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Call for Papers for III TFO International Seminar Titled "Thinking Beyond Species: Cinema in the Anthropocene" in Collaboration with Alliance University, Bengaluru on 30-31 October, 2026
CALL FOR PAPERS
Ecologies of Tomorrow
Environmental Humanities, Literature, and Culture in the Twenty-First Century
A Two-Day Online International Conference
(7th & 8th October 2026)
Organised by Creativitas: Critical Explorations in Literary Studies (An International Journal of English and Cultural Studies)
in collaboration with
the Department of English, Serampore Girls’ College (Affiliated to the University of Calcutta)
Bulgaria-based (or Bulgarian-abroad) scholars of literature, reading and/or writing in English, are invited to a one-day conference in Blagoevgrad on October 10th 2026, to present projects-in-progress to an audience of interested peers from around the country.
Hosted at the American University in Bulgaria, by the Department of Literature, Theatre, and Film, the conference will provide a hub for colleagues from across the nation to gather together, showcase and discuss each other’s work in progress, and chart the future of English-language literary study in Bulgaria. Papers will be combined into themed panels, with plenty of time in each panel dedicated for questions, discussion, and feedback.
Since the publication of Derrida's Specters of Marx (1993) and the resulting growth of Spectrality studies in the past twenty years, much attention has been devoted to literary works that portray a spectral entity that reconfigures the more traditional gothic vision of the ghost, especially in Western Literature. However, in recent years, literary works and scholars alike have responded to this Western bias by envisioning Hauntology as a method for recuperating the stories of marginalized groups. In this view, spectrality can also be employed as a metaphor for social invisibility, a model first expanded by Esther Peeren and Maria Blanco.
How does a society remember, preserve, and narrate its past? This proposed two-day
international seminar, “Myth, Orality, and History: Conceptualizing the Past through the Arts
and Cultural Texts,” organised by the Department of English, Panchla Mahavidyalaya in
collaboration with the IQAC, Panchla Mahavidyalaya is a scholarly expedition at exploring
this Daedalian phenomenon. As contemporary interdisciplinary studies have begun to move
beyond conventional archival approaches, this international seminar emphasizes the myriad
of ways in which the past of a nation, culture, group, etc. can be conceptualized, stored, and
reimagined through different mediums such as myths, oral narratives, scriptures, paintings,
PCA Annual Conference, March 24-27, 2027: Boston, Massachusetts
The Collecting and Collectibles Area invites proposals exploring how “collecting” has become an embodiment of the economic, political, environmental, and digital precarities that shape contemporary popular culture. Collecting now operates as a dynamic source for epistemic production, constantly redefining how popular culture is constructed, construed, mediated, valorized, historicized, and even contested.
CALL FOR PAPERS: OBSCURA - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HORROR AND CONTEMPORARY MEDIA CULTURE (EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE NOW OPEN)Dear Colleagues,We are pleased to invite you to participate in Obscura: International Conference on Horror and Contemporary Media Culture, organized by the research group at the University of Seville.This conference aims to establish an international and interdisciplinary academic forum to analyze horror as a backbone of contemporary narrative (cinema, television, video games, and digital platforms), bridging academic theory with professional practice and the media industry.We are currently in the second submission period (extended deadline).
Call for Papers
Roundtable by the Sea
Literary Festival and Conference
Saint Andrews, New Brunswick
November 12-15, 2026
Call for Papers (CFP)18th SAAS Conference: Negotiating Identity and Power: Resistance, Rebellion, and Resilience in U.S. Literature and CultureUniversidad de Oviedo, Spain | March 15–17, 2027Panel Title:Speculative Ontologies: The Posthuman, the Eerie, and Cultural Memory in US Media and NarrativesPanel Chairs:
Technological systems are routinely narrated through a rhetoric of the “high-tech”: futuristic, frictionless, dematerialized, and planetary in scale. Such rhetoric directs the attention of media technologies toward the newest platform, the most advanced infrastructure, the most spectacular feat of engineering. Yet every high-tech system is sustained by processes that are decidedly low-tech: extraction of raw materials, energy consumption at industrial scale, manual and low-wage labor, informal repair and maintenance, grassroots appropriation, and amateur practice operating at the margins of official technological narratives. The “high” is never self-sufficient; it is built on, and constantly obscures, the “low.”
Call for papers, international conference, University of Nantes, 24 and 25 March 2027
The Subversive Work of Gayl Jones Beyond Borders: Rediscovering a “Liberating Voice” of the Black Atlantic World
Bhāratīya Jñāna Paramparā, another name for Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS), is a comprehensive body of knowledge which has been accumulated over millennia. Indian Knowledge Systems encompasses philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, medicine (Ayurveda), government, ecology, the arts, and sustainable living. It is based on books such as the Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, and treatises like the Arthashastra, Charaka Samhita, and Sushruta Samhita. This Knowledge systems place a strong emphasis on interconnection, moral behaviour, and harmony with the natural world - principles embodied in ideas such as Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (the world is one family).
35th Annual CDE Conference, Frankfurt/Bad Homburg, 27-29 May 2027
The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE) is pleased to announce its 35th Annual Conference (27-29 May 2027). It is organized by the Institute of English and American Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt with the assistance of the University of Bamberg and will be held as a residential conference at Goethe University’s Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften in Bad Homburg.
‘Ugly Feelings’: Hope and Anger in Contemporary Theatre
Bhāratīya Jñāna Paramparā, another name for Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS), is a comprehensive body of knowledge which has been accumulated over millennia. Indian Knowledge Systems encompasses philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, medicine (Ayurveda), government, ecology, the arts, and sustainable living. It is based on books such as the Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, and treatises like the Arthashastra, Charaka Samhita, and Sushruta Samhita. This Knowledge systems place a strong emphasis on interconnection, moral behaviour, and harmony with the natural world - principles embodied in ideas such as Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (the world is one family).
In the Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan redefines the domestic space and the feminine laborassociated with it as a dynamic space where Chinese-American women reshape their identities, preserve their cultures, and share their stories of traumas. bell hooks’ assertion that “homeplace" was the one site where one could freely confront the issue of humanization” provides a productive framework for understanding how kitchens and acts of cooking become spaces of healing, survival, and female agency in women’s writing. By doing these, they try to assert a form of power, and agency that subverts the traditional notion of the domestic space(as an inferior space that is away from history), and the feminine labor associated with it.
Dates of Conference: 4-8 November 2026
Format: Hybrid – Online (via Zoom) & In-Person (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Note: The onsite/in-person conference will take place exclusively on 6-7 November, 2026 and be streamed live on Zoom.
Organizer: KN: F.L.A.ME.S. by Konstantina Kliagkona (www.knflames.gr)
International, interdisciplinary conference titled:
The Hidden Faces of Violence II: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Abuse, Trauma, and Resistance
The Société Rencesvals, Pan-American Branch, invites proposals from scholars whose research examines Romance-language epics as sites of social discourse. Far from being merely “songs of deeds,” these texts were critical commentaries on contemporary ideologies. They thus speak profoundly to processes of self-conceptualization in far-ranging topics including –but not limited to– regional/national identity, faith, gender, and race. We are interested in the examination of how Romance-language epics use discourse to construct value systems that contribute to conceptions of the self, situating this literature in the larger study of the production of ideologies in the Middle Ages.
The Société Rencesvals, Pan-American Branch, wishes to honor Lynn T. Ramey in celebration of 25 years since the publication of her first monograph, Christian, Saracen, and Genre in Medieval French Literature. We invite proposals that engage directly with the central ideas, arguments, and/or methodologies explored by Ramey in her work, and which discuss the representation of Muslims by Romance language authors c. 1100-1500 (Italian, Old Occitan, Old French, Medieval Castilian, for instance). We are especially interested in papers that give particular attention to themes of gender and race as they relate to epic depictions of Muslim-Christian relations in chansons de geste, chivalric romances, and lyric poetry.
Workshop at the Renaissaince Society of America's annual meeting (Philadelphia. March 11-13, 2027)
The advancement of artificial intelligence has transformed humanities research and education, deepening computation’s influence on scholarly practice and everyday life. From the early era of “humanities computing” in the 1970s to the rise of “computational humanities” over the past decade, this trajectory highlights the enduring—and expanding—role of computation in shaping inquiry across the humanities. These intersections are especially visible in interdisciplinary work. As T. S. Eliot observes, “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” The same spirit can illuminate how methods and tools migrate across fields.
Panel Chair: Noah Gallego, M.A.Contact: noahrgallego@gmail.comDates: March 6 - 9, 2027Location: Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island While the exact calendrical origin of punk rock is nebulous, many credit 1977 as year zero. 1977 saw the release of the eponymous debut album of “the only band that matters,” The Clash, among several other iconic releases, including but not limited to: The Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, The Ramones’ Rocket to Russia, Talking Heads' Talking Heads: 77, The Damned’s Damned Damned Damned, and The Runaways’ Queens of Noise.
CFP: 3rd International Interdisciplinary Conference of the Department of English, University of Zululand and the Department of English and Literary Studies, Federal University Wukari, Nigeria
28-30 September 2026
Ongoye, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Re-imagining Language, Writing, and Literature in English in a Fast-Changing World
“It is worse, much worse, than you think” states David Wallace-Wells at the opening of his The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (2019). “When do we start physically attacking the things that consume our planet and destroy them with our own hands?” asks Andreas Malm in How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2021). “I don’t think about hope much anymore. But I do think about imagination,” writes Terry Tempest Williams in an interview contained in A voice in the Wilderness: Conversations with Terry Tempest Williams (2006). In the spaces between these statements we encounter a range of reactions to our warming condition, from blunt pessimism, to righteous anger, to nuanced reframing.
Nonfiction film and media have played a crucial role in advocating for animal welfare, rights and liberation. Although short videos and a number of documentaries were produced and distributed with activist purposes during the 1980s, it is during the so-called “documentary renaissance” of the early twenty-first century, together with the communicative advances of digital media, that nonfiction moving images emerged as a medium capable of reaching more mainstream audiences, becoming a central cultural tool for instigating transformative change in humans’ speciesist practices and attitudes toward nonhuman animals.
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)
Call for Papers: Erasing Jewish Community in Christian Time (or Replacement Theory Gets Medieval)
International Medieval Conference, Leeds (UK), 5-8 July 2027
Title: “Second only to Shakespeare”? Middleton 400
Dates (provisional): 28-29 October 2027
Place: University of Naples “L’Orientale” – ARGO Research Centre (Interuniversity Research Centre for the Study of Argumentation, Pragmatics and Stylistics)
Organisers: Daniela Guardamagna and Tommaso Continisio
Deadline for abstract submission: 31 December 2026.
Send to:
guardamagna@lettere.uniroma2.it
continisio@lettere.uniroma2.it
- Call for Presentations - Celebrating Possibility and Empathy in Honors Education
Summer Call Deadline for proposals:July 31, 2026 11th Annual NSFMIH Honors Conference*Theme: Possibility! Sharing the Many Possibilities in Honors EducationThursday October 22 - Friday October 23, 2026 (in person)Young Honors College, Oakland University, Michigan [With my apologies for any cross-posting, emails to those in changed roles and the like!] Proposal Format: 150 word proposal / 100 word biographical note (single person); multiple folks (250 word proposal / 200 word bio note, total)
Women's writing emerged as a critical category in response to the historical exclusion of women from literary canons and archives. The recovery of neglected texts, authors, and traditions has transformed literary studies, creating new genealogies of reading and interpretation. Yet the category itself raises important questions. Does the designation "women's writing" continue to serve as a productive framework, or does it risk reinforcing the very marginalization it seeks to address by positioning women outside the literary mainstream?
Date of conference: 28-29 August, 2026
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 19 July 2026 (extended deadline)
Online, international, interdisciplinary conference titled:
A Letter to Video Games:The Mechanisms of Emotions