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the engine(idling Issue 8: Collage

updated: 
Monday, December 8, 2025 - 12:50pm
the engine(idling
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

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Special Sub Call!Issue 8’s theme is: CollageOpen: Dec 1, 2025 - Jan. 31, 2026

 

                                                                             Seeking Poetry and artworks!

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We’re inviting you to take scissors to much of our Archive!

ALA 2026 | Errand into the Wilderness at 70 | Abstract Deadline: 26 January

updated: 
Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 7:22pm
Society of Early Americanists
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 26, 2026

Call for Papers | Society of Early Americanists
American Literature Association | 37th Annual Conference | May 20–23, 2026 | Chicago, IL

Errand into the Wilderness at 70

Upon the 70th anniversary of his Errand into the Wilderness, this panel invites papers and presentations that offer critical examinations and new interpretations of work by the intellectual historian (and Chicago native) Perry Miller. Topics might include (but are not limited to):

ALA 2026 | Teaching Early American Literature Outside the Survey Course | Abstract Deadline: 26 January

updated: 
Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 7:22pm
Society of Early Americanists
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 26, 2026

Call for Papers | Society of Early Americanists
American Literature Association | 37th Annual Conference | May 20–23, 2026 | Chicago, IL

Teaching Early American Literature Outside the Survey Course

While recent decades have seen significant shifts in pedagogical approaches to early American literature, most undergraduate students (including many English majors) still obtain the bulk of their early American literary knowledge from some version of a broad survey course. Recognizing the potential limitations of such encounters, then, this roundtable asks: Where else in our curricula are we (or should we be) teaching early American literary texts?

ALA 2026 | Placing Chicago in Early American Studies | Abstract Deadline: 26 January

updated: 
Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 7:23pm
Society of Early Americanists
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 26, 2026

Call for Papers | Society of Early Americanists
American Literature Association | 37th Annual Conference | May 20–23, 2026 | Chicago, IL

Placing Chicago in Early American Studies

Acknowledging our conference setting and anticipating the 2027 SEA Biennial, this panel invites papers and presentations that explore the literature, culture, and history of Chicago prior to its March 1837 incorporation. What is (or should be) Chicago’s place within the field of early American studies? Topics might include (but are not limited to):

ALA 2026 | New Directions in Early American Poetry Studies | Abstract Deadline: 26 January

updated: 
Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 7:23pm
Society of Early Americanists
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 26, 2026

Call for Papers | Society of Early Americanists
American Literature Association | 37th Annual Conference | May 20–23, 2026 | Chicago, IL

New Directions in Early American Poetry Studies

This panel will develop and expand upon conversations about new directions in early American poetry studies begun at the SEA-sponsored panel on this topic to be convened during the ALA’s “American Poetry: A Symposium” (March 26–28, 2026).

Papers and presentations are invited that highlight new directions and recent developments in the study of early American poetry and poetics. Topics might include (but are not limited to):

Game Studies Area - Popular Culture Association National Conference 2026 – Deadline Extended

updated: 
Monday, December 8, 2025 - 11:29am
Steffi Shook, Manhattanville University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 5, 2025

Game Studies - PCA/ACA National Conference

 

Call For Papers

 

The Game Studies area of the National Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association Conference invites proposals for papers and panels on games and game studies for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference to be held on April 8-11, 2026 in Atlanta, GA. The deadline for proposals is November 30th.

 

 

I. Topics of Interest

International Conference on Interstices, Relationality and Sense-making: Navigating Peace, Ethics and AI in the 21st Century (19th-20th January, Hybrid Mode)

updated: 
Saturday, December 27, 2025 - 3:09am
Swami Vivekananda University, Barrackpore
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

“ One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.”

 -  J. Krishnamurti  

“No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it’s doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.” - Marvin Minsky 

 

The Activist Author: Contemporary Forms and Historical Precedents of Activist Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 - 2:31pm
Université catholique de Louvain
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 1, 2026

The Activist Author: Contemporary Forms and Historical Precedents of Activist Literature

 

Dates and Location:

November 9th & 10th, 2026.

UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).

 

Confirmed Keynote speakers:

Sara Dimick: Northwestern University; author of Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures.

Juan Meneses: UNC Charlotte; author of Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent and editor of Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination.

 

Environmental Histories of New England, 1600-2025

updated: 
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 - 2:30pm
The New England Quarterly
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Environmental Histories of New England, 1600-2025

Friday, September 18, 2026

Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA