In “Thoughts on Late Style,” Edward Said describes how an artist’s late works 

cannot be reconciled or resolved, since their irresolution and fragmentariness are constitutive, neither ornamental nor symbolic of something else. The late works are about ‘lost totality’, and it is in this sense that they are catastrophic.

 The late works of James Baldwin have often been dismissed as evidence of decadence, of their maker’s exhaustion after too many years of activism, as a crude failure to synthesize his fiction and nonfiction, the novels too political, the essays too aesthetic. Yet this supposedly weak synthesis rhymes with Said’s meditations on the irresolution typical of an artist’s late works. 

CALL FOR PAPERS: 15th Annual Harry Potter Academic Conference (HPAC) at Chestnut Hill College

Friday and Saturday, October 23–24, 2026 (Eastern Time)

In person at Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Deadline for proposals: April 10, 2026

International Conference “Pleasure and Pain in Women’s Writing”

Organized by IWWA (International Women’s Writing Association)

and the L&GEND Research Group

deadline for submissions: 

April 24, 2026

contact email: 

iwwaitaly@gmail.com

9th-11th September 2026

G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy

Conference Venue: Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Pescara

In 1966, Seamus Heaney published Death of a Naturalist, the collection that would launch his career and establish him firmly in the public eye as a poet of place whose local accents and autobiographical bent marked a new direction in twentieth century Irish poetry. In the same year, Heaney accepted a lectureship at his alma mater, Queen’s University Belfast, and made his first appearance on Ireland’s Late Late show, reading Blackberry Picking and gaining a mass audience thanks to the power of broadcast media. 

University of Siedlce

Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies

and

University of the Balearic Islands

Faculty of Philosophy and Art

would like to kindly invite all scholars from across the Humanities to take part

in the International Conference

Thinking by Parts: Analogy, Fragmentation,

and the Search for Wholeness in Literature and Philosophy

Call for Nominations:

In keeping with the Lydia Maria Child Society’s goal of honoring and continuing Child’s legacy, the Society is pleased to recognize Humanities scholars who have demonstrated a commitment to social justice through teaching, research, and/or service.

Call for Papers: Society of Music Production Research (SMPR) Conference 2026

The Society of Music Production Research (SMPR) conference will be hosted at the University of Huddersfield, UK,  9–11 September 2026.

The call for proposals is currently open, with a submission deadline of 2 March 2026.

Further details about the conference, along with the full call for proposals and submission form, can be found at the link below:

Two conferences, one in Halle (Saale) and the other in Atlanta (Georgia), aim to bring together researchers interested in the Francke Foundations in Halle, the English missionary societies, and the founding of the colony of Georgia. While the conference in Halle will focus on a systematic comparison between these institutions, the conference in Atlanta will address the social consequences. The main question is what types of social order the Protestant reform movements in Prussia, England, and Georgia promoted.

 Renewing Faith, Improving Society. A Comparison of Protestant Reform Movements in Prussia, England, and Georgia (first half of the 18th century)

Literature and Global Popular Music 2027 Modern Language Association Adaptation Forum Call for Papers How does literature travel through global popular music? How do novels, poems, plays, and other literary forms resonate when translated into sound, lyrics, stage performance, music videos, and media circulation across borders?This guaranteed session invites studies of musical adaptations that illuminate the cultural, social, and political resonances of literary works. How do literary forms find new life in global popular music? In what ways do these adaptations reshape questions of identity, memory, translation, and power across national and linguistic boundaries?Possible topics include (but are not limited to): 

Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (ISSN 2993-1053) is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective. It provides a unique, international forum for innovative critical approaches to cosmopolitanism emerging from literatures, cultures, media, and the arts in dialogue with other areas of the humanities and social sciences, across temporal, spatial, and linguistic boundaries.

What does it mean to do Black queer/trans studies now? Amidst intensifying state violence both in and outside of the academy, this graduate conference is an invitation to explore the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and power through a global lens. The conference will be a space for inter- and cross-disciplinary dialogue amongst scholars of Black queer and trans life and politics, capaciously defined. 

Submission Deadline: (200 word abstract in English) 29 March 2026

Conference Dates: May 27 and 28, 2026

Submit here: https://exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5nabnNTlGeGUHMG

We extend a warm invitation for you to share your contributions for our upcoming publication in 2026.

The Grove. Working Papers on English Studies (ISSN: 1137-005X, ISSNe: 2386-5431, DOI: 10.17561/grove) is a peer-reviewed, indexed periodical. Published annually and distributed both nationally and internationally, The Grove is sponsored by the research group HUM-271 of the Regional Andalusian Government, published by the University of Jaén (Spain). It is indexed by MLA, IEDCYT-CSIC, Latindex, Dialnet, MIAR, Dimensions and DICE and has been awarded the FECYT Quality Seal.

Call for Papers - Fall 2026 Issue  

The Dragon Lode Journal, a peer reviewed publication through the International Literacy Association, is now accepting submissions for the Fall 2026. The Dragon Lode is dedicated to literacy, language arts, and the teaching of reading and writing. 

We seek original, unpublished work that engages with contemporary issues and questions, genre studies, literary theory, and research related to children’s literature and reading. Submissions may address (but are not limited to): 

Literature and Global Popular Music 2027 Modern Language Association Adaptation Forum Call for Papers How does literature travel through global popular music? How do novels, poems, plays, and other literary forms resonate when translated into sound, lyrics, stage performance, music videos, and media circulation across borders?This guaranteed session invites studies of musical adaptations that illuminate the cultural, social, and political resonances of literary works. How do literary forms find new life in global popular music? In what ways do these adaptations reshape questions of identity, memory, translation, and power across national and linguistic boundaries?Possible topics include (but are not limited to): 

This panel examines how literature circulates beyond fixed ethnic identity by bringing together the work of John Fante and Charles Bukowski as a case study in Italian American literary afterlives. While Fante is firmly situated within Italian American literary studies and Bukowski is more often framed within postwar American counterculture, this panel argues that reading them relationally reveals how Italian American literary aesthetics travel, mutate, and endure beyond explicitly ethnic frameworks.

Description: The session is currently accepting submissions for papers on all topics related to Shakespeare. Submissions from Ph.D. candidates and early career scholars are especially encouraged.

NOTE: This call is for papers to be presented at the conference.

Please direct your brief abstract (less than 250 words) and/or any questions to Jennifer Topale at rmmla2026proposals@gmail.com. Abstracts are due by 1 April 2026.

Call for Papers — ASA 2026 (Chicago)

Black Feminist Book Cultures and Experimental Methodologies

We seek papers for a panel on Black feminist book cultures and experimental methodologies for the American Studies Association's annual convention (theme: improvisation) in Chicago in October 2026. Please send an abstract (max. 1200 characters), title, and bio to kwitaszek@mta.ca.

Deadline for submissions: February 27, 2026

CFP - MLA 2027, "Translation as an Emancipatory Practice in Italian Literary and Cultural History”

Roundtable Sponsor: Forum on 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian

CFP - MLA 2027, "Science and Intellectual Emancipation in Italian Literary and Cultural History”

Panel Sponsor: Forum on 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: THE SOUTHERN GOTHIC AT PCAS/ACAS 2026

The Southern Gothic is not merely a regional offshoot of the Gothic tradition—it is a dynamic cultural mode shaped by the histories, violences, mythologies, and contradictions of the American South. Rooted in hauntings both literal and structural, the Southern Gothic interrogates race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, ecology, labor, memory, and the ongoing afterlives of history. Its borders—like its landscapes and bodies—are unstable, porous, and contested.

The Louisiana Creole Research Association (LA Creole, http://www.lacreole.org) invites submissions for its 2026 journal, La Créole, on subjects relevant to its mission of advancing family research, providing education, and celebrating Creole history and culture. There is evidence that both French and Spanish colonial Louisiana identified all its people (white, black, and mixed), both free and enslaved, who were born in the new world of old world stock, as Créole.  That included the offspring of Europeans (predominantly French and Spanish), Africans, and a mixture of both that could also include Native Americans.  Therefore, the descendants of all these people

THE 25th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND CULTURAL POLICIES (LLCP)

WEATHERING CHANGE:

THE HUMANITIES IN A WARMING WORLD

to be held in Craiova, Romania

22-24 October 2026

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

“When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”

(Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1.1: 1-2)

We invite you to participate at the 19th annual Norwegian Forum for English for Academic Purposes summer conference:

NFEAP 2026 - Mythologies

First Call for Papers

The 2026 NFEAP summer conference will take place on Thursday the 11th and Friday the 12th of June 2026 at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Oslo, Norway.

The theme for the 2026 conference is Mythologies.