international conferences

The 20th Anniversary of David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water” Kenyon Commencement Speech is coming up this May! If you can’t make our roundtable at the ALA conference in Boston on May 23rd, we’d love to see you in the virtual realm for a four-day Zoom symposium themed around Wallace’s monumental speech. While it may be disappointing not to see each other in person, this is an opportunity to do things we can’t do at an in-person conference, and a chance to reconnect with our friends from around the globe. 

The IATIS - International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies invites papers on  “Sustainable Translation in the Age of Knowledge Extraction, Generation, and (Re)Creation” for its 8th International Conference to be held at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman on December 10-13, 2025.

We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “Translation, Speculative Justice and Sustainability in the Global South.”

(Un)welcome Imaginaries: (Non-)Fiction Literature on Fundamental Rights

International Interdisciplinary Conference (online)

Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland)

12-13th December 2025

Call for papers

Conference online: 5-6 June 2025

CFP: 

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​        How do we remember and represent our migration experiences? Who is involved in these processes? How does history remember these events? What helps migrants and societies to adapt? The significance of these and related questions have made their way into our daily lives, from the refugee crisis to policy decisions, individual psychotherapy to (re)building identities, communities, and memories.  

Call for Papers – DEADLINE EXTENDED!

ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, and MAGIC

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2025 SWPACA Summer Salon 

June 26-28, 2025

Virtual Conference

https://swpaca.org/

NEW Proposal submission deadline: April 22, 2025 

Call for Papers -- The Sixteenth Century Society: A Society for Early Modern Studies

Portland, Oregon, October 30 - November 1, 2025

1st NEOLAiA International Conference on Narrating (Hi)Stories in Decentring Europe

Universidad de Jaén, October 1-3, 2025

https://www.narratinghistories-neolaiaconference.com/

@neolaianarratories.bsky.social

Call for Papers:

Creative writing and technical writing are often seen as distinct disciplines , one rooted in imagination and artistic expression, the other in clarity, functionality, and precision. However, in today’s evolving communication landscape, these boundaries are increasingly blurred. From storytelling and spontaneous overflow of emotion to persuasive technical crafting, the fusion of creativity and technical accuracy is more relevant than ever. This conference seeks to explore how these disciplines can inform, inspire, and shape each other.

Sub-Themes: We invite original research papers and creative presentations on the following sub-themes, though not limited to:

● Narrative Techniques in Technical Writing

Developed and promoted by the German-speaking academic community, frequently mobilized by Anglophone and Scandinavian scholars, yet less used in Francophone and Italophone research, the concept of postmigration marks a significant shift in migration discourses. By dissolving the binary opposition between migrants and non-migrants, it allows immigration to be regarded as an intrinsic component of European societies. The conference “From Experiences to Storytelling of Postmigration” aligns with this ongoing epistemological and analytical transformation. It aims to explore how postmigration thinking is reshaping the narratives that can be written, spoken, or reconstructed from migration-related experiences.

CFP: “The Companies We Keep – Figurations, Narratives, and Practices of Co-Living in Common Spaces in 21st-Century British and Anglophone Literatures”

Workshop, 31. October – 1. November 2025, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

Confirmed Keynote speaker: Ben Highmore (University of Sussex)

Call for Papers: Symposium on "Teaching Innovation in Higher Education in U.S. Literature, History, and Culture" at the CIDICO Conference

In this new edition, which will take place online on November 17, 18, and 19, and in person on November 20 and 21, organized by the SEJ-473 Research Group of the University of Almería and the Research and Training in Psychology, Education, and Health Group, we aim to continue promoting a multidisciplinary meeting of educators. This space seeks to highlight all University Areas of Knowledge and provide an opportunity to share work related to Teaching Innovation, methodologies, and research projects.

In all medical practices, two goals stand out: to cure and to care. In a vernacular context, care is discursive, relational, and mutual, while cure is linear, utilitarian, and quantifiable. In his book Care and Cure: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Medicine, Jacob Stegenga iterates on two sides of the care-cure conundrum: “[...] when an intervention mitigates harm then it provides some care, and when an intervention mitigates abnormal biological functioning
then it goes some way toward cure.”

The 2025 ELLAK International Conference
“Rethinking English Studies in the Age of New Media”

Organized by The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK)

Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea

December 18-20, 2025

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Taek-Gwang Lee, Kyung Hee University, Korea

Ted Underwood, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA

Slavoj Žižek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Conference online (via Zoom): 24-25 April 2025

All details: 7th "Memory, Affects and Emotions" Conference

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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.

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