cultural studies and historical approaches

Call for Papers

The 2026 Multi-ConTEXT International Graduate Conference

“Interweaving Voices and Worlds:
English Studies in Transformative Contexts”

American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic and New England Regional Conference 

November 6th and 7th 2026

Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ 

Please send abstracts of 250 words to Elizabeth.Redwine@shu.edu by August 28th, 2026. 

“Not a Monoculture”: Ideas of Irishness 


In India, the displacement of Adivasis, tribals, poor, farmers, forest-dwelling and land-based people, and other marginalized communities for development and infrastructure projects like dams, railways, power projects, and bridge construction, or for capitalist accumulation like mining, resource extraction, tourism, and industry, is a common occurrence. The trajectory of such displacement has a long history, starting in the colonial period and being aggravated in the postcolonial period under the Nehruvian model of development. Although such projects are implemented for the sake of the ‘greater common good’ for all, only a few elites enjoy the benefit of these projects, depriving millions of displaced, marginalized people (Roy 1999).

About the volume

Call for Papers“I overstand you, you understand”: Joyce and the Nightmare of Interpretation

Conference Dates:

4–5 February 2027

Deadline for Abstracts:

9 November 2026

Successful Applicants Will Be Notified By:

30 November 2026

Keynote speakers:

Sara Sullam, University of Milan

Kris Peeters, University of Antwerp

Organisers:

Franca Ruggieri,

Fabio Luppi,

Enrico Terrinoni,

Serenella Zanotti

6/26/26 - 8/31/26: Subs are OPEN for our big 10th Issue: A Day In The Life.

… um, like The Beatles’ song?‍ ‍

YES!

We’re interested in the ways in which art like this exists in the world — with such wildly different fragments and contrasting energies not just coming together but overflowing with a vivid, mad, inventive creativity! (We do like this song.)

So, do we want poems and artworks about this song, or pieces about The Beatles? NO!

Reading Chaucer outside the Anglophone World: Receptions, Translations, and Traditions
Date: March 12–13, 2027
Venue: National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Conference website: https://readingchaucer.com/

In her resolute commitment to telling stories about Black life without the white gaze, Toni Morrison articulated a model of community empowerment grounded in local knowledge, intra-communal collaboration, and the self-reflexive narration of Black worlds. While Morrison remains one of the most visible public advocates of this aesthetic and ethical orientation, practices of Black worldmaking across African and diasporic literatures have long exceeded mere response to anti-Blackness. Even under conditions structured by racial violence, coloniality, displacement, and social rupture, Black communities have continually generated modes of life, relation, memory, and imagination that assert the possibility of worlds otherwise.

Oceanography & the Blue Humanities: Literary Geographies of Islands and Water Bodies

December 09-12, 2026 

Concept Note:

This roundtable discusses the convergence of literary expression and digital activism as means of empowering a community. The shift of passive representation to active agency in the 21st century can be common in the digital space where the local knowledge is stored and disseminated. We discuss how marginalized groups, namely Dalit writers and activists, have used digital humanities to evade authoritarian gatekeepers and develop transnational solidarities. This session welcomes people to talk about how online spaces can be seen as a form of regenerative space where the testimonios of Dalit can be heard, transforming the world into a supportive space of collective action and literary insurgency.

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

Call for Papers and Creative Submissions

Deadline: November 27, 2026

The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature publishes articles, book reviews, notes, fiction, poetry, and other creative work in the spirit of or regarding the life and work of Rawlings, her circle, and other authors and artists inspired by Florida.

The journal welcomes submissions from various approaches focusing on Rawlings and Florida in broader contexts, including these topics: 

Black Aesthetics and the Affordances of Photography

International Conference, Amerika-Institut, LMU München

Philologicum, 9-11 June 2027

Thinking through and with the concept of Black Aesthetics this conference addresses the Affordances of Social Justice Photography in order to consider the medium’s possibilities toward placemaking, activism, and social justice as well as the varied agencies inherent in photographic images and in different processes of looking.

In this modern moment, there have been a myriad of proposals exploring the contours of “speculative fiction”—be that social, environmental, &c. This session seeks to deconstruct the ways in which the speculative shapes the contours of the “real” or realized. Though sensationalization can be found in works of fiction, the threads of one’s reality—intersectional as it may be—provides a rich narrative that encourages further exploration and the fears provided in what we would safely relegate to fiction. However, there remains a “seeping out” of those fears that can eerily be represented in the real world.