Category: Publication opportunities

CFP: Possibilities (Book Series with Peter Lang)

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Call for Submissions: for book series Possibilities, published by Peter Lang. Deadline: Open.

Series editors: Bernadette Marie Calafell (University of Oregon) and Shane T. Moreman (California State University, Fresno)

Possibilities brings Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies together with Communication and Media Studies, centering how cultural communities use, resist, and remake the forms that represent them. The series takes up the activist impulse that sparked the founding of Ethnic Studies through the labor of Indigenous, Black, Latina/o/x/e, and Asian American communities, and carries that charge into Communication and Media Studies, energizing the series to be critical, reflexive, and dynamic.

Foregrounding U.S. racial and ethnic formations and performances in relation to imperialism, settler colonialism, and the enduring and recurring traumas of genocide, slavery, anti-Blackness, and internment, Possibilities also follows diasporic, transnational, and border-crossing realities manifested through texts, institutions, and lived experiences. Editors invite work that takes empirical risks while remaining humble about what it can claim, and that engages communities in imagining what comes next.

Possibilities deepens long-standing questions of race and ethnicity across sex, gender, ability, class, nationality, locality, and the like, all with the desire for intellectual growth. They encourage scholars to cultivate new methods and representational forms, and to let transdisciplinary questions motivate that work rather than merely frame it. Possibilities takes its name from its advocacy: a tending toward resourceful visioning, sustainable offerings, and critical hope.

Editors welcome proposals for monographs and edited collections, and encourage informal conversations with anyone thinking through a project at any stage.

(The series was previously published under the name Critical Intercultural Communication Studies through volume 33.)

CFP: Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture

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Call for Submissions: for journal Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture special issue: Forms, limits, and future directions of storytelling in migration research. Deadline: 30 September 2026.

Issue editors: Lena Englund (University of Eastern Finland) and Kaiju Harinen (Migration Institute of Finland, University of Turku)

Much of migration research in the social sciences and humanities has been centred on bringing to light the experiences and stories of individuals and groups who have been marginalized, misrepresented or sometimes outright ignored in official discourse and dominant narratives. Stories can both reinforce existing societal discourses as well as function as a counterforce. That makes stories and storytelling a tool with which to perform political work in terms of how migration is debated and portrayed. Studies in the humanities build on storytelling in relation to the material examined, people interviewed or otherwise engaged with, and in the published research itself. Storytelling is here understood in a broad sense of the term, used for personal self-understanding, meaning making and communication, but also in politicized contexts, for example relating to how migration and migrants are addressed and depicted in the media. Migration is understood broadly as the movement of people in both voluntary and involuntary contexts, and limits are not to be seen as boundaries that may not be traversed, but also as a chance to probe further, to test new theoretical frameworks and to bring together case studies in novel ways.

This special issue offers the opportunity to think further about what defines, restrains and generates storytelling in migration research in the humanities. Papers are invited from scholars as widely as possible, encouraging inter- and multidisciplinary approaches to storytelling in migration research about the challenges and limits involved with for example textual approaches, participatory methods and activist research. Theoretical engagements with storytelling in various contexts are welcome, as are studies relating to methodological concerns. Case studies of cultural expressions (e.g. fiction or nonfiction, films, the media) relating to the theme of the special issue are also much appreciated.

CFP: Ethnographic Studies

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Call for Submissions: for journal Ethnographic Studies. Deadline: rolling.

Ethnographic Studies focuses on work in ethnography and ethnomethodology but it also provides a forum for sympathetic research in other human sciences, such as psychology, history, science and technology studies, and sociology. Its aim is to promote qualitative inquiry. The policy of the journal is to publish empirical studies but also theoretical and philosophical work which relates to current issues and debates in human sciences

Ethnographic Studies is a refereed journal. Papers will be usually refereed by two members of the Advisory Board. The journal welcomes proposals for special issues which should be discussed in advance with the editors.

Ethnographic Studies is an open access journal, hosted by ZHB Luzern/University Library Lucerne. The journal’s contents are copyright protected by a Creative Commons license.

CFP: Group Processes and Intergroup Communication

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Call for Submissions: special issue on Intergroup Communication, for journal Group Processes and Intergroup Communication. Deadline: 30 August 2026.

Guest Editors: Sucharita Belavadi (FLAME University); Antonis Gardikiotis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki); and Howard Giles University of California, Santa Barbara and University of Queensland)

Intergroup Communication explores questions at the intersections of social psychology and communication and can broadly be defined as communication that frames and is framed by people’s group membership and social identity. The aim of the special issue is to bring together empirical and theoretical work that advances our understanding of the processes of intergroup communication. The special issue calls for work that addresses how communication flows within and between groups, shapes social identity and group norms, and is an agent of social influence within and between groups. Topics that are sought can include research on – online-communication, the role of leaders and leader rhetoric, the media, communication silos, social media, memes as a communication vehicle, intergroup hate speech, vilification of dissent, identity construction.

CFP: Family Language Policy and Processes of Marginalization

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Call for Submissions: special issue on Family Language Policy and Processes of Marginalization, for journal Social Inclusion. Abstract deadline: 15 September 2026.

Guest Editors: Giorgia Andreolli (Eurac Research); Busani Maseko (Rhodes University); and Nadja Thoma (University of Innsbruck)

Family Language Policy (FLP) has become an influential research area within different disciplines such as sociolinguistics, language policy research, childhood studies, education, and psychology. While pioneering FLP research was concerned with language ideologies and language acquisition processes typically within traditional nuclear families, more recent studies have expanded their focus to include how
language ideologies, practices, and management unfold within both traditional and non-traditional family configurations, including extended families, foster or adoptive families, and geographically dispersed families. Beyond the individual level, research has further traced FLP processes across families and explored interconnections with educational institutions and with the state. Recent publications shed light on children’s agency and perspectives in FLP and on digital practices in family communication. There is growing recognition that
FLP is deeply implicated in broader processes of marginalization and social inequality—particularly in contexts of globalization, (post)colonial language policies, minoritized language communities, and socioeconomic exclusion. Despite this recognition, the intersections between FLP and structural forms of marginalization (e.g., assimilation pressures, unequal access to resources, racialization, and socioeconomic stratification) remain under-theorized and empirically underexplored.

Building on foundational work that conceptualizes FLP as a nexus of language beliefs, practices, and management within the family domain, this Special Issue seeks to foreground the ways in which structural conditions shape—and are shaped by—the experiences of multilingual families. We invite contributions that examine FLP in relation to marginalization, language and educational policies, racialization, socioeconomic disadvantage, disability, heteronormativity, and other axes of differentiation, as well as studies that document resilience, resistance, agency, and inclusion strategies enacted by families and other social actors in diverse settings.

This Special Issue is international in scope, seeking comparative and contextually grounded research that illuminates how FLP intersects with macro-level processes of access, participation, and social justice. We welcome both empirical and conceptual contributions from a variety of epistemological and methodological approaches including (but not limited to) critical theoretical work, decolonial scholarship, and arts -based methods. By embracing diverse linguistic and cultural contexts, the Issue aims to chart new directions in FLP research that advance understanding of processes marginalization in multilingual postcolonial and post-migrant societies.

CFP: Don’t Eat Your Words! The Languages of Food

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Call for submissions: special issue: Don’t eat your words! Languages of food, for journal Ezikov svyat – Orbis Linguarum. Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2026; for manuscripts, 1 September 2026

Special Issue Editors: Bilyana Todorova, Editor-in-Chief; Paola Giorgis, Guest Editor

Situated at the intersection of nature and culture, food becomes a powerful tool for meaning-making through language understood in its broadest, multimodal sense. Food rhetoric uses linguistic, visual, and symbolic strategies to shape identities, emotions, communities, and political discourses, while food systems carry ecological, economic, and social consequences. The CfP invites interdisciplinary contributions on various topics that explore how food and language together construct social realities and political agendas.

Submission link here.

CFP: Stigma as Communication

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Call for Book Chapter Proposals: Stigma as Communication. Deadline: abstract only, 20 February 2026.

Editors: Rebecca J. Meisenbach and Rikki A. Roscoe

The authors invite chapter proposals for an edited scholarly volume titled Stigma as Communication, which examines stigma not merely as an attribute or social label, but as a communicative process that shapes identities, relationships, and institutions. Building on contemporary stigma scholarship across communication studies, sociology, public health, psychology, and cultural studies, this book seeks to illuminate how stigma is and can be produced, circulated, resisted, and transformed through and as communication.

CFP: Journal of Translation and Languages/Traduction et Langues

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Call for submissions: Traduction et Langues/Journal of Translation and Languages (TRANSLANG). Deadline: abstract only, 31 March 2026.

The journal Traduction et Langues/Translation and Languages (TRANSLANG) invites submissions for its upcoming issue, Volume 25, Number 01, to be published in June 2026. The journal is a double-blind, peer-reviewed, biannual, free-of-charge, and open-access journal edited by the University of Oran 2 Mohamed Ben Ahmed, Algeria. Languages: English, Spanish, German, French.

Some of the themes are: Translation theory and practice; Interpreting studies and practice; Language policy and translation in multilingual societies; Translation technology and digital tools in translation; Cross-cultural communication and translation; Corpus-based translation research; Translation ethics and ideology.

CFP: The African CAT: Language, Identity, and Communication Accommodation in African Contexts

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Call for papers: The African CAT: Language, Identity, and Communication Accommodation in African Contexts, Language and Intercultural Communication. Deadline: abstract only, 1 December 2025.

Guest Editors: Howard Giles (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA & University of Queensland, Australia) and Tekena Mark (Rivers State University, Nigeria)

Over the past five decades, Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) has evolved into one of the most empirically rich and theoretically robust frameworks for understanding how individuals adapt to—or distance themselves from—others in interpersonal and intergroup communication. Originally formulated as Speech Accommodation Theory (Giles, Taylor, & Bourhis, 1973), CAT has since expanded to encompass a wide range of verbal and nonverbal behaviors, including accent, dialect, speech rate, gestures, clothing, and even silence as well a wide array of social groups, languages, applied and institutional contexts, new technologies (e.g., human-machine interactions and social media) and even non-human species (e.g., Giles, Markowitz, & Clementson, 2025).

Yet, despite its global applicability, African communicative practices have remained under-researched in CAT scholarship and, indeed, in intercultural scholarship more generally. That said, there has, very recently, been a flurry of CAT activity on a broad range of topics emerging from all around the continent of Africa. This Special Issue is, therefore, very timely and aims to cohere and expand developments in CAT and their possible synergies with intercultural communication research through African perspectives. Toward the latter end, this will be achieved, for instance, by drawing attention to indigenous languages, sociocultural norms, multilingual negotiations, and communicative strategies shaped by colonial legacies, identity politics, and evolving digital cultures.

Key theoretical developments relevant to this Special Issue include entrainment, mimicry, interactive alignment (van de Pol et al., 2023), and the dynamic co-existence of convergence, divergence, and maintenance (Guydish & Fox Tree, 2021). We invite rich, context-sensitive, and culturally-grounded analyses that speak to everyday communicative realities in African communities, institutions, and diasporas. In line with the editorial vision of Language and Intercultural Communication (LAIC), authors are especially encouraged to explore and establish synergies between CAT and the critical approach to intercultural communication, as developed in IALIC (International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication) and reflected across LAIC’s publications. This may involve questioning power dynamics, ideological positioning, colonial histories, and the ethics of communicative encounters.

CFP: Academic Ethics, AI, and the Future of Humanities

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Call for papers: Academic ethics, AI, and the future of humanities, Orbis Linguarum (Ezikov svyat) . Deadline: 31 December 2025.

Ezikov Svyat – Orbis Linguarum plans to publish a section on academic ethics, artificial intelligence and the future of the humanities. In the last few years, we have witnessed a rapid development of artificial intelligence programmes, which have become an unavoidable factor not only in the field of technology and digital communication, but also in education, translation, literature, and art, as well as in the field of academic communication. Although they facilitate access to information and increase the opportunities for translation into different languages and for learning in a variety of fields, their use also raises many ethical issues related to copyright violations, false authorship, the generation of inaccurate and incomplete information by free and sometimes paid versions of the various AI programmes, etc.

Articles related to the proposed topic are welcome until 31st December 2025. They can be written in any of the Slavic languages, English, German, or French. All manuscripts will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review process. Those of them that are approved will be published in 2026.

Ezikov Svyat – Orbis Linguarum is an open-access journal published by the Faculty of Philology at South-West University “Neofit Rilski” (Bulgaria). It has no publication fee and is included in databases such as ERIH+, SCOPUS, MLA, EBSCO, DOAJ, Index Copernicus, CEEOL, etc.