international conferences

PAMLA 2026 - The Monstrous Multitude (ddl extended) (still opening) (All kinds of monsters are invited!) (Panel/Special Session)

updated: 
Sunday, June 7, 2026 - 1:33pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

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.

Geographies of Horror

updated: 
Saturday, June 6, 2026 - 6:14am
Department of English Studies (University of Zadar) in collaboration with The Society for the Study of the American Gothic (SSAG)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 1, 2026

Keynote speaker: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Central Michigan University)

May 20-21st 2027, University of Zadar (Zadar, Croatia)

Critique: Journal of English Language and Literature

updated: 
Saturday, June 6, 2026 - 2:44am
Department of English Literature, Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 31, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

Critique: Journal of English Language and Literature

https://critique.gcuf.edu.pk

Submission Deadline: 31 July 2026

 

 

The Editors of Critique: Journal of English Language and Literature invite the submission of original scholarly articles for consideration in the forthcoming issue of the journal.

The Social Contract in Dispute: Discourse, Legitimacy and Transformation

updated: 
Friday, June 5, 2026 - 5:23am
University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 20, 2026

An interdisciplinary space for critical reflectionThe Social Contract in Dispute: Discourse, Legitimacy and Transformation  

Living in a context of intense political tensions and polarisations that threaten how society is organised and the fundamentals of democratic legitimacy, the 28th International Meeting of Research and Investigation (EIRI) is dedicated to reflecting on the social contract and its contemporary transformations.

Deadline extended: 2nd International Conference of the Just Transition Knowledge Network (JETNET) - Transitions in Extractive Regions: Sustainable Closures, Repurposing and Developmental Pathways

updated: 
Monday, June 1, 2026 - 1:47am
Just Transition Research Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

Background

The Just Transition Knowledge Network (JETNET), an initiative of the Just Transition Research Centre at IIT Kanpur, invites national and international participants to its Annual Conference 2026.

History and Popular Uses of the Past– NEPCA Virtual Fall Conference 2026

updated: 
Friday, May 29, 2026 - 5:36pm
Northeast Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

CFP: History and Popular Uses of the Past – NEPCA Virtual Fall Conference 2026

 

Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2026 (at 5 pm EDT)

 

Contact email:

Hannah Sophie Schiffner, h.schiffner@zeppelin-university.net

 

The History and Popular Uses of the Past Area invites submissions for the Northeast Popular Culture Association’s (NEPCA) annual conference to be held online October 15th – 17th, 2026.

 

Second Annual “Things That Go Bump in the Night: An International Literary Conference on All Things Scary”

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Friday, May 29, 2026 - 9:39am
Anais Shelley
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Welcoming submissions for a free scholarly conference on scary literature to be hosted online from October 22nd-24th, 2026 by graduate student, Anais Shelley.

Research may draw inspiration from (but is not limited to) these prompts:

  • Supernatural themes

  • Domestic horror

  • The role of setting within scary stories

  • Frightening myths and folklore

  • The gothic novel and short story

  • Monsters and the monstrous

  • Multicultural superstition and regional ghost stories

"Learning to Be? Narratives of Formation in the Literatures of the Spanish State after 2008"

updated: 
Friday, May 29, 2026 - 4:26am
University of Barcelona / Deformae Research Project
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the literatures of the Spanish State have witnessed a remarkable proliferation of Bildungsroman-inflected narratives, testimonial accounts, and coming-of-age fictions that fundamentally interrogate received models of subjectivity, identity formation, and social progress. This international congress invites critical engagement with a corpus of works — spanning authors such as Najat El Hachmi, Marta Sanz, Belén Gopegui, and Alana S. Portero — that contest hegemonic discourses of selfhood and becoming from positions of social, gendered, and cultural marginality.

CFP: The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture – NEPCA Virtual Fall Conference 2026

updated: 
Tuesday, May 26, 2026 - 4:14am
Northeast Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online Thursday, October 15th through Saturday October 17th 2026.

 

Animal Studies: Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict

updated: 
Friday, May 22, 2026 - 12:21pm
Sutirtho Roy/ Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

The Animal Studies standing session seeks papers broadly related to the intersection of literature or media and animal studies, across genres and national literatures, with a special—but not exclusive —interest in proposals that engage with the 2026 PAMLA conference theme, "Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict." As such, it aims to enliven the conversation surrounding the conference theme through animal studies and literature, while making cross-disciplinary pathways with science, conservation, and public policy.

International Symposium America at 250: Narratives of Resistance and Change

updated: 
Friday, May 22, 2026 - 8:16am
CETAPS - Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nova University of Lisbon
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence,
at a time of perceived challenges to its promises of freedom and equality, this symposium
invites a multidisciplinary reflection on the narrative strategies used to represent past and
contemporary interpretations of experienced scenarios of crises, resistance and change.
The Symposium is particularly interested in the connections between contemporary
political, social and cultural fractures and previous experiences of confrontation of
opposing visions of the collective national project, which also tested the fulfillment of the

The Victorians and Their Publics

updated: 
Friday, May 22, 2026 - 8:13am
Victorian Popular Fiction Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 6, 2026

I am pleased to announce that registration is open for the 18th annual hybrid conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) on the topic of 'The Victorians and Their Publics'. You can access the VPFA conference registration page here.

James Kelman at 80

updated: 
Friday, May 22, 2026 - 8:12am
University of Glasgow
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

James Kelman at 80

Conference, Spring 2027, Glasgow

Covid Legacies: Long-Term Social and Cultural Effects

updated: 
Friday, May 22, 2026 - 8:12am
Dr Şima İmşir & Dr Ayşecan Terzioğlu (Koç University and Sabancı University)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Covid Legacies: Long-Term Social and Cultural Effects

International Conference // Koç University & Sabancı University, Istanbul, October 9–11, 2026

Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2026 (via covidlegacies@gmail.com)

Combating harmful stereotyping: a cross-disciplinary approach, 17-18 June 2027, Grenoble, France

updated: 
Friday, May 22, 2026 - 8:12am
Université Grenoble Alpes, France
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 5, 2027

 

It is well established in research as well as in the social arena that a number of stereotypes are harmful, because they are “preconceived and oversimplified idea[s] of the characteristics which typify a person, situation, etc” (OED 2025, stereotype), and that they lead to biases in the perception of individuals, who are considered on the basis of their membership in a group rather than their individual qualities. Biases may be explicit (“overtly discriminatory beliefs, actions, or institutional policies”), but also implicit, taking the form of “unconscious tacit attitudes and unintentional actions towards a group” (Rutgers 2026) that are likely to be detrimental to the targeted group and life in a peaceful society.

CFP: 2026 Dress and Body Association Conference, 7-8 Nov (Abstracts due: July 15)

updated: 
Friday, May 22, 2026 - 8:12am
Dress and Body Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

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

Futuring Poetic Inquiry: A Return and Renewal (ISPI 2026 conference)

updated: 
Wednesday, May 20, 2026 - 11:03am
International Symposium for Poetic Inquiry (ISPI)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 1, 2026

Futuring Poetic Inquiry: A Return and Renewal10th International Symposium for Poetic Inquiry (ISPI) 
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 
October 8-12, 2026  Proposal Submissions Due June 1, 2026 - EXTENDEDTo submit a proposal: Please visit the ISPI website for more information and to submit a proposal: ISPI website  

5th World Congress on Logic and Religion

updated: 
Friday, May 15, 2026 - 11:49am
Maira de Cinque
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 17, 2026

The World Congress on Logic and Religion (WoCoLoR) series aims to provide a forum where scholars from a wide range of disciplines — including, but not limited to, logic, philosophy, mathematics, computer science, the humanities, psychology, linguistics, and the cognitive sciences — together with theologians from diverse religious traditions, can come together to exchange ideas on the latest developments concerning the relationship between logic and religion, reason and faith, and rational inquiry and divine revelation.

Motion Lines: Depicting movement in the early 20th century

updated: 
Friday, May 15, 2026 - 11:49am
Emilie Georges and Charlotte Estrade / Université Paris Nanterre
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Motion Lines: Depicting movement in the early 20th century

 

18 Nov. 2026, Université Paris Nanterre

 

“Artificial Intelligence for Green Sustenance: Collating Agriculture, Environmental Humanities and Pedagogy” (AIGS–2026)

updated: 
Friday, May 15, 2026 - 11:48am
Nagaland University, Nagaland, India.
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 31, 2026

This interdisciplinary seminar/workshop will bring researchers, academicians, professionals, and students to explore the transformative role of artificial intelligence in sustainable agriculture, environmental resilience, ecological humanities, and contemporary education. The presentations on AIGS-2026 will focus on emerging themes, including:
·      AI and Smart Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture
·      Climate Resilience and Water Sustainability
·      Sustainable Agriculture in Hilly Regions
·      Emerging Pollution and Environmental Monitoring
·      Citizen Science and Big Data Analytics
·      Indigenous Knowledge and Rural Sustainability
·      AI in Education and Digital Pedagogy

RADIATION: Connection Across Distance

updated: 
Monday, May 11, 2026 - 11:53am
Natasha Lushetich / University of Dundee
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 12, 2026

 

RADIATION: Connection Across Distance

A Cross-disciplinary Conference

Arnolfini, Bristol, UK 12 – 14 Nov 2026

Panel 4: EAST MEETS WEST ACROSS BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES

updated: 
Monday, May 11, 2026 - 11:50am
Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Dept. of Modern Languages
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Over the last years, there has been a burgeoning debate about the Eastern multicultural space, ranging from Eastern Europe, Middle East and South Asian countries to the Far East, which has been intrinsically coupled with significant cultural and economic dynamism; however, such diverse and multi-layered areas have also been the subject of all sorts of misrepresentations and misinterpretations. Future trajectory of the Eastern mind-set might provide a basis for the emergence of new civilizations in this new century and new millennium. This section attempts to explore the outcomes of the various encounters between Eastern and Western cultural conventions in relation to literature, arts, social sciences, media studies and other fields, by carefully examining

Teaching the Renaissance Today: Best Practices, Innovation, and Engagement

updated: 
Monday, May 11, 2026 - 11:43am
Renaissance Society of America Conference 11-13 March 2027, Philadelphia
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Whether we teach at an R1 university, liberal arts college, community college, or other institution, our work as scholars depends upon our students. Within the context of generative AI, declining support for the Humanities, and the rapidly changing landscape of higher education, this roundtable places pedagogy at the center by inviting participants to share practical, classroom-tested approaches to teaching the Renaissance at the college level.

CFP: International Doctoral Conference - Silence(d): Illusory Absences and Denied Presences

updated: 
Monday, May 11, 2026 - 9:46am
Department FORLILPSI, University of Florence
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL CONFERENCE

SILENCE(D): ILLUSORY ABSENCES AND DENIED PRESENCES

University of Florence (Italy), 26th-27th October 2026

 

Link to the call for papers (in Italian and English): https://www.dottoratolinletcult.unifi.it/upload/sub/News/CallForPapers_Silcenced_UNIFI%20(1).pdf

 

12th International Language, Literature and Culture Conference “Human, Environment and Ecology”

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:34pm
12th International Language, Literature and Culture Conference “Human, Environment and Ecology”
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 20, 2026

Continuing the interdisciplinary tradition of the International Language, Literature and Culture (LLC) Conference Series, the 12th International Language, Literature and Culture Conference, jointly organized by Çankaya University and Bournemouth University, will be hosted by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Süleyman Demirel University on 21–24 October 2026. Scholars and researchers are cordially invited to contribute to the conference under the theme “Human, Environment and Ecology.”

Speculative Embodiment: Dramaturgical Approaches to Subtext in Shakespeare

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:34pm
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

Speculative Embodiment: Dramaturgical Approaches to Subtext in Shakespeare
Special Session | PAMLA 123rd Annual Conference

Conference Dates: November 12–15, 2026
Location: Hyatt Regency Seattle, 808 Howell St., Seattle, WA 98101
Abstract Deadline: May 25, 2026
Format: In-person only
Session Area: Drama, Theater, and Performance / British and Anglophone
Presiding Officers: Kristen Tregar (Independent Scholar) and Sam Kolodezh (University of California – San Diego)

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