international conferences

Welty's Dissident Spaces Panel at Conference of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature (March 28-31, 2026 at Fisk University in Nashville, TN)

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:49am
Eudora Welty Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 5, 2025

Welty's Dissident Spaces

Panel at Conference of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature (March 28-31, 2026 at Fisk University in Nashville, TN)

Co-coordinated by Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Mae Miller Claxton, & Rebecca L. Harrison

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).

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

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:48am
Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada | Centre for Literatures in Canada
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

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

Call for Proposals - Undergraduate Studies - PCA 2026

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:48am
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Undergraduate students are invited to submit a proposal for presentation at the 2026 Popular Culture Association Annual Conference. Presentation proposals should consist of a 250-to-300 word abstract or summary of your presentation topic which can include any topic as long as it covers some aspect of popular culture, American culture, or international culture.

International Conference: French Theory and Contemporary Screen Studies

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:41am
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 12, 2026

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

 

International Conference on Postcolonial Studies: “Trajectories and Transitions of (Post)Colonialism”

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:39am
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 20, 2026

The conference will explore the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies and it will focus on the impact colonialism had on political, social, economic and cultural domains. It will examine various forms of colonial domination and control as well as theories and practices of resistance.

"Migrating World": International Conference on Migration, Identity and Belonging

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:39am
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 20, 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.

Slayage 11 Conference

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:04am
Association for the Study of Buffy+
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ and the Association for the Study of Buffy+ invite proposals for the eleventh biennial Slayage Conference (SC11). Devoted to creative works and workers of the ‘fuzzy set’ surrounding Buffy the Vampire Slayer, SC11 will be held on the campus of Illinois State University in Normal Illinois, 9-12 July 2026.

"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.

Intersection of Literature and Management: Decoding Leadership through Literary Heroes

updated: 
Saturday, October 25, 2025 - 12:51am
School of Liberal Arts, ASBM University,
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

 

Call For Papers| ASBM Literary Seminar 2026: Intersection of Literature and Management: Decoding Leadership through Literary Heroes

17th January, 2026

IMPORTANT DEADLINES AND DATES:

Abstract Submission: 30th November, 2025

Full Paper Submission: 10th December, 2025

Registration: 15th December, 2025

Seminar Date: 17th January, 2025

Publication: As per the selection process, papers will be published in one of the following: 

JOYCE’S “WORLD OF WORDS”

updated: 
Friday, October 24, 2025 - 6:50am
The James Joyce Italian Foundation
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 9, 2025

The XVIII James Joyce Italian Foundation Conference in Rome

 

Joyce’s “World of Words”

 

Conference Dates: 4-6 February 2026

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: November 9, 2025

SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS WILL BE NOTIFIED BY

NOVEMBER 30, 2025

  

Keynote speakers:

▪       Declan Kiberd, University of Notre Dame

▪       Annalisa Volpone, University of Perugia

 

The Second Coming of Humanities: 2nd International Conference on Literature, Linguistics, and Language

updated: 
Thursday, October 23, 2025 - 1:59am
University of Central Punjab (UCP), Lahore, Pakistan
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 10, 2025

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. 

DEADLINE EXTENDED: IRCL Special Issue — “Crossing Borders, Shifting Selves”

updated: 
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 - 10:27pm
International Research in Children’s Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

The recent IRSCL 2025 Congress, titled “Borders, Migration, and Liminality in Children’s Literature,” held in Salamanca (Spain), offered a unique opportunity to examine these themes from a multiplicity of perspectives — literary, aesthetic, cultural, linguistic and pedagogical. Building on the dialogues initiated at the congress, this Special Issue invites contributions that explore how children’s and young adult literature (and related media) negotiate, represent, and theorize experiences of migration and border-crossing, and how they open up liminal spaces for the redefinition of childhood in a changing world.

2026 Law, Culture, and the Humanities Graduate Student Workshop

updated: 
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 - 4:17pm
Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (LCH)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 31, 2026

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.

2026 Law, Culture, and the Humanities Conference Call for Papers

updated: 
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 - 4:14pm
Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (LCH)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Every year, the Association holds it annual conference, usually a two-day affair, as well as a graduate student workshop, usually held the day before the annual conference. The 2026 annual meeting will be held at the DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois from June 17-18th.

Uprooted Law: Reflecting on the Origins and Outgrowths of Law

Petrocultures 2026: Situating Energy

updated: 
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 - 4:13pm
TU Dresden
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

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)

Comics and Machines Conference 2026

updated: 
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 - 4:08pm
Echo Chamber, Uppsala University & Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

Call for Papers and Talks
Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm & Uppsala University, Sweden

22-23 April, 2026

Comics and Machines 

Steering Committee:

Jan Baetens, Jaqueline Berndt, Jan von Bonsdorff, Gareth Brookes, Benoît Crucifix, Björn-Olav Dozo, Anna Foka, Isabelle Gribomont, Andre Holzapfel, Per Israelson, Gaëtan Le Coarer, Ilan Manouach, Pedro Moura, Everardo Reyes, Keith Tillford, Ray Whitcher

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

updated: 
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 - 4:07pm
Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India in collaboration with Deleuze and Guattari Studies in India Collective (DGSIC)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

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)

GW EGSA 2026 Symposium – The Mind and the Machine: Mental Disability and Technology

updated: 
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 - 1:30pm
George Washington University (GWU) English Graduate Student Association Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

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).

American Shorts 2026

updated: 
Saturday, October 18, 2025 - 1:11pm
SSASS/ULICES (Society for the Study of the American Short Story/ University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

“American Shorts 2026” will take place on October 29-31, 2026, at the School of Arts & Humanities of the University of Lisbon, Portugal.

 

American Shorts 2026 webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/americanshorts2026

Submission deadline: 10 June, 2026

Conference: 29-31 October, 2026

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

 

Deadline Extended - Eastern Noir: Soviet, Eastern European, and Chinese Cinema in the 1980s

updated: 
Friday, October 17, 2025 - 8:04am
National University of Singapore
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 14, 2025

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.

Gender and money, the gender of money and the money of gender

updated: 
Thursday, October 16, 2025 - 1:08pm
Université Bretagne Sud
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 16, 2025

Call for paper

International Interdisciplinary Conference

 

University of South Brittany March 12-13, 2026

HCTI and TEMOS Laboratories

 

Gender and money, the gender of money and the money of gender

 

The Twenty-Seventh International Hardy Conference and Festival

updated: 
Thursday, October 16, 2025 - 1:07pm
Thomas Hardy Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 16, 2026

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).

Poetry's Environments

updated: 
Friday, October 10, 2025 - 11:21am
Poetry@Leeds (University of Leeds)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 5, 2025

Poetry’s Environments  (June 9-11 2026)

Poetry shapes and transforms experiences and attitudes toward nature and ecology, just as the natural environment maps the poetic imagination. Poetry roots itself in the environment of the breath, the voice, the hand, and the ear. It roams over pages of books and across digital, computational, performative, archival, monumental, and ephemeral landscapes. Poetry emerges and resides in institutional and ad hoc ecosystems, and it sounds and senses within and without the body of the poet, the audience, the blade of grass.

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

updated: 
Friday, October 10, 2025 - 11:21am
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, In association with University of Toronto, Canada; University of Northampton UK; Aarhus University, Denmark; University of York, England
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

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

ELLAK 2026 International Conference: The End

updated: 
Friday, October 10, 2025 - 11:21am
The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 8, 2026

ELLAK 2026 International Conference

The End: Reclaiming the Beginning

 

Dates: December 17–19, 2026
Venue: Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea
Host: The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK)

Keynote Speakers

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