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Greetings!

Embrace the opportunity to present your work at this year's PAMLA Conference (Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association) which will be held in Seattle, Washington from Nov. 12-15, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel with a beautiful welcome event set to take place on the evening of Nov. 11.

https://www.pamla.org/pamla2026/

"Diaspora, Exile, and Colonial Memory in Literature, Film, and Art"

In the wake of ecocriticism and environmental humanities, the blue humanities have emerged as a field of study that emphasizes the centrality of aquatic environments in understanding interactions between humans and nonhumans. This interdisciplinary field, which initially grew out of Anglophone literary criticism, proposes to shift our terra-centric perspective by adopting the seas and oceans as a new vantage point to rethink our understanding of both the planet and literature (Klein, 2002; Blum, 2008; Bailyn, 2005). Originally developed in the United States within the field of Oceanic studies (Blum 2010; Cohen 2010; Mentz 2009), the “Blue studies” have since expanded and become increasingly decentered and diversified.

Soapbox 8.0: call for papers

Ways of Structuring

peer reviewed; open to critical and artistic work. 

If structures are determinate and determining, as they have come to seem through the interventions of poststructuralist theory, then ‘ways of structuring’ names a contradiction.  The plurality of ‘ways’ sits in tension with the fixity of ‘structure,’ evoking the very qualities of contingency and flexibility that the concept seems to negate.  For this upcoming issue, we welcome academic and artistic contributions that explore this tension.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Critique: Journal of English Language and Literature

https://critique.gcuf.edu.pk

Submission Deadline: 31 July 2026

The Editors of Critique: Journal of English Language and Literature invite the submission of original scholarly articles for consideration in the forthcoming issue of the journal.

Industrial Modernity: Energy, Labor, and Media in 20th Asia

PAMLA 2026 is pleased to present Together and Apart: Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Medieval Spain (https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19955)!

SESSION DESCRIPTION

Afrofuturism, Latinx altermundos, Indigenous futurisms, solarpunk, cli-fi — the speculative modes through which BIPOC writers have imagined, contested, and survived the present are not marginal subgenres. They are among the most politically urgent literary formations of the last half-century, and among the least fully mapped by existing scholarship. This special session invites papers that read across these formations to ask: what does speculative fiction do when it is written from the borderlands, from the barrio, from the reservation, from the maquiladora corridor, from communities that have been made to inhabit the dystopian present that other traditions only project?

Indian psychoanalysis consistently finds itself in a space of translation—concepts and praxis generated through Euro-American epistemes are translated on the page and in the clinician’s office. Concepts forged in specific Euro-American contexts encounter Indian affective, political and cultural worlds that resist and reshape them. In India, these juxtapositions between lived worlds and psychoanalytic theory have often been navigated through recourse to Hindu mythology, or rarely, through strict adherence to European epistemes.

Call for Papers

Decolonial Imaginations in Indian Writings in English: Indigenous Knowledge, Memory, and Resistance

Deadline for submissions: August 31, 2026

Publisher: Authorspress, New Delhi, India

Editors:

Dr. Ashutosh Singh, Assistant Professor, Department of English and Foreign Language, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Chhattisgarh, India

RSTEM symposium 05.02.26

Call for PapersRe-Sounding the Early Modern: Art, Power, and the Global Soundscape of the Dutch Masters

The Texas Tech University Vernacular Music Center, in collaboration with the Talkington College of Visual and Performing Arts and the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, invites proposals for a one-day interdisciplinary symposium exploring the cultural, historical, economic, and sonic worlds of the Early Modern.

In the past two decades, scholars of environmental literature have begun expanding the Euro-American canons and contexts that have long dominated ecocriticism and publication, teaching, and reading practices in the West. The perspectives on humans’ relationship with the nonhuman world that emerge from alternate global sites often complicate and even challenge the values and priorities of Western environmental scholarship and activism.

The Comparative Literature session, like its namesake discipline, strives to be broad, inclusive, and interdisciplinary. We therefore welcome proposals that touch on multiple works of literature and strive to make use of more than traditional comparative studies, borrowing analytic or interpretive practices from other disciplines such as philosophy, film and media studies, digital humanities, cultural or art history.

Proposals that engage with the conference theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” are welcome but not required. The panel welcomes clear, thoughtful, and well-researched proposals in Comparative Literature that demonstrate engagement with relevant scholarship.

Names of Proposed Editor(s) and academic affiliation:

Prof. Om Prakash Dwivedi, Director, Faculty of Humanities & Liberal Arts Chandigarh University Uttar Pradesh, India 

Dr. Madhurima Nayak, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Chandigarh University Uttar Pradesh, India

Prof. Debajyoti Biswas, Department of English, Bodoland University, India

Aim & Intellectual Scope of Issue

Over the last years, there has been a burgeoning debate about the Eastern multicultural space, ranging from Eastern Europe, Middle East and South Asian countries to the Far East, which has been intrinsically coupled with significant cultural and economic dynamism; however, such diverse and multi-layered areas have also been the subject of all sorts of misrepresentations and misinterpretations. Future trajectory of the Eastern mind-set might provide a basis for the emergence of new civilizations in this new century and new millennium.