Historical Fictions Research Conference 2027 – Power and Politics in Historical Fictions.
Host and dates: University of Amsterdam | 4 & 5 February 2027.
Deadline for submissions: 15 September 2026.
Event organised by Marleen Rensen and Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez (Department of European Studies, University of Amsterdam, research schools ARTES and ACES)
Event presentation
The 2027 conference in Amsterdam will continue to critically interrogate one of HFRN’s longstanding lines of enquiry: that historical fictions are anything but a banal engagement with the past, but explicitly and implicitly shape and propel political claims, identities and agendas.
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CfP Historical Fictions Research Conference 2027(Posted 11 June 2026)
RCELL International Conference 2027: Literature in the Age of AI: Posthumanism, Digital Humanities, and Ecological Futures.
Host and dates: Online (Zoom) | 13–14 February 2027.
Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2026.
Event organised by The Research Centre for English Language and Literature (RCELL), India, in academic partnership with Sahrdaya College of Advanced Studies (Autonomous), Kerala, India, and Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University, Punjab, India. Chief Convener: Dr Madhuri Bite, Director, RCELL.
Deadlines
• Early-bird registration and abstract submission: 31 December 2026
• Final registration and abstract submission: 31 January 2027
• Feedback on abstracts: within 15 days of submission
• Conference: 13–14 February 2027
Event presentation
Artificial intelligence is changing how literature is written, read, taught and studied. At the same time, posthumanist thought and the climate crisis are unsettling older ideas of the human, of agency and of the future. The RCELL International Conference 2027 invites scholars to think about these changes together, across literary studies, critical theory, digital humanities and the environmental humanities. South Asian perspectives are particularly welcome.
We invite abstracts of 250 to 300 words, with 4 to 6 keywords and a biography of up to 75 words, in one of four thematic streams: I. AI, Posthumanism and the Future of the Human; II. Digital Humanities, AI and New Literary Practices; III. Literature, Ecology and Climate Futures; IV. Postcolonial, Decolonial and Indigenous Futures. Presentations are delivered live on Zoom (5 to 10 minutes, followed by discussion). Selected full papers may be invited after the conference for a peer-reviewed special issue of The Criterion: An International Journal in English (ISSN 0976-8165); invitation does not guarantee publication.
Keynote speakers:
- Dr María Ferrández-Sanmiguel (University of Zaragoza, Spain): “The Posthumanist Heroine’s Journey”
- Dr Dana J. Gavin (Dutchess Community College, USA): “Teaching and Learning in the Age of AI: The Only Way Forward Is Through”
- Dr Marco Caracciolo (Ghent University, Belgium): “Embodiment and Illness in Anthropocene Fiction”
- Stream IV keynote to be announced
Website: 
https://conference2027.rcell.co.in 
Contact details: Dr Vishwanath Bite, Academic Adviser, RCELL, 
conference@rcell.co.in
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(Posted 24 October 2026)
4th T-LitCon Folk & Lore: Stories of Yore, Stories for Posterity.
Host and dates: Topkapı University, Türkiye | 20-21 February 2027.
Deadline for submissions: 10 January 2027.
Venue details: Online (on Zoom)
Event presentation
This conference approaches folklore as a living and mutable archive, perpetually renewed whenever retold. We welcome presentations that explore how literary and cultural works inherit folkloric materials; how they preserve, distort, challenge, or reinvent them and how adaptation negotiates the distance between ancestral memory and contemporary life. We are equally interested in the futures of folklore: what it means to retell inherited stories now, what is gained or lost in their transformation, and how the stories we choose to preserve today may themselves become the lore of generations to come.
At its heart, Folk & Lore: Stories of Yore, Stories for Posterity asks a deceptively simple question: why do we continue to tell old stories? The 4th T-LitCon welcomes contributions that examine what we receive from the past, what we make of it in the present, and what, in turn, we choose to leave behind for the future.
Submitted abstracts should be between 300 and 400 words and accompanied by 4–7 keywords. Individual presentations will be allocated 20 minutes in the conference program. Certificates of participation will be issued only to those who deliver their scheduled presentations.
Keynote speaker will be announced shortly.
Website address
Submission Link: https://forms.gle/sbTbpRLVfmjxQbTB7
Contact details
Contact email address: t-litcon@topkapi.edu.tr
CFP
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(Posted 16 October 2027)