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The Aquatic Presence-Absence in World Literatures
Critical Language and Literary Studies (CLLS) invites original, unpublished research articles for a themed issue to be published in Fall 2026. The theme is examining aquatic presences and absences in world literatures.
What happens when cosmopolitanism no longer promises the world but reveals its limits?
Cosmopolitanism has long been associated with mobility, openness, translation, and coexistence across difference. In Asian literary and cinematic contexts, it has often been linked to port cities, diasporic networks, colonial encounters, and transregional circulation. Yet this cosmopolitan promise has never been equally available to all.
Scholarly discussions on environmental concerns have long been Euro-American-centric. In his 2005 essay, Rob Nixon critiques literary representations of environmentalism as an “offshoot of American Studies,” which has excluded non-American and non-Western perspectives on environmental degradation from critical inquiry. Nixon highlights Nigeria’s Abacha regime’s execution of Saro-Wiwa, a writer, activist and poet, who died fighting for his Ogoni people’s farmlands and the encroachment of their fishing waters by American and European conglomerates, supported by the local despotic regime. Nixon observes that Saro-Wiwa’s writings have received little attention from ecocriticism scholars (2005).
Call for Abstracts (Circle 3)
Literature and the Arts as Sites of Resistance and Solidarities
24 July -31 July 2026, Saulkrasti, Latvia
Focus
Literature and the Arts as tools for intersubjective transformation, resistance, and the forging of solidarities.
Framing Questions
Literary Inspirations
(A Peer reviewed Journal of Research in English Language and Literature)
ISSN:3108-3269 (Print)
Call for Papers - Volume 2 (2026)
Guidelines for Contributors:
We warmly invite original, unpublished and high-quality scholarly articles in any area of English Language and
Literature, book reviews and creative writings for publication in the second volume of our journal . All submissions
Edited Volume
Call for Contributions
CFP: The Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA)
2026 MMLA Convention—12-14 November 2026—Chicago, IL
Convention Dates: November 12-14, 2026
Convention Location: voco Chicago Downtown-Riverwalk (350 W. Wolf Point Plaza Building 1, Chicago, IL 60654)
2026 Convention Theme: “After the Archive.”
Convention Panel: Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies Permanent Section
Theme: After the Archive: Archival Recovery, BIPOC Pedagogical Labor, and Lived Resistance
CALL FOR PAPERS
Eco-Bordering and Green Nationalism: Spatial Transformations in the South Asian Diaspora
Guest Editors:
Dr. Mansi Bose, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India
&
Dr. Pratyusha Pramanik, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India
Rationale
Call for Papers
PAMLA 2026 Special Session: Seattle
Spanish and Portuguese (Peninsular)
This special session invites papers that explore the rich and multifaceted landscape of Spanish and Portuguese literature, film, and cultural studies within the Iberian Peninsula. We welcome presentations that engage with a broad spectrum of topics, particularly those that foreground the experiences of historically marginalized communities, including (but not limited to) Romani/Gypsy and Afro-Hispanic populations.
Invitation to Publish
in ACTA IASSYENSIA COMPARATIONIS no. 37 (2026)
Thematic issue:CITIES IN LITERATURE / LA VILLE DANS LA LITTÉRATURE/ ORAŞUL ÎN LITERATURĂ
The deadline for the submission of articles and book reviews (in Romanian, English, French, German, Spanish or Italian) is September 01, 2026.
The final decision of the AIC Editorial Board will be passed on before December 15, 2026.
Corrections (if required) and comments by the authors expected between December 15, 2026 and January 15, 2027.
Workshop and Special Issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents
Title: “Seeds of Empire, Roots of Change: Botany and the Atlantic World.”
Location: Saint Louis University Campus, Madrid, Spain (March 11–12, 2027)
Organizers: Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, The Center for Iberian Historical Studies, and Saint Louis University, Madrid.
African writers such as Chris Abani, Teju Cole, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, NoViolet Bulawayo, Biyanvanga Wainaina, Dinaw Mengestu and many others are committed to reimagining the concept of “home” and “what it means to be African?” in the era of mass globalization and “new” diasporic belonging.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Eco-Bordering and Green Nationalism: Spatial Transformations in the South Asian Diaspora
Guest Editors:
Dr. Mansi Bose, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India
&
Dr. Pratyusha Pramanik, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India
Rationale
The session “Women in Literature” includes papers dealing with any aspect of women in literature or literature by women. The session may contain essays on a wide variety of topics related to literature by and about women, including essays engaging with a wide variety of critical or theoretical approaches. Presentations might include consideration of women/women writers in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and geographical region. Papers may engage with the conference theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict," but doing so is not required. Additional topics might include:
The volume Women's Autobiographies and Memoirs 1920-2025: Precarity, Resistance and Selfhood attempts to look into the dialectics of identity and writing - the compulsion to respond to the other inhabiting the self, which provokes in her something peculiar and singular - a text of one's own. The self-authenticated narratives are often haunted by many an unsubduable voice that breaks open the self-centred finitude of living and dying.
54th Annual Conference on South Asia, October 28-31, 2026
“Literary texts are not, of course, merely passive conduits. They actively shape what the technologies mean and what the scientific theories signify in cultural contexts […] culture circulates through science no less than science circulates through culture.” (Hayles How We Became Posthuman 21) We can expand this view beyond science and technology. All aspects of human cultures circulate in artistic productions, most notably in prose fiction, and in return, fiction has the potential to influence cultures and to inspire innovations.
The Comparative American Ethnic Literature session at the 2026 PAMLA Conference in Seattle, WA seeks proposals for papers (about 15-20 minutes in length) related to a wide variety of topics regarding multi-ethnic texts, relationships between multi-ethnic writers, and/or connections among ethnic and religious communities. While proposals may engage with this year's conference theme of “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict," the session is open to broad interpretations and explorations of the field, including considerations of historical period, geographic area, genre (including film and music), gender and sexuality, bi- and multi-lingual texts, and so on.
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.
Prospero Rivista di Letterature e Culture Straniere
A Journal of Foreign Literatures and Cultures
Call for Papers: Volume XXXI (2026):
NARRATIVES OF CRISIS IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN-LANGUAGE LITERATURES
Telangana Journal of Higher Education (TJHE)
Deadline: May 15, 2026
Across continents, the university is being rewritten in real time — its purposes questioned, its futures renegotiated. We would be delighted if you might enter this conversation in our forthcoming issue, where your work could help shape the terms of debate and extend it in new directions.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Telangana Journal of Higher Education (TJHE)
ISSN 3108-0693; Website: https://tgche.ac.in/telangana-journal-of-higher-education-tjhe/
Volume 2 Number 1 (January–June 2026)
We are inviting select chapters at this stage as majority of the entries for the volume have been finalised. Apart from the topics mentioned below, prospective contributors are free to propose other topics, but if we have already finalised paper/s on said area, we may have to decline such proposals. For details regarding the concept and theme of the volume, please visit the-handbook-of-bengali-cinema, the original CFP for the volume. Priority will be given to quality proposals in the below areas:
Thematic:
Nandan and the Politics of State Support for Culture
Bengal-isms in Cinema in Bengali
Genres/Movements:
SEXTANT: Masculinities, Sexualities & Decolonialities
ISSN 2990-8124
University College Dublin
Call for Contributions
Special Issue: Inclusion in Education: Practices, Politics, and Possibilities
Narratives of Resistance and African Literature: Articulating Dissent, Disobedience and Pluriversal Futures
Special issue of English Academy Review (Taylor and Francis)
Link: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/narratives-of-resistan...
Special Issue Editor(s)
Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India
goutamkarmakar@uohyd.ac.in
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o stands as one of the most formidable literary and intellectual voices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Novelist, playwright, theorist, memoirist, and advocate of linguistic decolonisation, Ngũgĩ’s work continues to shape debates on coloniality, nationalism, language politics, global capitalism, and epistemic justice.
Under capitalism, we live separated from life. Capital’s extractive colonizing domination keeps us separated from nature, from each other, and from our own bodies, denying us a symbiotic and regenerative relationship with the natural world and with each other. Yet, certain types of bindings are integral to capitalism: capitalism depends on the combination of labour and nature for the production of value; the “emergence of capitalist accumulation and the reproduction of capitalist production” depends on “acts of violent dispossession”, on “tearing Indigenous societies, peasants, and other small-scale, self-sufficient agricultural producers from the source of their livelihood––the land” (Coulthard 2014).
Tentative Title- Cross Imagination and Literary Production: African Writers and Indian Characters, Indo- African Writers and African Characters
Globalectics is the interrelationship of all things, the mutual containment of the local and the global.”
— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing (2012)
The Dance and Movement Analysis Section of the American Folklore Society is looking for papers, panels, workshops, and lec/dems for the 138th AFS Annual Meeting, to be held at the Renaissance Asheville Downtown Hotel in Asheville, North Carolina from October 27–31, 2026. Deadline is April 6, 2026 for emailing us with ideas and questions, at dance.section@afsnet.org.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Title: Welsh, Irish, and Polish Migration and Diaspora to Argentina
Editors: María Eugenia Crusetand Aleksander Bednarski
Proposals (500 words): May 15, 2026
Completed chapters (7,000 words): September 15, 2026
Languages: English and/or Spanish
In a world increasingly marked by geopolitical strife, cultural polarization, and digital fragmentation, literature continues to stand as one of humanity’s most profound instruments for fostering peace, empathy, and human solidarity. From ancient oral traditions to contemporary narratives, literary expression has served as a repository of shared human experience—preserving collective memory, resisting violence, and envisioning alternative futures grounded in compassion and coexistence. The pursuit and preservation of peace have remained among the fundamental purposes and aesthetic aspirations of literature since antiquity.