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Research Scholar’s National Conference CFP – 22nd and 23rd April 2026
New Paradigms, New Epistemes: Literature and Criticality in the 21st Century
Borders and Languages
One-day Conference at the University of Kent
21 May 2026
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Anna Bernard (King’s College London)
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Call for Papers
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: THE SOUTHERN GOTHIC AT PCAS/ACAS 2026
The Southern Gothic is not merely a regional offshoot of the Gothic tradition—it is a dynamic cultural mode shaped by the histories, violences, mythologies, and contradictions of the American South. Rooted in hauntings both literal and structural, the Southern Gothic interrogates race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, ecology, labor, memory, and the ongoing afterlives of history. Its borders—like its landscapes and bodies—are unstable, porous, and contested.
Richard Linklater’s Slacker (1991) is a cult classic with a crucial role in the history of American cinema. The movie is unusual in many ways. It does not have a traditional narrative; it follows 100 characters around the UT Austin area in a way that seems completely random. There is no protagonist, no story, no thread to the individual events, yet somehow it is a completely coherent and engaging movie that sparks as many reflections as the number of scenes it has.
We are looking for chapter proposals in the form of abstracts. Topics already included are work, capitalism, Buddhism, film as a dream, narrative, episodic views of life, and absurdity. Possible topics for new chapters include:
Textual Bodies: Incarnation, Corporeality, and Affective Materialities through Literature
6th Meeting of Young Researchers of the SELGyC
Faculty of Philology — Complutense University of Madrid
September 16–17, 2026
«Write yourself: your body must be heard»
Hélène Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa
«The text you write must prove to me that it desires me»
Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text
The Louisiana Creole Research Association (LA Creole, http://www.lacreole.org) invites submissions for its 2026 journal, La Créole, on subjects relevant to its mission of advancing family research, providing education, and celebrating Creole history and culture. There is evidence that both French and Spanish colonial Louisiana identified all its people (white, black, and mixed), both free and enslaved, who were born in the new world of old world stock, as Créole. That included the offspring of Europeans (predominantly French and Spanish), Africans, and a mixture of both that could also include Native Americans. Therefore, the descendants of all these people
New Literaria: An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Humanities
CALL FOR PAPERS
Vol. 8 No.2
Special Issue on “Popular Literature: Culture, Power, and the Politics of the Popular”
Concept Note
THE 25th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND CULTURAL POLICIES (LLCP)
WEATHERING CHANGE:
THE HUMANITIES IN A WARMING WORLD
to be held in Craiova, Romania
22-24 October 2026
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
“When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”
(Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1.1: 1-2)
Call for Chapters
Matricentric Futures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Motherhood
Edited by Dr Antonia Mackay (Oxford Brookes University)
Under contract with Palgrave Macmillan
Abstract deadline: Friday 5 June 2026
Full chapter drafts due: Friday 30 July 2027
We invite you to participate at the 19th annual Norwegian Forum for English for Academic Purposes summer conference:
NFEAP 2026 - Mythologies
First Call for Papers
The 2026 NFEAP summer conference will take place on Thursday the 11th and Friday the 12th of June 2026 at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Oslo, Norway.
The theme for the 2026 conference is Mythologies.
In the last fifteen years, a new generation of African female and nonbinary authors have made major interventions in the field of African Literatures, from Akwaeke Emezi to NoViolet Bulawayo, Djaïli Amadou Amal to Kopano Matlwa. In parallel, women writers from earlier generations, such as Tsitsi Dangarembga (winner of a Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in 2021), Paulina Chiziane or Ana Paula Tavares (who were both awarded with the Camões Prize in 2021 and 2025 respectively) have received major literary distinctions, celebrating their contributions to African postcolonial literatures in particular, and literature in general.