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Call for Papers
“U.S. Drama, Theatre and Performance at the Festival mondial du théâtre de Nancy, 1963-1983”
One-day symposium
Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France
Date: Friday, March 26, 2027
The 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference will take place this November in Seattle, Washington, from November 12-15.
This session seeks papers that explore forms of play in American fiction from 1945 to the present. There are many conceptual genealogies of play within fields such as psychoanalytic theory, Marxist theory, structuralist and poststructuralist theory, affect theory, critical race theory, queer theory, and video game theory.
IMAGINATION, MEDIATION, & MANIFESTATION
Inaugural Graphic Medicine Europe Conference X Cross Comix
9-12 September 2026
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & De Doelen Rotterdam
Lyric / Narrative: Crossings, Tensions, Reconfigurations
Sixth Biennial Conference of the International Network for the Study of Lyric (INSL) University of Liège, Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Poetics (UR Traverses), June 1-3, 2027 Languages: French, English German
RAILIMAGE Conference, 1-3 April 2027, Turku, Finland
Call for Papers
Imagining Railways from 1900 to the Present: Places, People, Infrastructures, Texts
The project ‘Twentieth-Century Railway Imaginations: Building the Mobility and Infrastructural Humanities’ (RAILIMAGE) invites scholars from all backgrounds to submit paper proposals for its 2027 conference. We also warmly encourage early-career researchers to apply.
The inaugural Edinburgh Bibliographical Seminar and Workshop (EBSW) seeks proposals on the theme of ‘Catalogues and Registers as Evidence in the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology’. The event will occur at the University of Edinburgh from 20 July to 24 July, 2026, the week after the joint meeting of the History of Science Society and the European Society for the History of Science.
Abstract
This session invites papers exploring the role of affect and emotion in contemporary world literature. Recent developments in affect theory—particularly the work of Sara Ahmed and Lauren Berlant—have emphasized how emotions circulate across individuals, communities, and cultural contexts. Literary texts offer a powerful site for examining how affect shapes narratives of identity, belonging, and social transformation within global and transnational frameworks.
The everlasting debates surrounding the relationship between literature and film as distinct mediums of artistic expression have long fascinated both philosophy and critical theory. While proponents of cinema argue that cinema is superior to other forms of artistic expression, especially literature, in the sense that it has a unique ability to engage emotions, convey abstract concepts in tangible settings, and challenge, what Gilles Deleuze might call, human “sensory-motor” perception through cinematic techniques, others might disagree by saying that cinema is inferior to literature due to its passive nature and over-reliance on immediate sensory experience rather than intellectual abstraction, which is one of the major characteristics of literature.
Prosperity Fashion
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
9-12 February 2027
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Florence, Italy
Dowload the call for papers here https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/fh/prosperity-fashion-2027
Call for Papers
ATHE Theory & Criticism Graduate Student Essay Contest
The ATHE Theory & Criticism Focus Group seeks papers for its annual Graduate Student Essay Contest. The contest presents an exciting opportunity for an emergent theatre and performance studies scholar. It introduces the winning writer to the ATHE conference and provides them with a venue in which to showcase their work.
The contest prizes are intended to support the development of the student’s academic work, ease financial challenges related to conference attendance, and connect the student with appropriate scholarly resources for the paper’s development and impact.
ERC Advanced Grant AGRELITA
The Reception of Ancient Greece in pre-modern French Literature and Illustrations of Manuscripts and Printed Books (1320-1550): How invented memories shaped the identity of European communities
Direction : Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas
https://agrelita.hypotheses.org/
Call for Papers
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2026 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 25-27, 2026
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 30, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026
University of Siedlce
Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies
and
University of the Balearic Islands
Faculty of Philosophy and Art
would like to kindly invite all scholars from across the Humanities to take part in the
11th Annual Siedlce Forum for Contemporary Issues
in Language and Literature
Call for PapersLiterature-General Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) 2026 SWPACA Summer Salon June 25-27, 2026Virtual Conferencehttps://swpaca.org/Submissions open on March 30, 2026Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026 Proposals for papers are now being accepted for the SWPACA Summer Salon. SWPACA offersnearly 70 subject areas in a variety of categories encompassing the following: Film, Television,Music, & Visual Media; Historic & Contemporary Cultures; Identities & Cultures; Language &Literature; Science Fiction & Fantasy; and Pedagogy & Popular Culture.
All information is accesible also on the conference website: https://events.ceu.edu/2026-10-08/cfp-collectingcreating-archive-based-m...
TARTALO. 10th International Conference on Myth in the Arts (2026).
17-20 November 2026, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain)
Venue: Faculty of Arts, EHU (University of the Basque Country) / online
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference “Pleasure and Pain in Women’s Writing”
Organized by IWWA (International Women’s Writing Association)
and the L&GEND Research Group
9th-11th September 2026
G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Conference Venue: Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Pescara (ITALY)
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to welcome you to the Fifth International Language-for-All Conference (LfAC’26), which will take place on October 22–23, 2026, at Çukurova University in Adana, Türkiye.
Centred on the theme “Social Justice: Language, Equity, Voice, and Empowerment,” the conference brings together scholars, educators, and practitioners working in language education, linguistics, literary studies, translation and interpretation studies, and cultural studies to examine how linguistic, literary, and cultural practices relate to questions of power, knowledge, ideology, and social inequality.
For over a century, Asian film and media have offered sites ripe for cultural analyses. While resisting the essentializing label of "Asian," this session seeks to benefit from conversations that emerge when we recognize the heterogeneity of Asia as well as the commonalities that run through its various cultural products. In 2026, this session invites particular attention to power and hierarchy in Asian film and media, welcoming analyses that move beyond the binary of domination and resistance to explore the more ambivalent, entangled, and contradictory ways that power and resistance operate across cultural forms and social life.
Interdisciplinary Symposium
GORDON PASK 1928 - 1996 - 2026 — CYBERNETICS, CONVERSATION, INTERACTION & AI
University of Vienna, Austria. Thursday 17 September 2026.
Experience shows that unless you are against something, nobody takes the slightest notice of what you say. On this occasion, the most obvious target for anti-sentiment, is a conference; so I am against conferences, today. Not against this one, for that would be rude, and not against any in particular, for that would be overly general. Taken as a social occasion, as a surrogate for learned society, a conference is a capital affair. (G. Pask, addressing the Society for General Systems Research, 1979)
Call for Papers
War & Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2026 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 25-27, 2026
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 30, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026
Call for Papers
Horror (Literary & Cinematic)
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2026 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 25-27, 2026
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 30, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026
English Language Notes (ELN) Call for Papers
“Global Queer and Trans Class Relations”
A special Issue of English Language Notes (ELN), Vol. 65, No. 2 (October 2027)
Edited by Matt Brim and Emmanuel David
Submissions due September 1, 2026
The following is a cfp for a roundtable session at the forthcoming PAMLA 2026 conference to be hosted in Seattle, Washington, U.S. from Nov 12-15, 2026.
Please contact Noah Gallego @noahrgallego for inquiries.
All abstracts must be submitted through the PAMLA submission portal.
The deadline is May 15, 2026
This roundtable invites scholars across the disciplines and different stages in their academic career with an interest in horror to undertake critical investigations into specifically male-centered horror media. By “male-centered,” I am referring to texts that spotlight male identity and the male body, cis-, queer, and trans- included, as sites of fear and monstrosity.
Collecting, Collected, Collective:
Working With Hopkins
June 10 to 12, 2027
Proposals due: 26 October 2026
Panel Title “Gender Archive: Beyond the Evidence”
The ease with which people can scan a database, or source can impact the research process. At times, users of digitally archived sources may overlook authentic artifacts unavailable electronically. Although not done deliberately, this practice can weaken the validity of historical research.
—Naif Albishri “The Future of History: How Digital Archives Provides Another Path for Research” The State Press, 2024.
II INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MYTH AND DRAMA:
CRISES, BORDERS, OTHERNESS
**Call for Papers for the 17th Annual Conference of the Association for Research in the Fantastic
Violence and the Fantastic
University of Cologne
September 17-19, 2026
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
35th International Conference Virginia Woolf
Open Forum “Virginia Woolf: Sound and Rhythm in Translation”, Istambul, Jun 24-Jun 28, 2026
Update: We are currently working to transform this forum into a hybrid format. When submitting your proposal, please indicate whether you would prefer to participate in person or online.
**DEADLINE EXTENDED to 13 April 2026**
Call for Papers:
Listening to Possible Worlds
Sound and Music in Speculative Literature and Culture
22-23 October 2026, Leiden University, the Netherlands (in-person)
Confirmed keynote speakers are Anna Snaith (King’s College London) and Chris Tonelli (University of Groningen)