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PAMLA Panel Proposal, November 2026: Mourning as Social Protest, Andrea Fishman, Presiding Officer
Call for Panel Proposals
Renaissance Conference of Southern California (RCSC)-Sponsored Panels for RSA Philadelphia
Renaissance Society of America Conference
Philadelphia, USA March 11–13, 2027
CFP Deadline: August 15, 2026
RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
68th Annual Conference
“Making the Renaissance Political Body”
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for our 68th Annual Conference, to be held at California State University, Fullerton on Saturday, September 26th, 2026
CALL FOR PAPERS
SEEKING BOOK CHAPTER AUTHORS: Women and social media through a global lens - edited collection (under contract)
We are seeking authors for an interdisciplinary edited volume examining women’s roles in social media as both producers and consumers across global contexts. This collection explores the personal, political, social, and economic dimensions of this digital activity through the examination of global regions.
Chapters are organized by region. Remaining regions include:
Each chapter will contain the following sections:
Join the 2026 Graduate Conference at the University of Verona and explore how identities are shaped, challenged, and reimagined through language, literature, and culture.
“(De)Constructing Identities: Inclusive Practices of Naming” invites emerging scholars to engage with some of today’s most urgent debates on inclusion, representation, and power.
From feminist and queer studies to postcolonialism, disability studies, translation, and cultural memory, the conference offers a rich interdisciplinary dialogue.
Participants will investigate how naming practices influence social perception, identity formation, and political discourse across languag
Dear Colleague, We invite you to contribute to a forthcoming edited volume, A Global Companion for Anti-Racist Education and Solidarity Work. This volume brings together educators, researchers, and community practitioners engaged in the everyday work of confronting racism and cultivating more just educational environments. Rather than treating anti-racist education as abstract or purely theoretical, this volume centers practice. We begin from the premise that some of the most generative forms of anti-racist work are already unfolding in classrooms, schools, community organizations, and local movements.
This panel title borrows from the article "Granola and Guns: The Rise of Conspirituality" hosted on McGill University's Office for Science and Society that attempts to define and locate in American society a perplexing mindset that blends countercultural mystical thinking and conservative paranoia. "Conspirituality," which PennState defines as "a belief system that blends new age spiritual beliefs and conspiracy theorizing," has also been branded the "crunchy-to-fascism" pipeline, demonstrating how an openness to crystal healing, chakra opening, sonic baths, and celestial alignment has led many—often well-to-do white women—towards "Pastel QAnon," anti-vaxx, and an embrace of alt-right beliefs.
This edited volume explores the interrelations between disability and addiction within Japanese literary literature. By focusing strictly on literary representations—and excluding media studies—this collection aims to examine how embodiment, social normativity, and deviance are negotiated through culturally specific frameworks.
The editors invite contributions for the following four sections
1. Disability in Japanese Literature (3 Articles)
FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks submissions to our blog, available at BLOG | Femspec
Those interested in publishing on the Femspec blog do NOT need to be subscribed to the journal.
INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL CONFERENCE
SILENCE(D): ILLUSORY ABSENCES AND DENIED PRESENCES
University of Florence (Italy), 26th-27th October 2026
Link to the call for papers (in Italian and English): https://www.dottoratolinletcult.unifi.it/upload/sub/News/CallForPapers_Silcenced_UNIFI%20(1).pdf
FEMINANIMALS
Representations of Women and/as Animals in Literature, Arts, and Other Media
University of Oxford, Oriel College
14-16 April 2027
Keynote speakers: Prof Chloë Taylor (University of Alberta) and Dr Kaori Nagai (University of Kent)
Roundtable with Queer Kinship Network led by Prof Charlotte Ross (University of Oxford)
Organising committee: Dr Fanny Clemente (University of Oxford), Dr Greta Colombani (independent scholar), Dr Cécile Bishop (University of Oxford)
Call for Book Chapters
Theme: Prisms of Interpretation: Analysing Literature in English
Multani Mal Modi College is pleased to announce a call for chapter contributions for an upcoming book publication. The theme of the proposed volume is:
‘Prisms of Interpretation: Analysing Literature in English’
Please see here for full details: https://www.wethecivic.org/submit
Scroll to the bottom of this page for submission form: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/wtc/
Essays, Reported Pieces, Criticism, Art & Visual, Video & Hybrid Forms
In 2026, the United States marks 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence—a document that promised liberty and justice for all and delivered them to very few.
This anniversary will be loud. It will be choreographed.
And Nonprofit Quarterly, in community with nonprofit and media partners, will contest it.
The Phenomenology of the Stand-up Comic: Toward a Sociology of Gendered Humour
Call for Chapter Contributions
An Edited Volume: Ecofeminism and Islam in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Editor: Dr. Gabrie’l J. Atchison
Proposed Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.
As the series editor for Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives for Bloomsbury Publishing, I am writing to invite you to consider submitting a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in Ecofeminism and Islam in the Middle East and North America (MENA).
Mike Flanagan has emerged over the past fifteen years as one of the most prolific and recognizable horror creators in film and television, working across low-budget independent cinema, studio-backed films, and prestige limited series. Yet despite his prominence, versatility, and authorial trademarks, especially his collaborations with recurring actors and other artistic partners, he has received little sustained scholarly attention.
The history of work and labour has long occupied a central place within European social history, offering a key lens through which to examine social relations, hierarchies, forms of power, and economic formations across the longue durée. Rather than approaching work solely as an economic function, historical scholarship has increasingly foregrounded work as a lived social experience –one that has shaped identities, values, and modes of belonging.
Call for Papers Speculative Narratives Beyond Consensus Reality: Navigating the Senses from Wonder to Horror International Interdisciplinary Conference 29 th – 30th June and 1st July, 2026 https://speculativenarratives.com/ NEW Deadline for submission of abstracts: 10th May 2026Venue: Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, Portugal Conference Organisers: Popular Culture Group We invite scholars, researchers, and artists to submit abstracts for the upcoming academic conference, Speculative Narratives Beyond Consensus Reality: Navigating the Senses from Wonder to Horror.
2027 will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the passing of radical ecologist and labor organizer Judi Bari. Best known for her leadership in the 1990 Redwood Summer campaign in Northern California, Bari sought to overcome the entrenched division between environmentalists and timber workers by identifying corporate capital as the common force exploiting both labor and forests. Her politics extended beyond direct action and formal organizing to include music, storytelling as agitation, and public spectacle, all mobilized to cultivate ecological consciousness within a framework of working-class solidarity.
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Late Diagnosis and Neurodivergence:Autoethnographies and Creative Narratives of Recognition
Edited by Tess Ezzy | University of New England Proposals due: 31 July 2026 | Final works due: 30 November 2026
You are invited to submit a paper to the session "Passing Novels Now and Then:Gender, Class" at the 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Languagae Association (PAMLA) conference in Seatlle, WA from Nov. 12-15, 2026.
Description:
Gender (In)Equity (SDG #5) and the Global South
Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Fall Conference October 15th to 17th - Online
Call for Papers: Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies Area
Please submit abstracts of 250–400 words and a short 100-word bio to the linked form below.
The Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies area, part of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Fall Online Conference (October 15–17, 2026), features the newly established conference area and Digital Swift Symposium, a curated space for interdisciplinary scholarship on popular music, fandom, gender, authorship, and digital culture.
This is a call for paper for an edited volume “(Re)Imagining Gender in Post-Covid Times: Transformations and Possibilities” which looks into the transformations that have occurred in gender relations in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic, which was a global crisis, had a considerable impact in different aspects and reinforced pre-existing inequalities across gender, sexuality, class, caste, and other spheres of marginality. This edited volume aims to closely examine these transformations through the lens of gender as the primary variable in understanding post-pandemic societies.
link for abstract submission: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScFPhqcIfUje5A_VuJjReJHlwjtc_Tz...
Seminar to be held in Hybrid ModeConcept Note:
98 Annual South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference ~ Atlanta, Georgia ~ November 5-7, 2026
This panel invites papers that examine how literary and cultural texts represent and imagine the dynamics of hospitality, with particular attention to questions of inclusion, belonging, and access for LGBT individuals, as well as in real-world institutions and spaces. Acts of welcome in homes, nations, classrooms, or communities often involve negotiating boundaries: who is invited in, how that welcome is extended, and what it means to belong. How do literary and cultural works depict LGBT figures moving within, across, or outside these spaces?
The 123rd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in Seattle at the Hyatt Regency Seattle, from Thursday, November 12, to Sunday, November 15, 2026.
Call for Papers: Dickens Day 2026 - ‘Dickens and Family’
Conference date: Saturday 10 October 2026
Format: in-person
Location: Senate House, London
Conference online (via Zoom): 28-29 May 2026
CFP:
It is widely known that ideologies of racism, nationalism, and xenophobia are dangerous and spread all over the world. We want to examine these terms as much as possible, from many perspectives and variable aspects: in politics, society, psychology, culture, and many more. We also want to devote considerable attention to how the phenomena of racism, nationalism and xenophobia are represented in artistic practices: in literature, film, theatre or visual arts.
CFP: Special Issue of The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (15.2 2026) on K-Pop, deadline 15th June 2026.