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Motion Lines: Depicting movement in the early 20th century
18 Nov. 2026, Université Paris Nanterre
As its title indicates, this seminar will take a broad geographic and temporal view of the Harlem or New Negro Renaissance to invite considerations of the historicity and historiography of Black writing at the turn of the twentieth century. Seminar participants will be invited to consider how history shaped and was shaped by Black art, literature, and thought in the period stretching from approximately the end of Reconstruction through the Civil Rights era. How did Black writers, artists, and thinkers use historical concepts, forms, narratives, figures, events, philosophies, discourses, and other materials to craft original works of art and literature?
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (1925) remains a cornerstone of the modernist literary canon. Often celebrated as Woolf’s greatest novel, the plot is set in post-World War I London and revolves around a single day in the life of its protagonist, Mrs Clarissa Dalloway, as she prepares to host an evening party. Beneath its seemingly simple plot, the novel exemplifies a profound exploration of consciousness, time, and the inner lives of characters through its extensive use of the stream-of-consciousness technique. Although narrated in a third-person omniscient voice, the narrative primarily focuses on the inner consciousness of the characters.
The Australasian Modernist Studies Network and Modernist Studies in Asia present
JOINT AMSN / MSIA BIANNUAL CONFERENCE
NOVEMBER 19-21, 2026
Conference website: https://adelaide.edu.au/about/events/2026/joint-amsn-msia-conference/#ta...
INTOXICATING MODERNISM
Death and the Chatbot: The Thanatology of Artificial Intelligence
Editors:
Robert Spinelli (rspinelli@ncis.org); Kaylee Alexander (kaylee.alexander@utah.edu); Justina Sumilova (justina.sumilova@protonmail.com)
Abstract:
Anglica Wratislaviensia 65.2/2027
Anglica Wratislaviensia invites scholarly submissions for its forthcoming issue, which focuses on Anglophone literary and cultural studies and related interdisciplinary fields. While the journal's scope encompasses linguistics, translation studies, and language teaching methodology, this issue welcomes contributions in literary and cultural studies specifically. We seek rigorous, critically engaged work that brings together diverse critical traditions and perspectives from around the world. Comparative and methodologically innovative contributions are particularly welcome.
Submission Guidelines
20th Century Southern Women Writers Conference
presented by the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society
October 15-18, 2026Springfield, Kentucky
The committee for the 49th annual UBC AHVA Graduate Symposium invites graduate students to submit abstracts that reflect upon, investigate, or challenge the theme of “perspective,” across all of its diverse meanings. We will be joined by Dr. Amy Knight Powell, Chair of the Art History Department at the University of Southern California, as our keynote speaker.
Three peer seminars are lined up for the 2026 meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society in St. Louis, from 25-27 September.
They are:
Four Quartets, led by Christina Lambert
The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 is accepting manuscripts for our 2027 and 2028 issues. This peer-reviewed journal is devoted to interdisciplinary scholarship on the period bracketed by the two World Wars. We are interested in approaches to texts of all kinds, emphasizing research on lesser-known writers and artists and understudied topics of the period, including literary and cultural responses to the First and Second World Wars.
James Kelman at 80
Conference, Spring 2027, Glasgow
Special Issue: Journal of Modern Periodical Studies: Wartime Periodicals
Co-edited by Sarah Cornish, Paula Derdiger, and Amanda Sigler
Special Issue: The Subject and its Estrangements
‘The wounds of the Spirit heal, and leave no scars behind.’ Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit
Motion Lines: Depicting movement in the early 20th century
18 Nov. 2026, Université Paris Nanterre
Abstracts are invited for a traditional panel session to be held at the annual meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, scheduled for 5-7 November 2026 at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel and Conference Center, Atlanta, GA, USA.
This session intends to explore the theme of “hospitality” in the works of Joseph Conrad in order to highlight how Conrad’s relationships both reflected and influenced his literary output throughout his career. Some relationships were more enduring than others, but all had an impact, often a profound impact, on his life and writing.
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
– Franz Kafka, letter to Oskar Pollak, 27th January 1904
We are delighted to announce that Errant is now open for submissions to its fifth issue.
CFP:
Actors, Acting, and Activism: Performing Eugene O’Neill’s Plays
International Conference for PhD Students and Young Researchers
UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI
6-7 OCTOBER 2026
«Maligno animo et lingua detractoria»:
the Art of Slander from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age
Textual Embodiments: Remediating Meaning Across the Disciplines
Rome Link Campus University, September 11-12, 2026
2026 Pacific Ancient Modern Langauges Association (November 12-15) in person in Seattle
"I Think I'm Gonna Die in this House": Spatiality and Class in Film & Literature
submission link:
https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/20015
Abstract:
Modernist Nationalisms Conference
St John’s College, University of Oxford
Thursday 10th September 2026
Rethinking Europe–Japan Relations, 1868–1913: An Interdisciplinary Unconference
Organized by the Europe-Japan Bilaterology Research Hub
Date: 19–20 September (Saturday–Sunday) 2026
Venue: Székesfehérvár (near Budapest), Hungary
About EJBR
AbstractThis session welcomes contributions on the topic of literary, philosophical, or intellectual influences between any of the members of the Inklings, especially between J.R.R. Tolkien and Owen Barfield, and the robustness of those claims. Verlyn Flieger’s assertion in Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World, that the languages of Middle-earth developed just as Barfield says human languages do in real life, is perhaps the model of influence, and is well known, respected, and analyzed. But Flieger's argument remains almost entirely circumstantial.
“Virginia Woolf: Sound and Rhythm in Translation”, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE VIRGINIA WOOLFISTANBUL, TURKEY deadline for submissions: April 30, 2026 full name / name of organization: 35th International Conference Virginia Woolf
https://www.bilgi.edu.tr/en/academic/virginia-woolf-conference-2026/ contact email: woolftranssound26@gmail.com
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
35th International Conference Virginia Woolf
Open Forum “Virginia Woolf: Sound and Rhythm in Translation”, Istambul, Jun 24-Jun 28, 2026
1956 was a year of theatrical milestones. Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night was published posthumously while The Diary of Anne Frank won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. And, of course, the American Society for Theatre Research was founded. O’Neill’s meditation on troubled family dynamics and addiction would go on to win the Pulitzer in 1957. The previous year, the Pulitzer went to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a Tennessee Williams play about alcoholism and (potentially) sublimated queer desire. In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry became the first Black woman to have a play produced on Broadway when A Raisin in the Sun premiered.
Seeking on papers about opacity in contemporary literature and art for a panel at ASAP (Association for the Study of Arts of the Present) 2026 Convention. Please send an abstract and a short bio to Sané Bhattarai (bhattsan@gvsu.edu) or Moya (Moyang) Li (moyang.li@csulb.edu) by April 24.
How does the novel resist? Both as an action (movement, predicate) and as a form (structure, construction) how does the novel as a genre engage in resistance? Of what, too, is the novel resistant? Studies of the novel have long emphasized the genre’s capacity to control and coerce, as in the work of D. A. Miller and Nancy Armstrong, to name a couple. This panel instead invites papers that approach the novel as a resistant structure and a form of resistance. What might it mean to read the novel not as an instrument of control, but as a site of formal, aesthetic, or material resistance?
The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Call for Papers for Volume 9
The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual is the leading venue for the critical reassessment of Eliot’s life and work in light of the ongoing publication of his letters, critical volumes of his complete prose, the 2015 edition of his complete poems, and the forthcoming critical edition of his plays.
All critical approaches are welcome, as are essays pertaining to any aspect of Eliot’s work as a poet, critic, playwright, editor, foremost exemplar of modernism, or his influence on twentieth-century and contemporary literature and culture.
The Poetics of Liminality: The Poet and the State
Consciousness, War, Exile, and the In-Between
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) 2026
Conference Dates: October 8–10, 2026
Location: Marriott Courtyard, Ogden, Utah
Contact: stacy.stingle@gmail.com
The Charles Olson Society will sponsor panels at the Re-Viewing Black Mountain College Conference, to take place in Asheville, North Carolina, October 2-4. 2026 marks the Centenary of poet Robert Creeley’s birth, and the Charles Olson Society will welcome abstracts pertaining to any aspect of Creeley’s life and work. Creeley was a central poet in the development of Black Mountain Poetry, and along with his life-long friend and companion in verse, Charles Olson, Creeley greatly influenced the development of American poetics after World War II. As he said, “I write to realize the world as one has come to live in it, thus to give testament. I write to move in words, a human delight. I write when no other act is possible.”