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POSTHUMANISM AND CONTEMPORARY ARTISTIC PRACTICES
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM 7-8 May 2026
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
Gedimino Ave. 42, 01110 Vilnius, Lithuania
Concept Note
Call for Papers: Elizabeth von Arnim and Pomerania EXTENDED DEADLINE
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
Confirmed plenary speakers:
Dr Jennifer Shepherd, The Open University Belfast, Northern Ireland
prof. Noreen O’Connor, King’s College, Pennsylvania, USA
This guaranteed online session of the TC Religion and Literature forum at the January 2027 MLA convention invites papers on literary production and culture that occurs at the intersections of Black Studies and spirituality. How have texts by Black writers imagined, challenged, and embraced traditional, new, and syncretic forms of spirituality?
Possible topics could include:
CFP: WHAT MIRACLE: NEW REVELATIONS ON THE PROSE POEM
October 15 and 16, 2026, in Rome, Italy
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS - DEADLINE EXTENDED
The Final Frontier: Race, Ecology & Colonialism in Space Opera
Edited by Mikail Boz & Cenk Tan
Editors’ Introduction
The next Conference on John Milton will be held at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT from 22–24 October 2026.
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers addressing any aspect of Milton's life or work, including papers that explore connections between Milton and other writers or artists of the time period (or beyond). Proposals for panels or sessions are also welcome.
Please send abstracts of 150–200 words along with a CV to jason_kerr@byu.edu by 31 January 2026. UPDATE: the submission deadline has been extended to 2 March 2026.
Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies
Brutalism in the Global Novel (https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/jgps/cfp)
Madhurima Nayak, Chandigarh University, India
“American Shorts 2026” will take place on October 29-31, 2026, at the School of Arts & Humanities of the University of Lisbon, Portugal.
American Shorts 2026 webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/americanshorts2026
Submission deadline: 10 June, 2026
Conference: 29-31 October, 2026
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Call for Papers: Special Issue on Digital Marginalisation, AI Bias, and Cultural Representation in South Asia
UPDATE: DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL 07 February 2026
HOME
UCI Comparative Literature Graduate Conference 2026
Keynote Speakers: Prof. Rizvana Bradley and Prof. Samiha Khalil
The infiltration of chaos into any home is not an abrupt occurrence. A fine dust settles on the cracks of wood, sheet folds, window seams, and curtain pleats, waiting for a wind to find its way into the home and liberate the components of scatteredness from their ambush.
Ghazaleh Alizadeh, The House of Edrisis
For those who dominate and oppress us benefit most when we have nothing to give our own, when they have so taken from us our dignity, our humanness that we have nothing left, no "homeplace" where we can recover ourselves.
The End: Reclaiming the Beginning
Dates: December 17–19, 2026
Venue: Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea
Host: The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK)
Keynote Speakers
Our present conjuncture demands urgent engagement with the now of gender. Authoritarian resurgence, border militarization, algorithmic
governance, climate precarity, and uneven recoveries from overlapping pandemics shape how gender is lived, and resisted across diverse contexts: from settler colonial democracies to postcolonial nation-states and stateless territories. Anti-trans legislation, family policing, and reproductive surveillance intensify biopolitical control, while migration regimes, humanitarian aid economies, and asylum adjudication render certain genders and kinship forms precariously provisional.
“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.
“Global Early Modern Environmental Crises: Modes of Extraction, Settler Colonialism, and Empire”
The Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) is putting together a guaranteed MLA panel for the 2027 Annual Convention in Los Angeles, CA, USA (7-10 January) on global early modern environmental crises with a focus on human interactions with the earth tied to imperial pursuits, settler colonialism, conflicts in worldviews, and methods of extraction. We hope to feature scholars with expertise in different linguistic traditions to foster cross-cultural discussions.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
‘A breeze in God’: The Spirituality of Music and Song
International Conference.
September 10th-11th 2026.
Parthenope University, Naples, Italy
Organised by Raffaella Antinucci (Parthenope), Adrian Grafe (Textes & Cultures research lab, Université d’Artois, France)
The intersection of Rhetoric and Communication continues to attract the interest of many scholars, particularly within the fields of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The scope of analysis is wide-ranging, encompassing literature and culture, language studies and advertising, communication studies and politics, among other domains.
Call for abstracts for proposed articlesTo Be Forever Known: The Brontës and Poetry
Inspired by the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s 2025 exhibition From Haworth to Eternity,
Brontë Studies invites new and original articles of no more than 7,500 words that respond to the theme of ‘the Brontës and adaptation’ across film, screen, and the visual and performing arts—including digital, transmedia, and other emerging media forms. The special issue will be published in 2027.
The history of work and labour has long occupied a central place within European social history, offering a key lens through which to examine social relations, hierarchies, forms of power, and economic formations across the longue durée. Rather than approaching work solely as an economic function, historical scholarship has increasingly foregrounded work as a lived social experience –one that has shaped identities, values, and modes of belonging.
Event Date & Location: October 16th – 18th, 2026, at the Hilton Peachtree City, 2443 HWY 54 West, Peachtree City, Georgia, 30269
Deadline for Submissions: Friday, May 1, 2026
Name of Organization: Multiverse Convention
Organization Website: https://www.multiversecon.org
Contact Email: Kenneth Broome, Jr., Learn@Multiversecon.org
CONVENTION THEME:
Call for Papers – Lucius Annaeus Seneca: International Journal of Senecan Studies (LAS)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (LAS), an open-access, peer-reviewed annual journal devoted to Senecan studies and published by Sapienza Università Editrice, invites submissions for its upcoming volume. LAS welcomes high-quality, original research on all aspects of the life, works, reception, and philosophical, literary, and historical impact of Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Women, Literature and Art in Republican China
A Special Issue in Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 57, nos. 1-8 [TBD], 2028
Abstracts Due: April 1, 2026
Manuscripts Due: October 30, 2026
Special Issue Editor(s): Lang Wang and Ying Xiong
Submissions Portal: par e-mail
Personhood is having a cultural moment. The ambiguous status of agency and rights animates compelling and diverse critical responses: from studies of animals, AI, and fetal protection laws (Kurki and Pietrzykowski, 2017), to Frankenstein as a model for corporate personhood (Atkinson, 2022), to anthropocentric ideas of personhood versus the environment (Rochford, 2024), to studies of “potential people” including chatbots and embryos (Kalantry 2025).
Hotels are often the first destination of any traveler. Not just a place to unpack and sleep, they are often one’s first exposure to a new culture, a base of operations, and an enormous factor in travel experience outcomes. Given their essential role in travel, hotels especially cater to the tourism industry. In Discourses in Place (2003), Scollon and Scollon develop an important, multi-faceted framework for analyzing text in space, arguing “we can only interpret the meaning of public texts like road signs, notices and brand logos by considering the social and physical world that surrounds them” (1).
“Feminist and Anti-Racist Citation”
sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Society
Modern Language Association 2027 | January 7–10, 2027, Los Angeles
Please note this is a call for potential SITE AND PROGRAM DIRECTORS to organize the 2028 Hemingway Society Conference. We are not accepting individual paper or panel proposals at this time.
The Hemingway Society Welcomes Preliminary Site Proposals for 2028 Conference
The executive board of the Hemingway Society (hemingwaysociety.org) welcomes preliminary proposals for our 2028 international conference. Please share this call widely with your professional networks.
Teams wishing to be considered should submit to Hemingway Society President Verna Kale (vlk123@psu.edu) a letter of interest that includes the following information:
Legal Research & Analysis (DOI Prefix: 10.69971; ISSN: 3007-6455 (Online), 3007-6447 (Print) publishes research papers, review papers, case comments and books reviews related to all aspects of laws including but not limited to legal issues, legal systems, and the legal profession. Legal Research & Analysis is a multidimensional legal research journal, seeking scholarly work on any topic of theoretical, interdisciplinary, comparative, and other conceptually oriented inquiries into law and law reforms.
Edited Volume: Nam June Paik as a California Artist:
West Coast Experiments, Networks, and Legacies
For the 150th anniversary of Harriet Martineau’s death, the Martineau Society will be hosting its annual conference in conjunction with the University of Cumbria, Ambleside Campus, in Ambleside, England. The Martineau Society conference is an interdisciplinary conference that focuses on the lives, work, and contributions of the Martineau family, including its two most famous and influential members, Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) and James Martineau (1805-1900). Harriet Martineau resided in the Lake District for much of her later years, from 1845 until her death in 1876.
Feminisms Against Fascism: Consortium-Wide Graduate Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
DATES: April 23 (evening) & April 24 (all day)
WHERE: Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang College of the Liberal Arts, The New School, 65 West 11th Street, New York, NY, Room B500
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Judith Butler
The Gender & Sexualities Studies Institute at The New School invites submissions for our annual, in-person convening in New York City. This year, we bring together scholars, artists, writers, activists, and students to address the topic of Feminisms Against Fascism.
National Video Games: Cultures, Industries, Communities
international conference
10–12 September 2026
University of Warsaw, Poland
The end of history was cancelled years ago, and national ideas have been on the rise ever since. Game scholars, too, have been studying the relationships between national cultures, video games and game industries for about a decade. We now have a wealth of material about the game cultures of numerous different countries across the world; there are also publications that examine the national categorization of games itself.
Beyond Human: Unruly Senses of Being, Knowing, and Feeling Existence
UCSD Literature Department Graduate Student Conference
University of California, San Diego
In-Person, May 15-16, 2026
For much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Italian Americans have occupied an uneasy position within U.S. racial, cultural, and national narratives—simultaneously marked as insiders and outsiders, assimilated and othered, white and not-quite-white. This call for papers invites scholars to revisit and re-theorize Italian American identity through the lens of Otherness, drawing on and expanding the concept of Italianità as articulated by Fred Gardaphé and Anthony Julian Tamburri.
Call For Submissions
31st Annual Significations Graduate Student Conference
California State University, Los Angeles
Department of English
Conference Date: April 24, 2026
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2026
IN/ACTIVITY
Starting from a sense of our own activity as literary and cultural scholars, the organizers of Significations invite graduate students to share their work on the theme of In/Activity. We welcome submissions that interpret, examine, and analyze the theme broadly. Possible topics of discussion can include, but are not limited to, the following:
DEADLINE EXTENDED to 15 February 2026
Conference: Contagion, Information, Territory
Leiden University (Leiden, the Netherlands), 17-19 June 2026
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Ramon Amaro (Design Academy Eindhoven)
Prof. Dr. Jasbir Puar (University of British Columbia)
Call for Papers
New European Trends in Ecocriticism and Climate Change Literatures
Conference Dates: 28-29 May 2026
Venue: Centre for European Studies (CEUROS), University of Limerick
Submission Deadline: 31 January 2026
Conference Overview
European literary and cultural studies are witnessing a significant shift as climate change reshapes how texts imagine and articulate human–environment relations. This conference focuses on new ecocritical directions emerging within European contexts, including innovative theoretical approaches, evolving narrative forms, and the growing integration of environmental justice into cultural analysis.
The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is holding our annual virtual conference, ACH 2026, from June 24 to 26, 2026. We are excited to announce that we have extended our call for papers to February 23, 2026: https://ach2026.ach.org/en/cfp/.
Call For Papers
The 3rd International Conference on Global Plant Humanities
Botanical Life in Art, Science, and Imagination
Conference Dates: 8–10 May 2026 (Fri–Sun)
Mode: Hybrid (Physical & Virtual)
Host: Department of English, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India
Deadline Extended - March 1st 2026
Call For Chapter Proposals – The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Modernisms
Editors: Ruth Clemens, John Greaney, Maebh Long, Barry Sheils
Final call! Submit by February 1st.BWWC 2026: Call for Papers
This year’s MCLLM theme invites exploration of how literature, language, and performance illuminate intersecting dimensions of justice. How are inherited forms, genres, and rhetorical strategies reactivated in contemporary struggles for equity? In what ways do linguistic, literary, and artistic practices navigate, resist, and respond to the abuse of power while imagining alternative futures?
MCLLM welcomes proposals from a wide range of disciplines and expression forms. The list below provides a sense of the topics the organizers are interested in seeing, but it is not an all-inclusive list. Please submit a proposal that represents your interpretation of our theme!
Call for Papers
2026 EALA Annual Conference
From Technē to Technology
Conference Organizers: ROC English and American Literature Association (EALA, Taiwan) and Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Sun Yat-sen University
Date: October 17, 2026
Venue: National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
[The deadline for abstract submission is extended to February 14, 2026]
UCD Centre for Gender, Feminisms & Sexualities - 2nd CGFS Conference Call for Papers: 'Thinking Gender Justice: Oppression, Resistance, Liberation' University College Dublin, Ireland, 17-19 June 2026 Proposal Deadline: 27 February 2026. Notifications: 9 March 2026Registration opens 6 MarchProposal Submission form: https://forms.gle/4qkYr9riQ1yWgnwR7
The call for papers is now open for the second volume of CJHS, scheduled for publication in December 2026.
Submission period:
January 1 to June 30, 2026
All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review.
The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce its annual essay prize competition for 2026, open to all, on the subject of
Placing Katherine Mansfield
The winner will receive a cash prize of £200 and the winning essay will be considered for publication in Katherine Mansfield Studies, vol. 19 (2027), the peer-reviewed yearbook of the Katherine Mansfield Society, published by Edinburgh University Press.
The distinguished panel of judges will comprise:
PROFESSOR JANET M. WILSON
University of Northampton, UK
Chair of the Judging Panel
DR CHRIS MOURANT
University of Birmingham, UK
JOHN WOOD
Independent Scholar
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR VOLUME 19 OF
Katherine Mansfield Studies
THE PEER-REVIEWED YEARBOOK OF THE KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOCIETY
PUBLISHED BY EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
on the theme of
PLACING KATHERINE MANSFIELD
Editors
Dr Erika Baldt and Dr Gerri Kimber
MLA Annual Convention 2027
Los Angeles, California | 7–10 January 2027
This special session invites proposals that examine current challenges and emerging trends in the teaching of Spanish language, Hispanic literature, and culture in both university and secondary education contexts. We seek contributions that critically reflect on pedagogical practices in a rapidly evolving academic, technological, and social landscape, offering innovative, reflective, or praxis-oriented perspectives.
Call for Papers: Film International: Journal of World Cinemas
Special Issue: ‘Diasporic Cinemas: Transnational Aesthetics’
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/film-international-journal-of-world-cinema#call-for-papers
(To be released in Dec 2026)
Call for Papers: Film, Fashion & Consumption
Special Issue: 'Dress Against: Aesthetics of Power and Normativity in Contemporary Cinema'
Guest Editor : Danae Ioannou
Submission deadline: 31 August 2026
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/film-fashion-consumption#call-for-papers