CONFERENCE

2026 PAMLA Conference, taking place November 12–15 at the Hyatt Regency Seattle

SESSION/PANEL ABSTRACT

The "British Literature and Culture: To 1700" session focuses on the literature, culture, and social history of the British/Anglophone world until 1700. This general session investigates a wide variety of topics, such as theory and comparative analysis or forms of literary, historical, and social research. We welcome, but do not require, paper proposals related to the conference theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict.” Proposals are welcome that explore texts and authors who engage and/or struggle with the question of how and when to empower and elevate individuals or subgroups within a community—a family, a tribe, a kingdom, a nation—for the purposes of adjudicating internal conflicts, inspiring collective action, and representing the community to the outside world.

SESSION/PANEL DESCRIPTION
We are seeking proposals for papers that focus on the literature, culture, and social history of the British/Anglophone world until 1700. This general session entertains paper proposals on a wide variety of topics, such as theory and comparative analysis or forms of literary, historical, and social research. We welcome (but do not require) proposals related to the conference theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” which consider how works of British literature in the Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, and Early Modern periods (up to 1700) historically played a vital role in identifying, legitimating, and sometimes challenging a community’s basic leadership structures.

HOW TO SUBMIT A PAPER PROPOSAL

To submit your paper proposal, just click on the session you wish to propose to on the following webpage:  https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/CFP

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CONTACT PERSON:

Session/Panel Chair: Dr. Holly Faith Nelson, Professor of English and Co-Director of the Gender Studies Institute, Trinity Western University, Holly.Nelson@twu.ca