interdisciplinary

Society for the Study of Affect (SSA)
#MAKE: Methods, Atmospheres, Knowledges, Energies
Vancouver, BC, October 23 to 25, 2026

Abstracts due May 29, 2026
Submit here: https://affectsociety.com/make/conference/?submit=paper&stream_id=30 

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR DIALOG JOURNAL

Special Issue No. 47

Theme: Creative Afterlives of Texts

dialog, a fully peer-reviewed, bi-annual international journal of the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, invites submissions for its forthcoming special issue (No. 47) on “Creative Afterlives of Texts.” The journal provides a forum for interdisciplinary research engaging literature, culture, and critical theory.

Issue 14.2:The Cultural Labor of Internationalism: Reorienting Solidarities in Times of StruggleEdited by Yawen Li, Ajay Bhardwaj, Anup Grewal, and Nicolai Volland. Deadlines | verge@psu.eduConvergence proposals: September 30, 2026Essays: May 15, 2027On the Theme    As militarism, authoritarianism, and chauvinistic nationalism ascend globally, and “Asia” becomes a contested site in geopolitical rivalries, the need to imagine alternative forms of solidarity, including forms of grassroots internationalism, becomes ever more urgent.

Chapter proposals are invited for an edited collection that examines how race and ethnicity have been imagined, negotiated, and represented in Irish children’s and young adult literature — and in literature by young people — from 1600 to 2000. This volume builds directly on the 2025 Irish Studies Review special issue on race, ethnicity, and representation in 21st-century Irish youth literature which was the first full-length scholarly publication to map this under-researched field. The special issue demonstrated the richness and urgency of examining how difference, belonging, and alterity are conceptualised in contemporary Irish youth texts, and highlighted the need for deeper historical contextualisation and research.

Mike Flanagan has emerged over the past fifteen years as one of the most prolific and recognizable horror creators in film and television, working across low-budget independent cinema, studio-backed films, and prestige limited series. Yet despite his prominence, versatility, and authorial trademarks, especially his collaborations with recurring actors and other artistic partners, he has received little sustained scholarly attention.

The annual graduate student conference organized by the Division of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California is now accepting applications. Submission deadline is June 1, 2026.

This year’s conference invites proposals that engage broadly with the theme, Delirium. 

It will take place on October 23–24, 2026, at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, with Professor Eugenie Brinkema joining for the Keynote. 

We welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplines and methodological approaches, including creative works.

The second International Conference on Globalisation in Languages, Education, Culture and Communication (GLECC2026) is going to be held 28-30 July 2026, Manchester, UK. (https://glecc.org/2026/). The submission deadline has now been extended to May 18, 2026.

Keynote speakers confirmed:

1. “Translation, Chinese Texts, and World Literature” by Professor Yifeng Sun, University of Macau, China.

2. “Confucianism's Global Potential: Fresh Perspectives on Fathering From the Sixth Century to Now” by Dr Derek Hird, Lancaster University, UK.

The 2026 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium: “Artists On/Off the Record: Living Archives and Embodied Memory”
ImprovLab, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
September 10-11, 2026
Deadline for Abstracts: May 31, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Green Wall: Narrating Ethnicity, Belonging, and Environmental Nativism in South Asian Cultural Production

Guest Editors

Dr. Mansi Bose, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India

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Dr. Pratyusha Pramanik, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India

Rationale

Contemporary social, ecological, technological, and existential crises compel a rethinking of what it means to exist, to coexist, and to take form in a posthuman world.

Second and Final Call for papers

Sensation: The Sounds, Visions, and Words of David Bowie

Academic conference, University of Agder, Norway 29. – 30. September 2026

Dear colleagues,

Are you planning your summer writing projects—or revising an article and considering where to submit it? The editors of Nineteenth Century Studies are now accepting submissions for the 2027 volume. The deadline for consideration is October 1, 2026; submissions received after this date may be considered for the 2028 volume.

"Let Us Tell An Old Story Anew": Revising / Reinventing / Reimagining Disney

Disney’s Maleficent (2014), a live-action retelling of their animated classic, Sleeping Beauty (1957), begins with a narrator challenging us to re-see the stories we’ve been told before. The entire movie, in fact, revolves around correcting past perceptions, ones that Disney originally shaped and is now choosing to reshape. Maleficent is just one example of a spate of live-action remakes and other ways Disney has reimagined itself in the twenty-first century. Such reimaginings invite research into how and why Disney feels the need to make us see them anew.

Dear colleagues and friends,

We warmly invite scholars to submit papers for the DPRK Cities Research Group’s 5th International Conference at the Soongsil Institute for Peace and Unification, Soongsil University, supported by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.

This conference explores how marketization, technological change, and governance reshape civic space and everyday life in cities under authoritarian and transitional regimes. Moving beyond state-level analysis, it focuses on cities as key sites where control, adaptation, and agency are negotiated in practice.