Calls for Papers

Call for Panelists for the Environmental Humanities for the Conference: “Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds.” Germany, 8–10 July 2026. Organized by the Rachel Carson Center.

Proposed panel description: Embodied Signs: Meaning, Materiality, and Multispecies Worlding in Asia

In response to the humans–more-than-humans dualism as entrenched in the politics of the modern (Latour 1993), this panel proposes to explore semiotic entanglements in multispecies relations in the Asian context. Home to some of the world’s most diverse ecosystems and long-standing traditions of human–environmental co-existence, Asia offers a fertile ...

Fall 2025 Submissions | Open until Oct. 31

We invite writers, poets, artists, and creatives of all kinds to submit to the upcoming Fall 2025 issue of Unearthed, the literary and art journal produced by SUNY ESF. In this issue, we invite you to reflect on what it means to nourish—to feed, to sustain, to grow, to heal.

Our editorial board seeks poetry, prose, and visual art that explore the many means of nourishing the body, the mind, the spirit, and the land. What does ...

Call for Proposals ALECC and CLC 2026 20th Anniversary Conference: Cross-Pollinations

Lisez l’appel à propositions en français sur le site du CLC.

16-20 June, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

The University of Alberta is situated on Treaty 6 Territory and Districts 9 & 10 of the Métis Nation of Alberta. These lands have long been an important gathering place for Indigenous nations, including the Nehiyawak, Niitsitapi, Nakota Sioux, Dene, Anishinaabeg, and Inuit, along with the more-than-human kin who influence our ecological communities and relationships.

In the spirit ...

Literary Druid is an international peer-reviewed open-access journal. It is published twice a year and covers all areas of English such as the History of the English Language and Culture, ELT, Linguistics, Criticism, Literature, Creative writing in the English Language, Literature and Psychology, Women in English Literature, Eco-criticism, Comparative Literature, World Literatures in English Translation and all relevant areas related to the core area. In India, English Studies are on a brighter plane and the need for knowledge in the English language and ...

This seminar places renewed critical interest in “the archive” in dialogue with the “non-human turn” in ecocriticism. Work on the non-human and/or posthuman in literary and cultural studies (Haraway 2003; Tsing 2014; Morton 2013 et al.) offers avenues for thinking agency, personhood, and subjecthood alongside other-than-human (and not always living) entities. Archives, which both rely and center upon humans, may seem like an unlikely place to seek out the nonhuman. We suggest, however, that the nonhuman is central to the archive, materially and ...

Canadian Hipanist Association/ Asociación canadiense de hispanistas (ACH) 2026 Salamanca, Spain

Organizers: Adriana Kolijn (University of Ottawa) akolijn@uottawa.ca – Andrés Arteaga (Saint Mary´s University) andres.arteaga@smu.ca

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, there seem to be two directions taken by contemporary eco-literature from Latin America. One direction incorporates the ancestral knowhow of indigenous and Afro-American communities incorporating a “pensamiento vivo” or living thought characterized by a “semiotics beyond-the-human” (Kohn, 2021). Another direction in literature poses the urgent need to adopt an ethical-ecological stance which Joaquín Marta-Sosa proposes as a “literature of being” ...

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.

We welcome submissions from various disciplines, including literary studies, film and media, ...

Latin American Studies Association 2026 CFP for Panel on Technologies of Utopia/Dystopia

May 26-30, 2026 in person (Paris, France) https://lasaweb.org/es/lasa2026/

From the utopia of a “discovered” America of rivers glittering with silver to the infernal jungles that evoked the dystopic operations of the plantation, the aesthetic oscillation between these two scapes often has acted as motor and mirror for various colonial and neo-colonial technologies that proscribed uneven (and at times impossible) development. Scholars such as Katherine McKittrick, Yilver Mosquera-Vallejo and Ulrich Oslender, and Macarena Gómez Barris have ...

Call for Proposals 2026 Hemingway Society Conference Hemingway in Toronto July 20-25, 2026 | Toronto, Canada

The Hemingway Society invites proposals for the 21st International Hemingway Conference, exploring Hemingway’s ties to Toronto and his broader literary legacy.

Toronto was a pivotal stop in Hemingway’s early career—a place where he honed his craft as a journalist, earned his first bylines at The Toronto Star, and briefly settled to welcome his first child in 1923. The 2026 conference offers an opportunity to revisit these formative years and discuss Hemingway’s impact ...

Newberry Library Scholarly Seminar – “Premodern Ecologies” Application deadline: July 7, 2025

This seminar provides a forum for new approaches to classical, medieval, and early modern studies, allowing scholars from a range of disciplines to share work-in-progress with the broader community at the Center for Renaissance Studies. We meet four times a year, and every meeting is free and open to the public.

Our theme for this year is “Premodern Ecologies,” and our aim is to explore the entanglements of nature and culture and of the ...