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“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
George Orwell, 1984
The Saul Bellow Society will host one session at the American Literature Association’s 37th Annual Conference at the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, on May 20-23, 2026. Proposals for papers on Saul Bellow and Chicago are particularly welcome but may address any aspect of Saul Bellow’s work or life, including comparisons with other authors.
Proposals for presentations should include a title, your name and affiliation, e-mail address, and a short abstract. The Saul Bellow Society welcomes proposals from established and newer scholars, including graduate students.
35TH ANNUAL BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES CONFERENCE
FEBRUARY 20-21, 2026
DESOTO SAVANNAH, SAVANNAH GA
Call for Submissions – The Soliloquist Winter 2026 Issue
Theme: Beneath the Surface
Winter is a season of stillness—but beneath the frost, roots are reaching, rivers are flowing, and stories are gathering strength.
For our Winter 2026 issue, The Soliloquist invites poets and writers to explore what lies hidden: the unspoken truths, buried memories, secret longings, submerged identities, and quiet rebellions that shape who we are. We seek work that dives below the obvious, the curated, the polished—into the depths where vulnerability, resilience, and revelation intertwine.
Call for Papers
The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS)
American Literature Association
37th Annual Conference
May 20-23, 2026
Palmer House
17 East Monroe Street
Chicago, IL 60603
Panel: Where There’s Life: Reading Liberated Futures in Multiethnic Literature
Call for PapersCyber-Intimacies: Queer and Feminist Interventions in Global Cyber Politics
Edited by Amy Lind, Stephen Bryant, and Prateek Srivastava
Abstract Submission Deadline: December 15th, 2025
The 33rd Annual NINE Spring Training Conference (March 4-7, 2026) invites original unpublished papers that study all aspects of baseball, with particular emphasis on history, literature, and social policy implications. Abstracts only, not to exceed 300 words, should be submitted by November 14, 2025, to co-directors Willie Steele (wdsteele@lipscomb.edu) and David Pegram (david.pegram@paradisevalley.edu) for the abstract committee’s consideration. We ask that you please copy your submission to both of us.
Call for Submissions for “Ariel’s Corner” (Miranda e-journal)
Submissions for ‘Ariel’s Corner’ section of Miranda e-journal are open.
Miranda is a scholarly e-journal focusing on a wide range of social and cultural practices of the English-speaking world and encouraging the broadest possible spectrum of scholarly approaches. A special section, called ‘Ariel’s Corner,’ is dedicated to the arts in the English-speaking world.
Undergraduate students are invited to submit a proposal for presentation at the 2026 Popular Culture Association Annual Conference. Presentation proposals should consist of a 250-to-300 word abstract or summary of your presentation topic which can include any topic as long as it covers some aspect of popular culture, American culture, or international culture.
We are now accepting research articles, scholarly papers, creative writing, artwork, photography, and reviews for our 2025 issue of
1890: A Journal of Undergraduate Research.
1890 provides undergraduate students the opportunity to demonstrate their interests and abilities in various disciplines by accepting works of research, creative writing, poetry, reviews, and art.
Bob Dylan and the Value of Art in the 21st Century
5-7 November 2026
University of Southern Denmark
Odense, Denmark
Special Topics CFP: Visual and Material Culture
CEA 2026/DECLARATIONS
March 26-28, 2026
Hilton Charlotte University Place
SUBMISSION DEADLINE NOVEMBER 1, 2025
JOIN US IN THE QUEEN CITY
On May 20, 1775—a year before the signing of the Declaration of Independence—the citizens of North Carolina declared their own independence from Great Britain in the Mecklenberg Declaration. Today, more than 250 years later, North Carolinians continue to celebrate “Meck Dec” and their history as "a free and independent people."
Special Topics CFP: The Profession
CEA 2026/DECLARATIONS
March 26-28, 2026
Hilton Charlotte University Place
SUBMISSION DEADLINE NOVEMBER 1, 2025
JOIN US IN THE QUEEN CITY
On May 20, 1775—a year before the signing of the Declaration of Independence—the citizens of North Carolina declared their own independence from Great Britain in the Mecklenberg Declaration. Today, more than 250 years later, North Carolinians continue to celebrate “Meck Dec” and their history as "a free and independent people."
Time of the Wolf:
Visual/Textual Culture of Ethical Impasse
Call for Submissions: "Hello Godot" – A One-Minute Existential Play Anthology (Volume 11)
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/home
Email: dramaanthologyfreshwords@gmail.com
Last date of submission: November 28th, 2025
Fresh Words-An International Literary Magazine is inviting submissions for a special one minute play anthology "Hello Godot".
Submission Guidelines:
1. Theme and Tone
Call for Papers
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025
Proposal Deadline: December 15, 2025
Under consideration with a major academic press
Following the Eisner Award–winning success of The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader (University Press of Mississippi, 2022), we are now curating a second volume to extend, deepen, and diversify queer comics scholarship.
The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (https://pcaaca.org/) annual conference will be held April 8-11, 2026, at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis in Atlanta, Georgia. Scholars from a wide variety of disciplines will meet to share their Popular Culture research and interests.
The Libraries, Archives & Museums area is soliciting papers dealing with any aspect of Popular Culture as it pertains to libraries, archives, museums, or related areas. Possible topics include:
The recent IRSCL 2025 Congress, titled “Borders, Migration, and Liminality in Children’s Literature,” held in Salamanca (Spain), offered a unique opportunity to examine these themes from a multiplicity of perspectives — literary, aesthetic, cultural, linguistic and pedagogical. Building on the dialogues initiated at the congress, this Special Issue invites contributions that explore how children’s and young adult literature (and related media) negotiate, represent, and theorize experiences of migration and border-crossing, and how they open up liminal spaces for the redefinition of childhood in a changing world.
The annual Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Graduate Student Workshop will be held on Monday, June 16, 2026 (the day before our annual conference begins) at the DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois.
Every year, the Association holds it annual conference, usually a two-day affair, as well as a graduate student workshop, usually held the day before the annual conference. The 2026 annual meeting will be held at the DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois from June 17-18th.
Uprooted Law: Reflecting on the Origins and Outgrowths of Law
The Seventh International Deleuze and Guattari Studies in India Collective (DGSIC) Conference
February 25-28, 2026
“Culture without Organs (CWO): Machinic Thought, Transdisciplinary Assemblages, and Cartographies of Difference”
Organized by
Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
in collaboration with
Deleuze and Guattari Studies in India Collective (DGSIC)
The School for International Training (SIT) invites proposals from researchers and scholars to contribute to a roundtable discussion focused on the following areas: climate and the environment; development and inequality; education and social change; geopolitics and power; global health and well-being; identity and human resilience; and peace and justice.
“American Shorts 2026” will take place on October 29-31, 2026, at the School of Arts & Humanities of the University of Lisbon, Portugal.
American Shorts 2026 webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/americanshorts2026
Submission deadline: 10 June, 2026
Conference: 29-31 October, 2026
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
CFP Panel at ESSE Conference, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 31st August-4th September 2026
Panel #47
Call for proposals
Edited collection: READING ROBERT GIPE
Deadline for abstracts: Dec. 1, 2025
Deadline for final drafts: Nov 1, 2026
The National Humanities Center (NHC) invites proposals for the Being Human Festival (US), a public humanities initiative for diverse, non-academic audiences across regions and subject areas. Events for this year’s Festival will take place April 18–May 2, 2026, and will be organized around the theme of “Between the Lines”–a space of hidden histories, shifting borders, and unspoken meanings.
Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) Sponsored Workshop on
Precarity and Human Life: Reflections of Artificial Intelligence in Literature and Popular Culture 2.0
Date: 15th-19th December 2025
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
We invite submissions for Lands of the Lost: A Field Guide to Dinosaur Parks Physical, Fictional, and for the Future, an edited collection that explores extinct animal parks real, imagined, unrealized, or yet to be. Our goal is to bring together multi-disciplinary perspectives to examine parks across time and space, across fact and fiction. We seek to understand how these projects, which reconstitute and enclose long-extinct life forms, intersect with histories of science, capitalism, imperialism, environmental change, and more.