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Thoreau Annual Gathering, July 8-12, 2026
Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
“Give Me Health and a Day”: Emerson and Health, Illness, and Unity
We are living in a rapidly changing world. For the last many decades, the contemporary world has been undergoing fundamental shifts and transformations in the social structures, systems, organisations, institutions, values, norms, and functions of a society. These social changes are often driven by technological breakthroughs, the penetration of social media, economic globalisation, ecological crises, war, disease, disorder, and so on, along with shifts in cultural and social paradigms.
Special Issue for LIT / The Anger Issue: Women’s Writing and Anger in Ireland
Deadline for full essays: July 15, 2026
School of Humanities and Performing Arts
Department of English and Cultural Studies
Central Campus
CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Bangalore
Organizes
Mélange
An MA in English with Communication Studies Initiative
&
A Student Led - Postgraduate International Conference on
Archives of the Anthropocene: Writing Contemporary Humanities
Date: February 27, 2026
Extended Deadline
Conference: March 20, 2026
Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA
Contact email: slb322@lehigh.edu
2026 Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Graduate Student Works in Progress Online Symposium / Friday, April 3rd, 2026,10:00-12:00pmCST
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites proposals for one panel at the American Literature Association 37th Annual Conference, May 20-23, 2026, in Chicago. Any topic related to Ralph Waldo Emerson, transcendentalism, or related figures is welcome. Please send 300-word abstracts by email to Bill Scalia (bscalia@alumni.lsu.edu) and John Min (john.min@csn.edu). The deadline for proposals is Wednesday, 15 January 2026.
Proposed Panel at the International Seminar, "Cultures of Body, Bodies of Culture: Thinking Plurality Today" organised by the Department of English, University of North Bengal on 17th and 18th January, 2026 with opportunity for publication
(in-person panel; online presenters too may send proposals which, if selected, will be accommodated in one of the hybrid/online panels)
Panel Theme and Rationale
DATE: Feb. 25-27
Humanities Education and Research Association
Theme: “The Essential Humanities in Practice and Perseverance” (Virtual Conference)
In keeping with HERA’s mission to promote the study of the humanities across a wide range of disciplines and interdisciplinary studies, we invite proposals for the 2026 conference. Submissions are encouraged from educators at all levels (including undergraduate and graduate students) and from anyone with an interest in the arts and humanities. Proposals for papers, panels, or workshops must be submitted through the conference web portals.
Lolly Willowes at 100: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Religion, and the Supernatural
IAS Common Ground, University College London, 29-30 May 2026
Call for Nominations:
2026 Award for Best Scholarly Monograph on the American Gothic
The Society for the Study of the American Gothic (SSAG) invites nominations for its biennial Award for Best Scholarly Monograph. This award is open to all scholarly monographs published in the past two years that focus on some aspect of the American Gothic. The winner of the award will be announced at the Society for the Study of the American Gothic business meeting, at the American Literature Association conference in May 2026 (exact date TBA).
Eligibility
Call for Papers
Following the success of the I International Conference on Gender Studies & Intermedial Narratives (UCM, 2024), this new edition seeks to go further, deeper, and bolder. If last year we worked around the idea of intermediality, this year we want to explore its most visceral and material dimension: how gender is inscribed on, through, and as bodies—and how bodies themselves become texts, interfaces, archives, and narrative machines.We begin with a simple premise: every text is a body, and every body is a text.
Call for Papers:
Conventions and Subversions in Sino-Western Theatrical Settings
Edited by Kelly Kar Yue CHAN, Chi Sum Garfield LAU and Chi Chun CHAN
We are soliciting chapter proposals for an edited volume that contains 8-10 chapters of research articles which represent the efforts from both members of the academia and practitioners of theatre to sustain the tradition of Sino-Western theatrics, while demonstrating the evolving aspects of contemporary performances under the inexorable trends of digitalization and globalization.
Website: westcoastreview.org
West Coast Review (SDSU Press) is seeking art, flash fiction, short stories, and any creative prose that falls in-between. This includes creative non-fiction, memoires, craft essays and experimental prose pieces. We accept all genres--we just want pieces that are bold and embrace the diversity found on the west coast!
Guidelines:
We accept simultaneous submissions, but please withdraw your submission if accepted elsewhere. We do not accept previously published work. We do not consider work posted to blogs, personal websites, or social media to be previously published. We do not accept work that has been created with AI.
Call for papers
XIV Global IABA Conference 2026
International Auto/Biography Association
RESIST TO EXIST:
Life writing, democracy, and conceivable futures
State University of Bahia (UNEB)
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
July 21-24, 2026
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS--January 30, 2026
The peer-reviewed e-journal Otherness: Essays and Studies is now accepting submissions for its 2026 general issue.
Otherness: Essays and Studies publishes research articles from and across different scholarly disciplines that examine, in as many ways as possible, the concepts of otherness and alterity. We particularly appreciate dynamic cross-disciplinary study.
Environmental Histories of New England, 1600-2025
Friday, September 18, 2026
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
Global Indigeneities and Life Narratives: Special Issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly—Deadline Extension
A Special Issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
Guest Editor: J. Kēhaulani Kauanui,
Eric and Wendy Schmidt Professor of Indigenous Studies and Anthropology, Princeton University
Submit: 400-word abstracts to kauanui@princeton.edu by December 12, 2025
PCA True Crime CFP 2026
UPDATED: Abstract Submission Deadline: Officially Friday, December 5th, 2026 with an additional week for late submissions at the discretion of the Area Chairs by Friday, December 12th, 2026. Please note if you have trouble submitting after December 5th, you should contact Samantha or Lauren directly.
PCA/ACA will be held from April 8-11th, 2026 in Atlanta, GA
Conference online: 22-23 January 2025
CFP:
Greetings, fellow scholars of Middle-earth!
Gentle reminder to all that we are still taking abstracts for our Call for Papers for the 2026 Popular Culture Association National Conference in Atlanta! Let's make this the best year ever for exploring the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and his ongoing legacy.
We recognize growing concerns surrounding travel and the challenges it presents. To ensure everyone can participate, we will happily accept remote papers! These can be submitted as either pre-recorded video presentations or delivered live via Zoom.
Call for Book Chapters
Influence of Indian Philosophers on Indian Writings in English: A Socio-Cultural Perspective
Editors: Dr. Ashutosh Singh and Dr. Sahabuddin Ahamed
deadline for submission extended: 15 February, 2026
Penn State’s Center for American Literary Studies presents
Urgent Lessons from Antifascist Works of American Literature and Culture
Friday, December 12, 2025, Noon—1:00 p.m. EST via Zoom
Register here
https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QD77CICpR267kwXJgIB56g
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email
Call for Submissions! The Lamp is seeking submissions for its 2026 issue (Volume 16)!
The Lamp is an international literary journal dedicated to showcasing the creative writing of graduate and professional students. If you write poetry, short fiction, scripts, creative nonfiction, or any other form of textual art, please submit your work to The Lamp at thelampeditor@gmail.com. The deadline is Sunday, 11 January 2026. Please follow our submission guidelines below.
Submission Guidelines:
We are pleased to announce that the IV SEDERI International Conference for Graduate Students of Early Modern English Studies will be held on 21, 22, 23 October 2026 at the University of Jaén (Jaén, Spain). This event is part of an initiative born within SEDERI, the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies, which seeks to provide a platform where students, PhD candidates and early career researchers from around the globe can gather to exchange different ideas, views, and opinions on the study of the English language and its literature, history and culture of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
MARIA DE JESUS RELVAS (Universidade Aberta, Portugal)