online conferences

Emerging Voices – Testing Ideas in Research on Hong Kong (Postgraduate Lightning Talks)

updated: 
Monday, December 8, 2025 - 12:50pm
Hong Kong Cultures, Arts and Languages Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 27, 2026

Call for Papers

Spark: HKCAL Postgraduate Lightning Talks

Theme: Emerging Voices – Testing Ideas in Research on Hong Kong

Date: 5-6 June 2026 (online)

The Hong Kong Cultures, Arts and Languages (HKCAL) Research Network invites submissions for Spark: HKCAL Postgraduate Lightning Talks, to be held on 12-13 June 2026.

12th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education

updated: 
Monday, December 8, 2025 - 9:53am
Eurasia Conferences
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Call for Abstracts: 12th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education

Dates: May 18 - 19, 2026

Venue: ARCOTEL Wimberger Wien, Neubaugürte, 34-36, 1070, Vienna, Austria

CPD Accreditation

As a Certified CPD Accredited Provider (Provider Number #785414), this conference offers 18 CPD credit hours, providing attendees with valuable recognition for their professional development. Verification is available at https://thecpdregister.com/view/eurasia-conferences-816429.

2026 Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Annual Conference: Oppositions

updated: 
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 - 4:01pm
Cultural Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 19, 2025

2026 Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Annual Conference: Oppositions

May 28 - 30, 2026

Fully Online

Deadline for Submissions: Friday, December 19, 2025

ICSSR Sponsored Two-day International Conference on Myth, History and Tradition in Drama and Theatre

updated: 
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 - 1:44pm
Central University of Karnataka, Dept. of English
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Drama and theatre have long served as dynamic mediums through which societies narrate their myths, record their histories, and preserve traditions. The interplay of myth, history, and tradition shapes the content and form of dramatic expression, influencing storytelling techniques, character archetypes, and performance styles across different cultures and time periods.

Liberty, Justice, and Independence between France and its Former Colonial Countries

updated: 
Friday, November 28, 2025 - 9:27pm
The graduate students of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 12, 2025

Today, all countries that were colonized by France have gained their independence, yet discussions about its legacy continue. Many films, documentaries, literary works, speeches, and critical writings contribute to the ongoing conversation about liberty and justice in relation to independence. A 2024 documentary produced by Wandrille Lanos, titled Haïti, la rançon de l'indépendance, explores how liberty and justice were interpreted during Haiti’s struggle for independence. From September 22 to 26, 2025, during the United Nations General Debate at the 80th Session, the current president of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, argued that colonization should be recognized as one of the greatest crimes against humanity.

Performing Oppositions

updated: 
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 - 3:06pm
The Performance Working Group of the Cultural Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 19, 2025

Call for Papers: Performing Oppositions

Oppositions
Cultural Studies Association (CSA) 2026 Annual Conference

May 28-30, 2026

Fully Online

Deadline for Submissions: Friday, December 19, 2025

Registration

IMoRI 2025 PhD Research Showcase in Intermedial Studies (Online, 5 Dec | Rapid Review)

updated: 
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 - 3:05pm
3rd International Meeting of Researchers in Intermediality
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

PhD students are invited to submit proposals for a 10‑minute presentation of their thesis project (or other ongoing research) for the inaugural PhD Research Showcase at the 3rd International Meeting of Researchers of Intermediality (IMoRI 2025), held online on 4–5 December 2025. The PhD Research Showcase will take place on Friday, 5 December, 12:15–14:15 CET (UTC+1). IMoRI is traditionally an invitation‑only forum for established scholars. This special session opens the door for emerging researchers to present their work to—and receive feedback from—leading figures in intermedial studies. IMoRI 2025 features panels organized by major research units in the field, two expert roundtables, and will close with a conversation with Prof.

Margins, Metaphor, and Medium: Subaltern Voices in East Asia

updated: 
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 - 3:01pm
McGill Graduate Students’ Society for East Asian Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 5, 2026

In an increasingly globalized yet hierarchically structured world, the questions of whose voices

are heard, and through what forms of representation, have never been more urgent. Within global

academic and cultural discourses, East Asian perspectives continue to negotiate their positions, seeking

to assert and articulate their own voices rather than being defined through dominant paradigms of

knowledge and interpretation.

 

We are pleased to invite submissions for the upcoming graduate symposium, “Margins,

International T. S. Eliot Society Un-Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 - 3:01pm
International T. S. Eliot Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

The International T. S. Eliot Society’s hosting a two-day, virtual symposium open to all members free of charge (registration is required, please see information below). Rather than a traditional conference featuring several panels of 20-minute scholarly presentations, this symposium will consist of two ninety-minute sessions (one each day) that will emphasize discovery and conversation while promoting work in progress and community. The first session, on Thursday, March 5 (at 10 a.m. EST), will feature 5-minute presentations and discussion about newly published primary materials; the second session, on Friday, March 6 (at 10 a.m. EST), will provide an opportunity for participants to get feedback on works in progress.

God Rest Ye Scary Gentlemen: The Jolly Misanthrope and Victorian Christmas.

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 6:11pm
West of Canon Press
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 16, 2025

God Rest Ye Scary Gentlemen: The Jolly Misanthrope and Victorian Christmas.  Learn about the happiest time of the year, and the old men who love nothing better than to shit all over it. From Scrooge to Sherlock Holmes, what’s with confirmed bachelors and Christmas? An irreverent and illuminating romp through 19th Century Victorian Christmas, its origins in older traditions, Oliver Cromwell, how it became an institution worldwide, and how one cantankerous old man really ties the whole thing together!  This lecture will be a rollicking and intellectual hour and thirty minutes WITH a ten minute bathroom break.  Bring your humbugs, we’ll be breaking out the turkey dinners and coals! Ninety minutes of holiday cheer. 

THE HAUNTING OF AMBROSE MANOR: A ONE-OF-A-KIND IMMERSIVE WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 6:11pm
West of Canon Press
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 20, 2025

Whether you have a chapbook coming up or want to start a new one, need a seedling idea for a novel or a first draft of a novelette, a play, a series of artistic sketches (note: sub the word writing with art every time we use it,) we have a one of a kind experience to make your writing take shape. A concentrated, transformative, and FUN experience to break your patterns and look at your writing in a different light! Writing does NOT have be a boring, grating “icebreaker” type deal.

Communism in Historical Fiction

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 12:30pm
H/Story Research Group
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

3rd International H/Story Seminar

 

Communism in Historical Fiction

02.04.2026

online

 

University of Silesia in Katowice
Institute of Literary Studies
H/Story Research Group

 

 

Gaming Across Boundaries: Interactive Technology in Education and Culture

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:23pm
UK Gaines Center for the Humanities Research Cooperative - Digital Pedagogies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 2, 2026

Despite the outsized influence of technology on everyday cultural practices and classrooms, its role has never been more contested. Indeed, even in the case that such practices are not digitized, our societal roles are increasingly governed by systemic expectations, rules, and algorithms. These expectations create hierarchies, enforce boundaries, and classify individuals and their work.

Heavy Childhoods Conference

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 2:59pm
University of Huddersfield, Dr Ruth Barratt-Peacock
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

After an enriching interdisciplinary conference in 2025, Heavy Childhoods 2026 will run under the title “Curating Future Nostalgia in Heavy Times”

Seeking Panelists | Translating Modernities: Language, Selfhood, and Literary Futures in Asia

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 2:58pm
AAS-in-Asia
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 13, 2025

Translating Modernities: Language, Selfhood, and Literary Futures in Asia

This proposed panel explores how modernities across Asia have been shaped not only through contact with the West but through acts of translation-linguistic, cultural, and epistemic-within and across Asian languages. It asks how writers and thinkers, negotiating between vernaculars and global idioms, forged new vocabularies of selfhood and community that redefined what it meant to be "modern."

Call for Proposals: AAALS 2026 Virtual Seminar Series

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 2:54pm
American Association of Australasian Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 2, 2026

The American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) invites proposals for a Virtual Seminar Series held during the month of June 2026 over Zoom. This seminar series will take place in lieu of the 2026 AAALS conference.

 

Seminars can be of two types:A) panel or B) roundtable. Panels can have between 2 to 3 speakers. Roundtables can have 4 to 5 speakers.

 

NEW DIRECTIONS IN NARRATOLOGY

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 2:19am
Kewin Anten Raj / PG Department of English, St. Joseph’s College of Arts & Science (Autonomous)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

MIRROR 2025

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

NEW DIRECTIONS IN NARRATOLOGY

Organised by
PG Department of English, St. Joseph’s College of Arts & Science (Autonomous), Manjakuppam, Cuddalore.

Date    : 12th December 2025, Friday
Time    : 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
Venue  : St. Joseph’s College of Arts & Science (Autonomous), Cuddalore.

Mode   : Offline and Online presentations are accepted.

Key Note Speakers:

Dr. S. Samuel Rufus, PhD
Associate Professor of English
& Dean, International Programmes
Madras Christian College (Autonomous), Chennai, India.

Unwrapping Christmas Through Arts-Based Research: A Transdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, November 4, 2025 - 6:17pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 9, 2025

Unwrapping Christmas Through Arts-Based Research: A Transdisciplinary Conference

Proposal Submission Deadline: November 9, 2025

Conference Dates: December 8-9, 2025
Location: online

Fees: £100 (non-members)

Call for Papers

Their Eyes were Watching Words: Publishing, Editing, and Censorship

updated: 
Monday, November 3, 2025 - 3:33pm
Bethune-Cookman University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 11, 2026

The College of Arts and Humanities at Bethune-Cookman University welcomes proposals for the annual Zora Neale Hurston Conference, which will be held virtually on February 12-13, 2026. “Their Eyes were Watching Words: Publishing, Editing, and Censorship” is a tribute to Hurston’s skilled navigation of the complex world of publishing and censorship. Our invited speakers this year are Roxane Gay and Dana Williams.

You are invited to submit scholarly, pedagogical, or creative proposals exploring any of the following:

The Hidden Faces of Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Abuse, Trauma, and Resistance (November 28-29, 2025)

updated: 
Thursday, October 30, 2025 - 6:21pm
Konstantina Kliagkona (KN: Forensic, Literature, Arts & Media Studies/ Independent Researcher, Freelancer EFL, Criminology Teacher, & Offender Profiler)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Online, international, interdisciplinary conference titled:

 

The Hidden Faces of Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Abuse, Trauma, and Resistance

Dates of Conference: November 28-29, 2025

 

CLiC Into Place: Literatures of the Local

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:51am
Contemporary Literary Cultures Research Group
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

CLiC Into Place: Literatures of the Local (University of Worcester, 5th May 2026)

“None of these things is happening here. They are all happening far away, elsewhere.
But they may as well be, Iris says. What does here mean anyway, I’d like to know. Everywhere’s a here, isn’t it?”

― Ali Smith, Winter

 

BSLS Winter Symposium: Alternate Histories of the Body

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:50am
British Society for Literature and Science
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 21, 2025

In recent years, diverse fields related to literature and science studies, such as the medical humanities, critical neurodiversity studies, and the study of the haptic, have been re-evaluating the human body, its histories, and the impact of those histories today. At the same time, fields such as feminist theory, critical race theory, trans studies, and disability studies have deployed embodied perspectives to re-evaluate how we understand history and historical narratives.

2026 Virtual Symposium: Beauty and the Sublime in Gestation and Coming into Being: Art and the Aesthetics of Pregnancy and Birth

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:48am
Society for the Study of Pregnancy and Birth (SSPRB)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

Call for Papers
Beauty and the Sublime in Gestation and Coming into Being:
Art and the Aesthetics of Pregnancy and Birth

2026 Virtual Symposium of the Society for the Study of Pregnancy and Birth 
June 4-5, 2026​
Co-Keynote Speakers: Lauren Bice, DNP, CRNA and Sheila Lintott, PhD 
 The Society for the Study of Pregnancy and Birth (SSPRB) is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for its second international virtual symposium, Beauty and the Sublime in Gestation and Coming into Being: Art and the Aesthetics of Pregnancy and Birth, a virtual event that will take place online across two half day sessions on June 4th and June 5th, 2026 (to facilitate participation across time zones).

"Forgotten voices. Holocaust Memories Through the Perspective of Minorities" International Conference, vol. 2

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:04am
Jagiellonian University in Kraków
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 20, 2025

The CEMORY project team at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations) invites Participants to join the "Forgotten Voices. Holocaust Memories Through the Perspective of Minorities" International Conference.

The "Forgotten voices. Holocaust Memories Through the Perspective of Minorities" International Conference is organised under the auspices of the “Central European Memory of the Holocaust in a Multicultural and Multidimensional Perspective” [CEMORY] project funded by the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV).

"Forgotten Voices" Conference, vol. 2 will be held on 17–18 April 2026 online using the MS Teams platform.

Hindu Approaches to Dialogue

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:04am
Network of Hinduism in Dialogue
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Call for Papers

Online Symposium 

“Hindu Approaches to Dialogue”

 

 

Date: 18 and 19 April 2026

 

Network of Hinduism in Dialogue is organising an interdisciplinary online symposium to encourage and explore research focused on dialogue in the Hindu traditions. The keynote speaker will be Diwakar Acharya, Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at the University of Oxford. 

 

Shapes of Dystopia: Literary Imaginings and Social Realities Across Media

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:01am
University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 16, 2026

Shapes of Dystopia:Literary Imaginings and Social Realities Across Media

January 16, 2026, Rzeszów, Poland (Hybrid Formula) 

“Refusal(s) and Kurdish Literature”

updated: 
Saturday, October 25, 2025 - 1:32pm
University of Connecticut
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Call for Papers

“Refusal(s) and Kurdish Literature”

21–22 May 2026

Virtual Conference hosted by the University of Connecticut  

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