Calls for Papers

Reading the Naval Lexicon: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Maritime Power and Ecology

Submission deadline: 31 March 2027

This special issue of Social Sciences & Humanities Open proposes a convergent method by reading the sea across interdisciplinary domains, like language and narrative, literature, media, and representation, and socio-educational practices (including ecological and infrastructural dimensions).

Guest editors:

Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki – University of Information Technology and Management, Rzeszów, Poland

Dr. Paula Wieczorek – University of Information Technology and Management, Rzeszów, Poland

Special issue information:

This special issue advances the emerging field of “hydro-criticism” ...

Panel at the 2027 NeMLA Convention

This panel invites theoretical and pedagogical explorations of experiential approaches to teaching environmental studies in higher education through the frameworks of new materialism, transcorporeality, affect theory, and embodied pedagogy. Aligning with NeMLA 2027’s theme, “Empowering Communities,” the panel examines how environmental learning can move beyond hierarchical and text-centered models toward collaborative, community-oriented, and experiential forms of knowledge production. Drawing on theorists such as Stacy Alaimo, Donna Haraway, and Jane Bennett, the panel foregrounds pedagogies that cultivate ecological agency ...

Panel at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention, sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)

Held March 6-9, 2027, Newport RI.

This roundtable envisions writing as a collaborative act and centers writings that empower Environmental Justice communities. How have/do writing communities negotiate and enact environmental justice? How do writing communities disseminate scientific and technical information towards environmental action and justice? Participants in this roundtable are encouraged to consider:

o How does/can writing raise collective environmental consciousness?

o Writing in the ...

This special issue of American Literature will highlight new work in queer ecology that engages and extends concepts of queer time developed by theorists such as Lee Edelman, Jack Halberstam, Elizabeth Freeman, José Muñoz, Kathryn Bond Stockton, Carolyn Dinshaw, and others. Moving beyond investigations of sexual and gender diversity in nature—a central focus of queer ecological scholarship since its crystallization fifteen years ago—we seek to chart new directions in the field as queer ecology metabolizes the temporal turn in queer studies alongside of ...

Transhistorical Plantings, Transnational Provision Grounds Virtual Symposium Feb. 25th-26th 2027

The plantation’s agribiopolitical reorganization of environmental and (enviro-)racial relations has remained a focus of scholarship concerned with the afterlives of its logics. Yet, as Sylvia Wynter has argued, other narrative sites produced by and in dialogue with the plantation, such as the provision grounds, offer a means to think beyond the plantation’s hegemonic, monocultural narrative. In the Caribbean context of Wynter’s work, the provision grounds were found at the edge of the plantation hidden away from ...

Call for Papers: Edited Volume Mycelia across Media: Creative Expression and the Fungal Turn In the 2020s, mushrooms are having a moment: in the face of ubiquitous crisis in recent years, fungi have moved from the peripheries of scientific and cultural consciousness to the center of interdisciplinary inquiry. As researchers across the natural sciences, human medicine, bioengineering, construction, and textile industries have illuminated fungi’s ecological adaptability, sustainability, biochemical capacities, and technological promise, scholars and research networks in disciplines such as anthropology and cultural theory have ...

How to speak with(in) the earth? Situated knowledges, unnaming methods, and visions from the threshold

“I could not chatter away as I used to do, taking it all for granted. My words now must be as slow, as new, as single, as tentative as the steps I took going down the path away from the house…” Ursula K. Le Guin, “She Unnames Them,” The New Yorker (January 21, 1985)

The question “How to speak with(in) the earth?” is not a metaphor but a political, ontological, and epistemic ...

Announcing five days of fresh research, inspiring keynotes, magic concerts, and a world of musicology at the Centenary Congress of the International Musicological Society, 2-6 August 2027, in Stavanger, Norway.

Come join us for “Musical Ecosystems,” a congress designed to generate new connections and celebrate the future of music studies. We invite

– Free Papers and Study Sessions on any topic – Roundtables on the Congress theme – Dissertation presentations – Papers on Artistic Research, including demonstrations

https://ims2027.musicology.org

The deadline for submissions is 15 June 2026.

Participants do not need to ...

About the Volume

Decolonizing Ecolinguistics: Perspectives from Colonized Contexts seeks to make a focused and timely intervention in ecolinguistic scholarship by bringing decolonial thought into sustained dialogue with questions of language, ecology, power, and knowledge. It aims to foreground perspectives emerging from colonized, formerly colonized, Indigenous, and otherwise marginalized contexts, while critically examining the conceptual and epistemological foundations of ecolinguistics as a field.

Decolonization may be understood as the ongoing process of dismantling the political, cultural, material, and epistemic legacies of colonialism. Colonialism involved not ...

We invite proposals for a small number of additional chapters for an edited volume on animal adaptations, edited by Justyna Włodarczyk (University of Warsaw) and Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck).

The volume grows out of the NCN-funded project “Animal Adaptations” (https://www.animaladaptations.wn.uw.edu.pl/) and examines how representations of nonhuman animals change as stories, figures, and imaginaries move across media. Chapters are intended to pay particular attention to how medium-specific affordances—such as visuality, sound, movement, interactivity, and performance—reshape animal subjectivity, embodiment, and perception, as well as to ...