The 123rd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in Seattle at the Hyatt Regency Seattle, from Thursday, November 12, to Sunday, November 15, 2026. 

Cultural History: 

In keeping with the presidential theme of the 2026 MMLA Conference, “After the Archives,” to be held in Chicago from November 12-14, 2026, papers that incorporate and/or interrogate the archives are welcomed for this year’s panel on American Literature before 1870.

We seek original research articles from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences on the theme of climate narratives of the future for the online research resource Climate Adaptation, an Oxford Intersection. 

What is Climate Adaptation and the Oxford Intersections?

Climate Adaptation is one of several recently announced Oxford Intersections from Oxford University Press. Each Oxford Intersection is an edited resource that deals with an urgent, cross-disciplinary theme (others include AI in Society, Borders, and Gender Justice). Each Intersection contains several sections. 

As the section editor for The Women’s Experience, I am writing to invite you to consider submitting a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, an edited scholarly volume that examines the evolving role of diversity, equity, and inclusion within American democracy and educational institutions.  

The Women’s Experience section seeks rigorous, thoughtful, and evidence-based analyses that examine gender equity, intersectionality, and the evolving role(s) of women in society at the present moment. 

Embodied Aesthetics:

The Body and Embodiment in the Arts and Arts-Based Research

(A Transdisciplinary Conference June 20-21, 2026)

When/Where:

June 20: at the Association of Jungian Analysts’ Centre in London and Online

June 21: Online only

Fees (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)

International Conference for Student Researchers:

Organizer:

AAB College

In partnership: 

Department of Journalism and Communication, University of Tirana
Algebra Bernays University, Zagreb
Communication Institute of Greece, Athens
Faculty of Massmedia Communication, University of SS. Cyrila and Methodius, Trnava, Slovakia

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Modernist Nationalisms Conference

St John’s College, University of Oxford

Thursday 10th September 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

Platform Bengali: Digital Humanities and Digital Culture in the Bangla-Speaking World
A One-Day Hybrid Academic Conference

Conference Date: 18 July 2026
Venue: Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, Kolkata - 700103
Format: Hybrid (In-Person and Online)

Conference Convenor: Pranab K Mondal (Assistant Professor, RKMRC Narendrapur)
Volume Editors: Prithu Halder (Project Coordinator, Platform Bengali; IIT Tirupati), Debapriya Basu (Associate Professor, IIT Guwahati), Spandan Bhattacharya (Assistant Professor, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad)

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

Making Futures Flash. Hacer refulgir el futuro.
Artes, medios y tecnologías de las digitopías a las contranarrativas.
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Departamento de Historia del Arte, 17 de junio 2026

[English version below]

"Se está creando una sutil oscilación entre la predicción y el control, en la que las descripciones acertadas o poderosas del futuro tienen una capacidad cada vez mayor para atraernos hacia ellas, para forzarnos a hacerlas refulgir"
-Kodwo Eshun, “Further Considerations on Afrofuturism” 2003

98 Annual South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference ~ Atlanta, Georgia ~ November 5-7, 2026 

This panel invites papers that examine how literary and cultural texts represent and imagine the dynamics of hospitality, with particular attention to questions of inclusion, belonging, and access for LGBT individuals, as well as in real-world institutions and spaces. Acts of welcome in homes, nations, classrooms, or communities often involve negotiating boundaries: who is invited in, how that welcome is extended, and what it means to belong. How do literary and cultural works depict LGBT figures moving within, across, or outside these spaces?

Die Erstausstrahlung von Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1997 auf The WB Television Network jährt sich im kommenden Jahr zum dreißigsten Mal. Die Serie hat die Populär- und Medienkultur der Jahrtausend-wende maßgeblich mitgeprägt und ist zugleich als Referenztext weit über diesen historischen Moment hinaus wirksam geblieben. Ihre anhaltende Relevanz beruht nicht zuletzt auf der ästhetischen und narrativen Verfasstheit: Genre-Hybridität, Intertextualität, ironisch-selbstreflexive Erzählverfahren sowie eine ausgeprägte figurale und narrative Komplexität machen sie noch heute zu einem beliebten Gegenstand kultur- und medienwissenschaftlicher Auseinandersetzung.

Conference Dates: June 1–2, 2026 

Location: North Carolina A&T State University 

Proposal Submission Deadline: May 4, 2026

The 123rd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in Seattle at the Hyatt Regency Seattle, from Thursday, November 12, to Sunday, November 15, 2026. 

Submit Abstract

Session Type: Standing Session / Panel
Primary Area / Secondary Area: British and Anglophone / Our Ruling Classes: Class, Power, Conflict
Presiding Officer(s): Shataparni Bhattacharya (Indiana University - Bloomington)
shabhat@iu.edu

Abstract

Rethinking Europe–Japan Relations, 1868–1913: An Interdisciplinary Unconference

Organized by the Europe-Japan Bilaterology Research Hub 

Date: 19–20 September (Saturday–Sunday) 2026

Venue: Székesfehérvár (near Budapest), Hungary

About EJBR 

2026 Conference on Young Adult Literature - Louisiana (CYALL)
LSU Shreveport,  November 6, 2026
Shreveport, LA
Deadline for proposal submissions is August 7, 2026

https://libguides.lsus.edu/CYALL

The Fan Studies Network North America Conference is currently open for proposal submissions for our October 2026 conference..

Conference: 18-19 June 2026

in person (Gdańsk, Poland) and online

CFP:

How do we remember and represent our migration experiences? Who is involved in these processes? How does history remember these events? What helps migrants and societies to adapt? The significance of these and related questions have made their way into our daily lives, from the refugee crisis to policy decisions, individual psychotherapy to (re)building identities, communities, and memories.  

Concept Note

Two-Day International Conference (likely to be ICSSR Sponsored) on  “Loss of Indigenous Knowledge in the Age of Digital Humanities: Preservation, Power, and the Politics of Representation” (Hybrid Mode)

Panel proposal #6 for the ASAP 17 Conference 
Madison, WI | October 15-17, 2026

How Soon is Now? Co-Constructing Hope for the Collective Present

Call for Chapters!

Using Popular Culture in the Classroom: Teaching Traditional Skill Sets with Popular Culture Artifacts

Editors: Laura Getty, University of North Georgia (lgetty@ung.edu) and Josef Vice, Purdue University Global (jvice@purdueglobal.edu)

Deadline for submitting chapter proposals (400 words): August 1, 2026 

Notification of acceptance: ongoing, no later than September 1, 2026

Provisional deadline for essay draft submission (approximately 5,000-8,000 words, including teaching resources): December 31, 2026

Voices from the Margins

British Nonconformity in the Long Eighteenth Century Day Conference

The John Rylands Library

Manchester

June 22, 2026

Call for Papers

Mapping the Impossible: Journal for Fantasy Research is pleased to announce an open call for papers on all things fantasy and fantastic!

Mapping the Impossible: Journal for Fantasy Research is a peer-reviewed, graduate student-run, open-access publication supported by the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow. We publishe on all types of fantasy media! Our issues have included articles on topics from Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita to the Horizon video games. We accept academic articles between 3000 and 5000 words, excluding the bibliography.

Call For Papers: American Book Review Focus on “Drama and Resistance” I will be guest editing and contributing an introduction that situates a collection on “Drama and Resistance” within the postmodern/post-World War II era for the literary journal American Book Review. The topic is inclusive of contemporary American drama. For this collection, I’ve been asked to solicit 8-10 short essays and book reviews on this topic that are roughly 1,500 words each (or 6/7 pages double-spaced).