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30 Jan 2026 CFP: CLARA 13 | Architecture has a soil problem

PDF of open call: https://clararevue.ulb.be/CLARA/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/107

11 Feb 2026 CFP: SAVA Conference on Solidarity with Nature: Envisioning the Ecological Heritage of World Socialism

Sainsbury Art Centre, University of East Anglia, May 21–22, 2026 (Norwich, UK)

15 Feb 2026 CFP: IPHS 2026 Conference @ Georgia Tech - ‘Crossroads’

Call for Abstracts IPHS 2026 Atlanta, Georgia July 19-23, 2026

15 Feb 2026 CFP: SACRPH 2026 / The 21st National Conference on Planning History

15–18 October 2026, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

https://www.aasa-arch.org/post/call-for-papers—–sacrph-2026—the-21st-national-conference-on-planning-history-15-18-october-20 https://www.online.uc.edu

16 Feb 2026 CFP: Symposium on Artistic Research in Analog Practices – Sustainable Body

NB: Participation fee applies (? unsure if presenters can participate for free) Please read carefully. Submission is free.

11–12 April 2026 The Finnish Museum of Photography Helsinki, Finland

Two-day symposium focusing on analog photography and moving image practice. It will be held in the Process Space at the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland, during the weekend 11.–12.4.2026. The symposium will also take place on an online platform and streamed to the participants in real time.

20 Feb 2026 CFP: Session @ RGS London: Geographies of Concealment: Temporary Urban Barriers of Masking, Covering, and Hiding

Royal Geographical Society, London 1-4 September 2026

This panel focuses on barriers as affective infrastructural tools (Bosworth, 2023; Henderson, 2008) that physically, visually, and behaviorally establish a temporary relation of masking, covering, or hiding space in the city. Through varying materialities, opacities, and scales, barriers impose a vertical limit that redirects movement, interrupts sightlines, and reshapes everyday spatial politics.

21 Feb 2026 ŠUM Journal - #27 & #28 - ‘Cults’

Paid opportunity (300 EUR)

This open call investigates how the figure of the cult allows us to think more rigorously about the formation, transmission, and normalization of belief. How do minimal collectives produce epistemological shifts that later appear as naturalized worldviews? What does the cult reveal about the memetic power of ideas, their infectious capacity, and the conditions under which they become dominant?

We invite contributions that engage with conspiracy / occultism as a historical, aesthetic, political, and epistemological structure—prior to, during, or beyond the moment of total contagion—and that examine its role in shaping contemporary culture and its possible futures.

23 Feb 2026 CFP: ACH (Association for computers and the humanities) Conference 2026: Emergence/ia

Virtual conference, 24-26 June 2026

Papers accepted in EN, ES

ACH 2026 explores how we create and collaborate through moments of exigency in a bilingual, virtual conference. In Spanish, emergencia can mean both “emergence” and “emergency.” This dual meaning serves as our starting point. While emergence/ia speaks to growth, connection, and creation, emergency/ia signals moments of urgency that demand care, response, and transformation. ACH 2026 seeks to ask: What forms of knowledge creation in the digital humanities (broadly defined) are emerging from pressing challenges across the Americas? How do digital humanists respond to emergencies through knowledge creation, while being mindful of ramifications of computing for environmental crises? What insights do themes of transnationalism and solidarity reveal across the Americas about our work and communities, and the role of emerging technology in shaping both?

01 Mar 2026 CFP: International conference - The Evolution of Artistic Representations of Marginalized Identities in the Americas (19th–21st centuries): Ruptures and/or Continuities?

25–27 November 2026, University of Lille

The aim of this conference is to take stock of current research on the evolution of representations and imaginaries of identity and alterity in/of the Americas, as well as the power dynamics they entail, through artistic and cultural practices and productions, and to lay the foundations for the creation of an international research network in this field.

Papers accepted in EN, FR, ES.

01 Mar 2026 CFP: Open access book: Fumetti, spazio e architettura/Comics, Space, and Architecture

Call for book chapter for Comics, Space, and Architecture: Theory, Analysis, and Applications.

01 Mar 2026 CFP: Building Identities: Character in Architecture and Beyond

International Conference, Zurich, 2-4 September 2026

01 Mar 2026 CFP: Vesper Journal no. 15 - Détournement

Vesper is a six-monthly, double-blind peer-reviewed journal, multidisciplinary and bilingual (Italian and English).

Sections: Project / Essay / Journey / Archive / Ring / Tutorial / Translation / Fundamentals / Tale

03 Mar 2026 CFP: Situated Imaginaries and Imaginaries of Urban Futures Conference, University of Cambridge

Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, 17 July 2026.

A conference exploring how situated imaginations and imaginaries are formed, contested, and translated across politics and space towards urban futures.

06 Mar 2026 CFP: Design and Artificial Intelligence: Ethical, Plural, and Situated Perspectives

Academic journal Base Diseño e Innovación, School of Design, Universidad del Desarrollo Manuscripts accepted in EN / ES

CFP PDF: https://revistas.udd.cl/index.php/BDI/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/33

06 Mar 2026 CFP: Enabling Boundaries: Rethinking Spatial Categories, Epistemic Challenges, and Transformative Design Practices

Oldenburg, Germany Symposium date: June 6, 2026

We invite contributions from practitioners, critics and researchers from the design disciplines such as urban design and planning, architecture, landscape and environmental design, but also from scholars in philosophy, sociology, geography, media philosophy, political science, etc. To foster debate and exchange, we are planning a one-day on-site workshop on June 5, 2026 in Oldenburg (with Zoom option). Limited funding to cover travel expenses is available. The workshop is part of the “Rurban Design Lab” research project, which belongs to the “4N” research network.

06 Mar 2026 CFP: SAHANZ-AUHPH 2026, 7-9 December 2026, Melbourne, Australia

This conference invites contributions that explore the echoes within the void: to engage with the idea of absence in the built and designed environment in all its myriad forms and machinations: absences of people, structures, places, ideas, or representation, by design, neglect, or by force.

06 Mar 2026 Ellipses Journal - 'Corrosive spatial practice'

Link to open call PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pzFGhxK0eF9KRtgnPFdIoyo_bF7vEbFv/view

10 Mar 2026 CFP: The Princeton Journal of Interdisciplinary Research

Deadline: varies, earliest is 10 Mar 2026

The Princeton Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (PJIR) is now accepting submissions for its 2026 editions. We welcome both review and original research papers across a broad range of disciplines, including humanities studies, social sciences, and science and technology. PJIR is particularly interested in interdisciplinary papers that bridge these fields and offer fresh perspectives or innovative approaches to existing research challenges. Our goal is to showcase diverse and thought-provoking scholarship that contributes meaningfully to academic discourse.

https://www.princeton-press.com/pjir

15 Mar 2026 Symposium: Time to Listen – Multispecies Creativity in Music and Sound

Academy of Arts, Hanseatenweg, 26–27 June 2026

We invite artists, curators, and researchers to propose sessions they would like to lead during the symposium on 26–27 June. Sessions are 45 minutes long, and the format is open: it can range from lectures, project presentations, workshops, sound walks, listening sessions, to guided improvisations. We are seeking contributions that engage with the theme of Multispecies Creativity in Music and Sound.

15 Mar 2026 CFP: Learnings/Unlearnings: Environmental Learning, Spatial Design, and Participatory Pedagogies Within Institutions and Beyond

Dates: 3–5 September 2026 Location: London, UK

https://www.the-lsa.org/call-for-abstracts-learningsunlearnings-conference/ https://caravanize.nu/learnings-unlearnings-2026/call-for-abstracts/

15 Mar 2026 CFP: The Self at Scale - Workshop @ ICI Berlin, Bard College Berlin

Autotheory, autofiction, and related genres, such as auto-sociobiography or mythobiography show the interplay between theorizations of personal life, subjectivity and historical or collective experience. This workshop explores the history of these forms, and is interested in their genealogies, as well as in the politics and aesthetics of subjectivity, especially in the moments when these practices have intensified.

15 Mar 2026 CFP: Maps and the Imagination - Special Issue, Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography

By exploring the map-imagination nexus, this issue engages questions ranging from the practical to the philosophical: What do maps do for acts of creativity, and conversely, what does the imagination want from maps? How do maps help making and knowing imagined selves and communities? How does the image, rhetoric, and materiality of maps influence creative practices, be it for imagining social and political contexts, or for texts creating compelling stories ranging from classic epics and romance fiction to fantasy novels and climate fiction? How do methods and theories of historical cartography and forms of imagined thinking complement each other? How have the materiality and technology of mapmaking informed imagined subjects and subjectivities, and conversely how do expressions of the imagination allow us to rethink the nature of maps?

16 Mar 2026 CFP: Making Ecologies: Craft, Material, and Situated Practice

How do materials, environments, and traditions shape the way we make?

Making Ecologies is a one-day interdisciplinary symposium exploring how craft and material practices engage with ecological, cultural, and situated ways of making.

We invite scholars, researchers, artists, designers, conservators, and practitioners to respond to themes including: • Material Ecologies • Craft Assemblages • Situated Practices

23 Mar 2026 CFP: Journal of Architectural Education - 80:1-2 - The Future of Architectural Education

This double issue of the Journal of Architectural Education will celebrate the core mission of the JAE: advancing architectural education through thoughtful analysis, critique, and reflection. We are calling for papers, projects, and articles that address the future of architectural education. This comes at a critical moment. Higher education faces many challenges, including declining domestic and international student enrollments, eroding public support, rising economic uncertainty, and increasing student debt. At the same time, architectural education confronts a number of related concerns, such as reduced student demand, challenges to equity and sustainability efforts, expanded support for alternative paths to licensure, shifting expectations on the part of students, and rapid advances in disruptive technologies affecting the profession and the building industry.

24 Mar 2026 Journal of Design History - Call for submissions for Explorations

Explorations editors accept proposals for reflective writing pieces, interviews, position papers, meditations, practitioner statements, educator statements, letters, reflections on methods, among other formats. Submissions can be visually led, include videos, audio files and other media-based material. They should be 1,500–4,000 in length (excluding endnotes) and do not have a prescribed number of images. Explorations pieces are published in the Journal of Design History’s webpages on the Oxford University Press website. Contributions have their own DOI, are published as advanced articles, and are associated to a specific issue of the journal.

Explorations

As design gains significance in the major debates around our past, present, and future, the Explorations section of the Journal of Design History seeks to nurture innovative, experimental, and creative interventions in researching and writing about design and its histories. The Explorations section aims to:

  • Support experimentation with new or alternative forms of scholarly communication, collaborative writing and/or interdisciplinarity.
  • Extend the JDH’s authorship and readership base, supporting early career researchers, emerging and future scholarship.
  • Diversify research dissemination and promote timely responses to key debates.

27 Mar 2026 SGSAH Research Showcase, Glasgow, Scotland

Are you a doctoral researcher in Arts & Humanities in Scotland?

Here’s an opportunity to share your work, connect with the Arts & Humanities community, and bring your research to life — with up to £1000 in funding to support how you present it.

The SGSAH Research Showcase 2026 takes place 24–25 June in Glasgow as part of our Summer School.

27 Mar 2026 CFP: Colonial Hinter-Seas: A Conference on Subaquatic Resources and Waterside Lives from the Early Modern to the Contemporary

August 2026, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

29 Mar 2026 Call for all sections: Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism - Issue 7

Accepted formats: Research papers (original and unpublished research papers), Works (Short informative articles on works carried out in the fields of building, architecture and urbanism), Reflections (Short essays on theory and practice of traditional building, architecture and urbanism, as well as on their teaching, their preservation and their continuation), or Book Reviews.

30 Mar 2026 CFP: Book - Ecofeminist Drama: Theatre, Performance, and Ecological Futures

We invite original scholarly contributions that investigate drama and performance as sites where ecofeminist thought is materially embodied, dramaturgically enacted, and politically reimagined. Particular attention will be given to chapters engaging contemporary theatre and performance and articulating how ecofeminism is transformed through theatrical aesthetics, performance politics, and formal innovation.

31 Mar 2026 CFP: Thinking with Materials across Histories and Practices

The Centre for Doctoral Studies UMPRUM invites submissions for an international doctoral conference exploring materials and materiality within art historical and artistic research methodologies. The conference will take place on October 1–2, 2026 at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, with the possibility of online participation.

The event focuses on historiography of material-oriented approaches, microhistories, and new perspectives on material as a starting point for artistic and theoretical inquiry. PhD students and early career researchers are especially encouraged to apply. Papers should be presented in English and not exceed 20 minutes.

Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DUqC9B9iCro/

31 Mar 2026 CFP: Inflection Journal Vol 13 - Detail

Journal of the Melbourne School of Design

In examining detail as a site of revelation, concealment, propagation, and as a cultural language, Inflection vol. 13 invites contributions that explore the role of detail in the built environment. We invite full paper drafts of academic pieces (up to 4,500 words), practice-related pieces (up to 1,000 words), abstract or fictional works (up to 500 words), and visual artworks that explore these themes.

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.

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

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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.

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.

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

01 May 2026 CFP: DHS Student Conference, 12-13 June 2026: EPHEMERAL ENCOUNTERS

  • What role does ephemera play in the practice of design history?
  • How can we approach the question of ephemerality when thinking about sustainability in the face of the climate crisis and political turmoil?
  • How can archives, museums, and historical repositories work to preserve spaces, objects, skills, memories, traditions, and cultures for the future?
  • What can design history do to preserve fleeting encounters? How do design historians negotiate the ephemerality of user experience?
  • As design historians, how do we come to terms with these uncertainties, do we simply attempt to preserve and share these histories, or do we attempt to find new methods of engaging with these histories that might help us face contemporary issues?

We welcome papers and other creative responses which fit with an online format, such as audio/ visual work or creative ways of presenting (in-conversation papers, interviews etc.), engaging with design history and the themes of ephemera, ephemerality and ephemeral encounters. Students and recent graduates from diverse backgrounds are all encouraged to present their work.

01 May 2026 CFP: 13th International Conference of the Hellenic Geographical Society - Geography Matters

27-28 November 2026. Athens, Greece

Modern Geography encompasses a broad spectrum of subjects, interacting with the natural, social, and human sciences, as well as with applied sciences and spatial planning. The 13th Conference of the Hellenic Geographical Society (HGS), titled Geography Matters, and co-organised with the Harokopio University of Athens, aims to highlight the richness and diversity of Geography, placing special emphasis on bridging different approaches and interconnecting scientific boundaries.

In an era of significant changes and uncertainty, major challenges - such as the climate crisis, humanitarian disasters and intensification of social inequalities, and geopolitical tensions and authoritarianism in governance - necessitate innovative, interdisciplinary and multiscalar inquiries.

01 May 2026 Antennae Journal #69 - Impossible Archives

This issue of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, co-edited by Giovanni Aloi and Cristina Baldacci, invites submissions that think creatively about archives of all kinds, especially those entangled with nature, ecology, the more-than-human, and the visual cultures that surround them. In part inspired by Baldacci’s book Archivi Impossibili (2016), the issue is interested not only in archives that preserve, protect, and classify, but also in those that resist and challenge boundaries, hierarchies and order: archives that are fragmentary, speculative, excessive, illegible, ephemeral, sensorial, living, or deliberately “impossible”, since they undermine the idea of archives of modern origin. What happens when the archive is no longer a guarantee of truth but a contested field, one shaped by extraction, erasure, environmental transformation, and competing claims to belonging?

01 May 2026 CFP: CLARA #14: Uncertainties

Clara is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal in architecture dedicated to topics, research methods, and tools specific to the field. Each issue comprises a main thematic section proposed by guest editors, and two additional sections: Archives, with articles based on the exploration of archival documents, and Position(s), with articles that take a stance on current developments or events in architecture.

Full call PDF: https://clararevue.ulb.be/CLARA/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/109

10 May 2026 CFP: Choosing the Past: The Manifestation of History in a Changing Public Sphere

Choosing the Past: The Manifestation of History in a Changing Public Sphere 10–12 June 2026 | Hybrid (online & in-person) | Charles University, Prague

This international and interdisciplinary conference invites PhD candidates and selected Master’s students to explore how historical narratives are constructed, negotiated, and debated in the contemporary public sphere. The event welcomes contributions from fields such as history, sociology, anthropology, political science, cultural studies, gender studies, and related disciplines.

Key topics include memory and visual culture, national identity, heritage and urban memory, disinformation, decolonisation of history, and the politics of belonging.

The conference will be held online & in-person on June 10-12, 2026. The event is organized by the Department of East European Studies and the Boris Nemtsov Academic Center, Faculty of Arts, and the Department of Historical Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague.

11 May 2026 CFP: Oral History Australia 2026 Biennial Conference - Human voices, modern technology: Oral history & authenticity

3-6 December 2026

We invite papers that consider how new applications, techniques and changes in technology are being used by practitioners in planning, recording, transcribing, archiving, and sharing oral histories. Papers might consider (but are not limited to):

  • ethical considerations
  • transcription technologies
  • challenges underpinning podcasting and videography
  • the long-term storage of interviews, and the
  • potential consequences of hosting projects online.

Alternatively, we are also looking for papers that reaffirm the values that have always been inherent to oral history as a methodology necessitating human interactivity and authentic storytelling, which recognise the importance of continuing to forge connections and safeguard oral histories for the future.

14 May 2026 CFP: The Grammar of Art, Kunstlicht Vol. 47, no 3/4

What does it mean to read art—not as image, but as language? And what if language itself is unstable, embodied, coded, or even resistant to being read at all?

For our next issue of Kunstlicht, we are looking for submissions that address the historical, situated, embodied, and fractured conditions of language in art, moving between theoretical and philosophical perspectives that situate particular linguistic and cultural ruptures, and artworks that test the limits of language as a tool.

15 May 2026 CFP: Photography’s Material Conditions: Residue, Object(hood) and Practices in the Expanded Field

8th International Conference of Photography & Theory (ICPT2026) Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, 26-28 November, 2026

We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations from various disciplines, such as: photography, art history and theory, visual sociology, anthropology, museology, philosophy, ethnography, education, cultural studies, and visual and media studies. To propose a paper, please submit a 450-word abstract (including references) through our online submission system, no later than: May 15th, 2026

15 May 2026 CFP: Drawing from Territory - Research and practices in art, science and technology

International Conference 23rd - 25th November 2026 Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal

Abstracts accepted in EN, ES, PT

Drawing from territory is an international artistic and scientific conference held within the framework of the XXIV International Biennial of Art of Cerveira, with the support of research centres from the University of Porto: the Research Institute in Art, Design and Society (i2ADS), the Centre of Studies in Geography and Spatial Planning (CEGOT), and the Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment (CITTA).

Rooted in the border territory of Vila Nova de Cerveira, in northern Portugal, and Galicia, the initiative proposes a discussion of pressing territorial issues, with particular attention to border regions as spaces of negotiation, permeability, exchange, and tension.

Drawing from territory invites artists, scientists, professionals from STEM fields, as well as researchers from all areas of knowledge, to engage with Drawing as a broad and transversal discipline, capable of articulating research and praxis across different domains.

15 May 2026 CFP: Warburg, Malraux, Picasso: Album, Atlas, Archive

Aby Warburg, André Malraux and Pablo Picasso were fascinated in their lifetime by the persistence and metamorphoses of images and the inheritance of world art. Today, Malraux’s musée imaginaire or ‘museum without walls’ extends to the virtual universe of images. Throughout 2026 events are taking place internationally to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of André Malraux, the adventurer, writer and first French Minister of Culture. The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study and the Courtauld Institute, University of London, together with the Musée national Picasso-Paris, are celebrating this occasion with a conference to be held on 4-5 December, 2026.

Warburg and Malraux expert Georges Didi-Huberman (EHESS, Paris) is a confirmed speaker.

Subjects might include:

  • Aby Warburg as precursor
  • Cultural restitution and the global ‘museum without walls’
  • Re-readings from the viewpoint of postcolonial theory
  • The global culture of image circulation
  • Focussed studies, such as Picasso’s exchanges with Malraux, commemorated in Malraux’s La tête d’obsidienne, 1974 (Picasso’s Mask, 1976)
  • Contemporary responses by artists such as Dennis Adams or Goshka Macuga

Papers should aim at 15-20 minutes for delivery, in English, with further time for questions.

Conference dates: 4-5 December 2026

Locations: The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, and the Courtauld Institute, University of London.

18 May 2026 CFP: Society for Visual Anthropology Visual Research Conference (VRC) 2026

November 16-18, 2026, St. Louis, MO, USA

The VRC provides an opportunity for professionals and students to dialogue about visually engaged works-in-progress in 40-minute presentation slots. Conventionally there are no specific themes to follow for general submissions, though we are most interested in new ideas and projects under development in the study of visual signification, visual communication, and visual forms of representation, and/or utilizing visual media (photo, film, web, polymedia, intermedia, multimodal media).

18 May 2026 Call for sessions, roundtables & papers: SAH (Society of Architectural Historians) Virtual Conference 2026

24–26 September, 2026 — Online conference via Zoom

The Society of Architectural Historians invites those interested in the history of the built environment to submit a session or paper proposal for its virtual conference—SAH Virtual 2026—that will be held from Thursday, September 24, to Saturday, September 26, 2026.

The purpose of SAH Virtual 2026 is to share and discuss research in architectural history and related disciplines that cover every period in the history of architecture and all aspects of the built environment. In addition to architectural historians, we seek submissions from allied and adjacent disciplines including (but not limited to) architecture, landscape, urban history, art history, design, archaeology, sociology, anthropology, geography, environmental studies, etc. The guiding principle for SAH Virtual 2026 is inter-disciplinary sharing and collaboration. We hope this will be an opportunity for people from any discipline who are interested in the history of the built environment to participate in a meaningful exchange of ideas.

25 May 2026 CFP: Un/Stable: Lands, Anxieties, Dreams

Photography Research Group, University of Brighton Photoworks Festival

Photoworks and the Photography Research Group at the University of Brighton are co-organising a conference as part of the upcoming edition of Photoworks Festival.

The theme Un/Stable: Lands, Anxieties, Dreams will explore geographical, psychological and metaphysical flows and connections of life, culture, and the environment.

This call for papers invites responses to the fragile and current states of personal and collective geographies. Through photography practices and perspectives on photography, we seek to address anxieties and fractured realities, opening speculative spaces of care, resistance, and reimagining.

The conference will take place on Friday 2 October 2026 at the University of Brighton, School of Art and Media, City Campus, and aims to support development of new research locating photography within various fields of study.

These include ecological entanglements and cosmotechnics, geological and technological anxieties, looking at how histories, identities, futures and place are interconnected.

This area of research includes Art in the Age of Anxiety, (2021) edited by Omar Kholeif; Cosmotechnics: For a Renewed Concept of Technology in the Anthropocene, (2021) edited by Yuk Hui and Pieter Lemmens; Ways of Being, (2022) by James Bridle, and Returning to Benjamin: Art in the Age of AI by Victor Burgin (2025).

31 May 2026 CFP: Emerging Tourism: Architecture and Planning Perspectives

BMS College of Architecture, Design and Planning Bengaluru, India Conference dates: 29-31 January 2026

BMS College of Architecture, Design and Planning invites you to the International Conference on Emerging Tourism: Architecture and Planning Perspectives (INCET 2027)

Tourism today goes beyond economics—shaping culture, ecology, infrastructure, and human experience. INCET 2027 brings together academia, practice, and policy to explore sustainable, inclusive, and design-led tourism futures.

31 May 2026 CFP: Vision and Veiling: Photographic Resilience and Sociopolitical Change

Photography Network Virtual Symposium, Nov 5–7, 2026

Photography practitioners, historians, and curators respond in a multitude of ways to political and cultural contexts that challenge their work. Moreover, in response to efforts to remove, omit, occlude, obscure, or manipulate, photographs often persist, transform, and recirculate, reformulating visual worlds. Photographs bear a complex relationship to political and social power; authorities might manipulate or remove photographs to further their goals, but forms of covering up, self-censorship, or self-fashioning might also function in the name of individual privacy, safety, or resistance. Furthermore, as the material capabilities and limitations of photography shift, new questions continually emerge about the role of photographic removal and photographic resilience in constricting cultural climates.

This symposium offers a platform for scholarship that investigates the adaptability of photography and photo history in the face of constraints, be them cultural, governmental, institutional, editorial, individual, or otherwise. What do historians, curators, and photographers do when limitations are placed on their work, and what do the limitations themselves reveal about photography? Relatedly, when is restriction, refusal, or withdrawal protective, strategic, or empowering? Finally, what, if anything, has changed about how the medium navigates social or cultural boundaries—what can we learn from how practitioners have done this in the past that might shed light on present-day questions? We welcome interdisciplinary approaches, and we especially encourage international scholars to submit.

31 May 2026 CFP: The agency of images in the cognitive ecology of artificial intelligence

ASRI Journal, special issue 31

This volume of ASRI Journal. Art and Society invites academics and visual artists, at any stage of their career, to contribute research and practices that explore the epistemic and ontological relationships and differences between the agency of AI-generated images and the agency of art images, as well as the role of artistic practice in critiquing and visualising the socio-technological conditions of visual culture in the age of GenAI.

Submission details (ES): https://revistaasri.com/about/submissions Submission details (EN): https://calenda.org/1346638

01 Jun 2026 CFP: Thresholds 55: Property

MIT Department of Architecture Journal Thresholds 55: Property

Property: a thing, often material, that is possessed. Property: an aspect or attribute of that thing.

While seemingly concrete, the concept of property is frequently fragmentary, contingent, and ephemeral, premised in an array of theoretical descriptions. Property is constructed through social relationships and defined through reciprocal accord. These social dynamics highlight the proximity of property to power through its delimitation of rights to access, possession, and exclusion. Ideas of property have been foundational in both western and non-western frameworks of culture and law, implicated in understandings of individual autonomy, rights, and the economy. From the enclosure of land to its representation in painting, from waqf funds to development mechanisms to environmental protection, to labor, protest, and repatriation, imaginaries of property have shaped art and architecture through history and across geographies. Thresholds 55 invites scholarly writing, criticism, and artistic interventions that interrogate these interactions.

08 Jun 2026 CFP: SAH (Society of Architectural Historians) 2027 Chicago

The Society’s 80th Annual International Conference will take place in Chicago on April 14-18, 2027.

SAH is now accepting abstracts for its 80th Annual International Conference in Chicago, Illinois, April 14–18, 2027. Please submit an abstract no later than 11:59 p.m. CDT on June 8, 2026, to one of the 54 thematic sessions, the Graduate Student Lightning Talks or the Open Sessions for the Chicago conference. SAH encourages submissions from architectural, landscape, and urban historians; museum curators; preservationists; independent scholars; architects; scholars in related fields; and members of SAH chapters, Affiliate Groups, and partner organizations.

If your research topic is not a good fit for one of the thematic sessions, please submit your abstract to the Open Sessions.

15 Jun 2026 CFP: The International Conference on Sustainable Development 2026 - European Center of Sustainable Development

Conference dates: Wednesday, 09 September – Thursday, 10 September 2026

NB: Deadlines vary, please check the website. The deadline posted on this call is the late submission deadline on the website.

Theme: Creating a unified foundation for the Sustainable Development: research, practice and education

21 Jun 2026 CFP: Model and the Reactor: AI as and against Environmental Media

Abstracts accepted in EN, ES, PT

This special issue questions the imbrication of AI and digital sovereignty at work in new articulations of technological nationalism (Charland, 1986; Couture & Toupin, 2019; Grohmann & Costa Barbosa, 2025; Medina, 2011). Theories of the digital sublime and charismatic technologies have long been used to legitimate technologies as social blueprints (Ames, 2019; Carey & Quirk, 1970; Mosco, 2004), but AI arrives at a moment of critical duress for social epistemologies usually found in journalism seem incapable or unable to counter the sociotechnical futures produced by big AI (Bareis & Katzenbach, 2021; Dandurand et al., 2023; Liebig et al., 2024; Valderrama Barragán et al., 2025). We encourage contributions that unite fragmented scholarship as a counterpoint to Big Tech’s global, competitive cyberphysical project (Lai et al., 2026; Salamanca, 2025).

21 Jun 2026 CFP: Cornell Journal of Architecture Issue 14 - Spare

The theme for the next issue of the Cornell Journal of Architecture is “Spare.” Spare exists in anticipation: of use, of need, of loss, of return. Something fails. Someone arrives. Something secondary becomes essential. A spare points to the unexpected possibilities within the present. In changing conditions, the spare—all but nominal—supersedes the original.

26 Jun 2026 CFP: Untold Tales: Women Pioneers in British and Irish architectural history

There have been a growing number of studies of female architects over the past twenty years but almost no accounts of female architectural historians. One exception is Dana Arnold’s edited collection Women and Architectural History: The Monstrous Regiment Then and Now (2025) which involved women operating from the 1970s onwards. This symposium looks back further to the earliest generations involved in the writing and promotion of architectural history in a wide range of spheres. We are interested in women who were involved in the subject as academics, curators, journalists, photographers, writers and in the conservation and heritage spheres from the nineteenth century onwards.

27 Jun 2026 CFP: LA+ ‘FIELD’

The word field conveys the idea of a space or place—physical, conceptual, or operational—within which relationships, forces, or activities occur. Field refers equally to perception—such as the fields of vision and sensing through which landscapes are seen and experienced—and to action, as in fieldwork from which observations build knowledge and/or which grounds theory in lived, material conditions. In scientific and cultural contexts, a field describes the networks of forces, relations, and influences operating across space and time. In educational and professional contexts, it defines what constitutes the methods and domain of a discipline. Together, these meanings establish the field as a dynamic interplay between thinking, knowing, making, and doing.

LA+ FIELD invites submissions that explore the concept of field in landscape architecture. We seek critical, theoretical, and practice-based perspectives organized around three interrelated categories: Field as Discipline, Field of Perception, and Field Work. Field as Discipline might examine landscape architecture’s intellectual, professional, and institutional terrain, including its boundaries, methods, histories, and evolution in response to environmental and social changes. Topics in Field of Perception may elucidate specific methods and techniques that shape the ways in which landscapes are sensed, experienced, interpreted, and represented. Field Work could engage material practices of observation, measurement, and intervention, including more-than-human studies, site-based experiments, and questions about relations, labor, and care. Priority will be given to abstracts that explore how two or more of these domains intersect and how they affirm or expand contemporary understandings of landscape architecture.

30 Jun 2026 Call for Forums – Space, Urban Studies, Cityscapes, and Virtual/Digital Spaces

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies

4 x CFPs for the volume:

  • Mapping Body Space Continuum in Urbanscapes: https://ellids.com/announcements/mapping-body-space-continuum-in-urbanscapes/
  • Power in Urbanscapes: Rethinking Spatiality and Sociality: https://ellids.com/announcements/power-in-urbanscapes-rethinking-spatiality-and-sociality/
  • Planned, Unplanned, and the In-between: Interactions of Architecture, Space, and Experience: https://ellids.com/announcements/planned-unplanned-and-the-in-between-interactions-of-architecture-space-and-experience/
  • Embodied Spaces: Digital Reconfigurations of Experience: https://ellids.com/announcements/embodied-spaces-digital-reconfigurations-of-experience/

01 Jul 2026 CFP: Pleasure as the Aim of Art? The Place of Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century European Art Theory and Practice

University of Lausanne, Nov 26–28, 2026

Abstracts accepted in EN, FR

Considering both creation and reception, this conference proposes to examine the various facets of artistic pleasure in seventeenth-century Europe. The perspectives developed may invite a broader reconsideration of the complex place of pleasure in early modern thought on art, its potential role in the construction of a system of the arts (Du Bos and especially Batteux) and in the development of eighteenth-century aesthetics (Baumgarten, Burke, Kant). Often regarded as secondary, pleasure may thus be reinvested with genuine heuristic value, both for analysing past discourses and practices and for reflecting on our own ways of apprehending, engaging with and even studying works of art in the broadest sense.

15 Jul 2026 CFP: Art, Aura, and the Algorithm

PNCA 2026 Symposium: Art, Aura, and the Algorithm. Oct 1-3, 2026

What happens to art, authorship, and presence when AI enters the creative process?

We invite proposals from artists, writers, and scholars interested in questions like:

  • Can AI-generated art possess aura?
  • What becomes of authorship, originality, and artistic presence today?
  • How is aura produced, performed, or gamified online?
  • What new forms of creativity emerge through human–machine collaboration?

FORMAT: We are accepting proposals for individual papers (15–20 minutes). Research, creative practice, and community-based work are all welcome. Graduate & advanced undergraduate students are especially encouraged to submit. You don’t need all the answers—just a strong question to explore.

https://pnca.willamette.edu/culture/symposium

05 Sep 2026 CFP: Alternative Spirituality: Counter-Normativity, Rejected Epistemologies, Epistemologies of the Rejected

Thematic issue of Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, edited by Justyna Balisz-Schmelz and Marta Kudelska. (EN, PL)

Full call (EN): https://arthist.net/archive/51542

For detailed information regarding the editorial requirements / further information on the journal visit: https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/przeglad-kulturoznawczy