ecocriticism and environmental studies

SMU’s ERAH Graduate Conference - Movement and Borderlands

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 11:49am
Engaging Research Across the Humanities (SMU)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 28, 2026

Call for Papers

SMU’s ERAH Graduate Conference

English | History | Anthropology

 

Date: October 10-11, 2026

Location: SMU Main Campus, Dallas, TX

Theme: Movement & Borderlands

Submission Deadline: August 28, 2026

Keynotes: Dr. Tim Bowman | Dr. Elda María Román 

 

CFP: chapters for an edited volume “Animal Adaptations”

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 11:49am
University of Warsaw & University of Innsbruck
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 30, 2026

We invite proposals for a small number of additional chapters for an edited volume on animal adaptations, edited by Justyna Włodarczyk (University of Warsaw) and Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck).

Judi Bari's Legacy: The Search for Ecological Democracy

updated: 
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 - 10:25am
Resistance: A Journal of Radical Environmental Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 15, 2026

2027 will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the passing of radical ecologist and labor organizer Judi Bari. Best known for her leadership in the 1990 Redwood Summer campaign in Northern California, Bari sought to overcome the entrenched division between environmentalists and timber workers by identifying corporate capital as the common force exploiting both labor and forests. Her politics extended beyond direct action and formal organizing to include music, storytelling as agitation, and public spectacle, all mobilized to cultivate ecological consciousness within a framework of working-class solidarity.

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism

updated: 
Sunday, May 3, 2026 - 4:52pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 30, 2026

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism
A Transdisciplinary Conference
July 16-17, 2026
July 16: In person participation at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park (and online)
July 17: Fully online
Conference Page: 
https://labrc.co.uk/2026/01/21/ecopoetics2026/

Fees** (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)
**Prices exclude Eventbrite fees

Call for Presentations:

Animal Adaptations--Call for Additional Chapters

updated: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 2:49pm
Justyna Włodarczyk and Michael Fuchs
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Animal Adaptations

 

We invite proposals for a small number of additional chapters for an edited volume on animal adaptations, edited by Justyna Włodarczyk (University of Warsaw) and Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck).

 

Cultural History; PAMLA (November 12-15, 2026)

updated: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 12:51pm
Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

The 123rd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in Seattle at the Hyatt Regency Seattle, from Thursday, November 12, to Sunday, November 15, 2026. 

 

Cultural History: 

Oxford Intersections: Climate Adaptation (“Narratives of the Future” section)

updated: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 12:45pm
Queen's University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

We seek original research articles from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences on the theme of climate narratives of the future for the online research resource Climate Adaptation, an Oxford Intersection. 

 

What is Climate Adaptation and the Oxford Intersections?

Climate Adaptation is one of several recently announced Oxford Intersections from Oxford University Press. Each Oxford Intersection is an edited resource that deals with an urgent, cross-disciplinary theme (others include AI in SocietyBorders, and Gender Justice). Each Intersection contains several sections. 

LITERATURE FOR PEACE: NARRATIVES OF CO-EXISTENCE

updated: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 12:43pm
MELOW: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 2, 2026

- LITERATURE FOR PEACE: NARRATIVES OF CO-EXISTENCE

Environmental Humanities and Indian Literary Responses

updated: 
Monday, April 27, 2026 - 1:51am
Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India, Somasree Sarkar, Ghoshpukur College, University of North Bengal, India, and Payel Pal, The LNM Institute of Information Technology, India.
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Scholarly discussions on environmental concerns have long been Euro-American-centric. In his 2005 essay, Rob Nixon critiques literary representations of environmentalism as an “offshoot of American Studies,” which has excluded non-American and non-Western perspectives on environmental degradation from critical inquiry. Nixon highlights Nigeria’s Abacha regime’s execution of Saro-Wiwa, a writer, activist and poet, who died fighting for his Ogoni people’s farmlands and the encroachment of their fishing waters by American and European conglomerates, supported by the local despotic regime. Nixon observes that Saro-Wiwa’s writings have received little attention from ecocriticism scholars (2005).

Oxford Intersections: Climate Adaptation (“Narratives of the Future” section)

updated: 
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 - 9:35am
Queen's University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

We seek original research articles from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences on the theme of climate narratives of the future for the online research resource Climate Adaptation, an Oxford Intersection. 

 

What is Climate Adaptation and the Oxford Intersections?

Climate Adaptation is one of several recently announced Oxford Intersections from Oxford University Press. Each Oxford Intersection is an edited resource that deals with an urgent, cross-disciplinary theme (others include AI in SocietyBorders, and Gender Justice). Each Intersection contains several sections. 

ASAP 26 - Black Breath

updated: 
Monday, April 20, 2026 - 1:16pm
Association of the Study of the Arts of the Present Annual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 24, 2026

https://asap17.exordo.com/panels/79/contribute/dbf84dd0cbaee432095920794...

 

In her 2018 M Archive: After the End of the World, Alexis Pauline Gumbs writes: “you can have breathing and the reality of the radical black porousness of love (aka black feminist metaphysics aka us all of us, us) or you cannot. there is only both or neither. there is no either or. there is no this or that. there is only all" (7)

Adivasi Writings in India: History, Memory, and Contemporary Expressions

updated: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 - 3:04am
Guru Gobind Singh Indrapratha University, New Delhi, India
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Call for Book Chapters

Title:

Adivasi Writings in India: History, Memory, and Contemporary Expressions

 

Editors:

Dr Chetna Tiwari, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India

Dr Naresh K Vats, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India

 

Publisher:

Vedant Knowledge Systems Pvt Ltd

www.MyVedant.com

Book Details:

Short Stories (Fiction/Non-fiction) INVITED for Climate Change, Disasters, and Global Narratives: Collection of Short Stories

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:07pm
Dr. Gurpreet Kaur
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

Short Stories (Fiction/Non-fiction) INVITED for

 

Climate Change, Disasters, and Global Narratives: Collection of Short Stories

Edited by:

Dr. Gurpreet Kaur

Assistant Professor & Head

Post Graduate Department of English

Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Khalsa College

Sri Anandpur Sahib, Punjab, India

and

Jacobus Bracker

Hamburg University of Technology,

Queer Humors

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:06pm
Society of Early Americanists
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 18, 2026

Call for Papers // Society of Early Americanists // 2027

 

“Queer Humors”

 

Resisting Abandonment: Language, Culture, and Ecology (Oct. 15-16, Toronto)

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:05pm
Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

International Conference
Resisting Abandonment: Language, Culture, and Ecology
Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact
Glendon College, York University (Toronto, Canada)
October 15–16, 2026

The Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact invites you to an interdisciplinary conference that will explore the ways in which ecology intersects with language contact, cultural transformation, and pedagogical practice.

Italian Ecofeminism and Literature

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:03pm
Nicole C. (Civitano) Dittmer, PhD
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 1, 2026

Call For Papers for Italian Ecofeminism and Literature

Deadline for Submissions: August 1, 2026

Notification date: September 1, 2026

Full name / Name of organization: Nicole C. (Civitano) Dittmer, PhD

Contact email: ncdittmer@gmail.com

 

PAMLA 2026 - Maritime Literature and Culture (Panel/Special Session)

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:03pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

The Maritime Literature and Culture special session at PAMLA 2026 seeks papers that engage broadly with human activity at sea, particularly as they relate to the conference theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict.” Who rules the sea? How should we navigate and care for our oceans and waterways? What changes—social, ecological, political, cultural—have naval conflicts, commercial ventures, and other maritime activity brought about? How does a ship crew grapple with problems of leadership, mutiny, and internal conflict? This session encourages papers on maritime literatures and media that engage with these and other related questions.

Potential topics include:

- Naval conflict

- Ocean borders and maritime law

2026 Situations International Conference: Sovereignties in Crisis: Human, Environment, Technology, and the Pharmakon

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:03pm
Yonsei University Department of English BK 21 Project, Situations, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 1, 2026

Sovereignties in Crisis: Human, Environment, Technology, and the Pharmakon

 

2026 Situations International Conference

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, October 22-23, 2026

 

Plant Pedagogy: Words Beyond Walls

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:01pm
Dr Subhashis Banerjee, Department of English, Nagaland University, India and Dr Tanmoy Bhattacharjee, Department of English, Women's Christian College, Kolkata, India
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Plant Pedagogy: Words Beyond Walls

Series Editor— Prof. Douglas Vakoch

Editors—  Dr Subhashis Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Nagaland University, India and Dr Tanmoy Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Women’s Christian College, Kolkata, India

Prospective Publisher— Bloomsbury (Critical Plant Studies Series)

PAMLA 2026: Ruling the Ruins: Power, Extraction, and Climate Conflict in Global Speculative Fiction

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 2:30pm
Ananya Roy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong/ The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

PAMLA 2026 Seattle: “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict”; Venue- Seattle, Washington, Nove 12-15, 2026.

 

This session invites papers that examine how contemporary climate fiction (cli-fi) reimagines ruling classes, leadership, and social hierarchy under conditions of ecological crisis. In line with PAMLA 2026’s theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” the panel explores how environmental breakdown reshapes the distribution of power, producing new elites and intensifying conflicts over authority, survival, and governance.

29th Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, April 8, 2026 - 10:42pm
Southern Writers/Southern Writing, University of Mississippi
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 10, 2026

29th Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference 

University of Mississippi

August 8th—9th, 2026

Call for Submissions

Supernatural South(s): The Monstrous, The Fantastic, The Grotesque, The Speculative and So On…

The Southern Writers/Southern Writing Conference (SW/SW) is an interdisciplinary conference, welcoming graduate students, creative writers, activists, and community members with interest in the U.S. or Global South from all departments and fields of study. The 29th meeting of SW/SW will be held at the University of Mississippi from August 8th-August 9th, 2026. 

Literary Inspirations (A Peer reviewed Journal of Research in English Language and Literature) ISSN:3108-3269 (Print)

updated: 
Tuesday, April 7, 2026 - 11:10pm
University Department of English, B. R. Ambedkar Bihar University, Muzaffarpur, Bihar-842001
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Literary Inspirations

(A Peer reviewed Journal of Research in English Language and Literature)

ISSN:3108-3269 (Print)

Call for Papers - Volume 2 (2026)

Guidelines for Contributors:

We warmly invite original, unpublished and high-quality scholarly articles in any area of English Language and

Literature, book reviews and creative writings for publication in the second volume of our journal . All submissions

Beyond Nature and Culture: Planetary Precarity in Literary-Cultural-Linguistic Representations

updated: 
Tuesday, April 7, 2026 - 1:40am
Department of English, Daffodil International University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

The “modern” disentanglement of the realms of subject and object, culture and nature, as Bruno Latour insightfully observes in We Have Never Been Modern (1993), is most evident in the former colonies of the Global South like the Bengal Delta since the entire colonial project in these locations depended on the colonizers’ privileged access to native human bodies and the non-human nature.

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

updated: 
Monday, April 6, 2026 - 3:15pm
Dr. Mansi Bose & Dr Pratyusha Pramanik, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 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

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