Health in Our Hands: Bridging lived experiences of health from patient, community, biomedical and artistic perspectives

CFP for Wellcome Trust funded conference at Birkbeck, University of London, in Spring 2026:

Health in Our Hands: Bridging lived experiences of health from patient, community, biomedical and artistic perspectives

Theme statement:

How do we come to know health—our own or that of others? In a time marked by global crisis, inequality, and rapid technological change, lived experience offers vital, yet often marginalised, forms of know

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Artificiality | Surfaciality

Call for papers

Artificiality | Surfaciality

An international conference between Rutgers University (NJ) and Aix-Marseille Université (France)

April 9-10, 2026

“En constatant, en notant la forme de leur flèche, le déplacement de leurs lignes, l'ensoleillement de leur surface, je sentais que je n'allais pas au bout de mon impression, que quelque chose était derrière ce mouvement, derrière cette clarté,

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The Alter-lives of Independence Movements: Frustrated Hopes, Renewed Utopias

Decades after formal decolonisation, anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism have remained a wellspring of inspiration and contestation. Studies about anticolonial thought, the 1955 Bandung Conference, and transcontinental solidarity movements have proliferated in academia and activist networks, providing the basis of theories and practices of resistance in contemporary times. Nevertheless, the ideas and the movements they inspired did not perish with the epoch that produced them. They evolved

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Call for Papers - Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics - Vol. 49, No. 1, Spring 2026

We are now accepting submissions for our next regular issue. Manuscripts in MS Word (5,000—10,000 words) adhering to the MLA 9th edition formatting guidelines should be sent to editor@jcla.in.

Website: jcla.in

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Comparative_Literature_and_Aesthetics

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Metamodern Spiritualities

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 t

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Free Exchange Graduate Conference 2026 - Alterity: Thresholds of the Possible

The University of Calgary English Department Graduate Association cordially invites both critical and creative proposals for our annual Free Exchange Graduate Conference, taking place from March 20-21, 2026. Going back nearly 20 years, Free Exchange is a transdisciplinary conference that aims to bring together emerging scholars from across Canada and beyond in the spirit of collaboration and knowledge creation.

The theme of this year’s conferenc

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Big Thinking Summit: Inflection Point | Sommet Voir Grand : Point d'Inflexion

Submit your proposal for the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ Big Thinking Summit: Inflection Point taking place June 9—11, 2026, in Edmonton, AB.  

We’re calling for bold ideas, creative collaborations, and diverse voices from across academia, community, and policy that show the power of the humanities and social sciences (HSS) today.  

We welcome submissions in English and French from academics and from tho

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Journal of Feminist Scholarship

Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Call for Papers

Special Issue, Fall 2026: “Bad Moms

Edited by Maik Stanitzke, Bentley University

Abstracts Due: Dec 1, 2025

Full Papers Due: January 18, 2026

This is a call for contributions to a special issue of the Journal of Feminist Scholarship organized around the figure of the “bad mom, labor, and gender.

Jon Lucas and Scott Moore’s 2016 slapstick comedy Bad Moms vividly illu

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Black Performing Arts: Sound, Movement, Image, Text (Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference)

Black Performing Arts: Sound, Movement, Image, Text

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2025

The Black Performing Arts Area provides a scholarly forum to share and disseminate research pertaining to the Black performing arts across expressive forms.  Broadly defined, the area focuses on all forms of performing and visual arts, including jazz, blues, gospel, hip-hop, rhythm and blues, Caribbean music, dance, poetry, drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramic

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Gaming Across Boundaries: Interactive Technology in Education and Culture

Despite the outsized influence of technology on everyday cultural practices and classrooms, its role has never been more contested. Indeed, even in the case that such practices are not digitized, our societal roles are increasingly governed by systemic expectations, rules, and algorithms. These expectations create hierarchies, enforce boundaries, and classify individuals and their work.

This conference seeks to uncover techniques and ideologies behind this shift, particularly thr

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CfP: BROLLY. Journal of Social Sciences (London Academic Publishing, UK)

CfP: BROLLY. Journal of Social Sciences

(London Academic Publishing, UK)

Vol. 6, No. 3, December 2025 (General Topic)

Submission Deadline: December 15, 2025

No processing or publication fees. Peer-reviewed.

#OpenAccess

ISSN 2516-869X (Print)

ISSN 2516-8703 (Online)

Web: 

https://www.journals.lapub.co.uk/index.php/Brolly

Email: 

brolly@journals.lapub.co.uk 

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Abortion and Miscarriage: Narratives, Practices, Discourses

Abortion and Miscarriage: Narratives, Practices, Discourses

(Guest Editor: Dr. Florian Lützelberger, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg/University of Oxford)

In La condition fœtale (2004), Luc Boltanski describes the profound ambivalence that shapes cultural and social modes of engaging with the foetus: it appears at once as an invisible medical object, as a projection surface for social expectations, as a legally regulated life in the making, an

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Call for Papers: Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance

Call for Papers: Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance | March 27, 2026

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Diana Martinez, Assistant Professor of Architecture, UC Berkeley

Graduate Student Symposium

Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Tufts University, Medford, MA

The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University invites graduate students to submit paper proposals for the 2026 Graduate Symposium titled Resi

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Discourses '26, Mount Carmel College

THE DEPARTMENTS OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES AND HISTORY Mount Carmel College, Autonomous present DISCOURSES '26 - FOOD, HISTORY AND MIGRATION 21st and 22nd of January, 2026 CONCEPT NOTE Discourses '26 welcomes participants to send in papers that approach food as an “ensemble of texts” (Geertz 1973) – inviting us to read every dish as an archive of memory and movement; where th

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Call for Essays, Fiction, and Poetry

Resonances: An Anthology of Voices That Matter

Organization: Bodhi Centre for Literary Studies (BCLS-Kochi)

Deadline for group-joining: November 10, 2025

Deadline for submissions: November 25, 2025

CFP Category: Creative Writing / Poetry / Fiction / Non-fiction / Interdisciplinary Humanities

CONCEPT NOTE

Bodhi Centre for Literary Studies invites submiss

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Call for Applications - Leo Baeck Spring School (LBSU) 2026

Call for Applications
Leo Baeck Spring School (LBSU) 2026
March 23—27, 2026 | University of Potsdam

Sephardic Studies: Past and Present

The LBSU in Sephardic Studies offers an intensive forum for graduate students and early-career researchers to explore the history, religion, literature, and cultural creativity of Sephardic Jews.  In 2026, we focus on the past and present of Sephardic Studies, with particular attention to the evolving methodologies o

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2026 Yale Korean Philosophy of Religion and Theology Graduate Conference

Call for Papers: 2026 Yale Korean Philosophy of Religion and Theology Graduate Conference

The Yale Korean Philosophy of Religion and Theology Graduate Conference is pleased to announce its second annual conference. We invite presenters from graduate students and emerging scholars working in philosophy of religion, theology, and religious thought within Korean studies. We especially welcome proposals that challenge, expand, and reinterpret the concept of “Korean in re

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Multiliteracies and Literacy in the Teaching of Italian

This edited volume will explore applications of the frameworks of Multiliteracies and Literacy in the Italian Language Classroom.

Literacy is the use of socially-, historically-, and culturally-situated practices of creating and interpreting meaning through texts. It entails at least a tacit awareness of the relationships between textual conventions and their contexts of use and, ideally, the ability to reflect critically on those relationships. Because it is purp

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The Imposter

CFP: The Imposter
The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 99 (to be published Spring 2027)

Imposter is a loaded term that has invaded and fascinated media including accusations of illegitimacy, fraud, and fakery. The imposter unsettles understandings of our media’s truth, authority, and belonging. More than ever, the imposter feels unavoidable in our lives: generative AI challenges the very idea of creativity, algorithms create debates around curatio

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Popular Culture Association: British Popular Culture Area

Popular Culture Association: British Popular Culture 

Call for Papers

The British Popular Culture area of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) is now accepting submissions for the 2026 national conference to be held April 8-11, 2026, in Atlanta, GA at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis!

Academics at all stages in their careers, as well as independent scholars, are encouraged to apply. We particularly encourage submissions by graduate students. 

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Arconexiones Spanish Graduate Student Conference at Idaho State University (Virtual)

Hola a todes,

The Spanish MA students of ISU are organizing their third annual graduate student conference. The conference, Arconexiones, will be held virtually on Saturday, February 7th, 2026 via Zoom. The theme of the conference this year is: "Tejiendo resiliencias: literatura y cultura en tiempos de crisis, or, "Weaving Resilience: Literature and Culture in Times of Crisis".

We are excited to invite any graduate students from ISU in fields related

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2nd Annual Undergraduate Conference in Medieval Studies, Binghamton University NY

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University is organizing its second Undergraduate Conference in Medieval Studies on Saturday, April 18, 2026.

We welcome proposals from all undergraduate students interested in any aspect of the Middle Ages. “Medieval here is broadly construed, including any time period between approximately 400 CE to 1600 CE. In line with current interest in a Global Middle Ages, we welcome papers on any geogr

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Divination, Witchcraft & the Occult *SPECIAL TOPIC* Popular Culture Association Conference

Call for Presentations

Divination, Witchcraft & the Occult *SPECIAL TOPIC*
Popular Culture Association Conference
8-11 April 2026
Atlanta, GA, US

The broad interest in divination, witchcraft, and the occult has been part of popular culture for centuries. Scholars’ discomfort with the topic is often palpable: they tend to focus on intersections that feel more legitimate, e.g. legal ramifications (laws against occult practice, witch trials etc), or archi

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Their Eyes were Watching Words: Publishing, Editing, and Censorship

The College of Arts and Humanities at Bethune-Cookman University welcomes proposals for the annual Zora Neale Hurston Conference, which will be held virtually on February 12-13, 2026. “Their Eyes were Watching Words: Publishing, Editing, and Censorship is a tribute to Hurston’s skilled navigation of the complex world of publishing and censorship. Our invited speakers this year are Roxane Gay and Dana Williams.

You are invited to submit scholarly, pedagogical, or cre

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Alfred Hitchcock

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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

Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 47th annual SWPACA conference. One of the nation’s lar

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