[NOTE: The post of this Call in the Virtual-Reality listserv includes this from the journal’s assistant editor: “We would like to read about experience working on the topics related to virtual reality and educational technology, and believe that the perspectives and journeys of this group, through research, academia, and practice, can illustrate how theory and lived experience are intertwined, and add a unique dimension to the discourse we are trying to create through this Volume.” –Matthew]

Call for Papers:

Space, Urban Studies, Cityscapes, and Virtual/Digital Spaces
For the Forum section of a special volume in the journal Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS)
https://ellids.com/announcements/call-for-forums/

Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2026

The Forum Section of the journal Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS) invites scholars to reflect on the different ways that their research and/or pedagogy has intertwined with their lives in relation to the theme of the Volume. It is a more immediate exploration of how one’s research is shaped out of one’s personal experiences and positionalities. This section was introduced in 2023, encouraging contributors to experiment with styles outside academic writing to tease out the intricacies of pedagogy, research, and lived experience. Forum pieces can be more personal and self-reflective, and can include open ended enquiries. These are aspects of research that never make it to the research paper. The Forum section encourages researchers to explore these aspects, from reflections on field notes to personal stakes and motivations that fuel the lines of enquiry within research and pedagogy. Through this section, LLIDS hopes to reconcile theory and lived experience.

EDITORIAL PROCESS:

Forum submissions go through the same peer review and editorial process as research paper submissions. You can read more about the editorial process here: https://ellids.com/author-guidelines/editorial-and-publishing-process/

You can read some of the works that have been published under the Forum Section here: https://ellids.com/research/forum/

We are inviting Forum submissions on the theme of the upcoming Volume 7, which deals with Space, Urban Studies, Cityscapes, and Virtual/Digital Spaces.

The Volume is subdivided into four themes. The CFP for each can be found here:

• Mapping Body Space Continuum in Urbanscapes
• Power in Urbanscapes: Rethinking Spatiality and Sociality
• Planned, Unplanned, and the In-between: Interactions of Architecture, Space, and Experience
• Embodied Spaces: Digital Reconfigurations of Experience

Submission Criteria:

• The Forum submissions can have a tentative word limit of 2,000 to 4,000 words, which can be flexible as per the requirement of the submission.
• Submission deadline: 30 June, 2026
• Submission form: https://forms.gle/oDjdgc9kfanEJHro6.
• Each of the authors needs to sign and email a separate Author Undertaking (https://ellids.com/archives/Author-Undertaking.pdf) from their respective email IDs to editors@ellids.com to complete the submission process.

ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS) (https://ellids.com/) is an open access, peer-reviewed, academic e-journal, aiming to provide an interdisciplinary discursive space for all the researchers committed to quality research work. LLIDS attempts to fashion a space that would allow researchers to collate their insights with larger issues through rigorous academic inquiries that have the potential to transform the intellectual landscape by addressing key issues confronting the society.