general announcements

How do people narrate movement, imagine home and negotiate belonging? This international conference brings literary inquiry into conversation with interdisciplinary perspectives on borders, migration and diaspora. Inviting academic researchers, artists and creators, independent researchers, policy makers, industry professionals and activists. Human movement across localities, regions, nations and oceans has long shaped societies and their stories. From the Great Depression and the Partition of India to the movement of workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, migration has generated literary, cinematic and media representations that illuminate relationships among individuals, communities and nation-states.

The BRIDGS Initiative is now accepting applications to the Emergent Scholars Fellowship.  Applications due November 15th, 2

Call for Papers

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://swpaca.org

Submissions open: September 1, 2026

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026

Dear Colleagues, and friends

We are holding the conference 'Late Bowie: Legacy, Mortality and the Archival Impulse' at Kingston university, in our state of the art Visconti recording studio, Kingston Hill, on Nov 5th and 6th of this year.

We have a really exciting programme with some great speakers and guests. These include Harriet Reed (Project Lead, Bowie Archive, V&A Storehouse East; Clare Watt (Bowie fellow, V&A); Peter Carpenter (author of Bowieland: Walking in the Footsteps of David [Octopus Books, 2025]); British film and TV producer Kevin Loader and Jonathan Barnbrook, graphic designer of Bowie;s albums from Heathen (2002) to Blackstar (2016).

AfroLatinx Studies is not an emerging field. It is a field of study with a past that can be traced back to the 15th century and an ongoing political and intellectual project. The recent formation and institutionalization of AfroLatinx studies does not make it new. It is an area of knowledge production rooted in the African diaspora and migration patterns to the United States and hemispherically. Black diasporic epistemologies, archives (material and embodied), and cultural production of AfroLatinx lives have been catalysts to the formation of the field. As AfroLatinx Studies becomes an institutionalized field of study questions like: what is the work of AfroLatinx Studies? What has it been?

The 2027 Telos-Paul Piccone Institute Annual Conference
March 19–20, 2027
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College/CUNY
New York, NY

Deus et Machina: Technology, Politics, and Theology in the Age of AI

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS  THE DOOR OPENS AT MIDNIGHT  An International Anthology of Three-Page Plays

Email all submission to:dramaanthologyfreshwords@gmail.com 

Website:https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/announcements

At 11:59, it is an ordinary night.

At midnight, the door opens.

Who is standing outside?

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 2027 annual meeting will be held at the University of California, Berkeley from May 27-28.

Discipline

Call for Papers (CFP)

Literatūra – Scientific Journal of Vilnius University

New Horizons in Spanish-Language Literatures

Literatūra, the scientific journal of Vilnius University, is preparing a special issue dedicated to innovative research on literatures written in Spanish. The issue aims to bring together contributions that, drawing on contemporary critical perspectives and interdisciplinary approaches, propose new ways of reading, interpreting, and contextualising texts, authors, and literary phenomena from the Spanish-speaking world.

Architectures of Deceit provides a timely analysis of how and why imposture has emerged as a shared media logic across cinema, television, streaming platforms, and networked culture.

The volume offers a new critical lens for examining how contemporary screen culture negotiates identity, class mobility, institutional legitimacy, technological change, and the erosion of social and public trust. It traces a trajectory from fictional impostors and narratives of real-world fraud to deceptive media infrastructures and machine-generated images.

 The volume is organized into four parts:

Part I — Constructing a Legible Self: Class, Identity, and Recognition

Call for Papers

“A Golden Age? Global Historical Fictions and Political Nostalgia” 

One-Day Online Workshop of the Historical Fictions Research Network

28 November 2026 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)

15 min talks

INAUGURAL INTER-HUMANITIES SYMPOSIUM AT FSU 

“Borderless World: Text, Image, and Sound” 

Florida State University, Tallahassee 

April 1-2, 2027 

Theme: Technology, Ecology and Extinction: Narratives of Survival and Loss
Date: 5-6 March 2027, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Organisers: Symbiosis Centre for Media and Communication (SCMC), Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India

Abstract:

Hindutva and Capitalism in Contemporary India