CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association
(MAPACA) 2026 Summer Virtual Symposium
https://mapaca.net/2026-virtual-symposium
Proposals are welcome on all aspects of popular and American
culture for inclusion in the 2026
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) Virtual
Symposium, an online event open to all our participants, will take place
on July 26, 2026. Your proposal should take the form of a 300-word
abstract, submitted to one appropriate area. For a list of areas and area chair
contact information, visit our Areas page. General
questions can be directed to mapaca@mapaca.net. The deadline for submission
is April 30, 2026.
Contact Email mapaca@mapaca.net
Critical Mixed Race Studies
https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19979
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) in
Seattle, Washington, from November 12-15, 2026.
Critical mixed race studies is an emerging field that
examines constructions of race through a focus on the multiracial subject. This
often interdisciplinary and transnational study highlights—to use the words of
founding scholars Camilla Fojas, Laura Kina, and Wei Ming Dariotis—“the
mutability of race” in order to address “local and global systemic injustices
rooted in systems of racialization” ("What is CMRS?"). Beginning with
this focus, this special session considers how literary, filmic, and/or cultural
texts explore multiraciality in relation to the conference theme, “Our Ruling
Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict.”
Contact Email melissa.poulsen@menlo.edu
Breaking Down Silos: Interdisciplinary Strategies for Art
and Art History’s Future
Winston-Salem, NC, October 21-24, 2026
SECAC is a national non-profit organization devoted to
education and research in the visual arts. Over the past decade, sessions at
SECAC and CAA have explored the “state of art history and the arts.” This
session builds on that conversation but takes a different approach. Rather than
focusing on statistics and bleak forecasts, it seeks papers that highlight how
art and art history departments are reinventing themselves through
interdisciplinary partnerships. By collaborating with programs such as health
sciences and business, these departments are creating innovative, art-driven
programs and courses. Possible topics include slow looking for criminal
justice, arts entrepreneurship and business programs, using art history to
teach empathy in medical education, and STEAM-based curricula.
Please submit a 200-250 word proposal to: https://secacart.org/page/WinstonSalem2026 by
April 1, 2026.
Black Studies Fall Conference
https://blackstudies.missouri.edu/news/call-papers-black-studies-2026-conference
October 15–16, 2026, University of Missouri
The Black Studies Department at Mizzou will host its two-day
annual Black Studies Fall Conference to intervene in an urgent and long-overdue
conversation on missing and murdered Black women and girls in Missouri and
beyond. Across the U.S. and beyond, Black women and girls experience
disproportionately high rates of disappearance and lethal violence, yet their
cases are consistently minimized, delayed, or rendered invisible within public
discourses and institutional responses. In recognition of this crisis, the
state of Missouri has formally acknowledged missing and murdered African
American women and girls as an urgent matter of public safety and public
accountability.
Proposal should be submitted to: https://missouri.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e5wjtq9a271Mn4i by May
31, 2026
Contact Email hallshaw@umsystem.edu
Community at the Margins
September 26, 2026 - September 27, 2026
The International Gender and Sexuality Studies Academic
Conference is presented by the Women’s Research Center and BGLTQ+ Student
Center in conjunction with the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS)
program at the University of Central Oklahoma. Our conference this year
explores the theme “Community at the Margins.” We invite papers considering
ways in which individuals and groups who find themselves on the margins create
sustaining networks of care, resilience, and meaning. Let us therefore examine
marginality not as exclusion, but as a site where relationships and community
are built. All submissions are welcome. The selection committee interprets our
theme broadly and encourages proposals that reflect on women’s, gender, and
sexuality studies.
For all submissions, the deadline is April 24, 2026 at 11:59
PM Central Time.
Contact Email thecenteratuco@gmail.com
Telling the truth? Authorship, audiences and authenticity
across discourse, texts and narratives
Thursday 5th- Friday 6th November, 2026, Hosted online by
The Open University, UK
What constitutes “the truth” underpins contemporary debates
and is increasingly contested and politicised. This conference steps back to
reflect on the role played by “telling the truth” in literary works and
non-literary discourses across historical periods, languages and cultures, with
the aim of bringing a wide range of perspectives to bear on a concept of
enduring importance and throwing new light on present-day tensions. Drawing on
a range of analytical approaches from across linguistics, literature, creative
writing and translation studies, contributions to the conference will focus not
only on truth as epistemic accuracy but as a relational function, a premise for
action, an ideological tool, an ethical act, a self- and other-positioning
resource, an organisational device, and a mechanism of persuasion and control.
Abstracts should be submitted via https://telling-truth.sciencesconf.org/user/submit by Friday
15th May 2026
If you have any questions, please contact the local
organising committee at OU-Truth-Conference@open.ac.uk.
Beyond Boundaries: Gender, History and the Futures We
Imagine
https://berksconference.org/big-berks-2027/
The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians invites
proposals for its 2027 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Gender,
and Sexualities, also known as the “Big Berks,” which will be held at the
Hilton Minneapolis June 10-13, 2027. Our 2027 theme, “Beyond Boundaries:
Gender, History and the Futures We Imagine,” calls us to reaffirm the
centrality of feminist, queer, Black, Brown, and trans histories to our
collective understanding of the past and to the preservation and progress of
democratic life. At a moment when histories of women, gender, and sexualities
are under attack—in classrooms, archives, museums, parks, and public
discourse—the Berks stands in defense of historical truth and the right to
teach, research, and tell stories that reflect the complexity of human
experience.
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2026
Contact Email nsyrett@wisc.edu
PUBLICATIONS
Feminism and Animals between Production and Reproduction
https://riviste.unige.it/index.php/aboutgender/femminismo_animali
This issue aims to explore and further develop a crucial
nexus at the heart of feminist theory and practice: the relation between
production and reproduction, which anti-speciesist feminism deepens through its
attention to animal bodies. When we talk about animal bodies, we emphasize more
than just the gendered aspects of these bodies and what relates women and
animals in production and reproduction, which feminists have largely explored.
Rather, we intend to recenter non-human bodies in contemporary analyses of the
wider field of social reproduction, as well as expand and also contextually
ground the consideration of animals and animalized bodies in the dynamics of
social reproduction itself. Here, we welcome feminist positioned contributions
(either theoretically, historically or empirically oriented) coming from a wide
range of Social Sciences and the Humanities - including philosophy, cultural
studies, sociology, legal studies, and history, among others -, that confront
in novel and scientifically grounded ways these nexuses.
Abstract submission deadline May 15, 2026
email: chiara.stefanoni@leuphana.de and
federica.timeto@unive.it
Embodiment
Despite the crucial role this scholarship has played in
redirecting attention to the body, embodiment is often addressed in separate
theoretical and disciplinary conversations across cultural studies, the social
sciences, and the life sciences. In this 21st issue of On_Culture, we explore
how bodies come into being through intersecting cultural, social, and
biological dynamics. Approaching embodiment as a plural phenomenon, we examine
how these processes interact to form bodies that, in turn, generate cultural
meanings and practices.
We invite contributions that engage with one or several of
these dimensions and address potential questions such as: how do bodies come
into being across different sociocultural and material contexts? How does the
concept of embodiment challenge the boundaries of the body, both physically and
semiotically? And how might embodiment serve as an analytical lens for work in
the interdisciplinary field of cultural studies?
please submit an abstract of 300 words with the article
title, 5–6 keywords, a short biographical note, and your email address to
content@on-culture.org (subject line “Abstract Submission”) no later than June
1, 2026
Two-Spirit and Trans Indigenous Studies Reader
This collection brings together scholarship that examines
the complex, sometimes overlapping, and sometimes non-equivalent relationships
among Two-Spirit, trans, nonbinary, queer, Indigiqueer, and tribally specific
gender formations. Rather than treating Indigenous gender diversity as material
to be absorbed into existing trans frameworks, this volume asks how Indigenous
epistemologies, political orders, languages, and community practices reshape
the scope and methods of trans studies itself. This collection seeks to
contribute to trans studies, Indigenous studies, Native American studies,
American studies, history, anthropology, literary and cultural studies,
religious studies, legal studies, health humanities, and related fields. We
welcome historically grounded, contemporary, and interdisciplinary
contributions.
Abstracts due: June 30, 2026
Please email abstracts as Microsoft word documents to: Abel
Gomez, abel.gomez@sjsu.edu
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
Visiting Fellowship for LGBTQ+ Studies
https://www.nypl.org/about/fellowships-institutes/martin-duberman-visiting-fellowship
The Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar program at The New York
Public Library promotes excellence in LGBTQ studies by supporting scholars
engaged in original, archivally-based research. The fellowship is open to
established and emerging scholars, both academics and independent scholars. The
selected scholar will receive $25,000 to fund their research at the Library.
They will be expected to utilize the LGBTQ collections at NYPL, though it is
not expected they confine themselves to those collections.
Application deadline: May 31, 2026
Contact Email fellowships@nypl.org
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Editorial Board Fellows for Sharing Stories from 1977
Digital Humanities Project
Sharing Stories from 1977, a nationally recognized digital
humanities project, is pleased to announce we are accepting applications for
our 2026-2027 Graduate Fellows Program to serve on our Editorial Board. Sharing Stories from
1977: Putting the National Women’s Conference on the Map is the
central hub for documenting, preserving, and interpreting the 1977 National
Women’s Conference (NWC), the first and only federal conference of its kind in
US history. We are seeking twenty graduate student Sharing Stories
Fellows who will be competitively selected in a national search to serve on our
Editorial Board in 2026-2027.
We welcome applications from graduate students at any stage
of their program and seek an interdisciplinary cohort. All applicants must be
still enrolled in an MA or PhD program through the end of 2026.
Deadline: April 30th, 2026
Contact Email sddavids@cougarnet.uh.edu
History of Black Writing
https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32893
The History of Black Writing (HBW) is an active research
center focused on fostering innovative scholarship in American literature, book
history, and digital humanities. HBW seeks candidates for a Postdoctoral Fellow
position. Working with Susan D. Gubar Chair, Associate Professor of English,
and HBW Director Ayesha Hardison, the two-year fellowship invites a
postdoctoral scholar to join an interdisciplinary team to highlight Black
archival collections across the country.
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS,
TALKS, CONFERENCES
Multimodal Walking Methodologies: Research Seminar Workshop
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/multimodal-walking-methodologies-research-seminar-workshop-tickets-1985820156545
April - May 2026
This 4-session seminar workshop is designed for researchers,
emergent and senior scholars, graduate students, PhD candidates, artists and
faculty who want to explore the and be curious walkers to explore embodied,
multimodal approaches to researching urban spaces with a focus on streets,
parks, buses, and the everyday landscapes we move through.
Grounded in walking methodologies (Springgay & Truman)
and guided by decolonial and post-humanist sensibilities, we will unlearn the
idea of the researcher as a detached observer. Instead, we will practice
walking with with the pavement, with the wind, with the non-human inhabitants
and material traces that co‑create the city. Each session introduces a
different audiovisual tool as a mode of attunement: sketching, photography,
video, and audio recording. Through these practices, we will ask: how can we
gather knowledge that does not center the human alone, but attends to the
entanglements of bodies, objects, sounds, and landscapes?
Wendy Red Star brings humor, history and Indigenous
perspective to UNT lecture
https://news.cvad.unt.edu/news/gall-red-star-wendy-lecture-apr2026.html
April 24, 2026 | Noon, Art Building, Room 223
The lecture offers
students, artists, designers and the broader community a rare opportunity to
hear directly from one of the most influential voices in contemporary
Indigenous art — an artist whose work continues to challenge, expand and
redefine the narratives shaping art and culture today. Red Star, an Apsáalooke
visual artist, researcher, author and educator, is known for a
multidisciplinary practice grounded in the histories, archives and lived
knowledge of the Apsáalooke Nation. Apsáalooke (pronounced opp-SAH-loh-kay) is
often translated as “Crow,” a name that originated from a historical
mistranslation by European explorers and traders. Her work bridges rigorous
research with contemporary visual culture, using humor as a deliberate,
subversive tool to engage audiences with complex and often difficult historical
truths.
Book Talk: 'Chop Fry
Watch Learn: Fu-Pei Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food' with Michelle T.
King
https://jsis.washington.edu/taiwan/events/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D199041870
Thursday, May 14,
2026, 3:30 – 5 p.m. PST
Michelle T. King,
professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
specializes in modern Chinese food and gender history. Fu Pei-mei (1931-2004),
Taiwan's beloved and pioneering postwar cook book author and television
celebrity, was often called the "Julia Child of Chinese cooking." Fu
appeared continuously on television for forty years, wrote dozens of
best-selling Chinese cookbooks, owned a successful cooking school and traveled
the world, teaching foreigners about Chinese food. Fu's story offers us a
window onto not just food, but also family, gender roles, technology, media,
foreign relations, and cultural identity. This is not a story of timeless
culinary tradition, but one of modern transformation-- of self and family, of
cuisine and society.
REGISTER HERE for in-person or online attendance.
Contact
Information taiwanst@uw.edu
