ecocriticism and environmental studies

Climate change is often discussed as an environmental emergency, but its most profound consequences are social, political, economic, and deeply gendered. The climate crisis does not operate in isolation from existing systems of inequality; rather, it intensifies historically entrenched hierarchies of gender, caste, class, race, labour, sexuality, and power. Women and gender minorities, frequently experience climate change not as a distant ecological abstraction but as everyday reality lived through food insecurity, water scarcity, displacement, unpaid labour, agrarian distress, and precarious working conditions.

Welcoming submissions for a free scholarly conference on scary literature to be hosted online from October 22nd-24th, 2026 by graduate student, Anais Shelley.

Research may draw inspiration from (but is not limited to) these prompts:

• Supernatural themes

• Domestic horror

• The role of setting within scary stories

• Frightening myths and folklore

• The gothic novel and short story

• Monsters and the monstrous

• Multicultural superstition and regional ghost stories

Seeking critical and critical-creative presentations for a proposed panel at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture After 1900, Feb.18-20 2027

The Animal Studies standing session seeks papers broadly related to the intersection of literature or media and animal studies, across genres and national literatures, with a special—but not exclusive —interest in proposals that engage with the 2026 PAMLA conference theme, "Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict." As such, it aims to enliven the conversation surrounding the conference theme through animal studies and literature, while making cross-disciplinary pathways with science, conservation, and public policy.

International Symposium // University of Amsterdam March 18-19, 2027 (tentative) | Deadline for abstracts: 3 August 2026. 

Haunted Futures 2026

University College Cork: 29th - 30th September 2026

Deadline for Submissions: July 24th, 2026

This interdisciplinary seminar/workshop will bring researchers, academicians, professionals, and students to explore the transformative role of artificial intelligence in sustainable agriculture, environmental resilience, ecological humanities, and contemporary education. The presentations on AIGS-2026 will focus on emerging themes, including:
·      AI and Smart Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture
·      Climate Resilience and Water Sustainability
·      Sustainable Agriculture in Hilly Regions
·      Emerging Pollution and Environmental Monitoring
·      Citizen Science and Big Data Analytics
·      Indigenous Knowledge and Rural Sustainability
·      AI in Education and Digital Pedagogy

Join the 2026 Graduate Conference at the University of Verona and explore how identities are shaped, challenged, and reimagined through language, literature, and culture.
“(De)Constructing Identities: Inclusive Practices of Naming” invites emerging scholars to engage with some of today’s most urgent debates on inclusion, representation, and power.
From feminist and queer studies to postcolonialism, disability studies, translation, and cultural memory, the conference offers a rich interdisciplinary dialogue.
Participants will investigate how naming practices influence social perception, identity formation, and political discourse across languag

PAEDEIA: NSU Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences, and LawCall for Papers

Vol. 2, 2026

*"Online First" publication upon acceptance

*Expected print publication in December 2026

Call For Papers

Indigeneity and Sustainable Foodways: Planetary Challenges

from the Global South

Editors:

Shreyasi Dasgupta, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur

University

Sayan Mazumder, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur

University

Debashree Dattaray, Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University

Continuing the interdisciplinary tradition of the International Language, Literature and Culture (LLC) Conference Series, the 12th International Language, Literature and Culture Conference, jointly organized by Çankaya University and Bournemouth University, will be hosted by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Süleyman Demirel University on 21–24 October 2026. Scholars and researchers are cordially invited to contribute to the conference under the theme “Human, Environment and Ecology.”

**Call for Papers, Reviews, and Creative Pieces**

Gothic Nature: New Directions in Ecohorror and the EcoGothic

Issue VI: Unthemed Issue

Deadline for abstracts and pitches: 25th July 2026

‘You cannot adapt to extinction’. —Vanessa Nakate

‘The development of ecocriticism itself can been read as a type of Gothic story. If imagined figuratively as if it were a horror film, the field of ecocriticism is at a point where it is confronting the monster that has been hidden in the basement’. —Tom J. Hillard

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Essays, Reported Pieces, Criticism, Art & Visual, Video & Hybrid Forms

In 2026, the United States marks 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence—a document that promised liberty and justice for all and delivered them to very few.

This anniversary will be loud. It will be choreographed.

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Call for Contributions and Book Reviews for PSA
Newsletter #35: Postcolonial/Decolonial Water Stories
We invite submissions exploring the dynamic intersections between colonialism (past and ongoing)
and water/waterscapes through a humanities perspective. As many scholars have pointed out,
“Unequal access to water and the political processes that direct management are fundamentally
rooted in colonialism” (Hartwig, Jackson, Markham & Osborne 2023, p. 31) Water – oceans, rivers,
seas, and wetlands – has long been central to colonial histories, shaping routes of conquest,
migration, trade, and resistance. In literary texts and other cultural productions, waterscapes often