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Joyce Studies Annual invites submissions for a special issue featuring the topic of “Echo-Joyce: Reading Joyce in Relation” to be guest edited by Amadeo De La Pava, Faye Liu, and Jordan Smith.
Panel Proposal for the NeMLA Convention, Newport, RI, March 6–9, 2027
Planetary crises—climate change, toxic pollution, biodiversity loss, and energy transition—are profoundly uneven in their distribution. Their material consequences are shaped by infrastructures of class, race, colonial histories, state power, and global capitalism. Increasingly, literary, artistic, and cultural texts across the world foreground these asymmetries, framing ecological crisis not only as environmental catastrophe but as a question of justice: Who breathes polluted air? Who profits from green transformation? Who consumes melting ice? Who bears the social and environmental costs of planetary change?
This is a CFP seeking panelists for the 2027 Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. We invite papers that examine racialization and ethnicization across Sinophone and Asian contexts in which local projects of improvement and rule are entangled with colonial and imperial systems and epistemologies, both Western and non-Western, external and internal, often sustained by local elites and intermediaries. We understand these contexts in broad terms, including transnational, diasporic, and colonial aspects. Processes of racialization and ethnicization, as well as resistance to and negotiation of such processes, could involve, but are not limited to, discussions of care, gender, and sexuality.
Call for Proposals for papers, possibly for the ACLA Seminar in Houston March 2027 and for a possible collection of published essays.
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 9/20/2026
Women’s Writings against Oppression in the Middle East and South Asia
American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic and New England Regional Conference
November 6th and 7th 2026
Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
CFP Proposal Extension:
The Call for Papers deadline for the Mid-Atlantic and New England American Conference for Irish Studies at Seton Hall University has been extended until September 15th, 2026. We encourage both established scholars and those new to the field to submit abstracts. We welcome graduate student abstracts and will hold an undergraduate poster session. Interested undergraduates should submit their poster ideas as an abstract.
Keynote:
In India, the displacement of Adivasis, tribals, poor, farmers, forest-dwelling and land-based people, and other marginalized communities for development and infrastructure projects like dams, railways, power projects, and bridge construction, or for capitalist accumulation like mining, resource extraction, tourism, and industry, is a common occurrence. The trajectory of such displacement has a long history, starting in the colonial period and being aggravated in the postcolonial period under the Nehruvian model of development. Although such projects are implemented for the sake of the ‘greater common good’ for all, only a few elites enjoy the benefit of these projects, depriving millions of displaced, marginalized people (Roy 1999).
"What is to be insisted upon is that the poet must develop or procure the consciousness of the past and that he should continue to develop this consciousness throughout his career."
— T.S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
About the volume
Call for Papers“I overstand you, you understand”: Joyce and the Nightmare of Interpretation
Conference Dates:
4–5 February 2027
Deadline for Abstracts:
9 November 2026
Successful Applicants Will Be Notified By:
30 November 2026
Keynote speakers:
Sara Sullam, University of Milan
Kris Peeters, University of Antwerp
Organisers:
Franca Ruggieri,
Fabio Luppi,
Enrico Terrinoni,
Serenella Zanotti
Beecroft argues in The Cambridge Companion to the Novel that, if we understand the novel as storytelling in any narrative form indigenous to a particular culture or people, then we must acknowledge the existence of multiple novels, each with distinct temporal and spatial origins. He maintains that storytelling traditions are embedded in every society, and that many of these traditions have complemented, intersected with, or diverged from Western narrative forms (46–48). However, the narrative form canonized as the “novel” in the Western literary tradition has a specific historical and aesthetic origin in ancient Greece.
The 1st Annual Virtual Conference of The Joseph Conrad Society of America
CONRAD NOW! Joseph Conrad’s Global Crosscurrents
6 - 8 N O V E M B E R / 2 0 2 6
The Joseph Conrad Society of America (JCSA) invites proposals for our inaugural Annual Virtual Conference, to be hosted on an integrated web-based Zoom platform from 06 to 08 November 2026. The title, CONRAD NOW! speaks to the present state of Conrad scholarship, but also to the ways in which earlier critical debates on that author have shaped his place not only in literary reflection but, as suggested by our subtitle, with respect to the world’s changing cultural landscapes.
In her resolute commitment to telling stories about Black life without the white gaze, Toni Morrison articulated a model of community empowerment grounded in local knowledge, intra-communal collaboration, and the self-reflexive narration of Black worlds. While Morrison remains one of the most visible public advocates of this aesthetic and ethical orientation, practices of Black worldmaking across African and diasporic literatures have long exceeded mere response to anti-Blackness. Even under conditions structured by racial violence, coloniality, displacement, and social rupture, Black communities have continually generated modes of life, relation, memory, and imagination that assert the possibility of worlds otherwise.
[Panel, Virtual]
NeMLA 2027 annual convention - Newport, RI (March 6-9 2027)
Contributions on varied dimensions of Literature and the Wilderness are invited for Volume XIV of Critical Imprints (ISSN: 2319-4774), the annual peer-reviewed journal of the Department of English, Loreto College, Kolkata.
CFP: 3rd International Interdisciplinary Conference of the Department of English, University of Zululand
28-30 September 2026
Re-imagining Language, Writing, and Literature in English in a Fast-Changing World
Fecha: Octubre 30–31, 2026
Lugar: Virtual (Zoom)
Hora: 09:00 – 17:30 EST
Idiomas: Español e Inglés
Institución
Anfitrión: Universidad Teológica del Caribe
Registrate: Enventbrite
Dirigido:
Narratives of Space: Eco-Feminist Perspectives on Postcolonial Environmental Discourse
Submission deadline: 2027-07-31
Organization: Environment and Social Psychology Journal (Scopus-indexed), ISSN: 2424-8975 Special Issue Editors: Dr. Behzad Pourgharib, Dr. Moein Moradi
Contact Email:
This panel at the SAMLA 97 conference (Nov. 5-7, 2026) examines hospitality as a critical framework within postcolonial studies, attending to the ways literary and cultural texts negotiate welcome, refusal, obligation, and exposure in the aftermath of empire. Within empire studies, hospitality emerges as a fraught ethical and aesthetic relation shaped by colonial histories, uneven mobility, and asymmetrical power. We consider how such texts register these dynamics across postcolonial contexts. Readings across genres and media—including novels, graphic novels, life writing, film, poetry, and theory—deploy hospitality as a vital lens for understanding postcolonial subjectivity, relationality, and the ongoing legacies of colonial governance.
Transnational Feminisms have emerged out of the need for women’s groups to address oppression that crosses national borders and to build solidarities rooted in an exploration of the articulation between the local and the global. These forms of feminisms examine the ways in which women’s groups transcend location beyond national boundaries to address their political and ideological struggles, exploring the interrelationships between discrete factors such as caste, class, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, age, and multiple other positionalities and contexts of inequalities as they overlap and are shaped by neoliberal economic and political forces, patriarchies and various other systems of stratification.
Call for Abstracts for a Panel at SAMLA 98
Narratives of Displacement in Global South Literature
This proposed panel for the November 2026 Tunisian Association for English Language Studies International Conference | Home-Making: Reinventing Home in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures invites papers that examine Black and African fatherhood as a site of un-homing, home-making, and reinvention across Anglophone literatures and cultures. While scholarship on families has often centered mothers and children, fathers remain understudied as agents of domestic life, memory work, and cultural transmission.
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Appel à communications -- Congrès AFEC 2027
Le Canada face aux logiques de l’économie extractive : perspectives esthétiques, politiques, juridiques, historiques, économiques et environnementales
Université de Strasbourg, 23-25 juin 2027.
"Archipelagic Imaginaries and the Americas: Islands - Narratives - Mythologies"
RIAS Vol. 20, Fall-Winter (2/2027)
"Imaginarios Archipelágicos y las Américas: Islas – Narrativas – Mitologías"
RIAS Vol. 20, Otoño–Invierno (2/2027)
We invite original book chapter proposals for the upcoming edited volume“Emergence of New World Imagination in the 20th Century Asia:Understanding the Asian Colonial Countries through the Lens of Travelogues, Memoirs, Testimonies and Archival Documents" to be published with an International publishing house. This edited book aims to provide a multidisciplinary platform for advanced doctoral students, researchers, academicians and faculty members to publish their original works with us.
Brief Synopsis :
The Intimacies of Kith seeks to bring together scholars who are also practitioners of poetry from Asian North American and Southeast Asian communities. Our goal is to create a shared space for poet-scholars to engage one another directly, creating opportunities for sustained dialogue across geographic and disciplinary boundaries.
This panel examines how Germans have claimed, imagined, and narrated the Pacific from the nineteenth century to the present. From the colonial administration of Samoa, New Guinea, and Micronesia to missionary encounters, ethnographic expeditions, settler migration along the Pacific coast, and contemporary literary reckonings with colonial pasts, German engagements with the Pacific raise questions about imperial ambition, cultural fantasy, and the politics of memory.
We invite chapter proposals for an edited collection of essays based upon our split-panel session, Adventures in Ecocriticism, at SAMLA 97. We plan to propose this collection for the Bloomsbury Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series, at the encouragement of the series editor, Douglas Vakoch.
Call for Contributions
Issue 14.2:The Cultural Labor of Internationalism: Reorienting Solidarities in Times of StruggleEdited by Yawen Li, Ajay Bhardwaj, Anup Grewal, and Nicolai Volland. Deadlines | verge@psu.eduConvergence proposals: September 30, 2026Essays: May 15, 2027On the Theme As militarism, authoritarianism, and chauvinistic nationalism ascend globally, and “Asia” becomes a contested site in geopolitical rivalries, the need to imagine alternative forms of solidarity, including forms of grassroots internationalism, becomes ever more urgent.
This panel explores archives beyond the traditional frame and instead as embodied spaces of cultural memory and histories inscribed on skin. Building upon Hortense Spillers’ important essay Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe (1987), we seek papers from humanities scholars in the French and Francophone worlds that reframe the body not as a passive victim but as a living text, a site of memory, and an alternative space that rescripts official records. By retracing histories through the reading of the body, we can activate affect, unleash unexpected memories, and create generative spaces for art that centres on cultural knowledge to empower communities.