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Call for Papers
Literary Friends and Rivals: Hospitality and Literary Networks in Spain and Latin America
98th South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Convention
Thursday, November 5 - Saturday, November 7, 2026
Atlanta, Georgia
REMINDER: SEPTEMBER 22 SUBMISSION DEADLINE
American Comparative Literature Association 2027 Annual Meeting
University of Houston
May 20-23
The Poverty of Literature
Organizer:
Gabriel Quigley, University of Victoria (gabrielquigley@uvic.ca)
Haryanvi Dalit theatre occupies a highly marginalised position within the broader landscape of Indian theatre. It may aptly be described as “the marginalised among the marginalised,” as it has remained largely excluded from both mainstream theatre studies and Dalit cultural historiography. Haryanvi Dalit Swang theatre was active long before the Dalit Panther Movement, but it received little attention due to its lack of publication and translation into English. This book seeks to recover, document, and critically examine the neglected legacy of Haryanvi Swang, with particular emphasis on its Dalit traditions and practitioners, thereby contributing to a more inclusive understanding of Indian theatrical heritage.
Conference: 2-4 December 2026
Gdańsk (Poland) and online (via Zoom)
Conference online: 27-28 August 2026 (online)
CFP:
The twenty-first century is continuously defined by geopolitical shifts, armed conflict, environmental precarity, and evolving border regimes, within which migration operates as a critical locus of global transformation. This physical transgression of geopolitical boundaries inevitably instigates a profound restructuring of individual and collective subjectivities. Literature functions as a dynamic repository for these complex trajectories, articulating the psychological, political, and cultural exigencies of displacement and resettlement.
The Postcolonial Literature and Culture session invites submissions that explore postcolonial literature, art, film, or culture. We specifically welcome papers aligned with the conference theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” although the session is open to any projects engaging with postcolonial texts.
The Postcolonial Literature and Culture session invites submissions that explore postcolonial literature, art, film, or culture. We specifically welcome papers aligned with the conference theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” although the session is open to any projects engaging with postcolonial texts.
Potential areas of focus include, but are not limited to:
Concept Note:
Storytelling, from the metamorphic narratives of the Indian epics such as the Mahabharata and the Ramayana and Ovid’s ancient transmutations to the evolving interfaces of the present, has been an act of survival through transformation. Metamorphosis is the underlying imperative of the twenty-first century; it is not just a biological inevitability but a relentless ontological pulse beating beneath the surface of our global narratives. We inhabit a world amid a grand moulting, where the traditional mediums of storytelling, like the printed page, the physical body, and the ancestral soil, are being reshaped under the pressures of a planetary crisis.
Public Humanities is an international open-access, cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal at the intersection of humanities scholarship and public life.
The journal invites submissions for the upcoming issue, Musical Commemorations and Contestations in Postcolonial Contexts, which will be guest edited by Bart Paul Vanspauwen, Ana-María Alarcón-Jiménez, and Livia Jiménez Sedano.
Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2027
Description
How do postcolonial literatures imagine hospitality in a world shaped by colonial histories, forced migration, displacement, and contested belonging? This panel invites papers that examine the ethics and politics of hospitality through postcolonial, diasporic, and transnational literary and cultural texts. Moving beyond hospitality as a simple act of welcome, the panel seeks to explore its tensions, contradictions, and possibilities: Who is welcomed, excluded, or rendered perpetually a stranger? How do migration, exile, memory, language, and cultural difference reshape notions of home, community, and kinship?
The Text, an International Peer Reviewed Online Journal of Language, Literature and Critical Theory (ISSN: 2581-9526)invites original, unpublished research papers for January 2027 issue.
Indexed in:
1. Google Scholar
2. ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
3. IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research)
4. Citefactor (Directory Indexing of International Research Journals)
5. DRJI (The Directory of Research Journal Indexing)
This panel examines how literary and cultural texts from diverse global traditions imagine masculinity not merely as an individual identity but as a relational and communal practice. In an era marked by migration, political polarization, social fragmentation, environmental crisis, and renewed struggles for collective empowerment, narratives of masculinity have become central sites through which communities negotiate belonging, responsibility, vulnerability, and resistance.
Creativity and Praxis:
The Politics of Aesthetics in an Age of Polycrisis
An International Interdisciplinary Symposium, 1-2 October 2026
J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice
Adelaide University
North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia
Keynote Readings and Lectures by:
J.M. Coetzee
Anna Funder
Nam Le
Amy Villarejo
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo13-15 May 2027
Special Session (Hybrid)
Despite the international prominence of Stanisław Lem and, more recently, Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher, Polish science fiction and speculative literature remain strikingly underrepresented in English-language scholarship. Existing criticism tends to orbit a small number of canonical figures and a handful of frequently revisited texts, leaving a rich, historically complex tradition, spanning censorship-era political allegory, post-1989 transformation, contemporary literary crossover, and a distinct national cinema largely unexamined outside of Polish-language scholarship.
International Conference
Vladimir Nabokov: Contemporary Reception and Creative Legacy
April 28-30, 2027
Bordeaux Montaigne University
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Vladimir Nabokov’s passing, the French Vladimir Nabokov Society, in collaboration with the University of Bordeaux-Montaigne and the International Vladimir Nabokov Society, organizes its 10th International Conference, to be held April 28-30, 2027 in Bordeaux, France.
NeMLA2027 NORTHEAST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION 58th Annual Convention SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND March 6-9, 2027
This session invites submissions addressing films that represent the construction of identity through community within a colonial or postcolonial context. Possible topics might include postcolonial legacies in contemporary urban cinema (banlieue; borderlands); comparative analysis of films across colonial and postcolonial contexts; the role of space in structuring narratives of resistance; filmic representations of assertion of and resistance to state power; film as a means of intercultural and intertextual dialogue.
7th International Conference (Online Mode)
on
Sustainability in Practice: Re-(Thinking) Literature, Society, and Culture
Date: 15th and 16th October, 2026 (Thursday & Friday)
To be Organized by
New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
In Collaboration with
Department of History, Humanities and Society, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy
Transatlantic Connections and the ‘Special Relationship[s]’: BAAS Postgraduate Symposium, 2026
V&A East Storehouse, London
9th November
In 1946, Winston Churchill declared the need for a “special relationship between the British Commonwealth and Empire and the United States” in order to maintain world diplomacy, citing our shared language and cultural values as connecting the two countries. Although this ‘special relationship’ has continually been called into question by scholars, there is undoubtedly a channel of cultural and political exchange between the US and the UK, as well as with other countries, which has become even more urgent for discussion in recent years.
Formats: short fiction and creative non-fiction (2,500-3,000 words) and graphic fiction (including comics, textile art, collage art, and or visual narratives of 5-10 pages).
Submission Deadline: 15 November 2026 11:59 p.m. (BST).
About This Call
Tales We Were Told is a forthcoming open access edited collection of creative works on oral storytelling, remembrance, and inherited narratives.
Haunted Thresholds:
The Southern Gothic in Comparative Perspective
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) 2026
Conference Dates: November 5–7, 2026
Location: Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel and Conference Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Contact: stacy.stingle@gmail.com
Haunted Thresholds: The Southern Gothic in Comparative Perspective
Conference Details
We are seeking papers for the "Kafka Studies" panel at the 57th annual Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), which will be held between March 6-9 in Newport, RI. You can find more information about the event on NeMLA's website: https://www.nemla.org/convention.html
Modality
Hybrid: The session will be held in-person but a few remote presentations may be included.
Panel Abstract
The Southeastern Renaissance Conference (SRC) invites submissions for presentation at our 83rd Annual Meeting, which will be hosted by the University of Tennessee Knoxville and its Marco Institute, to be held from Friday, October 23 to Saturday, October 24, 2026.
The organizers will consider papers on any topic related to the Early Modern / Renaissance period.
Call for Papers
NeMLA 2027 Annual Convention
Rethinking the Fantastic: Impossibility, Ontology, and Alternative Realities
What makes a text fantastic? While traditional definitions often emphasize the supernatural or the uncanny, many literary works generate the fantastic through impossibility itself. Impossible worlds, contradictory realities, unstable identities, infinite spaces, and paradoxical temporalities challenge readers' assumptions about reality and invite new ways of understanding existence.
Following Yiyun Li's May 2026 Pulitzer Prize win, this session is a critical reception of her memoir as an emancipatory narrative: a descriptive and agential act that represents the unrepresentable experience of maternal grief/trauma. Welcome papers that are interdisciplinary/inter-textual dealing with themes of maternal loss, grief, growth, birth/death, nature/unnatural, death by suicide. Mail 150-200 word abstracts to Dr. Anhiti Patnaik at apatnaik@cascadia.edu Submission Deadline:Monday, August 17, 2026Type:Just-in-Time Session, Modern Language Association Conference 2027Venue:Los Angeles
Special issue on the « Contemporaneities of Indigenous Poetry in the United States »
Edited by Aurore Clavier (U. Paris Cité), Mathilde Louette (U. Paris Cité) and Baptiste Rembert (Sorbonne U.)
ARGUMENT:
What is the real difference between speaking with nature and speaking for it? Is eco-centric thought a universally shared ideology, or does it develop in reaction to historical, philosophical, and socio-cultural contexts? In what way do the fundamental principles of Indian ecology vary from prevailing Western structures? These essential inquiries delineate the parameters of Ramachandra Guha’s Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism (2024), which effectively contests the notion that environmentalism is a unidirectional phenomenon dictated by Western influence. This view posits that the rest of the world, particularly the Global South, lacks eco-conscious awareness because it is ‘too poor to be green’.
CFP for NeMLA 2027 Conference
Virtual Only Panel
Oral Community Knowledge as Antidote for Empire in Anglophone Literature
OMNIALANG: International Journal of Language Continuum (Omnia-LC) invites original, unpublished manuscripts for Volume 1, Issue 2.
Omnia-LC is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary scholarship on language, literature, linguistics, translation, education, and related fields. The journal welcomes innovative theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions that deepen our understanding of language and its diverse cultural, social, and literary contexts.
We welcome submissions in (but not limited to) the following areas:
RISING ASIA JOURNAL is a peer reviewed journal published three times a year in January, May, and September.
Reviewers are welcome to submit book reviews on any aspect of Asia, covering India's Northeast, Southeast Asia, and East Asia (China, Japan, the Koreas, and Taiwan).
For details on our book reviews and manuscript preparation guidelines, please go to SUBMIT ARTICLES in our website www.rajraf.org
Send your reviews to Professor Tuan Hoang at tuan.hoang@pepperdine.edu and to the Editor Dr. Harish Mehta at hmehta76@yahoo.ca