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Call for Papers
War & Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2026 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 25-27, 2026
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 30, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026
Call for Papers
Horror (Literary & Cinematic)
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2026 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 25-27, 2026
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 30, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026
English Language Notes (ELN) Call for Papers
“Global Queer and Trans Class Relations”
A special Issue of English Language Notes (ELN), Vol. 65, No. 2 (October 2027)
Edited by Matt Brim and Emmanuel David
Submissions due September 1, 2026
The following is a cfp for a roundtable session at the forthcoming PAMLA 2026 conference to be hosted in Seattle, Washington, U.S. from Nov 12-15, 2026.
Please contact Noah Gallego @noahrgallego for inquiries.
All abstracts must be submitted through the PAMLA submission portal.
The deadline is May 15, 2026
This roundtable invites scholars across the disciplines and different stages in their academic career with an interest in horror to undertake critical investigations into specifically male-centered horror media. By “male-centered,” I am referring to texts that spotlight male identity and the male body, cis-, queer, and trans- included, as sites of fear and monstrosity.
Collecting, Collected, Collective:
Working With Hopkins
June 10 to 12, 2027
Proposals due: 26 October 2026
Panel Title “Gender Archive: Beyond the Evidence”
The ease with which people can scan a database, or source can impact the research process. At times, users of digitally archived sources may overlook authentic artifacts unavailable electronically. Although not done deliberately, this practice can weaken the validity of historical research.
—Naif Albishri “The Future of History: How Digital Archives Provides Another Path for Research” The State Press, 2024.
II INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MYTH AND DRAMA:
CRISES, BORDERS, OTHERNESS
**Call for Papers for the 17th Annual Conference of the Association for Research in the Fantastic
Violence and the Fantastic
University of Cologne
September 17-19, 2026
Dear colleagues,
Faculty of Foreign Languages is pleased to announce two confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. Danimir Mandić (Faculty of Education, University of Belgrade) and Prof. Jozef Štefčik (Bratislava University of Economics and Business).
Our 15th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies will be held on 29 and 30 May 2026. The topic for this edition of our annual conference is
LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Please consider submitting an abstract to present in my conference panel. The conference is open to graduate students (MA and PhD-track), educators, practicing artists, and museum professionals. Details below:
Call for Abstracts – SECAC Panel
Immersive Threads: Narrative, Participation, and the Making of Experiential Worlds
How do narrative and participation become interwoven within immersive environments? How do we, as participants, become threads within experiential artworks, installations, museums, performances, digital platforms, or urban spaces?
Between Then and Now: Performing Archives
The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, 23-24 June 2026
Convened by the Performance Research Group, Manchester School of Theatre, Manchester Metropolitan University
Call for contributions
The Polish Academy of Sciences Scientific Centre in Paris and the Institute of Linguistics of the University of Silesia in Katowice cordially invite you to the academic conference entitled:
IN COLLABORATION ON COOPERATION: RESEARCH IN LINGUISTICS WITHIN FRENCH-POLISH TEAMS
9–10 July 2026
Scientific Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences
74 Rue Lauriston, 75116 Paris, France
11–12 June 2026
Hosted by the Manchester Game Centre, in collaboration with the Poetry Research Group and the Manchester Poetry Library.
In recent years, critiques of human exceptionalism and extractivism have prompted scholars to reconsider the role of translation as a communicative practice capable of engaging with nonhuman voices. Dominant strands of Western thought, from Descartes to Heidegger, have long reinforced the perceived superiority of humans over other forms of life and expression. Challenging this hierarchy requires not only rethinking human–nonhuman relations but also reconsidering how communication itself is understood within translation studies.
Internationale Tagung
Istituto Storico Austriaco a Roma
Austrian Negatives
In the Darkroom of the Habsburg Empire
Maria Giovanna Campobasso, Flavia Di Battista, Matteo Zupancic
7-8 October 2026
Deadline: 10th May, 2026
he Jagiellonian University’s Comparative Civilization Studies Research Club cordially invites you to the International Academic Conference titled “In the Shadow of the Sky — speculative worlds, xenolinguistic futures, and UFO imagery in postmodern media.”
Date and venue: May 29–30, 2026, at the Institute of Comparative Studies of Civilisations, Jagiellonian University, 52 Grodzka Street, Kraków
Format: hybrid, May 29–30, 2026
Evidence, Experience, and Authority in Contested Knowledge
International Interdisciplinary Workshop
Online | 27 - 28 August 2026
When we want to convince others of our beliefs, we usually offer arguments, and, crucially, evidence. Sometimes this evidence is mundane and undisputed; more often it is complex, contested, or ambiguous. But what happens when claims concern phenomena that, by their very nature, resist empirical verification?
Conference online (via Zoom): 16-17 April 2026
CFP:
Affects, emotions and perceptions have always been at the center of philosophical discussion. Yet the so-called “Affective turn” in social studies and humanities is a relatively new phenomenon inspired by Deleuze and Guattari´s influential works among others. Affective turn challenges the still dominant representational approach in semiotics, discourse analysis and text analyses of all kinds.
Rising water levels in oceans and rivers, streams with high flood waves, and torrential rains that turn puddles into lakes: houses that are currently exposed to such increasingly regular water events are becoming a problematic, if not catastrophic, environment. The protective function that the house is supposed to have according to its original idea and design is being compromised. While roofs and walls are supposed to keep out wind and water—and the traditional European gabled roof is primarily designed to divert water from above—in these extreme weather scenarios, basements are flooded, roofs are torn off, entire houses stand like islands in the water or are even swept away.
The Eco-esotericism panel invites submissions that examine the intersection of esoteric thought and ecological consciousness as expressed in literature, cultural texts, and critical theory. Eco-esotericism encompasses approaches that unite spiritual or mystical understandings of nature with ecological critique and environmental activism. Engaging with PAMLA’s 2026 theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” this panel asks: How do esoteric ecological imaginaries reinforce, negotiate, or resist ruling ideologies? How have spiritualized visions of nature shaped elite cultural production, countercultural movements, or alternative political communities?
The Literature and Religion session invites abstracts for a panel that explores the multifaceted role of religion and spirituality within literary cultures, especially as they intersect with social hierarchies, power structures, and conflict. Religion has long shaped literary expression.
Roundtable reflecting on impacts of disabilities on work life in graduate school, pre-tenure, post-tenure, among contingent faculty, and in leadership positions. Please send CV and 300-word abstract for 8- to 10-minute contributions to: Cassandra.falke@uit.no
For the 2027 Modern Langauge Association Convention, the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession welcomes papers about:
Please submit a 300-word abstract and CV to: Cassandra.falke@uit.no
Redefining Borders in British Literature:
Global and Local Identity Before and After Brexit
Roma Tre University
Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures
29-30 ottobre 2026
Convenors
Michela Compagnoni, michela.compagnoni@uniroma3.it
Lucia Esposito, lucia.esposito@uniroma3.it
250-500 worded abstracts to be sent to the session organisers at:
Call for Papers: Temporalities: The Sixth Annual Critical Femininities Conference
The Critical Femininities Network invites abstracts from scholars, researchers, activists, and artists for the sixth annual Critical Femininities Conference on the theme of ‘Temporalities.’ The conference will take place virtually on August 7 - 9, 2026.
The Tenth Faulkner Studies in the UK Colloquium
The Time Has Come: William Faulkner, James Baldwin, and American Modernity
May 1st and 2nd, 2027
Online via Zoom
With keynote addresses by
Professor Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman
(author of Millennial Style: The Politics of Experiment in Contemporary African Diasporic Culture [2024])
and
Professor Douglas Field
(author of Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father, and Me [2024])
Dystopian literature is replete with examples of both individuals who resist and communities of resilience and resistance which model values and activities that stand in contrast to and in spite of the dystopian settings of the story. This panel seeks to bring together critical investigations of dystopian literature which attempt to bring to the fore lessons that can be learned to help us (re)imagine just communities amidst a world of political, economic and ecological decline and regression.
Mode of Presentation: Hybrid: The session will be held in-person but a few remote presentations may be included.
"Digital Memory and the Translation of World Literature"
Conference organized by the American Comparative Literature Association
Official Seminar organized by The ICLA Translation Committee
To submit a proposal, please follow the link:
https://www.acla.org/seminar/fde38874-a710-4e69-b62e-f169ab7f722e
Venue: VIRTUAL 2027 Annual Meeting
15-16 May 2027, Virtual
How do we study reading practices of the modernist era? After the development of what Richard Altick (1957) famously called the “democracy of print” in the nineteenth century, and the move toward mass literacy in the Anglophone world, how did the act of reading and readership get transformed? Virginia Woolf’s 1926 essay, “How Should One Read a Book?” called reading the “most arduous and exhausting of occupations” and made the case for a discerning reader who would give the writer the “benefit of every doubt.” While the modernist era championed close reading with the evolution of New Criticism and I.A.