Happy birthday, Mr. Faulkner! We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our next colloquium, celebrating the 90th anniversary of Absalom, Absalom!'s publication. May 2nd and 3rd, 2026, online via Zoom (more info in the image below).

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Book review up for this excellent Academic book about end of the world depictions of America in Science fiction across media. We just had Robert on the PKD hangout. Great stuff. @bobyeates.bsky.social

Amazing to see this issue published! Co heats to @keeblearin.bsky.social Alice Bennett @melissaschuh.bsky.social & @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social #OpenAccess @bacls.bsky.social

Upcoming PKD Hangouts...Weekly lectures and hangouts for Philip K. Dick and SF fans. Really cool stuff coming up...

A reminder that Foundation is publishing a special autumn issue on pulp sf to mark the centenary of Amazing Stories. We'd love to have your essays (the deadline is potentially negotiable). call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/...

The first article in our collection 'Gaming & the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Essays on the Last of Us' is out! Bob Yeates deftly critiques the biopolitics of race in #TLOU. It will be followed by work on objects, muscles, infrastructure, linguistic landscapes, and more! 🧟‍♀️ Congrats Bob👏🏼

Someone said that zombie stories — as opposed to vampire stories — do well when a society is grappling with xenophobia. The other — someone less than human — who poses a danger by just existing in your vicinity. The danger is that they will eat you and spread their contagion.

📢 Call for Posters #CCLS2026: Do you have a research idea for a #CLS project, exciting work in progress, a tool demo, or an interesting error analysis or negative results to discuss? Submit your #poster proposal by March 3 and be part of the hybrid conference! jcls.io/site/ccls202...

Very happy to say my article on The Last of Us and race has been published by @openlibhums.org, part of their special collection on Gaming and Humanities edited by @katespowage.bsky.social and Adrienne Mortimer: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

The CFP for #CRSF2026 is now live on our blog crsfhome.home.blog! The theme for this year's conference is Systems and Entanglement 🪢 We're so excited to see everyone's abstracts and proposals!

New Call for Contributors now posted! “Heredity”: A Special Issue of _American Quarterly_. Abstracts due by December 15th, 2025. See full details at americanliteratureassociation.org/calls/calls-...

Survival after the end of the world: This #ResearchSpotlight faces race, racism, and resilience in the post-apocalyptic cityscape. Explore the new horror emerging from the ruins. 🏙️⚡ works.hcommons.org/records/j8jn...

Call for Contributions: Special Issue on the Systems Novel in the Twenty-First Century Orbit is a peer-reviewed, digitally preserved, open-access journal with no author-facing charges. Part of @openlibhums.org orbit.openlibhums.org/news/869/

CFP (please share!): Our digital literary heritage is rapidly being lost, from 1990s hypertext sites to 2010s digital humanities projects. _A Field Guide to Modernisms_ seeks to spread awareness, document at-risk projects, and brainstorm solutions. Abstracts by February 2: www.shawnaross.com/cfp/.

Latest cfp - special (autumn 2026) issue of Foundation on pulp sf. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/...

We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live! 1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/

Today was challenging at work, but then I learned my Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction is on the website & ready for pre-order! You can see the contents! I really hope people find this useful in the classroom, but also just enjoy exploring the stories—& poems! @broadviewpress.bsky.social #SFF

Editorial consultant and director of the Olaf Stapledon Centre, Will Slocombe, has announced a new call for chapters on sf and social problems. See our newsfeed for more details. www.sf-foundation.org/fresh-about

CFP: Utopian Studies Special Issue - Video Game Utopianism: Form, Narrative, Representation networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

So on Friday @languageinsociety.bsky.social‬ published my new article, Against the Game! It explores toponymic politics in one of the most successful videogame franchises of all time, asking how Civilization players engage with coloniality & placenames 🧵 #Sociolinguistics #PopCulture buff.ly/PiQVW50

Today is the day! Take a look at the CFP for the 2026 Biennial Conference of The Society of 19th-Century Americanists: UNDERGROUND www.c19society.org/2026-confere... The Conference website will go up at the end of April / early May, and submissions will be due Sept 5th.

Science Fiction Film and Television | Call for Co-Editors Deadline: 1st August 2025 Find out more and how to apply: bit.ly/SFFTV-CFE-25 @gerrycanavan.bsky.social‬ @baftss-sff-sig.bsky.social ‬@horrorlex.bsky.social‬

Would you like to edit one of the most prestigious sf journals? (Deadline: 1 June). www.sf-foundation.org/fresh-about

📢Exciting opportunity: @c21literature.bsky.social is seeking a new editor for a three-year term, to start on 19th May 2025 C21, the journal of BACLS, is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publication & circulation of 21C writings. More details on the role: c21.openlibhums.org/news/793/

Call for papers: The 43rd Annual West Indian Literature Conference   The University of Miami, Coral Gables Department of English & Creative Writing and Hemispheric Caribbean Studies   October 8-11, 2025 More information available in the link: www.jwilonline.org/call-for-pap...

Matthew Leggatt, a senior lecturer in English and American literature @uniwinchester.bsky.social spoke to New York–based news website Business Insider about how the state of world politics explains the success of post-apocalyptic TV shows like Paradise. Read the article here tinyurl.com/2jd3nyvt

Call for Papers: British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies – What Happens Now Conference (BACLS-WHN) 10-12th June 2025, University of Stirling Proposal Deadline: Friday, 7 February docs.google.com/forms/d/1MQD...

The latest Imaginaire issue is packed with post-horror! Essays on A24 hegemony, Jordan Peele, THE FEAST, MIDSOMMAR, HAGAZUSSA, HIS HOUSE + more. Mostly in English, certains en français. Entirely #openaccess. Ed. Vincent Jaunas @universitereims.bsky.social #horror doi.org/10.34929/ima...

The cfp for CRSF 2025 is now available. crsfhome.home.blog/call-for-pap...

I’m organizing an international workshop at Roskilde University in May 2025 on the connection between speculative fiction & speculative finance. Sherryl Vint from UC Riverside will be giving the keynote and there’s some funding for participants. Consider applying! alirizataskale.com/2024/11/06/i...

Actually very proud to announce that I am doing a thing: a new book series called "TV Matters" with Intellect! Television / media / pop culture scholars, take note and get in touch if you wanna write about TV! Please share far and wide.

Society for Caribbean Studies 48th Annual Conference CALL FOR PAPERS Location: Bristol Date: 2-4 July 2025 Deadline for abstracts: 13 January 2025 Full CfP can be found here: community-languages.org.uk/scs/conferen... But wait.... there's more!

CFP: "Rise, Fall, and Rebirth: Representations of Detroit and their Ideological, Political, and Ethical Subtexts," June 11-13, 2025, Université Jean Monnet and Cité du Design, Saint-Etienne, France; abstracts due before February 10, 2025 eclla.univ-st-etienne.fr/fr/manifesta...

You can now purchase tickets for our online conference Women in the Black Fantastic. Full details can be found at www.sf-foundation.org/fresh-about

#CFP for a new #OLHJournal Special Collection: "Gaming and the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Essays on The Last of Us (2013 –)", guest-edited by Adrienne Mortimer and Kate Spowage. Abstract deadline 📆 1st May 2024:  olh.openlibhums.org/news/699/ Please RT, thanks!

CFP! New C21Literature Special Issue: The Century at 25. Is there still an appetite for trying to name or periodise the present literary moment? Who has been excluded from these definitional activities? What is the century’s literature at 25? Deadline: 26 April 2024:  c21.openlibhums.org/news/672/

Call for Contributions: Special Issue on Indigenous Speculative Fiction orbit.openlibhums.org/news/655/

STARTWORDS ISSUE #4 cdh.princeton.edu/updates/2023...

It's been a few months in the making... & it's now finally ready: The Anti-Colonial Research Library hosts 400+ open-access articles and books, websites, YouTube videos on practical examples of Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies. Use and share widely! anticolonialresearchlibrary.org

friends, please consider signing and sharing this open letter asking the UK AHRC: a) to reverse plans to cut PhD studentships in the arts and humanities by one-quarter; and b) to conduct an impact assessment that accounts for class/household income. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...