Call for Papers

Pets and Pet-Owner Relationships in Literary Texts of the Long Eighteenth Century

(Edited Collection)

A Two-Day International Conference on Environmental Humanities: A Multidisciplinary Dialogue on Ecological Agency and Crisis

Organised by the Department of English, Women's Christian College, Kolkata (affiliated to the University of Calcutta),

in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame, Australia, Transilvania University of Brasov (Romania) & Spadina Literary Review (Canada)

DATES OF CONFERENCE: April 22, 2026 (WEDNESDAY) & April 23, 2026 (THURSDAY)

VENUE: WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, KOLKATA, INDIA

MODE: HYBRID (both online and in-person)

CONCEPT NOTE

Call for Proposals: Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory

April 10–12, 2026

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

Keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

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Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) insisted on “imagining a future which might be radically and constitutionally other.” The urgency of this task rested on his understanding of Critical Theory “as a way of keeping the negative alive in a period in which praxis, the unity of the negative and the positive, itself seems suspended.” We invite proposals for papers on Jameson’s work and its implications for the future of critical theory.

Epistemologies and Pathways to Truth

The University of Maryland’s Graduate English Organization (GEO) invites proposals relating to the theme of “Epistemologies and Pathways to Knowledge” for our 19th annual graduate student conference, to be held in person on Friday, March 27, 2026 at UMD, College Park. 

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

 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

APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS
Colloque international
de l’Association des professeurs des littératures acadienne et québécoise de l’Atlantique
(APLAQA)
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
Le terme « crise » vient du grec krísis qui signifie « jugement, décision, moment critique » et
renvoie à un point de bascule où se produit un choix décisif ou un changement majeur (TLFi, crise).
En français, le mot est d’abord employé au XVe siècle dans le vocabulaire médical pour désigner le

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.

Since 1975, pacificREVIEW: A West Coast Arts Review Annual (formerly Pacific Poetry and Fiction Review) has thrived as an experimental editorial cohort made up of driven, wily, undergraduates & graduate students in the department of english and Comparative Literature, san diego state university, san diego, ca 92182-6020. This year, we take on comix again! 

The term latency finds its etymological root in the Latin latere, meaning “to lie hidden, to lurk,” which conceptually resonates with the Greek λανθάνω (lanthánō), “to escape notice.” Both terms evoke a state of concealment, something that is not immediately manifest. In Aristotle’s distinction between dynamis (potentiality) and energeia (actuality), the latent is that which possesses the ability to become. Plato’s concept of anamnesis, instead, posits that innate knowledge of universal truths lies dormant within the soul, which possesses it before birth.

Call for Abstracts

Postcolonial Interventions in association with Centre for Studies in Gender, Culture and Media, West Bengal State University and the Department of English, Sister Nivedita University invites abstracts for an international conference on Indian Writing in English to be held in Sister Nivedita University, New Town, West Bengal on 13-14 March 2026.

Indian Writing in English in the 21st Century: Negotiations, Resistance and Alternatives

Call for participation

Performing Ends 2026

University of Antwerp

Belgium

October 28–30, 2026

The deadline for proposals is December 1, 2025.