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5th Singapore Literature Conference July 31, 2027
Poetry Festival Singapore (PFS) and the Singapore Literature Conference (SLC) are commemorating ASEAN's 60th anniversary with the theme "Common Ground."
36TH ANNUAL BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES CONFERENCE
MARCH 5-6 2027
GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY ARMSTRONG CAMPUS, SAVANNAH, GA
The BCPS Conference, inaugurated in 1992, is the oldest and longest-running annual meetings of its kind in the U.S. We call for presentations situated in colonial and postcolonial histories, literatures, creative and performing arts, politics, economics, and all other aspects of the countries formerly colonized by Britain and other European powers.
In Asian context, the Cold War has not ended but became an ongoing structural condition that determines the social, political, and economic dimensions of everyday lives. The unresolved nature of the war has also left traces on a personal level, expressing through one's body, psyche, and their intimate relations. The Korean War (1950-present) as a proxy war between the two global superpowers, for example, has been continuing as manifested on multiple levels, and it keeps bringing back the traumatic past into the present while challenging the authoritarian interpretation of the war as "The Forgotten War". This session will discuss Cold War narratives that are written from the vantage point of those who have been living through the imperialist war violence.
Seminar Proposal for Conference 2027
(online: May 15th/16th, 2027)
‘Counter-Futures: Dystopia and the World-Building of Arab Fictions’
Submit your paper proposal here before September 22nd, 2026
This seminar has the dual purpose of exploring the affordances of ‘dystopia’ as a sub-genre of science fiction for writing from the Arab world, and of testing the potency of the term ‘counter-futures’ as a way to identify and explore the political valences of such writing.
Call for Papers | International Conference on Canadian Studies
The Centre for Canadian Studies, Jadavpur University is delighted to invite papers for its upcoming International Conference:
"Medical Humanities in the Anthropocene: Indigeneity, Borders and Justice through Indo-Canadian Perspectives"
3–4 February 2027
Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 November 2026
Folklore is having a moment in South Asian writing, and it isn't a nostalgic one. Novelists, poets, memoirists, playwrights, and graphic novelists across the region and its diaspora keep returning to myth, oral narrative, legend, and vernacular ritual, not to decorate their work with the past, but to think through the pressures of the present: ecological collapse, historical trauma, gendered violence, migration, and a digital, algorithmic world the old tales never anticipated and somehow still speak to.
Call for Papers
Volume 3 Number 2
“Empires’ Echo: Colonial Legacies in Postcolonial South Asia”
Seminar at the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
University of Houston, Houston, Texas
20–23 May 2027 — in person
Marginalised women in South Asia are read for what was done to them, far less often for what they made. This seminar asks what comparative literature can do about that.
Since the publication of Derrida's Specters of Marx (1993) and the resulting growth of Spectrality studies in the past twenty years, much attention has been devoted to literary works that portray a spectral entity that reconfigures the more traditional gothic vision of the ghost, especially in Western Literature. However, in recent years, literary works and scholars alike have responded to this Western bias by envisioning Hauntology as a method for recuperating the stories of marginalized groups. In this view, spectrality can also be employed as a metaphor for social invisibility, a model first expanded by Esther Peeren and Maria Blanco.
War does not end; it migrates even after the guns fall silent, crawling into bodies, landscapes, archives, and the grammar of storytelling itself. This seminar inquires into how societies of South Asia and the Middle East, so often positioned as sites of conflicts rather than as theorists of their aftermath, have produced their own vocabularies for narrating what survives war. Michael Rothberg (2009) argues that memories of distinct historical violence do not compete for scarce recognition but can be mutually constitutive.
European Comic Art invites proposals for a special issue on ‘Francophone Graphic Narratives/Bande dessinée: Authority and Resistance’. This issue will examine how francophone graphic narratives engage with, challenge, and reimagine authority in its many forms – political, cultural, institutional, and aesthetic – and how they forge practices of resistance and dissent.
How does a society remember, preserve, and narrate its past? This proposed two-day
international seminar, “Myth, Orality, and History: Conceptualizing the Past through the Arts
and Cultural Texts,” organised by the Department of English, Panchla Mahavidyalaya in
collaboration with the IQAC, Panchla Mahavidyalaya is a scholarly expedition at exploring
this Daedalian phenomenon. As contemporary interdisciplinary studies have begun to move
beyond conventional archival approaches, this international seminar emphasizes the myriad
of ways in which the past of a nation, culture, group, etc. can be conceptualized, stored, and
reimagined through different mediums such as myths, oral narratives, scriptures, paintings,
Bloomsbury Publishing
Call for Book Chapters
Chapters from scholars of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives will be given preferences
Trees and Environment in Literature and Cinema
Concept Note for Call for Papers LAW, LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND CULTURE: EPISTEMOLOGIES OF JUSTICE
Background
Call for papers, international conference, University of Nantes, 24 and 25 March 2027
The Subversive Work of Gayl Jones Beyond Borders: Rediscovering a “Liberating Voice” of the Black Atlantic World
LAST CALL! EXTENDED DEADLINE! This panel examines how writers challenge dominant structures of authority in/through narratives of sexual violence. Legal and cultural frameworks often dictate how sexual violence is recognized, narrated, and believed, shaping whose stories are legible and whose are dismissed. This session explores how survivors and writers resist these constraints through alternative narrative strategies, fragmentation, silence, poetic form, visual storytelling and more. It attends to how narrative operates as a site of power, shaping not only representation but the conditions under which sexual violence is acknowledged, legitimized, or denied.
Abstract
Beyond the Ocean: Maritime Infrastructure and Hydro-Narratives of Indians under the Raj (Tentative Title)
Concept Note
The imperial ships of the British Raj bore millions of Indian migrants across waterways just the way Charon ferried souls across the river Styx to an irreversible fate. Nonetheless, the Indians transformed the vicious vessels into spaces of radical rebirth and enduring kinship.
The "White World," as defined by Walter Rodney, determines who is white and who is black. To this, we add that the White World also dictates which women are enslaved and which may be free. It is difficult to envision the possibility of women’s liberation in the Global South without the complete dismantling of colonialism and Western imperialism. While women in many post-colonial patriarchal nations are exploited in myriad ways, it is a mistake to imagine that this exploitation—and the patriarchal mentality of the post-colonial world—is not profoundly shaped by Western influence. Many African and South American nations continue to funnel their resources to the West while their own populations suffer from hunger.
The Age of Brutalism: Sacrificial Modernity and the Contemporary Novel
(The edited volume has received an expression of interest from Springer)
Volume Editors:
● Om Prakash Dwivedi, Professor, School of Liberal Arts and Behavioral Sciences, Chandigarh University Uttar Pradesh.
● Madhurima Nayak, Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Arts and Behavioral Sciences, Chandigarh University Uttar Pradesh.
● Arunima Moitra, Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Arts and Behavioral Sciences, Chandigarh University Uttar Pradesh.
Over the last two decades, we have seen a surge of scholarship at the intersection of Food Studies and New Materialist theory. Thinkers like Elspeth Probyn (2000; 2016), Jane Bennett (2010), Annemarie Mol (2021; 2024), and Kyla Wazana Tompkins (2024) explore the diverse ways in which edible matter acts on our bodies, wills, and dispositions, in multilayered entanglements that involve water, minerals, fungi, bacteria, plants, as well as human and nonhuman animals. These material-discursive networks urge us to rethink not only our notions of agency but also our ways of being, knowing, and relating.
An Edited Volume by
Ruchika Hooda
Assistant Professor at Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed to be University), Ambala
Ms. Diksha
Assistant Professor in the Dept. of English at Chandigarh University, Chandigarh
A Volume
Editors
Dr Swastick Sen Chowdhury
Assistant Professor & Head in the Department of Economics, Bhatter College, Dantan (Autonomous)
Dr Supratik Guha
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics at Shahid Matangini Hazra Government General Degree College for Women
To be published under the book series
About the Volume
CFP: 3rd International Interdisciplinary Conference of the Department of English, University of Zululand and the Department of English and Literary Studies, Federal University Wukari, Nigeria
28-30 September 2026
Ongoye, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Re-imagining Language, Writing, and Literature in English in a Fast-Changing World
A newly launched, peer-reviewed, biannual journal in the fields of language, literature, cultural studies, linguistics, ELT, translation, discourse analysis, media studies, gender studies, postcolonial studies, philosophy, history, and the broader humanities is currently accepting original research articles, review articles, theoretical papers, book reviews, and research notes.
There are no submission or publication charges for accepted papers.
Submission guidelines and online submission:
Dystopian fiction is having a moment. Classic dystopian fiction like Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1986) have renewed relevance since the election of Donald Trump in the U.S., while more recent novels like Ali Smith’s Gliff (2024), Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song (the Man Booker winner in 2023), and John Lanchester’s The Wall (2019) describe worlds sliding into totalitarianism post-Brexit. This panel seeks to raise questions about how contemporary Anglophone speculative fiction addresses the current cultural moment and issues like artificial intelligence, immigration and the internet’s dissolution of privacy. Formally, how do 21st century dystopian novels connect science fiction with realism? With magical realism?
Call for Book Chapters (Scopus)
Date Extended till Sep 15, 2026
We are open to all, but preference will be given to international contributors
Disability in Literature and Cinema
Concept Note:
Call for Book Chapters
Expected Publisher: De Gruyter Brill (Scopus Index)
Recovering Marginalised Theatre, Folk Epics and Songs beyond Literary Canons
Kashyap Deepak
Mahatma Gandhi Central University
REMINDER: SEPTEMBER 22 SUBMISSION DEADLINE
American Comparative Literature Association 2027 Annual Meeting
University of Houston
May 20-23
The Poverty of Literature
Organizer:
Gabriel Quigley, University of Victoria (gabrielquigley@uvic.ca)
CALL FOR CHAPTER CONTRIBUTIONS
Gender and Health in South Asia
An Edited Volume
Edited by Dr. Sakshi Srivastava & Dr. Pratyusha Pramanik, Assistant Professors Chandigarh University
Call for Papers
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan has expressed interest in this book project.