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The 4th Global Plant Humanities Network Conference
Urban Plantscapes: Cities, Working Landscape, and Botanical Life
30 June – 2 July 2027
University of Rzeszów, Poland
Plenary speakers:
Michael Marder, the University of the Basque Country, Spain
International Conference on
Environmental Precarity and Planetary Aesthetics: Voices, Epistemologies, and Geopolitics of the Global South
25 & 26 February 2027
Organised by the Department of English, Bodoland University, Kokrajhar, India
Concept note
Call for Papers
Imagining Italy: Transatlantic Encounters, Diaspora, and Cultural Belonging
Date: June 24-27, 2027
Location: University of Macerata
Abstracts & Proposals Due: Friday, February 26, 2027
Notifications Sent Out by Monday, March 8, 2027
Submittable Link:
CfP Death in the Eyes 3 – The Iconographies of Death in Cinema: Personae, Representations, and ImaginariesUniversity of L’Aquila (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila), Italy, 24-25 June 2027 Keynote Speakers: Stacey Abbott (Northumbria University, UK) and Katarzyna Ancuta (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) Few cinematic images have entered the collective imagination as profoundly as Death in Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet, 1957).
GAMES AND COMMUNITIES – PLAYERS, FANS, GAMERS
Sixth International Video Games Studies Conference (SVI 2027)
8-9 April 2027, University of Zadar, Croatia
Keynote Speaker: Tom Apperley
EUROPEAN SHAKESPEARE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION Annual Congress,
Shakespeare and Form: ‘To set a form upon desired change’
Bangor University, Wales, 27-30 July 2027
CALL FOR PAPERS : Seminar 9, Forms of Shakespeare’s Diplomacy
Convenors: Nathalie Rivère de Carles (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès), France & Helen A. Hopkins (Birmingham City University, UK)
2027 SALA Annual Conference: Water as Matter, Matters of Water: South Asian Political, Historical, and Literary Flows
Venue: Online on Zoom
Dates: Mar. 13-14, 2027
Deadline for proposals: Dec. 10, 2026
This seminar explores representations of female desire in music, literature and the visual arts. How have the complex poetics of female desire—the desire to have something, or escape something, or punish, or know—been represented over time? What strategies have been employed to subvert literary conventions defined predominantly by male perspectives on home, love, war, victory and loss? How have female characters navigated the interplay between things done overtly and thought covertly to reveal the inner web of desires, fears and conflicts that constitute a female poetics of love and longing?
submit propposals to: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/CFP
This seminar invites papers that explore the concepts of ekphrasis, the mise en abyme, and metaphorical mirrors in literature, music, and the visual arts. How are mirrors used by artists as deliberate tools to represent something else? How are metaphorical mirrors used to compare different types of reflections across mediums? How are mirrors used to suggest that the aesthetic “surface” is a distraction, and true clarity lies in understanding what the observer or listener wants to see or hear? Papers focused on one medium or interdisciplinaryapproaches from the Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and Postmodern periods are welcome.
Interpretation And Its Discontents
Texts, Complexity, and Cultural Discourses in Shakespeare Studies Today
18-19 May 2027
Call for Seminar Participants
Performance Forms in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: Commercial Drama, Performance Practices and Theatrical Spaces in Early Modern England
(ESRA 2027, Bangor University, 27-30 July 2027)
Convenors:
Aurélie Griffin, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France
Simon Smith, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK
The IMS Standing Committee welcomes
papers in all areas of Milton Studies.
Submission deadline November 15, 2026
For possible topic and more information see https://ims14.org/call-for-papers
Haunted Landscapes 3
Conference: Falmouth University, June 30 to 2nd July 2027
In 2014 and 2023, Falmouth University hosted two of its most successful conferences: Haunted Landscapes. This conference is round three of that event, which will again be held in beautiful Cornwall on the Falmouth Campus, set in lush tropical gardens and only a few minutes’ walk away from its picturesque town and beaches.
Concept note
How can practice-based approaches to research and teaching contribute to the creation of alternative democratic spaces within universities?
KÁROLI GÁSPÁR UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
21–25 JUNE 2027
The International Milton Symposium is the world's leading forum for scholars working on John Milton and his world. The 14th Symposium will be held in the historic city of Budapest in 2027.
Papers are invited in all areas of Milton Studies, including but not limited to: politics, religion, textual studies, reception, translation, digital humanities, animal studies, and more.
Abstract deadline:15 NOVEMBER 2026
International Conference
Université de Montréal
February 5-7, 2027
Call for Papers
Geo-Medical Syndemics: Earthquakes, Geotrauma, and Mental Health in the Planetary Imagination
NEW DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS SEPTEMBER 30, 2026
Call for Papers
“A Golden Age? Global Historical Fictions and Political Nostalgia”
One-Day Online Workshop of the Historical Fictions Research Network
28 November 2026 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)
15 min talks
Popular Culture Association: Education & Popular Culture Area
Call for Papers
The Area of Education, Teaching, History and Popular Culture is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Popular Culture Association National Conference to be held March 24-27, 2027 in Boston, MA.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Zora Neale Hurston Society & The Zora Neale Hurston Forum
International Conference 2027
“Jump at de Sun: Zora Neale Hurston’s Global Legacy, Scholarship & Future”
January 7, 2027 | Virtual International Conference
In celebration of Zora Neale Hurston’s 136th birthday, the Zora Neale Hurston Society, in connection with its scholarly journal, The Zora Neale Hurston Forum, invites scholars, educators, graduate students, independent scholars, writers, artists, and interdisciplinary thinkers from around the world to participate in its 2027 International Conference.
Theme: Technology, Ecology and Extinction: Narratives of Survival and Loss
Date: 5-6 March 2027, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Organisers: Symbiosis Centre for Media and Communication (SCMC), Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India
Abstract:
The Winter's Tale: From Page to Stage
IASEMS Tempera Seminar 2027 University of Padova, Department of Language and Literary Studies, 7-9 June 2027
Convenors: Rocco Coronato, Alice Equestri, Alessandra Petrina
Scientific Committee: Rocco Coronato, Alice Equestri, Alessandra Petrina, and the IASEMS Executive Board
June, 17th and 18th 2027, Université de Rouen-Normandie
Call for Papers
The BCPS Conference, inaugurated in 1992, is the oldest and longest-running annual meeting of its kind in the U.S. We call for presentations situated in colonial and postcolonial histories, literatures, creative and performing arts, politics, economics, and all other aspects of the countries formerly colonized by Britain and other European powers.
Please join us at Georgia Southern University's Armstrong Campus in Savannah for the critical engagement, friendly community, and vibrant network that has been a hallmark of the BCPS Conference for over three decades.
We invite proposals situated in both thematic and geographic areas, including:
Travelling Cultural Heritage
Circulation and Digital Afterlives
Call for PapersCultural Heritage Lab International Conference4th edition
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
December 10-11, 2026
An International Conference on Climate Change and Epistemic Recovery: Indigenous Pathways
Submission of abstract: 1 October 2026
Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2026
Organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, in academic collaboration with the Department of English, Bodoland University, Kokrajhar
Concept Note:
"Hogg’s Worlds Now"The James Hogg Society is delighted to announce that we will be holding a conference at the University of Glasgow on July 2-4, 2027. We warmly invite paper proposals that engage with any aspect of Hogg’s life and writing and with the broader community of authors associated with Scottish Romanticism. The first volume of The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg was published over thirty years ago now, and the edition is still ongoing, with several collections of Hogg’s periodical publications recently released.
Call for Proposals: Sessions, Panels, Papers
Come join a vivid and diverse community of scholars and professionals to discuss the history and depiction of the sea through a popular culture perspective!
We are considering proposals for individual papers, panels, creative sessions, and roundtables. Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour slots, typically with four papers or speakers per session. Scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, and working professionals are all encouraged to submit. Proposals may include (but are not restricted to):
REVISED – August 17, 2026
International Federation for Theatre Research Conference
28 June – 2 July 2027
Nafplion – Greece
University of the Peloponnese
Department of Performing and Digital Arts
Theme:
Hybridity - Rethinking borders and boundaries in theatre/performance and beyond
Celebrating 70 years of IFTR (1957-2027) @Nafplio
IFTR African and Caribbean Theatre and Performance Working Group
Website
https://www.iftr-african-and-caribbean-theatre-and-performance.com/
Three decades on, the founding categories of trauma theory: belatedness, aporia, the unspeakable, the event that cannot be claimed, remain largely those of a single archive: European, modernist, post-Holocaust. Stef Craps’s decolonising critique (2010; 2013; 2014) has exposed the field’s marginalisation of non-Western suffering, its universalisation of a Euro-American psycho-diagnostic invention, its prescription of fragmentary modernist techniques as its defining form, and its neglect of the connections between metropolitan and other histories of violence. Yet that critique has been prosecuted largely through postcolonial and Anglophone Global South materials.