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A Series of Panels at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, sponsored by the Long Middle Ages Seminar Series
Appropriately for a word broadly defined as “having a mixed character,” the idea of “hybridity” has elicited contradictory interpretation since its inception in the Greek word hybris. While the word could mean miscegenation, shame, wantonness, outrage, and even violence, the term carried the alternate but equally valid connotation of thinking and moving beyond human limitations. Despite a shift fromclassical beliefs through Christianity, hybrid figures such as the centaur and satyr continued to proliferate throughout the Renaissance, evoking both wonder and terror. While sometimes considered blasphemous, these classical hybrids were also allegorized to fit into Renaissance ethical and religious frameworks.
We are excited to announce that the Long Middle Ages, a seminar series for postgraduate students and early career researchers working on the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern Periods, will be returning for a second series in Autumn 2026!
We welcome submissions of 30 minute papers from postgraduates and early career researchers working in any discipline and on any topic related to the late antique, medieval and early modern periods. Papers will be followed by time for questions and further discussion.
Seminars will commence in October 2026 and run on a fortnightly basis until mid-December.
About the Conference
In light of our deeply polarized times, the American Academy of Religion, Western Region (AAR/WR) invites scholars, practitioners, educators, and community leaders to submit proposals for its Annual Conference. This year's theme is Moving Beyond Boundaries and Silos Toward Interconnection. It reflects AAR/WR's foundational commitment to inter-religious, inter-disciplinary, and inter-generational dialogue.
The Odyssey by Homer is one of the foundational texts of Western culture and has, since antiquity, served as a narrative and symbolic model of the human journey. Odysseus’ long nostos—his return to Ithaca after the Trojan War—is not merely a sequence of mythical adventures but rather a complex process of knowledge, transformation, and the recovery of identity. Already in the ancient world, the poem was interpreted on multiple levels—epic, ethical, and symbolic—and this layering of meanings has contributed to its extraordinary reception in the modern era.
Skenè Research Centre
Interdisciplinary Theatre and Drama Studies
Università di Verona
as part of the agreement with
Dipartimento di Filologia, Letteratura e Linguistica
Università di Pisa
Theatre and Anthropology
Theoretical Approaches to Text, Performance,
and Theatrical Practices
Verona (IT), November 19-20, 2026
Conference venue
Dipartimento di Lingue e letterature straniere,
Polo Zanotto, Aula Co-Working
via S. Francesco 22,
Verona, Italy
2026 Imagining Creative Worlds Online Symposium, 11–12 November 2026
We invite proposals for 2026 Imagining Creative Worlds, an annual online symposium in the Common Ground Imagining Futures Series, taking place 11–12 November 2026.
The symposium brings together scholars, researchers, artists, designers, educators, publishers, museum professionals, media makers, and cultural practitioners working across creative fields and practices. We welcome proposals that explore how creative worlds are made, shared, interpreted, circulated, and transformed.
For 2026, The Arts in Society Research Network serves as the host Network, helping shape the symposium’s emphasis within the wider theme of Imagining Creative Worlds.
While tragedy and horror are often treated as distinct genres, both traditions ask audiences to look steadily at what ordinarily repels them. From unburied corpses and undead monsters to violated kinship and failed agency, these spectacles produce fear, pity, disgust, and sorrow alongside fascination. This session explores what might be understood as a tragedy–horror continuum, examining the aesthetic, affective, and ritual overlaps between tragic and horrific representation across historical periods and media.
Masculinity in Crisis: Hegemony, Marginality, and Aesthetics of Failure in the Arts
In recent decades, the paradigm of masculinity has been increasingly problematized and challenged in the fields of social sciences, cultural studies, gender and queer studies (Connell 1995). Far from being stable or universally applicable, the colossal stature of masculinity has emerged as a space traversed by tensions, counter-narratives, fractures, and processes of symbolic delegitimization.
Who owns mythological creatures? What do they do in modern literature? Based on the reemerging prevalence of mythological influences in popular culture – cf. Madeline Miller, Jennifer Saint, Rick Riordan, etc. – it can be read that monstrosity is having a cultural renaissance and reimagining. With new interpretations and uses of mythology, what happens when a lens of modern feminist or queer theory is applied to these stories?
The guiding thread of this panel develops around a curious remark by Jacques Rancière that would seem to amend a classically Aristotelian thesis: “man is a political animal because he is a literary animal,” the fundamental condition of which is the “excess of words” constitutive of the human animal’s politicalness. Literature (or poetry) has long been placed in close proximity to politics, as we find in Plato’s Republic, where philosophy and literature—and, more generally, philosophy and politics—turn out to be perennial adversaries.
Call for Papers
Imagining the Global Past:
Antiquities, Early Modernities, and the Humanities Today
Research Symposium, May 17–18, 2027
University of Washington Division of the Humanities
Keynote Speakers: Russ Leo (Princeton, English Literature) and Andrew Hui (National University of Singapore, Comparative Literature and Sinology)
Organizer: Rhema Hokama (University of Washington, English Literature and Religious Studies)
UVA Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXIX (9/17-19) deadline for submissions: June 26, 2026 full name / name of organization: University of Virginia-Wise Center for Medieval-Renaissance Studies contact email: kjt9t@uvawise.edu
A small number of additional abstracts (on disability in German Literature) are currently being sought for an edited volume to be published by Metzler Publishing House (an imprint of Springer Nature). The volume adopts a comparative approach and examines representations of disability and/or addiction in German-language and Japanese literature. Interested scholars are invited to send a brief abstract or topic proposal as soon as possible to habib.tekin@hotmail.com and hayashih@kansai-u.ac.jp by 2.7.2026.
Call for Papers: Literary Reception and Human Creativity in the Age of AI
Bryn Mawr College, April 16–17, 2027
Co-organizers: Asya Sigelman (Classics) and Margaret Strair (German Studies)
Keynote speaker: Barbara Graziosi (Princeton University)
The rapid integration of generative AI in everyday life brings renewed urgency to fundamental questions about human creativity: what constitutes the human act of writing, and how does human literary production differ from that of large language models (LLMs) — algorithms trained on vast textual corpora to predict and generate language?
CFP: Special Issue of The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (15.2 2026) on K-Pop, deadline 15th June 2026.
PAMLA 2026 is pleased to present Translation and Temporality: Rewriting Ancient and Medieval Texts for the (Post)Modern World (https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/20010)!
Manuscripts and Textual Criticism (Panel / In-Person)Presiding Officer: Kathryn Vulic (Western Washington University)
International Conference for PhD Students and Young Researchers
UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI
6-7 OCTOBER 2026
«Maligno animo et lingua detractoria»:
the Art of Slander from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age
Geomythology is an emerging field invented by the geoscientist Dorothy Vitaliano in 1968 but has ancient roots in figures such as the mythographer Euhemerus (3rd century B.C.) as well as modern predecessors like Robert Hooke (1635-1703), the “English Leonardo,” and Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), the father of modern paleontology. It has been featured in recent panels at literary and scientific conferences. Geomythology seeks to discover proto-scientific information in ancient and medieval myths, legends, and tales. Often, this information is encoded in stories originally told by eyewitnesses to make sense of traumatic events such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis.
2026 Pacific Ancient Modern Langauges Association (November 12-15) in person in Seattle
"I Think I'm Gonna Die in this House": Spatiality and Class in Film & Literature
submission link:
https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/20015
Abstract:
Submissions open: June 15, 2026 – August 1, 2026
Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies welcomes submissions for its October 2026 issue, which seeks to reconsider how literature translates bodily experience into writing and visibility, and how the body, in turn, discloses and shapes literary meaning.
Information, Medium & Society: Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Publishing Studies, University of Split, Croatia, 30 June - 2 July 2027
Information, Medium & Society: The Publishing Studies Research Network was founded in 2003 with the inaugural International Conference on the Future of the Book. Since then, the Research Network has expanded its scope in two phases. The first was in 2009 when it became the Books, Publishing, and Libraries Research. In this iteration, the Research Network began to look beyond the book as the primary site of investigation. In 2019 the network underwent another change, to become Information, Medium & Society - The Publishing Studies Research Network.
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
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?
International conference co-organized
with the French School of Athens
From imagination to remains, from remains to imagination: literary representations of ancient Greece in its materiality (14th-19th centuries)
February 25-26, 2027 at the French School of Athens
ERC Advanced Grant AGRELITA
The Reception of Ancient Greece in pre-modern French Literature and Illustrations of Manuscripts and Printed Books (1320-1550): How invented memories shaped the identity of European communities
Direction : Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas
https://agrelita.hypotheses.org/
Transformative Language: Literacies of Mind, Body, and Soul
Southeast Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature
Samford University
Birmingham, AL
October 22-24, 2026
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2026
Registration Deadline: September 1, 2026
Keynote Speaker: Jason Baxter (Director for the Center for Beauty and Culture at Benedictine University)
Aims and Objectives
Aims and Scope
Chenkaantal (E-ISSN: 2583-0481) is a pioneer Diamond Open Access Journal for Tamil studies. The journal is dedicated to the academic research of Tamil language, Tamil Literature, Tamil Culture, Tamil Linguistics and other modern trends in Tamil studies.
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