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Society for Cinema & Media Studies – Translation/Publication Committee
in collaboration with
JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
CALL FOR TRANSLATIONS, 2026-2027
Special Issue: Climate Adaptation
Adaptation (OUP)
Deadline for papers: 30 January 2028
Submit: https://academic.oup.com/adaptation
(early papers accepted for continuous publication)
Ed. Robert Geal and Deborah Cartmell
When Get Out was released in 2017, Jordan Peele’s landmark debut feature signified a major inflection point in the history of horror. Not only did the film garner a rare blend of blockbuster commercial success and critical reputability perhaps not seen since The Silence of the Lambs (1991) or The Sixth Sense (1999), but it also broke through the confines of genre to become a larger pop cultural phenomenon.
The Corporate Uncanny
Edited Collection | Vernon Press
Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2026
Vernon Press has accepted the proposal for The Corporate Uncanny, an interdisciplinary edited collection examining how contemporary media represent—and make experiential—the strange familiarity of corporate power.
CONFERENCE IN BOSTON, MA - March 24-27, 2027
Adaptations and retellings, much like nostalgia, are deeply tied to the past. They confront the challenges of integrating past elements into the present and often engage with each other in this process.
28th Southeast Conference for Languages, Literatures, and Film (Feb 27-28, 2027) in St. Petersburg, Florida (on the University of South Florida St. Petersburg Campus)
Languages and Cultures in a Changing World: Identity, Responsibility, and Justice
Abstracts for papers (and panels) are now being considered. Deadline for abstracts: Nov. 16, 2026
Selected papers will be published in a post-conference anthology. To view prior publication, visit the conference website.
Call for Papers | Chronologies
The Velvet Light Trap, Volume 100 (to be published fall 2027)
Submission deadline: October 11, 2026
Abstract
This seminar proposes to examine Italian and Italian American food studies through the comparative frameworks of transnational circulation, intermedial representation, and cultural translation. Rather than approaching food as a stable marker of heritage or authenticity, the seminar treats it as a mobile signifying practice through which texts, images, commodities, and affects travel across linguistic, national, and medial boundaries. Food thus becomes a privileged comparative object: it links literature to film, advertising to visual culture, and national discourse to diasporic rearticulation.
Editor
Dr Kaniphnath Malhari Kudale
Associate Professor of English, Gurunanak Institute of Technology (GNITC), Hyderabad, Telangana, India
General Editor
Dr Tarun Tapas Mukherjee
Editor, Rupkatha Journal
About the Volume
Coaching, Psychology and the Art of Leadership
A Transdisciplinary Conference Inspired by Ted Lasso
Conference page: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/08/17/coaching-psychology/
Date: November 27-28, 2026
Location: Nov 27: Duke Street Church Richmond, London, United Kingdom (and online)
Nov 28: Online
Fees (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)
Prices exclude Eventbrite fees
Graphic Narratives has become part of an expanding literary field, absorbing and redirecting the ideological, formal, and creative energies of contemporary fiction.
(Chute and DeKoven768)
Online Conference 26-27 November 2027
Punk has never stayed where it was put. Emerging from the economic, political and cultural upheavals of the 1970s, punk became music, style, attitude, subculture, political language and cultural mythology. From London, New York, Sydney, Belfast, Berlin, Tokyo and Jakarta, punk travelled rapidly while taking radically different local forms. It transformed music and fashion, challenged conventions of gender and sexuality, generated distinctive visual and material cultures, and provided a language through which alienation, anger, resistance and belonging could be expressed.
This panel seeks papers that interrogate Asian American injury as a recurring motif and rhetoric in literature and media. Recent Asian American scholarship and aesthetic/cultural production have promoted the political utility of minor affects (Sianne Ngai, Cathy Park Hong), new discourses and praxes of collectivity and community (“cut fruit diaspora”; the emergence of “Wasia” and “Wasian meetups”), and sentimental identification through commodities and commodification in the current moment of late-stage capitalism (Crying in HMart; Ocean Vuong’s inclusion in Oprah’s Book Club).
CFP “Troubler of the Poor World’s Peace?”
An International Symposium on Global Richard III
University of Murcia (Spain)
16-18 February, 2027
Keynote speakers:
Nicoletta Caputo (University of Pisa)
Genevieve Love (Colorado College)
Sonia Massai (University of Rome/KCL)
Erica Sheen (University of York)
Jeffrey R. Wilson (University of Harvard)
The Erotica, Sexuality, Pornography, & Kink Area of the National Popular Culture Association (PCA) invites scholars to participate in the PCA’s annual conference. Details of the conference can be found at pcaaca.org.
In Spring of 2026, the first stage of NASA’s Artemis mission captured photographs of the Earth from space, a collective earthling selfie that momentarily transcended the squalor and congestion of the daily news cycle. While satellite imagery, Google maps, and weather forecasting technology have made representations of the global scale relatively commonplace, the astronaut photos have a human presence that allows them to capture something of the sublimity of what it means to live on a planet.
Call for Papers
MATHEMATICS AND ENGINEERING
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
By the time he passed away at the age of 90, British filmmaker Peter Watkins had cemented his legacy as one of the preeminent media scholars of the late-20th and early 21st centuries. Over the course of eight decades, Watkins’ oeuvre represented unrelenting interventions in an industry that was repeatedly acquiescing to the profit motive. Among the themes explored in the director’s work are war (The War Game) and revolution (La Commune). Within these films, his most common approach was the pseudo-documentary. This format helped Watkins combat what he viewed as the passivity that was the dominant mode of discourse in media.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
THE W. FRANKLIN EVANS REVIEW
Inaugural Fall 2026 Issue
Theme: Leadership, Legacy, and Transformation
The W. Franklin Evans Honors College at Voorhees University invites undergraduate and graduate students from colleges and universities worldwide to submit original work for the inaugural Fall 2026 issue of The W. Franklin Evans Review: A Peer-Reviewed, Refereed Journal of Student Leadership, Scholarship, and Creative Expression.
The journal provides an international platform for emerging scholars, leaders, writers, artists, and creators whose work examines leadership, service, innovation, identity, resilience, ethical decision-making, legacy, and positive social transformation.
Call for Papers
SHONDALAND
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
https://swpaca.org
Submissions open: September 1, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026
Call for Papers
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
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
Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026
“That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebulae, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.”
– Q to Jean-Luc Picard. From Star Trek – The Next Generation, “All Good Things” (Season 7, Episode 25)
Movie Monstrosities: Framing Interracial Desire and Difference Across the Global Contexts is under contract with an established and reputable academic publisher. We are seeking 2 additional chapters by 11/1/26. Contributors are encouraged to send an email proposal asap to monstrositystudies@gmail.com
Below is a full description of the book:
This seminar asks what it means to teach the “world” in fields such as world cinema, world literature, comparative literature, and global media studies. Courses organized around the world often promise breadth, diversity, and cross-cultural understanding, but they also face practical and conceptual problems. What counts as the world? How does the nation appear in “world” courses? How do syllabi balance coverage, depth, translation, historical context, aesthetics, and political urgency? How do institutional expectations and restrictions mold the student imagination of the “world”? How does the positionality of the instructor presuppose, structure, or influence the “world” classroom?
April 2-3, 2027
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
The UNCG Videogaming and Esports Studies (VES) program, with support from UNCG’s
ARCADE (Applied Research in Computer Arts, Digitization, and Esports), invites proposals for
our third annual game studies conference!
This year’s theme explores navigation as a capacious term — how do we navigate or not
navigate in a game (walking, running, jumping, climbing, warping, fast traveling, etc.), what
choices do we have regarding navigation, and what affordances do games offer for navigation?
***Please use this link to submit your proposal: https://www.acla.org/seminar/e8248863-9bba-4144-b079-9c355f34a4f7***
Rethinking Cultural Mediation in Global Media
NeMLA 2027 – Panel
How does culture change as it travels across languages, media, technologies, and national borders? What roles do translators, audiences, institutions, platforms, and emerging technologies play in shaping how cultural meanings are represented, circulated, and received?
Apologies for crossposting!
Call for New JCMS Editor(s)
Editor(s), JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) seeks a new Editor or Co-Editors and a new institutional home for its scholarly publication, commensurate with the 5-year term of the Editor(s), for its scholarly publication, JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.
Review the full Call for Editor(s) and apply by Friday, September 18, 2026: https://www.cmstudies.org/general/custom.asp?page=JCMSCallNewEditor
Biennial Conference of the Southeastern American Studies Association (SASA)
March 18-20, 2027. Montgomery, Alabama