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Society for the Study of Affect (SSA)
#MAKE: Methods, Atmospheres, Knowledges, Energies
Vancouver, BC, October 23 to 25, 2026
Abstracts due May 29, 2026
Submit here: https://affectsociety.com/make/conference/?submit=paper&stream_id=10
S16. Insurgent Residues of Extraction
Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
Vol. 53 No. 1 | March 2027
Call for Papers
From Neurodiversity to Neurocosmopolitanism:
Literature, Science, Politics
Guest Editor
Manuel Herrero-Puertas (National Taiwan University)
Deadline for Submissions: July 15, 2026
CALL FOR PAPERS
Send your abstracts to: congress@iasa-world.org by 31st May, 2026.
44th Annual West Indian Literature Conference
Freedom, Creative Spirit, & the Poetic Imagination
Where: University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus
When: October 7-11, 2026
Abstracts: Proposals are to be submitted by June 1, 2026
How can you free people? . . . When every move you make is to get them to accept conditions of unfreedom, when you use power to twist and corrupt what it is to be human, when you ask people to accept shame as triumph and indignity as progress? —Earl Lovelace, Salt (1996)
This panel explores how Latin American and Latine writers, filmmakers, and artists engage environmental elements as dynamic forces shaping human experience, identity, and social life. Grounded in the environmental humanities, the panel examines how cultural production renders visible the entanglements between ecological conditions and forms of movement, including migration, displacement, circulation, and transformation across human and more-than-human worlds.
The "Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies" session invites submissions that discuss memory, identity, representation, or intersectionality pertaining to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer literature, media, or culture. You may, should you wish, engage in the conference theme of “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” but any topic on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer literature or culture is welcome.
Some topics of particular interest this year include:
• The homoerotic gaze in media
• Power and culture relating to gay, lesbian, transgender, or queer stories/histories
• Queer-coded representation in art or literature
Call for SubmissionsComparative Media Panel (In-Person)
PAMLA Conference 2026Primary Area - Secondary Area:
Film and Media Studies - Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, ConflictSession Chair:
Violet Luxton (Claremont Graduate University)
violet.luxton2@cgu.edu PAPER PROPOSAL DEADLINE: MAY 25, 2026
1956 was a year of theatrical milestones. Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night was published posthumously while The Diary of Anne Frank won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. And, of course, the American Society for Theatre Research was founded. O’Neill’s meditation on troubled family dynamics and addiction would go on to win the Pulitzer in 1957. The previous year, the Pulitzer went to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a Tennessee Williams play about alcoholism and (potentially) sublimated queer desire. In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry became the first Black woman to have a play produced on Broadway when A Raisin in the Sun premiered.
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online from Thursday, October 15th, to Saturday, October 17th, 2026.
We encourage panel proposals as well as individual submissions.
Papers are generally 15-20 minutes in length. We also encourage works in progress, and informal presentations.
This area considers the intersection of politics, civic life, and popular culture. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
Political actions that involve pop culture, including banning or attacking elements of pop culture
“Home-Making: Reinventing Home
in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures”
November 20-21, 2026
Venue: Sousse, Tunisia
Call for Papers
Otherness: Essays & Studies
Otherness and Folklore – Special issue Call for Papers
Folklore is all about Otherness. It imagines the other as that which is beyond the scope of the ordinary and the real. It evokes the monstrous, the divine, and the outsider. It invokes magic through ritual, and it empowers the repressed. The other, in folklore, is welcomed into the everyday and woven into the fabric of our communities. It becomes an altered version of alterity, a homely version of the uncanny: an other that we can be intimate with.
Call for Additional Chapters
Global Bollywood: Cultural Appropriation, Streaming Media, and the Politics of Representation (Routledge)
Editor: Dr. Tanima Kumari
The proposed edited volume Global Bollywood: Cultural Appropriation, Streaming Media, and the Politics of Representation has received a preliminary expression of interest from Routledge.
A number of submissions have already been received, and several chapters have been reviewed and confirmed for inclusion.
Table of Contents
Part I: Cultural Appropriation and Hybridity