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Primary Area / Secondary AreaGlobal Anglophone ModalityIn Person Only: The session will be held fully in person at the hotel. No remote presentations will be included. Chair(s)Roma Lucarelli (University of Minnesota Twin Cities) Abstract
To decompose is to live too, I know, I know… (Beckett, Molloy)
This seminar convenes Cuban, Mexican, and U.S. Gulf South scholars to theorize the Gulf of Mexico as a transnational zone of ecological entanglement, rather than a set of discrete national environments. Although the Gulf’s waters, storms, labor histories, and extractive infrastructures circulate across borders, scholarship often remains siloed within national or linguistic frames. This seminar asks how environmental humanities approaches might illuminate the Gulf as a shared, relational ecology shaped by movement, sedimentation, and uneven histories of extraction.
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
Literatures of the Global South: Space, Place, Environment
University of Toronto
2nd-4th June 2027
Keynote Speakers: Amitav Ghosh and Ato Quayson (Stanford University)
The Centre for Comparative Literature invites submissions for a scholarly conference and edited collection that will explore the material and imaginative alignments across literary cultures of the Global South.
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
Call for Book Chapters:
Heritage Meets Modernity:Memory, Identity, Community, and Millennial Transformations
An Edited Volume under the ICSSR Major Research Project
(2024-2025): Heritage Meets Modernity: Millennial Interventions in Redefining Kolkata's Culinary Topography
Jadavpur University, Kolkata
A Two-day Symposium and Exhibition at Loughborough University 18th-19th September 2026
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting
University of Houston | May 20–23, 2027
Paper proposal deadline: September 22, 2026
What kinds of responses do encounters with nonhuman life, elemental forces, and damaged environments demand? How might environmental damage implicate us in debts that cannot be settled, repaid, or made good?
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.
38th Annual Conference of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society
May 7-8, 2027
Gainesville, Florida
The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society, an organization of 200+ members worldwide, invites paper proposals on topics related to Rawlings’ life and works. Papers should be 20-30 minutes.
Topics related to rawlings may include:
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.
17th International D.H. Lawrence Conference,
02-08 July 2028
Lawrence and the Mediterranean
Co-sponsored by the English Department of Aix-Marseille University, France, the English Department of Paris Nanterre University, France and the D. H. Lawrence Society of North America
Conference Dates: 02-08 July 2028 (Sunday-Saturday)
Conference Site: Aix-en-Provence, France (Aix-Marseille University)
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.
Twenty-Third International Conference on
Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability, University of the Witwatersrand,, South Africa, 20-22 January 2027
Founded in 2005, the On Sustainability Research Network is brought together by a common concern for sustainability from a holistic perspective, where environmental, cultural, economic, and social interests intersect. 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.