international conferences

NeMLA Session on African Literature and Abdulrazak Gurnah

updated: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:04am
The Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The 57th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Conference Dates - March 5-8, 2026

Topic - Reclaiming History: Trauma, Memory and Resilience in the Narratives from Africa

Deadline for Abstract Submission - September 30th 2025

Modality - hybrid (in-person but accepting remote presentations)

 

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Fourth Alumni Research Conference on Linguistics, Literature, Didactics and Communication – 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:04am
AAB College, Kosovo
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 1, 2025

Fourth Alumni Research Conference on Linguistics, Literature, Didactics and Communication – 2025

 

Prishtina: 01.11.2025 - 01.11.2025

Organizer:

AAB College - Faculty of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Mass Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Public Administration

In partnership with:

ICSSR- ERC Sponsored Two Day International Conference Food, Culture and Narrative in South Asia and Beyond: Realities and Representations (January 15-16, 2026, Kolkata, India)

updated: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:04am
Adamas University/ ICSSR-ERC, Kolkata, India
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

Call for Papers

The consolidation of food studies as a serious academic discipline has coincided with the extraordinary proliferation of food-related cultural forms—ranging from memoirs, cookbooks, and culinary novels to food documentaries, blogs, and digital platforms. These developments remind us that food is not merely a biological necessity, but a symbolic system that mediates between the material and the cultural, the everyday and the aesthetic, the policy and the political. Food operates simultaneously as a sensory artefact, an archive of memory, and a site of political contestation. As anthropologist Brillat-Savarin famously suggested in 1825, “Tell me what you eat, I will tell you what you are.”

Masculinities Students' Conference I: Current Issues, Future Directions

updated: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:03am
The Observatory of Masculinities, University College Dublin
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

Masculinities Students' Conference I: Current Issues, Future Directions

 

Join us for a day filled with insightful discussions, engaging workshops, and networking opportunities. This event aims to create a space for discussing diverse approaches and complexities of contemporary masculinities and their impact on society. Whether you're a student, researcher, or simply interested in the topic, this conference is the place to learn and exchange ideas.

 

The conference will be held in person. 

 

DATE: Thursday, 11 December 2025

'Nothing to be done': What Samuel Beckett's Theatre Does and What We Do with It

updated: 
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 - 10:22am
Samuel Beckett Working Group | International Federation for Theatre Research
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 8, 2025

Call for Papers for the Samuel Beckett Working Group at the IFTR World Congress in Melbourne, Australia, 6–10 July 2026

‘Nothing to be done’: What Samuel Beckett’s Theatre Does and What We Do with It

Blacks in Boston - “Combahee River Collective: Race, Space, and Feminist Activism”

updated: 
Monday, September 15, 2025 - 5:40pm
Boston College African and African Diaspora Studies Program
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 17, 2025

“Blacks in Boston” is a series of conferences conceived of by former Boston College Black

Studies Director Amanda V. Houston. Previous conferences have addressed subjects such as blacks in metropolitan Boston, the struggle for equal education, the relationships between Irish

and black Bostonians, the role of immigrants of African descent in the development, and evolution of Boston’s black communities, and black Bostonians and the media.

Interrogating Intersections of Health and the City in the Global South

updated: 
Friday, September 12, 2025 - 10:41am
ACLA 2026, Montreal, Canada
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 2, 2025

This seminar for the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting in Montreal, Canada from February 26-March 1, 2026 invites explorations of the entanglements between health, disease, and the urban space in the 21st century as they are represented in literary and cultural texts from the Global South. Building on the well-established spatial turn in literary and cultural studies, the seminar will bring together the frameworks of health/medical humanities and literary urban studies as a productive site of dialogue to examine the variegated intersections of spatialities and diseases in contemporary cities, with an emphasis on urbanities of the Global South.

CFP: 2026 Steinbeck Conference, “Steinbeck in Times of Crisis," March 11-13, 2026

updated: 
Friday, September 12, 2025 - 10:40am
International Society of Steinbeck Scholars
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

Call For Papers: “Steinbeck in Times of Crisis”

March 11-13th, 2026
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

The International Society of Steinbeck Scholars invites proposals related to the ways in which John Steinbeck’s work offers insights into human experience during moments of crisis—including personal, social, cultural, political, or ecological. We seek contributions that broaden understanding of how Steinbeck's writing addresses such themes as conflict, collaboration, resolution, resilience, and survival, and how these resonate in today's world.

The Object(s) of Literature

updated: 
Thursday, September 11, 2025 - 3:35pm
Association for Philosophy and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

The Object(s) of Literature

July 15-17, 2026

Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL), Unicamp

Reminder - Historical Fiction in / and the Anthropocene

updated: 
Thursday, September 11, 2025 - 3:35pm
One-Day Online Workshop of the Historical Fictions Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Call for Papers: Historical Fiction in / and the Anthropocene

 

One-Day Online Workshop of the Historical Fictions Research Network

29 November 2025 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)

15 min talks

 

The Historical Fictions Research Network, an interdisciplinary and international network of scholars examining historical fictions, i.e. narratives of the past in a variety of popular media, is happy to organise its third one-day winter workshop on the topic of “Historical Fiction in / and the Anthropocene”.

 

 

CFP: Medieval Ecocriticisms at Kalamazoo ICMS 2026

updated: 
Thursday, September 11, 2025 - 3:35pm
Medieval Ecocriticisms
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

Session title: Watery Landscapes, Systems, and Bodies

Medieval Ecocriticisms seeks papers offering ecocritical, historical, archaeological, and other interdisciplinary approaches to water in the medieval world. Presenters may addresses questions such as: How did medieval peoples encounter / engineer water in their communities and bodies? What meanings did water accrue in religious, literary, or historical contexts? How do medieval histories of water connect with modern marine studies? And, finally, what new approaches to water studies or blue humanities might we offer?

CFP: Medieval Ecocriticisms at Kalamazoo ICMS 2026

updated: 
Thursday, September 11, 2025 - 3:35pm
Medieval Ecocriticisms
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

This HYBRID session seeks papers that explore the ways ecocriticism intersects with, informs, or is expanded by other critical approaches, orientations, and disciplines. We encourage analyses that merge ecocritical frameworks with studies of gender/sexuality, queer identities, race/ethnicity, religion, dis/ability status, postcolonialism, Indigenous studies, or from methodologies outside of the humanities. What can dialogue across these intersections of medieval and modern temporal and spatial ecologies teach us and how can we think anew with them? We encourage proposals from graduate students and early career as well as more established researchers.

CFP: Adaptations and Retellings Area--PCA/ACA 2026

updated: 
Thursday, September 11, 2025 - 3:34pm
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Call for Papers

Adaptations and Retellings 2026

 Adaptations and retellings, much like nostalgia, are deeply tied to the past. They confront the challenges of integrating past elements into the present and often engage with each other in this process.

CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

updated: 
Monday, September 8, 2025 - 12:00pm
University of Sheffield
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 24, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

‘“Verse with wings of skill”: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature’ 16-17th April 2026 | University of Sheffield

KEY DATES

Submission Deadline: 24 November, 2025

Decisions By: 30 December, 2025

Event Date: 16-17 April, 2026


 

CFP (Re)Visiting the Reel/Un-Reel Middle Ages: Pathways to Furthering Research on Medievalisms on Screen (Roundtable) (Virtual) (9/15/2025; ICMS Kalamazoo/Online 5/14-16/2026)

updated: 
Monday, September 8, 2025 - 12:00pm
Michael Torregrossa / Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture,
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

(Re)Visiting the Reel/Un-Reel Middle Ages: Pathways to Furthering Research on Medievalisms on Screen (Roundtable) (Virtual)

 

61st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI), Thursday, 14 May, through Saturday, 16 May, 2026

 

Co-sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, International Arthurian Society-North American Branch, International Society for the Study of Medievalism

 

Co-organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College; Scott Manning, Independent Scholar; and Siân Echard, University of British Columbia

 

Background 

Medievalism in Time and Space

updated: 
Monday, September 8, 2025 - 11:59am
University of New Mexico
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

 The International Society for the Study of Medievalism Annual ConferenceFully Online
November 14th and 15th, 2025
Hosted by Anita Obermeier and the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of New MexicoMedievalism is the reception of the Middle Ages in postmedieval times—as well as the ongoing invention, reinvention, construction, and reconstruction of the global medieval past, broadly defined.Just as Arthurian legend, Beowulf, Norse/Viking myth, and The Thousand and One Nights

Forest Stories seminar--ACLA 2026

updated: 
Friday, September 5, 2025 - 9:21am
Caren Irr
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Like stories themselves, forests have little respect for geopolitical boundaries. And like forests, stories have always played a crucial role in human imaginations around the world. The wide distribution of forests across most of the planet's biospheres suggests that stories about forests, as well as the stories that forests tell, should be understood in relation to literary and theoretical encounters both with plants and with the planet. While discourse on climate change focuses on deforestation and reforestation in relation to the problem of dangerously increased carbon dioxide levels, trees and forests are treated in large part instrumentally rather than as agents in their own right.

INNOVATIONS IN PSYCHOLOGY AND WELLBEING OF NEW GENERATION

updated: 
Friday, September 5, 2025 - 9:15am
Global Center for Social Dynamic Research
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Innovations in Psychology and Wellbeing of New Generation

The 21st century has brought unprecedented transformations in society, technology, and education. With these changes, the psychological wellbeing of the new generation has become a matter of urgent attention. Young people today face unique challenges—digital overload, academic pressures, identity conflicts, mental health issues, and social inequalities—while also benefiting from extraordinary opportunities enabled by technology, AI, and global connectivity.

DEADLINE EXTENDED- SAMLA 2025 (Atlanta, GA; Nov 6-Nov 8): "Reimagining Realities, Reclaiming Knowledge in Francophone Literature and Art."

updated: 
Thursday, September 4, 2025 - 5:53pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 8, 2025

This panel invites submissions that explore how Francophone African and Caribbean writers, filmmakers, and artists use their creative works, personal experiences, spiritual beliefs, and the power of imagination to offer new or alternative ways of seeing/saying, knowing, and experiencing the world. In what way(s) do their works seek to disrupt, challenge, or reimagine old power structures and commonly accepted Eurocentric knowledge systems within a postcolonial framework? Whether in terms of identity, culture, or history, how do these writers, filmmakers, and artists provoke us to rethink our individual or collective existence? What alternative realities or new ways of being-in-the-world do they envision as Africans or Caribbeans?

ACLA 2026: Climate Fictions Before Climate Change

updated: 
Thursday, September 4, 2025 - 6:02am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 2, 2025

This seminar seeks to explore what we can learn about climate fiction and about literature’s role in understanding and addressing climate change when we look at literary texts written before climate change became a solidified discursive formation. Any discussion of climate presupposes a stable definition of the term within the scientific contexts that give it meaning, but the history of human activities that lead to human made climate change generally predates these discourses. Comparative work in the Environmental Humanities complicates dominant ideas about climate and interrogate the field’s tendency to focus on contemporary climate fiction.

Translation as Dialogue: Creative License, Crossover and Current Developments

updated: 
Thursday, September 4, 2025 - 3:42am
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur, HSS Department
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 5, 2025

Faculty Development Programme

Translation as Dialogue: Creative License, Crossover and Current Developments

 

Organized by
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur

 

Important Dates

CFP ACLA 2026: Be(Long)ing in Planetary Space

updated: 
Wednesday, September 3, 2025 - 12:07am
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Annual meeting 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 2, 2025

Be(Long)ing in Planetary Space

 

Lorefest 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, September 2, 2025 - 10:14pm
Texas A&M University, the departments of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts (PVFA) and English
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 3, 2025

SUBJECT: Lorefest Call for Papers

Lorefest – Oct 29-Nov 01, 2025. Lorefest Conference 9am-5pm, Nov 01, 2025, Texas A&M University,

College Station, TX.

Lorefest is an annual festival combining scholarly research and creative practice

inspired by local and “glocal” (i.e. globally-inspired, locally-rooted) folklore. It brings together

the Texas A&M student body, their family and friends, and local Bryan/College Station

communities culminating in a four-day event in late October/early November. Its organizers

The Uncanny and Sublime: The Liminality of Knowledge

updated: 
Tuesday, September 2, 2025 - 10:13pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association: SAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 6, 2025

FINAL CALL for papers: 1 spot remaining

This panel interrogates the title “The Uncanny and Sublime: The Liminality of Knowledge” by asking: what constitutes knowledge when it emerges from thresholds—moments of affect, disorientation, or aesthetic rupture? How does the liminal “unknowing” of the uncanny and sublime inform new modes of intellectual inquiry? Does this liminality reorient traditional ways of thought?

The International Conference on Tourism, Archaeology, Heritage and History

updated: 
Monday, September 1, 2025 - 3:11pm
PAH
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 1, 2026

All are cordially invited to present their research regarding current issues of tourism, archaeology, heritage and history in English or Arabic.

 

The full articles of the conference will be published as the book of conference (provided with International Standard Book Number (ISBN), and according to the Governmental Approval (The Ministry)), and also will be indexed in CIVILICA (however, the book of abstracts will be published too).

 

You may select either Virtual Presentation or In-Person Presentation.

 

Conference Themes

A) Tourism (Any issue related to tourism)

Forms in Dialogue

updated: 
Monday, September 1, 2025 - 3:05pm
Irmtraud Huber / University of Konstanz
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Forms in Dialogue

Universität Konstanz, 11-13 Juni 2026

 

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