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Concept Note:
This interdisciplinary conference aims to bring together scholars, writers, filmmakers, and students to share the interest and passion for the fictional criminal genre through their participation in panels, roundtables, workshops, film screenings, and curated cultural events in historic Salem.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
EGSA ANNUAL CONFERENCE (2026): GRIEF IN CONVERSATION
Jadavpur University
Department of English
Presents
QUEER
POLITICAL
ASSEMBLAGES 5.0
Theme:
Queer and the Cyborg in the Contemporary Understanding of Gender
Important dates:
Last Date of Abstract Submission: 1 February 2026
Confirmation of Selection: 15 February 2026
Speculative Futures in CanLit
Call for Papers
Article submissions in English or French are invited for a special 50th-anniversary issue of Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne on the theme of Speculative Futures in CanLit. The issue will be co-edited by John Clement Ball, Laura Moss, and Cynthia Sugars, and with a submission deadline of 15 May 2026.
This issue invites submissions on the myriad manifestations of the “speculative” and “future” in the field of Canadian literature, from submissions about speculative fiction and cultural texts, to environmental and/or political futures, to speculations about the future of Canadian literature itself.
Call for Papers II -- Queer and Trans of Color Critique: Colonial Legacies, Decolonial Futures
Call for Papers I: The Haunting of the Past, Memory, and Archive
CFP — Edited Volume
Watery Worlds: Decolonial Ecologies and the Mediterranean
This edited volume explores water as a decolonial, ecological, and affective force across Mediterranean geographies, including but not limited to contemporary Turkey. Rather than treating water as background or metaphor, the volume considers it a central analytic force shaping experiences of colonialism, displacement, border-making, memory, and belonging.
Call for Papers for Western Literature Association’s guaranteed panel at the 2026 American Literature Association Meeting (Chicago, May 20-23)
This year’s general call seeks proposals related to any aspect of the study of literature of the American West. Papers on single texts or single authors are welcome, though comparative, transnational, and/or multiethnic approaches are especially encouraged. Graduate students are encouraged to apply.
Centre for Global Migrations Symposium
Crossing Borders
Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka | University of Otago
17-18 February 2026
Keynotes: Anne McNevin | Simon Barber & Gabriella Makerita Hinetu Brayne
Call for Papers: Special Issue on Digital Marginalisation, AI Bias, and Cultural Representation in South Asia
Reinventing Borderlines in a Transnational World
April 10-11, 2026
Higher Institute of Human Sciences of Tunis- University Tunis El Manar
CALL FOR PAPERS:
"Speculative Cultures and the Metamodern Turn"
AmLit: American Literature Special Issue (October 2027)
Guest Editors
Vasileios N. Delioglanis (deliogla@enl.auth.gr)
Aylin D. Walder (aylin-dilek.walder@tu-braunschweig.de)
“When Humans are On the Menu: Cannibalism and Modernity”
BAMS/MSA 2026
Loughborough, UK, 1-4 July 2026
I’m seeking abstracts for papers exploring representations of cannibalism in global modernist literature and culture for BAMS/MSA 2026. I’m planning this as an entirely virtual panel, but I am open to an in-person panel if that is everyone’s preference!
The Asian Studies section is currently accepting paper and panel proposals for the 68th Annual Conference of the World Social Science Association. The conference will be held at the Clyde Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from March 25th through 28th, 2026.
The Asian Studies section welcomes research on the historical, cultural, social, and political aspects of the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Pacific, and East Asia. Previous panels have explored Asian immigrant women’s participation management, governance in China, contemporary Japanese digital culture, and feminist readings of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa. We encourage innovative and critical approaches that address contemporary and historical issues.
Today, all countries that were colonized by France have gained their independence, yet discussions about its legacy continue. Many films, documentaries, literary works, speeches, and critical writings contribute to the ongoing conversation about liberty and justice in relation to independence. A 2024 documentary produced by Wandrille Lanos, titled Haïti, la rançon de l'indépendance, explores how liberty and justice were interpreted during Haiti’s struggle for independence. From September 22 to 26, 2025, during the United Nations General Debate at the 80th Session, the current president of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, argued that colonization should be recognized as one of the greatest crimes against humanity.
Today, Bollywood is not merely an industry of Indian films representing the national cinema but also a global cultural phenomenon. From the singsong dance sequences on YouTube to its widespread circulation on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and regional streaming platforms, Bollywood redefines South Asian identities and how they are consumed, contested, and celebrated globally. Moreover, the intertwining of questions on cultural appropriation, culturalized representation, caste, gender, and diasporic negotiations emerges with renewed urgency and visibility.
In his 2022 book, Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature,
Christopher Krentz writes that “while disabled people everywhere have dealt with barriers to
making their views known, those in the Global South, who are usually people of color, have long
been largely unheard, despite numbering more than half a billion people . . . Such invisibility
underscores how disabled people and those close to them in the Global South have commonly been
afterthoughts, deemed unimportant and disposable” (Krentz 2). While the Global South is Krentz’s
focus, we also acknowledge these issues in minority and indigenous communities globally.
Submit a Manuscript to the Journal
Global South Literary Studies (Routledge)
For a Special Issue on
Political Violence and Literary Responses in South and Southeast Asia since the 1940s
https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/political-violence-and...
Political Violence and Literary Responses in South and Southeast Asia since the 1940s
Call for Abstracts
Postcolonial Interventions in association with Centre for Studies in Gender, Culture and Media, West Bengal State University and the Department of English, Sister Nivedita University invites abstracts for an international conference on Indian Writing in English to be held in Sister Nivedita University, New Town, West Bengal on 13-14 March 2026.
Indian Writing in English in the 21st Century: Negotiations, Resistance and Alternatives
How has the future of the United Kingdom and its various components been imagined, conceived and projected at all periods, including the present day?
CALL FOR PAPERS
Chinmaya75 International Conference
8–10 May 2026
Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF) • Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth (CVV) • CIF
Shodha Sansthan (CIFSS)
Website: https://chinfo.org/icsc2026
Email: icsc2026@cvv.ac.in
Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies
Brutalism in the Global Novel (https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/jgps/cfp)
Madhurima Nayak, Chandigarh University, India
Call for Papers 1: You Are On Native Land: Understanding Medieval Studies in Turtle Island
The EDID Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers on Indigeneity and the medieval.
Conference Title: Entangled Histories, Shared Futures: South Asia and Africa
Date: June 4 - 5, 2026
Venue: Zanzibar, Tanzania
Aims & Rationale:
Visual Cultures of the Medical Modern
A two-day conference to be held at Azim Premji Bengaluru, 19th - 20th February, 2026 co-
organized by the English and Media Studies group
About the conference:
Narrativising Infrastructure
Special issue for The Global South
Issue editors:
Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India
Payel Pal, The LNM Institute of Information Technology, India
Theme statement:
How do we come to know health—our own or that of others? In a time marked by global crisis, inequality, and rapid technological change, lived experience offers vital, yet often marginalised, forms of knowledge. This one-day conference brings together Early Career Researchers across disciplines to explore health through the lens of lived experience: its stories, its silences, and its capacities for change.
Call for Papers: Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance | March 27, 2026
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Diana Martinez, Assistant Professor of Architecture, UC Berkeley
Graduate Student Symposium
Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Tufts University, Medford, MA
The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University invites graduate students to submit paper proposals for the 2026 Graduate Symposium titled Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance, which will be held on March 27, 2026, in Medford, MA.
Translating Modernities: Language, Selfhood, and Literary Futures in Asia
This proposed panel explores how modernities across Asia have been shaped not only through contact with the West but through acts of translation-linguistic, cultural, and epistemic-within and across Asian languages. It asks how writers and thinkers, negotiating between vernaculars and global idioms, forged new vocabularies of selfhood and community that redefined what it meant to be "modern."