CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
2026 Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Annual
Conference: Oppositions
https://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/conference.html
May 28 - 30, 2026 Fully Online
As its root, opposition signals both a placement and an
antagonism, a “setting against” something: in thought, identity, space,
movement. Opposition, then, represents more than being against something: it
also signifies being an opponent, placing oneself against something perhaps,
even, holding one’s ground. At the same time, oppositionality provides its own
set of epistemological and ontological challenges, maintaining constructed
binaries as natural or immutable forms. On that terrain of oppositions, we thus
struggle to distinguish between those positions that are actually oppositional
and those that are merely alternative. As Raymond Williams puts it, “The
alternative, especially in areas that impinge on significant areas of the
dominant, is often seen as oppositional and, by pressure, often converted into
it.” How might a logic of opposition obscure acts of complicity,
interpenetrating agendas, and complex cultural, political, and social
intra-actions?
Deadline EXTENDED: Friday, January 23, 2026
If you have any questions, please address them to Michelle
Fehsenfeld at: admin@culturalstudiesassociation.org
Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling Emerging
Scholars Symposium
March 20, 2026
Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at
Concordia University invites graduate students, recent graduates, artists, and
community stakeholders working in areas connected to the conference theme(s) to
submit papers and research-creation proposals for our 13th Emerging Scholars
Symposium on Oral History, Digital Storytelling, and Creative Practice. This
in-person event will offer emerging scholars an opportunity to present their
work at any stage, to exchange ideas, and to connect with other researchers and
creators.
The deadline for submissions is Sunday, February 1, 2026.
If you have any questions, please email cohds.chorn.symposium@gmail.com.
Student Creative Arts and Research Symposium
https://twu.edu/research/student-creative-arts-and-research-symposium/
The 2026 Student Creative Arts and Research Symposium will
take place Tuesday, April 21, and Wednesday, April 22, 2026, both on the Denton
campus and virtually. This symposium offers students a valuable opportunity to
build confidence and develop skills in presenting their creative and scholarly
work to a broader audience. Participants will also have the chance to engage in
meaningful conversations with faculty and fellow students about research and
creative activities.
Abstract submissions are due no later than Thursday,
February 19, 2026.
email: twuresearch@twu.edu
MomoCon 2026 Academic Symposium
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138336/momocon-2026-academic-symposium-cfp
Georgia World Congress Center (Atlanta, GA), May 21-24, 2026,
MomoCon’s 2026 Academic Symposium strives to bring together
panelists from varied backgrounds to present their research, exchange
innovative ideas, and celebrate Japanese pop culture with fans, scholars, and
industry professionals from around the world on the topic of Adaptation. Historically,
media mix has played a key role in popularizing the cultural form of anime and
is responsible for contemporary industry formations as we know it. Japanese pop culture industries find
themselves having to adapt to changing social, cultural, governmental, and
economic realities, which in turn influence the kinds of commodities that are
produced and circulated around the world. Thinking of the many ways in which
one can apply the concept of Adaptation to the study of anime, manga, and
Japanese pop culture as a whole, we encourage submissions that reflect on this
theme broadly construed.
For consideration, please submit the title of your paper and
a 250-word abstract to Susan.Noh@uga.edu by March 1
PUBLICATIONS
En-Gender Working Paper Series
https://engender-academia.com/how-to-publish/
En-Gender is an interdisciplinary journal and collective for
researchers working on gender in the humanities, cultural studies, and the
social sciences. Published as a working paper series, En-Gender offers a space
for work relating to gender, queer, and trans studies across disciplines, with
a particular commitment to international, interdisciplinary exchange and to
publishing work by students and early career researchers, as well as pieces
that may not find a home elsewhere because of their length, style, or format.
We welcome submissions that develop theoretical and methodological approaches
to gender and sexuality across space and time, including work that is
historically grounded, conceptually experimental, and/or oriented toward
critical debate.
We accept small pieces, essays, papers, and talks in the
range of 3000 to 8000 words. In addition, we welcome short critical comments
(up to 5000 words), full-length articles (5000–8000 words), and book reviews
(approximately 1000–1500 words).
Please email your idea, abstract, or full piece to engenderingthepast@gmail.com.
Women's Writing Association Conference
Wednesday 17th to Friday 19th June 2026, Falmouth University
This interdisciplinary and cross-period conference welcome
discussions on literature and art; films and television; poetry and prose;
theories and histories; the popular and the literary; screen and script; the
digital and the historical; the canon and the bestseller; games and song;
creative non-fiction and the factual; life-writing and biographies, alongside
other forms of transnational cultural production. The IWWA will elevate and
analyse women’s voices and creative practices: the collaborative and the individual;
women’s futures and women’s pasts; forms, mediums, and methodologies; freedom
and independence; depictions of hope and of resistance; imaginative practices
and women’s realities; the personal and the public all across a wide range of
disciplines, time periods, and texts.
Please submit your proposals in a Word document to the team
at womenswritingassociation@gmail.com by 17th
April 2026 making it clear that you are submitting for the Falmouth
conference.
Feminist Futures and the Politics of Becoming:
Intersections of Gender, Bodies, and Power
Feminism today is not merely a critical intervention into
structures of inequality—it is a generative practice of world-building, a
method of envisioning futures where embodiment, relationality, and agency are
understood beyond binary, essentialist, and exclusionary frameworks. This
edited volume, Feminist Futures and the Politics of Becoming: Intersections of
Gender, Bodies, and Power, invites scholars from across disciplines to rethink
what it means to inhabit, resist, and transform gendered worlds in times of
crisis and possibility. This volume aims to create a space for such scholarship
by bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives from the humanities, social
sciences, and creative/critical practices. We welcome contributions that
examine how gender and power operate in moments of transition, in hybrid
spaces, at the edges of categories, or within emerging social and technological
formations. We especially encourage work that illuminates new feminist
imaginaries—visions of futurity, solidarity, and resistance that challenge the
constraints of dominant narratives and institutionalized systems of knowledge.
Abstract submission deadline: 15 March 2026
For submissions and inquiries, please contact: dr. Nicolae
Bobaru, critical.humanities.studies.journal@mail.com
Call For Op-Eds & Research Articles
Mitigate Magazine creates space for
interdisciplinary perspectives and is preparing for its spring 2026 issue. Its
mission is to bridge disciplines and lived experience to drive dialogue.
Specific interests lie in: affordable housing issues, community health, technology
in education and criminal justice reform. Submissions outside of this scope are
welcome for review anytime, as issue modifications occur and future issues
align with the scope of subjects selected for your review. For more details on
this publication and submission details, visit https://www.mitigatemaga.com. You're
also invited to subscribe; it costs nothing to do so. Thank you in advance for
any consideration given.
Borderlanders/Fronterizos: Reimagining the US-Mexico
Border
Borderlanders/Fronterizos is a new interdisciplinary journal
published by TCU Press committed to the study of la frontera between the United
States and Mexico. T he journal invites submissions for its inaugural issue,
“Reimagining the US-Mexico Border.” We welcome a range of submissions—articles,
essays, short stories, poetry, art, recipes, policy proposals, photography, and
other forms that contribute to critical and creative engagement with the
US–Mexico borderlands. Submissions in Spanish are accepted and encouraged. The
journal aims at a representing the borderlands, composed of people’s
experiences, cultural expressions, and shared histories, that transcend the
geopolitical boundary and limitations of a dominant narrative.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 11:59 PM PST, MARCH 16, 2026
Contact Email borderlanders@tcu.edu
Intersections of Ableism and Racism: Critical
Perspectives Across Disciplines
https://www.jsums.edu/researcher/upcoming-issues/
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, equity, and inclusion programs face
unprecedented challenges, it is crucial to examine how racism and ableism
intertwine to create compounded forms of marginalization. Drawing from Critical
Race Theory (CRT) and Disability Studies (DS), this issue explores the emerging
framework of Dis/ability Critical Race Studies (DisCrit), which illuminates how
racism reinforces ableism and ableism reinforces racism in our social
structures, policies, and everyday practices. We encourage submissions from the
humanities, social sciences, STEM, and professional fields that examine these
critical intersections. We especially welcome submissions from scholars at
HBCUs.
Please send a 250-word abstract and a 75-word author bio to
editor.researcher@jsums.edu by April 15, 2026.
Women and Social Movements in the United States since
1600
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138242/call-submissions-document-projects
Women and Social Movements in the United States since 1600
is a peer-reviewed journal and database, published online since 2006. The
editors welcome submissions of Document Projects. A Document Project is built
around a guiding question. Authors explore their question in an essay that is
hyperlinked to a curated selection of primary source materials. Past projects
have included suffrage, civil rights, labor activism, and social reform
movements in U. S history, including global and transnational connections.
Send a short statement of interest to Patricia Schechter,
editor at wasmeditor@pdx.edu
Women of Color in the Academy: Being the Lonely Only
https://sparkacademic.org/about-dhe
Dear Higher Education: Letters from the Social Justice Mountain has opened its call for submissions for a Special Issue on Women of Color in the Academy: Being the Lonely Only.
We invite letters that speak to the experiences of:
- Navigating multigenerational caregiving while building a career.
- Journeying through migrations—of geography, identity, and belonging.
- Rising with brilliance unmeasured by metrics as a scholar marked by "less, under, micro."
- Wrestling with imposter syndrome, only to realize the system was built to cast shadows, not reflect light.
- Feeling the burden of a salary differential wrapped in politeness and policy.
- Being the “outsider” who stays.
Accepting Papers Through February 28, 2026
New Queer Approaches to Generative Artificial
Intelligence
https://feralfeminisms.com/cfps/
Rather than imagining how queer or feminist approaches might
“humanize” AI, this issue recognizes the settler colonial violence intrinsic to
techno-solutionism (i.e., Reyes-Cruz et al. 2025, Schwartz et al. 2023) and
what Zhasmina Tacheva and Srividya Ramasubramanian (2023) name “AI Empire”—a
global formation of hegemony, extractivism, surveillance, and subjugation that
reproduces the logics of colonialism and racial capitalism through algorithmic
and material infrastructures. Ferality thus becomes both method and ethics. It
unsettles the fantasy of detached observation, demanding instead a radical
attunement to harm, complicity, and opacity. Ferality names the will to remain
unassimilable to the algorithmic order, to let the wildness of relation
interrupt the minimalist, sleek contours that mark computational modernity as
preordained.
CFP for abstract closes: March 15, 2026
Contact Email pstone@brandeis.edu
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
Rejoinder Call for Guest Editors
The Institute for Research on Women (IRW) at Rutgers
University is seeking guest editors for the Spring 2027 issue of its online
journal, Rejoinder (https://irw.rutgers.edu/rejoinder). Rejoinder features
work at the intersection of scholarship and activism that reflects
feminist/queer and social justice perspectives and is currently published once
a year. Guest editors will be responsible for the overall shape of the issue,
and Rejoinder staff will advise on the process. To be
considered, please contact the editor-in-chief, Sarah Tobias, at stobias@rutgers.edu with a 2-page
proposal that includes a draft theme for your issue (and your rationale for
selecting it) and a draft call for submissions. Please also include a CV or
short bio that describes prior editorial experience. Deadline: April 15, 2026.
Fellowships at the William L. Clements Library
https://clements.umich.edu/research/fellowships/
The William L. Clements Library offers fellowships to help
scholars access the Library’s rich primary source collections for
research. The four broad categories are Long-term, Short-term, Week-long,
and Digital fellowships.
In honor of Dr. Jacob M. Price (1925-2015) and his
commitment to junior scholars, this fellowship offers $3,500/month to support
graduate student dissertation work on any topic of American history and
culture. A four month residency is required for full-time library research.
Short-term fellowships offer $2,500 and require a minimum
residency of one month for full-time library research.
Week-long fellowships require a one-week minimum residency
for full-time library research.
Digital Fellowships offer a non-residential opportunity to
support researchers working remotely on any topic that can be supported by
digitized library materials.
Applications are due by January 15, 2026
For further information, contact clements-fellowships@umich.edu.
Rubenstein Library Research Travel Grants
https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/research/grants-and-fellowships
The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
at Duke University is now accepting applications for the 2026 – 2027 Research
Travel Grant Programs, offering awards of up to $1,500 to support research
projects. For assistance determining the eligibility of your project, please
contact AskRL@duke.edu with the subject line “Travel Grants.” An online
information session will be held Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 2-3 PM EST.
The deadline for application will be Friday, February 27, at
8:00 PM EST.
Archives Funding Available
Archives and Special Collections invites scholars and
researchers at any career stage to apply for travel support for short visits to
work in the department’s collections. Grants of up to $1,500.00 USD will be
awarded on a competitive basis to offset travel expenses for archival research.
The deadline for submission is January 30
Contact Email archives@uconn.edu
Research Fellowship at UC Santa Barbara Library
https://www.library.ucsb.edu/karmiole-fellowship
The Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Research Fellowship program
enables scholars and graduate students to pursue research lasting from one to
three months in UCSB Library’s Special Research Collections. Collections
available for fellowship-supported research include rare books, journals,
manuscripts, archives, printed ephemera, photographs and other audiovisual
materials, maps, recordings, and other items.
The deadline is January 30, 2026
email: library-special@ucsb.edu
Bentley Historical Library Fellowships
https://bentley.umich.edu/research/fellowships/
The Bentley offers several travel research fellowships
designed for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and independent
scholars engaged in research in any area requiring significant use of our rich
collections. Most recipients of these fellowships come to the Bentley with the
goal of producing a scholarly article or monograph, but others have produced
museum exhibits, podcasts, or documentaries.
Each fellowship provides a $3,000 stipend. The next
application deadline is March 16, 2026
Questions? Please contact: bentley-fellowships@umich.edu
BYU Redd Center Funding for American West
https://reddcenter.byu.edu/awards-grants
The Charles Redd Center provides awards, fellowships, and
grants in a variety of categories and disciplines. Priority is given to
projects that use the North American West as an essential part of framing,
theory, or analysis, as opposed to those for which western locales are simply
incidental to project parameters or purposes. Additionally, many categories
narrow focus to projects on the Intermountain West, defined as the
interior-facing or intermountain regions of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana,
Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. There are award categories for students,
faculty, public institutions, unaffiliated scholars, presses, and more.
Funding Applications are due March 15, 2026
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
LGBTQ Religious Archives Network Seeks Part-Time
Archivist
The LGBTQ Religious Archives Network (LGBTQ-RAN) is seeking
a part-time Archivist (remote work, average 20 hours a month) to oversee
LGBTQ-RAN’s efforts to encourage and support the preservation of print and
digital historical records from LGBTQ religious movements around the
world. Read the complete announcement
linked to at https://lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/get-involved.
Interested persons should send a cover letter and resume to LGBTQ-RAN
Administrative Assistant Ellen Huffman at ellen@lgbtqreligiousarchives.org by
February 16, 2026.
Contact Email isaiah@lgbtqreligiousarchives.org
Mellon Teaching Fellow in Transgender Studies
https://apply.interfolio.com/178648
The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at
Dartmouth College invite applications for a non-tenure-track position as a
Mellon Teaching Fellow in Transgender Studies. The successful candidate will
complement our existing curriculum by teaching one introductory course in queer
studies and one first-year seminar in each of the two years of the appointment,
as well as two courses per year in their areas of expertise.
Terms: 2-year appointment, 4 courses/year over 3 terms with
a 2-course equivalent for curricular projects and professional development (for
a total of 6 courses and 100% benefits eligibility).
Review of applications will begin Feb 15, 2026 and continue
until the position is filled
For inquiries regarding this position, please contact
Professor and Chair of WGSS, Eng-Beng Lim (Eng-Beng.Lim@dartmouth.edu).
Newcomb College Institute of Tulane University - Bonquois
Postdoctoral Fellow in Women's History
https://apply.interfolio.com/173263
The Bonquois Postdoctoral Fellow in Women's History is a
full-time, twelve-month position (July 1, 2026-June 30, 2027) at the Newcomb
Institute. The Bonquois Postdoctoral Fellow will be a historian whose research
is intersectional and engages with the history of women and/or gender in the
U.S. A research focus on 20th century women’s history in the Gulf South is
preferred though not required.
Deadline: Jan 30, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
email: lwolford@tulane.edu
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Gender Studies and Public
Policy 2026-28
https://apply.interfolio.com/178487
Dartmouth College invites applications for a Guarini Dean’s
Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Program in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
(WGSS) and the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences
(Rocky). This fellowship supports scholars whose research addresses WGSS and
Public Policy. Candidates with additional expertise in the intersection between
politics and artmaking are particularly encouraged to apply.
Review of applications will begin on February 15, 2026, and
continue until the position is filled
For questions regarding this position, please contact Anna
Mahoney at Anna.M.Mahoney@dartmouth.edu.
Texas Christian University - Assistant Professional of
Professional Practice
The John V. Roach Honors College at Texas Christian
University invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Practice (PPP)
position in the College’s core interdisciplinary faculty beginning August 2026.
Ideal candidates will be able to teach and create interdisciplinary courses
across a variety of contexts that appeal to students in the John V. Roach
Honors College. Qualified candidates will hold a Ph.D. or terminal degree in
their field of expertise and have university-level teaching, administrative,
and/or appropriate professional experience. Potential areas include the
humanities, social sciences, education, and communication.
Review of applications will begin on February 15, 2026, and
continue until the position is filled
For questions about the John V. Roach Honors College, please
contact Associate Dean Dr. Stacy Landreth Grau (s.grau@tcu.edu).
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS,
CONFERENCES
Book Talk: How to Raise a Citizen
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-how-to-raise-a-citizen-tickets-1976919902646
Jan 27 from 11:15am to 12:15pm CST
In a time when civic knowledge is declining and political
conversations feel increasingly overwhelming, Dr. Cormack offers parents,
educators, and community members a practical, hopeful roadmap for teaching the
next generation about democracy. Drawing from her research in political
communication, women in politics, veterans politics, and congressional
behavior, she demystifies everything from voting and government processes to
the core principles that shape our nation. This program is perfect for anyone
eager to build civic confidence in their families or classrooms, strengthen
community engagement, and learn accessible ways to make political conversations
feel natural—not intimidating. Attendees will gain insights, strategies, and
inspiration for helping young people grow into informed, empowered citizens.
ARTISTic Symposium, Re-Normalising Interspecies
Communication
Wednesday 18th February 14:00–20:00 GMT, Online
Have you ever wondered about communicating with
nonhuman-animals, plants and even landscapes? It happens daily in people's
lives the world over, but has been marginalised and pushed to the edges of
acceptability in many places through oppression, colonialism and extractivist
actions. ARTISTic, (ARTIST interspecies communicators), invites you to join us
exploring co-creation of artworks which surprise and offer multispecies
viewpoints and living in a more connected, sustainable way.
Tickets are £10. Some free tickets have been created for
those experiencing financial hardship.
The event will be held online on Zoom and a link will be
sent to ticketholders beforehand.
Contact Email inga.hamilton@research.sunderland.ac.uk
Black Diversities in the Americas
https://www.aahgs.org/content.aspx?page_id=4091&club_id=623005&item_id=2862000
January 30 @ 10am-12noon EST / 11am-1pm AST
Taking local places and cultural practices as an entry point
into an exploration of diversity, we move beyond the nation-state to center
everyday cultural expressions across the Americas. Presentations include
changing Patois linguistic expression across Brazil and the multicultural
Caribbean, labor histories of the French and British West Indies, & Bèlè
dance in contemporary Martinique by Jo-Anne Ferreira, Maël Lavenaire, and Camee
Maddox-Wingfield.
This virtual seminar is open to the public. Students are
particularly welcome. Please register before attending at: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/jvwMNeCFTrypYUG7Fuodbw
email: shelene.gomes@sta.uwi.edu,
amcletch@scsu.edu
Resisting Gender Violence (open-access textbook)
https://open.oregonstate.education/resistinggenderviolence/
Gender violence occurs within every country and cultural
context, affecting women, girls, and LGBTQIA+ people of all racial, ethnic,
religious, socioeconomic, ability, and age groups. Gender violence is one of
the most pervasive human rights violations in the world. With contributing
authors from across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas, Resisting Gender
Violence represents a truly global perspective.
