Plenary Lecture: Professor Daniel Cook (University of Dundee)

Artist’s Talk: Martin Rowson (in conversation with Brigitte Friant-Kessler)

Venue: St. Bride Library (London, U.K.)

Dates: 23–25 September 2026

Guest editor: Maxime Fecteau

Primordial and born of Chaos, Gaia wears many faces. In Hesiod’s Theogony she is a fertile, earth-bodied mother; she is also an insurgent force—ally to the Titans and to violent births. This constitutive ambivalence—nourishing ground and upheaval, regeneration and revolt—guides the 15th issue of MuseMedusa. We follow the figure to probe the regimes of time and action it exceeds, while noting how modern representational devices have narrowed its plurality of faces (Latour, 1991; 2015). In short, understanding Gaia today means holding Greek myth together with attention to planetary change.

Miloš Forman: Between Europe and Hollywood

Symposium organized by the Department of Theatre and Film Studies, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Friday, April 24, 2026
Univerzitní 3, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Explorations: A Journal of Language and Literature is a peer-refereed online journal published by the University of Opole, Poland (for more information and the current issue see http://www.explorations.uni.opole.pl). 

Call for Chapters

Feminine Rage: A Companion

I have a thing about feminine rage. I get a lot of [scripts of] men doing really terrible things and women sitting silently whilst one tear slowly falls. I’m like, ‘No, no, no, no, no. We get mad. And we get angry. – Anya Taylor-Joy

The Medievalism in Popular Culture Area (including Early to Later Middle Ages, Robin Hood, Arthurian Legend, Chaucer, Norse, and other materials connected to medieval studies) accepts papers on all topics that explore either popular culture during the Middle Ages or transcribe some aspect of the Middle Ages into the popular culture of later periods. These representations can occur in any genre, including film, television, novels, graphic novels, gaming, advertising, art, etc. For this year’s conference, I would like to encourage submissions on some of the following topics:

Today, all countries that were colonized by France have gained their independence, yet discussions about its legacy continue. Many films, documentaries, literary works, speeches, and critical writings contribute to the ongoing conversation about liberty and justice in relation to independence. A 2024 documentary produced by Wandrille Lanos, titled Haïti, la rançon de l'indépendance, explores how liberty and justice were interpreted during Haiti’s struggle for independence. From September 22 to 26, 2025, during the United Nations General Debate at the 80th Session, the current president of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, argued that colonization should be recognized as one of the greatest crimes against humanity.

Today, Bollywood is not merely an industry of Indian films representing the national cinema but also a global cultural phenomenon. From the singsong dance sequences on YouTube to its widespread circulation on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and regional streaming platforms, Bollywood redefines South Asian identities and how they are consumed, contested, and celebrated globally. Moreover, the intertwining of questions on cultural appropriation, culturalized representation, caste, gender, and diasporic negotiations emerges with renewed urgency and visibility.

Epistemologies and Pathways to Truth

 Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference 2026

“Building Spaces of Freedom,” March 28th-31st at Fisk University, Nashville, TN

Panel: 

Medical Humanities Across Species

Concept Note:
Theories, or to be precise, Literary and Cultural theories are various (though at
times, overlapping) frameworks or tools used to interpret a given text.
Etymologically, the term, ‘theory’ comes from the Greek ‘Theoria’ which, broadly,
means contemplation and speculation. Every theory proposes its own interpretative
strategies and modes of extracting meaning, helping us to “discriminate between
experiences and evaluate them,” as Richards would have said. Given that meanings
of texts can hardly be considered final, theories shore up our analytical approaches
as well as selection or rejection of meanings.
Theories that have been native to literature, that is, the ones focusing on the

The CUNY Graduate Center’s Cinema Studies Group invites you to:CLAWS

A graduate student conference organized by the student-run Cinema Studies Group, with support from Film and Media Cultures and the Doctoral Graduate Student Council.

Conference Date: March 13th, 2026, 9:00 am- 5:00 pm 

Location: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY (rooms TBA)

Keynote Speaker: TBA

Proposals Due: December 15th, 2025

We are pleased to announce the following Call for Papers for the International Conference “Translating Latin in the Contemporary World”, to be held in June, 11-12, 2026, at the University of Bologna (Italy).

The second International Conference on Globalisation in Languages, Education, Culture and Communication (GLECC2026) is going to be held 28-30 July 2026, Manchester, UK. (https://glecc.org/2026/)

 The past two decades have witnessed remarkable advancements in the studies into Education, Second and Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting, Cultural Studies, and Communication. This growth, evident in both the number of active researchers and the volume of scholarly throughput and outcomes, can be largely attributed to the forces of globalisation. Consequently, adopting the globalisation perspective is timely and provides a natural framework for connecting these diverse yet interlinked disciplines.

This issue aims to publish essays on climate fiction and its related topics that are approached through the lens of Christian theological and literary interpretation. 

Call for Papers: Performing Oppositions

Oppositions
Cultural Studies Association (CSA) 2026 Annual Conference

May 28-30, 2026

Fully Online

Deadline for Submissions: Friday, December 19, 2025

Registration

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de l’Association des professeurs des littératures acadienne et québécoise de l’Atlantique
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CRISES ET TRANSFORMATIONS. REPENSER LES LITTÉRATURES DE LANGUE FRANÇAISE
Université du Manitoba et Université de Winnipeg
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
du 1er au 3 octobre 2026
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PhD students are invited to submit proposals for a 10‑minute presentation of their thesis project (or other ongoing research) for the inaugural PhD Research Showcase at the 3rd International Meeting of Researchers of Intermediality (IMoRI 2025), held online on 4–5 December 2025. The PhD Research Showcase will take place on Friday, 5 December, 12:15–14:15 CET (UTC+1). IMoRI is traditionally an invitation‑only forum for established scholars. This special session opens the door for emerging researchers to present their work to—and receive feedback from—leading figures in intermedial studies. IMoRI 2025 features panels organized by major research units in the field, two expert roundtables, and will close with a conversation with Prof.

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.

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

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,

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.

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.

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.