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Abstract

This session invites papers exploring the role of affect and emotion in contemporary world literature. Recent developments in affect theory—particularly the work of Sara Ahmed and Lauren Berlant—have emphasized how emotions circulate across individuals, communities, and cultural contexts. Literary texts offer a powerful site for examining how affect shapes narratives of identity, belonging, and social transformation within global and transnational frameworks.

Translational Research and Teaching: Bridging Knowledge, Practice, and Community October 29-November 1, 2026 Panama City, Florida 

Hosted in partnership by Florida State University, Florida A&M University, and the University of Mississippi 

The Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS) is pleased to invite proposals for our 48th annual conference. AIS 2026 focuses on the theme of Translational Research and Teaching, exploring interdisciplinary work that bridges the gap between researchers, educators, practitioners, and community partners.

Call for Papers

Digital & Analog Cultures

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2026 SWPACA Summer Salon

June 25-27, 2026

Virtual Conference

https://swpaca.org/

Submissions open on March 30, 2026

Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026

In the collective global imaginary, humans seemingly write the world in isolation. We dictate the climate, biodiversity, and natural resources but we also control the ways in which the world is perceived through literature. This roundtable considers how literature is a co-constitutive process written through connectivity across time and space, landscapes, species, environments, and voices by humans and more-than-humans.

Submission Guidelines 

• The deadline for submissions is March 20th, 2026. Please submit a 300-word abstract with a short 50-word bio to our conference email address: otherothering@gmail.com

• We are only accepting submissions written in the English language 

• Each participant is allocated 15 minutes for their presentation

• Successful applicants will receive an invitation to the conference by 2nd April, 2026

Concept of other and othering 

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
English Nineteenth-Century Literature Panel
October 8-10, 2026
Ogden, Utah
Abstract Deadline: April 1, 2026

The 2026 Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association welcomes abstracts related to English Nineteenth-Century Literature. Ranging from the Regency to the Victorian era, the Nineteenth Century was an eclectic time facing significant social, political, and economic changes. Considering this period of change (and perhaps even how our own time is one of change) we invite abstracts dealing with how 19th Century British Literature explored topics such as, but not limited to:

250-500 worded abstracts to be sent to the session organisers at: 

tridibmj@gmail.com 

aravind_raveendran.phd23@krea.ac.in

Call for Papers: Temporalities: The Sixth Annual Critical Femininities Conference 

The Critical Femininities Network invites abstracts from scholars, researchers, activists, and artists for the sixth annual Critical Femininities Conference on the theme of ‘Temporalities.’ The conference will take place virtually on August 7 - 9, 2026. 

The 21st century has been defined by large-scale global change driven by migration, exile, border reconfigurations, political upheaval, and shifting power dynamics – all of which have profoundly shaped debates surrounding human rights, identity, culture, and belonging. Furthermore, as digital platforms collapse geographic distance and intensify new forms of surveillance, nationalism, and exclusion, diasporic subjects must navigate complex landscapes of memory, language, race, gender, and political belonging.

Borders and Languages

 One-day Conference at the University of Kent

21 May 2026

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Anna Bernard (King’s College London)

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Discourse in the Age of Political Upheaval and Artificial Intelligence

Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at UCLA

Keynote speaker: Dr. Julia Alekseyeva, University of Pennsylvania

Submission form: https://forms.gle/ynHiRZothVVkgVdp8

If you face any difficulties in the submission process or have questions about the conference,

please email: discourseconferenceucla@gmail.com

• Submission deadline: March 13th at 11:59PM PST

We may imagine the act of hospitality benign: to open a door, to welcome another across a threshold, or to make an offer to a guest. Rooted in such acts, however, is an ethics of how we engage with another, whether friend or stranger. Acts of hospitality contain their own contradictions, as to serve as host is to hold power, to set terms, to guard thresholds and entry points. For this year’s SAMLA conference, we invite papers, panels, and creative works that consider the many meanings and complications of hospitality—as practice, metaphor, ethics, affect, and structure.

The digital infrastructure in today’s world mirrors the colonial administrative structure with its control over data, policing user’s behavior, and pushing narratives for the majoritarian political power. The global tech giants have as much sway in geopolitics as the global leaders themselves. Previously the conditions of colonization created an unequal economic infrastructure that marginalizes the local communities, and even after independence from the colonial power, the trade relations remain that of a colonial appendage. Similarly, the upkeep of the digital sphere is not without its economic and environmental hazards.