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.

Submit a Manuscript to the Journal

Global South Literary Studies (Routledge)

For a Special Issue on

Political Violence and Literary Responses in South and Southeast Asia since the 1940s

https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/political-violence-and...

Political Violence and Literary Responses in South and Southeast Asia since the 1940s

Stevens and Fiction | American Literature Association 2026 | Chicago, IL | May 2026

How has the future of the United Kingdom and its various components been imagined, conceived and projected at all periods, including the present day?

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS: CALL FOR PAPERS

UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS, JUNE 19-21, 2026

The Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Cyprus, in collaboration with The Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies, The Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College London, Baylor University, the Modern Greek Studies Program at Rutgers University, and The Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University, is pleased to announce an international conference dedicated to the life, work, and legacy of Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957), to be held in Nicosia, Cyprus, from June 19 to June 21, 2026.

17 th Debrupa Bal Memorial International Students’ Seminar

2-3 December 2025

Organized by the students of
Department of Comparative Literature
Jadavpur University

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECTATORIAL-ITY: RECEPTION/ REGENERATION/ REPRODUCTION

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Chinmaya75 International Conference
8–10 May 2026
Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF) • Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth (CVV) • CIF
Shodha Sansthan (CIFSS)
Website: https://chinfo.org/icsc2026
Email: icsc2026@cvv.ac.in

God Rest Ye Scary Gentlemen: The Jolly Misanthrope and Victorian Christmas.  Learn about the happiest time of the year, and the old men who love nothing better than to shit all over it. From Scrooge to Sherlock Holmes, what’s with confirmed bachelors and Christmas? An irreverent and illuminating romp through 19th Century Victorian Christmas, its origins in older traditions, Oliver Cromwell, how it became an institution worldwide, and how one cantankerous old man really ties the whole thing together!  This lecture will be a rollicking and intellectual hour and thirty minutes WITH a ten minute bathroom break.  Bring your humbugs, we’ll be breaking out the turkey dinners and coals! Ninety minutes of holiday cheer. 

Copyright and Intellectual Property Area

As our day-to-day lives depend increasingly on creating “content,” the often misunderstood rules of copyright and intellectual property have an important effect on us. The Copyright and Intellectual Property area seeks to foster an interdisciplinary discussion about the tumultuous cultural battle raging over how we understand the production and distribution of knowledge.

We are pleased to invite proposals for new themed issues of Film Journal, the open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal founded by SERCIA (Société d’études et de recherches sur le cinéma anglophone / Society for Study and Research in Anglophone Cinema). Established in France in 1993, SERCIA promotes the study and teaching of English-speaking cinema worldwide.
Each issue of Film Journal is devoted to a particular theme, and we welcome proposals that explore diverse aspects of film and screen studies. The journal encourages contributions that offer fresh perspectives on film history, theory, narrative, and aesthetics, and that engage critically with a wide variety of cinematic forms, genres, and traditions.

Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies

Brutalism in the Global Novel  (https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/jgps/cfp) 

• Guest Editors: Om Prakash Dwivedi, Chandigarh University, India

                                 Madhurima Nayak, Chandigarh University, India

The Worshipful Company of Curriers, one of the livery companies of the City of London, has established an essay prize on London for early career scholars, in association with The London Journal Trust and the Institute of Historical Research.

The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal. Other promising entries may also be considered for publication.

The Ernest Hemingway Society is sponsoring a panel at the upcoming American Literature Association Conference in Chicago, IL (May 20–23, 2026).

Given the centenary of the publication of both The Torrents of Spring and The Sun Also Rises (1926), we encourage papers focused on the early part of Hemingway’s life and career.

Please send a 250-word proposal and short CV to Dr. Ross K. Tangedal (University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point) at rtangeda@uwsp.edu by January 10, 2026, for full consideration. Your submission will be confirmed via email. 

The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session on medieval race-making. 

The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session on queer world-making in medieval studies. This session takes as its starting point the idea that queerness is not only an identity category or critical lens, but also a mode of imagining, creating, and inhabiting other worlds. We are interested in how medieval texts envision alternatives to normative ideals, and in how queer approaches to these texts might open transformative possibilities.

Since 1988, The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature has published material relevant to the life, works, and friends of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Yearling and many other widely respected and beloved works, including Cross Creek, Cross Creek Cookery, South Moon Under, and Golden Apples.

Iperstoria Special Issue no. 28 (Dec 2026) - Playful Literature, Literary Play: (Video) Games and American Fiction

Guest Editors

Francesca Razzi, “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara (francesca.razzi@unich.it)

Valentina Romanzi, University of Torino (valentina.romanzi@unito.it)

Stefan Schubert, Leipzig University (stefan.schubert@uni-leipzig.de)

Cadernos de Fraseoloxía Galega (CFG), an international journal on phraseological and paremiological research edited by Centro Ramón Piñeiro para a Investigación en Humanidades (Xunta de Galicia), is seeking submissions of contributions for its twenty-eight issue. Even though the deadline is permanently open, only manuscripts received by October 24, 2026 will be considered for issue 28.

CALL FOR PAPERS

‘Stars and Screen’
Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium 
May 16, 2026 

The ‘Stars and Screen’ Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium is an Interdisciplinary Symposium dedicated to Film History, Archival Research, Cinema and Media History. 

Proposals are due: February 1, 2026.

See the Call for Papers, more information and submit proposals on the 
Stars and Screen website: 

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS: MONTRÉAL 2026

FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE

The 2026 CSRS/SCÉR conference will be held in person at l’Université de Montréal (Montréal, Québec) from Saturday June 6, 2026, to Monday June 8, 2026.