LLSSH-26 2026 - 50th PARIS International Conference on “Literature, Languages, Social Sciences & Humanities” (LLSSH-26) April 15-17, 2026 Paris (France)

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Category Literature, Languages, Social Sciences & Humanities

Deadline: March 20, 2026 | Date: April 15, 2026-April 17, 2026

Venue/Country: Paris, France

Updated: 2025-12-17 19:08:50 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Topics of interest for submission include any topics related to:

1. Literature and Cultural Studies

This area focuses on textual analysis, narrative, and the cultural context of artistic expression.

Contemporary & Comparative Literature:

Literature and Social Justice / Literature of the Oppressed.

Postcolonial and Decolonial Narratives (e.g., identity, displacement, diaspora).

World Literature and theories of transnationalism.

Reception Studies, Translation, and Adaptation of Texts (e.g., Poe in contemporary mass media).

Theory, Media, and Aesthetics:

Digital Humanities (DH): Computational Literary Analysis (Distant Reading), Text Mining, and corpus studies.

Media and Intermediality: Literature across platforms (e.g., gaming, film, graphic novels).

Trans-scriptions: Cultural codings and the poetics of the body (queer, trans, racialized, posthuman bodies).

Aesthetics of Contamination and bodily abjection in literature.

Historical Fictions and the deployment of emotions in political contexts.

Genre Studies and genealogy (e.g., weird fiction, horror, fantasy).

The Object(s) of Literature and Material Culture.

Renaissance Studies and Shakespearean scholarship.

Historical and Genre Studies:

2. Languages and Linguistics

This theme explores the structure, evolution, social context, and application of human language.

Applied Linguistics and Communication:

Discourse Analysis and Figurative Language.

Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology (e.g., linguistic change, language revitalization).

Language and Advertising / Mass Media Communication.

Pragmatics and Philosophy of Language.

Digital and Computational Linguistics:

Natural Language Processing (NLP), Semantic Analysis, and Machine Translation.

The role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in language creation, learning, and analysis.

Terminology, Ontology, and their applications.

Language evolution, historical linguistics, and philology.

The study of constructed, artificial, and secret languages.

Historical and Evolutionary Linguistics:

3. Social Sciences & Humanities (Interdisciplinary Focus)

These topics address broad societal challenges through combined disciplinary lenses, often with a focus on contemporary issues and ethical dimensions.

A. Global Challenges and Ethics

AI, Ethics, and Technology:

The intersection of AI, Art, and Ethics (e.g., copyright, creation, authenticity).

Digital Vigilantism and its legal and ethical implications.

Technology integration and ethical challenges in educational systems.

Civic, Political, and Global Studies:

Globalization Impacts and Border Studies.

Social Movements and their role in creating alternative futures.

Peace and Conflict Management / Conflict Zone Studies.

Political Sociology and the construction of narratives of belonging or otherness.

Ecology, Science, and Gender in literary/historical contexts.

Environmental Art Studies and the built environment.

Environmental Humanities:

B. Identity, Culture, and Society

Gender and Sexuality Studies:

Women and Gender Studies (e.g., feminism, equal pay, family research).

Sexuality Studies and gender issues across media and history.

Cultural Studies and History:

Popular Culture: Analyzing phenomena like fandoms, collecting, the 1980s, and Las Vegas representations.

Memory Studies: Historical fictions, memory, and forgetting.

Migration and Identity: Refugee studies, immigration, and issues of race, nation, and ethnicity.

Spatial Humanities: Using geospatial technologies (GIS) in historical, literary, and sociological research.

Digital Archives, digital curation, and the preservation of cultural heritage.

Spatial and Digital Humanities: