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01 Apr 2026 Essays on Craft and Disability: Ache x Common Threads Collaborative Publication

For this book-length anthology, we are publishing: Creative non-fiction (up to 2,500 words) Visual Artwork (4-6 images and up to 500 total words for captions)

We welcome visual art and writing that looks at contemporary and historic craft practices, both about/or through the lens of disability, health and care. We hope to represent a broad range of perspectives and subjects in this publication, and strongly encourage people of all backgrounds to submit.

Fee: Contributors will be paid a flat fee of £150 for work published, inclusive of each piece of prose or artwork contributed.

Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DU1A4D8jb76/

03 Apr 2026 CFP: AFRAUHN (African Architectural and Urban History Network) Nairobi

8–10 September 2026 Conference run by the African Architectural & Urban History Network (AFRAUHN) in collaboration with the Department of Architecture, University of Nairobi, Kenya.

The African Architectural and Urban History Network (AFRAUHN), in collaboration with the Department of Architecture at the University of Nairobi, invites proposals for papers about emerging discourses and themes in African architectural and urban practices for a major international conference being held at the University of Nairobi from 8th September – 10th September 2026.

It will be the second AFRAUHN bi-annual conference, the first having taken place at the Wits School of Architecture and Planning in South Africa in July 2024. Recognizing that discourses about African architecture and urban planning are more complex than the bifurcated ‘traditional’/‘colonial’ or ‘African’/‘Western’ models which still tend to dominate the research, writing, environmental design and spatial design practices in the continent, this conference instead welcomes contributions that critically examine the status quo(s) of these models and disciplines – be that in terms of academic, practice, national institutions or regulatory bodies, or as are imagined by policy-makers in forms of urban development which are then disseminated to the public.

This second AFRAUHN bi-annual conference is organized to coincide with the inaugural Pan-African Biennale of Architecture, curated by Omar Degan and team, and which is also being held in September 2026 in Nairobi, Kenya.

06 Apr 2026 Call for PhD proposals on Architecture Curation and Culture & History and Decarbonisation, TU Eindhoven

06 Apr 2026 Residency: Ecologies of Migration - Forgan Arts Centre, Fife, Scotland

There are two residency opportunities available, each taking place flexibly over 35 days across a season. One residency will span Summer (May 2026 – September 2026) and one will span Winter (October 2026 – March 2027).

Information pack: https://www.forganartscentre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/FAC-Ecologies-of-Migration-Residency-Pack.pdf

07 Apr 2026 CFP: Special Issue: Decoloniality in Media and Cultural Studies: Looking Back, Looking Forward

International Journal of Cultural Studies

08 Apr 2026 Der Greif - Earthly Fabulations - Call for photographers

“Earthly Fabulations” launches in celebration of Earth Day 2026. We invite lens-based artists to reflect on ecology, environmental critique, and the entangled relationships between humans and the more-than-human world.

This open call encourages artists to rethink the colonial legacy of landscape photography and to consider plants, animals, and geological formations as active protagonists rather than passive subjects.

Centered on dialogue rather than competition, the initiative brings selected artists into a one-month online exhibition on Der Greif’s homepage (April 22–May 22) and small-group critique sessions through Der Greif’s educational Face-to-Face program.

Open internationally to emerging and mid-career artists. Submissions close April 8, 2026.

https://dergreif.org

10 Apr 2026 TRANS 49 - Left

Together in issue 49 we look to the left side. What is left beyond an orientation? What else is there besides the right and the straight? Leave us directions towards alternative futures and leftist visions of the past; show us the left side of a floorplan; write with your left hand; tell us sinister stories and eat up the leftovers of yesterday; focus on the weaker side of yourself.

10 Apr 2026 Everything is Political - call for articles

We encourage contributors to get a feel for our tone, voice, and politics by reading through some previously published pieces — we’re drawn to writing that’s grounded, critical, imaginative, and in conversation with liberation movements and lived experiences.

We prioritize stories that move beyond the problem. Your piece should offer not only information or critique, but possibility. Show us resistance, collective action, and the solutions people are building together.

(Honorarium included)

15 Apr 2026 Call for pitches: Fuller Project

Deadline: Rolling with monthly themes - this month is Money; Water; Pleasure/desire

https://www.fullerproject.org

Fuller is a global newsroom producing award-winning, impactful reporting on issues that shape the lives of women and gender-diverse people.

We prioritize in-depth, original journalism that spotlights systems of oppression and holds the powerful to account; well-told stories that have the potential to shape the news agenda, catalyze change or start conversation. At the same time, we intend to use our deep expertise and global networks to find solutions and connect the dots between gender and the challenges we collectively face.

We bring stories from around the world to audiences primarily based in the US and Europe and we’re seeking pitches from storytellers who know how to connect those audiences to the lived experiences of people often far away; showing why it matters and equipping them to act.

Some of the recent work we’re proudest of: photo essays, investigative features, explainers and constructive stories.

15 Apr 2026 CFP: Liquid, Solid and Gaseous: Remembering Through and With Water

24–25 June 2026, King’s College London LAHP-funded, hybrid conference

15 Apr 2026 CFP: Bodies and climate : transcorporeal affects of weathering

13 November 2026, Site Saint-Charles, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3

This research day aims at investigating how transcorporeal weathering is evoked, imagined, respresented in literature, the visual arts, the cinema and the performative arts. Tempests, storms, floods as well as droughts have long captured human imagination. The apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic imaginaries have been fuelled by real disasters and an increasing awareness of our entangled vulnerabilities. The possibility of a new sublime triggered by the unimaginable scale of pollution, depletion, meltdown, extinctions has been debated. Emily Brady has showed how a humbling sublime may emerge from new human and non-human relationalities.

15 Apr 2026 CFP: Elemental Ecologies: Art Histories of Situatedness and Drift from the Great Acceleration

International seminar - Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History Rome, October 28-30, 2026

What models might art historians adopt for acknowledging both the locatedness of artistic practices and their deep entanglement with planetary systems? What are the possibilities and the limits for the discipline when thinking through humanity’s impact on the Earth’s elemental components? How do the material histories of drift, movement, and transformation coexist with histories of belonging and situatedness?

15 Apr 2026 CFP: Design Anthropology: Designing for Radical Alternative Futures - Special Issue of Design and Culture Journal

How can design anthropology contribute to addressing the contemporary polycrisis and the shaping of social transformation and radical alternative futures at scale?

This special issue explores the potential of design anthropology as a transdisciplinary, interventional, future-oriented research field committed to co-creating socio-cultural change and fostering sustainable and just worlds. It asks how design anthropology can mobilize localized knowledge, cultivate collaborative approaches, and employ imaginative speculation to confront interconnected global challenges and envision larger-scale alternative futures, and it examines how it does and might do so.

15 Apr 2026 The Contrapuntal: Call for pitches. Post-panoptics: Embodied Surveillance & The Architectures of Control

We welcome pitches from:

  • investigative and long-form journalists — particularly those based in or reporting from the Netherlands and the wider Benelux region,
  • academics and researchers in surveillance studies, STS, critical data studies, human geography, border and disability studies, legal theory, and media studies, who can write for a non-specialist audience without sacrificing rigour;
  • artists and multimedia practitioners working with photography, documentary video, installation, data visualization, illustration, comics, or hybrid forms.
  • Artistic contributions carry the same editorial weight and commission terms as written work; and multimedia journalist-artists whose practice moves across text, image, and interactive media.

We do not require institutional affiliation.

19 Apr 2026 Slant’d (AAPI Literary magazine) - Issue 08 - Wild

Issue 08 of our literary magazine, we invite you to explore the WILD: those untamed spaces where we stop following the script and start following our intuition.

We’re seeking personal essays, poetry, photography, and art that capture the radical bravery of venturing off the beaten path—from the physical adrenaline of travel to the quiet liberation of going against convention.

“Wild” is more than a destination; it’s the spiritual awakening that redefines your North Star and the roar of self discovery that comes when you embrace your most vibrant self. Whether you’re reconnecting with the earth or diving head first into the uncharted wilderness of your own life, we want to hear your stories.

We’re seeking original creative non-fiction (personal essays), poetry, art, and photography. No “writer” title required. If you have a good story, we’ll help you bring it to life.

20 Apr 2026 Runway Journal - Issue 51 - Translation

We are excited to announce that submissions are open for Issue 51: Translation.

Translation demands deep reading and attentive listening. It moves ideas across writing, speech, silence, image, and movement, and sits within an embodied practice of empathy, vigilance, and decisiveness.

The power of translators to colour how ideas are expressed and exploited opens up endless opportunities for new betrayals and violence. The wrong language can trick ethnic parents into thinking you are doing well at school, has caused contestants to lose the Miss Universe crown, validated colonial theft, and encouraged individuals to make devastating health decisions for themselves.

We invite you to send in pitches on the many aspects and outcomes of good, bad and mediocre translations.

(Paid opportunity: $800 AUD + superannuation)

20 Apr 2026 ERA journal - call for artists (UCL student-run magazine)

Deadline: 20 April 2026

Era returns to the Crypt Gallery, below St Pancras New Church, NW1 2BA

Opening 16 May

20 Apr 2026 Call for External Editors: PARSE (Platform for Artistic Research Sweden)

PARSE (Platform for Artistic Research Sweden) is an online international artistic research publishing platform based in The Artistic Faculty at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. PARSE publishes open access research and organises events which facilitate dialogue, publication and open peer review. Our multidisciplinary content aims to address academics, artists and art audiences who are curious about the contribution of research to the arts, and the contribution of the arts to knowledge-making. As an exclusively digital platform, our purpose is to foster, publish and archive research across international contexts. PARSE aims for an openness towards content and format and provides resources to experiment with these in the editorial process. PARSE is run by a small working group who are interested in developing and learning through working with external editors.

PARSE invites submissions for external editors to propose content for a journal issue. Two proposals will be selected, one to be published in Autumn 2027 and one in Spring 2028. We are looking for proposals which collapse clear subject and disciplinary distinctions and demonstrate a desire to allow different knowledge forms to meet. We wish to work with editors who think of publishing not only as a form of dissemination but as a process through which forms of writing as well as themes are experimented with. We invite interested applicants to look through previous PARSE issues as well as our guidelines on article format, as the working group is particularly interested in proposals that expand the thematic reach of the journal and put forward article formats which contribute to the development of the field of artistic research.

20 Apr 2026 Assemble - North East fellowship open call

Open to North East of England-based practitioners, 12 months, June 2026–June 2027 £7,740 fee; £5,280 production budget

D6 is looking to host a Fellowship open to Artists, Curators and cultural practitioners with lived experience of enforced migration, displacement or exile. This is open to practitioners based in the North East of England, seeking to (re)build their international curatorial practice and networks.

Funded by the Arts Council England, this opportunity enables a UK artist to join a Europe-wide cohort of artists and partners.

The ASSEMBLE Fellowship in the UK is one of four taking place across the programme. Other ASSEMBLE Fellows will be based in Cyprus, Spain and Ukraine.

Over 12 months, each Fellow will produce a new curatorial project responding to climate emergency with the option to consider how it intersects with conflict, displacement and ecological decline.

The Fellows will also engage in an international programme of activities offering immersive experiences for new knowledge and best practice to be shared, including:

– three curatorial labs taking place in Cyprus, Spain and a hybrid lab from Ukraine; – one group residency in the UK; – an international conference in Morocco; – a digital exhibition promoting the three curatorial projects.

22 Apr 2026 Exhibition: Stories of Migration and Everyday Life in London

We are inviting three kinds of submissions:

  1. Artists - Works related to mobility, migration, identity, and movement (lightweight / small-scale works preferred)
  2. Public submissions - Photos and short stories about living in the UK — moving house, commuting, working, staying temporarily, or hesitating between staying and leaving
  3. Scholars / researchers -Recommendations of migration-related papers, archives, books, zines, and theoretical texts

23 Apr 2026 Paloma Magazine Issue 28 - Fault Lines

We invite work that investigates structures under pressure—architectural, collective, personal. We’re interested in fractures beyond anticipation, whether catastrophic rupture or quiet creep. Stress / strain / shear in the material and beyond. Think seismic design, strained infrastructure, interrupted syntax, cracks. Until april 23rd, send us pieces that map what is reshaped by its faults.

23 Apr 2026 Call for case studies - International Archives Week (8–12 June 2026), Archives for Justice

NB: ICA members only

As part of International Archives Week 2026 (8–12 June 2026), the International Council on Archives (ICA) invites its members to submit proposals for case studies aligned with this year’s theme: #ArchivesForJustice: Rights, Memory & Futures.

This is your opportunity to showcase innovative practices, highlight challenges, and share lessons learned from archival initiatives that advance justice, human rights, and memory.

Case studies are detailed presentations of real-world archival projects or initiatives, demonstrating practical applications, ethical considerations, and societal impact. Presentations should last ten (10) minutes, followed by five (5) minutes for audience discussion. They provide a platform to share experiences, inspire peers, and contribute to the global discourse on archives and justice.

25 Apr 2026 CFP: Heritage, identities, memories - II International Conference of Studies on Photography, Universidad de San Andrés

Humanities Department, Universidad de San Andrés Buenos Aires, October 21 to 23, 2026

Abstracts accepted in ES, EN, FR, PT.

The Program in Photography and Visual Arts Studies (Centro Materia-IIAC, UNTREF) invites submissions for the second International Conference on Photography Studies, “Heritage, Identities, Memories,” to be held in October 2026 in Buenos Aires. The conference is intended as a space for critical reflection on the specificity of the photographic medium, its artistic relevance, its theoretical and historical methodologies, its materiality, and its particular agency as a device of representation.

CFP EN: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RQbhVAW9Rj4OTG9ZjNtqkkhNN9VfPUhI/view CFP ES: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L_jcJDZfNMVAb3_vmAXi7LM0QAtupVY5/view CFP FR: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_YVDekGSMQCxkAvGBTYdZF281hQCCxKY/view

30 Apr 2026 The Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Medal

To encourage emerging scholars that are based in the UK, ARTES, in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain, awards an annual essay medal to the author of the best art-historical essay or study on a Hispanic theme, which must be submitted in competition and judged by a reading Sub-Committee. The medal is named after Juan Facundo Riaño (1829-1901), the distinguished art historian who was partly responsible for a growing interest in Spanish culture in late nineteenth-century Britain. The winner is also awarded a cash prize of £400, and the runner-up is awarded a certificate and prize of £100 – both prizes are generously sponsored by the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Embassy of Spain. Prize-winners also receive a year’s free membership to ARTES, and the winning essays are considered for publication in the annual visual arts issue of Hispanic Research Journal. See the information about eligibility and rules of competition. The deadline is 30th April 2026, and we aim to reach a decision by 31st May.

30 Apr 2026 Funding: ARTES CEEH Scholarships

ARTES, the UK’s Iberian and Latin American Visual Culture Group Various: travel scholarships; £3000 scholarship for PhD students at UK universities; £3000 scholarship for PhD students or post-doctoral scholars who wish to conduct research in the UK.

Thanks to the generous support of CEEH (Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica https://www.ceeh.es/), ARTES awards a number of scholarships to students working on any aspect of Spanish visual culture before 1900. The deadline for all applications is 30th April 2026 and the Scholarship Committee will inform successful applicants by 31st May. Scholarship winners are normally invited to an awards ceremony at the ARTES AGM in June.