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The Ultimate Cell in Samuel Beckett
Seminar: 28/11/2026
Abstract Deadline: 25/07/2026
- ‘I woke up in a bed, in my skin’ (Beckett 39).
How does lyric address create forms of relation across difference? This panel invites papers examining the intersections of poetry, lyric address, and peacebuilding, with particular attention to coexistence, care, responsibility, witness, repair, and collective life.
Northeast Modern Language Association 58th Annual Convention, Newport, RI, March 6-9, 2027 (Salve Regina University)
Deadline for abstract submissions: September 30, 2026
Please submit abstracts via the NeMLA portal: https://cfplist.com/nemla/User/SubmitAbstract/22533
2026 Dress and Body Association Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Dress and Body Association invites submissions for the organization’s seventh annual conference, which will be held on November 7-8, 2026. Consistent with our long-term goals for inclusivity and sustainability, all activities will be 100% online.
Join our Google Group to learn about opportunities and converse with members of the DBA year-round! Email to request membership: dress.body.assoc@gmail.com.
Opening the Archives of Dress and the Body
Postcolonial Interventions (ISSN 2455-6564)
Call for Papers
Vol. XII, Issue 1 (January 2027)
Postcolonial Interventions invites scholarly articles for the January 2027 issue on the theme of Popular Culture and the Rise of the Right.
FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks a volunteer to fill the role of Peer Review Coordinator.
Duties for this position would include the following:
Preferred qualifications include:
Call for Papers
Encountering the Human(ities): Anxiety, Storytelling, Futurity
Department of English and Modern Languages
North South University
Dhaka, Bangladesh
30-31 October, 2026 (Friday-Saturday)
Hybrid Event
Call for Abstracts/Chapter Proposals
SCREEN STORYTELLERS: The Works of Jaco Van Dormael
Edited by Albert Lee
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping how teaching and learning take place across educational contexts. This seminar explores innovative and evidence-based approaches to integrating AI into classroom practice, language education, skills development, and assessment.
We invite proposals that examine practical applications of AI in teaching and learning, including but not limited to:
As Artificial Intelligence becomes an integral part of higher education, AI literacy is increasingly recognized as a foundational competency for students, educators, researchers, and institutions. This seminar explores the knowledge, skills, values, and ethical considerations required for responsible and effective engagement with AI in academic contexts.
Guided by the UNESCO AI Competency Framework for Teachers and informed by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this seminar invites proposals addressing topics including, but not limited to:
Due to the rhetorical challenges of sharing the unmentionable, infertility is often underdiscussed in both Early Modern society and today. It has discomforted and continues to discomfort theologians, medical practitioners, politicians, scholars, and everyday people trying to build identities through societies deeply founded on the structure of the family. The very concept of family is built around parents and children–what happens when a couple is childless, what happens when the children aren’t materially seen, only known to the parents that lost them before birth? It has historically forced thinkers to grapple with their understanding of life and death, grace and agency, reality and the supernatural.
Sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
This roundtable envisions writing as a collaborative act and centers writings that empower Environmental Justice communities. How have/do writing communities negotiate and enact environmental justice? How do writing communities disseminate scientific and technical information towards environmental action and justice? Participants in this roundtable are encouraged to consider:
o How does/can writing raise collective environmental consciousness?
o Writing in the Humanities to mobilize marginalized communities in the age of climate change
o Aesthetic writings beyond the pleasure of nature writing but those that fuel ethical actions
The International T. S. Eliot Society invites you to propose a conference paper for a guaranteed member society panel at The ALA (American Literature Association) Winter Symposium--"Music and American Literature" Jan 28-30 in Nashville, TN
Call for ChaptersProposals Submission Deadline: August 5, 2026
Full Chapters Due: October 28, 2026
Submission Date: October 28, 2026
NeMLA's 58th Annual Convention March 6-9, 2027 | Newport, RI
Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare: Information, Interpretation, Conspiracy, and the Struggle for RealityDetails
Keynote Address: Militarizing the Mind: Cognitive Warfare from the Cold War to the Dark WebJason Ānanda Josephson Storm
How to Be a Global Humanist begins with the tension built into its title. The humanities, as an academic field, emerged through Western histories of learning and the institutions that made those histories legible as scholarship. Yet the practices gathered under that name exceed that narrow genealogy. Across the world, people have made meaning from language and image. They have preserved the past, taught inherited forms of wisdom, and argued over what human life is for. Such work does not need the construct of “the humanities” to authorize it. The better question is what the category reveals about the traditions it encounters, and what it renders difficult to see.
Host Institution: Sapienza University of Rome (Scientific Director: Prof. Federico Batini)
Conference Dates: December 2–3, 2026 (Rome) & December 4, 2026 (Perugia, Italy)
Official Website: www.sharedreadingaloud.com
Host Institution: Sapienza University of Rome (Scientific Director: Prof. Federico Batini)
Conference Dates: December 2–3, 2026 (Rome) & December 4, 2026 (Perugia, Italy)
Official Website: www.sharedreadingaloud.com
Hybrid: The session will be held in-person but a few remote presentations may be included.
This panel invites contributions that examine how food and foodways shape and reflect cultural knowledge across time and place, with particular attention to the relationships among foodways, memory, migration, identity, cultural heritage, and community formation.
Where and how does African American culture begin?
Every story has a beginning, yet every beginning is a choice: a conscious decision about where, when, and how to start. Beginnings are contextual constructions as are endings.
A few months into his second term, President Trump announced he would order a new census that excludes non-citizens. This unprecedented move in U.S. history threatened to erase millions of people from the map. It would reshape electoral outcomes, going against the 14th Amendment that requires counting all persons in each state to determine representation, and it could impact public policymaking by removing crucial data for infrastructure, health, or education.
Childhood is often imagined as a period of innocence, protection, and dependence. However, across many historical and contemporary contexts, children experience various forms of violence, including interpersonal abuse, structural inequality, displacement, war, and environmental harm. Recent scholarship in childhood studies has challenged the tendency to view children solely as vulnerable victims, emphasizing their capacity for agency, resilience, and political engagement. Understanding how cultural narratives represent these experiences is essential for examining broader questions of justice, rights, and social belonging.
Following the lead of activist and disabled writer Alice Wong, this panel “creates a
dialogue” and is, of itself, “an intimate act bringing us together across space and time”
(Disability Intimacy xx). It therefore invites papers engaged in the long genealogy of literary,
visual, and historical representations of a frequently overlooked, or gainsayed, symbiosis: that is,
between intimacy, broadly defined, and the disabled or “defective” bodymind in the early
modern archive. This might include considering how disability sparks desire, enhances pleasure,
The Teaching with Media and Technology session welcomes proposals on any topic related to the use of media and technology in any modern language, composition, or literature classroom. Papers that engage with this year’s conference theme, "Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict," are welcome but not required. PAMLA's annual conference is being held in Seattle, WA, 12-15 November 2026.
For submissions and more information, please visit https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/20030
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2026 Annual Conference, November 5-7, 2026 in Baltimore, MD
Congreso Estética(s) del Horror: Filosofía, Cine y Literatura.
Invitación a envío de propuestas. Congreso presencial
(English version below)
En los últimos años, el terror ha experimentado una renovada visibilidad cultural. El éxito del cine reciente, la consolidación de una auténtica edad de oro de las series televisivas y la aparición de nuevas voces literarias, impulsadas también por el trabajo de editoriales especializadas, evidencian que el horror ocupa hoy un lugar central en el imaginario colectivo y mantiene una extraordinaria capacidad para dialogar con las preocupaciones estéticas, sociales y políticas de cada época.
On January 19, 2022, Sheila Heti published the first of ten weekly installments of “A Diary in Alphabetical Order” in The New York Times. Each installment included an author’s note explaining that Heti had “loaded all 500,000 words of [her] journals into Excel to order the sentences alphabetically,” hoping to “see the self in a new way.” Over time, the project “grew into something more novelistic,” and the note concludes that “the self’s report on itself is surely a great fiction.” Heti is hardly the first author to challenge or destabilize autobiographical conventions.
Call for Chapters
Edited Volume: Rethinking M.R. James: Antiquarianism, Horror, and the Supernatural
Editor: Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash, Fellow of Social Science Research Council
Introduction
As we meet in Newport, an island at the edge of the Atlantic, this panel invites papers about ocean-based horror media. Oceans, seas, and other waterways have been central to human culture throughout history, offering both opportunities to build communities across the waves and the threat of lonely, painful death through drowning or isolation through shipwrecks.
Joyce Studies Annual invites submissions for a special issue featuring the topic of “Echo-Joyce: Reading Joyce in Relation” to be guest edited by Amadeo De La Pava, Faye Liu, and Jordan Smith.