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Beyond Human: Unruly Senses of Being, Knowing, and Feeling Existence

UCSD Literature Department Graduate Student Conference  

University of California, San Diego 

In-Person, May 15-16, 2026

Bloomsbury - Trans Studies Book Series

CALL FOR CHAPTERS - DEADLINE EXTENDED

Transgender Entanglements: The shape and limits of transgender

Edited by Levi C. R. Hord and Wendy Gay Pearson

The incoherence of “transgender” as a category is both a feature and

a bug. As an umbrella category, its boundaries are sometimes

deliberately fuzzy, and sometimes vague enough to cannibalize

everything that approaches them. As the field of Transgender

Studies approaches its adolescence, with several decades of

scholarship now behind us, it is crucial to turn to a mainstay of

feminist thought and employ self-critique about the category of

#MAKE: Methods, Atmospheres, Knowledges, Energies

Friday, October 23 to Sunday, October 25, 2026
Vancouver, Canada

2026 Meeting of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts

October 29-31, 2026
Embassy Suites Austin Central
Austin, TX

“Justice”

Keynote Speaker: TBA

CFP Link: https://www.entanglements.in/call-for-papers-docs/CFP_Entanglements%202.2_Jun-2026.pdf

Call for Papers_Entanglements_Volume 2, Issue 2 (Open Issue)

Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30.04.2026

Tentative Publication Date: 30 July 2026

Entanglements: The Journal of Posthumanities is an international, double-blind, peer-reviewed, open- access,

bi-annual (January & July), transdisciplinary journal dedicated to critically interrogating and dismantling

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Criminologies, Borders, and Humanities in North Africa
An Edited Volume for the Emerald Borders, Criminalisation and Society Series
Editor: Dr. Rachid Benharrousse*

*Tilburg Law School, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Email: rachid.benharrousse@proton.me

About the Series

This volume is proposed for the Emerald Borders, Criminalisation and Society Series: an interdisciplinary and inclusive space that examines how laws, policies, and practices shape, regulate, and contest borders and the people affected by them. 

“What is Theory, and why are they saying such terrible things about it? (And who—if we indulge in paranoiac criticism—are ‘they’, anyway?) To take the second part of the question first, ‘they’ say terrible things about Theory because much of it is admittedly jargon-ridden and often appears incomprehensible. But also (and this is the uncharitable answer) because: (i) it takes considerable patience and effort to understand the ‘key’ essays, and most diatribes against Theory come from people unwilling to make that effort; and (ii) it destabilises authority over interpretation and authority is precisely what teachers (especially teachers of literary studies) seek to impose over texts, meanings, and readers.”

The King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS), through its UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures and with the support of the Literature, Publishing and Translation Commission, is pleased to invite applications for the Early Scholars Publication Grants. These grants support the publication of outstanding PhD dissertations that critically examine contemporary debates related to the UNESCO Chair’s two themes for this year and adopt a global perspective that moves beyond Eurocentrism. Early Scholars Publication Grants will be awarded for this year's two themes:

1) Modern Arab Thought in Translation

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 28TH

The University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group Conference presents:

The 28th Annual University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group Conference

The State of the Unions

April 23rd-25th, Gainesville (FL)

Keynote speakers: Sianne Ngai, Anna Kornbluh

Nicole LaRose Alumni Keynote Speaker: Ryan Kerr

The Margaret Atwood Society invites paper proposals for an online panel focusing on how Atwood’s writing engages religious and spiritual practices and the supernatural. We welcome proposals that consider how Atwood’s works mobilize the sacred, the ritual, the metaphysical, and/or the ghostly as vehicles for meaning-making, ethical reflection, and narrative strategy. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

·       Religion as ideology

·       Spirituality and folk belief outside institutional frameworks

·       Myth, ritual, and cosmology

·       Scriptural and prophetic discursive modes

·       Haunting, spectrality, and divided subjectivity

CALL FOR PAPERS

vol. 7/2026

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature (e-ISSN: 2719-8111)  is an international multidisciplinary periodical that welcomes for review any innovative and challenging research article encroaching upon the fields of literature, linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies.

The editorial board encourages researchers and young scholars to submit their article proposals that  comprise with the profile of the journal. The proposals can be sent in English, German, French, Spanish, Catalan and Polish. The manuscript submitted for publication is to be original and unpublished. It should not have been simultaneously submitted for review in any other journal.

We are looking for contributions to a working group at the 2027 MLA Annual Convention in Los Angeles. The panel will discuss the evolution of magical realism in the 21st century, formally, medially, and geographically. Besides the fundamental elements of magical realism scholarship covering literature and film in South-American and European contexts, the scope of the presentations will extend to geocultural locations such as Africa, the Middle East, East- and South-East Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, and to theoretical approaches including literary trauma theory, postcolonial studies, ecocriticism, and virtual reality theory.

Call for Articles: Cultural Materialism, Fascism and the Far Right 

A Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism

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UCI Comparative Literature Graduate Conference 2026 

 Keynote Speakers: Prof. Rizvana Bradley and Prof. Samiha Khalil

The infiltration of chaos into any home is not an abrupt occurrence. A fine dust settles on the cracks of wood, sheet folds, window seams, and curtain pleats, waiting for a wind to find its way into the home and liberate the components of scatteredness from their ambush.

Ghazaleh Alizadeh, The House of Edrisis

For those who dominate and oppress us benefit most when we have nothing to give our own, when they have so taken from us our dignity, our humanness that we have nothing left, no "homeplace" where we can recover ourselves.