general announcements

Second and Final Call for papers

Sensation: The Sounds, Visions, and Words of David Bowie

Academic conference, University of Agder, Norway 29. – 30. September 2026

Call for Papers: Representation of Violence in South Asian Graphic Narratives and Comics

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.

Date of conference: 28-29 August, 2026

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 5 July 2026

Online, international, interdisciplinary conference titled:

A Letter to Video Games:The Mechanisms of Emotions

Call for Papers
Benjamin Quarles Humanities and Social Science Institute
College of Liberal Arts, Morgan State University

9th Annual Conference

 Theme: 100 Years of Black History: Remembering the Past, Interpreting the Present, Envisioning the Future

Conference: 18-19 June 2026

in person (Gdańsk, Poland) and online

CFP:

How do we remember and represent our migration experiences? Who is involved in these processes? How does history remember these events? What helps migrants and societies to adapt? The significance of these and related questions have made their way into our daily lives, from the refugee crisis to policy decisions, individual psychotherapy to (re)building identities, communities, and memories.  

*EXTENDED CALL FOR CHAPTER SUBMISSIONS*

Call for Papers (proposals)

CONTRIBUTION TO EDITED VOLUME (Please read the full CfP before sending a proposal)

Mediated Masculinities in European networks: Discourse and performativity in the Information Age 

NEW Deadline for abstract submissions: April 10, 2026

Notifications of acceptance: March 10, 2026 

Deadline for first draft after notification of acceptance: April 30, 2026

Ischia & Naples Festival of Philosophy

12th Edition: Freedom

Conference: 24-26 September 2026

Keynote in English by Simona Forti (Scuola Normale Superiore)

Extended Submission Deadline: 1 May 2026

The Festival

Designed by Jean-François Vernay, the Routledge Literary BRAIN (Brain-Related Academic Investigations of Narratives) Focus Series combines the language of literary criticism with neurocognitive and health humanities methodologies or explanatory frameworks, providing an innovative way of blending literary analysis with health humanities and neurocognitive approaches.

This exciting BRAIN series is designed to convene conversations across interdisciplinary knowledges, covering all fiction and nonfiction sub-genres such as poetry, drama, novels, short-stories, memoirs, (auto)biographies, essays, etc.

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Annual Conference 2026

November 12-15, 2026

Seattle, WA

Call for Paper:

Our Ruling Classes: Class, Power, Conflict

Submission Deadline: May 25, 2026

Subject: Asian Literatures and Cultures

Contact: Wentao Ma (University of California - San Diego) w4ma@ucsd.edu

Otherness: Essays & Studies

Otherness and Folklore – Special issue Call for Papers

Folklore is all about Otherness. It imagines the other as that which is beyond the scope of the ordinary and the real. It evokes the monstrous, the divine, and the outsider. It invokes magic through ritual, and it empowers the repressed. The other, in folklore, is welcomed into the everyday and woven into the fabric of our communities. It becomes an altered version of alterity, a homely version of the uncanny: an other that we can be intimate with.

Session Abstract: The genre of African American poetry has a long legacy of both preserving tradition and evolving to suit current times and places. This session invites discussion of the defining features that have been maintained over time as well as patterns of bold experimentation. Rather than seeing tradition and innovation as opposing aesthetic directions, this session hopes to examine ways they have co-existed in this genre and been mutually fruitful. 

CALLING ALL 2SLGBTQ+ WRITERS WHO EXPERIENCED RELIGIOUS TRAUMA. I am excited to announce this Call for Submissions for my new anthology of creative nonfiction narratives! Entitled Queer and Trembling: Stories of LGBTQ+ Religious Trauma, this anthology will bring together a collection of stories about 2SLGBTQ+ religious trauma from Christian contexts, whether they be evangelical, fundamentalist, Pentecostal, Catholic, Mormon, Jehovah's Witness, Orthodox, etc. The collection is under contract with Jessica Kingsley Publishers (an imprint of Hachette UK) and will likely be released in 2028. 

Theme: Interconnections between Utopia and Dystopia in Times of Crisis

Venue: Embassy Suites Portland Downtown (Formerly the 1912 Multnomah Hotel)

Proposal Deadline:June 30, 2026

Conference Co-chairs email: susprogramchair@gmail.com

Conference website: https://utopian-studies.org/conference2026/