Abstract 

The “end of the world” names a methodological problem before it names an apocalypse: how do humanities scholars and artist-researchers think, make, and teach when climate disruption, extinction, extractive infrastructures, forced displacement, and slow violence reformat what counts as evidence, what counts as futurity, and what counts as responsibility? This conference convenes research and practice across film, theatre, performance, and allied arts to ask how (post)Anthropocene conditions are not only represented but produced, felt, and negotiated through aesthetic forms, production systems, embodied publics, and more-than-human milieus. 

The Activist Author: Contemporary Forms and Historical Precedents of Activist Literature

Dates and Location:

November 9th & 10th, 2026.

UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).

Confirmed Keynote speakers:

Sara Dimick: Northwestern University; author of Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures.

Juan Meneses: UNC Charlotte; author of Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent and editor of Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination.

Caleidoscopio – Revista de Comunicação e Cultura is the journal of the Communication Sciences Department of ECATI, Lusófona University.

Now entering its second series, Caleidoscopio is being relaunched with the aim of consolidating its position as an open-access platform dedicated to critical research in communication sciences, with a special focus on the intersection of communication, media, and the arts in contemporary societies.

We invite submissions that engage with approaches from media theory, visual studies, philosophy of technology, cybernetics, or contemporary artistic practices. There are no article processing charges.

From Indigenous testimonies about extraction economies to eco-dystopian manga, comics across the world function as powerful visual laboratories for engaging with the natural world. The graphic form—with its unique interplay of word and image, its use of framing, juxtaposition, and sequentiality—stages ecological questions in ways prose often cannot. By dramatizing the temporality of both sudden catastrophes and slow processes of degradation, comics enable us to see environmental crises unfolding across multiple scales of time and space. They ask us to imagine multispecies entanglements, toxic futures, and alternative modes of dwelling, while also foregrounding human complicity in environmental collapse.

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.

International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 

https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHSS/Home.htmlISSN : 2349 - 219N

*** January Issue***

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USM’s English Graduate Organization Conference Call for Papers

(Un)Spoken: Voices of Dissent

April 10th and 11th, 2026

University of Southern Mississippi

Hattiesburg, MS

International Journal of Education (IJE)

ISSN : 2348 - 1552

https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJEMS/Home.html

***JanuaryIssue***

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ALA 2026: The Novel of Ideas in American Fiction

ALA Annual Conference (May 20-23, Chicago, IL)

(Extended Deadline)

MEMORY

University of Virginia Department of English Graduate Symposium

March 27 & 28, 2026

Dates: Thursday 25 June - Friday 26 June 2026
Venue: Jesus College, University of Cambridge

Special thematic dossier 8.1 | Digital Projections and Screened Identities in US American Culture

Editors: Laura Álvarez Trigo (Universidad de Valladolid) and Anna Marta Marini (Freie Universität Berlin) 

Concorde: Literary, Linguistic and Sustainability Studies International Conference

Date: 22-23 April, 2026

Venue: Department of English, Netrokona University, Netrokona, Bangladesh

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Professor Dr Anirudra Thapa, Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Professor Dr Shamsad Mortuza, Department of English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Professor Dr Shaila Sultana, Institute of Modern Languages, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Culture, Food, and Literature in the New Millennium (Hybrid)

March 25-26, 2026

School of Liberal Arts

University of Management and Technology, Lahore

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

MICHIGAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, ARTS & LETTERS 614 Superior Street, Alma College, Alma, MI 48801 - Fax: 989-463-7970 - michiganacademy@alma.edu Call for Papers Women's & Gender Studies 

INVITATION 2026 conference: Friday, March 27, 2026, virtual conference held via Zoom.

You are invited to submit a 200-word abstract of the paper you wish to present at the conference.

PROCEDURES  Abstract submission deadline is 1/23/26.

Presentations are up to 20 minutes each, followed by discussion.

Undergraduates may present faculty co-authored or sponsored papers (section leaders may require proof that paper/research was reviewed by a faculty sponsor).

Call for PapersCaliban Speaks: International Conference on Recentering Indigenous Thought in the Age of Decolonialism and Technology

April 21–22, 2026 | International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI)

1. Conference Rationale

In the contemporary intellectual landscape, postcolonial theory has illuminated important questions of empire, identity, and resistance. Yet, its limits are increasingly visible: while interrogating colonial legacies, it has too often re-centered Eurocentric epistemologies and sidelined Indigenous thought.

Empathy in Action: Critical Perspectives from the Arts and Humanities

ARTS & HUMANITIES INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLOQUIUM

(Please read the full CfP before sending a proposal)

Deadline for abstract submissions: 20 March 2026
Notifications of acceptance: by 01 April 2026

Translators, Texts, and Contexts: Reclaiming Human Agency in the Age of AIHosted by the Department of Translation, Lingnan University, Hong Kong11-12 December 2026  |  M+, Kowloon, Hong Kong

As artificial intelligence (AI) sweeps through the landscape of language mediation, the classical trio of Translators, Texts, and Contexts remains central to understanding the art, ethics, and politics of translation. While AI tools offer unprecedented efficiencies in text processing, they often lack the human capacity for nuanced judgment and cultural contextualisation that remain essential to traditional translation studies scholarship.

Food& (https://foodand.eu/) is an experimental publishing project based in Berlin that examines encounters between food and wider social, cultural and political contexts. Previous issues have addressed themes such as Food & Bathrooms, Food & Nuclear War, Food & Gravity and Fast Food & Patents. Food& invites contributions for its upcoming themed issue on Food and Censorship. The issue explores how questions of restriction, regulation, visibility, silence and control shape the production, circulation and mediation of food, food knowledge and food cultures.

ATRAS Journal is now inviting scholars from around the globe to submit their unpublished manuscripts for publication. The journal aims to contribute to the body of knowledge by publishing original papers in the fields of literature, gender studies, cultural studies, linguistics, education, language studies, translation, social sciences, and the arts. Researchers are invited to submit their manuscripts in English, Arabic, and French.

Presentation 

ATRAS Journal is inviting researchers from the international academic community to submit their unpublished manuscripts for publication. 

Accepted papers after review will be published for volume 7, issue 2 on July 15th, 2026

“Meaning emerges in the encounter — in the relations between bodies, images, and the world,” wrote Vivian Sobchack in her Carnal Thoughts (68); and it is precisely these shifting relations that shape contemporary — digital — American identity. In the digital environment, such relations do not stabilise; they reconfigure themselves, recalibrate, and adjust across platforms, archives, sensors, and interfaces.

The Department of English and Cultural Studies, School of Humanities and Performing Arts, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Delhi NCR Campus, is hosting its 3rd International Conference on Global Digital Cultures: Texts, Technologies, and Audiences (Hybrid Mode). 

Date: 23 - 24 February, 2026

In the era of rapid technological change, digitalization, globalization, and platformization are reshaping film, media, and creative industries. This conference critically explores the intersections of texts, technologies, and audiences in global digital cultures, with a focus on South Asia and the Global South.

Call for Papers: Perspectives on Netflix’s Ripley

I am pleased to announce a call for papers for the first edited volume devoted to the Netflix limited series Ripley (Zaillian, 2024). Perspectives on Netflix’s Ripley seeks to explore the myriad ways in which this striking adaptation reimagines Patricia Highsmith’s iconic character for a new era of streaming television. I invite proposals from scholars, practitioners, and critics whose work engages with adaptation, media studies, sexuality, and screen cultures.

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