world literatures and indigenous studies

Literature and the Body: The Relations Between Being and Writing

updated: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 12:55pm
Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 1, 2026

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.

Environmental Humanities and Indian Literary Responses

updated: 
Monday, April 27, 2026 - 1:51am
Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India, Somasree Sarkar, Ghoshpukur College, University of North Bengal, India, and Payel Pal, The LNM Institute of Information Technology, India.
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 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).

"Racism, Nationalism and Xenophobia" 9th International Interdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Thursday, April 23, 2026 - 2:02pm
InMind Support
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 10, 2026

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.​      

"Migration, Adaptation and Memory" - 9th International Interdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Thursday, April 23, 2026 - 2:00pm
InMind Support
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 10, 2026

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.  

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”

updated: 
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 - 3:11pm
Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 9, 2026

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

updated: 
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 - 11:59am
MELOW: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 1, 2026

- LITERATURE FOR PEACE: NARRATIVES OF CO-EXISTENCE

Entanglements: Postcolonial Horrors - International Summer School

updated: 
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 - 10:40am
University of Padua
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

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. 

Death, Dying, and Decoloniality (Edited Volume)

updated: 
Monday, April 20, 2026 - 3:18pm
Dr Devaleena Kundu, South Asian University, New Delhi
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

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. 

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association: Refusing the Script: Women’s Resistance to Gendered Power in French and Francophone Literature.

updated: 
Saturday, April 18, 2026 - 6:50am
Francis Mathieu / Southwestern University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

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.

The Intersection of France and Iran/Persia in Literature and Film

updated: 
Friday, April 17, 2026 - 1:54pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association 123rd Annual Conference 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

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.

Francophone and Hispanophone Fantastic Literature and the Politics of Power - The 123rd Annual PAMLA Conference

updated: 
Friday, April 17, 2026 - 1:54pm
Aurore Bissières
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

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. 

Welsh, Irish, and Polish Migration and Diaspora to Argentina

updated: 
Friday, April 17, 2026 - 1:53pm
The University of the Salvador, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 17, 2026

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

updated: 
Friday, April 17, 2026 - 1:52pm
Tunisian Association for English Language Studies (TAELS)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

“Home-Making: Reinventing Home

in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures”

 

November 20-21, 2026

Venue: Sousse, Tunisia

Call for Papers

Otherness and Folklore – Special issue (Otherness: Essays and Studies)

updated: 
Friday, April 17, 2026 - 1:52pm
Centre for Studes in Otherness
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 26, 2026

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.

Folk and Culture: Tradition, Resistance and Nurture

updated: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 - 3:04am
Guru Gobind Singh Indrapratha University, New Delhi, India
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

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:

Adivasi Writings in India: History, Memory, and Contemporary Expressions

updated: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 - 3:04am
Guru Gobind Singh Indrapratha University, New Delhi, India
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

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

www.MyVedant.com

Book Details:

Opacity and Forms of Collective Life (Panel for ASAP 2026)

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 9:27pm
Association for the Study of Arts of the Present 2026 Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 24, 2026

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.

Beyond the Mainstream: Dalit Narratives and Narratives of Social Exclusion from Eastern and North-Eastern India

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:07pm
Dr. Roshni Subba (Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Calcutta) & Injam Ahmed Molla (Independent Researcher, UGC NET Qualified)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 27, 2026

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

Novel Resistance

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:07pm
Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA) 2026 Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

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?

Resisting Abandonment: Language, Culture, and Ecology (Oct. 15-16, Toronto)

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:05pm
Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

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.

Frames, Terrains, and Worldings: Comics and Storytelling across the Global South

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:05pm
Special Issue: Global South Literary Studies (Taylor & Francis)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

 

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

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:04pm
Common Ground Research Networks
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 30, 2027

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.

Italian Ecofeminism and Literature

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:03pm
Nicole C. (Civitano) Dittmer, PhD
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 1, 2026

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

 

Caribbean and or South American Culture and Education

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:03pm
Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

 

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.

Extended Deadline: Lamar Journal of the Humanities General Call for Papers

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 3:58pm
Lamar Journal of the Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 1, 2026

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.

The State of SF and of Things to Come: Reading SF through the Clarke Award

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 3:44pm
Science Fiction Foundation / The Arthur C. Clarke Award / University of Liverpool
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 27, 2026

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

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