ecocriticism and environmental studies

THE 25th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND CULTURAL POLICIES (LLCP)

WEATHERING CHANGE:

THE HUMANITIES IN A WARMING WORLD

to be held in Craiova, Romania

22-24 October 2026

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

“When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”

(Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1.1: 1-2)

New (and Old) Experiments in Translation (and Writing)

International Conference, Brock University (St. Catharines, ON, Canada) October 22nd to 24th, 2026

Organized by Dr. Nicholas Hauck, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Brock University (nhauck@brocku.ca) and Dante Ognibene, Brock University

Dates: October 22, 23 and 24, 2026

Location: Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada

This MLA special sessions panel invites papers on literary and cultural approaches to Los Angeles infrastructure, aimed at interrogating the political aesthetic of social, natural, and built environments. Please send a 250 word abstract and short bio. 

2027 MLA Convention: January 7-10 in Los Angeles (accepted presenters must be MLA members by April 1)

Call for Papers: Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory in Contemporary Anglophone Literature and Culture

War leaves lasting marks not only on people and communities, but also on the natural world that witnesses, and endures, its violence. Long after the fighting has stopped, landscapes shaped by destruction remain living archives, bearing the aftereffects of conflict: damaged forests, polluted rivers and seas, and disrupted ecosystems that continue to hold its traces. These "trauma ecologies" pass on the legacy of war from one generation to the next, forming what we call "environmental postmemory."

Literary Representations of Co-Existence 

Conference location: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Croatia

Keynote speakers: Mark Bould (University of the West of England Bristol) in-person

                               Dinesh Wadiwel (University of Sydney) online

Conference dates: Sept 3-5, 2026

Conference fee: 75 Euros for the fully employed, 50 Euros for students and those not fully employed

Send abstracts of 200 words, and a short biography, to bwillems@ffst.hr by May 1, 2026

Call for Papers

The Winter's Tale: From Page to Stage

IASEMS Tempera Seminar 2027

University of Padova, Department of Language and Literary Studies

7-9 June 2027

CALL FOR PAPERS — NeMLA 2027 Seminar

Salve Regina University, Newport, RI | March 6–9, 2027

Untameable Texts: The Eternal Return of Indigenous Cosmogonies and Their Myths

A Two-day Symposium and Exhibition at Loughborough University 18th-19th September 2026

Seventeenth International Conference on Food Studies, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France, 9-10 September 2027

Founded in 2011, the Food Studies Research Network is brought together around a common interest to explore new possibilities for sustainable food production and human nutrition, and associated impacts of food systems on culture. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

The Seventeenth International Conference on Food Studies calls for research addressing the following themes.

Weather in 19th-century Literature and Art in the Age of the Anthropocene concerns the question of evidence of weather-related changes due to anthropogenic emissions induced, in part, by industrial capitalism. While humanity has been considered to be largely responsible for weather-related changes regarding shifts in wind current patterns, varying levels of precipitation, and drought-like conditions induced by an increase in anthropogenic emissions, leading Paul Crutzen to declare a new geologic epoch in Cuernavaca, Mexico (2000) during a gathering of atmospheric chemists, the conditions continued to be exacerbated by the close of the 19th-century.

Nineteenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 20-22 January 2027

Founded in 2009, the Climate Change: Impacts & Responses Research Network is brought together by a common concern for the science of, and social responses to, climate change. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.