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International Conference (Hybrid) on Impact of Globalization on Society, Culture and Literature, January 19-20, 2026, organized by IQAC, Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya, and Antarmukh: A Bengali Research Journal.
About the Conference
4th International Environmental Humanities Conference:THE BLUE HUMANITIES
Cappadocia University (Mustafapaşa Campus, 50420 Ürgüp/Nevşehir, Türkiye)
May 20-23, 2026
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
Steve Mentz (St. John’s University, USA)
Simon C. Estok (Sungkyunkwan University, S. Korea)
2 more keynote speakers to be announced
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
Call for Special Issues: Christianity and Literature
As a peer-reviewed journal publishing since 1951, Christianity and Literature invites proposals for Special Issues exploring focused topics at the intersection of Christian faith and literary expression. We are interested in issues that address, but are not limited to, the following areas:
CALL FOR PAPERS
‘Stars and Screen’
Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium
May 16, 2026
https://starsandscreen.blogspot.com/?m=0
The ‘Stars and Screen’ Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium is an Interdisciplinary Symposium dedicated to Film History, Archival Research, Cinema and Media History.
CONCEPT NOTE
Call For Papers
Travel is perhaps the most enduring and evocative leitmotif of life, both in a very real and
metaphoric sense. Essentially spinning from that chequered gamut, Travel Literature records
human interactions and experiences within the diverse landscapes and cultures of the world. Its
significance lies in its ability to document encounters with differences, recording their observations
of previously unknown lands and articulating evolving perceptions of space, place, and identity.
One of the earliest examples of this is found in the works of Herodotus. His Histories blend
accounts of his journeys with observations on cultures, customs, and geographies of the ancient
Memories & Dreams: Exploring Perspectives on Past, Future and Possibility in Materials for Young People
Call for Paper Proposals
Deadline for Submission: Friday, January 30th, 2026
A peer-reviewed graduate student conference on children’s literature, media, and culture.
University of British Columbia | Unceded traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Vancouver, Canada | Friday July 17th & Saturday July 18th, 2026
"Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open" - Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia.
The British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) is pleased to announce our first graduate conference, New Work in Contemporary Literary Studies, which will take place at the University of Leeds on May 20th 2026. This will be a hybrid conference.
Participants will be invited to contribute to a special issue of the soon-to-be relaunched journal Alluvium, to be published after the symposium.
The CÉMA is pleased to announce the forthcoming conference ‘Beowulf & circulations,’ to be held in Paris at the Institut Historique Allemand and the Sorbonne on March 13-14, 2026, with keynotes by Irina Dumitrescu (Universität Bonn) and Francis Leneghan (Oxford University). A public reading of Beowulf is scheduled on Friday 13 March evening.
The text of Beowulf was consigned in writing over two centuries after its initial oral composition. It is extant in only one manuscript, yet resonates in at least Andreas (from another codex), and once circulated as part of a thriving oral literary economy now no longer retrievable.
The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100- to 200-word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at WonderCon, in Anaheim, CA, March 27–29, 2026. We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars. We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists. The CAC at WonderCon does not accept virtual submissions. The CAC is designed to bring together comics scholars, professionals, critics, and historian
DEADLINE APPROACHING FOR
Popular Culture Association 2026 (PCA 26): Atlanta, GA
April 2026
"Visual Culture’s Pasts, Presents, and Futures"
The VISUAL CULTURE area of the Popular Culture Association welcomes proposals in anticipation of its 2026 conference, which will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, April 8-11.
BLOOMSBURY
Call for Papers
Lives Remembered: Trans Narratives of Memory
Bloomsbury's Trans Studies series
Editors: Dr. Arpana Venu & Dr. Neethu P Antony
VIT-AP University, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh
About the Volume
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology (IJCSIT)
ISSN: 0975-3826(online); 0975-4660 (Print)
https://deepublisher.com/Jnl/csit/Home.html
***November Issue***
Call for paper
International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies (IJHAS)
https://deepublisher.com/Jnl/hass/Home.html
*** November Issue***
Scope
Femspec, an interdisciplinary feminist journal, is seeking new reviewers to contribute to the journal. We particularly welcome contributions from postgraduate, early-career, and independent researchers. Femspec is interested in reviews of new titles within feminist, science fiction, fantasy, and folklore genres. This is not limited to printed text, and we welcome reviews of new TV and film. Please see the list below for suggested review material, but do get in touch with any suggestions. We are also keen to publish reviews of new scholarly works. Again, do get in touch to discuss this.
Recently published and forthcoming books:
Call for Papers
Midwest Winter Workshop 2026
Rhetoric Program
Indiana University Bloomington
Friday, February 6th – Saturday, February 7th, 2026
The Diaspora Child Strikes Back is a multidisciplinary conference held in-person in Camden, NJ, USA, from June 11-13 2026.
Announcement: Call for papers extended and shift to online conference! New deadline: January 7, 2026
“Curiosity & Care” - Stony Brook University English/WGSS CFP, New York Graduate Conference
Stony Brook University’s English Graduate Department, in collaboration with the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Department, invites abstracts and proposals from current graduate students and independent scholars for its annual spring conference on Friday, Feb. 27, 2026, at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, NY.
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Cross-Cultural Studies on Han Kang and the Cross-Cultural Imagination
Overview
Call for Book Chapters
The Plant Turn: Literature, Ecology, and the Green Imagination Across Periods
“Under Strong Interest” by Bloomsbury Academic's Critical Plant Studies
Editor’s Introduction
Call for Book Chapters
Frankensteinian Resonance: Transtemporal Reanimations in Fiction, Film, and Video
“Under Strong Interest” by Palgrave Macmillan
Editors’ Introduction
Special Issue CFP – Living in Languages
“Becoming Translator: Ontological Shifts and Translational Praxis”
Abstracts due: August 30, 2025
Preliminary drafts due: November 30, 2025
Expected publication: Summer 2026
What happens to the translator in the act of translation?
This special edition of Living in Languages explores translation not only as the movement of
meaning across languages, but as a transformative ontological practice—one that acts upon the
translator, unsettling their assumptions, reconfiguring their relation to the world, and altering
their very being.
Living in Languages Journal
Living in Languages invites submissions of book reviews and review essays for forthcoming issues. We welcome critical engagements with recent publications, new translations or retranslations of literary/theoretical works, performances, exhibitions, and digital projects that speak to translation studies and its intersections across the humanities and social sciences.
International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies (IJHAS)
https://deepublisher.com/Jnl/hass/Home.html
*** November Issue***
Scope
Visual Cultures of the Medical Modern
A two-day conference to be held at Azim Premji Bengaluru, 19th - 20th February, 2026 co-
organized by the English and Media Studies group
About the conference:
DEADLINE EXTENDED ONLY FOR ACADEMIC ARTICLES AND BOOK REVIEWS
Call for papers "Literary and Artistic Expressions of Radical Ecology"
Special issue of Capitalism Nature Socialism
Editor: Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India
Narrativising Infrastructure
Special issue for The Global South
Issue editors:
Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India
Payel Pal, The LNM Institute of Information Technology, India
The Plantationocene: On Histories and Narratives of the Plantation
Special issue for Interdisciplinary Literary Studies
Editors:
Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India
Somasree Sarkar, Ghoshpukur College, University of North Bengal, India
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
(To be Published by the National Publisher AUTHORSPRESS INDIA with ISBN and DOI)
Extended Deadline- 15th November 2025
ART, AESTHETICS, AND VISUALITY IN CULTURE AND LITERATURE
Call for papers
Artificiality | Surfaciality
An international conference between
Rutgers University (NJ) and Aix-Marseille Université (France)
April 9-10, 2026
“En constatant, en notant la forme de leur flèche, le déplacement de leurs lignes, l'ensoleillement de leur surface, je sentais que je n'allais pas au bout de mon impression, que quelque chose était derrière ce mouvement, derrière cette clarté, quelque chose qu'ils semblaient contenir et dérober à la fois.”
Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann, 1913
The John Dos Passos Society is proud to announce its 2026 biennial conference in Ponta do Sol, Madeira Island, Portugal. The conference will be held at the John Dos Passos Cultural Center in the municipality of Ponta do Sol, the home of the author's Portuguese ancestors.
We invite abstracts for twenty-minute presentations dealing with any aspect of John Dos Passos’s life, works, and/or professional relationships. Comparative approaches are also welcome.
Call for Chapters
Streamculture: The Aesthetics and Politics of Platformized Viewing
The International Crime Fiction Association is delighted to announce the thirteenth Captivating Criminality conference, held from Thursday, 25 June to Saturday, 27 June 2026 at Bamberg, Germany, with a workshop for ECR/PGR on Wednesday, 24 June 2025. This year’s topic, crime fiction, conflict, and representation, attempts to appeal to researchers of crime fiction in all its variety and presented on various media, ranging from the “classical” detective novel via filmic representations of crime to podcasts and social media. As a genre of fundamentally human expression, much of crime fiction from all places and times is concerned with discussions of both conflict and representation.
The English Department of the Faculty of Letters, History, Philosophy and Theology, West University of Timișoara, is pleased to announce its 34th international conference on British and American Studies, on the theme “Reconfiguring Borders and Boundaries in/through the Lens of Literature, Language and Culture,” which will be held on 14-16 May 2026.
10th Annual Global Souths Conference
March 12-14 2026
Outside the Margins: Where We Are and Who We Are
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana
Theme statement:
How do we come to know health—our own or that of others? In a time marked by global crisis, inequality, and rapid technological change, lived experience offers vital, yet often marginalised, forms of knowledge. This one-day conference brings together Early Career Researchers across disciplines to explore health through the lens of lived experience: its stories, its silences, and its capacities for change.
Updating Ecocriticism: Perspectives from Gen Z
Eds. Başak Ağın and Lenka Filipova
Call For Papers
Graduate Students in English Interdisciplinary Conference 2026
Call for Papers on the Theme: “Transformation”
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville – March 14-15, 2026
The Graduate Students in English at University of Arkansas in Fayetteville invite proposals on the theme “Transformation,” a topic as broad as the literary and academic canons themselves. As we bear witness to changes in higher education landscapes across disciplines, we might consider how our own perceptions have evolved, what has been reliable in scholarship historically, and what needs to adapt.
The “Collecting and Collectibles Area” of the Popular Culture Association invites papers on “Collecting in/as Crisis” for the 2026 National PCA/ACA Conference to be held in Atlanta, GA, USA on April 8-11, 2026. We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “Collecting in/as Crisis” and particularly address how collections/collectibles and their institutions and practices involve or respond to natural, cultural, economic, environmental, health, epistemic crises, etc.
Possible topics for presentations include but are not limited to:
· Collecting as systemic violence
· Collecting as cultural erasure
The Claude McKay Society (CMKS), now an author member society in the American Literature Association (ALA), will convene one or two panels at the ALA conference at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, May 20-24, 2026. Harlem Renaissance author McKay is presently enjoying a healthy resurgence.
Call for Abstracts: “Cultures of Waste” International conference (Offline)
Deadline for abstract submissions: Dec 20, 2025
Full name / name of organization: Department of Liberal Arts. Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India and UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies, Department of English, The University of Hyderabad
Contact email: culturesofwaste@gmail.com
Movements and MigrationsResearch Society for Victorian Periodicals, 2026 ConferenceTrinity College, Dublin, 23 - 25 July 2026
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Call for Papers
Stardom and Fandom
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
NEW Submission Deadline: November 14, 2025
Call for Papers: Asian Cinema
Special Issue: 'Moving Violations: Asian Crime Films'
Special Issue Editors: Victor Fan, Kristof Van den Troost, and Earl Jackson
View the full call here>>
We are now accepting submissions for our next regular issue. Manuscripts in MS Word (5,000–10,000 words) adhering to the MLA 9th edition formatting guidelines should be sent to editor@jcla.in.
Website: jcla.in
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Comparative_Literature_and_Aest...
We invite scholars in religious studies and related fields to submit proposals for chapters
that will contribute to an edited volume on Metamodern Spiritualities.
This volume will be the first of its kind to explore metamodernism as manifested in 21st century
religious/spiritual institutions, beliefs and practices. We seek contributions from
different disciplinary perspectives that critically adopt or adapt Vermeulen and Van den
Akker’s theory of metamodernism to contemporary religious/spiritual phenomena. We
welcome submissions that include, but are not limited to, theories and case studies of:
Don't Look Away: The Monstrous, the Gothic, and Survivance in the Worlds of Stephen Graham Jones
Organized by the Stephen Graham Jones Society
Chair: Dr. Billy J. Stratton, University of Denver
The Stephen Graham Jones Society invites proposals for a panel at the 2026 American Literature Association (ALA) meeting. We welcome submissions from emerging and established scholars investigating the vast, ever-expanding body of work by Stephen Graham Jones. This panel will focus on the recent and ongoing scholarship surrounding his horror fiction, as well as its significant pedagogical value in the contemporary classroom.
This interdisciplinary conference invites scholars to explore the rich and evolving relationship between Textual Studies and Memory Studies, two fields that while historically distinct offer vital and complementary insights into the construction, transmission, and contestation of cultural memory. In an era marked by the disruption and reconfiguration of once-stable social, cultural, and political structures, the questions raised by both disciplines feel increasingly urgent: How is the past preserved, edited, and transmitted through texts (where “text” is broadly conceived)? What role do textual forms, variants, and materialities play in shaping collective memory?