2026 Dress and Body Association Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Dress and Body Association invites submissions for the organization’s seventh annual conference, which will be held on November 7-8, 2026. Consistent with our long-term goals for inclusivity and sustainability, all activities will be 100% online.

Join our Google Group to learn about opportunities and converse with members of the DBA year-round! Email to request membership: dress.body.assoc@gmail.com.

Opening the Archives of Dress and the Body

This special session, taking its inspiration from the conference theme “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” invites presentations that challenge the assumption that adaptation is primarily an industry-driven practice shaped by Anglo-American cultural and legal frameworks. In these systems, intellectual property laws define adaptation as a derivative process, regulating authorship, ownership, and revenue streams. What happens when we shift the focus to the Mediterranean, the Middle East, or South Asia? In these contexts, adaptation often emerges through more fluid practices of transmission, performance, and reinterpretation/inspiration, where the boundaries between original and adaptation are less rigid.

Futuring Poetic Inquiry: A Return and Renewal10th International Symposium for Poetic Inquiry (ISPI) 
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 
October 8-12, 2026  Proposal Submissions Due June 1, 2026 - EXTENDEDTo submit a proposal: Please visit the ISPI website for more information and to submit a proposal: ISPI website  

--- DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL 25 MAY 2026! ---

You will receive a decision no later that 1 July 2026. 

The conference runs from 29 September - 1 October. On-site attendance only. The conference is held in Aarhus, Denmark. 

See full programme here: https://conferences.au.dk/gastro/programme 

Read more about contributions and send your paper proposal: https://conferences.au.dk/gastro/call-for-contributions 

About the conference

"Let Us Tell An Old Story Anew": Revising / Reinventing / Reimagining Disney

Disney’s Maleficent (2014), a live-action retelling of their animated classic, Sleeping Beauty (1957), begins with a narrator challenging us to re-see the stories we’ve been told before. The entire movie, in fact, revolves around correcting past perceptions, ones that Disney originally shaped and is now choosing to reshape. Maleficent is just one example of a spate of live-action remakes and other ways Disney has reimagined itself in the twenty-first century. Such reimaginings invite research into how and why Disney feels the need to make us see them anew.

This session is part of the 2026 PAMLA Conference in Seattle, 11/12-11/15

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS/CHAPTERS

maurer.press
Frankfurt am Main

Body and Mind:Contemporary Studies on Language and Literature — Volume 10, Maurer Press, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

We invite chapter proposals for Body and Mind, the tenth volume of the Contemporary Studies on Language and Literature series. This peer reviewed academic volume investigates the evolving relationships between corporeality, cognition, identity, and culture—relationships that have become increasingly central to contemporary scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.

The World Congress on Logic and Religion (WoCoLoR) series aims to provide a forum where scholars from a wide range of disciplines — including, but not limited to, logic, philosophy, mathematics, computer science, the humanities, psychology, linguistics, and the cognitive sciences — together with theologians from diverse religious traditions, can come together to exchange ideas on the latest developments concerning the relationship between logic and religion, reason and faith, and rational inquiry and divine revelation.

Conference online (via Zoom): 2-3 July 2026

CFP:​

Motion Lines: Depicting movement in the early 20th century

18 Nov. 2026, Université Paris Nanterre

Haunted Futures 2026

University College Cork: 29th - 30th September 2026

Deadline for Submissions: July 24th, 2026

Silly Old Bear? A Companion to Adaptations, Appropriations, and Transformations of Winnie-the-Pooh

Organized by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)

Please submit proposals by 1 August 2026

In the past two decades, scholars of environmental literature have begun expanding the Euro-American canons and contexts that have long dominated ecocriticism and publication, teaching, and reading practices in the West. The perspectives on humans’ relationship with the nonhuman world that emerge from alternate global sites often complicate and even challenge the values and priorities of Western environmental scholarship and activism.

This interdisciplinary seminar/workshop will bring researchers, academicians, professionals, and students to explore the transformative role of artificial intelligence in sustainable agriculture, environmental resilience, ecological humanities, and contemporary education. The presentations on AIGS-2026 will focus on emerging themes, including:
·      AI and Smart Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture
·      Climate Resilience and Water Sustainability
·      Sustainable Agriculture in Hilly Regions
·      Emerging Pollution and Environmental Monitoring
·      Citizen Science and Big Data Analytics
·      Indigenous Knowledge and Rural Sustainability
·      AI in Education and Digital Pedagogy

Abstracts are invited for a traditional panel session to be held at the annual meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, scheduled for 5-7 November 2026 at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel and Conference Center, Atlanta, GA, USA. 

This session intends to explore the theme of “hospitality” in the works of Joseph Conrad in order to highlight how Conrad’s relationships both reflected and influenced his literary output throughout his career. Some relationships were more enduring than others, but all had an impact, often a profound impact, on his life and writing.

The GPA is accepting submissions for its 2026-2027 volume of The Journal of the Georgia Philological Association.  Papers focused on literature, language, composition, history, philosophy, translation, the general humanities, interdisciplinary studies, and pedagogy will be considered.

Please send submissions to Editor-in-Chief, at jgpasubmissions@gmail.com by Sept. 30, 2026.

Please visit our website for more information on submitting to the journal: https://www.mga.edu/arts-letters/english/gpa/index.php

CALL FOR PAPERS

Displaced Dialogues: Performance and Identity in Dalit and Tribal South Asian Diaspora

Introduction

Call for Panel Proposals

Renaissance Conference of Southern California (RCSC)-Sponsored Panels for RSA Philadelphia

Renaissance Society of America Conference

Philadelphia, USA March 11–13, 2027

CFP Deadline: August 15, 2026

Call for Articles

OTAGO GERMAN STUDIES (OGS), Vol. 33 (https://otagogermanstudies.otago.ac.nz/ogs)

University of Otago – Dunedin | Ōtepoti

New Zealand | Aotearoa

Daniel Spoerri: Collecting, Consuming, Conserving

Retrospective and Prospective Views

The editorial board of OTAGO GERMAN STUDIES invites submissions for a forthcoming

edited volume dedicated to the life and work of Daniel Spoerri (1930–2024), the Swiss-born

TYCA Northeast

61st Annual Conference

2026 Call for Proposals

October 2 - 3, 2026

Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square

25 S Queen St, Lancaster, PA 17603

Proposal Deadline: Monday, June 1, 2026

Submission Link: https://www.tycanortheast.org/

Conference Theme: Meeting the Moment: Connecting the Past, Present, and Future in English Studies

LFA 2026: ADAPTATION/NATION

LITERATURE/FILM ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

Elon University, Elon, NC

October 1st – 3rd 2026

Handbook of Religions and Migration: Global and Multi-Tradition Perspectives (Springer)

Editors:

İhsan Çapcıoğlu, Ankara University

Fadime Apaydın, University of California, Riverside

Nevfel Akyar, Manisa Celal Bayar University

Editorial Note: In line with our editorial commitment to developing a major reference handbook comparable to leading works in the field, the submission deadline has been extended briefly in order to further strengthen the volume’s global, multi-religious, and cross-traditional comparative dimensions.

"Melville Revivals"

PAMLA 2026

November 12-15, 2026

Seattle, Washington (Hyatt Regency Seattle, 808 Howell Street)

Small Screens, Big Stories: Storytelling, Seriality and Mobile Screen Culture

Evolution of Story IV

Deadline for chapter-track abstracts: 1 June 2026
Online symposium-only track open until March 2027