The Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies (formerly CACLALS)

Annual Conference — 4-6 June, 2026

Hybrid Format — In-Person & Online Presentations Welcome

Proposal Deadline: December 31, 2026
Location, Montreal (TBA)
Keynote Speaker(s) TBA

Call for Proposals
University of Florida’s Writing Program
Spring 2026 Conference on Pedagogy, Practice, and Philosophy

Conference date: Saturday, February 7, 2026
Theme: Meaningful Writing

The University of Florida’s Writing Program invites proposals for our annual Conference on Pedagogy, Practice, and Philosophy. This year’s theme, Meaningful Writing, asks us to reflect on the writing experiences that matter most to our students, our classrooms, and ourselves.

This seminar for the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting in Montreal, Canada from February 26-March 1, 2026 invites explorations of the entanglements between health, disease, and the urban space in the 21st century as they are represented in literary and cultural texts from the Global South. Building on the well-established spatial turn in literary and cultural studies, the seminar will bring together the frameworks of health/medical humanities and literary urban studies as a productive site of dialogue to examine the variegated intersections of spatialities and diseases in contemporary cities, with an emphasis on urbanities of the Global South.

CONCEPT NOTE

Melancholic Cosmopolitanism: On Alternative Temporalities as Decolonization

Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing invites scholarly notes for its next volume. Up to 2,500 words, notes may include preliminary results of a study, responses to recent content in DH, comments on a current issue of concern, or other brief insights related to critical thinking and writing.

DH publishes, on a rolling basis, a range of scholarly work--from research articles to notes--on writing and critical thinking pedagogy. For more information about DH, please visit the journal at the WAC Clearinghouse of Colorado State University: https://wac.colostate.edu/double-helix/.

VOLUNTEER POSITION OPENINGS

Femspec needs volunteers to fill the following positions:

• Peer Review Coordinator - This person would be in charge of coordinating the scholarly peer review process for the journal. The Coordinator would liaise with authors who submit to the journal, would pass their submissions on to peer reviewers, and would return reviewers' comments to the authors.

• Book Review Editor - This person would coordinate book reviews for the journal. The Editor would be in charge of obtaining books to review, distributing books to volunteer reviewers, and coordinating the submission of book reviews.

The Object(s) of Literature

July 15-17, 2026

Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL), Unicamp

Call for Papers: Historical Fiction in / and the Anthropocene

One-Day Online Workshop of the Historical Fictions Research Network

29 November 2025 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)

15 min talks

The Historical Fictions Research Network, an interdisciplinary and international network of scholars examining historical fictions, i.e. narratives of the past in a variety of popular media, is happy to organise its third one-day winter workshop on the topic of “Historical Fiction in / and the Anthropocene”.

This HYBRID session seeks papers that explore the ways ecocriticism intersects with, informs, or is expanded by other critical approaches, orientations, and disciplines. We encourage analyses that merge ecocritical frameworks with studies of gender/sexuality, queer identities, race/ethnicity, religion, dis/ability status, postcolonialism, Indigenous studies, or from methodologies outside of the humanities. What can dialogue across these intersections of medieval and modern temporal and spatial ecologies teach us and how can we think anew with them? We encourage proposals from graduate students and early career as well as more established researchers.

Call for Papers

Adaptations and Retellings 2026

 Adaptations and retellings, much like nostalgia, are deeply tied to the past. They confront the challenges of integrating past elements into the present and often engage with each other in this process.

https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/apocalyptica/apocalypoetics

Apocalyptica is an international, interdisciplinary, open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at Heidelberg University.

Dear Colleagues,

Call for articles for the English Record's 2026 issue!

How do ELA teachers create moments of joy for their students, their communities, and themselves? How do ELA teachers support learning that centers justice in today’s classrooms, especially in this current political climate? What other questions, insights, and ideas about joy and justice do you have as an ELA teacher? We enthusiastically invite classroom teachers, department leaders, building and district administrators, teacher educators, preservice teachers, and students to submit manuscripts.

More info here: www.nysecteach.org/news/the-english-record/

 UPDATE: Owing to international travel complications, the organizers--Jake Abell and Michael Overstreet--have decided to open up our roundtable to both virtual and in-person presenters. Please also note that we have been encouraged by the editor of one of Bloomsbury Academic's series to publish an edited volume based on the fruits of this roundtable. While acceptance to the roundtable does not guarantee inclusion in the volume, all participants will be warmly invited to submit a chapter proposal for review before the deadline of June 1st, 2026. Please find the details for our hybrid roundtable below, set to take place at the 

DIBRUGARH – MINI-MELOW 2025

MELOW: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World has been in existence since 1997 and organizes an international Conference every year. To date, it has held twenty-five such conferences. Alongside these conferences, MELOW also conducts other activities from time to time, including mini-conferences that bring together smaller groups of delegates to focus on specific thematic concerns.

The next Mini-MELOW is proposed to be held at Dibrugarh, Assam, in November 2025.

Title: “The Colours of Pride: Queer Identities in Literature and Culture”

Proposed Dates: 20-21 November 2025

Romance-epics and chivalric romances not only shed light on the societies (local, regional, and global) in which they were produced, they also inform us of those who kept them at the forefront of their national backbone. These texts are sites of religious performance in which devotional prayers and rituals, as well as discussions of spiritual matters (like conversion and apostasy) are brought to the forefront. This session aims to consider how these poets understood and presented the performance of their faith – and of the non-Catholic faiths – that their subjects (and perhaps they themselves) encountered.

This special issue of Critical Ethnic Studies is devoted to the transnational exploration of caste domination and anti-caste social movements and theories, with emphasis on the interrelation of caste and race in the history and geography of empire. Often portrayed by Hindu nationalists as a declining social category particular to South Asia and steeped in ancient religious tradition, the recent growth in critical scholarship on caste in both South Asian studies and among critical ethnic studies scholars has asserted the continuing and growing relevance of caste politics in the midst of rising fascisms globally.

Call for Applications

2026 Penn State Global Asias Summer Institute

VITALIZING GLOBAL ASIAS: ARTIFACTS & ARCHIVES

Penn State University and the Global Asias Initiative invites applicants for its annual Global Asias Summer Institute, to be held June 8012, 2026. SI2026, co-directed by Neelima Jeychandran (VCUarts Qatar), Monica Merlin (VCUarts Qatar), and Tina Chen (Penn State), will focus on the topic of “Vitalizing Global Asias: Artifacts & Archives.”

“For a colonized people, the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land,” writes Frantz Fanon in 1961. Postcolonial land inscripts imperial violence, anticolonial movements, and new extractivist regimes as it enmeshes human and nonhuman systems. Land, forests, oceans, rivers, and bush enter decolonial discourse as lush metaphors as their material counterparts shift and change in response to new economic and political realities. 19th-century imperial infrastructures regress to ruins as environments regenerate. Bush reclaims plantation, colonial bungalows shelter wildlife, decay and overgrowth mark the limits of empire.

CALL FOR PAPERS

‘“Verse with wings of skill”: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature’ 16-17th April 2026 | University of Sheffield

KEY DATES

Submission Deadline: 24 November, 2025

Decisions By: 30 December, 2025

Event Date: 16-17 April, 2026

(Re)Visiting the Reel/Un-Reel Middle Ages: Pathways to Furthering Research on Medievalisms on Screen (Roundtable) (Virtual)

61st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI), Thursday, 14 May, through Saturday, 16 May, 2026

Co-sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, International Arthurian Society-North American Branch, International Society for the Study of Medievalism

Co-organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College; Scott Manning, Independent Scholar; and Siân Echard, University of British Columbia

Background 

 The International Society for the Study of Medievalism Annual ConferenceFully Online
November 14th and 15th, 2025
Hosted by Anita Obermeier and the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of New MexicoMedievalism is the reception of the Middle Ages in postmedieval times—as well as the ongoing invention, reinvention, construction, and reconstruction of the global medieval past, broadly defined.Just as Arthurian legend, Beowulf, Norse/Viking myth, and The Thousand and One Nights

Time: October 2025 (dates to be announced soon)

Place: Graduate Center, CUNY

Deadline for All Submissions: September 15th, 2025

The PhD Program in Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Center, CUNY invites proposals

for our 2-day graduate student conference under the theme Emerging/Emergent.

What does it mean to emerge?

In moments of political, ecological, and social precarity, the act of emerging is not simply a