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Accelerationism Revisited
15 June 2026, University College Dublin, Ireland
Guest Speaker: Hari Kunzru, interviewed by Mark O’Connell
Further speakers TBC
The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies has foregrounded special issues as crucial sites for shaping emerging conversations, opening new interdisciplinary pathways, and bringing into visibility critical questions that cut across literature, culture, philosophy, interdisciplinary humanities, and posthumanities thinking. Continuing this commitment, we invite proposals from potential guest editors for several forthcoming special issues of the journal as we shift from our recent annual issue format to a bi-annual format in an attempt to revive the previous publication schedule of the journal (2014-2019).
CALL FOR PAPERS
Anglica: An International Journal of English Studies
Thematic Issue 2027
Apocalypse as Utopia:
Hopeful Visions of Apocalypses in Literature, Media and Culture
Guest Editors:
Magdalena Cieślak, University of Lodz
Paola Spinozzi, University of Ferrara
Katarzyna Więckowska, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun
ECOS DEL INTERIOR: POTENCIALIDADES ESTÉTICAS Y POLÍTICAS DE LO AFECTIVO EN LA LITERATURA
Edificio A, Facultad de Filología de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 11 y 12 de mayo de 2026
Neither ‘queer’ nor ‘beginnings’ are easy to pin down. Queerness is infamous for its ability to slip away from definition; it encompasses – but is not reducible to – sexuality, gender, race, ability, class, politics, and more. Beginnings, too, wriggle from our grasp. Choose a beginning for any historical event, movement, or narrative and there is always something which precedes it. Are beginnings focused into an inciting event, or do they reside in the feelings which precipitate such events? Who gets to decide?
CFP Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia
Special Issue: Minding the Present. Bodies, Places, Matter in and between Australia and Europe
Deadline for proposals: 15 March 2026
Taking its cue from a very vibrant conference held in Padova (Italy) in September 2025, the Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia is seeking articles that examine the shaping experiences, identities, and perceptions of the present as a catalyst to urgent action both in Australia—with a special alertness to the very rooted cultures of Indigenous Australia—and in the complex relations between Europe and Australia.
We are pleased to invite participants to a four-day intensive book reading workshop on Antonio Gramsci (online), focused on questions of hegemony, culture, subaltern politics, and political struggle. This workshop brings together students, scholars, researchers, activists, and readers for a sustained and collective engagement with Gramsci’s writings. Written largely under conditions of imprisonment and censorship, Gramsci’s work challenges us to think about power not only as domination, but as consent, culture, and everyday common sense.
CFP: Precarity Reimagined—Working-Class Representation since 2020
(Extended Deadline)
MEMORY
University of Virginia Department of English Graduate Symposium
March 27 & 28, 2026
Dates: Thursday 25 June - Friday 26 June 2026
Venue: Jesus College, University of Cambridge
Since September of 2025 the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University has housed a new publication called The Pittsburgh Review of Books (or PRoB), available at http://www.pghrev.com
Edited by author and Public Humanities Special Faculty Ed Simon, PRoB is a home for engaged, creative, and interdisciplinary cultural criticism and analysis across the humanities. The tone of the publication is similar to other para-academic publications intended for both specialists and a general audience. Currently we are particularly interested in analysis that intersects with breaking news that can be produced by scholars quickly.
Joyce Studies Annual Call for Papers.
JAMES JOYCE; OR, THE IMITATION MACHINE
The development of Large Language Models (LLM) that can output language resembling human-made work have reinvigorated questions regarding the machine in literary production and scholarship.
Call for Book Chapters
Trauma and Mental Health in the Writing Workshop:A Theoretical and Practical Toolkit for Teachers
Edited by Jennifer Case
Under Contract with Bloomsbury Academic
The GITAM School of Humanities and Social Sciences, alongside collaborating institutions, Jadavpur University and Hansraj College, University of Delhi, invite scholars to the two-day national conference on “Embodied Justice: Memory, Violence, and Resilience in India”.
The Palgrave Handbook of Virtual Reality Literature (Re-CFP)
Anik Sarkar and Ratul Nandi
Note: This is a call for additional essays.
About the book:
This special issue of Frontiers investigates how feminism, even as a discourse of resistance, participates in hegemonic projects. We invite papers that examine the connections between feminism, conservatism, and conservative ideologies during the long twentieth century within the context of the Americas (including North, Central, and South America, the Caribbean, as well as indigenous lands and communities). We welcome crosstemporal and transgeographic approaches, since we aim to put together a comparative, humanistic interdisciplinary analysis that explores how culture articulates and mobilizes notions of femininity, conservative politics, and complex ideological affiliations in transnational, local, border, and/or oceanic frameworks.
This conference seeks to critically investigate the potentials and pitfalls of the "material
turn" through the medium of sound. We invite submissions that test, challenge, or refine
materialist theories by examining the "acoustic state": from the state of matter in
vibration, the political State's governance of the sonic realm to the affect of the social.
The recent "material turn" challenges us to reconsider the foundations of the
humanities, the production of the voice, [anti/]biography of bodies (human or
non-human; musical or otherwise), embodiment and the social and politicized
The Charles Olson Society will sponsor a session at the upcoming ALA Conference, to be held in Chicago, May 20th – 23rd.
In Traditional African Festival Drama in Performance, Austine Anigala(2006)draws on the Ukpalabor festival of the Ebedei people in Southern Nigeria to argue for the performance and dramatic potential of the indigenous African festival. This provocative work is against the backdrop of polemics initiated by scholars such as Ruth Finnegan (2012) and Michael J. C. Echeruo (1973) about the dramatic limits of indigenous African festivals. Recall that Echeruo (1973) called for a re-examination of how indigenous festivals are referred to as drama.
In recent decades, research on authority and trust in the US has seen a considerable increase across various disciplines (cf. Leypoldt and Berg 2021). However, in comparison, there has been much less scholarship on aspects of gender since Anette Baier dedicated her influential 1994 collection of essays Moral Prejudices on trust (and related issues)to her “women students, past, present, and future.” Our workshop addresses this lacuna, both from a theoretical perspective, and in the light of current cultural, social, and political developments in the US, and of (once again) contested definitions of gender(ed) identities, practices, performances, and ethics.
Call for Papers: Special Issue, The Comparatist
Topic: Reistance and Refusals
General Editor: Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College)
Call for Papers
Ege University
20th Cultural Studies Symposium
“AI & Cultural Production”
6–8 May 2026 | Faculty of Letters, Izmir, Türkiye
Artificial Intelligence has distinctly shifted from being a technological tool to a shaping factor in present-day cultural practices. Ranging from AI-related literature, music, and visual arts to AI-enabled storytelling, translation, and co-creative practices, AI confronts traditional concepts of authorship, creativity, agency, and responsibility. Furthermore, AI raises critical moral and political considerations with respect to power, bias, labour, and representation.
European Journal of Theatre and Performance (EJTP)
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Mobilising Heritage: Dance, Theatre, and Performance in the Age of (In)Tangibility
Guest editors:
Timmy De Laet, Franz Anton Cramer, Vicky Kämpfe, and Dunja Njaradi
(proposal deadline: 25 January 2026)
The purpose of this issue is to understand the experiences and practices of people living in different geographical contexts. If someone believes that Christianity caused conflict and wars throughout history, this issue suggests that understanding each other's experiences and practices can promote harmony, especially in Asian and Western contexts. The integration of diverse thoughts benefits the well-being of the world. This issue will not only provide a platform to engage with such religious harmony but also serve as a valuable resource for researchers in understanding different experiences and practices.
Conference dates: 13–15 February 2026| Venue: IIM Calcutta
Overview
DECISION, the IIM Calcutta-Springer journal, aims to facilitate scholarly inquiry into the contexts of our concepts. In collaboration with Fact or Value, DECISION aims to continue the conversation: investigating process(es) via which some ideas, perspectives and readings of the world have come to be recognized as universal and true; in other words, a fact. Fact or Value is a forum for lectures and discussions on philosophy, aesthetics and history.
Special Issue for LIT / The Anger Issue: Women’s Writing and Anger in Ireland
Deadline for full essays: July 15, 2026
SILENCE &—
What is silence? Might it be a gaping void or a buzzy medium—the absence
School of Humanities and Performing Arts
Department of English and Cultural Studies
Central Campus
CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Bangalore
Organizes
Mélange
An MA in English with Communication Studies Initiative
&
A Student Led - Postgraduate International Conference on
Archives of the Anthropocene: Writing Contemporary Humanities
Date: February 27, 2026
The Cultural Studies Cell
Department of English and Cultural Studies
CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Bangalore
in collaboration with
Department of English
Panihati Mahavidyalya
Organizes
A Symposium on
Raymond Williams’ Keywords at 50
Dates: February 12-14, 2026
Call for Participation
Workshop on Creativity and Artificial Intelligence
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
March 28, 2026
Keynote Speaker: Richard Jean So, Duke University
The Global Digital Humanities Working Group of Central New York Humanities Corridor is pleased to host a 1-day workshop on creativity and artificial intelligence at Hobart and William Smith Colleges on March 28, 2026.