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Call for Contributors:
Special Issue of Mortality: Hauntology
Editors:
Robert Spinelli (rspinelli@ncis.org); Katie Clary (mclary@coastal.edu)
Abstract:
Tl;dr: Higher education is failing to effectively communicate with the public, including communicating disciplinary knowledge and the value of higher education. We're looking for ways it can do both more effectively.
WID Goes Public:
Communicating Disciplinary Knowledge and the Value of Higher Education
Zachary Beare, North Carolina State University
Marcus Meade, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Call for book chapters:
Call for Papers
Claflin University Conference on Languages and Cultural Studies (In-person on the campus of Claflin University) *
October 21-22, 2026
THEME: CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS
*(Participants not residing in the United States and those unable to travel may request a virtual option)Scholarly and creative writing panel proposals, roundtable proposals, and paper abstracts on all aspects of reading, writing, and teaching modern languages are invited including papers and panels on
Space and place continuously serve as sources of inspiration in video games and various other interactive media, within which they have a specific way of representing and operationalizing fear and dread. Interactive works can turn fear into a set of narrative and game design sequences that are problems and solutions for the experience of playing and reading. For example, how to structure attention, limit knowledge, choreograph movement, regulate pace, and distribute safety and danger.
Call for Papers
Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research 14.2
Lands of Fear: Gothic and Horror in Literature, Art, and Culture
RSTEM symposium 05.02.26
Call for PapersRe-Sounding the Early Modern: Art, Power, and the Global Soundscape of the Dutch Masters
The Texas Tech University Vernacular Music Center, in collaboration with the Talkington College of Visual and Performing Arts and the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, invites proposals for a one-day interdisciplinary symposium exploring the cultural, historical, economic, and sonic worlds of the Early Modern.
I am pleased to announce that registration is open for the 18th annual hybrid conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) on the topic of 'The Victorians and Their Publics'. You can access the VPFA conference registration page here.
It is well established in research as well as in the social arena that a number of stereotypes are harmful, because they are “preconceived and oversimplified idea[s] of the characteristics which typify a person, situation, etc” (OED 2025, stereotype), and that they lead to biases in the perception of individuals, who are considered on the basis of their membership in a group rather than their individual qualities. Biases may be explicit (“overtly discriminatory beliefs, actions, or institutional policies”), but also implicit, taking the form of “unconscious tacit attitudes and unintentional actions towards a group” (Rutgers 2026) that are likely to be detrimental to the targeted group and life in a peaceful society.
2026 Dress and Body Association Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Dress and Body Association invites submissions for the organization’s seventh annual conference, which will be held on November 7-8, 2026. Consistent with our long-term goals for inclusivity and sustainability, all activities will be 100% online.
Join our Google Group to learn about opportunities and converse with members of the DBA year-round! Email to request membership: dress.body.assoc@gmail.com.
Opening the Archives of Dress and the Body
Call for Sessions for the 2026 Heartland AI Symposium
Event Dates: Nov. 10 – 12, 2026
General Call
This special session, taking its inspiration from the conference theme “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” invites presentations that challenge the assumption that adaptation is primarily an industry-driven practice shaped by Anglo-American cultural and legal frameworks. In these systems, intellectual property laws define adaptation as a derivative process, regulating authorship, ownership, and revenue streams. What happens when we shift the focus to the Mediterranean, the Middle East, or South Asia? In these contexts, adaptation often emerges through more fluid practices of transmission, performance, and reinterpretation/inspiration, where the boundaries between original and adaptation are less rigid.
Call for Papers for the Edited Volume: Visualising Criminality: Crime and Films in the Global South
Special Issue: Journal of Modern Periodical Studies: Wartime Periodicals
Co-edited by Sarah Cornish, Paula Derdiger, and Amanda Sigler
Futuring Poetic Inquiry: A Return and Renewal10th International Symposium for Poetic Inquiry (ISPI)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
October 8-12, 2026 Proposal Submissions Due June 1, 2026 - EXTENDEDTo submit a proposal: Please visit the ISPI website for more information and to submit a proposal: ISPI website
This panel examines how writers challenge dominant structures of authority in/through narratives of sexual violence. Legal and cultural frameworks often dictate how sexual violence is recognized, narrated, and believed, shaping whose stories are legible and whose are dismissed. This session explores how survivors and writers resist these constraints through alternative narrative strategies, fragmentation, silence, poetic form, visual storytelling and more. It attends to how narrative operates as a site of power, shaping not only representation but the conditions under which sexual violence is acknowledged, legitimized, or denied.
“Rhetorical Theory” (Standing Session)
Seattle, WA, Nov. 20-23
Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack (USC)
Email: leack@usc.edu
Abstract
This panel will explore recent movements in rhetorical theory writ large, either in connection with or apart from composition theory and practice. Special attention will be given to proposals that engage with the conference's theme.
Description
Special Issue: The Subject and its Estrangements
‘The wounds of the Spirit heal, and leave no scars behind.’ Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit
CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS
Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference
Friday-Sunday, October 9-11, 2026
Horizon Convention Center | Muncie, Indiana
The Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association is accepting proposals for the organization’s 50th annual conference this October in Muncie, Indiana. Submit paper, abstract, or panel proposals (including the title of each presentation within the panel) with the appropriate keywords via the submissions website at https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o stands as one of the most formidable literary and intellectual voices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Novelist, playwright, theorist, memoirist, and advocate of linguistic decolonisation, Ngũgĩ’s work continues to shape debates on coloniality, nationalism, language politics, global capitalism, and epistemic justice.
--- DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL 25 MAY 2026! ---
You will receive a decision no later that 1 July 2026.
The conference runs from 29 September - 1 October. On-site attendance only. The conference is held in Aarhus, Denmark.
See full programme here: https://conferences.au.dk/gastro/programme
Read more about contributions and send your paper proposal: https://conferences.au.dk/gastro/call-for-contributions
About the conference
Adaptive Learning and Artificial Intelligence: Global Socio-Technical Discourses
Panel: Technoscience in Literature and Culture (special session)
The 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference will be held in person from Nov 12-15 in Seattle, Washington. This interdisciplinary special session invites papers that explore science and technology from social and cultural perspectives. We welcome papers that involve the natural or material sciences (such as biology, ecology, chemistry, physics, medicine, and engineering), engage with time (whether through a particular period or a long arc of development), and/or consider place (at the local or global scales). Such works can include, but are not limited to:
"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.
International Symposium // University of Amsterdam March 18-19, 2027 (tentative) | Deadline for abstracts: 3 August 2026.
This session is part of the 2026 PAMLA Conference in Seattle, 11/12-11/15
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OUVRAGE COLLECTIF
Créer sous contrainte : l’art de contourner la censure
dans l’espace francophone (1940–aujourd’hui)
Argumentaire:
Call for Papers
Encountering the Human(ities): Anxiety, Storytelling, Futurity
Department of English and Modern Languages
North South University
Dhaka, Bangladesh
30-31 October, 2026 (Friday-Saturday)
Hybrid Event
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS/CHAPTERS
maurer.press
Frankfurt am Main
Body and Mind:Contemporary Studies on Language and Literature — Volume 10, Maurer Press, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
We invite chapter proposals for Body and Mind, the tenth volume of the Contemporary Studies on Language and Literature series. This peer reviewed academic volume investigates the evolving relationships between corporeality, cognition, identity, and culture—relationships that have become increasingly central to contemporary scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
This year is the 550th anniversary of William Caxton’s establishment of the first printing press in England in 1476. We invite papers for a two-day conference on Caxton’s career, texts, and contexts. Abstracts of up to 300 words to be sent to shaw.worth@all-souls.ox.ac.uk and jacob.ridley@ell.ox.ac.uk by 10 June 2026.