artaud and on ‘experimental archives’.
“The urban” has taken many forms in the history of film, video and moving image works—with both documentary depictions and speculative representations of poverty, marginal life and geographies, displacement and gentrification, social alienation, racial and ethnic identities, gender and sexual identities, politics and social activism. As both a trope and a subject, the urban—a conceptualization of lifeways existing within the construct of “the city”that are beyond economic capture—has emerged as a distinguishing conceptual frame for understanding the ways that cities have succumbed to their own commoditization and commercialization.
European Journal of Media, Art & Photography
ejmap.sk | Indexed in WoS Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) | Q1 in art journals category
CFP: Heated Rivalry: The Phenomenon
An edited collection of essays on the television series that seduced the world
Heated Rivalry appeared simultaneously across screens in Canada, the United States (via HBO Max) and other countries in late November and quickly, if unexpectedly, became a worldwide phenomenon. Audiences were immediately hooked on the story of star hockey prospects Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie) and the sexual and romantic relationship that blossoms between them over a span of years.
MomoCon 2026 Academic Symposium
May 21-24, 2026
Georgia World Congress Center (Atlanta, GA)
https://www.momocon.com/
Deadline for Submissions: March 1st, 2026
Contact Email: Susan.Noh@uga.edu
Theme: Content Adaptations From Page to Place
Adaptations have always been a central component of the global anime industry. The franchises
and content that we love are often dependent on vast, ever-expanding webs of adaptations to
continue to provide diverse avenues for consumer engagement.
Historically, media mix has played a key role in popularizing the cultural form of anime and is
Call for Proposals: Star Trek and the CourtroomAn Edited Collection on Justice, Law, and the Trial in Star Trek
We invite proposals for an edited volume examining trial and courtroom episodes across the Star Trek franchise. From “Court Martial” (TOS) to “Ad Astra per Aspera” (SNW), Star Trek has used the trial format to explore questions of personhood, justice, military law, civil rights, ethical responsibility, and the limits of legal systems. These episodes serve as philosophical laboratories, testing the boundaries of law when confronted with, for example, artificial intelligence, alien cultures, time travel, and evolving definitions of sentience and citizenship.
Papers, delivered in English, on adaptations of works by Joseph Conrad, in any form and language, including film, television, games, opera, theatre, musical compositions, and graphic novels. This is the planned guaranteed session for the Joseph Conrad Society of America Allied Organization at the Modern Language Association Convention in January 2027. Email 300 word proposals and 100-word biography to Jana Giles, giles@ulm.edu. Deadline: March 22, 2026.
For further information and to see the call posted on the MLA website, see: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/index.html.
Invisible Wounds: Reframing Adoption Narratives in Children's Literature
MLA 2027 Convention: January 7-10, 2027, in Los Angeles, California
International Conference “Pleasure and Pain in Women’s Writing”
Organized by IWWA (International Women’s Writing Association)
and the L&GEND Research Group
deadline for submissions:
April 24, 2026
contact email:
9th-11th September 2026
G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Conference Venue: Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Pescara
We are currently accepting submissions for Vol. 1.1 of Bad Vibes Only: Critique Today (Summer 2026).
Founded by a collective of PhD students and affiliated faculty at Brown University, BVO is a forthcoming online independent journal committed to fostering critical conversations about contemporary literature, popular culture, and intellectual production. The publication features essays, reviews, and the occasional work of satire or poetry. Contributors include Nebula and Hugo award winners, Yale Drama Award recipients, and emerging writers. If you’ve got a bone to pick and if you believe that critique is an indispensable complement to artistic, cultural, and intellectual production, then this might be the venue for you.
Literature and Global Popular Music 2027 Modern Language Association Adaptation Forum Call for Papers How does literature travel through global popular music? How do novels, poems, plays, and other literary forms resonate when translated into sound, lyrics, stage performance, music videos, and media circulation across borders?This guaranteed session invites studies of musical adaptations that illuminate the cultural, social, and political resonances of literary works. How do literary forms find new life in global popular music? In what ways do these adaptations reshape questions of identity, memory, translation, and power across national and linguistic boundaries?Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
2026 Conference New Orleans, LA October 15th- 17th
The Popular Culture Association in the South and the American Culture Association in the South meet annually to present and discuss ideas about popular culture, American culture, and culture world-wide. This year we meet at the The Royal Sonesta in New Orleans located in the center of the French Quarter.
Literature and Global Popular Music 2027 Modern Language Association Adaptation Forum Call for Papers How does literature travel through global popular music? How do novels, poems, plays, and other literary forms resonate when translated into sound, lyrics, stage performance, music videos, and media circulation across borders?This guaranteed session invites studies of musical adaptations that illuminate the cultural, social, and political resonances of literary works. How do literary forms find new life in global popular music? In what ways do these adaptations reshape questions of identity, memory, translation, and power across national and linguistic boundaries?Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
This panel invites papers examining Italian American engagements with Hollywood and Los Angeles as a central locus of literary production, cinematic labor, and cultural myth-making. Long understood as a global factory of images, Hollywood has also functioned as a crucial site where Italian American writers, filmmakers, performers, and cultural workers shaped—and were shaped by—the American and transnational imaginarium.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: THE SOUTHERN GOTHIC AT PCAS/ACAS 2026
The Southern Gothic is not merely a regional offshoot of the Gothic tradition—it is a dynamic cultural mode shaped by the histories, violences, mythologies, and contradictions of the American South. Rooted in hauntings both literal and structural, the Southern Gothic interrogates race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, ecology, labor, memory, and the ongoing afterlives of history. Its borders—like its landscapes and bodies—are unstable, porous, and contested.
Richard Linklater’s Slacker (1991) is a cult classic with a crucial role in the history of American cinema. The movie is unusual in many ways. It does not have a traditional narrative; it follows 100 characters around the UT Austin area in a way that seems completely random. There is no protagonist, no story, no thread to the individual events, yet somehow it is a completely coherent and engaging movie that sparks as many reflections as the number of scenes it has.
We are looking for chapter proposals in the form of abstracts. Topics already included are work, capitalism, Buddhism, film as a dream, narrative, episodic views of life, and absurdity. Possible topics for new chapters include:
Discourse in the Age of Political Upheaval and Artificial Intelligence
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at UCLA
Keynote speaker: Dr. Julia Alekseyeva, University of Pennsylvania
Submission form: https://forms.gle/ynHiRZothVVkgVdp8
If you face any difficulties in the submission process or have questions about the conference,
please email: discourseconferenceucla@gmail.com
Submission deadline: March 13th at 11:59PM PST
Call for Abstracts!Elvis and Philosophy: Essays Concerning the King
Edited by Joshua Heter and Richard Greene
Abstracts are sought for a collection of essays on any philosophical topic related to Elvis Aaron Presley to be published with Wallace & Jacobs Press. We hope to receive a number of submissions concerning his music and movies as well as his persona, life, relationships, cultural impact, legacy, mythos, etc.
This year, the Center for 21st Century Studies aims to activate “Slow Care”—a practice that places deliberate attention on the beings, things, and sites, which together foster long-term visions of collective life across generations and communities of humans and non-humans, as well as ever-evolving technologies and ecologies. In line with this theme, the Digital Cultures Collaboratory are excited to announce the 4th event in its annual online symposium series, organised around the theme of “Time & Digital Relations.”
Evolutions in Cinematic Virtual Reality
Symposium at The University of Hong Kong
18. – 19. May 2026
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 28TH
The University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group Conference presents:
The 28th Annual University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group Conference
The State of the Unions
April 23rd-25th, Gainesville (FL)
Keynote speakers: Sianne Ngai, Anna Kornbluh
Nicole LaRose Alumni Keynote Speaker: Ryan Kerr
ACCSFF ‘26
Call for Papers
The 2026 Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy will be held Saturday and Sunday, May 30-31, 2026, in Toronto, Ontario, at York University, Canada.
This year's author GoH keynote speaker is the Nebula Award winning Premee Mohamed.
We invite proposals for papers in any area of Canadian science fiction and fantasy, including:
-studies of individual works and authors;
-comparative studies;
-studies that place works in their literary and/or
cultural contexts.
JAMS@AX26
Want to present your work at the one-and-only Anime Expo? The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies(JAMS) and Anime Expo have once-again teamed up to give you the JAMS@AX26 academic symposium, July 2-5, 2026 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This symposium presents an incredible opportunity to connect fans of all ages directly to scholars researching and writing about the medium we all love.
The JAMS@AX26 welcomes all papers taking a scholarly perspective on anime, manga, cosplay, and their fandoms.
Apologies for crossposting.
Call for Papers: Journal of Digital Media & Policy (JDMP)
#JDMPJournal
Special Issue: ‘Video streaming policy and genre on demand’
Guest Editors: Jessica Balanzategui, Andrew Lynch and Alexa Scarlata
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-digital-media-policy#call-for-papers
While Los Angeles has regularly been called the “City of Angels,” historian Kelly Lytle Hernández has argued that a more appropriate epithet would be the “City of Inmates,” as Los Angeles has historically been a site for innovations in imprisonment, surveilling, policing, and oppressing various communities for their race, ethnicity, class status, sexuality, and other out-group identifications. Literature and cinema have long been fertile sites for examining the ramifications of police- and prison-centric ideologies within American society and culture, particularly for a city that defined itself by cinema.