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Collection: Trauma and Healing in African and Afrodiasporic Literature

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 3:57pm
Paul M. Mukundi & Traci D. Williams
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 28, 2026

Across the African continent and its global diasporas, trauma reverberates through histories of slavery, colonialism, racial capitalism, gendered violence, war, migration, and displacement. However, African and Afrodiasporic writers and artists have not only transformed experiences of pain into sites of creativity, survival, and healing but also reflected in their works the use of African approaches to restoration. This edited volume seeks to explore the ways in which trauma is reconstituted, managed, borne, and cured in African and Afrodiasporic literature and cultural expressions.

The Novel of Ideas in American Fiction

updated: 
Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 10:34pm
Jonathan Bayliss Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 19, 2026

ALA 2026: The Novel of Ideas in American Fiction

ALA Annual Conference (May 20-23, Chicago, IL)

Politics in American Fiction

updated: 
Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 10:34pm
Jonathan Bayliss Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

ALA 2026: Politics in American Fiction

ALA Annual Conference (May 20-23, Chicago, IL)

Scholarship at the End of the World: Approaches to the (post)Anthropocene in Theory and Practice

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 10:59am
Theory Theater Performance, Indiana University, Bloomington
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Abstract 

The “end of the world” names a methodological problem before it names an apocalypse: how do humanities scholars and artist-researchers think, make, and teach when climate disruption, extinction, extractive infrastructures, forced displacement, and slow violence reformat what counts as evidence, what counts as futurity, and what counts as responsibility? This conference convenes research and practice across film, theatre, performance, and allied arts to ask how (post)Anthropocene conditions are not only represented but produced, felt, and negotiated through aesthetic forms, production systems, embodied publics, and more-than-human milieus. 

4th National Conference of Translators

updated: 
Sunday, January 4, 2026 - 8:04am
Sri Sri Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies, Sri Sri University, Cuttack, Odisha and Bharatiya Anuvaad Sahitya
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 12, 2026

4th National Conference of Translators

organised by

Sri Sri Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies,

Sri Sri University, Cuttack, Odisha

and

Bharatiya Anuvaad Sahitya

2nd and 3rd February 2026

 

Gender, Authority, and Trust in the United States /Workshop and Edited Collection, July 10-11, 2026, in Heidelberg, Germany

updated: 
Sunday, January 4, 2026 - 8:04am
Heidelberg Center for American Studies / University of Heidelberg, Germany
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 31, 2026

In recent decades, research on authority and trust in the US has seen a considerable increase across various disciplines (cf. Leypoldt and Berg 2021). However, in comparison, there has been much less scholarship on aspects of gender since Anette Baier dedicated her influential 1994 collection of essays Moral Prejudices on trust (and related issues)to her “women students, past, present, and future.” Our workshop addresses this lacuna, both from a theoretical perspective, and in the light of current cultural, social, and political developments in the US, and of (once again) contested definitions of gender(ed) identities, practices, performances, and ethics.

Re-thinking Trauma: Cinema, Performance, and Mediation - International Conference

updated: 
Sunday, January 4, 2026 - 8:04am
Ekphrasis Center for Transdisciplinary, Liberal Arts and Creative Technologies Research
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 3, 2026

Re-thinking Trauma: Cinema, Performance, and Mediation - International Conference
Ekphrasis Center for Transdisciplinary, Liberal Arts and Creative Technologies Research

 Department of Theatre and Film, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2nd to 4th of September 2026

 

Trauma theory emerged within a historical and conceptual framework that assumed relatively stable relations between experience, representation, and witnessing (as an ethical and narrative position). Questions of testimony, narrative rupture, belatedness (the delayed emergence of traumatic meaning), and symbolic mediation shaped the field’s core vocabulary and continue to frame contemporary trauma research.

The State of the Unions

updated: 
Tuesday, February 17, 2026 - 8:11am
The 28th Annual University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 28, 2026

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 28TH

 

The University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group Conference presents:

The 28th Annual University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group Conference

The State of the Unions

April 23rd-25th, Gainesville (FL)

Keynote speakers: Sianne Ngai, Anna Kornbluh

Nicole LaRose Alumni Keynote Speaker: Ryan Kerr

 

QUEER: PRESENT! VISIBILITY THROUGH THE BODY

updated: 
Thursday, January 1, 2026 - 5:32pm
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 28, 2026

QUEER: PRESENT! VISIBILITY THROUGH THE BODY
International Conference

25-26 June 2026

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
Faculty of Philosophy

2026 International Postgraduate Comparative Literature Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, March 4, 2026 - 5:12am
The University of Hong Kong
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

The 2026 International Postgraduate Comparative Literature Conference (IPCLC 2026), hosted by the Master of Arts in Literary and Cultural Studies (MALCS) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), brings together postgraduate students and emerging scholars from Hong Kong and beyond for a day of cross-cultural conversation. Taking place in person at HKU on May 26, 2026, the conference offers a supportive forum for sharing work in progress, building scholarly networks, and testing new comparative methods across literary, cultural, and media studies. Featuring themed panels, a keynote lecture, and Best Paper Award(s), IPCLC 2026 invites participants to consider how comparison can sharpen our understanding of urgent questions in the humanities.

The Inaugural International Women’s Writing Association Conference

updated: 
Thursday, January 1, 2026 - 5:22pm
International Women's Writing Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 17, 2026

 

Wednesday 17th to Friday 19th June 2026

Falmouth University, UK

 

This in-person conference will launch the new International Women’s Writing Association (IWWA), offering a global celebration of women’s writing in all its forms, mediums, and expressions at the gorgeous Woodlane campus in Falmouth, Cornwall.

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