Calls for Papers

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 ...

PAMLA Conference (Nov. 20-23 in San Francisco) (Panel / In-Person) American / Poetry and Form

For Robinson Jeffers the ruggedly beautiful Big Sur region of the California coast with its remote ranches offered, he noted in the Foreword to his Selected Poetry, a view of “life purged of ephemeral accretions” yet also “conscious” of the “modern world” and “capable of expressing its spirit.” For Jeffers, Nature was both being in its ultimate form and a vantage point for critiquing “civilization,” and the poetry he developed ...

29th meeting of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy “Justice Centering Marginal Voices”

May 22–24, 2025 in person at Denison University (with hybrid online access by Zoom)

Keynote Address by Dr. Dylan Robinson, D.Phil. (University of British Columbia) on interpellation in the form of trees (formal title TBA)

The IAEP Executive Committee is excited to announce our 2025 annual meeting. To reduce the environmental impact of our environmental philosophy, we hold conferences in-person/hybrid in odd-numbered years, and fully remotely in even-numbered years. But we recognize the value of in-person conferences. ...

International Conference

Queer Ecology and the Temporal Imagination

26 – 27 February 2026 University of Tübingen Center for Gender and Diversity Research (ZGD)

Organised by Gero Bauer and Davina Höll

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Prof. Sylvan Goldberg (Colorado College)

Call for Abstracts

In recent political discourse, there has been a striking correlation between questions relating to the environment, the climate crisis, and environmental justice on the one hand and gender and sexuality on the other. At the same time, the climate crisis (and its denial) has been increasingly framed in terms of ...

ASLE-Sponsored Panel at the 2025 Western Literature Association Conference Oklahoma City, OK, Sept. 21-24

Open Topic: The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment invites innovative paper proposals on any topic that integrates western North American literary/cultural studies with environmental themes or concerns. We particularly welcome proposals from graduate students and contingent faculty.

WLA 2025 is a call to action to critically examine and celebrate the multicultural foundations of western literature. We look forward to your contributions in shaping this important dialogue. The conference theme ...