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FRIT Graduate Conference 2026
November 6th, 2026
Northwestern University
Keynote Speaker
Jina Kim, Smith College
Author of Care at the End of the World (2025)
CALL FOR PAPERS: WHO CARES?
American Comparative Literature Association 2027 Annual Meeting
University of Houston
May 20-23
The Poverty of Literature
Organizer:
Gabriel Quigley, University of Victoria (gabrielquigley@uvic.ca)
Call for Papers: Erasing Jewish Community in Christian Time (or Replacement Theory Gets Medieval)
International Medieval Conference, Leeds (UK), 5-8 July 2027
Call for Papers
dialog Special Issue No. 48
Theme: Truth in Question: Literature, Narrative, and the Politics of Knowing
dialog, a fully peer-reviewed, bi-annual international journal of the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, invites submissions for its forthcoming special issue (No. 48) on “Truth in Question: Literature, Narrative, and the Politics of Knowing.” The journal provides a forum for interdisciplinary research engaging literature, culture, and critical theory.
Title: “Second only to Shakespeare”? Middleton 400
Dates (provisional): 28-29 October 2027
Place: University of Naples “L’Orientale” – ARGO Research Centre (Interuniversity Research Centre for the Study of Argumentation, Pragmatics and Stylistics)
Organisers: Daniela Guardamagna and Tommaso Continisio
Deadline for abstract submission: 31 December 2026.
Send to:
guardamagna@lettere.uniroma2.it
continisio@lettere.uniroma2.it
Call for Chapters
The Routledge Handbook of Hip Hop and Sport, Culture, and Activism
62nd International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 13 - 15, 2027)
Kalamazoo, MI, USA
In-Person Session
The book is proposed to Bloomsbury.
Trees and Environment in Literature and Cinema
The Artificial Mind: Art and Philosophy after AI
24-25 September 2026
National Gallery of Art
22 Konstitucijos Ave.
Vilnius, Lithuania
The title “Artificial Mind” references Claude Lévi-Strauss’ The Savage Mind (La Pensée sauvage (1962), a foundational work in anthropology, in which he argues that “savage” and “civilized” thought share the same epistemological architecture – differing not in structure but in mode of operations. While the “civilized” engineer works with purpose-built concepts and tools toward a specific end, the “savage” bricoleur thinks with whatever is at hand, constructing new meanings from fragments.
- Call for Presentations - Celebrating Possibility and Empathy in Honors Education
Summer Call Deadline for proposals:July 31, 2026 11th Annual NSFMIH Honors Conference*Theme: Possibility! Sharing the Many Possibilities in Honors EducationThursday October 22 - Friday October 23, 2026 (in person)Young Honors College, Oakland University, Michigan [With my apologies for any cross-posting, emails to those in changed roles and the like!] Proposal Format: 150 word proposal / 100 word biographical note (single person); multiple folks (250 word proposal / 200 word bio note, total)
A Series of Panels at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, sponsored by the Long Middle Ages Seminar Series
CALL FOR CHAPTER CONTRIBUTIONS
Gender and Health in South Asia
An Edited Volume
Edited by Dr. Sakshi Srivastava & Dr. Pratyusha Pramanik, Assistant Professors Chandigarh University
Call for Papers
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan has expressed interest in this book project.
Women's writing emerged as a critical category in response to the historical exclusion of women from literary canons and archives. The recovery of neglected texts, authors, and traditions has transformed literary studies, creating new genealogies of reading and interpretation. Yet the category itself raises important questions. Does the designation "women's writing" continue to serve as a productive framework, or does it risk reinforcing the very marginalization it seeks to address by positioning women outside the literary mainstream?
On June 8th of this year, FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, lost our founder and Editor-in-Chief Dr. Batya Weinbaum. Dr. Weinbaum founded the journal in 1997 to fill a scholarly niche at the intersections of feminist theory and scholarship and literary scholarship in the realm of speculative fiction. Since publishing the journal's first issue in 1999, Dr. Weinbaum has served as Editor-in-Chief and as the head of the volunteer collective that manages the journal. The journal was the fruit of her creative effort, and it is thanks to her vision and leadership that the journal has published academic scholarship and creative writing for over 25 years.
FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks a new member to join our volunteer collective to fill the role of Website Editor and Social Media Manager
Duties include:
Updating FEMSPEC's website at the collective's request - this could include updating biographies of collective members, altering the website's layout, adding or removing content from various pages in the website, and updating the website with information about the current issue of the journal
Managing the journal's Facebook page and X account
The idea of home is curious concept for African Americans. Though integral to the development and sustainability of the United States, the social death and cultural trauma of slavery render this country inhospitable to Black bodies and the psyches that inhabit them. African Americans are both at home and homeless. This tenuousness places them in a liminal space in which identity is simultaneously self-asserted and assigned, multifaceted, while limited, a fount of agency and a tool for impotence. The intersectional nature of Black femininity further complicates notions of identity and American hospitality. Black men have unsuccessfully employed patriarchy as an intraracial tool to combat the aforementioned social death.
Date of conference: 28-29 August, 2026
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 19 July 2026 (extended deadline)
Online, international, interdisciplinary conference titled:
A Letter to Video Games:The Mechanisms of Emotions
Haryanvi Dalit theatre occupies a highly marginalised position within the broader landscape of Indian theatre. It may aptly be described as “the marginalised among the marginalised,” as it has remained largely excluded from both mainstream theatre studies and Dalit cultural historiography. Haryanvi Dalit Swang theatre was active long before the Dalit Panther Movement, but it received little attention due to its lack of publication and translation into English. This book seeks to recover, document, and critically examine the neglected legacy of Haryanvi Swang, with particular emphasis on its Dalit traditions and practitioners, thereby contributing to a more inclusive understanding of Indian theatrical heritage.
This session explores how women's bodies function as contested archives of trauma, sites of testimony that dominant social, legal and political structures have often silenced or delegitimised. Drawing on feminist trauma theory, postcolonial critique and affect studies, it examines bodily memory as a form of somatic knowledge that exceeds conventional language and probes the tension between trauma's structural unspeakability and the ethical urgency of testimony and witnessing.
Conference: 2-4 December 2026
Gdańsk (Poland) and online (via Zoom)
Conference online: 27-28 August 2026 (online)
CFP:
Date Extended till August 30, 2026
Call for Papers
NeMLA’s 58th Annual Convention – “Empowering Communities”
March 6–9, 2027 | Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island
Panel Title: Female Grief in Literature and the Arts
Primary Area / Secondary Area: Comparative Literature / Women’s and Gender Studies
Modality: Hybrid
Organizers: Beatrice Fiducia, Maria Irene Fiducia
This panel explores gendered expressions of grief across literatures and historical periods through an interdisciplinary and comparative lens.
Special Issue Editors
Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay, University of Milan
Christina Banalopoulou, University of Milan
Food in Literature, Film and Culture
Consortium: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies is pleased to invite original and unpublished research articles for its Sp
This special issue will be edited by Dr. Sabuj Sarkar, Editor-in-Chief, Consortium: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies.
The twenty-first century is continuously defined by geopolitical shifts, armed conflict, environmental precarity, and evolving border regimes, within which migration operates as a critical locus of global transformation. This physical transgression of geopolitical boundaries inevitably instigates a profound restructuring of individual and collective subjectivities. Literature functions as a dynamic repository for these complex trajectories, articulating the psychological, political, and cultural exigencies of displacement and resettlement.
Dear Colleagues,
"Interface" calls for papers for a conference on the topic: “Creativity before and in the Age of AI: Literature, Languages and Cultures in Times of Instability”
Conference Date: November 27-29, 2026
Conference Place: National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 26, 2026
The Postcolonial Literature and Culture session invites submissions that explore postcolonial literature, art, film, or culture. We specifically welcome papers aligned with the conference theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” although the session is open to any projects engaging with postcolonial texts.
The Postcolonial Literature and Culture session invites submissions that explore postcolonial literature, art, film, or culture. We specifically welcome papers aligned with the conference theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” although the session is open to any projects engaging with postcolonial texts.
Potential areas of focus include, but are not limited to:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, in contemporary digital society, have drastically evolved from statistical tools to principal instruments of knowledge production, validation and dissemination. Large language models (LLMs), automated search systems, and predictive algorithms increasingly dictate what society knows, how knowledge is validated, and who is recognized as an expert/authority. This shift demands a rigorous critique from the perspective of the sociology of knowledge to evaluate how power, inequality, and social structures are embedded within these automated epistemic tools.
Homosocial Spaces in Monastic Places
62nd International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 13-15, 2027)Kalamazoo, MI, USAHybrid Session Medieval monks cultivated gender-segregated networks which supported their own learning, dialogues, and customs, which meant people assigned female at birth were essentially locked out of much of intellectual life.
Faster than society gathers wisdom: Video games and/as speculative Fiction
(McFarland, Studies in Gaming Series)
Editor:
Marc A. Ouellette, Old Dominion University (mouellet@odu.edu)
Digital Dirges: Video Games, Elegy, and the Rhetoric of Loss
(McFarland, Studies in Gaming series)
Editors:
Marc A. Ouellette, Old Dominion University (mouellet@odu.edu)
David Metzger, Old Dominion University (dmetzger@odu.edu)
In her 1991 article “Scolding Brides and Bridling Scolds: Taming the Woman's Unruly Member,” Lynda Boose describes Kate’s final speech in The Taming of the Shrew as “a textual moment in which, in Althusserian terms, the play quite overtly ‘interpellates,’ or hails, its women viewers to an imaginary relationship with the ideology of the discourse being played out on stage.” This panel builds on Boose’s reading by examining texts that both assume an audience of women and interpellate the reader in a meaningful way. During a period when relatively few women were literate, texts that hail women had to find a way to reach their audience. Boose’s stage example is one way to attract women’s attention.
This interdisciplinary panel aims to explore how women’s work is made manifest in material culture and literary texts. This panel defines “work” broadly. Work might include actions performed, actions in the process of being completed, or the result of labor. Panelists are invited to explore the materials women produced during the early modern period – objects we still have access to and those that would be used or discarded during the period – as well as narratives and depictions of women’s work. Of particular interest are discussions around how and why certain actions or products were gendered in response to religious doctrine or practical divisions of labor.
Inspired by Ronald Hutton’s work in “The Making of the Early Modern British Fairy Tradition” (2014), this panel explores gendered figures in early modern folklore texts. The study of early modern folklore features significant crossover: fairies may also be familiars, witches can be wise women, and fairyland could be, as Hutton explains, the “embodiment of hedonism, summed up in its characteristic activity of song and dance.” Panelists are invited to explore texts and records that capture folk traditions in early modern literature and culture. Papers are welcome to explore a wide variety of topics with questions of gender at their heart.
Charter 77 at 50: Transnational Human Rights, Social Imagination, and Civic Resistance in the (Post-)Global Age
18–19 February 2027 | Vila Lanna, Prague
The Institute of Contemporary History and the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences invite proposals for a two-day international conference bringing together historical scholarship and contemporary reflections on civic activism and democratic resistance.
Poetic Responses to Prisons and Policing (SAMLA Panel #19707)
Concept Note:
Storytelling, from the metamorphic narratives of the Indian epics such as the Mahabharata and the Ramayana and Ovid’s ancient transmutations to the evolving interfaces of the present, has been an act of survival through transformation. Metamorphosis is the underlying imperative of the twenty-first century; it is not just a biological inevitability but a relentless ontological pulse beating beneath the surface of our global narratives. We inhabit a world amid a grand moulting, where the traditional mediums of storytelling, like the printed page, the physical body, and the ancestral soil, are being reshaped under the pressures of a planetary crisis.
The 19th Edition of the International Conference Innovation in Language Learning takes place:
on 11 November 2026 | Online Event
on 12-13 November 2026 | in Florence (Italy)
The event brings together educators, researchers, practitioners, and project managers from all over the world to exchange insights, share expertise, and explore innovative approaches to language teaching and learning.
Join us onsite in Florence, Italy, or online from anywhere in the world — as a Presenter or Listener — and be part of an inspiring global dialogue on the innovation in language education.
40th INTERNATIONAL D. H. LAWRENCE CONFERENCE
March 18-19, 2027
L'Université Paris Nanterre
D. H. Lawrence and French literature, philosophy and theory
The ambition of this conference is to explore various kinds of connections between D. H. Lawrence’s oeuvre and French theory, philosophy and literature.
Call for Papers: Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies
Special Issue: ‘Rapa Nui Now’ – Issue 14.2
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-new-zealand-pacific-studies#call-for-papers
24th National Meeting of Journalism Researchers
November 4, 5, and 6, 2026 – Fluminense Federal University (UFF)
Submission deadline: August 16, 2025
Theme: Journalism, democracy, and professional practice: the role of research in contexts of disinformation
Registration: https://bit.ly/4gCKS9M
Public Humanities is an international open-access, cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal at the intersection of humanities scholarship and public life.
The journal invites submissions for the upcoming issue, Musical Commemorations and Contestations in Postcolonial Contexts, which will be guest edited by Bart Paul Vanspauwen, Ana-María Alarcón-Jiménez, and Livia Jiménez Sedano.
Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2027
Description
Concept Note for Call for PapersLAW, LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND CULTURE: EPISTEMOLOGIES OF JUSTICEBackground
Alternative Edens: “Whole Earth” Imagination and the Politics of Hospitality
Panel at the 2026 SAMLA Conference (Nov. 5-7, 2026 Atlanta, GA)
Due date for paper proposals: September 1, 2026
Submission link: https://samla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19711
Sovereignties in Crisis: Human, Environment, Technology, and the Pharmakon
2026 Situations International Conference
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, October 22-23, 2026
Keynote Speakers: Koonchung Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University), Yuk Hui (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Featured Speaker: Winnie Yee (Hong Kong University)
YOUTH AND CULTURE IN NORTHEAST INDIA: INTERSECTIONS AND PERSPECTIVES
Introduction
Youth represent a powerful social force shaping contemporary societies through their engagement with identity, creativity, social transformation, and cultural negotiation. In India’s Northeast—a region distinguished by rich ethnic diversity, complex histories, and evolving socio-political realities—youth culture offers a critical lens to understand how societies adapt to rapid change while preserving cultural continuity. Young people in the region occupy a dynamic space where tradition, globalization, technological transformation, and regional aspirations intersect.
Call for Papers: The Legacy of Norman Bates: Essays on the Psycho Franchise
Editor: Shane H Weathers, Bowling Green State University
Editors Introduction:
Call for Proposals
Special Issue of Philosophy, Politics and Critique
62nd International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 13 - 15, 2027)
Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Hybrid Session (Virtual and In-person session)