Centre for Comparative Literature, Bhasha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati,

in collaboration with

Department of Yogic Art and Science, Vinaya Bhavana, Visva-Bharati

presents

Of Clay and Dust

6 days extensive body movement workshop

Body awareness

Narrative based movements

Body conditioning

Introduction to Odissi with marshal arts like Mayurbhanj Chhau and Kalaripayattu

Introduction to basic Abhinaya

How to work with musicians and script

How to develop performance

Facilitated by Monami Nandy

February 16-21, 2026

Venue: Dhyana Kutir, Yoga Village Premises, Vinaya Bhavana, Visva-Bharati

Miloš Forman: Between Europe and Hollywood

Symposium organized by the Department of Theatre and Film Studies, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Friday, April 24, 2026
Univerzitní 3, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Global Perestroika and Soviet Literatures

Conference and Subsequent Edited Volume
University of Dresden, March 18–21, 2027

Organizers:
Klavdia Smola (Technology University of Dresden)
Naomi Caffee (Reed College)
Zachary Hicks (UC Berkeley)

CFP: “American Carnage”

Canadian Association for American Studies, October 23-25, 2026 (In person at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)

The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies has foregrounded special issues as crucial sites for shaping emerging conversations, opening new interdisciplinary pathways, and bringing into visibility critical questions that cut across literature, culture, philosophy, interdisciplinary humanities, and posthumanities thinking. Continuing this commitment, we invite proposals from potential guest editors for several forthcoming special issues of the journal as we shift from our recent annual issue format to a bi-annual format in an attempt to revive the previous publication schedule of the journal (2014-2019).

International Society for Philosophy in Film Fifth Annual Symposium Call for Abstracts

August 20-22, 2026

London, England

H2D (Revista de Humanidades Digitais) is an interdisciplinary Diamond Open Access journal dedicated to advancing research and dialogue in Digital Humanities. We welcome contributions that explore how digital tools and methods reshape humanities scholarship and practice, bridging humanistic inquiry and technological innovation while engaging contemporary societal challenges aligned with the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

Dear Colleagues,

The Text, an International Peer Reviewed Online Journal of Language, Literature and Critical Theory (ISSN: 2581-9526)invites original, unpublished research papers for July 2026 issue.
Indexed in:
1.     ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
2.     IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research)
3.     Citefactor (Directory Indexing of International Research Journals)
4.     DRJI (The Directory of Research Journal Indexing)
5.     ResearchBib (Research Bible)

SPECIAL ISSUE of FERAL FEMINSISMS

Feral Intelligence (FI): New Queer Approaches to Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI)

// Abstract Deadline: March 15, 2026

The Society for the Study of American Poetry invites proposals for a session to be held at the 37th annual American Literature Association conference in Chicago, IL, May 20-23, 2026. 

Panel: Mediating American Poetry

This panel invites papers that examine American poetry through the lens of media, broadly construed and across historical periods. We seek work that explores how poetic production, circulation, reception, and interpretation have been shaped by media forms—from print technologies and the history of the book to digital platforms, archives, and social media.

Call for Papers - Doctoral Conference 

 Restanza. Linguistic, Literary and Geographical Imageries of Permanence

University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara 

Pescara, 4-5 June 2026

Doctoral Course in Languages, Literatures, Cultures in Contact  Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

«Restare, quindi, non è statica come azione, 

ma dinamica, non cristallizza il presente ma si permea di futuro»(Teti, 2022: 119).

CALL FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS TO SERVE AS KEYNOTE AND PLENARY SPEAKERS: due by 2/08/26

The Undergraduate and Graduate Victorian Studies Association (UGSVA) is announcing our fourth annual online conference. The UGSVA conference is run by a team of undergraduate and graduate students primarily from Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada and Carroll University, Waukesha, WI. The conference will take place on Tuesday April 28st from about 9:00 AM-4:00 PM EST (time approximate) via Zoom.

Beginning with Jonathan Hickman’s House of X/Powers of X limited series, the Krakoan Age X-Men stories occur against the backdrop of the establishment of a post-scarcity and post-mortality mutant homeland on the living island of Krakoa. The Krakoan Age ran from 2019 and 2024 and included more than 500 issues spread across 80 different comic titles. Within this vast body of text, a dizzying plurality of story-types are explored, ranging from gritty police procedurals, to sprawling war stories, to cozy slice-of-life tales. The Krakoan Age stories are also notable in their creative and interesting engagement with religious stories and themes, particularly in series such as Way of X, Legion of X and The Onslaught Revelation.

The upcoming 34th Conference of the Association for Gender and Sexuality Studies (AEGS) will take place at the University of Oviedofrom May 20th and 22nd, 2026. It will be hosted by the Institute of Gender and Diversity (IUGEN-DIV), the INTERSECTIONS research group (Contemporary Literatures, Cultures, and Theories), and the Department of English, French, and German.

Since Benedict Anderson’s 1983 theorization of imagined communities, the historical alliance between the novel and the nation has been a key problematic of literary studies. And yet, in the post–Cold War decades, the centrality of the nation and its ideological weight seemed to wane. The rise of neoliberalism produced an ideology of free circulation of capital and goods, which heralded a new era of weakening national borders and enhanced cultural exchanges. In literary studies, this period saw the rise of a new critical field, world literature (Moretti, Damrosch), and the theorization of a World Republic of Letters (Casanova), which held a similarly borderless aspiration.

A "Melange," sans accent, is a term we use to refer to a work of art of literature that mixes form, genre, and/or media. Princeton University's Melange: A Journal of Prose Poetry and the Arts accepts creative melanges, academic essays on melanges, and melanges in translation. 

To submit, please send the following to melange@princeton.edu: 

June 3rd-5th, 2026 | Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

Submission URL (ConfTool): https://conftool.net/csdh-schn-2026/

Greensboro, North Carolina, the host city for this year’s joint conference, is geographically, culturally, and historically a space between. Known as “Gate City” because of its key position on the rail network, it is not only a midpoint between the state capital, Raleigh, and North Carolina’s biggest city, Charlotte, but also an entrance to the South. At once an integral part of the region and open to the broader world, it has long exemplified the solidarities as well as the divisions that have marked the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Under capitalism, we live separated from life. Capital’s extractive colonizing domination keeps us separated from nature, from each other, and from our own bodies, denying us a symbiotic and regenerative relationship with the natural world and with each other. Yet, certain types of bindings are integral to capitalism: capitalism depends on the combination of labour and nature for the production of value; the “emergence of capitalist accumulation and the reproduction of capitalist production” depends on “acts of violent dispossession”, on “tearing Indigenous societies, peasants, and other small-scale, self-sufficient agricultural producers from the source of their livelihood––the land” (Coulthard 2014).

Scholarly book reviews sought for new book titled Madness and the Sea: A Literary History. To e published by Palgravve on March 26, 2026. Scholars with interests in the fields of Blue Humanities, Maritime literature, madness in literature and medical humanities and with links to review sites are welcome to contact me to arrange review copies.

Neither ‘queer’ nor ‘beginnings’ are easy to pin down. Queerness is infamous for its ability to slip away from definition; it encompasses – but is not reducible to – sexuality, gender, race, ability, class, politics, and more. Beginnings, too, wriggle from our grasp. Choose a beginning for any historical event, movement, or narrative and there is always something which precedes it. Are beginnings focused into an inciting event, or do they reside in the feelings which precipitate such events? Who gets to decide?

Wallace Stevens’s poetry abounds with animals, from the bucks and firecat of “Earthy Anecdote” to the “gold-feathered bird” of “Of Mere Being.” This session invites papers on Stevens’s animals and animal imagery across his oeuvre. How do animals in Stevens’s poems reflect or complicate his sense of human perception, subjectivity, and the environment? In what ways do they trouble distinctions between the human and the nonhuman, the domestic and the wild, the material and the symbolic?

Proposals might consider individual poems or sequences, the wider bestiary of The Collected Poems, or Stevens’s animals in relation to earlier, contemporaneous, or later writers.

Possible topics include but are not limited to: