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Occulture as Method Symposium
September 10-11, 2026
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester, UK
Organised by the Dark Arts Research Kollective
Submission deadline: 10th July 2026
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS
Superheroes of the Squared Circle:
The Intersection of Comics and Professional Wrestling
An Edited Academic Collection for McFarland & Co. Publishing
Editor: Forrest C. Helvie, Ph.D.
Connecticut State Community College
About the Project
Friendship occupies a central place in children’s and young adult literature, film, and television. It functions as a key site through which processes of Bildung, selfhood, community, and belonging are imagined and negotiated. However, despite its centrality to narratives for young audiences, friendship has received comparatively limited sustained attention as a distinct object of study within children's literature and media scholarship.
April 2-3, 2027
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana USA
Call for Papers
CFP, Special Issue of The Lion and the Unicorn (Vol. 52.2 [2028])
Child’s Play:
Representation and Games in Children’s Media and Culture
(guest editor, Gretchen Papazian)
Deadline for 18-20-page/3,500-4,000-word submission: March 31, 2027
Call for Papers: Luxury Studies: The In Pursuit of Luxury Journal
Special Issue: 'Time to Change'
Submission deadline: 30 July 2026
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/luxury-studies#call-for-papers
IV. International Symposium on Clothing Culture in Social Sciences btw. 21.–23.10.2026 at the Marmara University, Istanbul
Planned as a continuation of the SOBİTÜRK Symposium, the SOBİTÜRK 2026 themed around Clothing Culture aims to examine the phenomenon of clothing from a multidisciplinary social sciences perspective. Among the primary objectives of the symposium are to investigate the transformations of clothing culture throughout cultural geography from past to present and to discuss the interaction between traditional clothing patterns and modern/global fashion understandings.
“Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets”
- ANDY WARHOL
The Society of Nineteenth Century Historians, in partnership with the Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Augusta University, presents the 34th Annual Sachsman Symposium on the 19th Century Press, Nov. 12-14, 2026.
Poetry & Poetry Studies at MAPACA 2026
November 5-7, 2026 at the Lord Baltimore Hotel, Baltimore, MD
Deadline: 6/30/2026
Literary and Cultural Perspectives on Communities in Fiction
Guest editors
Adrián Arana-Armesto (Universidad del País Vasco)
Patricia García Santos (Universidad de Córdoba)
Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research (JACLR)
Deadline: 15th February 2027
Soapbox 8.0: call for papers
Ways of Structuring
peer reviewed; open to critical and artistic work.
If structures are determinate and determining, as they have come to seem through the interventions of poststructuralist theory, then ‘ways of structuring’ names a contradiction. The plurality of ‘ways’ sits in tension with the fixity of ‘structure,’ evoking the very qualities of contingency and flexibility that the concept seems to negate. For this upcoming issue, we welcome academic and artistic contributions that explore this tension.
We are seeking abstracts for chapters for The Routledge Companion to the Urban Wyrd. This volume has been contracted and we have commissioned in excess of 35 chapters. We are looking for abstracts which cover particular areas including, the Anglo-Saxon origins of the wyrd, the link between the Gothic and the wyrd city, Georgian and Victorian urban anxiety, global cities, theoretical approaches to the urban wyrd, urban ruin and photography, sound and music and the city, the environment and the urban future.
Futures and Frontiers of US American Culture(s) International Conference
30 September – 2 October 2026
John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität Berlin
Keynotes: Jenny Stümer (Universität Heidelberg) | Dan Hassler-Forest (Utrecht University)
Acceptance/rejection will be communicated shortly after the extended deadline has passed.
Mediapolis – A Journal of Cities and Culture is an interdisciplinary open access online journal, drawing a connection between culture and the built environment – understood in the broadest sense. We publish research in different forms, from research articles to Q&A interviews and readings list, and across different academic fields, including but not limited to media studies, urban studies, geography, architecture and art history as well as digital humanities.
Join a panel at the 14th annual CSULA Eagle Con! Eagle Con is an annual event devoted the power and potential of speculative and fantastic media to critique social formations, interrogate subjectivities, and constitute alternative worlds.
Keynote speaker: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Central Michigan University)
May 20-21st 2027, University of Zadar (Zadar, Croatia)
Americana: Call for Submissions Deadline for submissions: Revolving submissions
Now reading through 06/20/2026 for next issue full name / name of organization: Americana contact email: editor@americanpopularculture.com
Americana invites submissions in Film Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Women's Studies, and American history, and so on -- especially as it pertains to Americana popular culture, 1900 to present.
Keynote Speaker: Prof Soumhya Venkatesan with Lydia Donohue (University of Manchester)
Fantasy has long explored lifeworlds and paradigms outside of societal norms. Orlando, Virginia Woolf’s gender-fluid protagonist, declares, ‘I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.’ World myths, legends, folk tales, and fairy tales are early promoters of gender-fluidity, populated by the likes of Inanna/Ishtar; Hermaphroditus, the offspring of Hermes and Aphrodite; androgynous Dionysus; Ardhanarishvara; Ometeotl; Guanyin; cross-dressing thunder and trickster gods; heartsick seafaring maidens disguised as sailors; and the mercurial ontologies of the Fae. In this issue we will explore how gender is portrayed and explored in Fantasy.
The Bachelor’s Degree: Teaching with Reality TV in the Feminist Classroom
Call for Papers for a Special Issue in Feminist Pedagogy
Animal Adaptations
We invite proposals for a small number of additional chapters for an edited volume on animal adaptations, edited by Justyna Włodarczyk (University of Warsaw) and Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck).
Appalachian Glass: Furnace of Meaning and Memory
This edited collection addresses a major gap in current work focused on Appalachia’s glass industry. We have catalogs and reference books. We have histories focused on class, labor, and gender. We have histories focused on the rise and demise of glass factories. But the human work of meaning, identity, and memory--in the context of Appalachian glass--has yet to be gathered and shared in book form.
Climate change is often discussed as an environmental emergency, but its most profound consequences are social, political, economic, and deeply gendered. The climate crisis does not operate in isolation from existing systems of inequality; rather, it intensifies historically entrenched hierarchies of gender, caste, class, race, labour, sexuality, and power. Women and gender minorities, frequently experience climate change not as a distant ecological abstraction but as everyday reality lived through food insecurity, water scarcity, displacement, unpaid labour, agrarian distress, and precarious working conditions.
CFP: History and Popular Uses of the Past – NEPCA Virtual Fall Conference 2026
Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2026 (at 5 pm EDT)
Contact email:
Hannah Sophie Schiffner, h.schiffner@zeppelin-university.net
The History and Popular Uses of the Past Area invites submissions for the Northeast Popular Culture Association’s (NEPCA) annual conference to be held online October 15th – 17th, 2026.
We invite proposals for individual papers for the critical mixed race studies panel at the annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) in Seattle, Washington, from November 12-15, 2026.
Paper proposals are due by June 6, 2026.
2026 Global K-Culture Conference
August 20 (Thu.) ~ August 22 (Sat.), 2026 (3 days)
Chungbuk National University, Korea
Korean, English, or the presenter’s preferred language
Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2026
The Department of Global K-Culture at Chungbuk National University is pleased to invite submissions for the upcoming Global K-Culture Conference, aimed at fostering meaningful dialogue and the exchange of ideas among instructors and researchers working across diverse educational and cultural contexts.
We invite you to submit an abstract and bio by June 17, 2026, to participate in a Modern Language Association (MLA) 2027 seminar, "Queer Literary Studies NOW." Seminar participants will precirculate 1500-word papers on the theme, and we will discuss the papers and the larger theme during the seminar on the first day of the MLA 2027 conference. MLA 2027 will take place in Los Angeles, California, January 7-10, 2027. Participants must be MLA members and register for the conference.
Call for Papers
Journal of Narrative Theory (JNT)
Special Issue (Fall 2027)
Contemporary Narratives and Storytelling Cultures
Concept Note
Call for Papers
The Playful Monster
24–25 September 2026