Seeing the Other Empire: British Travel Writing and Imperial Rivalry in Europe and the Near East, 1783–1914.
Host and dates: University of Strasbourg. 7 May 2026.
Deadline for submissions: 10 February 2026.
Venue details: MISHA – Salle de conference, 5 allée du Général Rouvillois, Strasbourg.
Event presentation
Though nineteenth-century British travellers could confidently claim their nation’s perceived superiority while in foreign lands, it was becoming obvious that other European nations were catching up. In particular, Russia and France, and, after 1870, Germany, started raising anxieties both for British politicians and travellers. On the other hand, the Ottoman Empire and Qajar Iran were believed to be declining and potentially destined for collapse.
This conference aims to interrogate some of the British visions of rival empires in Europe and the Near East in narrations written between 1783 and 1914. It would be interesting to analyse the practice of imagined colonialism, that is, how the British travellers cast a domineering gaze upon their imperial rivals when travelling in lands that were not colonies of the British crown. Travellers could project superiority while simultaneously revealing deep anxieties. At the same time, military, economic, industrial, cultural and religious rivalry could coexist with forms of cooperation.
We are looking for PhD students and early-career PhD researchers interested in an interdisciplinary approach to history. We ask that contributions engage with travel writings as primary sources. These must be written by British nationals about lands not under their colonial possession; we are particularly interested in contributions on British travel writing on France, Austria–Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and Iran, but other political entities in Europe and the Near East (but not the Far East) are welcome. Travel writings in British colonies like India are not included within the scope of this conference, and neither are books written by non-British travellers. While we encourage non-fiction travel books, discussions on fictional travel literature are also welcome, so long as the main angle of approach is historical and not purely literary. Relevant academic domains include world history, transimperial history, comparative empires, area studies, cultural studies and geopolitics.
Website address
https://search.unistra.fr/agenda/seeing-the-other-empire 
Contact details
- Arman Martirosyan a.martirosyan@unistra.fr
- Suheyla-Hacer Sahin suheyla.sahin@etu.unistra.fr
CFP
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CFP – Seeing the Other Empire, Strasbourg, May 7, 2026 and poster(Posted 24 November 2026. Updated 29 November 2026)
18th International IDEA Conference: “Studies in English”.
Host and dates: Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye. 13-15 May 2026.
Deadline for submissions: 15 December 2025.
Venue details: Beytepe Campus, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye.
Event organised by Hacettepe University, Department of English Language and Literature, Ankara, Türkiye
Event presentation
Founded in 2005, IDEA (English Language and Literature Research Association of Türkiye) is the Turkish national association for English studies. As the only professional association in Türkiye affiliated with ESSE (The European Society for the Study of English), IDEA aims at bringing together academics working in the fields of linguistics, literature, language teaching and cultural studies. The 18th IDEA Conference will be held on the basis of in-person participation and by the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University.
Scope. Our conference accepts papers in a wide range of topics from many different fields of “Studies in English.” We invite individual papers in the following general fields:
- English Literature
- Irish Studies
- Literatures in English
- Cultural and Critical Studies
- Linguistics
- English Language Teaching
- Translation Studies
Website address: https://idea18.hacettepe.edu.tr/en
Contact details: idea18hacettepe@gmail.com
CFP
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(Posted 7 November 2025)
BAS Conference, 34th edition: “Reconfiguring Borders and Boundaries in/through the Lens of Literature, Language and Culture”.
Host and dates: West University Timișoara, Romania. 14-16 May 2026.
Deadline for submissions: 15 February 2026.
Venue: West University Timișoara, Romania.
Organisers: English Department, Faculty of Letters, History, Philosophy and Theology, West University Timișoara
Presentation
Recent times have seen the creation of new borders and boundaries, such as those between humans and artificial intelligence, as well as the re-emergence of old ones, especially along nationalist, racial, ethnic, gender, class and religious divides. Such dynamics are connected to contemporary sociopolitical, cultural and technological transformations and crises, among which the wide reach of mis- and disinformation, the dissolution of trust in science and institutions, the rise of ethnonationalist populism and authoritarianism, the mainstreaming of exclusionary rhetoric, armed conflicts, environmental disasters and large movements of populations, to name but a few. At the same time, the duality of borders and boundaries, erected not only to separate, exclude or divide, but also to protect and cognitively map social reality (Tanulku & Pekelsma, 2024), prompts reflection on the potential contained therein for bridging and crossing over.
Borders are physical and territorial, while boundaries are symbolic, sociocultural and moral, productive of differentiation and hierarchization through practices of inclusion/exclusion and ordering (Lamont & Molnár, 2002; Tanulku & Pekelsma, 2024). Many scholars, however, consider them interrelated and mutually constitutive, or even use them interchangeably, depending on the context (Fischer, Achermann & Dahinden, 2020; Tanulku & Pekelsma, 2024; Yuval-Davis, Wemyss & Cassidy, 2019). The currently dominant approach to the study of borders and boundaries conceptualizes them as multiscalar, relational, processual and performative spaces and constructs, constantly made and remade, (re)produced but also challenged, in top-down and bottom-up practices, experiences and discourses, as sites of both governance and agency formation (Brambilla et al., 2015; Fischer, Achermann & Dahinden, 2020; Paasi, 2013; Tanulku & Pekelsma, 2024; Yuval-Davis, Wemyss & Cassidy, 2019). To bring these aspects into relief, the concepts of ‘bordering,’ ‘boundary making’ or ‘boundary work’ have been introduced and used alongside, and even instead of, the more static ‘borders’ and ‘boundaries.’ In a broad sense, bordering and boundary work involve, beyond nation-states and their transformation in a global world, other types of space (global cities, rural areas, frontiers, peripheries, public/private), identification practices (belonging, otherness, intersectionality), time (past/present/future), politics (ideological boundaries), disciplines, and so on.
A non-comprehensive list of the theoretical insights that inform the study of borders and boundaries encompasses the following: the socially constructed nature of space and its embeddedness in power relations (Lefebvre, 1991; Massey, 1994; Soja, 1996) and struggles across global, regional and local scales (Brenner, 2001; Jessop, 2002; Mahler & Pessar, 2003); the fragmentation, fluidity, hybridization and performativity of identities (Bhabha, 1994; Butler, 1990; Hall, 1997); the articulation of belonging and citizenship across transnational networks and flows through physical, virtual, imaginary and affective co-presence, but also simultaneous inclusion in one space and exclusion from another (Ahmed, 2003; Baldassar, 2008; Levitt & Glick Schiller, 2004; Vertovec, 2009; Yuval-Davis, 2011); the formation of inequality and oppression across multiple, intersecting axes (Crenshaw, 1989); the global (im)mobilities of people, objects, communication technologies, information, images and money (Urry, 2007); governmentality, biopolitics (Foucault, 1977-1979) and necropolitics (Mbembe, 2006). Due to the complexity of bordering and boundary making, their research has fostered inter- and transdisciplinary dialogue, with contributions from the humanities gaining increasing weight over time (Brambilla et al., 2015; Paasi, 2013; Wilson & Hastings, 2012). Borders and boundaries are symbolically construed, (re)produced, negotiated, performed, mediated in literary and cultural discourses, in social and public imaginaries and narratives, in artistic creations and installations, in multilingual encounters, translations, linguistic change, discursive stances, positionings and interactions.
Confirmed Plenary Speakers:
- Prof. Robert Asen, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Prospects for Democracy in an Authoritarian Age – A Rhetorical Approach
- Prof. Steven Conn, Miami University: Landscapes of Loss
- Prof. Elisabetta Marino, University of Rome Tor Vergata: Crossing Borders, Defying Boundaries: Women Travel Writers in the Victorian Age
- Prof. Ruxandra Vișan, University of Bucharest: Rethinking Linguistic Boundaries: Representations of Gender-Inclusive Language
Presentations (20 min) are invited in the following sections:
- Language Studies
- Translation Studies
- Discourse and Rhetorical Studies
- British and Commonwealth Literature
- American Literature
- Cultural Studies
- Gender Studies
- English Language Teaching
ROUND TABLE: CRISIS IN THE HUMANITIES/ HUMANITIES IN CRISIS
WORKSHOP: RETHINKING TOOLS FOR QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN LEGAL TRANSLATION
Website address
British and American Studies Conference
Contact details
CFP
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(Posted 4 November 2025)
The Poetics and Politics of Literary Assemblages in the Anglosphere: An International Conference.
Host and dates: University of Málaga, Spain. 18-20 May 2026.
Deadline for submissions: 19 January 2026 (extended deadline).
Event organised by The Research Project “Re-Orienting Assemblage Theory in Anglophone Literature and Culture (RELY)” (PID2022-137881NB-I00), and Dept. of English, French and German at the University of Málaga.
Venue details: Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Education, University of Málaga.
Event presentation
Ever since the publication of Deleuze and Guattari’s seminal A Thousand Plateaus (1980), the concept of assemblage has received wide attention, mainly due to its protean ability to challenge, disrupt and question received societal and cultural mores anchored in tradition and in linear perceptions of reality. However, this conference aims to re-evaluate the impact and potentialities that assembled thinking has to offer to 21st-century literary practices. This re-assessment coincides with what we perceive as a renewed critical interest in the indeterminate and versatile philosophical notion of assemblage. This resurgence may be understood as a response to the messy, fluid, and multidirectional realities of contemporary social life. Following Ben Anderson and Colin McFarlane, we contend that assemblage is most productively conceptualised as open-ended and generative, and that its theoretical malleability ought to be embraced rather than constrained (126). This orientation invites us to explore the creative methodological possibilities that emerge when we ‘think with assemblages’. Originating as a philosophical construct in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972), the concept has, as Ian Buchanan argues, evolved into a global theory, though in the process it has “drifted along the way from its origins” (Assemblage 155). Such drift has opened space for relational approaches that reconceptualise ecological, material, and spatiotemporal knowledge not as discrete units but as dynamic, collaborative configurations. To think with assemblage, therefore, is to engage with entanglements as shifting constellations of relations, systems, and interdependencies. Relational approaches such as Bruno Latour’s actor-network theory (2005), Karen Barad’s intra-action (2007), Jane Bennett’s vital materialism (2010), or Stacy Alaimo’s transcorporeality (2014) all gesture towards this orientation, and together they reframe assemblages as a rightful metaphor to attend to the ever-changing webs of forces, agencies, and flows that transform and sustain life. Attending a narrative through the lens of assemblage thus allows us to perceive social, cultural, and ecological transformation as emergent, multi-voiced, and always in process.
This Conference therefore seeks to engage with assemblage in literary and cultural works through multiple perspectives, including temporal assemblages and assemblages of memory; assemblages of matter and sensorial assemblages; (inter)human assemblages and assemblages of health; spatial assemblages; and textual assemblages. A crucial dimension of our approach is the emphasis on care as a connective principle within assemblages. To think about assemblages through the lens of care is to resist models that privilege autonomy or discrete entities, and instead to recognise vulnerability, reciprocity, and maintenance as central forces within cultural, social, and ecological systems. In this way, care is the major connective thread across the four main clusters that we present here, transversally connecting literary and cultural renderings of ecologies, embodiment, representation, and temporalities. The four clusters are as follows: reassembling temporalities, spaces, and borders; ecologies and entanglements in more-than-human worlds; bodies, minds, and medical humanities; identity, intersectionality, and the politics of representation.
We invite interested scholars to submit theoretical reflections, case studies, comparative analyses, and other contributions. We welcome proposals from researchers at all career stages. Please submit your proposal to the organising committee at literaryassemblage@gmail.com by 19 January 2026. Each proposal will include the title, an abstract of up to 300 words, plus a short bio note.
Confirmed plenary speakers:
- John McLeod (University of Leeds)
- Margarita Estévez Saá (University of Santiago de Compostela)
- Xavier Aldana Reyes (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Co-chairs:
- Professor Rosario Arias
- Dr. María Magdalena Flores Quesada
Website address
Contact details
CFP
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(Posted 5 December 2025)
Borders: Literary, Cultural and Political Dialogues.
Host and dates: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Hellenic Association for the Study of English (HASE). Athens, Greece. 18-21 May 2026.
Deadline for submissions: 30 January 2026.
Event organised by The Department of English Language & Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Hellenic Association for the Study of English (HASE)
Event presentation
The Department of English Language & Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Hellenic Association for the Study of English (HASE) are inviting proposals for individual papers and panels to be presented at the international interdisciplinary conference – “Borders: Literary, Cultural and Political Dialogues” – taking place in Athens, Greece, 18-21 May 2026.
It is a fact that the world has been increasingly subject to border reinforcement since the major events of the 20th century, such as the two world wars and the dissolution of colonial governance across various territories as well as of the Soviet Union. The continuous bolstering of the US-Mexico border wall since President Bush’s post-9/11 Secure Fence Act in 2006, Brexit and the redefinition of Europe’s borders, Covid-19 and the reappearance of invisible borders, the Syrian refugee crisis, the wars in Ukraine, Gaza, Lebanon and Sudan, and most recently, Trump’s annexation threats at Greenland, Canada and Panama are only a few of the historical, political and social realities which influenced the physical (re)construction and (re)arrangement of borders as well as helped to shape the way borders are perceived, thought and imagined.
This has resulted in an abundance of critical work within Border Studies and the generation of a plurality of terms and concepts, offering valuable ontological, epistemological and methodological categories for the study of borders in an attempt to move from the view of borders as lines in the sand which separate territories towards approaches which entail an acknowledgement of the border’s complexity, processual dimension and methodological potentiality in political discourses (Critical Border Studies). Simultaneously, a wealth of artistic and literary work which variously engages the topic of borders is joining these critical discussions, acknowledging not only the aesthetic dimension of the border but also the crosscurrents between borders and culture more generally (Cultural Border Studies).
The present vicissitudes of a world confronted with instability, fear, violence and injustice urgently call for reflection on the histories, conceptualizations, theorizations and representations of borders and border politics. In response to this, the Department of English Language and Literature (NKUA) and HASE are inviting contributions from relevant academic disciplines (Literary Studies; Arts; Cultural Studies; Philosophy; Geopolitics; History; Law; Sociology; Anthropology) as well as from artists, practitioners and activists. Through this conference, we seek to offer a space for experimental and innovative approaches to borders as well as for a critical dialogue which will unravel the complexity and multifariousness of borders across time and space.
Possible topics include, but are not restricted to, the following:
- border types: national; imperial; religious; cultural; racial; political; economic; class; gender; sexual
- metaphorical and conceptual borders
- border poetics; border-crossing narratives
- form and borders; genres as borders
- borders and/in drama
- adaptation and intertextuality as border crossings
- migration narratives; migrant art; migration and translation
- borders and language; transborder linguistics; translanguage/translanguaging
- translation as border crossing; bilingualism or plurilingualism as border crossing
- geopolitical borders: mapping, surveying, securitization, digitization
- geopolitics and biopolitics
- borders and sovereignty; state and imperial formation
- empire and colonization
- border-crossing and decolonial politics
- transnational interaction; transcultural dialogue; cross-cultural diplomacy
- the meaning of community; borders and home; borders and national identity
- embodied experiences; emotions; bodies at/as borders; borders as bodies
- border materiality; border consistency
- borders as architecture; the limit in architecture
- borders and art: border art; art as border-crossing
- border epistemologies; conceptual and/or terminological categories
- philosophical interrogations: the border; the limit; the boundary; the edge
Submissions are welcome from affiliated scholars (MA and PhD students, Postdoctoral researchers and academics at any stage of their career), independent scholars, community researchers, activists, practitioners and artists, working on borders from any relevant disciplinary field. The language of the conference is English and it will be held entirely on-site. Power Point presentations will be supported and we are happy to discuss the possibility of non-traditional presentation formats where relevant or necessary.
Proposals
Please submit your proposal to borders2026@enl.uoa.gr in one single document including the following:
- Name, email, and affiliation (if applicable)
- A brief bio (max. 150 words)
- Title of presentation
- Abstract (max. 200 words for an individual paper and max. 300 words for a panel)
- 3-5 keywords
Timeline
- Abstract submission deadline: Friday, 30 January 2026
- Notification of acceptance: Friday, 6 February 2026
Conference website
https://new.enl.auth.gr/hase/borders2026/
Contact
For any queries, please contact:
- Angelos Evangelou and
- Vassiliki Markidou at borders2026@enl.uoa.gr
(Posted 29 November 2025)
5th Biennial John Dos Passos Society Conference.
Host and dates: John Dos Passos Society. 20-23 May 2026.
Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2026.
Venue details: John Dos Passos Society; Ponta do Sol, Madeira, Portugal.
Event presentation
The John Dos Passos Society hereby announces its 2026 biennial conference in Madeira, Portugal. We invite abstracts for twenty-minute presentations dealing with any aspect of Dos Passos’s life and works, including comparative approaches.
For consideration, please send an abstract of 250-300 words and a brief CV to conference organizers Bernardo de Vasconcelos and Rosa María Bautista-Cordero at givascob@staff.uma.pt and rosa.bautista@uam.es by February 1, 2026. The conference language is English. For further information, please see the full announcement at the John Dos Passos Society website.
Website address
https://johndospassossociety.org
Contact details
(Posted 14 November 2026)
Prosody at the crossroads of disciplinary pathways: Prosody and voice quality.
Host and dates: Université Grenoble Alpes, France. 21-22 May 2026.
Deadline for submissions: 16 February 2026.
Venue details
Université Grenoble Alpes (France), Saint-Martin-d’Hères campus, IMAG building.
Event presentation
This conference seeks to offer an interdisciplinary perspective on prosody, traditionally defined as encompassing intonation, rhythm, and accentuation. We also intend to include voice quality in the program alongside the established categories of stress and intonation so as to encourage discussion on the nature of prosodic features.
The aim of this project is to foster collaboration between researchers to address prosodic models, assessment methods and the interfaces between prosody and other linguistic domains.
Keynote speakers
- Eugenia San Segundo, Materials Science Institute of Madrid – CSIC
- Felix Schaeffler, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
- Radek Skarnitzl, Charles University, Prague
- Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow
Submissions
Submissions must include a title and a one-page anonymous abstract (excluding references), and be submitted through SciencesConf at: https://ugaprosody2026.sciencesconf.org/submission/submit, by February 6, 2026.
Oral Presentations will consist of 30-minute presentations followed by 10-minute question and discussion sessions. Posters should be prepared in Portrait format with a maximum size of A0.
Instructions for submission can be found here: Make a new submission – documentation.
Website address
Prosody at the crossroads of disciplinary pathways – Sciencesconf.org
Contact details
- Stephan WILHELM (stephan.wilhelm@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr) and
- Dan FROST (daniel.frost@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr), Université Grenoble Alpes
CFP
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(Posted 23 April 2025)
The circulation of textile designs, patterns, skills and representations in early modern Europe.
Host and dates: Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse (France), 21-23 May 2026.
Deadline for submissions: 15 September 2025.
Event presentation
This interdisciplinary conference is part of a joint project initiated by the Università L’Orientale, Naples (Italy), and the Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse (France), and entitled “Textiles and the texture of ideas in early modern Europe (1589-1801): How the craft and its products interacted with philosophy, literature and the visual arts”. It will be held at the Université de Haute-Alsace from 21st to 23rd May 2026″. It follows up on a conference hosted by the Unviversità L’Orientale in September 2025. We invite papers with a focus on the interaction between the material and the immaterial aspects of the craft of weaving, approached from various angles, in the early modern period. The aim is to explore aspects of the interactions between textile manufacturing and its products and the individual or collective imagination, intellectual life as well as the ‘world picture’ and mental representations in the early modern period. We welcome interdisciplinary papers at the crossroads of, but not limited to, any ones of the following: cultural history, social history, microhistory, history of ideas or intellectual history, the history of technology, philosophy, linguistics, literary studies, material studies, visual arts studies, crafts, aesthetics, memorial studies, intermedial studies.
Submissions
Please send your paper proposals in English (300 words approximately) as well as a short biography to
- Anna Maria Cimitile (amcimitile@unior.it) and
- Laurent Curelly (laurent.curelly@uha.fr)
by 15 September 2025.
Responses to paper proposals will be given by 15 October 2025.
Contact details
Laurent Curelly, Université de Haute-Alsace, laurent.curelly@uha.fr
CFP
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(Posted 13 July 2025)
Interdisciplinary Conference: “Disaster Nationalism” and Present-day Europe.
Host and dates: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Prague. 22 and 23 May 2026.
Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2026.
Event presentation
By the late twentieth century, nationalisms across much of the West seemed in abeyance. The demise of the bipolar world order in 1989-1991 heralded new arrangements of political and social identity to such an extent that Francis Fukyama was to propose, somewhat prematurely, that “the end-point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government” (4) was within view. In Europe, the Yugoslav wars notwithstanding, the European Union promised a cosmopolitan supranationalism which while intermittently contested, has altered how the peoples of the nations within the bloc experience everyday life, mobility, culture and bureaucracy. The EU seemed to mitigate the potential of violent nationalist conflicts, and produce spaces for compromise and co-operation as was most evident in the case of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland.
More generally, nationalisms, whether cultural or political, by the end of the twentieth century were impacted by the burgeoning force of globalization and in this zone new pressures, challenges and antagonisms surfaced. Dani Rodrik argues in The Globalization Paradox, that this led to “the fundamental political trilemma of the world economy: we cannot simultaneously pursue democracy, national determination, and economic globalization” (xviii). Only two of these elements, he suggests, fully function at any given time, resulting in frictions in the concept and consequences of globalization.
It is in this context that we are now witnessing the spectacular return of nationalism(s) to global politics and public discourse. Stuart Hall and Doreen Massey describe a “conjuncture” as “a period during which the different social, political, economic and ideological contradictions that are at work in society come together to give it a specific and distinctive shape” (57). The factors contributing to this conjuncture are complex and multiple. Following the global recession of 2008/9, it has become increasingly clear that, despite small-scale revivals of traditional forms of ethnic nationalism, the resurgent nationalism significantly differs from its nineteenth- and twentieth-century precursors. This is not only caused by the rapid development of mass communication (especially Internet advertising, social networks and profiling of their clients) that has opened democracy to manipulations by marketing strategies and disinformation, but chiefly by the transformation of nationalism itself. Instead of its former ethnic, racial, cultural or even civic forms, the contemporary version, prominent in the U.S. or U.K., as well as India, Brazil or the Philippines, is a fluid and ever-mobile convocation of contrarian views that have been provocatively called “disaster nationalism” by Richard Seymour.
Seymour maps how “disaster nationalism” originates in deepening feelings of crisis and precarity, ecological, economic and political, which spreads at speed through social and virtual networks. To the expanding number of people across different classes it offers
“compensation in superiority” and fictions of renewed social unity in the return to equally fictional homogeneous ethnic national communities. Integrating catastrophic and post catastrophic narratives, it represents the downfall of democratic civilization as a thrilling and hopeful moment of social history, presented as a promise of new stability and order. Understanding nationalism in the 21st century demands a new analytic framework that recognizes diverse forms of nationalism, as well as the harnessing of nationalism for imperial aims by Putin’s Russia. The conference will attempt to initiate an interdisciplinary dialogue comparing the impact of “disaster nationalism” on different European regions and their recent transformations, with a particular focus on cultural and artistic responses to nationalist discourse. The suggested areas of interest are:
- Devolution of the U.K. and Brexit
- Expansion of populism in Western and Central Europe
- Opposition to sub-state nationalism in the EU countries (e.g., Catalonia, Flanders)
- Putin’s dictatorship and its effort to redraw the political map of Europe – Disasters as opportunities: political strategy, opportunism, and myth-making – Conduits of new nationalisms: digital media and political discourse – Solidarity practices in cultural spaces
- Gender, sexuality, and new nationalist agendas
- Resonances of identity conflicts fomented by new forms of nationalism in literature, theatre, visual arts and the new media
Contributions are welcome focusing on identity conflicts fomented by new forms of nationalism and their resonances in literature, theatre, visual arts and new media. Apart from identity conflicts, the preferred focus of contributions are diverse sources and practices of resilience, chiefly against the apocalyptic, violent and retaliatory tendencies of what Seymour labels “disaster nationalism.”
Keynote speakers:
- Professor Luba Jurgenson (Université Paris-Sorbonne, Department of Slavic Studies)
- Professor Murray Pittock (University of Glasgow)
Abstracts of presentations (300 words, 20 min. maximum) and round table proposals (90 minutes, containing the names and affiliations of speakers, and their topics) should be submitted by 31 January 2026 at martin.prochazka@ff.cuni.cz. Registration will open on 1 March 2026.
CFP
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(Posted 10 July 2025)