Category: Conferences
News about our latest conferences
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CFP: European Conference on the Fantastic, with the theme ‘Fantastic Spaces and Places’
Fantastic Spaces and Places The second European Conference on the FantasticKarlstad, Sweden15-17 June, 2027 Keynote Speakers Jerry Määttä, Stockholm University Jerry Määttä is Associate Professor in Literature and lecturer in History and Cultural Studies at Stockholm University. A recurring focus of his work is the ways in which popular literature and other cultural forms imagine…
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Call for Essay Proposal: Essay on Water and Myth in Monique Roffey’s The Mermaid of Black Conch
The editors of a volume under contract with Routledge’s Environmental Literature, Culture and Media series are seeking a 7,000-word essay on Monique Roffey’s The Mermaid of Black Conch. The volume focuses on rewritten water myths in English and situates itself in current debates in the blue and environmental humanities. It grows out of an international conference on the topic that the editors…
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Join the Orca Uprising: 11th Biennial Conference of EASLCE at Utrecht University, 14-17 April, 2026
The 11th Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Join the Orca Uprising! – Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice[/caption]Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment took place at Utrecht University from 14–17 April 2026 under the theme “Join the Orca Uprising! Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice.” Hosted by the Faculty of Humanities, this was the…
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Call for Chapter Contributions: The Clash of Culture and Environmentalism in Irish Ecocritical Studies
Editor: Dr. Niamh Donnellan Publisher: Vernon Press This edited collection explores the influence culture has on attitudes towards environmentalism in Ireland. It demonstrates that working with indigenous peoples who have deep-seated relationships built with their landscapes offers nuanced interventions that can connect communities with place, promoting environmental awareness. This form of ecological intervention can provide opportunities for…
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4th International Environmental Humanities Conference: The Blue Humanities – Cappadocia University
4th International Environmental Humanities Conference: The Blue Humanities Cappadocia University, May 20-23, 2026 The 4th International Environmental Humanities Conference invites scholars, artists, writers, and practitioners to contribute to ongoing conversations that chart the multiple currents of water-centered thinking. We welcome proposals that examine the oceanic and the aquatic through literary, historical, cultural, philosophical, artistic, and ecological…
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CFP: ‘Ecopoetry: Compared Perspectives from Anglophone and Francophone Literatures’
Date: Friday, October 30th, 2026 Location: Paris 8 University, Maison de la recherche, Amphitheatre MR002 Traditions of ecological and nature writing and poetry about place and the nonhuman vary widely between different countries, cultures, and literary traditions. In the same way, the representation of nature and of relationships between humans and nonhumans in British and French poetry,…
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CFP;Resisting Abandonment: Language, Culture, and Ecology
Français Resisting Abandonment: Language, Culture, and Ecology Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact | Glendon College, York University | October 15-16, 2026 The Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact invites you to an interdisciplinary conference that will explore the ways in which ecology intersects with language contact, cultural transformation, and pedagogical…
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CFP: RESILIENCE IN NORDIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Call for Papers RESILIENCE IN NORDIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE 8th Research Workshop of the Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies (ENSCAN) University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, 10-11 December 2026 Supported by the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Bonn Over the past decades, the concept of resilience has become ever more prominent in environmental…
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CFP: Speculative Cityscapes: A Speculative Cultures Workshop
Cities are sites of crises. With climate disasters, democracy collapses, (neo) colonial and capitalist violence, cities become hubs where the full force of lives in crisis collide: from population density, precarious living conditions, and economic inequalities to toxicity, political movements, and the exploitation of nature to sustain life in the city, disparities become more visible within…
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Call for Papers: Violence and the Fantastic -17th Annual Conference of the Association for Research in the Fantastic (GfF)
University of Cologne | September 17-19, 2026 Violence is an underlying structural element in fantastic narratives. Whether through depictions of intergalactic wars, epic battles, magical duels, monstrous creatures, heroic warriors, dystopian surveillance regimes, apocalyptic landscapes, conquests and systems of exploitation, physical assaults, psychological transgressions, or more subtle forms of abusive power: the fantastic explores violence…
