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Our North Stars: African-Rooted Spiritual Practices of Joy, Community and Collective Renewal

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Monday, April 20, 2026 - 3:38pm
Editors: Sakina M Hughes, Karl W. Lampley, Basile Ouedraogo
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 1, 2026

Our Vision:  Throughout Africa, the Americas, Europe, Asia, Black people have shared values and beliefs about God, the Cosmos and each other embodied in our spirituality.  This edited volume is a celebration of shared African and African Diasporic Spirituality in all its vibrant, beautiful, and powerful iterations.  We are inspired by the life-giving guidance of Harriet Tubman, Howard Thurman, Octavia Butler, Cheikh Anta Diop, Lama Rod Owens, Malidoma Patrice Somé, Sobonfu Somé, Tricia Hersey, Kaira Jewel Lingo, Cole Arthur Riley, Pauli Murray, William Barber, bell hooks, Thomas Sankara, Rev. William J. Barber, Jawanza Eric Clark, Flora Wilson Bridges, Dwight N. Hopkins, Peter J.

Tolkien, Barfield, and the Inklings: Questions of Influence

updated: 
Monday, April 20, 2026 - 3:38pm
Danny Smitherman/Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

AbstractThis session welcomes contributions on the topic of literary, philosophical, or intellectual influences between any of the members of the Inklings, especially between J.R.R. Tolkien and Owen Barfield, and the robustness of those claims. Verlyn Flieger’s assertion in Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World, that the languages of Middle-earth developed just as Barfield says human languages do in real life, is perhaps the model of influence, and is well known, respected, and analyzed. But Flieger's argument remains almost entirely circumstantial.

Death, Dying, and Decoloniality (Edited Volume)

updated: 
Monday, April 20, 2026 - 3:18pm
Dr Devaleena Kundu, South Asian University, New Delhi
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

This edited volume emerges from a seminar panel that I proposed for the 2026 annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) earlier this year. 

Volume Rationale: 

The edited volume seeks to understand the interdisciplinary field of Death Studies through the lens of decolonisation. 

Death Studies is a field of study that not only draws from a host of disciplines like anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology but also cuts across fields such as bereavement studies, trauma studies, and health humanities.