omission /???m??.?n/
the act of not including somebody/something or not doing something;
the fact of not including something that should have been included
— Oxford Learner’s and Cambridge Dictionaries
Throughout the history of humanity, we are constantly recording, documenting, remembering. We catalog on cave walls, on wax tablets and wooden boards, on animal skins, on paper, and now, on el
Beauty and the Revival of Faith will take place on 8-10 May, 2026, at the Archbishop’s Palace, Southwell, Nottingham, U.K.
This event is centred on hope, renewal, and revival. It is an interdisciplinary conference designed to bring together academics, artists, and scholars working in art history, literature, aesthetics, religious and church history, philosophy, and theology. We seek to encourage comparative conversations that examine art, architecture
International T. S. Eliot Society Un-Conference
The International T. S. Eliot Society’s hosting a two-day, virtual symposium open to all members free of charge (registration is required, please see information below). Rather than a traditional conference featuring several panels of 20-minute scholarly presentations, this symposium will consist of two ninety-minute sessions (one each day) that will emphasize discovery and conversation while promoting work in progress and communit
Call for Papers: Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture after 1900
The International T. S. Eliot Society will sponsor a panel at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture after 1900 (in person, Feb. 19-21). We will consider proposals on any topic relating to T. S. Eliot’s life, work, and influence. If you are interested in attending in person, please send a proposal of about 300 words and a brief bio to dickeyf@missouri.edu by Decembe
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
for a topical issue of Open Philosophy
KANT'S CONCEPT OF SPONTANEITY AND ITS LEGACY IN LATER THEORIES OF SUBJECTIVITY
(second call)
Open Philosophy (https://www.degruyterbrill.com/opphil) invites submissions for the topical issue "Kant's Concept of Spontaneity and its Legacy in Later Theories of Subjectivity," edited by Jessica Segesta (University of Palermo, Italy) and Valentina Dafne De Vita (University of Halle-W
Call for Abstracts
Postcolonial Interventions in association with Centre for Studies in Gender, Culture and Media, West Bengal State University and the Department of English, Sister Nivedita University invites abstracts for an international conference on Indian Writing in English to be held in Sister Nivedita University, New Town, West Bengal on 13-14 March 2026.
Indian Writing in English in the 21st Century: Negotiations, Resistance and Alte
Call for Papers 1/2026
Sophia: Ricerche sui fondamenti e la correlazione dei saperi
God in Early Modern Philosophy (16th—18th Centuries)
Among its many fields of inquiry, Early Modern Philosophy devotes significant attention to the problem of God — a crucial theme, given that the early modern era was marked by the great European conflict of the wars of religion. Whether in relation to the proble
Copyright and Intellectual Property Area
As our day-to-day lives depend increasingly on creating “content, the often misunderstood rules of copyright and intellectual property have an important effect on us. The Copyright and Intellectual Property area seeks to foster an interdisciplinary discussion about the tumultuous cultural battle raging over how we understand the production and distribution of knowledge.
For 2026, we especially invite submissions that explor
CALL FOR PAPERS
Flannery O’Connor Society
American Literature Association
Annual Conference May 20-23, 2026
Palmer House Hilton | Chicago, IL
The Flannery O’Connor Society invites abstracts (of no more than 250 words) for open topic presentations at the annual conference of the American Literature Association. (https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/).
Possible paper topics include, but a
Hemispheric Confluences: Translation Across the Americas
One-day Symposium February 6, 2026, Boca Raton, FL
Sponsored by Florida Atlantic University’s Study of the Americas Initiative
Keynote Speaker
Kaiama L. Glover, PhD, award-winning translator of francophone fiction and non-fiction, scholar of Francophone literature, translation and Professor of Black Studies at Yale Unive
See website for all details about the conference and the project.
https://vorming.protestant.link/project-radical-thinking-and-the-concept-of-truth/
Since 1988, The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature has published material relevant to the life, works, and friends of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Yearling and many other widely respected and beloved works, including Cross Creek, Cross Creek Cookery, South Moon Under, and Golden Apples.
The guest editor of the JFL, Ashley Reese, would like to invite submissions of critical articles that
Spectral Boundaries: Gender and Sexuality in Asian Horror Cinema
Dr. Soumyarup Bhattacharjee
In recent years, Asian horror cinema has attained an unprecedented scale of visibility and acclaim. With the changing modes of accessibility and the rise of streaming culture, Asian horror cinema has become a ubiquitous presence among horror lovers, and today it is more easily available for viewing than ever before. J-Horror franchises such as the Ringu and Ju-On did not only introduce
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IberLEF 2026 -- Call for Task Proposals
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IberLEF (the Iberian Language Evaluation Forum) is a shared evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing systems in Spanish and other Iberian languages, whose 2026 edition will be held as part of the 42th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN). The 2026 edition of the SEPLN conference will take pla
VOLUME 20 (2026) | Literary Borders and Clandestinity. Plagiarism, Forgeries and Apocryphal Texts in 19th-Century Europe
Edited by Michele Morselli
CALL FOR PAPERS - ENG
The new issue of Rilune (vol. 20, Dec. 2026) seeks to revisit the notion of literary clandestinity in 19th-century Europe, to highlight the international circulation of texts and imaginations at the dawn of contemporary literature.
We are pleased to invite submissions of abstracts and full chapters for the forthcoming edited volume titled "Imaginary Spiritual Homes: Eastern Spiritualities and Peripheral Modernisms under State Socialism". With this volume, we aim to explore how “Eastern spirituality—encompassing diverse traditions originating in Asia, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism—shaped the artistic practices and visual expressions of artists working under post-1945 social
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 s
Texts and Practices in Contemporary Trans and Queer Autotheory
Deadline for submissions: 15th of December 2025.
Guest editors: Salomé Honório (University of Lisbon) and Lamiae Bouquentar (University of Toronto).
In recent years, autotheory has emerged as a potent literary and critical practice that fuses personal narrative with theoretical reflection, one that resi
Call for Submissions: Special Issue of Forum on Identity and Contingency: When Who We Are Shapes What We Do
Forum: Issues about Part-Time and Full-Time Contingent Faculty is a peer-reviewed journal published by NCTE and CCCC to address working conditions, professional life, activism, and perspectives of non-tenure-track faculty.
This special issue will be published in the fall of 2026. The submission deadline is J
Call for Papers American Literature Association (ALA) 2026, Chicago
The American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) plans to offer two panels.
One panel, “Teaching with Humor will explore, through specific examples, how humor, in its many forms—literary, visual, performative—can enhance the learning process and make it vivid and more engaging. The panel will examine the multiple ways that teachers in disciplines su
Today, all countries that were colonized by France have gained their independence, yet discussions about its legacy continue. Many films, documentaries, literary works, speeches, and critical writings contribute to the ongoing conversation about liberty and justice in relation to independence. A 2024 documentary produced by Wandrille Lanos, titled Haïti, la rançon de l'indépendance, explores how liberty and justice were interpreted during Haiti’s struggle for independ
Graduate Student Call for Papers/Proposals: Ekphrasis: An Art History Graduate Journal
Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University
Inaugural issue to be published Spring 2026
All submissions are due by January 20, 2026 to tufts.ekphrasis.journal@gmail.com. Please include the relevant section title (Academic Essay, Book Review, or Exhibition Highlight) in the subject line of your email submission.
Ekphrasis is an online s
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International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’26)
June 29 — July 3, 2026, Coimbra, Portugal
Submissions through: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=iccc26
Computational Creativity (CC) is a field rooted in scientific disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Engineering, Design, Psychology, and Philosophy, each of which explores the
Rebels with a Cause: Girls Gone Wild
This panel examines how transgressive girls (and women) on the Italian screen bend and break societal expectations in a Catholic cisheteropatriarchal capitalist world.
We welcome analyses of representations of nonconformist girls (and women) in the work of Elvira Notari, Annabella Miscuglio, Lina Mangiacapre, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Marco Risi, Alina Marazzi, Alice Rohrwacher, Ferzan &
Call for Papers: Society for the Study of American Women Writers at ALA
American Literature Association, 37th Annual Conference, May 20-23, 2026, The Palmer House Hilton, 17 East Monroe Street, Chicago, IL 60603
SSAWW at 25: Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures
The Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) invites paper proposals for a panel that builds on our 2025 conf
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