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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. 

This issue aims to restore much-needed scholarly attention to analog effects and other hands-on approaches to filmmaking in analog and contemporary digital cinema. Special effects have become a growing area in film studies with the rise of digital cinema since the turn of the century, sparking renewed interest across academic writing, popular culture, journalism, and fandom. Scholars such as Warren Buckland, Stephen Prince, Charlie Keil, Kristen Whissel, and Julie A. Turnock have primarily focused on the cinematic realism of CGI and its ubiquitous use in Hollywood mainstream cinema. Furthermore, as Dan North, Bob Rehak, and Michael S.

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

Korean Literature, Language, and Culture at MMLA invites proposals exploring Korean literary studies, language pedagogy, film and media, translation studies, diaspora studies, and cultural production across historical and contemporary contexts. For the 2026 MMLA Convention, we especially invite proposals that engage with the conference theme, “After the Archive.”

Beyond Conventional Screens: New Approaches to Audiovisual Storytelling - Call for Chapter Proposals

Edited by Sotiris Petridis 

• Deadline for proposals: 01 June 2026
• Notification of Acceptance: by mid-June 2026
• Deadline for chapters: 15 November 2026

Opening Sequences: The Narrative Architecture of TV Titles

This edited volume proposes the first critical anthology devoted to television title sequences as a distinct and influential mode of visual storytelling. By treating opening titles as complex aesthetic and narrative artefacts, this volume seeks to establish a new interdisciplinary space for the study of title design, inviting scholars to rethink how beginnings shape meaning, memory, and emotional architecture in serial television.

Call for Papers

Tolkien in Popular Culture

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

Research group “Translation and Language Studies” (Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology) is organising an international conference on linguistics, discourse, media, communication, translation, cultural literacy and impact on society “Intermediality in Communication: Translation, Media, Discourse” held in Kaunas, Lithuania.

The scope of the conference includes 8 thematic sections with their own set of topics:

Linguistics. This section aims to examine the current directions in linguistic research, particularly focusing on how language interacts with different forms of media. 

The theme for this year’s MMLA conference explores the relational dynamics inherent in an archive. Since Derrida’s Archive Fever, the role of the archive has been conceived as a site for both the storage and construction of memory. What is selected and how it is framed by the archival materials works both to capture memory and history and shape how something or someone should be remembered. In keeping with this theme, the permanent section for comics and graphic novels is interested in research that interrogates the intersection of comic studies and the archive.

Scholars are encouraged to contribute articles about the Grateful Dead and reviews of Grateful Dead-and-related performances and media for consideration for publication in the field’s refereed journal, Grateful Dead Studies. Accepted pieces from the current submission cycle will be published in volume 8 (2027 / 2028) of the journal.

Article submission deadline: 1 August 2026

Review submission deadline: 1 September 2026

Grateful Dead Studies is also seeking qualified reviewers interested in supporting the peer review process. Please reach out if you would like to help scholarly discourse about the Grateful Dead thrive.

IMAGINATION, MEDIATION, & MANIFESTATION

Inaugural Graphic Medicine Europe Conference X Cross Comix
9-12 September 2026
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & De Doelen Rotterdam

Call for Papers: Autumn 2026: Biophilia: The Shape of the Future
Coreopsis

A Multidisciplinary Journal of the Mythic Arts

This journal accepts papers from many disciplines and is welcoming of all faiths and philosophies. We publish about 5 papers per issue that have been peer-reviewed according to academic standards. Final submissions should be 3000 to 10,000 words. 

If you have a finished paper ready for submission, send it directly to coreopsisjournalofmyththeatre@gmail.com

Time, Memory and Forgetting in the Western

Two-Day Symposium | 10–11 September 2026 | University of Essex, UK

Deadline for submissions: 30th April 2026

To submit: 250 word outlines for all submission types via email to richard.parker@uc.cl

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.”— Louis L’Amour, Lonely on the Mountain.

*EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR CHAPTER SUBMISSIONS*

Call for Papers (proposals)

CONTRIBUTION TO EDITED VOLUME (Please read the full CfP before sending a proposal)

Mediated Masculinities in European networks: Discourse and performativity in the Information Age 

NEW Deadline for abstract submissions: April 10, 2026

Notifications of acceptance: March 10, 2026 

Deadline for first draft after notification of acceptance: April 30, 2026