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Liverpool John Moores University, UK
6-8th July 2026
Confirmed keynotes:
Melissa Gustin (National Museums Liverpool), with guided tours of the Walker Art Gallery
Tara MacDonald (University of Lethbridge, Canada) “Public Institutions, Private Care: Sex Work and Care Work in Victorian Popular Fiction”
Designed by Jean-François Vernay, the Routledge Literary BRAIN (Brain-Related Academic Investigations of Narratives) Focus Series combines the language of literary criticism with neurocognitive and health humanities methodologies or explanatory frameworks, providing an innovative way of blending literary analysis with health humanities and neurocognitive approaches.
This exciting BRAIN series is designed to convene conversations across interdisciplinary knowledges, covering all fiction and nonfiction sub-genres such as poetry, drama, novels, short-stories, memoirs, (auto)biographies, essays, etc.
War leaves lasting marks not only on people and communities, but also on the natural world that witnesses, and endures, its violence. Long after the fighting has stopped, landscapes shaped by destruction remain living archives, bearing the aftereffects of conflict: damaged forests, polluted rivers and seas, and disrupted ecosystems that continue to hold its traces. These ‘trauma ecologies’ pass on the legacy of war from one generation to the next, forming what we call ‘environmental postmemory.’
Doing American Studies Outside the US—Now
University of Sydney, Australia
Dates: July 16–18, 2026
About the Conference
Call for Papers
University of Delaware’s 5th CMCS Conference in Material Culture
April 2-3, 2027
“What’s the Matter with Description? Form, Practice, and Material Culture”
Keynote Speaker
SUSAN STEWART
(Princeton University)
2/15/26 - 4/30/26: Subs are open forIssue #9: Collaborations!We are seeking both poetry and art.There are no theme / subject restrictions.
One Hundred Years of Gabriel García Márquez
Proposed Dates: 1-2 May 2026
Proposed Venue: SRM University, Sikkim
Organized by: MELOW (The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World)
Gabriel García Márquez, born in Columbia in the year 1927, is acknowledged as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. As we head towards his birth centenary, it is time to look back at this literary giant, reassess his contribution and its impact on literary history.
How might theatre and performance come to confront the global rise of populism, while setting the stage for, and potentially provoking a reconceptualization of, emancipatory ways of being in the world? Please send 250-word abstracts and brief bios to Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay, University of Milan (ertug.altinay@unimi.it) and Sharon Lois Mazer, Auckland University of Technology (sharon.mazer@aut.ac.nz)
This MLA special sessions panel invites papers on literary and cultural approaches to Los Angeles infrastructure, aimed at interrogating the political aesthetic of social, natural, and built environments. Please send a 250 word abstract and short bio.
2027 MLA Convention: January 7-10 in Los Angeles (accepted presenters must be MLA members by April 1)
We invite papers on the literature of the Arctic. Especially welcome are proposals on texts and authors that connect the Arctic to contemporary issues of extractivism, securitization, and imperialism. Please send a 250-word abstract and short bio.
2027 MLA Convention
Los Angeles, CA | January 7-10, 2027
5th IRW Theme: “Rhetorical Flows: Building Transnational Solidarities & Cultures of Resistance.”
Submission Deadline (250-word abstracts in English or Spanish): March 21, 2026
Submit here: https://tinyurl.com/IRW-Submissions
The Planning Committee for the 5th Biennial International Rhetoric Workshop invites international PhD students, emerging scholars, and established researchers to come together and consider the myriad ways that our contemporary and established traditions of rhetorical theory, pedagogy, and criticism inform global flows of meaning-making.
CALL FOR PAPERS
MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION
Los Angeles
JANUARY 7-10, 2027
The Ernest Hemingway Society will sponsor a panel at the upcoming MLA Conference:
Hemingway and Disability
Special note for the contributors:
Please focus on the text that represents migration from the Global South to the Global North.
The text under consideration should be published after 2000, though it can focus on migration that happened at any time in history.
Please take a minimum of one and a maximum of two migration/refugee narratives for analysis.
Please mention within the abstract the theoretical background clearly that one wants to apply.
The text under consideration should be either written in English or translated into English.
Call for Chapters
Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies: Language, Sense, and Proof in the Early Modern World
Editors: Dr Mary Katherine Newman and Dr Rana Banna
What counted as evidence in the early modern world?
How did language itself – spoken, written, translated, or performed – shape conceptions of proof?
And how did sensory experience lend authority, or uncertainty, to what language claimed as true?
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) - Volume 7
Volume to be published in December of 2026
The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) is excited to announce the call for papers for our seventh volume, to be published December 2026.
The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies is a peer reviewed, open-access journal published by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. JAMS is dedicated to publishing scholarly works exploring anime, manga, and a broad range of related topics, such as methodologies, cosplay, fandoms, adaptations, and more. As an open-access journal, JAMS aims to reach a broad-ranging audience of scholars (both within and beyond the academy) and interested general readers.
Walls, barriers, barricades, borders are lines (real and imaginary) reified to divide, define, and contain, but there are also borderlands and border crossings which necessarily blur and defy arbitrary lines and lead to rethinking notions of belonging and belongings.
Call for Papers: Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory in Contemporary Anglophone Literature and Culture
War leaves lasting marks not only on people and communities, but also on the natural world that witnesses, and endures, its violence. Long after the fighting has stopped, landscapes shaped by destruction remain living archives, bearing the aftereffects of conflict: damaged forests, polluted rivers and seas, and disrupted ecosystems that continue to hold its traces. These "trauma ecologies" pass on the legacy of war from one generation to the next, forming what we call "environmental postmemory."
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (IJAISC) ISSN : 2819 - 101N 2974-5962 (Print)
http://flyccs.com/jounals/IJASC/Home.html
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International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHASS/Home.html
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International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHASS/Home.html
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International Journal of Education (IJE)
ISSN : 2348 - 1552
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJEMS/Home.html
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We are excited to share with you all on behalf of the Conference Planning Committee for the University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program that we are holding our 21st Annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing on Thursday, April 23, and Friday, April 24, 2026, on our campus in Storrs, CT. Our theme for the upcoming conference is: “Wicked Reading for Wicked Problems." As those who have collaborated with us in the past, we are once again inviting you to help us explore ways of approaching these 'wicked problems', such as those that evade consensus, offer multiple solutions, or may even resist resolution at all.
Chapters for The Handbook of Ecofeminism
deadline for submissions: March 1, 2026
full name / name of organization: Nicole C. Dittmer, PhD
contact email: ncdittmer@gmail.com
In 1974, Françoise d’Eaubonne coined the term ecofeminism in Le féminisme ou la mort, foregrounding the intertwined domination of women and nature and calling for the liberation of both from systems of exploitation. Since its emergence, ecofeminism has inspired scholars and activists across disciplines and global contexts.
Deadline extended
Concorde: Literary, Linguistic and Sustainability Studies International Conference
Date: 22-23 April, 2026
Venue: Department of English, Netrokona University, Netrokona, Bangladesh
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Professor Dr Anirudra Thapa, Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Professor Dr Shamsad Mortuza, Department of English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Professor Dr Shaila Sultana, Institute of Modern Languages, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Date of Conference: 23-25 April, 2026
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 24 March 2026
Online, international, interdisciplinary conference titled:
(In-)Visible Wounds: Interdisciplinary Perspectiveson Discrimination and Violence
ACCSFF ‘26
Call for Papers
The 2026 Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy will be held Saturday and Sunday, May 30-31, 2026, in Toronto, Ontario, at York University, Canada.
This year's author GoH keynote speaker is the Nebula Award winning Premee Mohamed.
We invite proposals for papers in any area of Canadian science fiction and fantasy, including:
-studies of individual works and authors;
-comparative studies;
-studies that place works in their literary and/or
cultural contexts.
Faculty Development Programme (Online)
Translation Studies in the Digital Age: Theory and Praxis
Department of Humanities, School of Liberal Studies
KIIT Deemed to be University (India)
March 9–13, 2026
Finnish Literary Research Society Annual Conference 2026
May 20-22, 2026
Online Panel: Indigenous Futurisms Beyond the West: Arab and Global South Speculative Fiction
JAMS@AX26
Want to present your work at the one-and-only Anime Expo? The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies(JAMS) and Anime Expo have once-again teamed up to give you the JAMS@AX26 academic symposium, July 2-5, 2026 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This symposium presents an incredible opportunity to connect fans of all ages directly to scholars researching and writing about the medium we all love.
The JAMS@AX26 welcomes all papers taking a scholarly perspective on anime, manga, cosplay, and their fandoms.
Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture: “Slop” and “Nostalgia”
May 14th, 2026
Virtual Mini-Conference
DLC+ is excited to announce the second installment of its Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture series, mini-conferences devoted to studying the most pressing and emerging concepts actively shaping digital literary culture.
Concept Note
South Asia in Transition: A Literary Cartography
The Faerie Queene confronts its characters and readers alike with perceptual, cognitive, and physical struggles, and the reader’s passage through Spenser’s monumental work is as arduous and seemingly unending as the journeys and quests of its knights. The parallels between the characters’ trials and the readers’ embodied experience of the poem become more pronounced when The Faerie Queene is read out loud in its entirety. In 2019, the English department at Tampere University organised its first marathon reading of Spenser’s epic romance. The 2026 iteration will be the sixth marathon reading overall, and the second to be attached to an international symposium.
Literary Representations of Co-Existence
Conference location: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Croatia
Keynote speakers: Mark Bould (University of the West of England Bristol) in-person
Dinesh Wadiwel (University of Sydney) online
Conference dates: Sept 3-5, 2026
Conference fee: 75 Euros for the fully employed, 50 Euros for students and those not fully employed
Send abstracts of 200 words, and a short biography, to bwillems@ffst.hr by May 1, 2026
One response to the official archives’ violent erasure(s) of multiethnic subjects (and the associated literatures) in the US has been scholarly investment in digital archiving. Still, the digital archives (and/or the metadata culled from them) can–and often do–reify whiteness as normative and the marginalization of other Americans. MELUS invites papers that consider how digital archiving (re)shapes and/or supports lay communities that inform the literature of the marginalized. We are particularly interested in papers that address how practices of liberatory archiving resist objectification of multiethnic subjects and/or authors. Submit titled proposals (250 words), a brief CV, and AV needs.
Ruralities, Artistic Ecologies and Sustainable Futures
Revista de Estudios Globales y Arte Contemporáneo (REG|AC), Vol. 12 (2026)
UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA (UB)
Guest editors: Anna Maria Guasch, Julia Ramírez-Blanco and Olga Sureda
Seeking folks for our CFP below. Please email Dana Ahern (dtahern@usf.edu) and SJ Dillon (sjdillo@emory.edu).
Apologies for crossposting.
Call for Papers: Journal of Digital Media & Policy (JDMP)
#JDMPJournal
Special Issue: ‘Video streaming policy and genre on demand’
Guest Editors: Jessica Balanzategui, Andrew Lynch and Alexa Scarlata
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-digital-media-policy#call-for-papers
Shakespeare’s works continue to inhabit what Stephen Greenblatt calls a “circulating energy system,” an ever-renewing sphere in which texts, performances, and interpretations travel across borders and epochs, sustaining the playwright’s presence in world culture. Tiffany Stern’s seminal research further reminds us that Shakespeare should be understood not as a fixed authorial entity but as an ongoing “process”—a dynamic constellation of scripts, fragmentary documents, performance traces, and editorial interventions that resist the notion of a stable text.
Anuario de Letras Modernas
Convocatoria
Literaturas modernas y estudios literarios en el primer cuarto del siglo XXI
Editores invitados:
Mario Alfonso Álvarez Domínguez
Universidad de Lille – Universidad Paris Nanterre
Odette de Siena Cortés London
José Alfredo Valerio Luna
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Memory, Myth, and Meaning: Cather in Dialogue with America 250
Willa Cather Spring Conference | Thursday, June 4 - Saturday, June 6, 2026
This year marks the centennial of My Mortal Enemy, one of Cather’s least affirmative works and one not produced in the Cather Scholarly Edition (translation: much important work remains to be done!) We invite papers on new approaches to My Mortal Enemy, including but not limited to the following considerations of style, form, provenance, and themes:
2026 Wenshan x TSA International Conference Call for Papers
Hosted by: NCCU Department of English, Taiwan Shakespeare Association
Date: November 29, 2026
Venue: National Chengchi University
Shakespeare Across Centuries:
Reception, Resonance, and Reinvention
Shakespeare’s works continue to inhabit what Stephen Greenblatt calls a “circulating
The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale will host its fourth annual conference via Zoom May 1-2. This conference is completely free. We will be accepting proposals for presentations through April 4th.
Call for Proposals
MLA 2027 (Los Angeles)
Special Session
We are proposing a special session for the 2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles on "Edited Collections: Tips and Tricks to Successful Publishing." This special session will be a roundtable featuring six presenters with the following format:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are invited for the 18th and 19th issues of the peer-reviewed journal of bi-annual frequency: TRIVIUM A Multi disciplinary Journal of Humanities of Chandernagore College. The scope of the journal includes humanities and social sciences, commerce and management without mathematical application.
Guidelines for Submission
Children’s accounts of violence occupy a paradoxical space in public discourse: they are framed as both essential, unquestionable evidence, and, sometimes at the same time, as unreliable and prone to outside influence. Both framings rely on cultural constructions of the child’s “innocence.” This panel invites papers examining narratives of violence told by children, with a particular interest in experiences of institutional or state violence. How do these narratives complicate familiar tropes of children as voiceless victims in need of saving, or of certain topics as exclusively “adult” or “childish”? How do child narrators themselves exploit, resist, and play with or into these tropes?
MLA 2027 – Early American and Sexuality Studies Forum
“The Body Before Sex”
This collaborative panel by the Early American LLC and Sexuality Studies TC of the Modern Language Association aims to bring forward trans, environmental, and affect methodologies to consider the historically and culturally specific ways the body and sex intersect and depart. We are particularly interested in papers that stretch and transgress temporal and spatial domains, offering critical juxtapositions that reexamine the materialities and temporalities that make visible the body before it becomes associated with, and attached to, sex.
Global Music History and Northern Europe in the 18th and 19th Centuries
University of Copenhagen, 15–16 May 2026
Deadline for proposals: 15 Feb. 2026
We invite proposals for papers exploring global music histories connected to Northern Europe in the long 18th and 19thcenturies.
This session will be devoted to academic novels and academic administration. Panelists will consider what these novels (as well as television and films centered in academia) have to say about how higher education institutions are run, and what we might learn about how—and how not—to run them. Equally interested in literary studies (genre, form, representation) and Critical University Studies (history, politics, current events).