general announcements

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

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

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:

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.

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.

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.

 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.

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

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.

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:

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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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

The Editorial Team of The Scattered Pelican, the graduate journal of the Comparative Literature program at Western University, is currently seeking peer reviewers for the upcoming issue of the journal.

About the Journal

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.