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Comic Leadership at PAMLA 2026

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:08pm
American Humor Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

 

The American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) is putting together a pre-constituted panel for submission to the 2026 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) conference, held November 12-15, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency in Seattle, Washington. PAMLA ‘s 2026 theme is  “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict.Following this, AHSA is accepting a range of papers on “Comic Leadership.” We invite submissions that consider the role of comedy in politics. Often, comedy is used to “takedown” and “critique” those in power through satire and parody, but what can comedy offer for enacting new political paths forward?

Tradition and Innovation in African American Poetry

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:08pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Session Abstract: The genre of African American poetry has a long legacy of both preserving tradition and evolving to suit current times and places. This session invites discussion of the defining features that have been maintained over time as well as patterns of bold experimentation. Rather than seeing tradition and innovation as opposing aesthetic directions, this session hopes to examine ways they have co-existed in this genre and been mutually fruitful. 

From the Inside Out: A Creative Sharing of Those Living with Mental Health Disorders

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:08pm
123rd PAMLA Conference Nov 12th - Nov 15th 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

This creative panel of artists is a chance for us to express our everyday struggles with Mental Health issues and to show them from our perspective in a way that is freeing and opens the door to a stronger understanding of others and ourselves.

 

Opacity and Forms of Collective Life (Panel for ASAP 2026)

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 9:27pm
Association for the Study of Arts of the Present 2026 Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 24, 2026

Seeking on papers about opacity in contemporary literature and art for a panel at ASAP (Association for the Study of Arts of the Present) 2026 Convention. Please send an abstract and a short bio to Sané Bhattarai (bhattsan@gvsu.edu) or Moya (Moyang) Li (moyang.li@csulb.edu) by April 24.

True Crime CFP - MAPACA Virtual Symposium

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:08pm
Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2026 Virtual Summer Symposium, July 26, 2026

This one-day virtual event on July 26, 2026 is in addition to our 3-day conference in November to accommodate scholars outside the Mid-Atlantic region and those for whom an in-person event is otherwise inaccessible. We greatly encourage international scholars to submit for this dynamic, one-day event!

Call for Chapters for an edited volume: The Witch and Activism

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:07pm
Editors: Dr Zoë Enstone (York St. John University) and Dr Sharon Jagger (York St. John University)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 22, 2026

The figure of the witch (both real and imagined) is inherently political and potentially contentious. Each wave of feminism has reflected on shifting considerations of the witch as evocative of issues around gender, power and, more recently, intersectional aspects of identity. More recent critical engagement with witches and witchcraft reflects a transition, transcending disciplinary boundaries and positioning the witch in line with shifting contemporary debates. This shift moves the witch beyond the symbolic or the individual to consider both the interconnected and disparate nature of the witch. We can, instead, see the witch as a key component in movements of political change, as activist alongside the spiritual expl

Beyond the Mainstream: Dalit Narratives and Narratives of Social Exclusion from Eastern and North-Eastern India

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:07pm
Dr. Roshni Subba (Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Calcutta) & Injam Ahmed Molla (Independent Researcher, UGC NET Qualified)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 27, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

Proposed Edited Volume 

Beyond the Mainstream: Dalit Narratives and Narratives of Social Exclusion from Eastern and North-Eastern India

Editors

Dr. Roshni Subba

Assistant Professor, Department of English

University of Calcutta

Injam Ahmed Molla

Independent Researcher(UGC NET Qualified)

 

About the Volume

Artificial Intelligence, Faith, and Epistemic Coherence

updated: 
Wednesday, May 6, 2026 - 1:02am
5th World Congress on Logic and Religion
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 17, 2026

Artificial Intelligence, Faith, and Epistemic Coherence

 

Session Organizer: Dr. Houman Mehrabian, University Canada West

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Alfred Hermida, University of British Columbia