Conference: Behind the Cloak of Anonymity: Ethical Agency and Cultural Narratives in the Age of Digital Innovation.
Location and dates: Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France – 1-2 June 2026 / Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, Paris, France – 8-9 June 2026.
Deadline for proposal submissions: 15 December 2025.
Venue
The conference will take place in two phases:
- the first on June 1 and 2, 2026, at the Carlone Campus of Université Côte d’Azur in Nice; and
- the second on June 8 and 9, 2026, at the Assas Center of Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas in Paris.
Event presentation
This interdisciplinary conference project, led by Suhasini VINCENT (LIRCES) and Daniel HOTARD (CERSA, Paris-Panthéon-Assas), explores the cultural, ethical, and narrative dimensions of digital anonymity. At the intersection of narratology, cultural studies, media ethics, and surveillance, it analyses how anonymous narratives — whether in the form of collective voices, online practices, or whistleblower testimonies — shape and reflect cultural, political, and identity transformations.
Given the complexity that characterizes anonymity in practice, it is worth exploring further the particularities of its narration, its staging, and its political and organizational instrumentation. What conditions make anonymity necessary for expression, cooperation, and judgment? The cultural, ethical, and narrative dimensions of “anonymity” in contemporary digital environments affect both administrative and creative life. With a perspective that combines the techniques of law with those of sociology, political science, cultural studies, and narratology, this project seeks to uncover the cultural transformations that underpin “anonymity’ in practice, through its new or emerging instruments and narrative features.
Websites
https://lirces.univ-cotedazur.fr/manifestations-scientifiques/appels-a-communication 
https://www.assas-universite.fr/fr/evenements/lanonymat-lere-digitale
CFP
For further details, please check the event original call inserted below.
3-11-25 -CFP English – Behind the Cloak of Anonymity(Posted 5 November 2025)
Fourteenth Biennial MESEA Conference: Cultural Environments: Spheres, Ethnicity, Corporeality.
Location and dates: Ionian University, Greece. 11-13 June 2026.
Deadline for proposal submission: 15 November 2025.
Venue details
The conference will be arranged as an onsite conference at Ionian University, Department of Environment, Zakynthos Island Campus, Greece. Located off the west coast of the Peloponnese and south of King Odysseus‟s legendary Ithaca, Zakynthos (also called Zante) is the third-largest of the Ionian islands. With a distinct triangular shape, the island offers visitors the chance to see diverse landscapes: the mountainous north, the fertile plain in the central area with olive groves and vineyards, and the south-east region with sandy beaches and nesting grounds for the loggerhead sea turtle. Celebrated by Homer in The Iliad and The Odyssey, Zakynthos has a complex geopolitical history with the most significant cultural and architectural influence being the Venetian rule (1484-1797), during which the island was called “Fiore di Levante” (“Flower of the East”). The disastrous earthquake of 1953 almost erased the original beauty of “Chora” (central town) while the only areas that escaped destruction are the villages on the northern side. As a popular and budget-friendly travel destination, Zakynthos can be reached by plane and intercity buses from Athens or by ferry from the port of Kyllini in the Peloponnese. In June, there are numerous daily connections (low-cost flights) with major European airports. For further information on Zakynthos Island, please visit: Zakynthos.
Event presentation
The MESEA 2026 conference invites contributions that address the interconnections of Earth’s five spheres – geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and cryosphere – from the perspectives of ethnicity, culture, and corporeality. As a response to the current global crises and related historical conditions, the conference brings together and creates a dialogue between anthropocentric and ecocentric perspectives and approaches in multiethnic cultural environments. This includes interdisciplinary discussions of topics such as cultural representation, oceanic/island studies, space and affect, mobilities and borders, bodies and knowledge, patterns of racialization, extractivism, non-human agency, (de)materializations, ecomedia narratives, environmental politics, and many more.
The 2026 MESEA Conference seeks to explore the diversity of cultural environments in the nexus of nature and spatiality, ethnicity, history, and geopolitics. Potential paper and panel submissions can address but are not limited to topics such as the following:
- In what ways does the materiality of Earth create cultural representations in the context of the five spheres? Similarly, how does non-material, digital technology represent nature?
- What kinds of imaginaries and dreamscapes result from the contacts between culture and the natural environment? What kinds of emergent and/or alternative cultural practices are involved in such encounters?
- What is the role of preservation and restoration of culture in diverse spatial environments? How do the tangible and the intangible interlace in the construction of cultural identity?
- How are narratives of culture and the physical cosmos formed and articulated historically in the Anthropocene?
- How does non-human agency figure in cultural narratives?
- What is the role of (trans)corporeality and the material in the making of the new cultural environments?
- How are ethnicity and “race‟ represented in the culture/environment nexus? How do they challenge dominant notions of identity and belonging?
- How do labor histories and narratives of mobility generate new cultural environments?
- In what ways are individual and collective memories of cultural environments (re)framed in ethnic narratives?
- How is ecojustice vocalized and performed in Indigenous and ethnic narratives?
- How do geopolitical changes, crises, and conflicts affect cultural environments?
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
- Professor Juan Ignacio Oliva (University of La Laguna)
- Associate Professor Christos Karydis (Ionian University)
- Atlantic Studies Lecture TBC
Abstracts submission
Abstracts should be submitted via our website at https://mesea.org/ between August 15 and November 15, 2025. Submitters will receive notification of acceptance by January 10, 2026. Preference will be given to complete panel proposals with an inter/transdisciplinary and/or transnational focus. Panels may not include more than 2 participants from the same institution. Presenters are expected to be members of the association in 2026. MELUS members can also present their papers at the conference. Previous MESEA Conferences have led to high quality publications (https://mesea.org/publications/). As in previous years, this MESEA Conference will generate publications in respected publication venues.
Honoring its commitment to the furthering of early-career scholars, MESEA will again award at least one Young Scholars Excellence Award.
Website address
Contact details
Dr Sophia Emmanouilidou, MESEA Programme Coordinator
emmanofia@gmail.com
CFP
For further details, please check the event website (above) and original call inserted below.
(Posted 17 September 2025)
35th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf and Sound.
Location and dates: İstanbul Bilgi University, Turkey, 24-28 June 2026.
Deadline for proposal submissions: 20 December 2025.
Venue details: İstanbul Bilgi University, Santral Campus.
Event presentation
The organizers of the 35th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference warmly invite proposals for individual papers, panels, workshops, and exhibitions that engage with the theme “Virginia Woolf and Sound.” This year’s conference seeks to explore the rich and varied dimensions of sound in Woolf’s writing, her historical and cultural milieu, and the broader literary and artistic landscapes that shaped and were shaped by her work.
As sound studies continue to expand the boundaries of how we understand sensory experience, media, and cultural production, its intersection with Virginia Woolf studies offers rich terrain for rethinking literary form and perception. From the rhythmic structures of her prose to her representations of listening, voice, and acoustic space, Woolf’s work engages with sound not only as aesthetic texture but as a means of exploring subjectivity, embodiment, and social experience. Her experimental prose resonates with the concerns of sound studies: the politics of listening, the materiality of voice, and the acoustic dimensions of space and time. Engaging Woolf through the lens of sound studies not only deepens our understanding of her modernist aesthetics but also opens new interdisciplinary pathways for exploring how literature listens, performs, and constructs meaning through sonic texture.
Proposals are welcome for panels, roundtables, workshops, and exhibitions that take innovative, interdisciplinary, transhistorical, or collaborative approaches to the theme of ‘Virginia Woolf and Sound’. We encourage contributions from scholars at all career stages, independent researchers, students, artists, and readers with a deep interest in Woolf’s work.
Keynote speakers are Anna Snaith, Elicia Clements, and Emma Sutton.
Website address
https://www.bilgi.edu.tr/en/academic/virginia-woolf-conference-2026/call-for-papers
Contact details
CFP
For further details, please check the event original call inserted below.
(Posted 8 November 2025)
PASE 2026 Conference. Temporal Matters: Time in Narrative and Linguistic Structures.
Location and dates: University of Rzeszów, Poland. 24-26 June 2026.
Deadline for submissions: 31 March 2026.
Venue details: Onsite venue: University of Rzeszów, Faculty of Philology, Al. Kopisto 2B, 35-315 Rzeszów, Poland.
Plenary speakers
• Lieven Buysse (KU Leuven – Brussels, Belgium)
• Vassiliki Markidou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
• Rafał Molencki (University of Silesia in Katowice)
Event presentation
Time is one of the most fundamental dimensions of human experience. It structures perception and cognition, organizes linguistic systems, and underpins narrative and cultural forms. At the same time, it resists stable definition, being constantly reinterpreted through historical, social, and technological change.
Our conference will explore the multifaceted role of time in textual, linguistic, and cultural production, bringing together scholars from literary studies, linguistics, translation studies, and related disciplines to reflect on how temporal frameworks inform meaning-making, identity, and communication. The conference aims to foster dialogue between different approaches to time: theoretical and empirical, diachronic, and synchronic, human and more-than-human, as well as local and planetary.
How do languages encode temporal relations, and how do these linguistic patterns shape our understanding of the world? In what ways do literary and cultural narratives manipulate, compress, or expand time to produce particular aesthetic, emotional, or ideological effects? How do translation and interpretation negotiate temporal distance between texts, contexts, and audiences? In an era marked by ecological crisis, digital acceleration, and historical revision, questions of temporality have gained renewed urgency. The 2026 PASE Conference will provide a space for reflecting on these issues and for examining the diverse temporal dimensions of linguistic, narrative, and cultural practices.
We welcome contributions from a broad range of perspectives, including literary analysis, theoretical approaches, stylistics, sociolinguistics, discourse studies, and historical linguistics. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
In Literary and Cultural Studies:
- Narrative time in fiction, poetry, drama, and interactive media (e.g., video games)
- Temporal poetics and genre: historical fiction, modernist time, speculative time, dystopian futures
- The politics of time and identity: colonialism, modernity, trauma studies, queerness
- More-than-human temporalities: vegetal, animal, and fungal time in literature
- Temporality in critical theory (e.g., Bakhtin’s chronotope, queer temporality, deep time, planetary time)
- Representations of memory, nostalgia, and anticipation
- Time and affect: boredom, urgency, waiting, and crisis
- Non-linear storytelling and disrupted chronologies
- Indigenous ways of timekeeping
- Temporal aesthetics in film, media, and digital literature
- The Anthropocene and geological time in ecocriticism
In Linguistics:
- Tense, aspect, and modality across languages
- The linguistic encoding of time in narrative and conversation
- Historical change and language evolution
- Temporal expressions in pragmatics and semantics
- Cognitive approaches to time in language
- Sociolinguistic perspectives on time (e.g., temporality in online discourse, workplace communication)
- Time in metaphor, idioms, and conceptual grammar
- Temporal perspectives on language acquisition constructs
- Temporal dynamics of teacher development
In Translation Studies:
- Translation across historical periods
- Translation as historical intervention
- Retranslation as a response to temporal change
- Evolution of translation norms over time
- Temporal fidelity in translation
- Temporal ethics in translation practice
- Translation reception and temporal context
- Temporal aspects of the translation process
- Time constraints and translator decision-making
- New translations of literary works updated to suit contemporary conventions
- Reception of translation over time: revision and obsolescence
- Temporal distance between the source text and the target readership involving cultural explicitation
- Concepts of cyclical, linear, or fragmented time in literature and their translatability
- Comparative studies of translations across decades or centuries
We also welcome proposals for presentations and panels on a variety of topics, including those not directly related to the main theme of the conference, as long as they align with the broader goals of the event.
Submissions
A 300-word abstract and a brief bio note, including your affiliation, should be submitted as an email attachment to pase2026@ur.edu.pl by March 31, 2026.
Timeline
- Deadline for submission: March 31, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2026
Website and CFP
For more information, please visit https://www.ur.edu.pl/pl/konferencje/pase-2026-temporal-matters
Please also check the event original call inserted below.
(Posted 9 November 2025)