translation studies

Mental Health and Indian Literatures: Men in Representation

7th August 2026

Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi NAAC A++, NIRF Rank- 13 Department of English
Kalkaji, New Delhi-110019

Call for Papers

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

The Cultural Translation and Mobility: Processes, Spaces, Objects Working Group invites proposals for a panel titled “Planetary thinking at the intersections of cultural translation and mobility“ as part of the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies Biennial Conference (hybrid), November 5-7, 2026, hosted  by the Cultural Studies Department, Trent University, Canada.

In this CFP, we are looking for essays that take up the issues of the Speculative Genre (you can interpret this in many ways, though the sciences, technologies, and alternative social structures are usually instrumental in these realms) as it is manifest in the literary production of the Czechs and Slovaks, whether this was during the 1800s or it is a current manifestation.

We are interested in review essays, literary scholarship, and in translations of original works from Czech or Slovak.

You can submit essays and reviews for consideration here: https://astralcourier.subfolios.com/submit/578/essays-reviews

The tenth annual Brandeis Novel Symposium (BNS), which will take place on Friday, October 23, 2026, invites proposals for papers on Han Kang’s 2014 novel Human Acts (original title: 소년이 온다, or A Boy Comes; English translation by Deborah Smith). The Brandeis Novel Symposium is a one-day conference that chooses a single novel as a point of focus for salient theoretical, historical, political, and narratological questions about the novel as a genre. (See the 2025 BNS websiteand this archive for more information about the BNS.)

This special session, taking its inspiration from the conference theme “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” invites presentations that challenge the assumption that adaptation is primarily an industry-driven practice shaped by Anglo-American cultural and legal frameworks. In these systems, intellectual property laws define adaptation as a derivative process, regulating authorship, ownership, and revenue streams. What happens when we shift the focus to the Mediterranean, the Middle East, or South Asia? In these contexts, adaptation often emerges through more fluid practices of transmission, performance, and reinterpretation/inspiration, where the boundaries between original and adaptation are less rigid.

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.

Indian Knowledge System Cell,

Post Graduate Department of English,

And

Post Graduate Department of Economics,

SRI GURU TEG BAHADUR KHALSA COLLEGE,

SRI ANANDPUR SAHIB-140118,

PUNJAB, INDIA

organizes

Two-days International Conference

On

Indian Knowledge System: Perspectives and Imperatives

(6-7 August, 2026)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Platform Bengali: Digital Humanities and Digital Culture in the Bangla-Speaking World
A One-Day Hybrid Academic Conference

Conference Date: 18 July 2026
Venue: Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, Kolkata - 700103
Format: Hybrid (In-Person and Online)

Conference Convenor: Pranab K Mondal (Assistant Professor, RKMRC Narendrapur)
Volume Editors: Prithu Halder (Project Coordinator, Platform Bengali; IIT Tirupati), Debapriya Basu (Associate Professor, IIT Guwahati), Spandan Bhattacharya (Assistant Professor, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad)

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

 “Virginia Woolf: Sound and Rhythm in Translation”, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE VIRGINIA WOOLFISTANBUL, TURKEY deadline for submissions: April 30, 2026 full name / name of organization: 35th International Conference Virginia Woolf
https://www.bilgi.edu.tr/en/academic/virginia-woolf-conference-2026/  contact email: woolftranssound26@gmail.com 

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS 

35th International Conference Virginia Woolf 

Open Forum “Virginia Woolf: Sound and Rhythm in Translation”, Istambul, Jun 24-Jun 28, 2026 

This special issue aims to cultivate greater convergence and contribute to the broader discourse on cross-cultural exchange, particularly in contexts beyond the Euro-American center. We encourage investigations into how cultural values, ideological frameworks, and aesthetic sensibilities shape the translation and reception of children’s literature across diverse cultural contexts. We also encourage the integration of new theoretical lenses and trends, such as transcreation, affect theory, audiovisual translation, cognitive translation studies, and interdisciplinary approaches to gender and ecology, and the impact of AI, in the discussion of translational convergences and divergences in global children’s literature.

The East Asian Translation Studies conference aims to provide a platform for translators and researchers working in the East Asian context to exchange ideas on issues related to translation. 

Previous EATS conferences have been held at the University of East Anglia, UK (2014); Meiji University, Japan (2016); Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (2019); Université Paris Cité, France (2022); and the University of Queensland, Australia (2024). They have centered on questions of the circulation of translation within East Asia, constructing/deconstructing East Asia, changing identities of East Asia observed in translation, universals in East Asian translation, and negotiating the borders of translation and East Asia.

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.

Abstract

This session invites papers exploring the role of affect and emotion in contemporary world literature. Recent developments in affect theory—particularly the work of Sara Ahmed and Lauren Berlant—have emphasized how emotions circulate across individuals, communities, and cultural contexts. Literary texts offer a powerful site for examining how affect shapes narratives of identity, belonging, and social transformation within global and transnational frameworks.