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The Many Hands of Book History
Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Canada / Société bibliographique du Canada
8-9 June 2026, University of Toronto
The Activist Author: Contemporary Forms and Historical Precedents of Activist Literature
Dates and Location:
November 9th & 10th, 2026.
UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).
Confirmed Keynote speakers:
Sara Dimick: Northwestern University; author of Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures.
Juan Meneses: UNC Charlotte; author of Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent and editor of Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination.
Plenary Lecture: Professor Daniel Cook (University of Dundee)
Artist’s Talk: Martin Rowson (in conversation with Brigitte Friant-Kessler)
Venue: St. Bride Library (London, U.K.)
Dates: 23–25 September 2026
Williams and Little Magazines
In his Autobiography William Carlos Williams describes little magazines as having “saved [his] life as a writer” (135). Poetry and other small magazines (including The Dial, Others, and The Little Review) were vital in growing Williams’s audience and in hosting and shaping the conversation around his modernist poetics. In 1920, Williams even joined artists Marsden Hartley, Lola Ridge, and Robert McAlmon in founding their own, Contact.
We invite papers on Williams, print culture, and the little magazines. Possible subjects include:
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS: MONTRÉAL 2026
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE
The 2026 CSRS/SCÉR conference will be held in person at l’Université de Montréal (Montréal, Québec) from Saturday June 6, 2026, to Monday June 8, 2026.
Movements and MigrationsResearch Society for Victorian Periodicals, 2026 ConferenceTrinity College, Dublin, 23 - 25 July 2026
This interdisciplinary conference invites scholars to explore the rich and evolving relationship between Textual Studies and Memory Studies, two fields that while historically distinct offer vital and complementary insights into the construction, transmission, and contestation of cultural memory. In an era marked by the disruption and reconfiguration of once-stable social, cultural, and political structures, the questions raised by both disciplines feel increasingly urgent: How is the past preserved, edited, and transmitted through texts (where “text” is broadly conceived)? What role do textual forms, variants, and materialities play in shaping collective memory?
Irish-American(s and) Periodicals
Kirsten McLeod and Tim Lanzendörfer
Sponsored by the Research Society for American Periodicals
RSAP Article Prize 2024-2025
Deadline for submissions: 15 December, 2025
https://www.periodicalresearch.org/rsap-article-prize-2024-2025/
Contact: Kirsten Macleod, kirsten.macleod@newcastle.ac.uk
The Research Society for American Periodicals invites submissions for its 2024-25 Article Prize.
A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms
The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (https://pcaaca.org/) annual conference will be held April 8-11, 2026, at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis in Atlanta, Georgia. Scholars from a wide variety of disciplines will meet to share their Popular Culture research and interests.
The Libraries, Archives & Museums area is soliciting papers dealing with any aspect of Popular Culture as it pertains to libraries, archives, museums, or related areas. Possible topics include:
12–14 March 2026
Queer Bibliography in the South:
Space, Place, Community
Athens, GA and online
Queer Bibliography invites proposals for papers considering how gender, sexuality, and textuality intersect with place in the production of queer identity.
The Hemingway Letters Project, under the direction of General Editor Sandra Spanier and Associate Editor Verna Kale, invites proposals for the panel "The Hemingway Letters Project: Emerging Research" to be presented at the 21st Biennial Hemingway Conference, July 20-25, 2026 in Toronto.
Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries (https://cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/) is an open-access, mutually-anonymous peer-reviewed journal exploring the intersection of Defoe and/or his contemporaries and digital humanities.
We strongly encourage the submission of innovative digital and multimedia projects, as well as experimental essays and pedagogical approaches.
Full submission guidelines and archived issues of the journal may be found on the website: https://cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/policies.html
In the Middle Ages, Christian liturgy was far more than a sequence of prayers and ceremonies: it structured religious practice, shaped sacred space, and gave material form to the expression of faith. Objects, vestments, and books played a central role in this framework, endowed with a visual, tactile, and symbolic language that embodied the theology of the sacred. The International Conference Instrumenta altaris: Ritual Artefacts and Their Images for Medieval Liturgy seeks to refocus attention on the material dimension that, throughout the medieval centuries, rendered the invisible visible and preserved —often in fragmentary form— a tangible legacy of devotion.
Call for Applications
2026 Penn State Global Asias Summer Institute
VITALIZING GLOBAL ASIAS: ARTIFACTS & ARCHIVES
Penn State University and the Global Asias Initiative invites applicants for its annual Global Asias Summer Institute, to be held June 8012, 2026. SI2026, co-directed by Neelima Jeychandran (VCUarts Qatar), Monica Merlin (VCUarts Qatar), and Tina Chen (Penn State), will focus on the topic of “Vitalizing Global Asias: Artifacts & Archives.”
The reception of ancient Greece in Europe through the dialogue between texts et images inside and outside the book (14th-16th century)
International conference - ERC AGRELITA
June 18-19, 2026 at the University of Caen Normandie
Call for papers
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for its 2026–2027 research fellowship program. Up to 50 fellowships will be awarded to support projects that require substantial on-site use of the Center’s internationally renowned collections in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history.
The Dickens Society invites submissions for its sponsored hybrid panel at the 57th NeMLA convention, which takes as its theme the concept of “(Re)generation.” This event, which utilizes the conference app Whova and Zoom to promote accessibility and hybridity, will be held in Pittsburgh, PA at the Wyndham Grand Downtown, on the Point from March 5-8, 2026.
Kalamazoo 2026, session #7559: Lists as Sources
Any list serves as a direct “source” for the information it contains. A grocery list tells a shopper what to buy. But it may also serve as a source in several other fields: the history of advertising, the history of culinary trends, or the history of an individual family. This panel seeks papers that consider medieval lists that serve as sources in similarly direct and tangential ways. Such lists might include inventories, mnemonics, itineraries, bede rolls, and word lists, as well as lists in literature. We especially welcome papers that take the properties of lists into account in their analyses.
“Formats and Institutions of American Literary Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century” Editors: Philipp Löffler (Universität Heidelberg) and Alexander Starre (Freie Universität Berlin) Deadline for Abstracts: October 31, 2025 This edited collection addresses alternative modes of writing nineteenth-century literary history, spanning the evolution of the literary field from a narrow patronage system in the 1810s and 1820s to a broad and expanding commercial literary market around 1900. The framing of the volume cuts across traditional period distinctions, from the early Republic to turn-of-the-twentieth-century naturalism, as well as canonized literary movements.
CALL FOR PAPERS
13th International George Moore Conference
May 5-7, 2026
at
Atlantic Technological University, Mayo
&
Moore Hall
George Moore: Landscape and Memory
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
Date and location: 23-25 June 2026, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
Keynote speakers: Sarah Werner, independent book historian; Renske Hoff, University of Utrecht; Aditi Nafde, Newcastle University
Description: Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures (REBPAF) is a Marie Curie Doctoral Training Network coordinated by the University of Galway, which focuses on the ways in which 15th- and 16th-century book producers (scribes, printers, entrepreneurs) negotiated the dynamic relations between the manuscript and the printed book and adapted to the evolving challenges of the market. It also explores the continuing relevance of these cultural and economic negotiations to the modern world.