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Call for Abstracts (Themed Issue 2/26 and Accompanying Workshop)
“Fan Practices of Memory and Remembrance”
Deadline for Proposals: December 1st, 2025
Workshop Date: February 27th, 2026, in Marburg/Germany
INTERNATIONAL DAVID FOSTER WALLACE CONFERENCE IN AUSTIN
June 4-6, 2026
University of Texas, Austin
CALL FOR PAPERS
#DFW26
To mark the 30th anniversary of the publication of Infinite Jest, the 2026 David Foster Wallace Conference invites papers examining Wallace’s masterwork.
The 57th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Conference Dates - March 5-8, 2026
Topic - Reclaiming History: Trauma, Memory and Resilience in the Narratives from Africa
Deadline for Abstract Submission - September 30th 2025
Modality - hybrid (in-person but accepting remote presentations)
Overview -
Fourth Alumni Research Conference on Linguistics, Literature, Didactics and Communication – 2025
Prishtina: 01.11.2025 - 01.11.2025
Organizer:
AAB College - Faculty of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Mass Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Public Administration
In partnership with:
Call for Papers
The consolidation of food studies as a serious academic discipline has coincided with the extraordinary proliferation of food-related cultural forms—ranging from memoirs, cookbooks, and culinary novels to food documentaries, blogs, and digital platforms. These developments remind us that food is not merely a biological necessity, but a symbolic system that mediates between the material and the cultural, the everyday and the aesthetic, the policy and the political. Food operates simultaneously as a sensory artefact, an archive of memory, and a site of political contestation. As anthropologist Brillat-Savarin famously suggested in 1825, “Tell me what you eat, I will tell you what you are.”
Masculinities Students' Conference I: Current Issues, Future Directions
Join us for a day filled with insightful discussions, engaging workshops, and networking opportunities. This event aims to create a space for discussing diverse approaches and complexities of contemporary masculinities and their impact on society. Whether you're a student, researcher, or simply interested in the topic, this conference is the place to learn and exchange ideas.
The conference will be held in person.
DATE: Thursday, 11 December 2025
Call for Papers for the Samuel Beckett Working Group at the IFTR World Congress in Melbourne, Australia, 6–10 July 2026
‘Nothing to be done’: What Samuel Beckett’s Theatre Does and What We Do with It
“Blacks in Boston” is a series of conferences conceived of by former Boston College Black
Studies Director Amanda V. Houston. Previous conferences have addressed subjects such as blacks in metropolitan Boston, the struggle for equal education, the relationships between Irish
and black Bostonians, the role of immigrants of African descent in the development, and evolution of Boston’s black communities, and black Bostonians and the media.
This seminar for the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting in Montreal, Canada from February 26-March 1, 2026 invites explorations of the entanglements between health, disease, and the urban space in the 21st century as they are represented in literary and cultural texts from the Global South. Building on the well-established spatial turn in literary and cultural studies, the seminar will bring together the frameworks of health/medical humanities and literary urban studies as a productive site of dialogue to examine the variegated intersections of spatialities and diseases in contemporary cities, with an emphasis on urbanities of the Global South.
Call For Papers: “Steinbeck in Times of Crisis”
March 11-13th, 2026
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
The International Society of Steinbeck Scholars invites proposals related to the ways in which John Steinbeck’s work offers insights into human experience during moments of crisis—including personal, social, cultural, political, or ecological. We seek contributions that broaden understanding of how Steinbeck's writing addresses such themes as conflict, collaboration, resolution, resilience, and survival, and how these resonate in today's world.
The Object(s) of Literature
July 15-17, 2026
Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL), Unicamp
Call for Papers
Deadline:
15 September 2025
Organizers
Grace Catherine Greiner
g.c.greiner@uu.nl
Jennifer Rabedeau
jbr263@cornell.edu
Call for Papers: Historical Fiction in / and the Anthropocene
One-Day Online Workshop of the Historical Fictions Research Network
29 November 2025 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)
15 min talks
The Historical Fictions Research Network, an interdisciplinary and international network of scholars examining historical fictions, i.e. narratives of the past in a variety of popular media, is happy to organise its third one-day winter workshop on the topic of “Historical Fiction in / and the Anthropocene”.
Session title: Watery Landscapes, Systems, and Bodies
Medieval Ecocriticisms seeks papers offering ecocritical, historical, archaeological, and other interdisciplinary approaches to water in the medieval world. Presenters may addresses questions such as: How did medieval peoples encounter / engineer water in their communities and bodies? What meanings did water accrue in religious, literary, or historical contexts? How do medieval histories of water connect with modern marine studies? And, finally, what new approaches to water studies or blue humanities might we offer?
This HYBRID session seeks papers that explore the ways ecocriticism intersects with, informs, or is expanded by other critical approaches, orientations, and disciplines. We encourage analyses that merge ecocritical frameworks with studies of gender/sexuality, queer identities, race/ethnicity, religion, dis/ability status, postcolonialism, Indigenous studies, or from methodologies outside of the humanities. What can dialogue across these intersections of medieval and modern temporal and spatial ecologies teach us and how can we think anew with them? We encourage proposals from graduate students and early career as well as more established researchers.
Call for Papers
Adaptations and Retellings 2026
Adaptations and retellings, much like nostalgia, are deeply tied to the past. They confront the challenges of integrating past elements into the present and often engage with each other in this process.
Annual conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), February 26 - March 1, 2026, Montreal, Canada.
Proposal submissions are welcome through the ACLA website: https://www.acla.org/seminar/14147d29-1e1d-440c-981a-0d7a9b022666
DIBRUGARH – MINI-MELOW 2025
MELOW: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World has been in existence since 1997 and organizes an international Conference every year. To date, it has held twenty-five such conferences. Alongside these conferences, MELOW also conducts other activities from time to time, including mini-conferences that bring together smaller groups of delegates to focus on specific thematic concerns.
The next Mini-MELOW is proposed to be held at Dibrugarh, Assam, in November 2025.
Title: “The Colours of Pride: Queer Identities in Literature and Culture”
Proposed Dates: 20-21 November 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS
‘“Verse with wings of skill”: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature’ 16-17th April 2026 | University of Sheffield
KEY DATES
Submission Deadline: 24 November, 2025
Decisions By: 30 December, 2025
Event Date: 16-17 April, 2026
(Re)Visiting the Reel/Un-Reel Middle Ages: Pathways to Furthering Research on Medievalisms on Screen (Roundtable) (Virtual)
61st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI), Thursday, 14 May, through Saturday, 16 May, 2026
Co-sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, International Arthurian Society-North American Branch, International Society for the Study of Medievalism
Co-organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College; Scott Manning, Independent Scholar; and Siân Echard, University of British Columbia
Background
The International Society for the Study of Medievalism Annual ConferenceFully Online
November 14th and 15th, 2025
Hosted by Anita Obermeier and the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of New MexicoMedievalism is the reception of the Middle Ages in postmedieval times—as well as the ongoing invention, reinvention, construction, and reconstruction of the global medieval past, broadly defined.Just as Arthurian legend, Beowulf, Norse/Viking myth, and The Thousand and One Nights
CFP for a conference in Cairo, Egypt
(December 10-11, 2025)
Conference online (voa Zoom):
23-24 October 2025
CFP:
Like stories themselves, forests have little respect for geopolitical boundaries. And like forests, stories have always played a crucial role in human imaginations around the world. The wide distribution of forests across most of the planet's biospheres suggests that stories about forests, as well as the stories that forests tell, should be understood in relation to literary and theoretical encounters both with plants and with the planet. While discourse on climate change focuses on deforestation and reforestation in relation to the problem of dangerously increased carbon dioxide levels, trees and forests are treated in large part instrumentally rather than as agents in their own right.
Innovations in Psychology and Wellbeing of New Generation
The 21st century has brought unprecedented transformations in society, technology, and education. With these changes, the psychological wellbeing of the new generation has become a matter of urgent attention. Young people today face unique challenges—digital overload, academic pressures, identity conflicts, mental health issues, and social inequalities—while also benefiting from extraordinary opportunities enabled by technology, AI, and global connectivity.
This panel invites submissions that explore how Francophone African and Caribbean writers, filmmakers, and artists use their creative works, personal experiences, spiritual beliefs, and the power of imagination to offer new or alternative ways of seeing/saying, knowing, and experiencing the world. In what way(s) do their works seek to disrupt, challenge, or reimagine old power structures and commonly accepted Eurocentric knowledge systems within a postcolonial framework? Whether in terms of identity, culture, or history, how do these writers, filmmakers, and artists provoke us to rethink our individual or collective existence? What alternative realities or new ways of being-in-the-world do they envision as Africans or Caribbeans?
This seminar seeks to explore what we can learn about climate fiction and about literature’s role in understanding and addressing climate change when we look at literary texts written before climate change became a solidified discursive formation. Any discussion of climate presupposes a stable definition of the term within the scientific contexts that give it meaning, but the history of human activities that lead to human made climate change generally predates these discourses. Comparative work in the Environmental Humanities complicates dominant ideas about climate and interrogate the field’s tendency to focus on contemporary climate fiction.
Paper Pushers and Ink Suckers: Objectifying the Administrative Subject in Bureaucratic Fiction
Faculty Development Programme
Translation as Dialogue: Creative License, Crossover and Current Developments
Organized by
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur
Important Dates
See ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) listing for submission portal: https://www.acla.org/seminar/10bd9b61-e065-472a-8698-c8949a85f069
Paper proposals cannot be accepted via email.
Death Studies is a field of study that not only draws from a host of disciplines like anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology but also cuts across fields such as bereavement studies, trauma studies, and health humanities.