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Disability and Horror: A Companion

updated: 
Thursday, April 16, 2026 - 4:58am
Michael Wheatley
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 31, 2026

Disability and Horror: A Companion

Call for Chapters

 

Wooden O Symposium (extended deadline)

updated: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 - 3:48pm
Southern Utah University-Utah Shakespeare Festival
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 1, 2026

August 3-5, 2026

Southern Utah University - Utah Shakespeare Festival

 

The Wooden O Symposium is a cross-disciplinary conference exploring the impact of Shakespeare's plays on culture and history, from his time to the present. This face-to-face conference aims to foster research in the field of Shakespeare Studies and to provide connections between academia and professional theatre productions through our partnership with the Utah Shakespeare Festival. The Wooden O Symposium limits participation to 25 presenters to ensure robust conversation and feedback as we strive to create a community of scholars engaged with the work of Shakespeare.

Folk and Culture: Tradition, Resistance and Nurture

updated: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 - 3:04am
Guru Gobind Singh Indrapratha University, New Delhi, India
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Call for Book Chapters

Title: Folk and Culture: Tradition, Resistance and Nurture

Publisher: VLC Media Publication

VLC Media Publication offers ISBN-certified, peer-reviewed publications with national and international circulation.

Editors:

Dr. Naresh K Vats, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indrapratha University, New Delhi, India

Dr. Chetna Tiwari, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indrapratha University, New Delhi, India

Scope of the Volume:

Adivasi Writings in India: History, Memory, and Contemporary Expressions

updated: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 - 3:04am
Guru Gobind Singh Indrapratha University, New Delhi, India
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Call for Book Chapters

Title:

Adivasi Writings in India: History, Memory, and Contemporary Expressions

 

Editors:

Dr Chetna Tiwari, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India

Dr Naresh K Vats, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India

 

Publisher:

Vedant Knowledge Systems Pvt Ltd

www.MyVedant.com

Book Details:

Metafictional Horror Cinema: The Screen as Mirror

updated: 
Tuesday, April 14, 2026 - 12:46pm
Sérgio Dias Branco (University of Coimbra, Portugal) and Ana Maria Acker (Ritter dos Reis University Center, Brazil)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 8, 2026

We invite chapter proposals for an edited collection titled Metafictional Horror Cinema: The Screen as Mirror, to be submitted to the UWP Horror Studies series. The volume explores how horror cinema reflects on its own formal strategies, lays bare its narrative and technological mechanisms, and confronts viewers with unsettling modes of self-awareness.

 

The volume will explore the role of metafiction within horror cinema, from postmodern genre revisions and reflexive found-footage films to avant-garde and hybrid works that fracture narrative logic, collapse diegetic boundaries, break the fourth wall, or explicitly implicate the viewer in acts of spectatorship and violence.

 

PAMLA 2026: Technoscience in Literature and Culture

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 11:27pm
Jennifer Baker and Christina Shiea / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

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: 

True Crime CFP - MAPACA Virtual Symposium

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:08pm
Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2026 Virtual Summer Symposium, July 26, 2026

This one-day virtual event on July 26, 2026 is in addition to our 3-day conference in November to accommodate scholars outside the Mid-Atlantic region and those for whom an in-person event is otherwise inaccessible. We greatly encourage international scholars to submit for this dynamic, one-day event!

Call for Chapters for an edited volume: The Witch and Activism

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:07pm
Editors: Dr Zoë Enstone (York St. John University) and Dr Sharon Jagger (York St. John University)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 22, 2026

The figure of the witch (both real and imagined) is inherently political and potentially contentious. Each wave of feminism has reflected on shifting considerations of the witch as evocative of issues around gender, power and, more recently, intersectional aspects of identity. More recent critical engagement with witches and witchcraft reflects a transition, transcending disciplinary boundaries and positioning the witch in line with shifting contemporary debates. This shift moves the witch beyond the symbolic or the individual to consider both the interconnected and disparate nature of the witch. We can, instead, see the witch as a key component in movements of political change, as activist alongside the spiritual expl

Call for Stories for New Creative Nonfiction Anthology: "Queer and Trembling: Stories of LGBTQ+ Religious Trauma"

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:06pm
Lucas F. W. Wilson
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 15, 2026

CALLING ALL 2SLGBTQ+ WRITERS WHO EXPERIENCED RELIGIOUS TRAUMA. I am excited to announce this Call for Submissions for my new anthology of creative nonfiction narratives! Entitled Queer and Trembling: Stories of LGBTQ+ Religious Trauma, this anthology will bring together a collection of stories about 2SLGBTQ+ religious trauma from Christian contexts, whether they be evangelical, fundamentalist, Pentecostal, Catholic, Mormon, Jehovah's Witness, Orthodox, etc. The collection is under contract with Jessica Kingsley Publishers (an imprint of Hachette UK) and will likely be released in 2028. 

Resisting Abandonment: Language, Culture, and Ecology (Oct. 15-16, Toronto)

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:05pm
Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

International Conference
Resisting Abandonment: Language, Culture, and Ecology
Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact
Glendon College, York University (Toronto, Canada)
October 15–16, 2026

The Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact invites you to an interdisciplinary conference that will explore the ways in which ecology intersects with language contact, cultural transformation, and pedagogical practice.

Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic at all-online Virtual Summer Salon of Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, June 25-27, 2026

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:05pm
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 27, 2026

Call for Papers

ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, and MAGIC

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2026 SWPACA Summer Salon

June 25-27, 2026

Virtual Conference

https://swpaca.org/

Submissions open on March 30, 2026

Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026

International Academic Conference Science and Humanities: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Bioethics

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:05pm
The MISH UJ Academic Society and the Student Council of the Interfaculty Individual Studies in the Humanities at the Jagiellonian University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 16, 2026

The MISH UJ Academic Society and the Student Council of the Interfaculty Individual Studies in the Humanities at the Jagiellonian University cordially invite both active and passive participation in the International Academic Conference Science and Humanities: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Bioethics.The conference will be held on site on 29–30 May 2026 at Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian University. Call for Papers
Submissions are accepted until 16 April 2026, 11:59 p.m.
Presentations should not exceed 15 minutes.Submission form: 

Everything Fab Four: Celebrating the Beatles' REVOLVER

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:04pm
Kenneth Womack/Monmouth University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS Everything Fab Four Fest: REVOLVERNovember 6-8, 2026, Asbury Park, NJBerkeley Oceanfront Hotel

You are cordially invited to submit abstracts and/or panel suggestions for an international symposium devoted to the life, work, and influence of the Beatles, particularly in relation to their legendary album REVOLVER (1966). The festivities will include a host of well-known speakers, journalists, and musicians. 

Caribbean and or South American Culture and Education

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:03pm
Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

 

The Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis, explores Caribbean and /or South American Culture and Education.

Obtaining a deeper understanding of Caribbean and South American festivities, rituals, and celebratory culture informs and impacts people's lives and vice versa.

Our goal is to gain a deeper understanding of Caribbean/South American cultural practices, traditions, and heritage, and how they have changed or sustained themselves and how they influence festivals, rituals, celebrations, etc.

The Society for Utopian Studies Annual Meeting, November 12-14, 2026, Portland, Oregon, USA

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:03pm
The Society for Utopian Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Theme: Interconnections between Utopia and Dystopia in Times of Crisis

Venue: Embassy Suites Portland Downtown (Formerly the 1912 Multnomah Hotel)

Proposal Deadline:June 30, 2026

Conference Co-chairs email: susprogramchair@gmail.com

Conference website: https://utopian-studies.org/conference2026/

 

2026 Situations International Conference: Sovereignties in Crisis: Human, Environment, Technology, and the Pharmakon

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:03pm
Yonsei University Department of English BK 21 Project, Situations, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 1, 2026

Sovereignties in Crisis: Human, Environment, Technology, and the Pharmakon

 

2026 Situations International Conference

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, October 22-23, 2026

 

Teaching Protest, Teaching as Protest (PAMLA)

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:02pm
Julia Reade
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 1, 2026

While not for the first time, educators are finding themselves at the center of political controversies as their pedagogies, content, and even profession is questioned, critiqued, and in some cases, banned. Also not the first occurrence, protesting has become one way targeted educators, students, and community members respond to and resist these top-down attacks. For some, these involve taking to the streets, organizing or joining protest efforts with high, public-facing visibility. For others, protests manifest as the books and content they continue to teach or the use of a student’s preferred pronouns.

Latin Asian Entanglements: Critical and Creative Responses to Mass Deportation Today

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:02pm
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

Latin Asian Entanglements: Critical and Creative Responses to Mass Deportation Today This is a CFP for two special sessions at the PAMLA conference in Seattle from November 12-15, 2026. Critical and creative proposals for these linked roundtables can be submitted at the links below

“After the Archive” in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Cultures

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:01pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 1, 2026

At a time when some are attempting to rewrite the Humanities, it might be questioned as to how archives can not only be preserved but also utilized to fight for the future. Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture are deeply shaped by questions of memory, authority, and cultural transmission. Contributors are encouraged to consider the archive as an ever-evolving site of power that governs inclusion, exclusion, and interpretation. One might posit questions such as How do archival practices shape the stories available to young readers, and how might authors, educators, and scholars work against inherited silences and erasures?

Extended Deadline: Lamar Journal of the Humanities General Call for Papers

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 3:58pm
Lamar Journal of the Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 1, 2026

The Lamar Journal of the Humanities is an interdisciplinary journal published annually by the College of Arts and Sciences of Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. Papers of interdisciplinary or general interest in the fields of literature, history, contemporary culture, and the fine arts are appropriate for submission. Languages accepted are English, Spanish, German, and French. Detailed studies of highly specialized topics, literary explications which do not elucidate broader historical or ideological issues, and statistical essays in the social sciences are not encouraged but will be considered. Manuscripts, normally not to exceed 6,000 words, should conform to the MLA Handbook or the Chicago Manual of Style.

Essays on Playing Detective / Detective Games

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 3:58pm
Shelly Jones / McFarland Press
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 1, 2026

This peer reviewed edited collection will be part of McFarland & Company, Inc.’s Studies in Gaming series.

Truth in (Contemporary) Society 2026

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 3:26pm
University of Sheffield
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Event Title:                    Truth in (Contemporary) SocietyEvent date:                    Monday, 29th & 30th June 2026
Location:                       Workroom 3, 38 Mappin St, University of Sheffield

Luminous call for papers

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 2:31pm
Sophia Luminous
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

Greetings everyone!

We are excited to announce the commencement of abstract submissions for the fifth volume of Sophia Luminous.

Sophia Luminous ( ISSN: 3048-6211) is a national-level, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary online research journal for students, published by Sophia College for Women (Autonomous), Mumbai, India. It is devoted to the discussion of the innovative, novel, and contemporary areas of research by undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and early researchers from an array of disciplines.

PAMLA 2026: Beyond Binaries

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 2:24pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association: Beyond Binaries Panel
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

The 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference will take place this November in Seattle, Washington, from November 12-15.

JFA Presents: The Ruthven Literary Bulletin

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 2:17pm
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 6, 2026

JFA Presents: The Ruthven Literary Bulletin – FOCUSED ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS

Issue Editor: Elizabeth Schechter

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