CALLS FOR PAPERS 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS - Semester 2026.1

1. Art, Literature, Discourse - Narratives in Alterity / folio, n.1, v.17 (2026)
Submissions until April 30, 2026

Guest Editors:
Iara Cerqueira Linhares de Albuquerque (State University of Southwest Bahia - UESB; Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, Brazil)
José Rosa dos Santos Junior (Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Bahia - IFBAIANO; Federal University of Southern and Southeastern Pará - UNIFESSPA, Brazil)

This dossier aims to bring together academic and artistic and reflective productions that address experiences, practices, and theorizations surrounding narratives emerging from difference — whether aesthetic, political, epistemic, or existential. We invite works that reflect on art and literature as forces of resistance, reinvention of the sensible, and production of alternative subjectivities, especially those emerging from historically marginalized or silenced subjects and territories.
We understand art as a force — of rupture, creation, and transgression — capable of challenging hegemonic discourses and opening spaces for other forms of existence and knowledge. In this sense, this dossier welcomes works that explore art and literature as active practices of what decolonial thinkers call "re-existence" — the ongoing process of resisting erasure while creating alternative ways of being — questioning the relationships between language, body, memory, education, and politics.

Thematic axes
Articles, theoretical essays, experience reports, interviews, reviews, and hybrid productions that articulate the following themes (without being limited to them):
. art and literature as practices of resistance, emancipation, and transformative power;
. dissident narratives: bodies, genders, races, sexualities, and territories;
. epistemologies of the South, decoloniality, and subaltern voices;
. art education, teacher training, and pedagogies of listening;
. artistic practices in school, community, or institutional contexts;
. performance, dance, theater, literature, and image as narratives of alterity;
. visual poetics, marginal writings and peripheral aesthetics;
. oral traditions, memories, autobiographical narratives, and self-writings.

CALL FOR PAPERS - Semester 2026.2

2. AI Literacies and University Writing: Education, Authorship, and Pedagogical Practices in Academic Production within Algorithmic Environments / fólio, n.2, v.17 (dec./2026)
Submissions until June 30, 2026

Guest Editors:
Júlio Araújo (Federal University of Ceará - UFC, Brazil)
Fabiana Komeseu (São Paulo State University - Unesp, Brazil)
Paulo Boa Sorte (Federal University of Sergipe - UFS, Brazil)
Paulo Brazão (University of Madeira, Portugal)

The widespread adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence systems has turned university writing into a domain of accelerated transformation. Across undergraduate and graduate programs, the everyday use of AI-assisted writing tools does not merely alter how writing is produced; it reconfigures what comes to be understood as textual planning, authorship, revision, argumentation, evidence, style, and epistemic responsibility. In this context, it is no longer sufficient to treat AI as a purely instrumental resource. The challenge now is to understand which literacies must be developed by both students and instructors so that academic writing can remain a space for intellectual formation, knowledge production, and ethical commitment.
This special issue seeks to refocus the discussion on a specific analytical and pedagogical concern: university writing as a formative practice in AI-mediated contexts. It aims to investigate how academic, AI, and algorithmic literacies are constructed, taught, and assessed in everyday university life. We welcome empirical research and theoretical-methodological reflections that examine concrete classroom practices, curricular proposals, models and frameworks for AI literacy, methodologies for teaching academic genres, and processes of academic supervision and mentoring. We are also particularly interested in contributions that address authorship, integrity, evaluation practices, and inequalities in access to AI technologies.
Thus, the primary focus of this special issue is not merely the "impact" of AI on academic writing, but rather the development of a research and intervention agenda capable of responding to a central question: how can we educate subjects who are able to write, read, revise, evaluate, and conduct research critically when language itself becomes co-produced with algorithmic systems?

Thematic axes
The special issue welcomes articles addressing, among other topics:
. artificial Intelligence literacy and its interfaces with academic literacies in higher education;
. proposals for integrating AI literacy into initial and continuing teacher education curricula;
. university writing and the teaching of academic genres in AI-mediated environments;
. methodologies, workshops, and pedagogical practices for academic writing with AI from a critical and ethical perspective;
. authorship as discursive positioning, originality, effort, and ethics in university practices involving Generative AI;
. AI in the assessment of academic writing: criteria, rubrics, integrity, and institutional policies;
. the impact of AI on academic supervision processes (undergraduate theses, master's dissertations, doctoral dissertations) and on the writing of scientific articles;
. literacies for curation, verification, and informational responsibility in AI-assisted academic texts;
. inequalities of access, epistemic asymmetries, and forms of exclusion in algorithmic contexts;
. onto-epistemological debates on authorship, learning, and meaning-making in times of Generative AI.

3. Voices of Diaspora and Transformation: Images of Displacement and Belonging / fólio, n.2, v.17 (2026)
Submissions until August 30, 2026

Guest Editors:
Marcus Antônio Assis Lima (State University of Southwest Bahia - UESB, Brazil)
Oumeima Mouelhi (University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia)
Fábio Agra (Fluminense Federal University - UFF; Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia - UFRB, Brazil)

Diasporic literature—with its rich portrayal of those who, willingly or unwillingly, fled their homelands in search of a better destiny—continues to resonate deeply in today's multicultural world. Initially associated with themes such as alienation, displacement, and the quest for identity, diasporic literature in its rich plurality manifests itself across diverse geographies and through multiple voices. The tensions between nostalgia for one's homeland and cultural hybridity, assimilation and dissimilation, rootedness in another's culture and the feeling of uprootedness are all themes profoundly grounded in the diasporic journey. Migrations have helped build a new landscape of emerging communities encompassing a variety of cultural, ethnic, and political identities.
This call for papers aims to deepen the understanding of diasporic literature by proposing a critical reflection on the continuities and ruptures that define diasporic discourse in a globalized era. The initiative responds to the need to highlight new perspectives, going beyond essentialist and Eurocentric interpretations and promoting a multidisciplinary dialogue encompassing history, sociology, geography, and literary criticism.

Thematic axes
We invite researchers and scholars to submit paper proposals that align with the following thematic axes:
. The Silenced Legacy: Diaspora Authors (Mahjar) and Historical Recovery
Arab diaspora literature was a seminal pillar of the Arab Renaissance, but historically, women's voices have been marginalized and their roles in the movement ignored. This section welcomes proposals that investigate the lives and works of pioneering female authors of Adab al-Mahjar, such as Salwā Salāma 'Aṭlas and Salmā Ṣā'ig, whose contributions to cultural production have been systematically neglected. This section seeks articles that analyze the representation of female subjectivity in diasporic literature, challenging patriarchal canons and filling gaps in literary historiography.
. Literature as a Cartography of Conflict and Exile
Geopolitical conflicts and their consequences, such as the Lebanon War and the Palestinian exodus, are central themes in contemporary literature, with authors exploring the complexities of loss, belonging, and memory. This focus invites the analysis of works that narrate trauma, fragmented memory, and the search for identity in the context of war and exile, with a focus on authors such as Elias Khoury and Hassan Blasim, whose writing uses experimental resources such as surrealism and the grotesque to convey the experience of violence and migration.
. Gender and Feminist Discourse: Deconstructing Stereotypes
The representation of women in Arabic literature demystifies the homogeneous Western view, revealing figures of strength and agency. This section seeks articles that address social and feminist critique in works by authors such as Fatema Mernissi, Ahlem Mosteghanemi, and Hoda Barakat, analyzing how they explore themes such as oppression, the female body, the struggle for rights, and resistance to totalitarian regimes and fundamentalism.
. The Arab Spring and the Literature of Testimony
How did the 2011 uprisings reshape the literary landscape? This section encourages the analysis of works that both anticipated and directly reflected the revolutions. It proposes a discussion of how literature functioned as a form of resistance, critique, and testimony to social and political transformations, addressing the role of authors such as Ahmed Khaled Tawfik and Alaa Al Aswany, whose works captured the pre-revolutionary climate and the spirit of Tahrir Square.
. Translations, Networks and Circulation in the Lusophone Space
The reception of Arabic literature in Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking countries is a growing field of research. This area welcomes works that investigate editorial and translation networks, the role of academia, and the presence of authors of Arab descent in the Brazilian literary canon, such as Milton Hatoum, as well as analyses of how geopolitical events influence the circulation of works and the construction of the image of the Eastern "Other" in the Lusophone imagination.

The call for papers also seeks to examine themes, but is not limited to:
. acculturation and identity crisis;
. metamorphosis and the loss of identity;
. beyond boundaries;
. the building of the nation-state;
. hybridity and belonging;
. alienation and displacement;
. the quest for identity.

The program committee welcomes papers from a wide variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Submissions may engage with the following fields:
. arts;
. humanities;
. social sciences;
. cultural studies.