popular culture

Memories & Dreams: Exploring Perspectives on Past, Future and Possibility in Materials for Young People

updated: 
Tuesday, November 25, 2025 - 7:21pm
Master of Arts in Children’s Literature at the University of British Columbia
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 30, 2026

Memories & Dreams: Exploring Perspectives on Past, Future and Possibility in Materials for Young People

Call for Paper Proposals

Deadline for Submission: Friday, January 30th, 2026

A peer-reviewed graduate student conference on children’s literature, media, and culture.

University of British Columbia | Unceded traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Vancouver, Canada | Friday July 17th & Saturday July 18th, 2026


 

"Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open" - Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia.

Performing Oppositions

updated: 
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 - 3:06pm
The Performance Working Group of the Cultural Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 19, 2025

Call for Papers: Performing Oppositions

Oppositions
Cultural Studies Association (CSA) 2026 Annual Conference

May 28-30, 2026

Fully Online

Deadline for Submissions: Friday, December 19, 2025

Registration

The Hidden Second World War: Cultural Depictions of Irregular Warfare and Covert Action

updated: 
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 - 3:05pm
Department of English Studies, Durham University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 1, 2026

British covert operations of the Second World War have provided source material for a string of recent films and TV series, with Operation Mincemeat (2021), SAS Rogue Heroes (2022-), and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) all attracting media coverage and public debate. This recent wave joins and revises a longer tradition of cultural representations of the secret aspects of the war, across fiction, memoirs, cinema, television, and latterly digital gaming.

Star Gazing: Astrology and Astronomy in the Medieval and Renaissance Imagination

updated: 
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 - 3:05pm
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at The Ohio State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 19, 2025

Dear Colleagues,

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at The Ohio State University is pleased to announce an upcoming conference as part of our biannual celebration of Popular Culture and the Deep Past (PCDP) in 2026. We warmly invite abstracts exploring topics related to medieval and Renaissance astrology and astronomy.Call for PapersStar Gazing: Astrology and Astronomy in the Medieval and Renaissance ImaginationPopular Culture and the Deep Past 2026

 April 10-11, 2026

Online via Zoom & Ohio Union - The Ohio State University

The submission deadline for abstracts and panel proposals is December 19, 2025

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: moment(o)

updated: 
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 - 2:56pm
SDSU Press: pacificREVIEW
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 1, 2026

Since 1975, pacificREVIEW: A West Coast Arts Review Annual (formerly Pacific Poetry and Fiction Review) has thrived as an experimental editorial cohort made up of driven, wily, undergraduates & graduate students in the department of english and Comparative Literature, san diego state university, san diego, ca 92182-6020. This year, we take on comix again! 

CFP: "An International Workshop on Films and Ethnography"

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 6:11pm
Cultural Studies Methodology Lab Department of English and Cultural Studies, Central Campus In collaboration with Department of Media Studies, Central Campus CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Cultural Studies Methodology Lab

Department of English and Cultural Studies, Central Campus

In collaboration with

Department of Media Studies, Central Campus

CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore

Organizes

An International WorkshoponFilms and Ethnography

January 7-10, 2026

Copyright and Intellectual Property (and Artificial Intelligence) Area

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 6:11pm
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Copyright and Intellectual Property Area

As our day-to-day lives depend increasingly on creating “content,” the often misunderstood rules of copyright and intellectual property have an important effect on us. The Copyright and Intellectual Property area seeks to foster an interdisciplinary discussion about the tumultuous cultural battle raging over how we understand the production and distribution of knowledge.

Call for Abstracts: Playful Literature, Literary Play: (Video) Games and American Fiction [Iperstoria Special Issue]

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 12:30pm
Iperstoria: Journal of American and English Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Iperstoria Special Issue no. 28 (Dec 2026) - Playful Literature, Literary Play: (Video) Games and American Fiction

Guest Editors

Francesca Razzi, “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara (francesca.razzi@unich.it)

Valentina Romanzi, University of Torino (valentina.romanzi@unito.it)

Stefan Schubert, Leipzig University (stefan.schubert@uni-leipzig.de)

 

CFP: Popular Arts Conference 2026 - Pop Culture Studies at DragonCon

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 12:12pm
Popular Arts Conference 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 12, 2026

The Popular Arts Conference (PAC) invites submissions for our 19th Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, September 3-7, 2026.

PAC is an annual academic conference for the studies of the popular arts, including science/speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and other media; comic books and graphic novels; anime and manga; tabletop and video gaming; etc., presented to a mixed audience of scholars and fans. The mission of PAC is to promote scholarship on popular culture and to encourage engagement between scholars and fans in order to deepen our understanding of the popular arts. PAC presentations are peer reviewed, based on scholarly research.

‘Stars and Screen’ Cinema and Media History Symposium | May 16, 2026 | Due: February 1

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 12:10pm
‘Stars and Screen’ Cinema and Media History Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 1, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

‘Stars and Screen’
Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium 
May 16, 2026 

The ‘Stars and Screen’ Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium is an Interdisciplinary Symposium dedicated to Film History, Archival Research, Cinema and Media History. 

Proposals are due: February 1, 2026.

See the Call for Papers, more information and submit proposals on the 
Stars and Screen website: 

NETSOL-CFP-SPRING 26

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 12:10pm
NETSOL Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

NETSOL: New Trends in Social and Liberal Sciences 

An Interdisciplinary Journal - ISSN 2469-4002

http://www.netsoljournal.net/

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Faculty-owned and faculty-run interdisciplinary journal NETSOL welcomes submissions from all scholars in the humanities and social sciences.  

NETSOL has been housed at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley since 2016.

NETSOL is a peer-reviewed biannual academic e-journal publishing original research articles and book reviews. All articles go through a double-blind peer-review process.

Call for Posters

updated: 
Friday, November 14, 2025 - 4:53pm
Popular Culture Association / American Culture Associaton
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

For the Annual Conference in Atlanta, April 8-11, 2026, PCA will be piloting poster sessions.  Poster sessions allow scholars to share their research and ideas in a less formal setting compared to traditional presentations while still being part of the program.  

If the proposal is accepted, presenters should create a poster presentation that visually summarizes their topic, highlighting such things as their main argument, their research methods, and overall conclusions.

Poster sessions will be scheduled in a four hour block (8 a.m. - 12 p.m. or 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.).  Presenters should be ready to set up and take down at those times and will need to schedule a 90 minute block in which to be with their posters.   

Revisioning Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Essays on David Lowery's The Green Knight

updated: 
Friday, November 14, 2025 - 4:52pm
Drew Maxwell and Melissa Crofton
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 2, 2026

For close to nine hundred years, Gawain has been a favorite hero in Arthurian myth, especially when it comes to his appearance in the late fourteenth century chivalric romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. While scholarship on the poem continues to expand in many fascinating ways, David Lowery’s 2021 film adaptation, The Green Knight, has changed the way scholars can approach and teach the medieval poem. We have a contract with Boydell and Brewer and confirmed contributors; however, we have lost a few contributors and are looking for one or two more chapters for the book.

American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) at ALA 2026 (Chicago)

updated: 
Friday, November 14, 2025 - 4:51pm
American Humor Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Call for Papers American Literature Association (ALA) 2026, Chicago

 

The American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) plans to offer two panels.

One panel, “Teaching with Humor” will explore, through specific examples, how humor, in its many forms—literary, visual, performative—can enhance the learning process and make it vivid and more engaging. The panel will examine the multiple ways that teachers in disciplines such as literature and other humanities can employ the humor found in literary texts, cartoons, films, songs, memes and media for a richer understanding of the subject matter. 

Sonic Power: Speculation, Surveillance, and Strength

updated: 
Friday, November 14, 2025 - 4:43pm
University of Pittsburgh, Music Graduate Student Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

The Music Graduate Student Organization at the University of Pittsburgh welcomes proposals for 20-minute paper presentations, performance demonstrations, or work that integrates research and practice for its 2026 conference, “Sonic Power: Speculation, Surveillance, and Strength.” We invite students, researchers, musicians, sound artists, and practitioners from diverse disciplines to consider how sound organizes power and how people reorganize power through sound. Sonic life shapes worlds, whether in the hush of archival erasure, the loudness of protest, or the sorting of listening within media infrastructures.

‘Stars and Screen’ Cinema and Media History Symposium | May 16, 2026 | Due February 1

updated: 
Friday, November 14, 2025 - 12:41pm
‘Stars and Screen’ Cinema and Media History Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 1, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

‘Stars and Screen’
Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium 
May 16, 2026 
https://starsandscreen.blogspot.com/?m=0

The ‘Stars and Screen’ Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium is an Interdisciplinary Symposium dedicated to Film History, Archival Research, Cinema and Media History.

Tryst with Travel: Historical and Literary Perspectives (Extended Deadline)

updated: 
Friday, November 14, 2025 - 12:41pm
Gargi College
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

CONCEPT NOTE

Call For Papers

Travel is perhaps the most enduring and evocative leitmotif of life, both in a very real and

metaphoric sense. Essentially spinning from that chequered gamut, Travel Literature records

human interactions and experiences within the diverse landscapes and cultures of the world. Its

significance lies in its ability to document encounters with differences, recording their observations

of previously unknown lands and articulating evolving perceptions of space, place, and identity.

One of the earliest examples of this is found in the works of Herodotus. His Histories blend

accounts of his journeys with observations on cultures, customs, and geographies of the ancient

Comics Arts Conference WonderCon

updated: 
Friday, November 14, 2025 - 10:39am
Comics Arts Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100- to 200-word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at WonderCon, in Anaheim, CA, March 27–29, 2026.  We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars.  We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists.  The CAC at WonderCon does not accept virtual submissions.  The CAC is designed to bring together comics scholars, professionals, critics, and historian

Visual Cultures of the Medical Modern

updated: 
Monday, November 10, 2025 - 1:36am
Azim Premji University, Bengaluru
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 16, 2025

Visual Cultures of the Medical Modern

A two-day conference to be held at Azim Premji Bengaluru, 19th - 20th February, 2026 co-

organized by the English and Media Studies group

About the conference:

Blue Humanities (Deadline Extended)

updated: 
Sunday, November 9, 2025 - 10:25am
The Apollonian: A Journal of International Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

DEADLINE EXTENDED ONLY FOR ACADEMIC ARTICLES AND BOOK REVIEWS

 

ART, AESTHETICS, AND VISUALITY IN CULTURE AND LITERATURE

updated: 
Saturday, November 8, 2025 - 11:40pm
Handique Girls' College, Guwahati, Assam
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
(To be Published by the National Publisher AUTHORSPRESS INDIA with ISBN and DOI)

Extended Deadline- 15th November 2025

ART, AESTHETICS, AND VISUALITY IN CULTURE AND LITERATURE

Deadline Extended - CFP Stardom & Fandom, SW Popular / American Cultura Assn Conference

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:24pm
Lynn Zubernis / West Chester University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 14, 2025

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

Stardom and Fandom

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

NEW Submission Deadline: November 14, 2025

 

METAMODERN SPIRITUALITIES

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:24pm
LINDA C CERIELLO
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 1, 2026

We invite scholars in religious studies and related fields to submit proposals for chapters
that will contribute to an edited volume on Metamodern Spiritualities
This volume will be the first of its kind to explore metamodernism as manifested in 21st century
religious/spiritual institutions, beliefs and practices. We seek contributions from
different disciplinary perspectives that critically adopt or adapt Vermeulen and Van den
Akker’s theory of metamodernism to contemporary religious/spiritual phenomena. We
welcome submissions that include, but are not limited to, theories and case studies of:

American Literature Association Panel | Don't Look Away: The Monstrous, the Gothic, and Survivance in the Worlds of Stephen Graham Jones

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:24pm
Billy J. Stratton / Stephen Graham Jones Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 26, 2026

Don't Look Away: The Monstrous, the Gothic, and Survivance in the Worlds of Stephen Graham Jones

Organized by the Stephen Graham Jones Society

Chair: Dr. Billy J. Stratton, University of Denver

The Stephen Graham Jones Society invites proposals for a panel at the 2026 American Literature Association (ALA) meeting. We welcome submissions from emerging and established scholars investigating the vast, ever-expanding body of work by Stephen Graham Jones. This panel will focus on the recent and ongoing scholarship surrounding his horror fiction, as well as its significant pedagogical value in the contemporary classroom.

Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster Area

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:23pm
Shane Trayers/ SWPACA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 14, 2025

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) 

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

NEW submission deadline: November 14, 2025 

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