international conferences

Sovereignties in Crisis: Human, Environment, Technology, and the Pharmakon

2026 Situations International Conference

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, October 22-23, 2026

PAMLA 2026 Seattle: “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict”; Venue- Seattle, Washington, Nove 12-15, 2026.

This session invites papers that examine how contemporary climate fiction (cli-fi) reimagines ruling classes, leadership, and social hierarchy under conditions of ecological crisis. In line with PAMLA 2026’s theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” the panel explores how environmental breakdown reshapes the distribution of power, producing new elites and intensifying conflicts over authority, survival, and governance.

                                                                 Call for Abstracts (Circle 3)  

                                        Literature and the Arts as Sites of Resistance and Solidarities
                                                 24 July -31 July 2026, Saulkrasti, Latvia

Focus

Literature and the Arts as tools for intersubjective transformation, resistance, and the forging of solidarities.

Framing Questions

Research group “Translation and Language Studies” (Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology) is organising an international conference on linguistics, discourse, media, communication, translation, cultural literacy and impact on society “Intermediality in Communication: Translation, Media, Discourse” held in Kaunas, Lithuania.

The scope of the conference includes 8 thematic sections with their own set of topics:

Linguistics. This section aims to examine the current directions in linguistic research, particularly focusing on how language interacts with different forms of media. 

The 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference will take place this November in Seattle, Washington, from November 12-15.

This session seeks papers that explore forms of play in American fiction from 1945 to the present. There are many conceptual genealogies of play within fields such as psychoanalytic theory, Marxist theory, structuralist and poststructuralist theory, affect theory, critical race theory, queer theory, and video game theory.

 Lyric / Narrative: Crossings, Tensions, Reconfigurations

Sixth Biennial Conference of the International Network for the Study of Lyric (INSL) University of Liège, Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Poetics (UR Traverses), June 1-3, 2027 Languages: French, English German

The inaugural Edinburgh Bibliographical Seminar and Workshop (EBSW) seeks proposals on the theme of ‘Catalogues and Registers as Evidence in the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology’. The event will occur at the University of Edinburgh from 20 July to 24 July, 2026, the week after the joint meeting of the History of Science Society and the European Society for the History of Science.

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.

Throughout the history of political thought and cultural production, multitudes and mobs that stir up disturbance across the nation, whether revolutionary or reactionary, have frequently been portrayed by the images and metaphors of monstrosity. From the many-headed hydra which was adapted into a political discourse in the early modern age and later revisited by historians such as Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, to contemptuous terms toward the insurrectionists such as swarms or locusts described in Samuel Dolbee’s Locusts of Power, monstrosity and various of dehumanizing terms have long been employed as a signifier through which fears of insurrections are expressed.

Call for Papers

ATHE Theory & Criticism Graduate Student Essay Contest 

The ATHE Theory & Criticism Focus Group seeks papers for its annual Graduate Student Essay Contest. The contest presents an exciting opportunity for an emergent theatre and performance studies scholar. It introduces the winning writer to the ATHE conference and provides them with a venue in which to showcase their work. 

The contest prizes are intended to support the development of the student’s academic work, ease financial challenges related to conference attendance, and connect the student with appropriate scholarly resources for the paper’s development and impact. 

Call for Papers

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

Call for PapersLiterature-General Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) 2026 SWPACA Summer Salon June 25-27, 2026Virtual Conferencehttps://swpaca.org/Submissions open on March 30, 2026Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026 Proposals for papers are now being accepted for the SWPACA Summer Salon. SWPACA offersnearly 70 subject areas in a variety of categories encompassing the following: Film, Television,Music, & Visual Media; Historic & Contemporary Cultures; Identities & Cultures; Language &Literature; Science Fiction & Fantasy; and Pedagogy & Popular Culture.

TARTALO. 10th International Conference on Myth in the Arts (2026).

17-20 November 2026, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain)

Venue: Faculty of Arts, EHU (University of the Basque Country) / online

CALL FOR PAPERS

Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to welcome you to the Fifth International Language-for-All Conference (LfAC’26), which will take place on October 22–23, 2026, at Çukurova University in Adana, Türkiye.

Centred on the theme “Social Justice: Language, Equity, Voice, and Empowerment,” the conference brings together scholars, educators, and practitioners working in language education, linguistics, literary studies, translation and interpretation studies, and cultural studies to examine how linguistic, literary, and cultural practices relate to questions of power, knowledge, ideology, and social inequality.