A Two-day Symposium and Exhibition at Loughborough University 18th-19th September 2026

 27th & 28th May 2027 (In-Person, Newcastle University, UK) Since their inception, video games have been defined by, and grounded in, space and place: from the maze in The Temple of Rom (1982) to the Hyrulian depths in Tears of the Kingdom (2023), from the Holy Land of the Crusades in Assassin’s Creed (2007) to the noirish city of Detroit: Become Human (2018), and from the farms of Stardew Valley (2016) to the depths of Hell in Hades (2020), video games have been concerned with the relationship between the player-character, place, mobility, and game-play mechanics.  This conference asks how place and space have been represented in and mobilised in video games: we are interested in spaces of imagina

The structure of Joan of Arc's early phase invites comparison to archetypal heroic narrative: reluctant departure, rejected petitioner, gatekeepers to persuade or evade, and the acquisition of skills and resolve before the great undertaking. Whether such comparisons illuminate Joan’s experience, distort it, or reveal more about her interpreters than Joan herself is the question this panel opens. What do we actually know about Joan before she became Joan? How have scholars, hagiographers, filmmakers, and popular adapters handled the silence and ambiguity of her early life? When Joan is made to fit a pattern, which Joan gets left out?

Seventeenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, 14-15 April 2027

Founded in 2010, the Constructed Environment Research Network is brought together by a common shared interest in human configurations of the environment and the interactions among the constructed, social and natural environments. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

Seventeenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment will address the following annual themes and special focus:

American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting
University of Houston | May 20–23, 2027
Paper proposal deadline: September 22, 2026

What kinds of responses do encounters with nonhuman life, elemental forces, and damaged environments demand? How might environmental damage implicate us in debts that cannot be settled, repaid, or made good?

Call for Abstracts / Papers for a Special Issue of MatLit (Materialities of Literature / Materialidades da Literatura), vol. 12, 2027, edited by Fabio Durao and Tim Lanzendörfer

https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/matlit/announcement/view/359

The "Forms" of Academic Work
Editors: Fabio Durão (UNICAMP) and Tim Lanzendörfer (Frankfurt University)

Aging & Social Change: Seventeenth Interdisciplinary Conference, University de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, 3-5 November 2027

Seventeenth International Conference on Food Studies, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France, 9-10 September 2027

Founded in 2011, the Food Studies Research Network is brought together around a common interest to explore new possibilities for sustainable food production and human nutrition, and associated impacts of food systems on culture. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

The Seventeenth International Conference on Food Studies calls for research addressing the following themes.

38th Annual Conference of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society

May 7-8, 2027

Gainesville, Florida

The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society, an organization of 200+ members worldwide, invites paper proposals on topics related to Rawlings’ life and works. Papers should be 20-30 minutes.

Topics related to rawlings may include:

This roundtable will examine Asian American representation in 21st-century television and film, to engage in conversation on if or how films or TV shows that feature or foreground Asian American characters have realized the aspiration of a more authentic, nuanced, and diverse representation.

Weather in 19th-century Literature and Art in the Age of the Anthropocene concerns the question of evidence of weather-related changes due to anthropogenic emissions induced, in part, by industrial capitalism. While humanity has been considered to be largely responsible for weather-related changes regarding shifts in wind current patterns, varying levels of precipitation, and drought-like conditions induced by an increase in anthropogenic emissions, leading Paul Crutzen to declare a new geologic epoch in Cuernavaca, Mexico (2000) during a gathering of atmospheric chemists, the conditions continued to be exacerbated by the close of the 19th-century.

Description: While many works of literature have been translated across the globe, there are still many texts that have been neglected in translation studies. If we compare Germans Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm to Ion Creanga, a 19th century Moldovan/Romanian author who adapted some of their stories into Romanian, we can recognize at once that untranslated voices can marginalize literary communities. Creanga’s “Capru cu trei iezi” (or The Goat and Her Three Kids), an adaptation of “The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats” by the Brothers Grimm, has been told to every Romanian child at bedtime since the turn of the 20th century, and yet, most outside of the country have not heard his version.

Conference: 24-25 September 2026 (online, via Zoom)

Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland

Marzia Dessi  - The European Graduate School [EGS] Saas Fee, Switzerland

Professor Ryan Habermeyer -  Salisbury University, USA

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CFP:

• PAEDEIA: NSU Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences, and LawCall for Papers

Vol. 2, 2026

*"Online First" publication upon acceptance

*Expected print publication in December 2026

 TO SUBMIT YOUR PAPER, PLEASE CLICK THE FOLLOWING LINK Submit

17th International D.H. Lawrence Conference,

02-08 July 2028

Lawrence and the Mediterranean

Co-sponsored by the English Department of Aix-Marseille University, France, the English Department of Paris Nanterre University, France and the D. H. Lawrence Society of North America

Conference Dates: 02-08 July 2028 (Sunday-Saturday)
Conference Site: Aix-en-Provence, France (Aix-Marseille University)

The Classroom as Counter-Archive: Place-Based Pedagogies of Community Empowerment

Education is an ideal means of empowerment, for it enables students to take ownership of the historical and personal archives that stand for their communities. This panel regards the classroom as a privileged site of such empowerment—particularly for students from immigrant families—and seeks proposals on how to equip them to become active agents in producing their own interpretations of the cultural and spatial memory they share with their forebears.

Eighteenth International Conference on The Image, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada, 13-15 October 2027

Founded in 2010, The Image Research Network is brought together around a shared interest in the nature and function of image making and images. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

The Eighteenth International Conference on The Image will address the following annual themes and special focus:

Twentieth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, 13-15 September 2027

Founded in 2008, The Inclusive Museum Research Network is brought together by a shared concern for the future role of the museum and how it can become more inclusive. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

The Twentieth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum will address the following annual themes and special focus:

Thirty-Fourth International Conference on Learning, Aristotle University of Thessalonki, Thessaloniki, Greece, 7-9 July 2027

Founded in 1989, The Learner Research Network is brought together around a common concern for learning in all its sites, formal and informal, and at all levels, from early childhood, to schools, colleges and universities, and adult, community and workplace education. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

Eighteenth International Conference on Sport & Society, Federal Fluminense University, Niterói, Brazil, 17-18 June 2027

Founded in 2010, the Sport & Society Research Network is brought together around a common interest in cultural, political, and economic relationships of sport to society. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions

Eighteenth International Conference on Sport & Society will address the following annual themes and special focus:

Twenty-Second International Conference on the Arts in Society, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 9-11 June 2027

Twentieth International Conference on e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, 8-9 April 2027

Founded in 2006, the e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies Research Network is brought together around a common concern for new technologies in learning, and an interest to explore possibilities for innovative pedagogies offered by new information and communications technologies.

Twentieth International Conference on e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies
calls for research addressing the following annual themes and special focus:

2027 Special Focus—THE CYBER-SOCIAL CONDITION: Knowledge, Learning, and Human Futures

Twenty-Third International Conference on
Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability, University of the Witwatersrand,, South Africa, 20-22 January 2027

Founded in 2005, the On Sustainability Research Network is brought together by a common concern for sustainability from a holistic perspective, where environmental, cultural, economic, and social interests intersect. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.