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,

Institute of Literature and New Media at the University of Szczecin, Poland

invites you to take part in the international academic conference

on the 160th anniversary of the birth and 85th anniversary of the death of the author

Elizabeth von Arnim and Pomerania

6-7 June 2026

The writing of Elizabeth von Arnim (1866-1941, born Mary Annette Beauchamp) was as much a literary outcome of the author’s creative potential as it was a reflection of her individual life story, which in many ways can be seen as a sensitive reflection of the times and places in which she lived.

In 2021, the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)  issued a position statement on “the Role of Reading in the College Writing Classroom”. In this statement, 4Cs “affirm[ed] the need to develop accessible and effective reading pedagogies in college writing classrooms” because it would help student performance across the university and in students’ roles as citizens in a democracy. The statement correctly notes that reading pedagogy is an issue writing studies has not taken up in a robust way for about 30 years and that it is now receiving attention at four-year institutions, though reading pedagogy has long been addressed at two-year schools.

Panel Announcement: Mapping Regional Divides in Energy and Food Futures
Benelux Geography Conference 2026 — Leuven, 8–10 April 2026

This panel explores how visualising and interpreting spatial imaginaries can enhance our understanding of regionalism and the rejection of socio-ecological transitions. In an era of intensifying regional polarisation, geography’s capacity to make visible moral, material, and affective geographies is increasingly crucial. Communities’ responses to transitions in energy and food systems reveal contested visions of sustainability, sovereignty, and belonging. Mapping these imaginaries exposes the regional dynamics that underpin cohesion, exclusion, and resistance across the Benelux.

Since 1975, pacificREVIEW: A West Coast Arts Review Annual (formerly Pacific Poetry and Fiction Review) has thrived as an experimental editorial cohort made up of driven, wily, undergraduates & graduate students in the department of english and Comparative Literature, san diego state university, san diego, ca 92182-6020. This year, we take on comix again! 

The term latency finds its etymological root in the Latin latere, meaning “to lie hidden, to lurk,” which conceptually resonates with the Greek λανθάνω (lanthánō), “to escape notice.” Both terms evoke a state of concealment, something that is not immediately manifest. In Aristotle’s distinction between dynamis (potentiality) and energeia (actuality), the latent is that which possesses the ability to become. Plato’s concept of anamnesis, instead, posits that innate knowledge of universal truths lies dormant within the soul, which possesses it before birth.

Call for Abstracts

Postcolonial Interventions in association with Centre for Studies in Gender, Culture and Media, West Bengal State University and the Department of English, Sister Nivedita University invites abstracts for an international conference on Indian Writing in English to be held in Sister Nivedita University, New Town, West Bengal on 13-14 March 2026.

Indian Writing in English in the 21st Century: Negotiations, Resistance and Alternatives

Call for participation

Performing Ends 2026

University of Antwerp

Belgium

October 28–30, 2026

The deadline for proposals is December 1, 2025.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Somos Lesbianas: Critical Reflections on Latina/e Lesbian Legacies and Futures

Edited by Dr. Meagan Solomon (https://www.meagansolomon.com/)

Since its inception, Verge has championed the role of special issues in making visible key questions in Global Asias scholarship while also suggesting new possibilities in the field. Maintaining this commitment, we invite proposals from potential guest editors for issue 14.2, a special issue slated for publication in Fall 2028.

In recent decades, scholarship has increasingly foregrounded the intersection between literary studies and social justice. From Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s reflections on the ethical responsibility of the critic (An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization, 2012) to Martha Nussbaum’s defence of literature as a resource for democratic imagination (Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life, 1995), critics have shown how narrative and form can reshape political thought and civic engagement. Literature has long served as a site where inequality, resistance, and collective agency are represented, contested, and reimagined.

Cultural Studies Methodology Lab

Department of English and Cultural Studies, Central Campus

In collaboration with

Department of Media Studies, Central Campus

CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore

Organizes

An International WorkshoponFilms and Ethnography

January 7-10, 2026

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.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Flannery O’Connor Society
American Literature Association
Annual Conference May 20-23, 2026
Palmer House Hilton | Chicago, IL

The Flannery O’Connor Society invites abstracts (of no more than 250 words) for open topic presentations at the annual conference of the American Literature Association. (https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/).

Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to:

The graduate students of the Department of Music at University of Pennsylvania invite proposals for individual papers and performances for our first-ever graduate conference, For(u)m: Re-forming Value, Re-valuing Form in Music Studies. The conference will take place from February 13-14, 2026 in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts.  We welcome submissions from graduate students across disciplines to critically examine the intersection of form and value in music, sound, and performance broadly.

Robert Lowell Society is inviting new papers on Robert Lowell, his work and his times, to be presented at the 37th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, May 20–23, 2026 in Chicago.

ICSSR sponsored

International Conference on

CALL FOR PAPERS

Charles W. Chesnutt Association

American Literature Association
37th Annual ConferenceMay 20-23, 2026Palmer House
17 East Monroe Street
Chicago, IL  60603

The Charles W. Chesnutt Association welcomes abstracts of no more than 300 words for presentation at two sessions on the work of Chesnutt at the 2026 ALA conference in Chicago.

Subjects for submissions are open but may include one of the following:

The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session that will explore disability in the medieval past and/or the ways in which disability studies and medieval studies fruitfully intersect. The session welcomes papers that consider understandings of non-standard human bodies from the medieval past and/or reflect upon the ways in which, as Godden and Hsy write, “the study of disability in the Middle Ages challenges modern narratives of bodily integrity and autonomy” (334). The non-standard body in the Middle Ages takes on a variety of forms both familiar and unfamiliar to us today, from the use of spectacles to colonies of lepers.

Call for Papers 1: You Are On Native Land:  Understanding Medieval Studies in Turtle Island

The EDID Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers on Indigeneity and the medieval. 

The New American Studies Journal: A Forum (Göttingen University Press) invites submissions for a forthcoming special issue in 2026 that focuses on Chinese American literature. We invite submissions of both academic essays and creative works.

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

The Popular Arts Conference (PAC) invites submissions for our 19th Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, September 3-7, 2026.

PAC is an annual academic conference for the studies of the popular arts, including science/speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and other media; comic books and graphic novels; anime and manga; tabletop and video gaming; etc., presented to a mixed audience of scholars and fans. The mission of PAC is to promote scholarship on popular culture and to encourage engagement between scholars and fans in order to deepen our understanding of the popular arts. PAC presentations are peer reviewed, based on scholarly research.

The organizing committee of the South Asia Graduate Student Conference (SAGSC-XXIII) at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce its twenty-third annual conference: “Resonant Boundaries: (Inter)disciplinarity in and about South Asia.” This year’s conference will take place on March 5th-6th, 2026. We cordially invite papers from independent scholars and graduate students at any stage of study and in any discipline from universities across the world.