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

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

CALL FOR PAPERS
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

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.

Robert Lowell Society is inviting new papers on Robert Lowell, his work and his times, to be presented at the 37th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, May 20–23, 2026 in Chicago.

ICSSR sponsored

International Conference on

CALL FOR PAPERS

Charles W. Chesnutt Association

American Literature Association
37th Annual ConferenceMay 20-23, 2026Palmer House
17 East Monroe Street
Chicago, IL  60603

The Charles W. Chesnutt Association welcomes abstracts of no more than 300 words for presentation at two sessions on the work of Chesnutt at the 2026 ALA conference in Chicago.

Subjects for submissions are open but may include one of the following:

The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session that will explore disability in the medieval past and/or the ways in which disability studies and medieval studies fruitfully intersect. The session welcomes papers that consider understandings of non-standard human bodies from the medieval past and/or reflect upon the ways in which, as Godden and Hsy write, “the study of disability in the Middle Ages challenges modern narratives of bodily integrity and autonomy” (334). The non-standard body in the Middle Ages takes on a variety of forms both familiar and unfamiliar to us today, from the use of spectacles to colonies of lepers.

Call for Papers 1: You Are On Native Land:  Understanding Medieval Studies in Turtle Island

The EDID Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers on Indigeneity and the medieval. 

The New American Studies Journal: A Forum (Göttingen University Press) invites submissions for a forthcoming special issue in 2026 that focuses on Chinese American literature. We invite submissions of both academic essays and creative works.

3rd International H/Story Seminar

Communism in Historical Fiction

02.04.2026

online

University of Silesia in Katowice
Institute of Literary Studies
H/Story Research Group

The Popular Arts Conference (PAC) invites submissions for our 19th Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, September 3-7, 2026.

PAC is an annual academic conference for the studies of the popular arts, including science/speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and other media; comic books and graphic novels; anime and manga; tabletop and video gaming; etc., presented to a mixed audience of scholars and fans. The mission of PAC is to promote scholarship on popular culture and to encourage engagement between scholars and fans in order to deepen our understanding of the popular arts. PAC presentations are peer reviewed, based on scholarly research.