general announcements

Over the last years, there has been a burgeoning debate about the Eastern multicultural space, ranging from Eastern Europe, Middle East and South Asian countries to the Far East, which has been intrinsically coupled with significant cultural and economic dynamism; however, such diverse and multi-layered areas have also been the subject of all sorts of misrepresentations and misinterpretations. Future trajectory of the Eastern mind-set might provide a basis for the emergence of new civilizations in this new century and new millennium. This section attempts to explore the outcomes of the various encounters between Eastern and Western cultural conventions in relation to literature, arts, social sciences, media studies and other fields, by carefully examining

Continuing the interdisciplinary tradition of the International Language, Literature and Culture (LLC) Conference Series, the 12th International Language, Literature and Culture Conference, jointly organized by Çankaya University and Bournemouth University, will be hosted by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Süleyman Demirel University on 21–24 October 2026. Scholars and researchers are cordially invited to contribute to the conference under the theme “Human, Environment and Ecology.”

New Imago Forum

University of Essex (UK)

11 – 13 December 2026

Background

CFP 2026 · De/Naturated

Genealogies of the Natural, Forms of the Artificial, Ecologies of the Limit

What do we call “nature”? And what political, social, biological, and symbolic orders are historically legitimized in its name?

Second and Final Call for papers

Sensation: The Sounds, Visions, and Words of David Bowie

Academic conference, University of Agder, Norway 29. – 30. September 2026

Call for Papers: Representation of Violence in South Asian Graphic Narratives and Comics

The history of work and labour has long occupied a central place within European social history, offering a key lens through which to examine social relations, hierarchies, forms of power, and economic formations across the longue durée. Rather than approaching work solely as an economic function, historical scholarship has increasingly foregrounded work as a lived social experience –one that has shaped identities, values, and modes of belonging.

The "Animals & Culture" Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association's call for papers for our 2026 virtual conference is live!   See our details below (or at https://www.northeastpca.org/conference-areas): 

The "Animals & Culture" area explores the complex and multifaceted intersections between animals, animal representations, society, and popular culture.

Eric Glover (Yale University) and Michelle Cowin Gibbs (CSULB)  invite participants for a working group that takes stock of Zora Neale Hurston’s legacy and impact as a vital yet still underexamined repertoire in theatre, dance, and performance studies. 
In conversation with the conference theme’s attention to retrospection and futurity, the group considers how Hurston’s work and that of her successors has been adapted, staged, studied, and taught, while asking what remains unfinished, underdeveloped, and newly possible. 

Languages travel. We are here to listen.
The Antonym Online is now open for submissions.
We invite translators from across the world to bring voices across linguistic borders and into English. We are committed to publishing works that carry the texture, rhythm, and cultural nuance of their original language while finding new life in translation.
What we are looking for:
Translated short stories
Translated poetry
Translated non-fiction
We accept translations from any language into English.
Submission Guidelines:

AbstractThis session welcomes contributions on the topic of literary, philosophical, or intellectual influences between any of the members of the Inklings, especially between J.R.R. Tolkien and Owen Barfield, and the robustness of those claims. Verlyn Flieger’s assertion in Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World, that the languages of Middle-earth developed just as Barfield says human languages do in real life, is perhaps the model of influence, and is well known, respected, and analyzed. But Flieger's argument remains almost entirely circumstantial.

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Annual Conference 2026

November 12-15, 2026

Seattle, WA

Call for Paper:

Our Ruling Classes: Class, Power, Conflict

Submission Deadline: May 25, 2026

Subject: Asian Literatures and Cultures

Contact: Wentao Ma (University of California - San Diego) w4ma@ucsd.edu

Otherness: Essays & Studies

Otherness and Folklore – Special issue Call for Papers

Folklore is all about Otherness. It imagines the other as that which is beyond the scope of the ordinary and the real. It evokes the monstrous, the divine, and the outsider. It invokes magic through ritual, and it empowers the repressed. The other, in folklore, is welcomed into the everyday and woven into the fabric of our communities. It becomes an altered version of alterity, a homely version of the uncanny: an other that we can be intimate with.

Session Abstract: The genre of African American poetry has a long legacy of both preserving tradition and evolving to suit current times and places. This session invites discussion of the defining features that have been maintained over time as well as patterns of bold experimentation. Rather than seeing tradition and innovation as opposing aesthetic directions, this session hopes to examine ways they have co-existed in this genre and been mutually fruitful.