Call for Proposals: Star Trek and the CourtroomAn Edited Collection on Justice, Law, and the Trial in Star Trek

We invite proposals for an edited volume examining trial and courtroom episodes across the Star Trek franchise. From “Court Martial” (TOS) to “Ad Astra per Aspera” (SNW), Star Trek has used the trial format to explore questions of personhood, justice, military law, civil rights, ethical responsibility, and the limits of legal systems. These episodes serve as philosophical laboratories, testing the boundaries of law when confronted with, for example, artificial intelligence, alien cultures, time travel, and evolving definitions of sentience and citizenship.

The LSL Language Change Forum invites proposals for the following panels at the 2027 MLA Annual Conference in Los Angeles:

Empowering Language Change

This guaranteed panel invites papers examining how linguistic changes enable—and emerge from—emancipatory practices across spoken, written, digital, pedagogical, and/or related contexts.

Listening to Language Change: Evidence of Emancipation

This guaranteed panel invites papers examining how emancipatory movements become visible through linguistic changes—historically, contemporarily, or in imagined futures—across disciplines.

As the section editor for The Women’s Experience, I am writing to invite you to consider submitting a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, an edited scholarly volume that examines the evolving role of diversity, equity, and inclusion within American democracy and educational institutions.  

The Women’s Experience section seeks rigorous, thoughtful, and evidence-based analyses that examine gender equity, intersectionality, and the evolving role(s) of women in society at the present moment. 

This issue of Ampersand: An American Studies Journal invites submissions that take up the concept of the “American assemblage”.