Call for Papers: Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas, Volume XVII. Send completed materials to hmsphr@unm.edu. Deadline: Monday, June 30, 2025
We invite graduate students (MA & PhD) to submit work on topics such as agency and political interventions, geopolitical landscapes, cartographies and borders, migration and transnationalism, memory-making and alternative archival practices, belonging and identity, food relations and visual culture, gender and sexuality, indigeneity, and methodologies (decolonial, feminist, anti-imperial, critical race theory, etc.)

Submission Types:
-Research Articles (20-30 pages)
-Exhibition/Performance Reviews (5-10 pages)
-Interviews (5-10 pages)
-Book Reviews (5-10 pages) on recent works related to Central American art and visual culture, including:
-Carnalities by Marianna Ortega (2025)
-Visual Disobedience by Kency Cornejo (2024)
-Central American Counterpoetics by Karina Alma (2024)

Submission Guidelines:
-Only completed works from graduate students will be considered.
-Submissions in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.

Read more about the publication at https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hemisphere/

Email submissions to hmsphr@unm.edu by Monday, June 30, 2025.

The Association of Print Scholars invites submissions for its sponsored sessions at the Renaissance Society of America conference, to be held in San Francisco from 19-21 February 2026.

APS-sponsored session proposals may be related to any theme of Renaissance and Early Modern printmaking, or any aspect of print scholarship for the era 1300–1700. RSA is a multidisciplinary society, and we especially welcome session proposals that transcend geographic and disciplinary boundaries, as well as those that engage current theoretical interests in historiography, materialism, archival theory, bibliographic studies, or social history.

Series of sessions in honor or in memory of an individual scholar are limited to two sessions per honoree. Co-organized sessions are welcome; junior and senior scholars are encouraged to collaborate. Organizers may act as chair(s), or they may elect another scholar to serve this position, as per RSA guidelines.

You do not need to be a member of RSA to submit a session proposal to APS, but all accepted participants must become RSA members for 2025-2026 and register for the conference. Please note that proposing a session or a paper indicates your commitment to attend.

Organizers, chairs, and/or co-organizers or co-chairs must be members of APS, however, please note that those currently serving as APS officers, whether elected or appointed, may not submit conference proposals for panels sponsored by the organization during their tenure, although are welcome to participate in the selected panel.

How to submit a session proposal for APS sponsorship:
To propose an APS-sponsored session, please submit your session title (15-word maximum) along with a maximum 300-word abstract describing the topics and issues of printmaking that your session will address. Applicants do not need to propose a full panel of presenters in order to submit a session proposal. Submissions should include a two-page CV for each organizer. In the subject line, please indicate “APS-Sponsored session proposal RSA 2026” and send to Dr Talitha M. G. Schepers at rsacoordinator@printscholars.org

DEADLINE:
Submission deadline for all session proposals is:
25 June 2025


Acceptance decisions will be communicated to submitters by 30 June 2025.