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This panel is proposed for the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) VIRTUAL 2027 Annual Meeting on May 15 & 16, 2027.
In literary fiction, the representation of consciousness has often been understood through what might be called the thought of looking: the ways narrative cognition renders a work into a perceptive, embodied, and self-reflexive experience through language. In cinema, by contrast, cognition typically becomes the look of thought: a mental interiority suggested through framing, editing, gesture, movement, and performance. Interactive stories told in videogames complicate this distinction through their intermedial nature. Games must not only represent what characters think, but also account for the player's "will to activity", translating the audience’s intentions into feedback, movement, and action.
Seeking papers on queer poetics and criticism for a supple program on "other traditions" and (punning) "queeries". Contributors might consider models such as: Eileen Myles, whose essays and lectures construct a literary history inseparable from aesthetic inheritance; the New Narrative Writers; Anne Carson; Heather Love; José Muñoz; Elizabeth Freeman; the New York School poets and painters; and Wayne Koestenbaum, whose work models engagements with cultural history that amount to queer methodology in practice. Papers on related topics or their complications are enthusiastically sought.
Call for Papers_Entanglements_Volume 3, Issue 1 (Open Issue) Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30.10.2026
Tentative Publication Date: 30 January 2027
CFP link: https://www.entanglements.in/call-for-papers-docs/CFP_Entanglements%203.1_Aug-2026.pdf
The interdisciplinary field of Interactive Digital Narratives (IDNs) combines immersive technologies with the timeless art of storytelling. IDN offers transformative ways to engage audiences, preserve cultural heritage and address social and educational challenges. From branching narratives in video games, to immersive virtual reality experiences and interactive installations, IDNs push the boundaries of how stories can be created and experienced.
Consuming US Popular Culture: Media Aesthetics, Ethics and Literacy
Virtual Conference | 27–28 November 2026
Over the past two decades, the environmental humanities have profoundly reshaped our understanding of oceans, rivers, and other aquatic environments. Simultaneously, Gothic studies have increasingly turned toward maritime spaces, revealing the sea not merely as a sublime backdrop but as a haunted archive where colonial violence, environmental catastrophe, and spectral histories continually return. This seminar proposes a dialogue between Blue Humanities and the Gothic by examining how oceans, rivers, and littoral zones emerge as spaces of haunting in world literature.
ICAF is excited to announce its first conference outside of North America and invites proposals for scholarly presentations for its twenty-second meeting, to be held online and in person at Edinburgh Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The Art of Chaos
A Transdisciplinary Conference
Conference Dates: December 2-3, 2026
Location: Online
Proposal Deadline: November 1, 2026
Conference Fee: £100
Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/08/13/the-art-of-chaos/
" In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."
— C.G. Jung
Submit abstracts at: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/22314
Modality: Hybrid: The session will be held in-person but a few remote presentations may be included.
Food is simultaneously a cultural text and a political artifact — a site where identity, memory, power, and resistance converge. This panel invites world language educators and scholars to examine how food, as subject, medium, and metaphor, can transform the language classroom into a space of critical inquiry, developing not only linguistic proficiency but also intercultural communicative competence and critical citizenship.
What futures can South Asia imagine for itself—and in whose languages, forms, and cosmologies are they written? This seminar takes up South Asian Futurisms, a concept that remains under-theorized within literary studies, as a lens for reading how South Asian literatures of the past and present, across regional and vernacular traditions, have envisioned the future. Amid the region's rapidly shifting economic, social, and geopolitical landscape, we ask: can there be a South Asian Futurism, and if so, what does it look like?
Conference Dates: 23-24 October, 2026
Format: Online (via Zoom)
International, interdisciplinary conference titled:
Healing Narratives: Exploring Humanity in Medicine and Healthcare
In the realm of medicine and healthcare, narratives- whether spoken, written, visual, or performed- serve among others as powerful tools to humanize clinical experiences, challenge biomedical paradigms as well as foster empathy and understanding. These stories reveal the complex interplay between biological, psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of health, illuminating the ways in which healing is intertwined with human dignity, identity, and societal values.
European modernism often imagined aesthetic form as a way to overcome mediation: to make alienated experience, fragmented sociality, or absent truth appear immediately whole or present. At the same time, Edward Said identifies one of the core mechanisms of imperial representation as how it effaces its own mediation of the Orient, as if representation delivered “presence” rather than “re-presence.” This panel explores to what extent the modernist fantasy of formal immediacy was historically enabled by a fantasy of immediacy built into Orientalist representation.
Love and Its Reversals in Peninsular and Latin American Literature (Panel – Virtual Only)
NeMLA 2027 — 58th Annual Convention
March 6–9, 2027 | Newport, Rhode Island
Virtual Only
Love has long occupied a central place in Peninsular and Latin American literature, but literary representations of love also expose its reversals, contradictions, and darker dimensions. This panel explores representations of love and its reversals—including desire, rejection, violence, hate, and eroticism—with particular attention to questions of gender, subjectivity, power, and social norms.
International, interdisciplinary conference titled:
Healing Narratives: Exploring Humanity in Medicine and Healthcare
In the realm of medicine and healthcare, narratives- whether spoken, written, visual, or performed- serve among others as powerful tools to humanize clinical experiences, challenge biomedical paradigms as well as foster empathy and understanding. These stories reveal the complex interplay between biological, psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of health, illuminating the ways in which healing is intertwined with human dignity, identity, and societal values.
To decompose is to live too, I know, I know… (Beckett, Molloy)
Sappho’s Mirror: Images of Female Desire in Literature, Music & the Visual Arts
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?
This is a virtual session.
Mirrors of Desire: Ekphrasis & Mise en Abyme in Literature, Music & the Visual Arts
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 interdisciplinary approaches from the Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and Postmodern periods are welcome.
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
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 2026 one-day workshop on the topic of
“A Golden Age? Global Historical Fictions and Political Nostalgia”.
National Advanced Writing Symposium (NAWS) 2027 - January 29, 2027
Please use the link, below, to find a full description of our CFP for "Evolving Possibiilities: Futures of Advanced Writing."
The event is entirely ONLINE and FREE to both speakers and attendees.
Proposals are due Friday, September 25, 2026.
“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Stray Birds (1916)
Generative AI, LLMs, and NLP are transforming the humanities by reshaping meaning, interpretation, and representation. However, humanities scholars face a widening skills gap due to limited structured access. To address this, Department of English is organising a first-of-its-kind workshop at Visva-Bharati. The programme offers research scholars, faculty, and postgraduate students a useful and rigorous introduction to Digital Humanities and AI tools.