international conferences

SAMLA 98: Hospitality

South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 1, 2026

We may imagine the act of hospitality benign: to open a door, to welcome another across a threshold, or to make an offer to a guest. Rooted in such acts, however, is an ethics of how we engage with another, whether friend or stranger. Acts of hospitality contain their own contradictions, as to serve as host is to hold power, to set terms, to guard thresholds and entry points. For this year’s SAMLA conference, we invite papers, panels, and creative works that consider the many meanings and complications of hospitality—as practice, metaphor, ethics, affect, and structure.

Literatures of the Global South: Space, Place, Environment

Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 31, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Literatures of the Global South: Space, Place, Environment 

University of Toronto 

2nd-4th June 2027 

Keynote Speakers: Amitav Ghosh and Ato Quayson (Stanford University) 

The Centre for Comparative Literature invites submissions for a scholarly conference and edited collection that will explore the material and imaginative alignments across literary cultures of the Global South. 

Sappho’s Mirror: Images of Female Desire in Literature, Music & the Visual Arts

Diana Shaffer /NeMLA’s 58th Annual Convention March 6-9, 2027 / Salve Regina University / Newport, RI /
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Sappho’s Mirror: Images of Female Desire in Literature, Music & the Visual Arts 

This seminar explores representations of female desire in music, literature and the visual arts. How have the complex poetics of female desire—the desire to have something, or escape something, or punish, or know—been represented over time? What strategies have been employed to subvert literary conventions defined predominantly by male perspectives on home, love, war, victory and loss? How have female characters navigated the interplay between things done overtly and thought covertly to reveal the inner web of desires, fears and conflicts that constitute a female poetics of love and longing?

This is a virtual session.

Mirrors of Desire: Ekphrasis & Mise en Abyme in Literature, Music & the Visual Arts

Diana Shaffer / NeMLA’s 58th Annual Convention/ March 6-9, 2027 / Salve Regina University / Newport, RI
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Mirrors of Desire: Ekphrasis & Mise en Abyme in Literature, Music & the Visual Arts 

This seminar invites papers that explore the concepts of ekphrasis, the mise en abyme, and metaphorical mirrors in literature, music, and the visual arts. How are mirrors used by artists as deliberate tools to represent something else? How are metaphorical mirrors used to compare different types of reflections across mediums? How are mirrors used to suggest that the aesthetic “surface” is a distraction, and true clarity lies in understanding what the observer or listener wants to see or hear? Papers focused on one medium or interdisciplinary approaches from the Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and Postmodern periods are welcome.

Irony: Dramatic and Otherwise

Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate - University of Tübingen
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 31, 2026

Call for Papers: 19th International Connotations Symposium

Irony: Dramatic and Otherwise

Tübingen, Germany, 25-28 July 2027

ACLA SEMINAR: Becoming Monster: Representation and Rights

American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

American Comparative Literature Association  IN-PERSON 2027 Annual Meeting (May 20-23, 2027), Houston, Texas

Organizers: Dr. Julia Chan (Lingnan University)

Fatma Betul Ciftci (Lingnan University)

One is not born a monster; the monster is produced. From Beowulf to Ruthven to Dracula to cyborgs, ‘monster’ is a cultural construction, a humanly-produced non-human. This seminar invites scholars to discuss the monster both as a literary figure and as the representation and construction of a cultural and political identity. Through this, it aims to explore the question of where, why, and how monsters are produced, and what these monsterized creatures "show" about the communities that "produce" them. 

A Golden Age? Global Historical Fictions and Political Nostalgia

Historical Fictions Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 1, 2026

Call for Papers

A Golden Age? Global Historical Fictions and Political Nostalgia 

One-Day Online Workshop of the Historical Fictions Research Network

28 November 2026 (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 2026 one-day workshop on the topic of 

“A Golden Age? Global Historical Fictions and Political Nostalgia”.

National Advanced Writing Symposium (NAWS) 2027 - "Evolving Possibilities: Futures of Advanced Writing"

Elizabeth Durst/ The Writing Program/ University of Southern California
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 25, 2026

National Advanced Writing Symposium (NAWS) 2027 - January 29, 2027

Please use the link, below, to find a full description of our CFP for "Evolving Possibiilities: Futures of Advanced Writing."
The event is entirely ONLINE and FREE to both speakers and attendees.
Proposals are due Friday, September 25, 2026.

CFP: Popular Culture Association Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Elizabeth Downey/Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 31, 2026

Call For Papers

The Popular Culture Association (PCA) annual conference will be held March 24-27, 2027 at the Boston Marriott Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts. Scholars from a wide variety of disciplines will meet to share their Popular Culture research and interests. The Libraries, Archives & Museums area invites proposals dealing with any aspect of Popular Culture as it pertains to libraries, archives, museums, or related areas.

Maps, Mechanics and Mobilities: Landscape & the Geographic Imagination in Video Games

Games Studies Network, Newcastle University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 1, 2026

 27th & 28th May 2027 (In-Person, Newcastle University, UK) Since their inception, video games have been defined by, and grounded in, space and place: from the maze in The Temple of Rom (1982) to the Hyrulian depths in Tears of the Kingdom (2023), from the Holy Land of the Crusades in Assassin’s Creed (2007) to the noirish city of Detroit: Become Human (2018), and from the farms of Stardew Valley (2016) to the depths of Hell in Hades (2020), video games have been concerned with the relationship between the player-character, place, mobility, and game-play mechanics.  This conference asks how place and space have been represented in and mobilised in video games: we are interested in spaces of imagina

Frames and Framing: Constructing Meaning in Literature, Linguistics, and Translation

Faculty of Al-Alsun (Languages), Ain Shams University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 15, 2027

Every act of communication, interpretation, and representation is an act of framing. In literary analysis, a “frame” might define genre, direct narrative perspective, or position a text within a historical moment. In linguistics, frames organize semantic understanding, govern pragmatic interaction, and underpin metaphor. In translation and interpreting, frames are negotiated, shifted, and sometimes shattered in the movement between languages and cultures. They are the selective filters that highlight certain elements while relegating others to the background, the conceptual structures that allow us to categorize, interpret, and communicate complex realities.

Panel – Before Chinon: Joan of Arc’s Origins, Callings, and the Threshold of History

International Joan of Arc Society via International Congress on Medieval Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

The structure of Joan of Arc's early phase invites comparison to archetypal heroic narrative: reluctant departure, rejected petitioner, gatekeepers to persuade or evade, and the acquisition of skills and resolve before the great undertaking. Whether such comparisons illuminate Joan’s experience, distort it, or reveal more about her interpreters than Joan herself is the question this panel opens. What do we actually know about Joan before she became Joan? How have scholars, hagiographers, filmmakers, and popular adapters handled the silence and ambiguity of her early life? When Joan is made to fit a pattern, which Joan gets left out?

Thirty-Fourth International Conference on Learning 2027

Common Ground Research Networks
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 7, 2027

Thirty-Fourth International Conference on Learning, Aristotle University of Thessalonki, Thessaloniki, Greece, 7-9 July 2027

Founded in 1989, The Learner Research Network is brought together around a common concern for learning in all its sites, formal and informal, and at all levels, from early childhood, to schools, colleges and universities, and adult, community and workplace education. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

Seventeenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment

Common Ground Research Networks
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 14, 2027

Seventeenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, 14-15 April 2027

Founded in 2010, the Constructed Environment Research Network is brought together by a common shared interest in human configurations of the environment and the interactions among the constructed, social and natural environments. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

Seventeenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment will address the following annual themes and special focus:

Twenty-Third International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society

Common Ground Research Networks
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 10, 2027

Twenty-Third International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, 8-9 April 2027

Founded in 2005, the Technology, Knowledge & Society Research Network is brought together by a shared interest in the complex and subtle relationships between technology, knowledge and society.

Twenty-Third International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Societyfor research addressing the following annual themes and special focus:

2027 Special Focus—THE CYBER-SOCIAL CONDITION: Knowledge, Learning, and Human Futures

Theme 1: Histories of Technology
Theme 2: Knowledge Makers
Theme 3: Social Realities

Decolonization, Digital Sphere, and Empowered Communities (Panel)

Saleha Malik
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

The digital infrastructure in today’s world mirrors the colonial administrative structure with its control over data, policing user’s behavior, and pushing narratives for the majoritarian political power. The global tech giants have as much sway in geopolitics as the global leaders themselves. Previously the conditions of colonization created an unequal economic infrastructure that marginalizes the local communities, and even after independence from the colonial power, the trade relations remain that of a colonial appendage. Similarly, the upkeep of the digital sphere is not without its economic and environmental hazards.

Public Humanities in the Undergrad Classroom

Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Panel on the rewards, risks, and ethics of public humanities approaches in the undergraduate classroom. Some possible topics: public project assignments, public writing, community-engaged learning, university/humanities in current political climate, faculty-student collaboration.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, August 15, 2026

 

Nineteenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses

Common Ground Research Networks
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 20, 2026

Nineteenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 20-22 January 2027

Founded in 2009, the Climate Change: Impacts & Responses Research Network is brought together by a common concern for the science of, and social responses to, climate change. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

Eighteenth International Conference on The Image

Common Ground Research Networks
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 13, 2027

Eighteenth International Conference on The Image, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada, 13-15 October 2027

Founded in 2010, The Image Research Network is brought together around a shared interest in the nature and function of image making and images. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

The Eighteenth International Conference on The Image will address the following annual themes and special focus:

Twelfth International Conference on Communication & Media Studies

Common Ground Research Networks
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 13, 2027

Twelfth International Conference on Communication & Media Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada, 13-15 October 2027

Founded in 2015, the Communication & Media Studies Research Network offers an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of the role of the media and communications in society. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

The Twelfth International Conference on Communication & Media Studies will address the following annual themes and special focus:

Twentieth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum 2027

Common Ground Research Networks
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 13, 2027

Twentieth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, 13-15 September 2027

Founded in 2008, The Inclusive Museum Research Network is brought together by a shared concern for the future role of the museum and how it can become more inclusive. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

The Twentieth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum will address the following annual themes and special focus:

Twenty-Second International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Common Ground Research Networks
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 15, 2027

Twenty-Second International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, 15-17 July 2027

Founded in 2006, the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Research Network is brought together by a common interest in disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, within and across the various social sciences, and between the social, natural and applied sciences. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

Thirty-Fourth International Conference on Learning

Common Ground Research Networks
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 7, 2027

Thirty-Fourth International Conference on Learning, Aristotle University of Thessalonki, Thessaloniki, Greece, 7-9 July 2027

Founded in 1989, The Learner Research Network is brought together around a common concern for learning in all its sites, formal and informal, and at all levels, from early childhood, to schools, colleges and universities, and adult, community and workplace education. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

Seventeenth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society

Common Ground Research Networks
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 24, 2027

Seventeenth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society, University of Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France, 24-25 June 2027

Founded in 2011, the Religion in Society Research Network explores the relationship between religion in society and the changing nature of spirituality. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

Seventeenth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society will address the following annual themes and special focus:

Eighteenth International Conference on Sport & Society

Common Ground Research Networks
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 17, 2027

Eighteenth International Conference on Sport & Society, Federal Fluminense University, Niterói, Brazil, 17-18 June 2027

Founded in 2010, the Sport & Society Research Network is brought together around a common interest in cultural, political, and economic relationships of sport to society. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions

Eighteenth International Conference on Sport & Society will address the following annual themes and special focus:

Twelfth International Conference on Tourism & Leisure Studies

Common Ground Research Networks
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 17, 2027

Twelfth International Conference on Tourism & Leisure Studies, Federal Fluminense University, Niterói, Brazil, 17-18 June 2027

Founded in 2015, the Tourism & Leisure Studies Research Network is brought together to explore the economic, cultural and organizational aspects of tourism and leisure. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

Twelfth International Conference on Tourism & Leisure Studies will address the following annual themes and special focus:

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