PROPOSAL DEADLINE EXTENDED

Florida Atlantic University’s English Graduate Student Society (EGSS) is pleased to announce the return of our annual academic conference, to be held in person on FAU’s Boca Raton campus on Saturday, April 4, 2026. 

This conference is completely free for presenters and attendees. We invite undergraduate and graduate students from all institutions, as well as independent scholars, educators, and creatives, to explore the theme of “(Re)memory” through both academic and creative work.

What do we mean by “(Re)memory”? Drawing on Toni Morrison’s concept of rememory in Beloved (1987), this conference understands (re)memory as the ways memories—especially those shaped by trauma, joy, resistance, and community—continue to live beyond the individual mind. In Morrison’s terms, rememory names the persistent presence of the past in the spaces we inhabit, the stories we tell, and the bodies and communities we move through. (Re)memory, then, is an active process: returning to, reworking, and reimagining memory as a site of critique, care, survival, transformation, and empowerment. 

We are particularly interested in how (re)memory intersects with:

• Afrofuturist, feminist, intersectional, environmental, speculative, and gender and sexuality approaches
• Speculative fiction, science fiction, and fantasy
• Rhetoric and Composition - writing about writing, form, genre, language/style, digital rhetoric(s), historical rhetoric, theory/ies of (re)memory, writing (re)memory, and interdisciplinary studies
• Multimedia and multimodal - books, literature, film, television, games 

We welcome projects that consider memory as activism, cultural heritage, archive, haunting, revision, speculation, or world-building, especially in relation to marginalized communities and histories.

Formats & Submissions:

We invite proposals for: 

• Academic papers (10-15 minute)
• Creative readings or performances (10-15 minutes), including but not limited to fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, hybrid/multigenre work, zines, digital storytelling, and performance pieces

Proposal abstracts should be 250 words or fewer. Please also include a 100-word bio with your submission.

The deadline for proposals is February 15, 2026.

Submit your proposals using the following links:

FAU EGSS Re-Memory Conference 2026: Academic Works Proposal Submission Page

FAU EGSS Re-Memory Conference 2026: Creative Works Proposal Submission Page

Possible Topics:

Topics can include, but are certainly not limited to:

• Memory as Activism or Cultural Memory
• Science & Speculative Fiction: Past, Present, Future (Re)memory
• Interdisciplinary Studies Throughout Psychology, History, and Philosophy
• Afrofuturist, Feminist, Intersectional, Environmental, and Gender and Sexuality Approaches to Memory
• Social Movements and Ideology
• Rhetoric and Composition: Writing About Writing, Form, Genre, Language/Style, Digital Rhetoric(s), Historical Rhetoric, Theory/ies of (Re)memory, Writing (Re-memory
• (Re)memory in Multimedia Format: Literature, Film, Television, & Games

For any questions, please contact Faith Jackson at fjackson2014@fau.edu, Dakota Darwin at ddarwin2020@fau.edu or Elizabeth Searles at esearles2020@fau.edu.