popular culture

This workshop of the annual conference of the French Society of Anglophone Studies aims to tackle the topic of emancipation in audiovisual productions of the English-speaking world. Emancipation, as a film subject, refers to narratives of liberation or liberating struggles against forms of oppression, beginning with historical films that depict the liberation of a people or identity group(s). In the U.S.

After supportive discussions with Routledge, we are pleased to share the call for contributions to a proposed new edited collection. Planned for publication by Routledge in 2027, this new book is intended as a companion volume to Time and Performer Training (published by Routledge in 2019). 

The book will be co-edited by Mark Evans, Libby Worth and Ranjana Dave.

The Asian Studies section is currently accepting paper and panel proposals for the 68th Annual Conference of the World Social Science Association. The conference will be held at the Clyde Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from March 25th through 28th, 2026.

The Asian Studies section welcomes research on the historical, cultural, social, and political aspects of the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Pacific, and East Asia. Previous panels have explored Asian immigrant women’s participation management, governance in China, contemporary Japanese digital culture, and feminist readings of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa. We encourage innovative and critical approaches that address contemporary and historical issues.

Special Issue Call for Papers

Special Issue: 'Moving Violations: Asian Crime Films'

Special Issue Editors: Victor Fan, Kristof Van den Troost, and Earl Jackson

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.

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.

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! 

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.

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.

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.

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.   

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. 

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.

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.