general announcements

Brief Synopsis: 

The nineteenth and twentieth centuries witnessed profound political, social, and cultural transformations across Asia. This edited volume, Emergence of New World Imagination in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Asia: Understanding Asian Colonial Countries through Travelogues, Memoirs, Testimonies and Archival Documents, seeks to examine how autobiographical narratives, letters, memoirs, travelogues, oral narratives, and archival documents written in various Indian languages engage with the colonial and postcolonial histories of East Asia, Southeast Asia, West Asia, and South Asia.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Things Left Unsaid: A Flash Fiction Anthology

Silence. Regret. The conversation that never happened.

Submission Deadline: August 20, 2026
Acceptance Notifications: August 25, 2026
Submissions: specialanthologyfreshwordsmag@gmail.com
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/announcements

There are things we meant to say. Words swallowed before they could land. Letters never sent, calls never returned, confessions rehearsed in the dark and abandoned by morning.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — Mini Plays Review | September 2026 Issue 

Theme: Echoes of the Digital Age

This issue explores how human connection, conflict, identity, and memory are being rewritten in a hyper-connected yet deeply isolated world. We are looking for sharp, short scripts that capture the friction between our physical lives and our digital existence.

Subthemes for Submission:

• 1. Phantom Vibrations: The psychological weight, anxiety, or obsession of waiting for a notification that never comes.

Call for Papers (CFP)18th SAAS ConferenceNegotiating Identity and Power: Resistance, Rebellion, and Resilience in U.S. Literature and Culture

Universidad de Oviedo, Spain | March 15–17, 2027

Panel Title:Speculative Ontologies: The Posthuman, the Eerie, and Cultural Memory in US Media and NarrativesPanel Chairs:

Mediapolis – A Journal of Cities and Culture is an interdisciplinary open access online journal, drawing a connection between culture and the built environment – understood in the broadest sense. We publish research in different forms, from research articles to Q&A interviews and readings list, and across different academic fields, including but not limited to media studies, urban studies, geography, architecture and art history as well as digital humanities. 

An interdisciplinary space for critical reflectionThe Social Contract in Dispute: Discourse, Legitimacy and Transformation  

Living in a context of intense political tensions and polarisations that threaten how society is organised and the fundamentals of democratic legitimacy, the 28th International Meeting of Research and Investigation (EIRI) is dedicated to reflecting on the social contract and its contemporary transformations.

[EXTENDED DEADLINE] CALL FOR PAPERS FOR DIALOG JOURNAL

Special Issue No. 47

Theme: Creative Afterlives of Texts

Note from the Editor: Owing to technical difficulties, the journal website has not yet been updated to display the revised and extended submission deadline (12th June, 2026). Please consider the extended deadline communicated through this announcement as official and valid.

Conference online: 20-21 August 2026

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: 

Submissions are invited for an upcoming edited volume exploring the development of electoral politics in India in the post-liberalization era. This comprehensive publication will be brought out by the Department of Political Science, Seth Soorajmull Jalan Girls’ College (Affiliated to the University of Calcutta), Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Concept Note:

Climate change is often discussed as an environmental emergency, but its most profound consequences are social, political, economic, and deeply gendered. The climate crisis does not operate in isolation from existing systems of inequality; rather, it intensifies historically entrenched hierarchies of gender, caste, class, race, labour, sexuality, and power. Women and gender minorities, frequently experience climate change not as a distant ecological abstraction but as everyday reality lived through food insecurity, water scarcity, displacement, unpaid labour, agrarian distress, and precarious working conditions.

Hogg’s Worlds Now

The 2026 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 15th through Saturday October 17th.
We are looking forward to another engaging and rewarding conference for new and seasoned members alike. We are seeking proposals for panels and presentations for this year’s conference, including proposals for the Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Area.

Papers are invited for an anthology to be brought out by a reputed international publisher on the theme, “100 Years of Gabriel García Márquez.” 

Concept Note

Gabriel García Márquez, born in Colombia in the year 1927, is acknowledged as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. As we head towards his birth centenary, it is time to look back at this literary giant, reassess his contribution and its impact on literary history.

South Atlantic MLA Conference 
November 5-7, 2026 
In-Person Conference 
Atlanta, GA 

Panel Proposal: “Intertextual ‘Innerleckchuls’: Reading O’Connor in Conversation” 

The Flannery O’Connor Society seeks abstract proposal submissions for a panel to be held at SAMLA’s annual conference (November 5-7, 2026) in Atlanta, GA.