graduate conferences

New Work in Contemporary Literary Studies - BACLS Grad Conference 2026 (University of Leeds, 20 May 2026)

updated: 
Monday, November 10, 2025 - 5:00am
British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 4, 2026

The British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) is pleased to announce our first graduate conference, New Work in Contemporary Literary Studies, which will take place at the University of Leeds on May 20th 2026. This will be a hybrid conference.

Participants will be invited to contribute to a special issue of the soon-to-be-relaunched journal Alluvium, to be published after the symposium. 

10th Annual Global Souths CFP

updated: 
Friday, November 7, 2025 - 3:34pm
Department of English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

10th Annual Global Souths Conference

March 12-14 2026

Outside the Margins: Where We Are and Who We Are

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana 

“Curiosity & Care” - Stony Brook University English/WGSS CFP, New York Graduate Conference

updated: 
Friday, November 7, 2025 - 12:20pm
Stony Brook University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

“Curiosity & Care” - Stony Brook University English/WGSS CFP, New York Graduate Conference 

Stony Brook University’s English Graduate Department, in collaboration with the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Department, invites abstracts and proposals from current graduate students and independent scholars for its annual spring conference on Friday, Feb. 27, 2026, at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, NY.

"Transformation" GSE Interdisciplinary Conference 2026

updated: 
Friday, November 7, 2025 - 10:59am
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville - Graduate Students in English Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 12, 2026

Graduate Students in English Interdisciplinary Conference 2026

Call for Papers on the Theme: “Transformation”

University of Arkansas at FayettevilleMarch 14-15, 2026

 

The Graduate Students in English at University of Arkansas in Fayetteville invite proposals on the theme “Transformation,” a topic as broad as the literary and academic canons themselves. As we bear witness to changes in higher education landscapes across disciplines, we might consider how our own perceptions have evolved, what has been reliable in scholarship historically, and what needs to adapt.

STS 2026: Materiality, Memory, Forgetting - Cross-currents in Textual Studies and Memory Studies

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:23pm
Society for Textual Scholarship
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 1, 2026

This interdisciplinary conference invites scholars to explore the rich and evolving relationship between Textual Studies and Memory Studies, two fields that while historically distinct offer vital and complementary insights into the construction, transmission, and contestation of cultural memory. In an era marked by the disruption and reconfiguration of once-stable social, cultural, and political structures, the questions raised by both disciplines feel increasingly urgent: How is the past preserved, edited, and transmitted through texts (where “text” is broadly conceived)? What role do textual forms, variants, and materialities play in shaping collective memory?

Free Exchange Graduate Conference 2026 - Alterity: Thresholds of the Possible

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:23pm
University of Calgary English Department Graduate Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 9, 2026

The University of Calgary English Department Graduate Association cordially invites both critical and creative proposals for our annual Free Exchange Graduate Conference, taking place from March 20-21, 2026. Going back nearly 20 years, Free Exchange is a transdisciplinary conference that aims to bring together emerging scholars from across Canada and beyond in the spirit of collaboration and knowledge creation.

Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster Area

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:23pm
Shane Trayers/ SWPACA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 14, 2025

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) 

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

NEW submission deadline: November 14, 2025 

Gaming Across Boundaries: Interactive Technology in Education and Culture

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:23pm
UK Gaines Center for the Humanities Research Cooperative - Digital Pedagogies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 2, 2026

Despite the outsized influence of technology on everyday cultural practices and classrooms, its role has never been more contested. Indeed, even in the case that such practices are not digitized, our societal roles are increasingly governed by systemic expectations, rules, and algorithms. These expectations create hierarchies, enforce boundaries, and classify individuals and their work.

Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:22pm
Tufts University History of Art and Architecture
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 21, 2025

Call for Papers: Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance | March 27, 2026

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Diana Martinez, Assistant Professor of Architecture, UC Berkeley

Graduate Student Symposium

Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Tufts University, Medford, MA

The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University invites graduate students to submit paper proposals for the 2026 Graduate Symposium titled Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance, which will be held on March 27, 2026, in Medford, MA. 

Postcolonial Environments: Re-Grounding the Discipline in the State of Emergency

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:05pm
Louisiana State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

36th Annual Mardi Gras Conference

Postcolonial Environments: Re-Grounding the Discipline in the State of Emergency

Date: February 12-13, 2026

Location: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

 

2026 RAW CFP _Under the Surface: Visibility and Politics

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:05pm
The 17th Annual Research, Art, Writing (RAW) Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 5, 2025

CFP: Under the Surface: Visibility and Politics deadline for submissions: December 15, 2025 full name / name of organization: The 17th Annual Research, Art, Writing (RAW) Conference contact email: rawconference@utdallas.edu 

Discourses '26, Mount Carmel College

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:04pm
Mount Carmel College, Bangalore - Department of Communication Skills & Department of History
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

 

THE DEPARTMENTS OF 

COMMUNICATION STUDIES AND HISTORY

Mount Carmel College, Autonomous present 

 

DISCOURSES '26

FOOD, HISTORY AND MIGRATION 

21st and 22nd of January, 2026

 

CONCEPT NOTE 

 

THE THIRD ANNUAL WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM: A Century of Black History Commemorations: “The Impact and Meaning of Black History and Life Commemorations in Transforming the Status of Black Peoples in the Modern World”

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:00pm
Morgan State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

THE THIRD ANNUAL WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

A Century of Black History Commemorations

“The Impact and Meaning of Black History and Life Commemorations in Transforming the Status of

Black Peoples in the Modern World”

Morgan State University, April 2, 2026

 

The Long Middle Ages

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:00pm
Natalie Hopwood and Saaleha Iqbal / Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 28, 2025

We are excited to announce a new interdisciplinary seminar series for postgraduate students and early career researchers on the Long Middle Ages, a period covering the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern Periods. This series aims to bring together scholars working across this period to establish new connectivity and inclusivity between these disciplines, and to provide a more relaxed space for new and emerging researchers to present and test out ideas.

2026 Yale Korean Philosophy of Religion and Theology Graduate Conference

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 2:54pm
Yale Divinity School
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 27, 2026

Call for Papers: 2026 Yale Korean Philosophy of Religion and Theology Graduate Conference

The Yale Korean Philosophy of Religion and Theology Graduate Conference is pleased to announce its second annual conference. We invite presenters from graduate students and emerging scholars working in philosophy of religion, theology, and religious thought within Korean studies. We especially welcome proposals that challenge, expand, and reinterpret the concept of “Korean” in religious discourses, while engaging in dialogue with political theory, comparative religious studies, sociology and anthropology, critical literary studies, intellectual history, and other related disciplines.

Analysis of a Fall: The Subtexts of Cinematic and Societal Descents Panel

updated: 
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 - 7:03pm
Panel Proposal for Media in Full Bloom Conference - Warrior Bookworms & Wordsmiths, the English Club at Stanislaus State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 28, 2025

The ground falling from beneath your feet, the cliff’s edge barely holding you aloft, the free fall in open air. Cinematic representations of falling and nearly plummeting from great heights have long been around as an arbiter of suspense and a literal visualization of the classic “cliffhanger,” with origins to such a visual tracing back to the silent film era and actor Harold Lloyd dangling from the hands of a clock in Safety Last! (1923) Falling and dizzying heights have been featured over the years in a variety of forms and often successfully serve as a device to drive the plot forward or signify its climax. We see examples of villains and heroes alike battling on skyscrapers in DC and Marvel universe adaptations.

Bridges and Borders: Material Actualities

updated: 
Tuesday, November 4, 2025 - 8:18pm
Bridges and Borders Graduate Student Conference, Department of English in collaboration with the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Applied Linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Bridges and Borders: Material Actualities

March 19-21, 2026 | Proposals Due by January 15th, 2026

Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) and on Zoom 

Bridges and Borders is an annual, interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference presented by the Carnegie Mellon University Department of English in collaboration with the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Applied Linguistics.

CONTACT: bridgesandborders@andrew.cmu.edu

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:  TBA.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

2026 Post45 Graduate Symposium (Duke University)

updated: 
Monday, November 3, 2025 - 3:33pm
2026 Post45 Graduate Symposium (Duke University)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 14, 2025

The English department at Duke University is thrilled to host the 11th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium on February 20-21, 2026.

The Post45 Graduate Symposium seeks graduate-level works-in-progress related to post-1945 media, arts, literature, textual or visual objects, digital platforms, politics, and culture. We welcome submissions that expand our conception of objects and meaning-making post-1945 or place them in comparative, transnational, or hemispheric frames. We especially welcome contributions that foreground the importance of race, gender, class, and sexuality to post-45 studies. 

Seeing the Other Empire: British Travel Writing and Imperial Rivalry in Europe and the Near East, 1783–1914

updated: 
Monday, November 3, 2025 - 3:29pm
University of Strasbourg
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 24, 2026

Call for papers – International PhD and early-career symposium 

Seeing the Other Empire: British Travel Writing and Imperial Rivalry in Europe and the Near East, 1783–1914

University of Strasbourg, 24 April 2026

 

Organisers: Arman Martirosyan and Suheyla-Hacer Sahin

Research group SEARCH (UR 2325)

 

2026 Post45 Graduate Symposium (Duke University)

updated: 
Monday, November 3, 2025 - 9:44am
Post45 Graduate Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 14, 2025

The English department at Duke University is thrilled to host the 11th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium on February 20-21, 2026.

The Post45 Graduate Symposium seeks graduate-level works-in-progress related to post-1945 media, arts, literature, textual or visual objects, digital platforms, politics, and culture. We welcome submissions that expand our conception of objects and meaning-making post-1945 or place them in comparative, transnational, or hemispheric frames. We especially welcome contributions that foreground the importance of race, gender, class, and sexuality to post-45 studies. 

DEADLINE EXTENDED! Call for Papers: 47th Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference

updated: 
Saturday, November 1, 2025 - 5:40pm
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 14, 2025

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

Annual Conference

 

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://swpaca.org/

NEW Submission Deadline: November 14, 2025

 

Deadline Extended: SWPACA 2026 - Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies Area

updated: 
Saturday, November 1, 2025 - 4:30pm
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 14, 2025

Call for Papers

Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2025.

 

Utopian Impulses in the 2020s

updated: 
Saturday, November 1, 2025 - 2:56pm
Blake Steinnecker / University of Cincinnati
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 19, 2025

Utopian Impulses in the 2020sAn Interdisciplinary Graduate Student ConferenceUniversity of Cincinnati - Friday, February 6th, 2026 Among its political and technological predicaments, America’s 2020s have been a time of steady upheaval, crisis, and change. As we continue to wrestle our way through the agendas, regimes, and big-data systems of this historical moment as teachers, students, and researchers, we recall the utopian thinking of More and Marx, which reminds us “to keep from being blinded by what seems normal — to help us see that what is natural is constructed, not inevitable” (Elbow, p. 83).

The Flannery O’Connor Society Open Topics Panel at The Society for the Study of Southern Literature

updated: 
Thursday, October 30, 2025 - 3:22pm
The Flannery O'Connor Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 12, 2025

The Flannery O’Connor Society
The Society for the Study of Southern Literature
March 28th-31st, 2026
Fisk University
Nashville, TN

The Flannery O’Connor Society invites abstracts (of about 300 words) to be submitted for participation in an open topics panel on Flannery O’Connor’s life and work at the biannual conference of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature.

Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory

updated: 
Thursday, October 30, 2025 - 3:21pm
Program in Literature / Duke University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

Call for Proposals: Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory

April 10–12, 2026

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

Keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

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Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) insisted on “imagining a future which might be radically and constitutionally other.” The urgency of this task rested on his understanding of Critical Theory “as a way of keeping the negative alive in a period in which praxis, the unity of the negative and the positive, itself seems suspended.” We invite proposals for papers on Jameson’s work and its implications for the future of critical theory.

The Long Middle Ages

updated: 
Thursday, October 30, 2025 - 3:18pm
Natalie Hopwood and Saaleha Iqbal / Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 28, 2025

We are excited to announce a new interdisciplinary seminar series for postgraduate students and early career researchers on the Long Middle Ages, a period covering the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern Periods. This series aims to bring together scholars working across this period to establish new connectivity and inclusivity between these disciplines, and to provide a more relaxed space for new and emerging researchers to present and test out ideas.

Comhfhios 2026 Call for Papers

updated: 
Thursday, October 30, 2025 - 3:16pm
Boston College Comhfhios Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

Violence: Legacies of Conflict in Ireland

 

Comhfhios Boston College

February 7th, 2026

Connolly House, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA

 

The Irish Studies Graduate Students of Boston College, in conjunction with the Irish Studies Program, are pleased to host the 9th annual Comhfhios Boston College conference. Comhfhios (pronounced “co-is”) meaning “knowledge together,” or “open to all knowledge,” invites emerging scholars in all Irish Studies fields to gather in Boston. 

 

Care & Communities - STAB 2026

updated: 
Thursday, October 30, 2025 - 3:11pm
Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders Graduate Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 31, 2026

“Care & Communities” - Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders (STAB) 2026

Binghamton University, Department of English 

 

Conference date: March 21, 2026

Submission deadline: January 31, 2026

 

“Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.” 

-bell hooks, Teaching Community

 

12th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education

updated: 
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 - 3:17pm
Eurasia Conferences
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Call for Abstracts: 12th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education

Dates: May 18 - 19, 2026

Venue: ARCOTEL Wimberger Wien, Neubaugürte, 34-36, 1070, Vienna, Austria

CPD Accreditation

As a Certified CPD Accredited Provider (Provider Number #785414), this conference offers 18 CPD credit hours, providing attendees with valuable recognition for their professional development. Verification is available at https://thecpdregister.com/view/eurasia-conferences-816429.

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