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The 123rd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in Seattle at the Hyatt Regency Seattle, from Thursday, November 12, to Sunday, November 15, 2026.
Cultural History:
Call for Papers
Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2026 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 25-27, 2026
Virtual Conference
Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Annual Conference 2026
November 12-15, 2026
Seattle, WA
Call for Paper:
Our Ruling Classes: Class, Power, Conflict
Submission Deadline: May 25, 2026
Subject: Asian Literatures and Cultures
Contact: Wentao Ma (University of California - San Diego) w4ma@ucsd.edu
CFP: Media, Press Freedom, and Cultural Production in an Authoritarian Age
Co-sponsored by the Union for Democratic Communications, Project Censored and the Park Center for Independent Media
Oct. 23-24, 2026
Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
Vol. 53 No. 1 | March 2027
Call for Papers
From Neurodiversity to Neurocosmopolitanism:
Literature, Science, Politics
Guest Editor
Manuel Herrero-Puertas (National Taiwan University)
Deadline for Submissions: July 15, 2026
Call for SubmissionsComparative Media Panel (In-Person)
PAMLA Conference 2026Primary Area - Secondary Area:
Film and Media Studies - Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, ConflictSession Chair:
Violet Luxton (Claremont Graduate University)
violet.luxton2@cgu.edu PAPER PROPOSAL DEADLINE: MAY 25, 2026
1956 was a year of theatrical milestones. Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night was published posthumously while The Diary of Anne Frank won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. And, of course, the American Society for Theatre Research was founded. O’Neill’s meditation on troubled family dynamics and addiction would go on to win the Pulitzer in 1957. The previous year, the Pulitzer went to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a Tennessee Williams play about alcoholism and (potentially) sublimated queer desire. In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry became the first Black woman to have a play produced on Broadway when A Raisin in the Sun premiered.
Call for Additional Chapters
Global Bollywood: Cultural Appropriation, Streaming Media, and the Politics of Representation (Routledge)
Editor: Dr. Tanima Kumari
The proposed edited volume Global Bollywood: Cultural Appropriation, Streaming Media, and the Politics of Representation has received a preliminary expression of interest from Routledge.
A number of submissions have already been received, and several chapters have been reviewed and confirmed for inclusion.
Table of Contents
Part I: Cultural Appropriation and Hybridity
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War Literature Today: Ecology, Violence, and the Novel
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787). This special issue belongs to the section "Literature in the Humanities".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2027 | Viewed by 69
Since 2014, the eTEXTS: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference has served as a platform for the examination and exploration of diverse "texts" from English-speaking countries of Ango-Saxon heritage. By bringing together scholars, doctoral students, and early-career professionals, the conference fosters scientific debates and critical discussions that drive forward our understanding of literature and culture.
Call for Papers
Philip K. Dick at 100: Fiction, Philosophy, and Cultural Afterlives
Edited Volume (Centenary Collection)
Editors:
Assoc.Prof.Dr. Ercan Gürova
Ankara University, Turkey
Prof. dr Mladen Jakovljević
University of Priština in Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia
“Under consideration for publication by a reputable international academic publisher.”
“Feel the Force”: The first 50 years of Star Wars
A PopCRN Conference
Join us for a free virtual conference exploring the Star Wars universe and its enduring cultural impact to be held online from 4th-5th May 2027.
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.
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.
The American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) is putting together a pre-constituted panel for submission to the 2026 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) conference, held November 12-15, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency in Seattle, Washington. PAMLA ‘s 2026 theme is “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict.” Following this, AHSA is accepting a range of papers on “Comic Leadership.” We invite submissions that consider the role of comedy in politics. Often, comedy is used to “takedown” and “critique” those in power through satire and parody, but what can comedy offer for enacting new political paths forward?
Call for Papers: International Journal of Fashion Studies
Special Issue: 'Clothing and Dress in Times of Mass Violence'
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-fashion-studies#call-for-papers
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!
Exploring the overlapping cultural and literary impacts of Taylor Swift, this session considers her songs, legacy, political endeavors, friendships, feuds, collaborations, and fandom especially through this year's themes of culture, power, and conflict. We ask: What might lively, critical analysis of Taylor Swift offer to cultural and literary studies?
The Journal of Dracula Studies is open for submissions for its upcoming 2026 issue. We invite manuscripts of scholarly articles (4000-6000 words) on any of the following: Bram Stoker, the novel Dracula, the historical Dracula, the vampire in literature including folklore, fiction, film, popular culture, and related topics. Submissions should be sent electronically (as an e-mail attachment in .docx). Please indicate the title of your submission in the subject line of your e-mail.
This special issue brings together innovative and interdisciplinary comics scholarship that rethinks the epistemic, aesthetic, political, material, and decolonial aspects of comics across the Global South. These forms prompt renewed reflection and inquiry into what it means to draw knowledge, memory, community, dissent, and futurity, while simultaneously interrogating the foundational categories of representation, authorship, narrative form, and colonial epistemology.
Call for Papers
ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, and MAGIC
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2026 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 25-27, 2026
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 30, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026
Call for Papers
American Television and the Rise of Post-Truth America
Submission Deadline, May 15, 2026.
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS Everything Fab Four Fest: REVOLVERNovember 6-8, 2026, Asbury Park, NJBerkeley Oceanfront HotelYou 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.
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?
This peer reviewed edited collection will be part of McFarland & Company, Inc.’s Studies in Gaming series.
A two-day conference to be held online by the University of Liverpool, in partnership with the Science Fiction Foundation and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, 12-13 December 2026
Keynote Speaker: Andrew M. Butler (non-voting chair of the Arthur C. Clarke Award)
Roundtable discussion with Clarke Award-winning authors Anne Charnock, Adrian Tchaikovsky and Tade Thompson
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.”
Event Title: Truth in (Contemporary) SocietyEvent date: Monday, 29th & 30th June 2026
Location: Workroom 3, 38 Mappin St, University of Sheffield