Call for Submissions – Currents of Change: Media, Activism, and Cultural Transitions

2026-07-22

For the launch of our first issue, we are extending the theme of the 2026 Intersections | Cross-Sections conference: Currents of Change. We welcome research papers and artwork/research creation alike.

Currents travel through worlds natural and manufactured, forming connective systems through constant movement and change. In this way, currents resonate with theories that address our need for positive communication across cultures and species amidst the many crises of the Anthropocene. We may think through the currents of reciprocal relation not only through frameworks developed within the colonial academy, such as Latour’s (1996) actor-network theory or Haraway’s (1998) situated knowledges, but also through the living Indigenous ontologies that far predate such frameworks and to which they owe much of their insights (Watts, 2013). Through this issue, we hope to collaboratively explore currents of change through a diverse range of topics and perspectives, united by a desire to communicate in ways that are just and reciprocal.

We encourage a wide range of interpretations of the theme, welcoming submissions that concern popular media platforms, mass-movements, how media plays a role in enacting change at levels cosmic, microscopic, and everywhere in between. Areas of exploration include, but are not limited to:

  • Media Activism and Social Change
  • Transnational or Local Currents of Cultural Transformation
  • Digital Resistance and Online Communities
  • Environmental Media and Planetary Imaginaries
  • Affective, Sensory, or Material Flows in Media Practice
  • Intersections of Art, Technology, and Protest
  • Changes in Practices of Everyday Relations

For more details, and before submitting, please refer to the Submission Guidelines.

Deadline: August 15, 2026 via the T&C Issue #1 Submission Form (no need to log in or register to submit).

Expected Timeline:

  • August 15: Submissions due
  • October 15: Editorial decisions made
  • December 15: Revised versions due
  • January 2027: Publication in Issue #1

If you have any questions about the theme, format, or accessibility, please contact us at threadsandcurrents@gmail.com or leave in the “Comments for Editors” section on the form.

References:
Haraway, D. (1988). Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. Feminist Studies, 14(3), 575–599.
Latour, B. (1996). On actor-network theory: A few clarifications. Soziale Welt, 47(4), 369–381.
Watts, V. (2013). Indigenous place-thought and agency amongst humans and non humans (First Woman and Sky Woman go on a European world tour!). Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 2(1), 20-34.