international conferences

Lisez l'appel à propositions en français sur le site du CLC: https://www.ualberta.ca/en/literatures-in-canada/2026-conference/index.html

ALECC and CLC 2026 20th Anniversary Conference: Cross-Pollinations

16-20 June, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

CFP: International Conference on French Theory and Contemporary Screen Studies

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

June 11 & 12, 2026

Keynote: Prof. Sarah Cooper (King’s College London)

Deadline for abstracts: 12/01/2026

Applicants notified of acceptance: 12/02/2026

The concepts of migration, identity and belonging are increasingly central to understanding contemporary societies. As people move across borders — whether driven by conflict, economic opportunities, climate change or personal aspirations — migration becomes a transformative force that redefines notions of home, community and identity. This interdisciplinary conference invites scholars, researchers and practitioners from a wide range of fields to explore how migration shapes and reshapes cultural, social and individual identities and how it influences the construction of belonging in different contexts.

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.

Probing Humanities, Positioning Human-(i)-ties: New Paradigms and Shifts in the 21st century 

CONCEPT NOTE

Two-day International Conference

26-27 February 2026

VSES, VIPS-TC

The Faculty of Langagues and Literautre, University of Central Pubjab (UCP), Lahore, Pakistan is organizing its 2nd International Conference on January 8-9, 2026 on the theme of The Second Coming of Humanities. The conference will be hybrid, in-person as well as online. Abstract submission deadline Extended: Nov 10, 2025. 

The annual Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Graduate Student Workshop will be held on Monday, June 16, 2026 (the day before our annual conference begins) at the DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois.

Petrocultures 2026: Situating Energy

TUD Dresden University of Technology

Aug 26-28, 2026

Submission Deadline for Abstracts: December 31, 2025

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Alexander A. Dunlap (Boston University), Jordan B. Kinder (NYU Steinhardt), Kathryn Yusoff (Queen Mary University of London)

The Seventh International Deleuze and Guattari Studies in India Collective (DGSIC) Conference 

February 25-28, 2026

“Culture without Organs (CWO): Machinic Thought, Transdisciplinary Assemblages, and Cartographies of Difference”

Organized by

Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

in collaboration with

Deleuze and Guattari Studies in India Collective (DGSIC)

The Mind and the Machine: Mental Disability and Technology

George Washington University (GWU) English Graduate Student Association Symposium

Friday, 20 March, 2026

This virtual symposium invites papers that explore how mental disability and technology intersect in literature, film, and media.

By mental disability, we include conditions such as mental illness, neurodivergence, emotional distress, and psychological differences as represented across cultures.

By technology, we refer broadly to scientific, digital, or mechanical systems (such as medical instruments, typewriters, social media, surveillance systems, and artificial intelligence).

We live in a time marked by uncertainty, yet such historical junctures are not unprecedented. The 1980s likewise represented a period of profound instability and transition across multiple regions. In Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, this decade culminated in the fall of socialism, while in China it witnessed the transformation of Maoism into what became known as “socialism with Chinese characteristics.” These developments reoriented all the societies in question from relative cultural isolation to increasingly market-oriented and globally integrated economies in the 1990s.

Keynote Speakers: Michele Aaron (University of Warwick) and Jean-Baptiste Thoret (Université
de Poitiers)

Paper proposals are welcome on any aspect of Hardy’s life, work, and legacy for the Twenty-Seventh International Hardy Conference and Festival (Dorchester, Dorset, UK; July 25th—August 1st 2026). Significant Hardy anniversaries in 2026 include the 150th anniversary of The Hand of Ethelberta, the 140th anniversary of The Mayor of Casterbridge, the 120th anniversary of The Dynasts (Part 2), and the 110th anniversary of Selected Poems. Proposals for papers on any of these anniversary texts are especially welcome.

Papers should be planned for delivery times of a maximum of 20 minutes (approximately 2000 words).

Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) Sponsored Workshop on 

Precarity and Human Life: Reflections of Artificial Intelligence in Literature and Popular Culture 2.0

Date: 15th-19th December 2025

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences