general announcements

Open Forum “Virginia Woolf: Sound and Rhythm in Translation”

updated: 
Friday, March 27, 2026 - 3:39pm
35th International Conference Virginia Woolf
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS 

35th International Conference Virginia Woolf 

Open Forum “Virginia Woolf: Sound and Rhythm in Translation”, Istambul, Jun 24-Jun 28, 2026

Update: We are currently working to transform this forum into a hybrid format. When submitting your proposal, please indicate whether you would prefer to participate in person or online.

Extended Call for Papers: 15th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies - Language, Literature, and AI

updated: 
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 - 5:33pm
Faculty of Foreign Languages, Alfa BK University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Dear colleagues, 

 

Faculty of Foreign Languages is pleased to announce two confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. Danimir Mandić (Faculty of Education, University of Belgrade) and Prof. Jozef Štefčik (Bratislava University of Economics and Business).

Our 15th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies will be held on 29 and 30 May 2026. The topic for this edition of our annual conference is

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

"(In-)Visible Wounds:" Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Discrimination and Violence (April 23-25, 2026)

updated: 
Saturday, March 21, 2026 - 7:48pm
Konstantina Kliagkona ("KN: Forensic, Literature, Arts & Media Studies"/ Independent Researcher, Freelancer EFL, Criminology Teacher, & Offender Profiler)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Date of Conference: 23-25 April, 2026

(EXTENDED) Deadline for Abstract Submission: 31 March 2026

 

Online, international, interdisciplinary conference titled:

 

(In-)Visible Wounds: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Discrimination and Violence

 

Botanical Life in Art, Science, and Imagination

updated: 
Friday, March 20, 2026 - 2:52pm
Global Plant Humanities Network (GPHN)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Call For Papers

The 3rd International Conference on Global Plant Humanities

Botanical Life in Art, Science, and Imagination

 

Conference Dates:     8–10 May 2026 (Fri–Sun)

Mode:                         Hybrid (Physical & Virtual)

Host:                           Department of English, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India

Between Then and Now: Performing Archives

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:51pm
Manchester Metropolitan University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 24, 2026

 

Between Then and Now: Performing Archives

The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, 23-24 June 2026

Convened by the Performance Research Group, Manchester School of Theatre, Manchester Metropolitan University

  

Call for contributions

 

IN COLLABORATION ON COOPERATION: RESEARCH IN LINGUISTICS WITHIN FRENCH-POLISH TEAMS

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:50pm
University of Silesia in Katowice and Polish Academy of Sciences Scientific Centre in Paris
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 10, 2026

The Polish Academy of Sciences Scientific Centre in Paris and the Institute of Linguistics of the University of Silesia in Katowice cordially invite you to the academic conference entitled:

IN COLLABORATION ON COOPERATION: RESEARCH IN LINGUISTICS WITHIN FRENCH-POLISH TEAMS

9–10 July 2026
Scientific Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences
74 Rue Lauriston, 75116 Paris, France

Call for abstracts Sociolinguistics of Emojis: Implications for Customer Psychology and Behavior

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:42pm
Lena Bucatariu RMIT Vietnam
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 22, 2026

We are delighted to invite chapter proposals for our upcoming edited volume:
Sociolinguistics of Emojis: Implications for Customer Psychology and Behavior
(Under consideration with Springer, Edward Elgar, and Bentham Science)

This book explores how emojis function as sociolinguistic tools in digital communication—shaping tone, politeness, stance, and perception across platforms like customer service chat, CRM, B2B messaging, influencer ecosystems, and D2C apps. We are especially interested in work that links language use to outcomes such as trust, persuasion, complaint resolution, and user experience.

We welcome submissions across:

[LAST CALL] CFP: Victorians Institute Journal, Vol 53

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:40pm
Victorians Institute Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Act quickly! Less than one month remains before the editorial deadline for Volume 53 of The Victorians Institute Journal.

Through April 1st, we are still accepting manuscripts between 7k-9k words on any aspect of Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and culture for publication in Volume 53 of the journal, which will be published later this year.

PAMLA 2026 Special Session CFP - Seattle, WA (Nov 12-15)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 5:22am
Craig Svonkin / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 10, 2026

PAMLA 2026 Seattle: “Our Ruling Classes: Class, Power, Conflict” https://www.pamla.org/pamla2026/

The 123rd Annual PAMLA Conference will be held November 12–15, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency Seattle,
808 Howell St., Seattle, Washington 98101.

Deadline Approaching: Preserving Records Amidst Genocide

updated: 
Monday, March 16, 2026 - 5:19pm
MLA Forum on Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 20, 2026

Perpetrators of genocide destroy people as well as their cultural legacies, including formal archives, libraries, privately held records, and culturally significant texts and other print objects. Colonial occupation both historically and currently consolidates power through destroying records of occupied peoples to deny their past, present, and future. Resistance, in turn, may take the form of preserving such records through smuggling, hiding, converting, memorizing, digitizing, translating, and reconstituting. Inspired by the Phoenix Library in Gaza, the MLA Forum on Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography seeks papers on preserving books, print materials, and other textual records (broadly understood) in contexts of genocide.

"Memory, Affects and Emotions" 8th International Interdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Monday, March 16, 2026 - 5:06pm
InMind Support
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 27, 2026

Conference online (via Zoom): 16-17 April 2026

 

CFP:

Affects, emotions and perceptions have always been at the center of philosophical discussion. Yet the so-called “Affective turn” in social studies and humanities is a relatively new phenomenon inspired by Deleuze and Guattari´s influential works among others. Affective turn challenges the still dominant representational approach in semiotics, discourse analysis and text analyses of all kinds.

Clocking out of the imagining otherwise factory: on recent (re)turns to the negative in critical and cultural theory

updated: 
Friday, March 13, 2026 - 1:39pm
Eric Cheuk / Middlebury College
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 13, 2026

In the late oughts and 2010s, critical and cultural theory across the humanities embraced the power of positive thinking. If we paid lip service to the determinations of (neo)liberal modernity, our thinking nonetheless gathered with feverish intensity around all that was said to escape or exceed its iron cage. Those of us tutored in assembling a historical ontology of ourselves turned to dreams of possible futures – or else to cultural practices and lifeways whose onto-epistemic difference enacted futurity in the midst of a seemingly endless now. This politics of utopian adjacency crystallized in a now-familiar set of keywords: affirmation, futurity, speculation, utopia, worldmaking, and (of course!) the ever-popular injunction to imagine otherwise.

Call for Book Reviews - Vibes and Disruptions

updated: 
Friday, March 13, 2026 - 1:39pm
The Scattered Pelican Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 10, 2026

The ongoing developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning automation announce an imminent technological revolution like nothing we have ever seen. Our relation to traditional labor markets, artistic creation, and modes of education has already been drastically disrupted and will potentially change even more. It seems that we are witnessing the dawn of a new age in which human intellectual and productive capacities are outsourced to machines and human connection is mediated by algorithms in digital spaces.

Pop Culture Studies Journal Special Issue on TOYS!

updated: 
Friday, March 13, 2026 - 1:38pm
Midwest Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 25, 2026

 Contribute to a Special Issue of the Pop Culture Studies Journal on TOYS!

Volume Editor: Jonathan Alexandratos

Abstract: ~500 words due by April 25th to the editor via email at jsalexan@gmail.com.

Overview:

Paper. Film. TV screen. Sound recording. Internet. These are common ways popular culture reaches us. However, while scholarship around comics, movies, TV shows, music, and online media expands, one pop culture area too often remains under-explored: toys.

Disability in Academia Across the Career Trajectory

updated: 
Friday, March 13, 2026 - 1:38pm
MLA Committee on Disability Issues
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 16, 2026

Roundtable reflecting on impacts of disabilities on work life in graduate school, pre-tenure, post-tenure, among contingent faculty, and in leadership positions. Please send CV and 300-word abstract for 8- to 10-minute contributions to: Cassandra.falke@uit.no

Disability and Hierarchy

updated: 
Friday, March 13, 2026 - 1:38pm
Modern Language Association: Committee on Disability Issues
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 16, 2026

For the 2027 Modern Langauge Association Convention, the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession welcomes papers about:

  • disability restricting ascent within social or academic hierarchies
  • anti-hierarchical thinking in literature portraying disabled people
  • representations of disabilities according to an imagined hierarchy

Please submit a 300-word abstract and CV to: Cassandra.falke@uit.no

CFP Reminder: Humanities Bulletin, 9.1, May 2026, UK, London

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 4:43pm
London Academic Publishing
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 25, 2026

Humanities Bulletin - Call for papers
Submission Deadline: April 25, 2026
Vol. 9, No. 1 - May, 2026

ISSN 2517-4266

Humanities Bulletin is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed Journal which features original studies and reviews in the various branches of Humanities, including History, Literature, Philosophy, Arts.
This journal is not allied with any specific school of thinking or cultural tradition; instead, it encourages dialogue between ideas and people with different points of view. Our aim is to bring together different international scholars, in order to promote the dialogue between cultures, ideas and new academic researches.
The Journal is hosted by London Academic Publishing, London, UK.

Call for Papers: Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre *Deadline: 31 JULY 2026*

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 4:35pm
Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 31, 2026

We invite submissions for the upcoming issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in SEPTEMBER. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography, ERIH Plus, DOAJ, EBSCO and Gale Cengage.

Deadline is the end of JULY but we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.

* Original works, not published elsewhere or related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication.

* Please note that all manuscripts will be closely examined through Turnitin once they are received by the journal.

Eliot Society: MMLA 2026

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 2:18pm
International T.S. Eliot Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 24, 2026

Eliot Society MMLA CFP 2026

FEMSPEC - Call for Creative Writing Editor

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 2:12pm
Femspec
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 31, 2026

FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks volunteers to fill the following role:

CREATIVE WRITING EDITOR

 

Duties Include:

Coordinating the peer review process for creative writing submissions to the journal.  The Creative Writing Editor would liaise with authors who submit to the journal, would pass their submissions on to peer reviewers, and would return reviewers' comments to the authors. 

 

Attending collective meetings on a regular basis (now Thursday 12:30 PM EST) - meetings are held every week during production, then move to every other week afterward

 

Preferred Qualifications:

FEMSPEC - Call for Proofreader

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 2:12pm
Femspec
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 31, 2026

FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks volunteers to fill the following role:

 

Proofreader

 

Duties include:

 

Proofreading all material to be published in the journal.  This includes scholarly articles, book and media reviews, event coverage, and other material.  Note that proofreading is restricted to correcting errors of grammar, punctuation, citation, and phrasing - the Proofreader will not be reviewing or altering the content of the submitted material (this is covered in the peer review process).

 

“Hegel’s Philosophy of Action”

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 2:08pm
"Open Philosophy" De Gruyter Brill
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

for a topical issue of Open Philosophy

HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY OF ACTION

 

Open Philosophy (https://www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/opphil/html) invites submissions for the topical issue “Hegel’s Philosophy of Action”, edited by Bojana Jovićević (University of Ljubljana) and Gregor Schäfer (University of Basel/University of London).

 

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FEMSPEC - Call for Peer Reviewer for Article Submission about The Orville

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 1:35pm
Femspec
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Femspec seeks a guest peer reviewer to review an article submission about the television series The Orville.

Qualifications:

1. The applicant has watched the series.

2. The applicant possesses an MA or PhD in English, Women's and Gender Studies, or a related field, or is an advanced graduate student pursuing a degree in one of these fields.

 

Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist academic journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.  Femspec publishes both academic scholarship and creative writing.

 

15th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies - Language, Literature, and AI

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 1:34pm
Alfa BK University, Belgrade, Serbia
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Dear colleagues, 

 

Faculty of Foreign Languages is pleased to announce two confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. Jozef Štefčik (Bratislava University of Economics and Business) and Prof. Danimir Mandić (Faculty of Education, University of Belgrade).

Our 15th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies will be held on 29 and 30 May 2026. The topic for this edition of our annual conference is

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

18th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 1:34pm
Northwestern State University of Louisiana
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

The 18th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference will be held September 12, 2026, at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The conference committee is now accepting presentation proposals for the upcoming conference. Presentation proposals on any aspect of the 2026 conference theme “Remembering Louisiana,” as well as creative texts by, about, and/or for Louisiana and Louisianans, are sought for this year’s conference.

Close Reading, Professional Practice, and Public Writing (seminar)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 1:17pm
Modern Language Association, 2027
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 16, 2026

Why is close reading a particularly valuable learning strategy/professional practice at the current moment? This MLA seminar (a guaranteed session) seeks participants interested in thinking and talking through aspects of close reading with an eye towards producing pieces of public writing (e.g. an OpEd, think piece, lyric essay, call to action, etc. published in a newspaper, magazine, or periodical, in print or online). Topics for exploration may include, but are not limited to:

University of Toronto Quarterly - General Submissions CFP

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 1:14pm
University of Toronto Quarterly
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

University of Toronto Quarterly (UTQ) is currently seeking submissions. Established in 1931, UTQ publishes innovative and exemplary scholarship from all areas in the humanities. As an interdisciplinary journal, UTQ favours articles that appeal to a scholarly readership beyond the specialists of a given discipline or field.

Composition beyond Walls: Writing and Arguing for/in Spaces beyond the Classroom

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 1:05pm
Jeff Birkenstein & Sharon Mitchler/Centralia College
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 22, 2026

Call for Papers:

Panel Title: Composition beyond Walls: Writing and Arguing for/in Spaces beyond the Classroom
Location: MLA National Conference, Los Angeles, California
Date: January 7-10, 2027

Panel Hosts: Dr. Jeff Birkenstein and Dr. Sharon Mitchler, Centralia College (Centralia, Washington)

Proposal Deadline: March 22, 2026

 

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