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Greetings from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights!
The 2026 International Network of Museums for Peace (INMP) Conference is being held at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on August 12-16, 2026.
Journal Name: Kaleidoscope : An Interdisciplinary Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
Website: https://kaleidoscopejournal.in/
We invite original, unpublished research papers, review articles, essays, and book reviews from scholars, researchers, and academics for Volume 1, Issue 1, to be published in December 2025.
Theme: Open Theme
For the inaugural issue, we welcome contributions on any topic within the broad ambit of Humanities and Social Sciences, including but not limited to:
Concept and Rationale
Following the long critical trajectory inaugurated by post-Independence Indian English fiction and
expanded by the transnational turn, South Asian Fiction in the 21st Century seeks to investigate
how writers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and the diaspora reinterpret the region’s
social, cultural, and ecological histories amid conditions of global flux. The book project shall
revisit questions of identity and belonging through three conceptual coordinates, viz., memory,
mobility, and the posthuman. These categories allow for an inclusive conversation between the
Beauty and the Revival of Faith will take place on 8-10 May, 2026, at the Archbishop’s Palace, Southwell, Nottingham, U.K.
- Call for Presentation Proposals - Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference
Saturday July 11 – Sunday July 12, 2026
University College London (Bloomsbury Campus)
This is the exciting 29th Annual Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference!
Closing Date for Submissions: January 24, 2026*
The conference will be held in person.
Proposal submission: conference@greatwriting.org.uk
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,
The Henry James Society
CALL FOR PAPERS
37th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association
May 20-23, 2026, Palmer House, Chicago, IL
Minor Threads
“There are threads shorter and less tense, and I am far from implying that the minor, the coarser and less fruitful forms and degrees of moral reaction, as we may conveniently call it, may not yield lively results.”
Henry James. The Prefaces
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.
The International T. S. Eliot Society’s hosting a two-day, virtual symposium open to all members free of charge (registration is required, please see information below). Rather than a traditional conference featuring several panels of 20-minute scholarly presentations, this symposium will consist of two ninety-minute sessions (one each day) that will emphasize discovery and conversation while promoting work in progress and community. The first session, on Thursday, March 5 (at 10 a.m. EST), will feature 5-minute presentations and discussion about newly published primary materials; the second session, on Friday, March 6 (at 10 a.m. EST), will provide an opportunity for participants to get feedback on works in progress.
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.
Call for Papers: Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture after 1900
The International T. S. Eliot Society will sponsor a panel at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture after 1900 (in person, Feb. 19-21). We will consider proposals on any topic relating to T. S. Eliot’s life, work, and influence. If you are interested in attending in person, please send a proposal of about 300 words and a brief bio to dickeyf@missouri.edu by December 15, 2025.
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.
Call for Papers
Translation and Interpreting Research (TIR)
Official Journal of the Research Institute for Translation Studies, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran
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!
Williams and Little Magazines
In his Autobiography William Carlos Williams describes little magazines as having “saved [his] life as a writer” (135). Poetry and other small magazines (including The Dial, Others, and The Little Review) were vital in growing Williams’s audience and in hosting and shaping the conversation around his modernist poetics. In 1920, Williams even joined artists Marsden Hartley, Lola Ridge, and Robert McAlmon in founding their own, Contact.
We invite papers on Williams, print culture, and the little magazines. Possible subjects include:
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.
In his 2022 book, Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature,
Christopher Krentz writes that “while disabled people everywhere have dealt with barriers to
making their views known, those in the Global South, who are usually people of color, have long
been largely unheard, despite numbering more than half a billion people . . . Such invisibility
underscores how disabled people and those close to them in the Global South have commonly been
afterthoughts, deemed unimportant and disposable” (Krentz 2). While the Global South is Krentz’s
focus, we also acknowledge these issues in minority and indigenous communities globally.
Submit a Manuscript to the Journal
Global South Literary Studies (Routledge)
For a Special Issue on
Political Violence and Literary Responses in South and Southeast Asia since the 1940s
https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/political-violence-and...
Political Violence and Literary Responses in South and Southeast Asia since the 1940s
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
Stevens and Fiction | American Literature Association 2026 | Chicago, IL | May 2026
Digital Subjectivities
Digital technologies have become integral to our everyday lives – from work, play, and relationships to political engagement and scholarship – shaping our subjective experiences and the ways we relate to others and ourselves. Their proliferation not only offers new tools for communication and knowledge production but also fundamentally reconfigures how the self is conceptualised and lived. This conference will explore the impact of digital technologies on subjective experience, knowledge production within and beyond academia, culture and politics, and questions of individual and collective agency.
Call for participation
Performing Ends 2026
University of Antwerp
Belgium
October 28–30, 2026
The deadline for proposals is December 1, 2025.
How has the future of the United Kingdom and its various components been imagined, conceived and projected at all periods, including the present day?
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Somos Lesbianas: Critical Reflections on Latina/e Lesbian Legacies and Futures
Edited by Dr. Meagan Solomon (https://www.meagansolomon.com/)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS: CALL FOR PAPERS
UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS, JUNE 19-21, 2026
The Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Cyprus, in collaboration with The Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies, The Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College London, Baylor University, the Modern Greek Studies Program at Rutgers University, and The Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University, is pleased to announce an international conference dedicated to the life, work, and legacy of Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957), to be held in Nicosia, Cyprus, from June 19 to June 21, 2026.
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.
17 th Debrupa Bal Memorial International Students’ Seminar
2-3 December 2025
Organized by the students of
Department of Comparative Literature
Jadavpur University
CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECTATORIAL-ITY: RECEPTION/ REGENERATION/ REPRODUCTION
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.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Chinmaya75 International Conference
8–10 May 2026
Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF) • Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth (CVV) • CIF
Shodha Sansthan (CIFSS)
Website: https://chinfo.org/icsc2026
Email: icsc2026@cvv.ac.in
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
God Rest Ye Scary Gentlemen: The Jolly Misanthrope and Victorian Christmas. Learn about the happiest time of the year, and the old men who love nothing better than to shit all over it. From Scrooge to Sherlock Holmes, what’s with confirmed bachelors and Christmas? An irreverent and illuminating romp through 19th Century Victorian Christmas, its origins in older traditions, Oliver Cromwell, how it became an institution worldwide, and how one cantankerous old man really ties the whole thing together! This lecture will be a rollicking and intellectual hour and thirty minutes WITH a ten minute bathroom break. Bring your humbugs, we’ll be breaking out the turkey dinners and coals! Ninety minutes of holiday cheer.
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.
Copyright and Intellectual Property Area
As our day-to-day lives depend increasingly on creating “content,” the often misunderstood rules of copyright and intellectual property have an important effect on us. The Copyright and Intellectual Property area seeks to foster an interdisciplinary discussion about the tumultuous cultural battle raging over how we understand the production and distribution of knowledge.
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:
We are pleased to invite proposals for new themed issues of Film Journal, the open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal founded by SERCIA (Société d’études et de recherches sur le cinéma anglophone / Society for Study and Research in Anglophone Cinema). Established in France in 1993, SERCIA promotes the study and teaching of English-speaking cinema worldwide.
Each issue of Film Journal is devoted to a particular theme, and we welcome proposals that explore diverse aspects of film and screen studies. The journal encourages contributions that offer fresh perspectives on film history, theory, narrative, and aesthetics, and that engage critically with a wide variety of cinematic forms, genres, and traditions.
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.
Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies
Brutalism in the Global Novel (https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/jgps/cfp)
Madhurima Nayak, Chandigarh University, India
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.
The Worshipful Company of Curriers, one of the livery companies of the City of London, has established an essay prize on London for early career scholars, in association with The London Journal Trust and the Institute of Historical Research.
The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal. Other promising entries may also be considered for publication.
ICSSR sponsored
International Conference on
The Ernest Hemingway Society is sponsoring a panel at the upcoming American Literature Association Conference in Chicago, IL (May 20–23, 2026).
Given the centenary of the publication of both The Torrents of Spring and The Sun Also Rises (1926), we encourage papers focused on the early part of Hemingway’s life and career.
Please send a 250-word proposal and short CV to Dr. Ross K. Tangedal (University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point) at rtangeda@uwsp.edu by January 10, 2026, for full consideration. Your submission will be confirmed via email.
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:
In Traditional African Festival Drama in Performance, Austine Anigala(2006)draws on the Ukpalabor festival of the Ebedei people in Southern Nigeria to argue for the performance and dramatic potential of the indigenous African festival. This provocative work is against the backdrop of polemics initiated by scholars such as Ruth Finnegan (2012) and Michael J. C. Echeruo (1973) about the dramatic limits of indigenous African festivals. Recall that Echeruo (1973) called for a re-examination of how indigenous festivals are referred to as drama.
The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session on medieval race-making.
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.
The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session on queer world-making in medieval studies. This session takes as its starting point the idea that queerness is not only an identity category or critical lens, but also a mode of imagining, creating, and inhabiting other worlds. We are interested in how medieval texts envision alternatives to normative ideals, and in how queer approaches to these texts might open transformative possibilities.
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.
Since 1988, The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature has published material relevant to the life, works, and friends of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Yearling and many other widely respected and beloved works, including Cross Creek, Cross Creek Cookery, South Moon Under, and Golden Apples.
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.
Cornell EGSO Conference 2026: Effervescence
Deadline for Submissions: January 5th, 2026
Conference Date: March 20th, 2026
Call for Academic and Creative Proposals
“This impulse to violence had been in her for a long time, growing, feeding, until finally she had blown up in a thousand pieces... Yes, a one-way ticket, she thought. I've had one since the day I was born. The train was on the track.”
—Ann Petry, The Street