graduate conferences

The Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University is thrilled to host the 12th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium on March 4-6, 2027.

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. 

We are pleased to invite submissions for Environmental Futures and Storytelling: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Literature and Public Policy, to be held at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, on 15–16 January 2027. The conference explores how narratives shape environmental imagination and practice with three broad strands: Imagining Environmental Futures; Narratives, Policy and Environmental Governance; and Storytelling as Environmental Method.

Marking thirty years since the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, often remembered in South Korea as the “IMF crisis,” this panel reflects on contested forms of Korean and Korean/American belonging in its aftermath. The IMF crisis was not only a national economic crisis that profoundly reshaped South Korea’s economy and social formations; it also precipitated movements of Korean people beyond their homes, producing family separation and forced movement. Nearly thirty years later, Korean diasporic cultural forms increasingly reckon with the crisis and its repercussions, with Min Jin Lee’s forthcoming novel American Hagwon (2026) also taking up this historical context.

From Unit Chairs:

• Aaron Grizzell, Ph.D. Northern California Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Foundation
• Julius Bailey, Ph.D.

The religious experience is of significant and acute concern among our varied African diasporic communities and is worthy of close academic exploration and study. The Black Religion & Theology Unit’s mission is to further the development of scholarly research and discussion about the black religious experience; encourage the broadening of Black religion as an academic endeavor; and engage in discourse, from the African diasporic perspective, about religious and theological expression. 

With the arrival of the New Woman at the end of the nineteenth century also came the modernist novel. The beginning of the twentieth century constitutes a period when women struggled with social expectations but decided to leave their own drawing rooms and discover the world; to be power brokers, instead of passive observers; and to gradually move from their interiority to making history. By comparing novels of women writers, both in the US and abroad, this panel attempts to find, in their similarities and differences, the real issues that women faced at the turn of the century, in novels that transitioned from realism and naturalism to modernism.

Submission linkhttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fidn26Submission deadlineSeptember 19, 2026Notification of AcceptanceOctober 3, 2026Presentation SubmissionOctober 31, 2026 The interdisciplinary field of Interactive Digital Narratives (IDNs) combines immersive technologies with the timeless art of storytelling. IDN offers transformative ways to engage audiences, preserve cultural heritage and address social and educational challenges. From branching narratives in video games, to immersive virtual reality experiences and interactive installations, IDNs push the boundaries of how stories can be created and experienced.

Setting the stage: a theatre and performance dissertation writing group 

Writing a dissertation can be lonely: we want to change that. Many of us first fell in love with theater because — through exploratory rehearsals, late-night tech runs, and joyful opening nights — we found camaraderie and connection, both of which can feel distant in graduate school. If theater is best practiced with others, how can our research and writing processes be shaped by the same commitment to community-building? 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Ecologies of Tomorrow

Environmental Humanities, Literature, and Culture in the Twenty-First Century

A Two-Day Online International Conference

(7th & 8th October 2026)

Organised by Creativitas: Critical Explorations in Literary Studies (An International Journal of English and Cultural Studies)

in collaboration with

the Department of English, Serampore Girls’ College (Affiliated to the University of Calcutta)

Call for Papers

Claflin University Conference on Languages and Cultural Studies  (In-person on the campus of Claflin University) *

October 21-22, 2026

THEME: CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS

*(Participants not residing in the United States and those unable to travel may request a virtual option)Scholarly and creative writing panel proposals, roundtable proposals, and paper abstracts on all aspects of reading, writing, and teaching modern languages are invited including papers and panels on

Workshop at the Renaissaince Society of America's annual meeting (Philadelphia. March 11-13, 2027)

FRIT Graduate Conference 2026

November 6th, 2026

Northwestern University

Keynote Speaker

Jina Kim, Smith College

Author of Care at the End of the World (2025)

CALL FOR PAPERS: WHO CARES?

24th National Meeting of Journalism Researchers

November 4, 5, and 6, 2026 – Fluminense Federal University (UFF)
Submission deadline: August 16, 2025
Theme: Journalism, democracy, and professional practice: the role of research in contexts of disinformation
Registration: https://bit.ly/4gCKS9M

This panel examines how literary and cultural texts from diverse global traditions imagine masculinity not merely as an individual identity but as a relational and communal practice. In an era marked by migration, political polarization, social fragmentation, environmental crisis, and renewed struggles for collective empowerment, narratives of masculinity have become central sites through which communities negotiate belonging, responsibility, vulnerability, and resistance.

Transatlantic Connections and the ‘Special Relationship[s]’: BAAS Postgraduate Symposium, 2026

V&A East Storehouse, London

9th November

In 1946, Winston Churchill declared the need for a “special relationship between the British Commonwealth and Empire and the United States” in order to maintain world diplomacy, citing our shared language and cultural values as connecting the two countries. Although this ‘special relationship’ has continually been called into question by scholars, there is undoubtedly a channel of cultural and political exchange between the US and the UK, as well as with other countries, which has become even more urgent for discussion in recent years.