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Call for Papers
Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2026 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 25-27, 2026
Virtual Conference
Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026
CFP: MW/SWCCL, “Taking Care”
Midwest/Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature
College of the Ozarks
Point Lookout, Missouri
September 25-26, 2026
International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology
ISSN: 0975-3826(online); 0975-4660 (Print)
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJCST/Home.html
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Scope & Topics
Theme: The Other Side of the Looking Glass
Call for Papers
UCLA QGrad 2026: SELVAGE
Queer/Trans Studies Graduate Student Research Conference
Keynote: Dr. PJ DiPietro
Conference Date: Friday, October 30, 2026
Abstracts Due: Friday, April 10, 2026
UCLA’s 29th annual QGrad Conference invites graduate students working in any discipline engaging with queer, trans, and sexuality studies to convene under its 2026 theme, “Selvage.”
29th Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference
University of Mississippi
August 8th—9th, 2026
Call for Submissions
Supernatural South(s): The Monstrous, The Fantastic, The Grotesque, The Speculative and So On…
The Southern Writers/Southern Writing Conference (SW/SW) is an interdisciplinary conference, welcoming graduate students, creative writers, activists, and community members with interest in the U.S. or Global South from all departments and fields of study. The 29th meeting of SW/SW will be held at the University of Mississippi from August 8th-August 9th, 2026.
Theme: Is it a Wonderful Life?
Wonder (n.): a feeling of surprise or awe, caused by something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable
Wonder (v.): to feel some doubt or curiosity; to be desirous to know or learn.
Wondrous (adj.): marvelous; wonderful.
UVA Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXIX
Undergraduate Sessions
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise
September 17-19, 2026
Keynote Address:
“Arthur's Great Death in Malory and its Afterlives”
Karen Cherewatuk, Saint Olaf College
Call for Papers
Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, and Personal Narrative
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2026 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 25-27, 2026
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 30, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026
The 21st century has been defined by large-scale global change driven by migration, exile, border reconfigurations, political upheaval, and shifting power dynamics – all of which have profoundly shaped debates surrounding human rights, identity, culture, and belonging. Furthermore, as digital platforms collapse geographic distance and intensify new forms of surveillance, nationalism, and exclusion, diasporic subjects must navigate complex landscapes of memory, language, race, gender, and political belonging.
This panel seesion for the 2026 RMMLA Conference to be held Ocober 8-10, 2026 in Ogden, Utah, seeks papers that explore all aspects of English literature of the twentieth century to present, namely proposals that look at British or ex-patriot artists and/or works by those authors whose English Commonwealth residency influenced their art since 1900. Interdisciplinary approaches to anlyses of the literature are welcome.
Abstract
This session invites papers exploring the role of affect and emotion in contemporary world literature. Recent developments in affect theory—particularly the work of Sara Ahmed and Lauren Berlant—have emphasized how emotions circulate across individuals, communities, and cultural contexts. Literary texts offer a powerful site for examining how affect shapes narratives of identity, belonging, and social transformation within global and transnational frameworks.
Call for Papers
MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Conference 2026
Media and Sustainability
University of Reading,
Minghella Studios, Whiteknights Campus
Reading RG6 6BT
9th September 2026
Organising committee: Babsie Keulemans, Emir Anday and Elizabeth Heaney
Any questions about the conference or the submission process can be directed to:
Babsie Keulemans – e.l.keulemans@pgr.reading.ac.uk
Translational Research and Teaching: Bridging Knowledge, Practice, and Community October 29-November 1, 2026 Panama City, Florida
Hosted in partnership by Florida State University, Florida A&M University, and the University of Mississippi
The Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS) is pleased to invite proposals for our 48th annual conference. AIS 2026 focuses on the theme of Translational Research and Teaching, exploring interdisciplinary work that bridges the gap between researchers, educators, practitioners, and community partners.
Call for Papers
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2026 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 25-27, 2026
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 30, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026
Call for Papers
Digital & Analog Cultures
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2026 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 25-27, 2026
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 30, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026
The following is a cfp for a roundtable session at the forthcoming PAMLA 2026 conference to be hosted in Seattle, Washington, U.S. from Nov 12-15, 2026.
Please contact Noah Gallego @noahrgallego for inquiries.
All abstracts must be submitted through the PAMLA submission portal.
The deadline is May 15, 2026
This roundtable invites scholars across the disciplines and different stages in their academic career with an interest in horror to undertake critical investigations into specifically male-centered horror media. By “male-centered,” I am referring to texts that spotlight male identity and the male body, cis-, queer, and trans- included, as sites of fear and monstrosity.
In the collective global imaginary, humans seemingly write the world in isolation. We dictate the climate, biodiversity, and natural resources but we also control the ways in which the world is perceived through literature. This roundtable considers how literature is a co-constitutive process written through connectivity across time and space, landscapes, species, environments, and voices by humans and more-than-humans.
We are pleased to announce that the PAMLA 2026 Conference will be held at the lovely Hyatt Regency Seattle in Seattle, Washington! The conference will begin on Thursday morning, November 12, and continue through Sunday afternoon, November 15, 2026.
The 2026 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person at the Hyatt Regency. There will be no virtual or hybrid sessions or papers: the entire conference is being held in-person. So, please join us for an in-person intellectual, cultural, and social experience in the heart of one of the loveliest and most vibrant of cities: Seattle.
Archival Abundance and Silences in Islamic Studies: A Graduate Conference
Call for Proposals
October 2nd – 3rd 2026
Princeton University
Keynote Speaker: Nancy Khalek, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Associate Professor of History at Brown University
Submission Guidelines
The deadline for submissions is March 20th, 2026. Please submit a 300-word abstract with a short 50-word bio to our conference email address: otherothering@gmail.com
We are only accepting submissions written in the English language
Each participant is allocated 15 minutes for their presentation
Successful applicants will receive an invitation to the conference by 2nd April, 2026
Concept of other and othering
Please consider submitting an abstract to present in my conference panel. The conference is open to graduate students (MA and PhD-track), educators, practicing artists, and museum professionals. Details below:
Call for Abstracts – SECAC Panel
Immersive Threads: Narrative, Participation, and the Making of Experiential Worlds
How do narrative and participation become interwoven within immersive environments? How do we, as participants, become threads within experiential artworks, installations, museums, performances, digital platforms, or urban spaces?
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
English Nineteenth-Century Literature Panel
October 8-10, 2026
Ogden, Utah
Abstract Deadline: April 1, 2026
The 2026 Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association welcomes abstracts related to English Nineteenth-Century Literature. Ranging from the Regency to the Victorian era, the Nineteenth Century was an eclectic time facing significant social, political, and economic changes. Considering this period of change (and perhaps even how our own time is one of change) we invite abstracts dealing with how 19th Century British Literature explored topics such as, but not limited to:
The International T. S. Eliot Society
The 47th Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society
25-27 September 2026
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
250-500 worded abstracts to be sent to the session organisers at:
Event: University of Washington English Department Writing Programs’ Praxis Conference
Theme: Writing With
Date: Fri May 29, 2026
Location: Seattle, Washington, United States (University of Washington, Seattle campus)
CFP SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 13, 11:59pm PST (UPDATE: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 16, 11:59pm PST)
We are pleased to invite proposals for the University of Washington English Department Writing Programs’ sixth annual Praxis Conference, which will be held at the University of Washing, Seattle campus on Friday, May 29th, 2026.
“I Put a Spell on You” @ 70: 3rd Annual Goth Music and Subculture Symposium
Theme: “Hyphenated Hauntings: Examining Proto-goth and Goth-adjacent Bands”
Submission Deadline:
June 12, 2026
Symposium Date:
August 15, 2026
Format:
Online (via Zoom, Pacific)
Abstract:
200 words
Biographical Statement, inclusive of position, institutional affiliation, previous publications, accolades, research interests, etc.
Time Zone
Submit to:
Call for Papers: Temporalities: The Sixth Annual Critical Femininities Conference
The Critical Femininities Network invites abstracts from scholars, researchers, activists, and artists for the sixth annual Critical Femininities Conference on the theme of ‘Temporalities.’ The conference will take place virtually on August 7 - 9, 2026.
As the flagship journal of Northwestern’s Environment, Culture, and Society cluster, Lime’s second symposium takes its thematic inspiration from a site familiar to all Chicagoans, and so too for our neighbors around the Great Lakes region. We seek to mobilize the productive multivalence of the shore, the collision point between formlessness and form, known and unknown, or the sanctioned and the unruly, as a metaphoric image for the transgressive encounters initiated by work in the environmental humanities.