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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.”
In Sarah Orne Jewett’s 1886 short story “A White Heron”, young protagonist Sylvia is approached by an itinerant hunter and asked to expose the location of the white heron’s nest. The threat to health, growth, and integrity here is complex, both for Sylvia and the heron, as well as the hunter. The central concept of the nest, as a space simultaneously protected and vulnerable, mundane and coveted, nourishing and abused, is an influential object and space in the narrative.
Writing about extinction is an aporetic coming together of our current geological reality and imagination that borders on speculation. It is an act that opens up the ecological, the ontological, and simultaneously interrogates the disappearance of humans from the planetary scene. The space of imagination imagining its own annihilation is a precarious zone for the writer, one that also discharges a kind of nervousness for the reader. The crisis facing us now is how to disentangle extinction as a kind of placelessness, as empty space beyond time. How do we, as a species on the edge of the Sixth Mass Extinction, make sense of Rosi Braidotti’s statement, “‘We’ are in this together, but We are not one and the same”?
Rooted in the ancient tradition of fabula, the concept of fabulation (or fonction fabulatrice) was perhaps most explicitly introduced to the modern philosophical lexicon by Henri Bergson, who described it as a “special faculty of voluntary hallucination.” It was later revisited by Gilles Deleuze, both with and without Félix Guattari, as a “speech act, an act of speech” that transgresses the boundary between the personal and the political, producing “collective utterances.”
Dalit and Adivasi Ecologies:
Representations in Literature and Culture
Dear friends, colleagues, and students,
We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for the third issue of the NEW BENJAMIN STUDIES yearbook, centred around the theme “Walter Benjamin in Times of Crisis”.
The editorial collective of NBS is pleased to welcome Anna Migliorini (Florence) and Ana María Miranda Mora (Utrecht) as guest editors for the issue.
Latinx Visions 2.0
ONE PLANET—MANY WORLDS
CALL FOR PAPERS
ONLINE CONFERENCE
November 3-7, 2025
Co-Organizers: Matthew David Goodwin, Cathryn Merla-Watson, Taryne Jade Taylor
Call for Papers: Empirical Crossings: Art, Science, and Society
First Issue – No Article Processing Charges (APC)
We are pleased to announce the launch of Empirical Crossings: Art, Science, and Society, an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to fostering scholarly engagement across diverse fields of knowledge. The first issue is scheduled for release next month, and we invite contributions from scholars worldwide. Early-stage researchers and doctoral students are highly welcome. Outstanding master's students' work will also be warmly welcomed to submit.
This CFP is now live on the Journal of Postcolonial Writing website.
Blue Humanities and the Indian Ocean: South Asian Literary and Cultural Representations
Call for Book Chapters
African Literature and the Resilience of Love: Indigenous Intimacies as Resistance in Historical and Global Contexts
Editor: Azzeddine Tajjiou
Submission Email: africanliteratureandlovebook@gmail.com
You Are What You (Don't) Read: Vegetarian and Vegan Characters in Literature
Call for Chapters
Edited Volume (Tentative Title): " A Culinary Odyssey: Discovering the Rich Culinary Landscape of South Asia"
Editors: Dr. Chitra Krishnan, Ms. Tias Maity
Abstract:
The Text, an International Peer Reviewed Online Journal of Language, Literature and Critical Theory (ISSN: 2581-9526)invites original, unpublished research papers for January 2026 issue.
Indexed in:
1. ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
2. IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research)
3. Citefactor (Directory Indexing of International Research Journals)
4. DRJI (The Directory of Research Journal Indexing)
5. ResearchBib (Research Bible)
Our Glocal Shakespeare: Sustainable Shakespeares
Co-hosted by “Turkish Shakespeares Project” and Istanbul Bilgi University English Language and Literature Department
22-23 May 2026
Venue: Santral Campus, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Türkiye
Contact: Murat Öğütcü (murat_ogutcu@yahoo.com) and İnci Bilgin Tekin (inci.bilgin@bilgi.edu.tr)
Deadline for abstracts and bios: 31 December 2025
Ireland Beyond the Anthropocene
September 25 – 28, 2025
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC
RADIATION
Material Connection Across Distance
A Trans-Disciplinary Conference
Dundee, Scotland, 3 – 4 December 2025
Photography / Intensity / Measure
Call for Book Chapters
Call for Papers [extended deadline: July 31, 2025]
2025 Multi-ConTEXT International Graduate Conference:
“Comparison and Convergence in English Studies”
Call for chapter proposals for an edited volume
titled
Ecospirituality in Asia:
Narratives of Care, Conservation, and Sustainability
Call for papers: NeMLA 2026
This session seeks to explore the intersections of embodiment and environment in the Middle Ages, considering how bodies—organic and inorganic, human and non-human, material and immaterial—constitute, shape, and envelop one another. By “naturing” bodies, we seek to erode neat divisions between humans and the natural world to uncover the earthy entanglements linking humans to the environments they shape and are shaped by. Attuning to John Scotus Eriugena’s claim that nature is the name “for all things, for those that are, and those that are not,” we invite papers that reflect on the fundamentally relational ontology of humans, non-humans, and environments.
PAMLA will meet during the fiftieth anniversary of Ursula Le Guin’s “The New Atlantis,” and of her rare achievement: winning the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards simultaneously, for The Dispossessed, which appeared the year before. It would seem an auspicious occasion to explore her retroactively provocative contributions to what has since come to be known as clifi, and her oeuvre more generally.
All disciplines and approaches welcome.
The conference is entirely in-person; no virtual participation is envisioned.
6th International e-Conference
on
Imagining Futures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Humanity, Crisis, and Change
Date: 25th and 26th September, 2025(Thursday & Friday)
To be Organized by
New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
In collaboration with
School of Languages & Literature & Indian Knowledge System (IKS) Cell, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu & Kashmir, India
&
Department of History, Humanities and Society, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Commission on Science and Literature (CoSciLit): Call for Papers
The FES Acatlán through its Research Program, its Department of Humanities, the Humanities Program and the Hispanic Language and Literature Section, have the honor of convening the 4th International Conference "Connections and Human Aspects of Urban Space" which will be held from November the 17th to the 19th in a hybrid format via Zoom and at the FES Acatlán campus facilities.
Recent years have seen an upsurge of narratives from the Global South that engage in the representation of various African cosmologies. In contrast with Western traditions, these narratives are contributing to an epistemological shift from “the study of African religion as object [to] the study of African religion as subject” (Olupona 2013: xix).
The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia (JEASA) is looking for book reviews of any recent books (published in the last 5 or 6 years) in the field of Australian studies, including Indigenous Australian studies.
In particular, JEASA is looking for reviewers for Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene (2024) by Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell and Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities (2025) edited by Maxine Newlands and Claire Hansen. Other review proposals are also very welcome.
The concept of orphanhood may reveal a liminal yet productive state between figures, identities, homes, cultures and languages, exposing fertile spaces for crafting (re)generative views of self and other through literary texts. As characters, orphans may become queered figures, pointing back to the vulnerable state of childhood itself; as protagonists, orphans have also been connected to the concept of the hero (Rose-Emily Rothenberg), the role of the laborer, and the emotional “regeneration” of adults (Claudia Nelson).