UVA Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXIX
Undergraduate Sessions
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise
September 17-19, 2026

Keynote Address:  
“Arthur's Great Death in Malory and its Afterlives”
Karen Cherewatuk, Saint Olaf College

The Poetics of Liminality: The Poet and the State

Consciousness, War, Exile, and the In-Between

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) 2026
Conference Dates: October 8–10, 2026
Location: Marriott Courtyard, Ogden, Utah

Contact: stacy.stingle@gmail.com

Call for Papers

Tolkien in Popular Culture

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2026 SWPACA Summer Salon

June 25-27, 2026

Virtual Conference

https://swpaca.org/

Submissions open on March 30, 2026

Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

Eco-Bordering and Green Nationalism: Spatial Transformations in the South Asian Diaspora

Guest Editors:

Dr. Mansi Bose, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India

&

Dr. Pratyusha Pramanik, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India

Rationale

Panel: Ecocriticism (standing session) co-sponsored by ASLE

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Fri May 15, 2026

Submission link: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/20111.

Conference: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)

Conference Theme: "Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict”

Since the international success of Aterrados and Cuando acecha la maldad, both directed by Demián Rugna, Argentine horror cinema has gained renewed global visibility and critical attention. This resurgence has sparked increasing scholarly interest in the field, positioning Argentine horror as a key site for the exploration of national anxieties, aesthetic innovation, and transnational circulation.

MMLA 2026 Convention Theme: "After the Archive"  (https://mmla.memberclicks.net/call-for-papers)Meeting Dates: 12-14 November 2026Meeting Location: voco Chicago Downtown (350 W Wolf Point Plaza)

Presentation Length: 15 Minutes (7-8 Double-Spaced Pages)
Submission Materials: 250-Word Abstract and CV
Submission Deadline: April 25, 2026

Call for Papers

“U.S. Drama, Theatre and Performance at the Festival mondial du théâtre de Nancy, 1963-1983”

One-day symposium

Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France

Date: Friday, March 26, 2027

Have you marked your calendar for Atla Annual 2026? As announced in November, Atla signed a three-year agreement to co-locate the annual conference with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings. This year, Atla Annual will take place November 20 through 23, 2026, in Denver, Colorado. 

Like the previous four iterations of the conference, Atla Annual 2026 will be a hybrid event. Regardless of your plan to join us in person or online, we hope you will consider submitting a conference proposal.

To investigate how various disciplines respond to Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Demon Copperhead, editors Megan Krupa and Thomas Alan Holmes solicit chapter proposals for an edited collection of scholarly essays. Set in southwest Virginia during the opioid crisis, Kingsolver’s novel converses with Dickens’ David Copperfield, providing commentary about relevant social influences ranging from the global economy and international extractive industries to domestic social services, sports fandom, education, and family structure.

Animal Studies Panel, MMLA ("After the Archive") Chicago November 12-14 Sea Creatures, Then and Now“When the abyss stares back, it demands recognition.” Stacy Alaimo’s newest book—The Abyss Stares Back: Encounters With Deep-Sea Life—challenges us to explore encounters with marine life, intimacies partly enabled by science but offering opportunities for literature and art. This panel seeks papers on any aspect of creaturely marine life and its myriad relationships with human existence. Although traditional AV will not be available for this panel, participants are both allowed and encouraged to share a QR code through which audience members may access their presentations.

National Seminar on “Brihattar Bharat” (Greater India): Connecting the Asian Countries”

25 and 26 May 2026

Department of Philosophy DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur,

in collaboration with

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), Kolkata

ABOUT THE SEMINAR

Please consider submitting abstracts for a guaranteed stream of panels on Early American Environments to be held at next year’s Society of Early Americanists conference (March 18-20, 2027, Chicago; https://www.societyofearlyamericanists.org/conferences/upcoming). We are interested in scholarship that considers questions of environment and ecology in the early Americas, broadly defined to include the transatlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific worlds. How are concerns such as climate change, extractivism, and environmental justice or methodologies such as ecocriticism shaping our reading of early American texts and materials?

Scholars are encouraged to contribute articles about the Grateful Dead and reviews of Grateful Dead-and-related performances and media for consideration for publication in the field’s refereed journal, Grateful Dead Studies. Accepted pieces from the current submission cycle will be published in volume 8 (2027 / 2028) of the journal.

Article submission deadline: 1 August 2026

Review submission deadline: 1 September 2026

Grateful Dead Studies is also seeking qualified reviewers interested in supporting the peer review process. Please reach out if you would like to help scholarly discourse about the Grateful Dead thrive.

The Charles Olson Society will sponsor panels at the Re-Viewing Black Mountain College Conference, to take place in Asheville, North Carolina, October 2-4. 2026 marks the Centenary of poet Robert Creeley’s birth, and the Charles Olson Society will welcome abstracts pertaining to any aspect of Creeley’s life and work. Creeley was a central poet in the development of Black Mountain Poetry, and along with his life-long friend and companion in verse, Charles Olson, Creeley greatly influenced the development of American poetics after World War II. As he said, “I write to realize the world as one has come to live in it, thus to give testament. I write to move in words, a human delight. I write when no other act is possible.”

One of the fundamental limitations of English literature before 1800 is that in order to study this literature it must have survived to us in some form: it must have been preserved, intentionally or accidentally, in whole or in part, and usually in some form of archive. This call seeks papers that reflect on or account for the impact of this archival presence in premodern studies. How has or does the need for our texts to have been archived impact the field, whether broadly or through its effect on the understanding of a particular text, author, or genre? How does reading “after the archive” in this subfield differ from similar readings in other subfields, or from readings that do not consider the significance of the archive?

Invitation to Publish 

in ACTA IASSYENSIA COMPARATIONIS no. 37 (2026)

Thematic issue:CITIES IN LITERATURE  / LA VILLE DANS LA LITTÉRATURE/ ORAŞUL ÎN LITERATURĂ

The deadline for the submission of articles and book reviews (in Romanian, English, French, German, Spanish or Italian) is September 01, 2026.

The final decision of the AIC Editorial Board will be passed on before December 15, 2026.

Corrections (if required) and comments by the authors expected between December 15, 2026 and January 15, 2027.

 Lyric / Narrative: Crossings, Tensions, Reconfigurations

Sixth Biennial Conference of the International Network for the Study of Lyric (INSL) University of Liège, Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Poetics (UR Traverses), June 1-3, 2027 Languages: French, English German

RAILIMAGE Conference, 1-3 April 2027, Turku, Finland

Call for Papers

Imagining Railways from 1900 to the Present: Places, People, Infrastructures, Texts

The project ‘Twentieth-Century Railway Imaginations: Building the Mobility and Infrastructural Humanities’ (RAILIMAGE) invites scholars from all backgrounds to submit paper proposals for its 2027 conference. We also warmly encourage early-career researchers to apply.

African writers such as Chris Abani, Teju Cole, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, NoViolet Bulawayo, Biyanvanga Wainaina, Dinaw Mengestu and many others are committed to reimagining the concept of “home” and “what it means to be African?” in the era of mass globalization and “new” diasporic belonging.

The inaugural Edinburgh Bibliographical Seminar and Workshop (EBSW) seeks proposals on the theme of ‘Catalogues and Registers as Evidence in the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology’. The event will occur at the University of Edinburgh from 20 July to 24 July, 2026, the week after the joint meeting of the History of Science Society and the European Society for the History of Science.

Call for Papers: Autumn 2026: Biophilia: The Shape of the Future
Coreopsis

A Multidisciplinary Journal of the Mythic Arts

This journal accepts papers from many disciplines and is welcoming of all faiths and philosophies. We publish about 5 papers per issue that have been peer-reviewed according to academic standards. Final submissions should be 3000 to 10,000 words. 

If you have a finished paper ready for submission, send it directly to coreopsisjournalofmyththeatre@gmail.com

Call for Papers

Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, and Personal Narrative

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2026 SWPACA Summer Salon

June 25-27, 2026

Virtual Conference

https://swpaca.org/

Submissions open on March 30, 2026

Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026

The 21st century has been defined by large-scale global change driven by migration, exile, border reconfigurations, political upheaval, and shifting power dynamics – all of which have profoundly shaped debates surrounding human rights, identity, culture, and belonging. Furthermore, as digital platforms collapse geographic distance and intensify new forms of surveillance, nationalism, and exclusion, diasporic subjects must navigate complex landscapes of memory, language, race, gender, and political belonging.