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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · 9h

Call for Contributions. Conference and workshops: History up for Debate: Literature, Storytelling and the Imagined Past. Location and dates: University of Salzburg. 12 July 2026. Deadline for proposal submissions: 2nd February 2026. #essecfp.
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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Call for Contributions. Irish Exceptionalism – annual SOFEIR (French Society of Irish Studies) conference. Location and dates: University of Strasbourg, 26-27 March 2026. Deadline for proposal submissions: 15 December 2025. #essecfp.
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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · 2d

The the call for the ESSE Book Awards 2026 has been published.
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ESSE Book Awards 2026 – ESSE

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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · 4d

Call for Contributions. Publication and issue: Lea – Quaderni di Lea. Transimperial Encounters: Networks of Cultural and Literary Exchange Between India and Europe, 1870-1947.
Deadline for proposal submissions: 8 June 2026. #essecfp.
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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · 5d

CFPs for ESSE 2026 Conference now open. The official Calls for posters, seminar papers and the Doctoral Symposium for the ESSE Conference 2026, held at University of Santiago de Compostela from 31st August to 4th September 2026 are now open. #essecfp. More:
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CFPs for ESSE 2026 Conference now open – The ESSE Messenger

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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · 5d

Call for Contributions. Austen Then & Now: A One-Day Symposium on Jane Austen’s Legacy. Location and date: The Egg Hall. 16 December 2025. Deadline for proposal submission: 1 November 2025. #essecfp.
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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · 7d

Call for Contributions. Conference: From Letters to E-mails: Epistolarity and Materiality (1500-2025). Location and dates: Université Paris-Est Créteil, France. 26-27 November 2026. Deadline for proposal submission: 6 January 2026. #essecfp.
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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · 12d

Call for Contributions. Publication and issue: The Cultural Imaginaries of (Dis)Trust. Literatūra, no. 68, Winter 2026. Deadline for proposal submission: 15 November 2025 (abstract, 300 words); 1 June 2026 (full chapter). #essecfp.
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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · 13d

Call for Contributions. Conference: Language and literature across the lifespan. Location and dates: University of Namur, Belgium. 11-12 December 2025. Extended deadline for proposal submission: 5 October 2025. #essecfp.
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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · 18d

Call for Contributions. Publication: Reading for Institutions: Literary Studies after the Institutional Turn. Series REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature. Abstract Deadline: 15 December 2025. Manuscript Deadline: 30 September 2026. #essecfp.
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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · 20d

Call for Contributions. Fourteenth Biennial MESEA Conference: Cultural Environments: Spheres, Ethnicity, Corporeality. Location and dates: Ionian University, Greece. 11-13 June 2026. #essecfp.
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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · 25d

Call for Contributions. IASIL 2026 Conference : Translating Ireland. Location and dates: Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU), Budapest. 6-10 July, 2026. #essecfp.
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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · 26d

Call for Contributions. International Conference part of the RoTEXTRA Project: Contemporary Perspectives in Translation Studies. Location and dates: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Faculty of Letters. 4-5 December 2025. #essecfp.
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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · 29d

Call for Contributions. Volume: Caring for the Other/ the particular others in 21st-century narratives. #essecfp.
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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · Sep 8

Call for Contributions. Conference: Languaging Crises Conference (LanCris). Location and dates: University of Helsinki, Finland. 4–5 March 2026. #essecfp.
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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · Sep 3

Call for papers. Panel on Afro-pessimism. Event: MLA annual conference, Toronto, 8-11 January 2026. Panel Organizer: Raphaël Lambert, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan. Deadline for submissions (about 300 words): 11 September 2025. Contact: <[email protected]> or <[email protected]>.

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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · Aug 29

Lexis – Journal in English Lexicology: New Issue.
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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · Aug 29

Call for Contributions. Publication: Bloomsbury Handbook to Kurt Vonnegut. #essecfp.
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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · Aug 28

Call for contributions. Conference: Trans-scriptions: Cultural Codings and the Poetics of the Body. Location and dates: University of Szczecin and the Institute of English Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland. 11-13 February 2026. #essecfp.
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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · Aug 20

Call for conference papers. Conference: Language and literature across the lifespan.
Location and dates: University of Namur, Belgium. 11-12 December 2025. #essecfp.
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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · Aug 19

Call for contributions. Publication: Frankensteinian Resonance: Transtemporal Reanimations in Fiction, Film, and Video. #essecfp.
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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · Aug 14

Call for Proposals. 21st International Hemingway Conference: Hemingway in Toronto. Location and dates: Toronto, Canada. 20-25 July 2026. #essecfp.
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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · Aug 8

Call for Papers. Conference: Disruption(s): Experimental Texts and Multimodal Literacies.
Organiser and dates: The Tunisian Association for English Language Studies (TAELS), Tunis, Tunisia. 21-22 November 2025. #essecfp.
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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · Aug 8

Call for Papers. Workshop: Historical Fiction in / and the Anthropocene. Organizer and dates: Historical Fictions Research Network. 29 November 2025. #essecfp.
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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · Jul 23

Call for Articles. Publication and issue: Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia, Irish Studies: Legacies and Futures. Special Issue 3/2026. #essecfp.
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