international conferences

CFP: "Horror" at SWPACA Summer Salon, online conference, June 25-27, 2026

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 2:53pm
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 27, 2026

Call for Papers

Horror (Literary & Cinematic)

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

 

English Language Notes (ELN) Call for Papers - “Global Queer and Trans Class Relations”

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 2:53pm
English Language Notes
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 1, 2026

English Language Notes (ELN) Call for Papers 

“Global Queer and Trans Class Relations” 
 

A special Issue of English Language Notes (ELN), Vol. 65, No. 2 (October 2027) 

Edited by Matt Brim and Emmanuel David 

Submissions due September 1, 2026 

 

 

PAMLA 2026: Androhorror: New Approaches to Gender in Horror (Roundtable / In-Person)

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 2:52pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

The following is a cfp for a roundtable session at the forthcoming PAMLA 2026 conference to be hosted in Seattle, Washington, U.S. from Nov 12-15, 2026. 

Please contact Noah Gallego @noahrgallego for inquiries.

All abstracts must be submitted through the PAMLA submission portal. 

The deadline is May 15, 2026

This roundtable invites scholars across the disciplines and different stages in their academic career with an interest in horror to undertake critical investigations into specifically male-centered horror media. By “male-centered,” I am referring to texts that spotlight male identity and the male body, cis-, queer, and trans- included, as sites of fear and monstrosity.

Collecting, Collected, Collective: Working With Hopkins

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 2:51pm
Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara, Italy
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 26, 2026

Collecting, Collected, Collective:

Working With Hopkins

June 10 to 12, 2027

Proposals due: 26 October 2026

 

MMLA Gender Studies "After the Archive"

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 2:40pm
Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 19, 2026

Panel Title “Gender Archive: Beyond the Evidence”

 

The ease with which people can scan a database, or source can impact the research process. At times, users of digitally archived sources may overlook authentic artifacts unavailable electronically. Although not done deliberately, this practice can weaken the validity of historical research.

—Naif Albishri “The Future of History: How Digital Archives Provides Another Path for Research” The State Press, 2024.

 

II INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Myth and Drama: Crises, Borders, Otherness

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 1:34pm
Faculty of Philology "Blaže Koneski" in Skopje, Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje; Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje and Institute for Macedonian Literature in Skopje
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 30, 2026

 

                      

 

II INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MYTH AND DRAMA:

CRISES, BORDERS, OTHERNESS

 

 

 

CFP - PAMLA 123rd Annual Conference (Seattle, WA) – Nov. 12-15, 2026

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 1:33pm
Craig Svonkin / PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

We are pleased to announce that the PAMLA 2026 Conference will be held at the lovely Hyatt Regency Seattle in Seattle, Washington! The conference will begin on Thursday morning, November 12, and continue through Sunday afternoon, November 15, 2026.

The 2026 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person at the Hyatt Regency. There will be no virtual or hybrid sessions or papers: the entire conference is being held in-person. So, please join us for an in-person intellectual, cultural, and social experience in the heart of one of the loveliest and most vibrant of cities: Seattle.

Annual Conference on "Violence and the Fantastic"

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 1:33pm
American Studies at the University of Cologne & Association for Research in the Fantastic
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 1, 2026

**Call for Papers for the 17th Annual Conference of the Association for Research in the Fantastic

Violence and the Fantastic
University of Cologne
September 17-19, 2026

Open Forum “Virginia Woolf: Sound and Rhythm in Translation”

updated: 
Friday, March 27, 2026 - 3:39pm
35th International Conference Virginia Woolf
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS 

35th International Conference Virginia Woolf 

Open Forum “Virginia Woolf: Sound and Rhythm in Translation”, Istambul, Jun 24-Jun 28, 2026

Update: We are currently working to transform this forum into a hybrid format. When submitting your proposal, please indicate whether you would prefer to participate in person or online.

CfP - Listening to Possible Worlds: Sound and Music in Speculative Literature and Culture

updated: 
Thursday, March 26, 2026 - 11:17am
Leiden University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 30, 2026

**DEADLINE EXTENDED to 13 April 2026**

Call for Papers: 

Listening to Possible Worlds 

Sound and Music in Speculative Literature and Culture 

22-23 October 2026, Leiden University, the Netherlands (in-person) 

Confirmed keynote speakers are Anna Snaith (King’s College London) and Chris Tonelli (University of Groningen) 

Extended Call for Papers: 15th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies - Language, Literature, and AI

updated: 
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 - 5:33pm
Faculty of Foreign Languages, Alfa BK University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Dear colleagues, 

 

Faculty of Foreign Languages is pleased to announce two confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. Danimir Mandić (Faculty of Education, University of Belgrade) and Prof. Jozef Štefčik (Bratislava University of Economics and Business).

Our 15th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies will be held on 29 and 30 May 2026. The topic for this edition of our annual conference is

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

"(In-)Visible Wounds:" Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Discrimination and Violence (April 23-25, 2026)

updated: 
Saturday, March 21, 2026 - 7:48pm
Konstantina Kliagkona ("KN: Forensic, Literature, Arts & Media Studies"/ Independent Researcher, Freelancer EFL, Criminology Teacher, & Offender Profiler)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Date of Conference: 23-25 April, 2026

(EXTENDED) Deadline for Abstract Submission: 31 March 2026

 

Online, international, interdisciplinary conference titled:

 

(In-)Visible Wounds: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Discrimination and Violence

 

Botanical Life in Art, Science, and Imagination

updated: 
Friday, March 20, 2026 - 2:52pm
Global Plant Humanities Network (GPHN)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Call For Papers

The 3rd International Conference on Global Plant Humanities

Botanical Life in Art, Science, and Imagination

 

Conference Dates:     8–10 May 2026 (Fri–Sun)

Mode:                         Hybrid (Physical & Virtual)

Host:                           Department of English, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India

WHAT MIRACLE: NEW REVELATIONS ON THE PROSE POEM

updated: 
Thursday, March 19, 2026 - 4:01pm
University of Notre Dame
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

CFP: WHAT MIRACLE: NEW REVELATIONS ON THE PROSE POEM

**The deadline for this CFP has now been extended to Wednesday, April 1.** 

 

October 15 and 16, 2026, in Rome, Italy

 

MLA 2027 Guaranteed Panels: 'Empowering Language Change' and 'Listening to Language Change: Evidence of Emancipation'

updated: 
Thursday, March 19, 2026 - 12:59pm
Modern Languages Association - LSL Language Change Forum
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

The LSL Language Change Forum invites proposals for the following panels at the 2027 MLA Annual Conference in Los Angeles:

Empowering Language Change

This guaranteed panel invites papers examining how linguistic changes enable—and emerge from—emancipatory practices across spoken, written, digital, pedagogical, and/or related contexts.

Listening to Language Change: Evidence of Emancipation

This guaranteed panel invites papers examining how emancipatory movements become visible through linguistic changes—historically, contemporarily, or in imagined futures—across disciplines.

SECAC 2026 Conference - Immerisve Threads: Narrative, Participation, and the Making of Experiential Worlds

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:51pm
Angela Whitlock/SECAC Conference 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Please consider submitting an abstract to present in my conference panel. The conference is open to graduate students (MA and PhD-track), educators, practicing artists, and museum professionals. Details below:

Call for Abstracts – SECAC Panel

Immersive Threads: Narrative, Participation, and the Making of Experiential Worlds

How do narrative and participation become interwoven within immersive environments? How do we, as participants, become threads within experiential artworks, installations, museums, performances, digital platforms, or urban spaces?

Between Then and Now: Performing Archives

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:51pm
Manchester Metropolitan University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 24, 2026

 

Between Then and Now: Performing Archives

The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, 23-24 June 2026

Convened by the Performance Research Group, Manchester School of Theatre, Manchester Metropolitan University

  

Call for contributions

 

IN COLLABORATION ON COOPERATION: RESEARCH IN LINGUISTICS WITHIN FRENCH-POLISH TEAMS

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:50pm
University of Silesia in Katowice and Polish Academy of Sciences Scientific Centre in Paris
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 10, 2026

The Polish Academy of Sciences Scientific Centre in Paris and the Institute of Linguistics of the University of Silesia in Katowice cordially invite you to the academic conference entitled:

IN COLLABORATION ON COOPERATION: RESEARCH IN LINGUISTICS WITHIN FRENCH-POLISH TEAMS

9–10 July 2026
Scientific Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences
74 Rue Lauriston, 75116 Paris, France

Multiplatform 2026: Poetry in Games / Games in Poetry

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:48pm
Manchester Metropolitan University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 10, 2026

11–12 June 2026

Hosted by the Manchester Game Centre, in collaboration with the Poetry Research Group and the Manchester Poetry Library.

MLA 2027: Revoicing Non-Humans through Ecological Translation

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:44pm
MLA 2027 Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 29, 2026

In recent years, critiques of human exceptionalism and extractivism have prompted scholars to reconsider the role of translation as a communicative practice capable of engaging with nonhuman voices. Dominant strands of Western thought, from Descartes to Heidegger, have long reinforced the perceived superiority of humans over other forms of life and expression. Challenging this hierarchy requires not only rethinking human–nonhuman relations but also reconsidering how communication itself is understood within translation studies.

Austrian Negatives - In the Darkroom of the Habsburg Empire (7-8 Oct. 2026)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:42pm
Österreichisches Historisches Institut in Rom
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 10, 2026

Internationale Tagung
Istituto Storico Austriaco a Roma

Austrian Negatives
In the Darkroom of the Habsburg Empire
Maria Giovanna Campobasso, Flavia Di Battista, Matteo Zupancic
7-8 October 2026
Deadline: 10th May, 2026

In the Shadow of the Sky — speculative worlds, xenolinguistic futures, and UFO imagery in postmodern media

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:41pm
Research Club of Comparative Studies of Civilisation of the Jagiellonian University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

he Jagiellonian University’s Comparative Civilization Studies Research Club cordially invites you to the International Academic Conference titled “In the Shadow of the Sky — speculative worlds, xenolinguistic futures, and UFO imagery in postmodern media.”

Date and venue: May 29–30, 2026, at the Institute of Comparative Studies of Civilisations, Jagiellonian University, 52 Grodzka Street, Kraków
Format: hybrid, May 29–30, 2026 

Evidence, Experience, and Authority in Contested Knowledge

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:40pm
Matteo Polato
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Evidence, Experience, and Authority in Contested Knowledge

International Interdisciplinary Workshop 

Online | 27 - 28 August 2026

When we want to convince others of our beliefs, we usually offer arguments, and, crucially, evidence. Sometimes this evidence is mundane and undisputed; more often it is complex, contested, or ambiguous. But what happens when claims concern phenomena that, by their very nature, resist empirical verification?

PAMLA 2026 Special Session CFP - Seattle, WA (Nov 12-15)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 5:22am
Craig Svonkin / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 10, 2026

PAMLA 2026 Seattle: “Our Ruling Classes: Class, Power, Conflict” https://www.pamla.org/pamla2026/

The 123rd Annual PAMLA Conference will be held November 12–15, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency Seattle,
808 Howell St., Seattle, Washington 98101.

"Memory, Affects and Emotions" 8th International Interdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Monday, March 16, 2026 - 5:06pm
InMind Support
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 27, 2026

Conference online (via Zoom): 16-17 April 2026

 

CFP:

Affects, emotions and perceptions have always been at the center of philosophical discussion. Yet the so-called “Affective turn” in social studies and humanities is a relatively new phenomenon inspired by Deleuze and Guattari´s influential works among others. Affective turn challenges the still dominant representational approach in semiotics, discourse analysis and text analyses of all kinds.

International Conference: Precarious houses by the water, March 3–5, 2027

updated: 
Friday, March 13, 2026 - 1:39pm
Annina Klappert, University of Augsburg and Kai Merten, University of Erfurt
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 17, 2026

Rising water levels in oceans and rivers, streams with high flood waves, and torrential rains that turn puddles into lakes: houses that are currently exposed to such increasingly regular water events are becoming a problematic, if not catastrophic, environment. The protective function that the house is supposed to have according to its original idea and design is being compromised. While roofs and walls are supposed to keep out wind and water—and the traditional European gabled roof is primarily designed to divert water from above—in these extreme weather scenarios, basements are flooded, roofs are torn off, entire houses stand like islands in the water or are even swept away.

Eco-esotericism

updated: 
Friday, March 13, 2026 - 1:38pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

The Eco-esotericism panel invites submissions that examine the intersection of esoteric thought and ecological consciousness as expressed in literature, cultural texts, and critical theory. Eco-esotericism encompasses approaches that unite spiritual or mystical understandings of nature with ecological critique and environmental activism. Engaging with PAMLA’s 2026 theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” this panel asks: How do esoteric ecological imaginaries reinforce, negotiate, or resist ruling ideologies? How have spiritualized visions of nature shaped elite cultural production, countercultural movements, or alternative political communities?

Literature and Religion

updated: 
Friday, March 13, 2026 - 1:38pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

 The Literature and Religion session invites abstracts for a panel that explores the multifaceted role of religion and spirituality within literary cultures, especially as they intersect with social hierarchies, power structures, and conflict. Religion has long shaped literary expression.

Disability in Academia Across the Career Trajectory

updated: 
Friday, March 13, 2026 - 1:38pm
MLA Committee on Disability Issues
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 16, 2026

Roundtable reflecting on impacts of disabilities on work life in graduate school, pre-tenure, post-tenure, among contingent faculty, and in leadership positions. Please send CV and 300-word abstract for 8- to 10-minute contributions to: Cassandra.falke@uit.no

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