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Call for Papers:
The Art of Storytelling: Archetypes in Focus A Transdisciplinary Conference
May 30-31, 2026
Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/02/24/storytelling-2026/
Where:
Oxford University (and Online)
Fees:
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)
RAILIMAGE Conference, 1-3 April 2027, Turku, Finland
Call for Papers
Imagining Railways from 1900 to the Present: Places, People, Infrastructures, Texts
The project ‘Twentieth-Century Railway Imaginations: Building the Mobility and Infrastructural Humanities’ (RAILIMAGE) invites scholars from all backgrounds to submit paper proposals for its 2027 conference. We also warmly encourage early-career researchers to apply.
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.
ERC Advanced Grant AGRELITA
The Reception of Ancient Greece in pre-modern French Literature and Illustrations of Manuscripts and Printed Books (1320-1550): How invented memories shaped the identity of European communities
Direction : Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas
https://agrelita.hypotheses.org/
The Eco-esotericism panel invites submissions that examine the intersection of esoteric thought and ecological consciousness as expressed in literature, cultural texts, and critical theory. Eco-esotericism encompasses approaches that unite spiritual or mystical understandings of nature with ecological critique and environmental activism. Engaging with PAMLA’s 2026 theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” this panel asks: How do esoteric ecological imaginaries reinforce, negotiate, or resist ruling ideologies? How have spiritualized visions of nature shaped elite cultural production, countercultural movements, or alternative political communities?
Hi all,
See the below CFP for a panel on Pacific early American literature for next year’s MLA. Please circulate to anyone you think might be interested!
Call for Papers
Deadline for abstracts: March 31st, 2026
Journeying Between Thresholds and Metamorphoses
International Conference
May 8th-9th, 2026
Tallinn University, Narva mnt 29, Silva Building, Room S-529 (Tallinn, Estonia)
Special Session Title: Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish Writers from the Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey (Online Session)
Existing scholarship in Asian (North) American Literature has long examined travel narratives about Asian travelers within immigrant or diasporic paradigms: Sau-ling Wong famously establishes the Necessity/Extravagance framework in understanding transpacific mobility by early Asian American immigrants (1993), whereas Chih-ming Wang reads the autobiographical travelogues by diasporic Vietnamese American writers as “homecoming stories” (2013), and Patricia Chu interprets them as “return narratives” deploying acts of countermemory and postmemory to address racial melancholia (2019).
Global Music History and Northern Europe in the 18th and 19th Centuries
University of Copenhagen, 15–16 May 2026
Deadline for proposals: 15 Feb. 2026
We invite proposals for papers exploring global music histories connected to Northern Europe in the long 18th and 19thcenturies.
“Global Early Modern Environmental Crises: Modes of Extraction, Settler Colonialism, and Empire”
The Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) is putting together a guaranteed MLA panel for the 2027 Annual Convention in Los Angeles, CA, USA (7-10 January) on global early modern environmental crises with a focus on human interactions with the earth tied to imperial pursuits, settler colonialism, conflicts in worldviews, and methods of extraction. We hope to feature scholars with expertise in different linguistic traditions to foster cross-cultural discussions.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
Hotels are often the first destination of any traveler. Not just a place to unpack and sleep, they are often one’s first exposure to a new culture, a base of operations, and an enormous factor in travel experience outcomes. Given their essential role in travel, hotels especially cater to the tourism industry. In Discourses in Place (2003), Scollon and Scollon develop an important, multi-faceted framework for analyzing text in space, arguing “we can only interpret the meaning of public texts like road signs, notices and brand logos by considering the social and physical world that surrounds them” (1).
For the 150th anniversary of Harriet Martineau’s death, the Martineau Society will be hosting its annual conference in conjunction with the University of Cumbria, Ambleside Campus, in Ambleside, England. The Martineau Society conference is an interdisciplinary conference that focuses on the lives, work, and contributions of the Martineau family, including its two most famous and influential members, Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) and James Martineau (1805-1900). Harriet Martineau resided in the Lake District for much of her later years, from 1845 until her death in 1876.
This year, we turn our attention to the intricate, invisible, but often tangible webs that bound the early modern world together. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were defined by a profound density of connection - a world of intense social binding, material circulation, and intellectual exchange. From the “knot intrinsicate” of Cleopatra’s demise to the conspiracy of rumours that entraps Othello, early modern drama is obsessed with the architecture of entanglement.
Conference online (via Zoom): 12-13 March 2026
CFP:
A Two-Day International Conference on Civilizational Literature Texts, Traditions, and Transcultural Dialogues across Civilizations
Dates: 13 and 14th March, 2026
Venue: Dharwad, Karnataka, India
Mode: Hybrid
Organized by Dharwad Katte, in collaboration with Adikavi Sri Maharishi Valmiki University, Raichur, Janata Shikshana Samity, Dharwad and Peter Lang.
Concept Note
ATRAS Journal is now inviting scholars from around the globe to submit their unpublished manuscripts for publication. The journal aims to contribute to the body of knowledge by publishing original papers in the fields of literature, gender studies, cultural studies, linguistics, education, language studies, translation, social sciences, and the arts. Researchers are invited to submit their manuscripts in English, Arabic, and French.
Presentation
ATRAS Journal is inviting researchers from the international academic community to submit their unpublished manuscripts for publication.
Accepted papers after review will be published for volume 7, issue 2 on July 15th, 2026
ALA 2026: Society for the Study of American Travel Writing CFP
CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline, January 21, 2026
Society for the Study of American Travel Writing
American Literature Association 37th Annual Conference
May 20-23, 2026, in Chicago, IL.
Journal of Travel Literature Studies (JTLS) (ISSN: 3106-6674，EISSN：3106-6682) is a rigorously peer-reviewed international academic journal, formally published by Hong Kong HIEP Press.. The journal is edited by Professor Tian Junwu of Beihang University. The journal welcomes submissions in both Chinese and English. It is dedicated to advancing foundational theoretical and methodological research in the field of travel literature. Unconstrained by temporal or geographical boundaries, JTLS seeks to showcase the diverse textual paradigms and narrative characteristics of travel literature, while encouraging interdisciplinary perspectives and pluralistic critical approaches.
CONCEPT NOTE
Call For Papers
Travel is perhaps the most enduring and evocative leitmotif of life, both in a very real and
metaphoric sense. Essentially spinning from that chequered gamut, Travel Literature records
human interactions and experiences within the diverse landscapes and cultures of the world. Its
significance lies in its ability to document encounters with differences, recording their observations
of previously unknown lands and articulating evolving perceptions of space, place, and identity.
One of the earliest examples of this is found in the works of Herodotus. His Histories blend
accounts of his journeys with observations on cultures, customs, and geographies of the ancient
Call for papers – International PhD and early-career symposium
Seeing the Other Empire: British Travel Writing and Imperial Rivalry in Europe and the Near East, 1783–1914
University of Strasbourg, 24 April 2026
Organisers: Arman Martirosyan and Suheyla-Hacer Sahin
Research group SEARCH (UR 2325)
Call for Papers for an Edited Volume
Train Narratives in India: Marking 100 Years of the Electric Train in India (1925–2025)
Concept Note
2025 marks the centenary of the electric train in India, a moment that invites us to reflect on the rich and complex presence of trains in the subcontinent’s cultural imagination. From their colonial introduction as instruments of control and commerce to their transformation into symbols of progress, partition, migration, and everyday life, trains have profoundly shaped the way India moves—and tells stories.
Welty's Dissident Spaces
Panel at Conference of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature (March 28-31, 2026 at Fisk University in Nashville, TN)
Co-coordinated by Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Mae Miller Claxton, & Rebecca L. Harrison