interdisciplinary

NeMLA CFP: 'Hieroglyphics of the flesh:' Embodied Archives in French and Francophone Contexts (Panel)

updated: 
Friday, June 12, 2026 - 8:23am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

This panel explores archives beyond the traditional frame and instead as embodied spaces of cultural memory and histories inscribed on skin. Building upon Hortense Spillers’ important essay Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe (1987), we seek papers from humanities scholars in the French and Francophone worlds that reframe the body not as a passive victim but as a living text, a site of memory, and an alternative space that rescripts official records. By retracing histories through the reading of the body, we can activate affect, unleash unexpected memories, and create generative spaces for art that centres on cultural knowledge to empower communities.

“The American Literary Studies Periodical as Form”

updated: 
Friday, June 12, 2026 - 3:14am
Tim Lanzendörfer
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

“The American Literary Studies Periodical as Form”

Special Issue of American Periodicals

Ed. Tim Lanzendörfer, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

Drag in Appalachia Anthology: Call for Proposals

updated: 
Thursday, June 11, 2026 - 1:20pm
Beck Banks & Jacob Kopcienski/Warren Wilson College & Appalachia State
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 1, 2026

We invite proposals for an anthology about drag in Appalachia. The collection aims to explore drag’s artistry, history, and cultural power. We welcome scholars, performers, and community storytellers whose work illuminates the region’s queer lineages, traditions, politics, creativity, and beyond. We especially invite pieces that examine drag as labor, community care, spiritual practice, historical reclamation, or engagement with Appalachia’s diverse cultural landscapes.

Becoming Animal: Speculation and Multispecies Entanglements in 21st-Century Latin American Writing

updated: 
Thursday, June 11, 2026 - 11:46am
Erica Durante / Brown University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

This panel examines how 21st-century Latin American women writers mobilize animality as a speculative practice to rethink the limits of the human. Moving beyond metaphor or allegory, these texts stage multispecies intimacies—zones of proximity in which human–animal lives become entangled across bodies, affects, and environments, unsettling stable distinctions among species, subjectivities, and forms of agency.

Call for Papers: Journal of Travel Literature Studies (JTLS)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 10, 2026 - 11:09pm
Journal of Travel Literature Studies (JTLS)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 1, 2027

Submissions Invited for Upcoming Issues

Dear Colleagues and Researchers,

The Editorial Board of the Journal of Travel Literature Studies (JTLS) warmly invites scholars, experts, and young researchers from the global academic community to submit their original, unpublished manuscripts for our upcoming issues.

Durham University Postgraduate English Journal 48th Issue: Artificial Intelligence, Social Media and the Future of Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, June 10, 2026 - 8:20pm
English Department, Durham University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 10, 2026

Postgraduate English, Durham University’s online peer-reviewed literary journal, has been publishing postgraduate research biannually since the year 2000 and is one of the longest-running online postgraduate literary journals in the world. In recent years the journal has received reprint requests from academic publishers.

The journal aims to provide a space for postgraduate students and early-career researchers (including those currently institutionally unaffiliated) to showcase their work and receive feedback from established academics. While the journal is based in the UK, we seek to cultivate an international range of contributors and judge submissions primarily for strength of argument and fresh insight over a fixed writing style.

Diaspora, Exile and Colonial Memory in Literature, Film, and Art

updated: 
Wednesday, June 10, 2026 - 1:00pm
Katy Siroun Simonian / PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Greetings!

Embrace the opportunity to present your work at this year's PAMLA Conference (Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association) which will be held in Seattle, Washington from Nov. 12-15, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel with a beautiful welcome event set to take place on the evening of Nov. 11.

https://www.pamla.org/pamla2026/

"Diaspora, Exile, and Colonial Memory in Literature, Film, and Art"

Emergence of New World Imagination in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Asia: Understanding Asian Colonial Countries through Travelogues, Memoirs, Testimonies and Archival Documents

updated: 
Wednesday, June 10, 2026 - 7:07am
Department of English, Adamas University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 31, 2026

Brief Synopsis: 

The nineteenth and twentieth centuries witnessed profound political, social, and cultural transformations across Asia. This edited volume, Emergence of New World Imagination in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Asia: Understanding Asian Colonial Countries through Travelogues, Memoirs, Testimonies and Archival Documents, seeks to examine how autobiographical narratives, letters, memoirs, travelogues, oral narratives, and archival documents written in various Indian languages engage with the colonial and postcolonial histories of East Asia, Southeast Asia, West Asia, and South Asia.

Critical Agrarian Humanities: Farming and World-Making in the Anthropocene

updated: 
Wednesday, June 10, 2026 - 3:22am
Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 31, 2026

Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies

Vol. 53 No. 2 | September 2027

Call for Papers

Critical Agrarian Humanities:

Farming and World-Making in the Anthropocene

Guest Editors

Shiuhhuah Serena Chou (Academia Sinica)

Scott Slovic (Oregon Research Institute)

Deadline for Submissions: December 31, 2026

 

2026 Sachsman Symposium on the 19th Century Press

updated: 
Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - 8:53pm
Society of Nineteenth Century Historians
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 24, 2026

The Society of Nineteenth Century Historians, in partnership with the Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Augusta University, presents the 34th Annual Sachsman Symposium on the 19th Century Press, Nov. 12-14, 2026.

Creativity and Praxis: The Politics of Aesthetics in an Age of Polycrisis

updated: 
Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - 8:09pm
J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, Adelaide University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 31, 2026

Creativity and Praxis:

The Politics of Aesthetics in an Age of Polycrisis

An International Interdisciplinary Symposium, 1-2 October 2026

J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice

Adelaide University

North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia

 

Keynote Readings by: 

J.M. Coetzee 

Anna Funder

Nam Le

 

Other Keynotes to Be Confirmed

 

EMERGE 2026: Contested Futures

updated: 
Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - 5:35pm
Intitute for Philosophy and Social Theory
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 20, 2026

Technological futures are not given. They are made, and they can be made differently. EMERGE 2026: Contested Futures takes place at a moment when AI systems have become central to the organization of economic power, political control, and social sorting, while democratic institutions struggle to keep pace and ecological costs mount. Rather than treating technological change as inevitable or neutral, the conference invites critical reflection on how emerging technologies are developed, governed, narrated, and contested.

Tribal Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - 2:48pm
Department of English
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 15, 2026

JOURNAL ISSUE

Call for Papers

Tribal Literature

Editor: Dr. Animesh Roy

   

 

 

Concept Note

Seeking essays/creative pieces for a new volume on the Golden Record

updated: 
Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - 11:42am
Jessica Hurley
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 31, 2026

eds. Kate Genevieve, Jessica Hurley, Juan Francisco Salazar

An anthology marking fifty years since the launch of NASA’s Voyager mission and the Golden Record, inviting outer space studies and artistic contributions to grow just, plural futures for the second space age. This volume takes the Voyager Golden Record as a catalyst for creatively rethinking planetary futures. Bringing together artists with historians of science, STS scholars, ethnographers and community practitioners engaged with outer space, the book combines critique with reparative and imaginative work. 

Poetry & Poetry Studies at MAPACA

updated: 
Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - 10:45am
Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Poetry & Poetry Studies at MAPACA 2026

November 5-7, 2026 at the Lord Baltimore Hotel, Baltimore, MD

Deadline: 6/30/2026

 

IEEE GEM 2026 – Games, Entertainment & Media Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - 10:12am
IEEE
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 22, 2026

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to submit your contributions to IEEE GEM 2026 – Games, Entertainment & Media Conference, which will take place in Berlin, Germany, from September 5 to 7, 2026.

IEEE GEM 2026 will be held in conjunction with ICCE-Berlin, as part of IFA – Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin, one of the world’s leading trade shows for consumer technology and electronics.

 

Alternative Endings: A Symposium Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman

updated: 
Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - 9:41am
Darius Bost, University of Illinois Chicago
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 16, 2026

SAVE THE DATE

Alternative Endings:
A Symposium Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman

October 17, 2026

Northwestern University--Downtown Campus
Chicago, Illinois

Join scholars, filmmakers, artists for a one-day symposium commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of Cheryl Dunye's groundbreaking film The Watermelon Woman.

The symposium will feature:

• A special panel showcasing previously unreleased alternative endings from the film, with commentary from invited scholars.

• A luncheon bringing together contributors to the film, panelists, and local Black women filmmakers.

CFP Literary and Cultural Perspectives on Communities in Fiction

updated: 
Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - 6:08am
Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research (JACLR)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 15, 2027

Literary and Cultural Perspectives on Communities in Fiction

 

Guest editors

Adrián Arana-Armesto (Universidad del País Vasco)

Patricia García Santos (Universidad de Córdoba)

 

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research (JACLR)

 

Deadline: 15th February 2027

 

“WETLANDS”: Representing and Historicizing Wetland Environments

updated: 
Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - 3:06am
University of Lille, France
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 11, 2026

In the wake of ecocriticism and environmental humanities, the blue humanities have emerged as a field of study that emphasizes the centrality of aquatic environments in understanding interactions between humans and nonhumans. This interdisciplinary field, which initially grew out of Anglophone literary criticism, proposes to shift our terra-centric perspective by adopting the seas and oceans as a new vantage point to rethink our understanding of both the planet and literature (Klein, 2002; Blum, 2008; Bailyn, 2005). Originally developed in the United States within the field of Oceanic studies (Blum 2010; Cohen 2010; Mentz 2009), the “Blue studies” have since expanded and become increasingly decentered and diversified.

Wounded, Witnessed, Written: Women and Illness Across Hispanic and Lusophone Texts

updated: 
Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - 2:23am
Amparo Alpañes
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Illness is rarely a purely private experience, yet for women it has historically been rendered invisible: sequestered within domestic walls, dismissed by medical institutions, and silenced in the cultural record. This session examines how film and literature in Spanish and Portuguese bring female sickness out of the shadows, transforming what is often hidden and isolated into a site of testimony, intimacy, and meaning.

Two-Day International Conference (likely to be ICSSR Sponsored) on “Loss of Indigenous Knowledge in the Age of Digital Humanities: Preservation, Power, and the Politics of Representation”

updated: 
Monday, June 8, 2026 - 2:29pm
Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 9, 2026

Concept Note

Two-Day International Conference (likely to be ICSSR Sponsored) on  “Loss of Indigenous Knowledge in the Age of Digital Humanities: Preservation, Power, and the Politics of Representation” (Hybrid Mode)

Journal of Taylor Swift Studies (JOTSS) Special Edition 2026

updated: 
Monday, June 8, 2026 - 1:12pm
The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies (JOTSS)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 30, 2026

The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies (JOTSS)
Binghamton University’s Special Edition

Colloquially Speaking! Ruminations on the Possibilities of the Field: Call for Papers

Submission Deadline: August 30, 2026

Submission Website: https://orb.binghamton.edu/jotss/

Historical Fictions Research Conference 2027

updated: 
Monday, June 8, 2026 - 9:29am
Historical Fictions Research Network / University of Amsterdam
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

The Historical Fictions Research Conference 2027 will take place at Amsterdam University from 4th February to 5th February.

 

For the 2027 conference the HFRN will engage in scholarly discussions on the topic of ‘Power and Politics in Historical Fictions’

 

The 2027 conference in Amsterdam will continue to critically interrogate one of HFRN’s longstanding lines of enquiry: that historical fictions are anything but a banal engagement with the past, but explicitly and implicitly shape and propel political claims, identities and agendas.

The Routledge Companion to the Urban Wyrd

updated: 
Monday, June 8, 2026 - 8:40am
York St John University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 26, 2026

We are seeking abstracts for chapters for The Routledge Companion to the Urban Wyrd. This volume has been contracted and we have commissioned in excess of 35 chapters. We are looking for abstracts which cover particular areas including, the Anglo-Saxon origins of the wyrd, the link between the Gothic and the wyrd city, Georgian and Victorian urban anxiety, global cities, theoretical approaches to the urban wyrd, urban ruin and photography, sound and music and the city, the environment and the urban future.

PAMLA 2026 - The Monstrous Multitude (ddl extended) (still opening) (All kinds of monsters are invited!) (Panel/Special Session)

updated: 
Sunday, June 7, 2026 - 1:33pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Throughout the history of political thought and cultural production, multitudes and mobs that stir up disturbance across the nation, whether revolutionary or reactionary, have frequently been portrayed by the images and metaphors of monstrosity. From the many-headed hydra which was adapted into a political discourse in the early modern age and later revisited by historians such as Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, to contemptuous terms toward the insurrectionists such as swarms or locusts described in Samuel Dolbee’s Locusts of Power, monstrosity and various of dehumanizing terms have long been employed as a signifier through which fears of insurrections are expressed.

Indraprasth: An International Journal of Culture & Communication Studies

updated: 
Sunday, June 7, 2026 - 6:37am
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

    Indraprasth: An International Journal of Culture & Communication Studies, (ISSN 2278-7208), the annual journal published by the University School of Humanities and Social Sciences (USHSS) at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University invites unpublished research papers for its upcoming issue, Volume XV (2026), titled “New Paradigms, New Epistemes: Literature and Criticality in the 21st Century.”  

Critique: Journal of English Language and Literature

updated: 
Saturday, June 6, 2026 - 2:44am
Department of English Literature, Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 31, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

Critique: Journal of English Language and Literature

https://critique.gcuf.edu.pk

Submission Deadline: 31 July 2026

 

 

The Editors of Critique: Journal of English Language and Literature invite the submission of original scholarly articles for consideration in the forthcoming issue of the journal.

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