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ContactZone (http://www.aisff-starfiction.com/journal) Special Issue "Unruly Bodies and Astral Corporealities in Science Fiction Cinema and Television Series"
Edited by Giuseppe Balirano and Oriana Palusci
Call for Papers and Workshops: “History up for Debate: Literature, Storytelling and the Imagined Past”
1-2 July 2026, University of Salzburg, Department of English and American Studies, UniparkNonntal
Conference within the Framework of the Salzburg Conferences on English Literature and Culture (SEC)
Organisers: Dorothea Flothow, Julia Hartinger, Sarah Herbe, Christopher Herzog, Eva-Maria Kubin, Markus Oppolzer, and Elisabeth Schober
Call for Articles - The Politics of Emotion: Affect, Identity and Power
IDEA – Interdisciplinary Discourses, Education and Analysis launches its new issue on the topic The Politics of Emotion: Affect, Identity and Power.
Emotions shape the way individuals and communities navigate their personal and collective lives, influencing decisions, relationships and the structures that govern societies. They are deeply embedded in social, cultural and political contexts, acting as both a personal experience and a force that drives public action.
Call for Papers
Emily Thomas
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025
Editors-in-chief: Inês Fernandes and Teresa Weinholtz
Issue 12 | Speak at Your Own Risk: The Many Faces of (Self-)Censorship
Deadline: Submissions due has been extended to October 15, 2025 to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu.
It feels only appropriate, given the recent UR graduate worker strike, that Issue 41 of InVisible Culture focus on the problem of labor. Amid the erosion of labor protections in academia, increasing challenges faced by immigrant workers in the US, and global labor conflicts in fields like healthcare and agriculture, this moment calls for a reconsideration of what labor is and how its value is structured.
From Indigenous testimonies about extraction economies to eco-dystopian manga, comics across the world function as powerful visual laboratories for engaging with the natural world. The graphic form—with its unique interplay of word and image, its use of framing, juxtaposition, and sequentiality—stages ecological questions in ways prose often cannot. By dramatizing the temporality of both sudden catastrophes and slow processes of degradation, comics enable us to see environmental crises unfolding across multiple scales of time and space. They ask us to imagine multispecies entanglements, toxic futures, and alternative modes of dwelling, while also foregrounding human complicity in environmental collapse.
The Music Graduate Student Organization at the University of Pittsburgh welcomes proposals for 20 minute paper presentations, performance demonstrations, or work that integrates research and practice for its 2026 conference, “Sonic Power: Speculation, Surveillance, and Strength.” We invite students, researchers, musicians, sound artists, and practitioners from diverse disciplines to consider how sound organizes power and how people reorganize power through sound. Sonic life shapes worlds, whether in the hush of archival erasure, the loudness of protest, or the sorting of listening within media infrastructures.
Bridging Caribbean Literature and Digital Humanities
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal
Special issue editors: Gabrielle M. Jean-Louis, Michael Soriano, and Kelly Baker Josephs
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2025
Full papers due: 15 March 2026
Issue to be published: Fall 2026
This special issue of Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal seeks articles, interviews, and digital project reviews on the critical use of digital humanities methodologies to deepen the study of Caribbean literary works.
Call for Papers
Coming of Age, Coming Undone: Abortion, Adolescence, Teen Pregnancy, and Reproductive Justice in Global Popular Culture
Audience: Media Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Youth Studies, Reproductive Justice, Popular Culture, Girlhood Studies, Global Health, Queer Studies
Since the 1990s, comics and graphic narratives have emerged as an emphatic media form for exploring the embodied experiences of disability and identity (e.g., Alaniz, Chute, Czerwiec, Dolmage, and Refaie). To date, much scholarship has focused on Anglophone or Euro-American paradigms, leaving significant gaps in our understanding of how disability intersects with race, gender, class, and colonial histories in graphic narratives from diverse contexts. To bridge the gap, this seminar brings together international scholars from multiple disciplines (e.g., comics narratology and 4EA cognition, graphic medicine, posthumanist studies, history, and visual studies) to discuss both established and emerging works, especially those from the Global South.
“Autofiction was fun,” laments Lauren Oyler, in a 2018 review for the Baffler, “while it lasted, but a self-conscious movement based on the lives and reading lists of young urban artists was never going to break new ground; nor did it give the reader a reason to jump out of bed in the morning." As a form (or a genre – as Oyler points out in an extended essay on the subject, these terms are often used interchangeably, although she favours the former), autofiction first came into being almost fifty years ago, coined on the back cover of Serge Doubrovsky’s Fils (1977) as “autobiography?
Representation matters – but to whom? And how?
This iteration of the Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture conference considers the ongoing significance of representational analysis as well as the critical possibilities enabled by the turn to resonance in Black media and cultural studies. Our theme, Representation and Resonance, invites original research into images and storytelling, circulation and flows, and reception practices.
While we especially invite papers on this topic, we are open to any and all critical inquiry into Black media culture, broadly defined. Our hope is to bring together any and all scholars interested and invested in Black media culture, regardless of discipline or method.
Seminar title: Transgender Storytelling: Accounts of Oppositional Being and Becoming
Seminar link: https://www.acla.org/seminar/c997c5c5-09fd-4307-ba24-29af11d554d6
Organizers: Clarke Crockett and Ezekiel Greenwood, Florida State University, USA
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Annual Convention 2026, Montreal, Canada
Abstract Submission Deadline: October 2, 2025. Must be submitted through the ACLA portal.
PCA True Crime CFP 2026
Abstract Submission Deadline: November 30th, 2025
PCA/ACA will be held from April 8-11th, 2026 in Atlanta, GA
True Crime typically focuses on investigative journalism used to present a mystery or attempt to understand the psychology of a crime/perpetrator. It may include narratives of a case, victimology, forensics, or analysis of evidence, although each case is different. Much of True Crime focuses on serial killers/killings, although subsets of the genre may delve into topics such as kidnappings, cults, wrongful convictions, advocacy, white-collar crimes, trial proceedings, prevention of crime, survivor stories, or sensationalism/entertainment.
Popular Culture Association: British Popular Culture
Call for Papers
The British Popular Culture area of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) is now accepting submissions for the 2026 national conference to be held April 8-11, 2026, in Atlanta, GA at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis!
Academics at all stages in their careers, as well as independent scholars, are encouraged to apply. We particularly encourage submissions by graduate students.
Against Evidence Otherwise:
Bad Faith and Antiblackness in Education & Society
Under Contract with Brill Publishing
Edited by Amir A. Gilmore, Washington State University
What is to be done in a world of near universal sense of superiority to, if not universal hatred of, Black folk?
–Lewis R. Gordon (1997, p. 1)
I know I am a Human because I am not Black. I know I am not Black because when and if I experience the kind of violence Blacks experience there is a reason.
Call for Abstracts (Themed Issue 2/26 and Accompanying Workshop)
“Fan Practices of Memory and Remembrance”
Deadline for Proposals: December 1st, 2025
Workshop Date: February 27th, 2026, in Marburg/Germany
Call For Papers Nº 26 (Summer 2026)
"Touch Screen. Imaginaries of Hapticity in Audiovisual Media"
Enmonsterisations in the Fantastic
Annual Symposium of the German Inklings Society
“Epochs throw up the monsters they need.”
— China Miéville, “Theses on Monsters”
Popular Culture Association
Atlanta April 8-11, 2026
Subject Area:
Disasters and Apocalyptic Culture
Submission Deadline: 11/30/25
Scope of the paper topics accepted under this area:
This is a call for chapter abstracts for an upcoming edited volume exploring the cultural, narrative, musical, and global fandom implications of the animated film K-Pop Demon Hunters. The volume will be published as part of the Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies book series (https://tinyurl.com/rbtm8fve).
BOSS: The Biannual Online-Journal of Springsteen Studies (http://boss.mcgill.ca/) is an open-access academic journal that publishes peer-reviewed essays on Bruce Springsteen. The editors of BOSS are currently soliciting papers for the journal’s seventh edition, with an expected publication date of December 2026.
Horror Studies Now: A Major International Conference (28-29 May 2026, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK)
The Horror Studies Research Group at Northumbria University invites researchers working in the multidisciplinary field of “Horror Studies” to submit abstracts about their research for the 2026 edition of the major, in-person, annual conference, Horror Studies Now, taking place on 28-29 May 2026.
Call for Papers – CLOSURE: Journal of Comics Studies #13 (November 2026)
Open Call for Submissions
CLOSURE: Journal of Comics Studies will once again provide a platform for all facets of comic studies in its thirteenth issue, to be published in Fall 2026. From cultural, visual, and media studies to social and natural sciences and beyond, CLOSURE invites essays and academic reviews that engage with the »state of the comic.« Whether in-depth analysis, comic theory, or innovative new approaches—for the open topic section, we welcome diverse contributions from the interdisciplinary field of comics research.
Thematic Section: »Animal Studies«
CALL FOR PAPERS
Sonic Representations of Jewishness, On Screen and Off
In-person conference at UCLA, April 19-21, 2026
Jews’ longstanding involvement with film and television has drawn much attention from scholars and the general public alike, raising the question of the significance of Jewish heritage and Jewishness more broadly for these creative endeavors, both on screen and behind the scenes.
Given the centrality of music to Jewish culture, this conference seeks especially to delve into the ways portrayals of Jewishness are reinforced or made more complicated through music and sound in screen culture.
Monsters, Monstrosities, & the Monstrous Area
Join us for the 2026 Popular Culture/American Culture Association's National Conference.
Our area provides a home for everything monsters at PCA. We are proud to be the sister area of Vampire Studies who inspired us to create this area for the rest of the monsters. Please join us in exploring the themes, influences, and impact of the monster as a cultural and historical touchstone.
To mark the 50th anniversary of Stephen King’s landmark 1977 novel, The Shining, editors Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Tony Magistrale solicit chapter proposals for an edited collection of scholarly essays with the working title, Fifty Years of The Shining: New Essays. Proposals are welcome on any aspects of the novel, its adaptations, paratexts, and cultural influence.
Please direct 250-word proposals (demonstrating appropriate conversance with relevant existing scholarly literature), as well as inquiries, to Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu and Anthony.Magistrale@uvm.edu. The deadline for proposals is December 1st, 2025.
The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies (JOTSS)
Binghamton University’s Inaugural Issue
Call for Papers
Submission Deadline - December 13th, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST
Submission Website: https://orb.binghamton.edu/jotss/
Introduction and Journal Scope:
Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Annual Interdisciplinary Spring Academy Conference
Heidelberg, Germany, March 23-27, 2026
The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for its annual Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion to be held from March 23-27, 2026.
The HCA Spring Academy provides 20 international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and thoroughly discuss their ongoing Ph.D. projects. The conference offers a forum for Ph.D. candidates in which they can present their research candidly and receive valuable feedback.