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Submissions open: June 15, 2026 – August 1, 2026
Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies welcomes submissions for its October 2026 issue, which seeks to reconsider how literature translates bodily experience into writing and visibility, and how the body, in turn, discloses and shapes literary meaning.
Modernist Nationalisms Conference
St John’s College, University of Oxford
Thursday 10th September 2026
Scholarly discussions on environmental concerns have long been Euro-American-centric. In his 2005 essay, Rob Nixon critiques literary representations of environmentalism as an “offshoot of American Studies,” which has excluded non-American and non-Western perspectives on environmental degradation from critical inquiry. Nixon highlights Nigeria’s Abacha regime’s execution of Saro-Wiwa, a writer, activist and poet, who died fighting for his Ogoni people’s farmlands and the encroachment of their fishing waters by American and European conglomerates, supported by the local despotic regime. Nixon observes that Saro-Wiwa’s writings have received little attention from ecocriticism scholars (2005).
Conference online (via Zoom): 28-29 May 2026
CFP:
It is widely known that ideologies of racism, nationalism, and xenophobia are dangerous and spread all over the world. We want to examine these terms as much as possible, from many perspectives and variable aspects: in politics, society, psychology, culture, and many more. We also want to devote considerable attention to how the phenomena of racism, nationalism and xenophobia are represented in artistic practices: in literature, film, theatre or visual arts.
Conference: 18-19 June 2026
in person (Gdańsk, Poland) and online
CFP:
How do we remember and represent our migration experiences? Who is involved in these processes? How does history remember these events? What helps migrants and societies to adapt? The significance of these and related questions have made their way into our daily lives, from the refugee crisis to policy decisions, individual psychotherapy to (re)building identities, communities, and memories.
Concept Note
Two-Day International Conference (likely to be ICSSR Sponsored) on “Loss of Indigenous Knowledge in the Age of Digital Humanities: Preservation, Power, and the Politics of Representation” (Hybrid Mode)
- LITERATURE FOR PEACE: NARRATIVES OF CO-EXISTENCE
At its third edition, in 2026 the Entanglements summer school is centered on Postcolonial Horrors and aims to explore horror as an aesthetic, political, and epistemological symbol through which postcolonial literatures stage the traumatic memories of colonization, identity tensions, diasporic movements, and the re-emergence of the spectral within global modernities. The goal is to interpret horror not only as a genre, but as a critical and deconstructive tool capable of destabilizing ethnocentric categories of subjectivity, body, sovereignty, and knowledge.
This edited volume emerges from a seminar panel that I proposed for the 2026 annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) earlier this year.
Volume Rationale:
The edited volume seeks to understand the interdisciplinary field of Death Studies through the lens of decolonisation.
Death Studies is a field of study that not only draws from a host of disciplines like anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology but also cuts across fields such as bereavement studies, trauma studies, and health humanities.
This panel explores how women writers and female characters in French and francophone literature resist, reconfigure, and expose gendered hierarchies of power embedded within social, political, and cultural “ruling classes.” In keeping with this year’s conference theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” the session examines how literary texts interrogate the mechanisms through which authority, patriarchal, colonial, aristocratic, bourgeois, or religious, is contested.
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association 123rd Annual Conference 2026
November 12-15, 2026--Seattle, WA USA
"The Intersection of France and Iran/Persia in Literature and Film"
The socio-political and cultural relationship between France and Iran has long been shaped in various ways, including literary, cinematic, and linguistic representation. This panel explores the intertextual and visual intersections between these two cultures in literature and film, spanning from the ancient period to the present.
This panel explores how Francophone and Hispanophone fantastic literatures engage structures of power, hierarchy, and authority across diverse historical and cultural contexts.
From the nineteenth century to the present, Francophone and Hispanophone fantastic literatures have unsettled the boundaries between the real and the impossible. Emerging from interconnected histories shaped by imperial expansion, colonial violence, dictatorship, revolution, and migration, the fantastic operates not only as narrative hesitation, but as a subtle language of power. As theorists such as Tzvetan Todorov and David Roas have shown, ontological uncertainty is never merely aesthetic. It signals deeper crises of authority, perception, and legitimacy.
Editors: María Eugenia Crusetand Aleksander Bednarski
Proposals (500 words): May 15, 2026
Completed chapters (7,000 words): September 15, 2026
Languages: English and/or Spanish
“Home-Making: Reinventing Home
in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures”
November 20-21, 2026
Venue: Sousse, Tunisia
Call for Papers
Otherness: Essays & Studies
Otherness and Folklore – Special issue Call for Papers
Folklore is all about Otherness. It imagines the other as that which is beyond the scope of the ordinary and the real. It evokes the monstrous, the divine, and the outsider. It invokes magic through ritual, and it empowers the repressed. The other, in folklore, is welcomed into the everyday and woven into the fabric of our communities. It becomes an altered version of alterity, a homely version of the uncanny: an other that we can be intimate with.
Dear colleagues,
Edited Volume
Call for Contributions
Call for Book Chapters
Title: Folk and Culture: Tradition, Resistance and Nurture
Publisher: VLC Media Publication
VLC Media Publication offers ISBN-certified, peer-reviewed publications with national and international circulation.
Editors:
Dr. Naresh K Vats, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indrapratha University, New Delhi, India
Dr. Chetna Tiwari, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indrapratha University, New Delhi, India
Scope of the Volume:
Call for Book Chapters
Title:
Adivasi Writings in India: History, Memory, and Contemporary Expressions
Editors:
Dr Chetna Tiwari, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India
Dr Naresh K Vats, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India
Publisher:
Vedant Knowledge Systems Pvt Ltd
Book Details:
Seeking on papers about opacity in contemporary literature and art for a panel at ASAP (Association for the Study of Arts of the Present) 2026 Convention. Please send an abstract and a short bio to Sané Bhattarai (bhattsan@gvsu.edu) or Moya (Moyang) Li (moyang.li@csulb.edu) by April 24.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposed Edited Volume
Beyond the Mainstream: Dalit Narratives and Narratives of Social Exclusion from Eastern and North-Eastern India
Editors
Dr. Roshni Subba
Assistant Professor, Department of English
University of Calcutta
Injam Ahmed Molla
Independent Researcher(UGC NET Qualified)
About the Volume
How does the novel resist? Both as an action (movement, predicate) and as a form (structure, construction) how does the novel as a genre engage in resistance? Of what, too, is the novel resistant? Studies of the novel have long emphasized the genre’s capacity to control and coerce, as in the work of D. A. Miller and Nancy Armstrong, to name a couple. This panel instead invites papers that approach the novel as a resistant structure and a form of resistance. What might it mean to read the novel not as an instrument of control, but as a site of formal, aesthetic, or material resistance?
International Conference
Resisting Abandonment: Language, Culture, and Ecology
Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact
Glendon College, York University (Toronto, Canada)
October 15–16, 2026
The Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact invites you to an interdisciplinary conference that will explore the ways in which ecology intersects with language contact, cultural transformation, and pedagogical practice.
This special issue brings together innovative and interdisciplinary comics scholarship that rethinks the epistemic, aesthetic, political, material, and decolonial aspects of comics across the Global South. These forms prompt renewed reflection and inquiry into what it means to draw knowledge, memory, community, dissent, and futurity, while simultaneously interrogating the foundational categories of representation, authorship, narrative form, and colonial epistemology.
Information, Medium & Society: Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Publishing Studies, University of Split, Croatia, 30 June - 2 July 2027
Information, Medium & Society: The Publishing Studies Research Network was founded in 2003 with the inaugural International Conference on the Future of the Book. Since then, the Research Network has expanded its scope in two phases. The first was in 2009 when it became the Books, Publishing, and Libraries Research. In this iteration, the Research Network began to look beyond the book as the primary site of investigation. In 2019 the network underwent another change, to become Information, Medium & Society - The Publishing Studies Research Network.
Editors: Elise Boxer (Dakota), University of South Dakota and Travis Franks, Utah State University, Department of English
Call For Papers for Italian Ecofeminism and Literature
Deadline for Submissions: August 1, 2026
Notification date: September 1, 2026
Full name / Name of organization: Nicole C. (Civitano) Dittmer, PhD
Contact email: ncdittmer@gmail.com
The Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis, explores Caribbean and /or South American Culture and Education.
Obtaining a deeper understanding of Caribbean and South American festivities, rituals, and celebratory culture informs and impacts people's lives and vice versa.
Our goal is to gain a deeper understanding of Caribbean/South American cultural practices, traditions, and heritage, and how they have changed or sustained themselves and how they influence festivals, rituals, celebrations, etc.
The Lamar Journal of the Humanities is an interdisciplinary journal published annually by the College of Arts and Sciences of Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. Papers of interdisciplinary or general interest in the fields of literature, history, contemporary culture, and the fine arts are appropriate for submission. Languages accepted are English, Spanish, German, and French. Detailed studies of highly specialized topics, literary explications which do not elucidate broader historical or ideological issues, and statistical essays in the social sciences are not encouraged but will be considered. Manuscripts, normally not to exceed 6,000 words, should conform to the MLA Handbook or the Chicago Manual of Style.
A two-day conference to be held online by the University of Liverpool, in partnership with the Science Fiction Foundation and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, 12-13 December 2026
Keynote Speaker: Andrew M. Butler (non-voting chair of the Arthur C. Clarke Award)
Roundtable discussion with Clarke Award-winning authors Anne Charnock, Adrian Tchaikovsky and Tade Thompson