general announcements

Empathy and Storytelling Conference November 20-21, 2026

St. Bonaventure University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 1, 2026

Educators, researchers, writers, and content creators are invited to submit proposals for presentations. Graduate student participation is welcome. Presentation types might include:

• traditional oral readings of papers (15 minutes)
• timed slide presentations
• roundtable presentations
• pre-constituted panels

Irony: Dramatic and Otherwise

Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate - University of Tübingen
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 31, 2026

Call for Papers: 19th International Connotations Symposium

Irony: Dramatic and Otherwise

Tübingen, Germany, 25-28 July 2027

Cleveland Symposium 2026: Wear: Indexing the Human Body

Case Western Reserve University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 14, 2026

Wear: Indexing the Human Body

52nd Annual Cleveland Symposium
Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Friday, November 13, 2026

The "Forms" of Academic Work

Fabio Durão (UNICAMP) and Tim Lanzendörfer (Frankfurt University)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 30, 2026

Call for Abstracts / Papers for a Special Issue of MatLit (Materialities of Literature / Materialidades da Literatura), vol. 12, 2027, edited by Fabio Durao and Tim Lanzendörfer

https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/matlit/announcement/view/359

The "Forms" of Academic Work
Editors: Fabio Durão (UNICAMP) and Tim Lanzendörfer (Frankfurt University)

A Golden Age? Global Historical Fictions and Political Nostalgia

Historical Fictions Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 1, 2026

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

The Historical Fictions Research Network, an interdisciplinary and international network of scholars examining historical fictions, i.e. narratives of the past in a variety of popular media, is happy to organise its 2026 one-day workshop on the topic of 

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

CFP: Popular Culture Association Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Elizabeth Downey/Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 31, 2026

Call For Papers

The Popular Culture Association (PCA) annual conference will be held March 24-27, 2027 at the Boston Marriott Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts. Scholars from a wide variety of disciplines will meet to share their Popular Culture research and interests. The Libraries, Archives & Museums area invites proposals dealing with any aspect of Popular Culture as it pertains to libraries, archives, museums, or related areas.

Necrocapitalism and Neoliberal Politics: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Responses in India

Ravenshaw University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 10, 2026

Call for Papers

 

Title of the book: Necrocapitalism and Neoliberal Politics: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Responses in India Publisher: The contract has been signed with Springer Nature

 

Deadline for submission of full paper: 10 October, 2026

Volume editors:

 

Abhijit Maity

Assistant Professor, Lady Shri Ram College for Women

University of Delhi, India

 

Dr. Joydev Maity,

Faculty,

Department of English, Ravenshaw University, India

 

The "Forms" of Academic Work

Tim Lanzendörfer, Fabio Durao
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 30, 2026

Call for Abstracts / Papers for a Special Issue of MatLit (Materialities of Literature / Materialidades da Literatura), vol. 12, 2027, edited by Fabio Durao and Tim Lanzendörfer

https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/matlit/announcement/view/359

The "Forms" of Academic Work
Editors: Fabio Durão (UNICAMP) and Tim Lanzendörfer (Frankfurt University)

"Memory, Trauma and Recovery" 7th International Interdisciplinary Conference

InMind Support
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 4, 2026

Conference: 24-25 September 2026 (online, via Zoom)

Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland

Marzia Dessi  - The European Graduate School [EGS] Saas Fee, Switzerland

Professor Ryan Habermeyer -  Salisbury University, USA

CFP:

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