Intersections of Ableism and Racism: Critical Perspectives Across Disciplines

Intersections of Ableism and Racism: Critical Perspectives Across Disciplines

The Researcher: An Interdisciplinary Journal (ISSN 0271-5058) is a peer-reviewed journal published at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, the nation's 4th largest Historically Black College and University (HBCU).

This special issue of The Researcher focuses on the critical intersections of ableism and racism across the disciplines. In the current political climate, where diversity,

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Disobedience - XVI Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture

XVI Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture
in association with
Porto Summer School on Art & Cinema
 
DISOBEDIENCE
 
Lisbon, June 29 — July 3, 2026
Deadline for submissions: January 26, 2026
 
 

Disobedience: noun. refusal or neglect to obey

Disobedience has long served as a central force behind cultural, political, and artistic transformation. Acts of defiance, refusal, and dissent — rangin

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Celebrating 40 Years of Black German Studies

Call for Papers 

FiGS-BDSN Sponsored Panel at GSA 2026

Celebrating 40 Years of Black German Studies 

“Immer noch wird Integration mehr als einseitiger Prozess der Anpassung von Ausländern an die deutsche Gesellschaft verstanden, denn als wechselseitiger Prozess des Aufeinanderzuge- hens, in dem auch die deutsche Gesellschaft eine neue kulturelle Identität finden muss, die nicht auf Absonderung und Ausgrenzung beruhen kann. (Ayim 1

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Caleidoscopio Journal CFP: The sleep of digital reason? Dreaming of a creative machine in the age of AI (new deadline)

New deadline: March 15, 2026.

Call:
When Francisco Goya etched "El sueño de la razón produce monstruos" (1799), he warned that reason's slumber is far from being ordered and predictable. But what is the folly and ignorance today that dreams about algorithmic rationalities and creative machines? By AI's ambiguous statistical relationship with rationalities today, large language models emerge as new monsters from old dreams of creative machines, not through the abando

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Endnotes 2026: Environment, Extraction, Evolution

Endnotes is the annual graduate conference of the Department of English Language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, which is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam First Nation. The English Graduate Caucus invites proposal submissions for presentations, panels, and creative or multidisciplinary works on the theme of Environment, Extraction, Evolution. 

“What do I want from literature, a

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CFP: International Society for Philosophy in Film: Dreams and Nightmares in Philosophy and Film

International Society for Philosophy in Film Fifth Annual Symposium Call for Abstracts

August 20-22, 2026 London, England

Mission Statement: The International Society for Philosophy in Film (ISPiF) promotes philosophical engagement with film by conceiving film as a form or expression of thought. Rather than a mere source of entertainment or collection of objects for aesthetic scrutiny, film expresses ideas and arguments worth engaging. From the perspective of

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Humanity 5.0: Integrating Technology for Sustainable Society

The international conference invites papers from researchers, academics, practitioners, policymakers and industry experts that advocate the integration of technology to promote a sustainable future by fostering social values, enhancing human wellbeing, and advancing quality education through research and innovation.

Disciplinary Areas:

• International Relations
• Economics
• Development Studies
• Sociology
• Psychology

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[SPECIAL ISSUE] Feral Intelligence (FI): New Queer Approaches to Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI)

SPECIAL ISSUE: FERAL FEMINISMS

Feral Intelligence (FI): New Queer Approaches to Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) // Abstract Deadline: March 15, 2026

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) is not neutral; neither is it generative, nor intelligent. It is a colonial technology of extraction and replication, built on stolen data, r

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CFP for Postcolonial Interventions Journal Vol. XI, Issue 2 June 2026

Postcolonial Interventions invites scholarly articles for an OPEN ISSUE to be published in June 2026. As the journal enters its eleventh year, we are hoping to continue critical exploration of emerging voices and recent literary creations while remaining mindful of the various threats associated with older imperial aggressions, re-appearing across the globe, fissures within nation states, multiple forms of exclusionary violence and widening inequality and precarity. The next issue of&nbs

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ECOS DEL INTERIOR: POTENCIALIDADES ESTÉTICAS Y POLÍTICAS DE LO AFECTIVO EN LA LITERATURA

ECOS DEL INTERIOR: POTENCIALIDADES ESTÉTICAS Y POLÍTICAS DE LO AFECTIVO EN LA LITERATURA  

Edificio A, Facultad de Filología de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 11 y 12 de mayo de 2026

El denominado “giro afectivo ha reconfigurado el panorama de los estudios literarios. La revaloración del papel del cuerpo y la emoción en las dinámicas culturales ha impulsado propuestas teóricas y metodológicas

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Voices: An International Postgraduate Symposium

CALL FOR PAPERS: VOICES

Representation, Recognition, Resistance

Voice is generally thought of as the ability to express thoughts, emotions, and experiences through language. It is not merely a means of communication, but a marker of individuality and agency. In today’s world, there is a sense of urgency to hone one’s voice, to master it, to manipulate it skilfully so as to assert identity and ensure recognition and a

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Fibonacci-Derived Linear and Polynomial Feature Engineering for Machine Learning Applications

Chapter Title:

Abstract:

Feature engineering is a critical step in machine learning, particularly in scientific and engineering applications where predictive accuracy, interpretability, and numerical stability are essential. Traditional polynomial and interaction-based expansions often lead to uncontrolled growth, multicollinearity, and reduced generalization. This chapter introduces a structured feature engineering framework based on Fibonacci-derived linear and polynomial eq

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Call for Reviewers The Routledge Handbook of AI and Language Learning

Call for Reviewers

The Routledge Handbook of AI and Language Learning

Editor-in-Chief: Weixiao Wei

The Routledge Handbook of AI and Language Learning is an international scholarly project that commenced in early 2025 and is currently planned to include approximately 40 chapters. The handbook aims to provide a comprehensive and critical overview of current research, theoretical perspectives, and pedagogical applications at the intersection of artificial intelligence and

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CFP Extended Deadline Asian Studies Section WSSA 68th Annual Conference

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 immig

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Memento Mori: Death, Mourning, and Decay

This one-day conference gathers graduate students to present and discuss topics related to death, mourning, and decay broadly speaking. Above and beyond the inevitability of our own death, we are confronted with the ever present image of death from genocide to ecological destruction. In our own field of Art History, from Ancient to Contemporary, questions of death, mourning, and decay permeate both visual materiality and constructed histories. We encourage proposal submissions from current or

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Vestron Horror (Specific Chapters Needed)

This is a CFP for an edited collection on Vestron horror.

This manuscript is almost complete, so we cannot offer authors more than two months to complete their essays. Please bear this in mind.

At present, we are only looking for three chapters to round off the collection. The chapters should focus on one of the following films:

Slaughter High

Beyond Re-animator or Dagon

Little Monsters

Chopping Mall

The Gat

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CFP: Imaginative Landscapes and Otherworlds 2026: The Alterity of Deserts and Arid Environments

CFP: Imaginative Landscapes and Otherworlds 2026: The Alterity of Deserts and Arid Environments

While the surging interest in the Blue Humanities has focalized aqueous realms as spaces of otherworldly encounters, similar elements also occur in environments characterized by their very lack of water. Deserts are one such environment often portrayed as profoundly hostile to humanity. The scarcity of potable water and difficulty of navigation naturally fosters a sense of danger and unease

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HGF Skeletal Dysplasia Family Day

Join the Human Growth Foundation (HGF) for a FREE Skeletal Dysplasia Family Day—an inspiring morning of expert insights, community connection, and support, plus a special Perot Museum experience for registered attendees! Don't miss this opportunity to learn, connect, and create lasting memories. We can't wait to see you there!

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The agency of images in the cognitive ecology of artificial intelligence

Images possess a ‘generative force’ (Bredekamp, 2010) that makes them act upon us, not only by mobilising us to action—something we found in propaganda or iconoclasm—but also by provoking new ways of acting whose ultimate goal is to transform experiences and events into images, as evidenced in such radically opposed phenomena as tourism and terrorist acts (García Varas and Martínez Luna, 2022). Images operate as agents with their own entity and not merely

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Gothic CFP – Extended Deadline – May 1, 2026

CFP — Extended Deadline — May 1, 2026

Interdisciplinary Humanities invites submissions for a special double issue dedicated to exploring Gothic literature. This double issue will be divided into two areas: one focusing on creative and scholarly activity, and the other on pedagogy in K-12 and higher education.

Volume 1: Gothic Literature: Creative Activity and Research

Creative and Scholarly Activity

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Chronopolitics: Politics of Time and Dissident Temporalities in Artistic Practices

Call for Papers: Chronopolitics: Politics of Time and Dissident Temporalities in Artistic Practices

Journal of Science for Science and Technology of the Arts, vol. 18 n. 1

Guest Editors: Sara Castelo Branco, João Pedro Amorim & Daniel Ribas (School of Arts Research Center for Science and Technology of the Arts)

Deadline: February 21st 2026

Link: https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/jsta/announcement/view/96

The concept of chronopolitics&nbs

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DEADLINE EXTENDED! Bridges and Borders: Material Actualities

Bridges and Borders: Material Actualities

March 19-21, 2026 | Proposals Due by FRIDAY JANUARY 23, 2026

Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) and on Zoom 

Bridges and Borders is an annual, interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference presented by the Carnegie Mellon University Department of English in collaboration with the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Applied Linguistics.

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MLA 2027 Panel: Censorship in Spanish Cinema

MLA Annual Convention 2027
Los Angeles, California | 7—10 January 2027

Cinema occupied a central place in the cultural imagination of Francoist Spain, where it was understood as one of the regime’s most powerful tools for ideological dissemination and moral regulation. Through a complex system of state subsidies, classifications of “national interest, import quotas, dubbing policies, and multiple censorship boards, film production, exhibition, and recepti

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Open CFP: Journal of Climbing and Walking Robots (JCWR)

The Journal of Climbing and Walking Robots (JCWR) is established in collaboration with the CLAWAR Association, UK, a globally recognized organization dedicated to the advancement of climbing and walking robots and mobile machine technologies. 

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Climbing and walking robots
Legged, hybrid, and bio-inspired robots
Mobile robots for inspection, rescue, and fiel

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