ICOM – International Conference on Multimodality

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29-31 October 2025 | House of Connections, Grote Markt 21, Groningen
Following the very successful 11th ICOM in London, we’re happy to share that the next ICOM will be held at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. The 12th International Conference on Multimodality will take place on 29-31 October 2025, in Groningen!
This year’s theme is ‘The Multimodal Multiverse!’ The field of multimodality is diverse and colourful, with plenty of research methods, approaches, and areas of interest. All share a common interest: meaning and its creation in communicative situations. In Groningen, we want to acknowledge this unity in diversity.

Dag van de Historische Nederlandse Letterkunde

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vrijdag 28 november 2025 | Conferentiecentrum Soeterbeeck
Crisis is tegenwoordig een buzz-woord. Overal om ons heen zijn crises te ontwaren: een klimaatcrisis, een woningcrisis, een migratiecrisis, een stikstofcrisis. Maar wanneer is iets een crisis? En, vooral: wat doe je eraan? Tijdens deze eerste Dag van de Historische Nederlandse Letterkunde buigen we ons over het thema crisis. Verkeert ons vakgebied in een staat van crisis? Zo ja, wat kunnen we eraan doen? Hoe bestuderen we zelf crises uit het verleden en welke specifieke inzichten kan de historische letterkunde ons opleveren?

Call for Applications: CLIC Grant Writing Residency

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Application deadline: 31 July 2025 
CLIC is happy to announce four short (1-2 months) paid Grant Writing Residencies in the period August-December 2025. Candidates will spend the Residency preparing postdoctoral fellowship applications for the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO) and/or Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA).

Are you an early-career postdoctoral researcher (max. 6 years post-PhD) with a background in literary studies, theatre studies, journalism studies, translation studies, or related disciplines? Are you eager to start the next step of your academic career in the coming year? Then consider applying for a Grant Writing Residency to prepare your next postdoc project with CLIC! 

Symposium: “Global Readers, Global Novels?”

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23 October 2025 | Maastricht University
Together, these panels engage with central questions in the study of reading today: How is literature used to make sense of the world and one’s place in it? How do collective reading practices shape identity, community, belonging and resistance? What forms of knowledge do readers produce, and how can scholars account for them methodologically and ethically? And how might collaborations between academics and practitioners help us better understand the role of literature in contemporary life?

CfA Seasonal School Literature and Culture as Practices of Care

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CHARM DOCTORAL SCHOOLS SEASONAL SCHOOL 2025 LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES IN HEALTH HUMANITIES LITERATURE AND CULTURE AS PRACTICES OF CARE Ghent, 27-29 August 2025 Venue: Museum dr. Guislain, Jozef Guislainstraat 43B, 9000 Ghent. In recent decades, literary and cultural studies have secured a rightful place within the (Critical) Medical and Health Humanities. Initially, literary studies […]

Soapbox 7.0: call for papers: Between Bodies and Homes

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— peer reviewed; open to critical and artistic work; submission deadline: April 30; extended proposals — To feel like we belong is one of our most common desires. Our bodily relation to home is not a simple one: it is marked by hostile power structures. These structures plunge the body into an interconnected web of demarcations, mediations, and […]

Open Call – Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings – Issue 11.1 (Spring 2026)

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The Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (ISSN 2506-8709) offers an online publication platform to researchers who wish to explore various aesthetic ‘crossings’ concerning media, genres and/or spaces. Targeted squarely at investigating the ‘in-between,’ the journal seeks contributions from scholars broadly covering medial, literary, generic, spatial and cultural crossings that bridge a plurality of potential discourses, modalities, and methodologies. We particularly welcome articles focusing on e.g. intra-, inter- and transmedial phenomena, hypermedia, genre hybridization and mixing, (inter-/cross-)cultural exchange, networks, interactions, contact zones, entanglements, cross-border movements, multilingualism, transnationality, topographies, etc. JLIC publishes two issues a year and has a running open call. 

Summer School Creative Writing at Maastricht University

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Tiele-scriptieprijs 2023

21 July – 1 August 2025 | Maastricht University
Would you like to hone your creative writing skills? This two-week, intensive course provides you with the tools and knowledge to put your creative ideas on paper, through hands-on workshops and classes on literary skills such as pacing, plot, and narration. You’ll even receive insight into the publishing world and expert feedback on a first draft of your own short story.

Meet the Editor at VUB: PMLA, 20-21 May 2025

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20-21 May 2025 | Brussel, Belgium

Registrations are now open for “Meet the Editor at VUB: PMLA”!

Meet the Editor of PMLA, Brent Hayes Edwards, at VUB, 20-21 May 2025! Join a panel discussion on academic publishing in the humanities, a workshop (VUB early career scholars only), and a public lecture entitled “Editing Diaspora: Translating Black Culture across Borders”.

Inaugural Max Nänny Lecture

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28 March 2025 | University of Amsterdam
This lecture is organized by IAWIS (International Association of Word and Image Studies) in collaboration with the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA, https://asca.uva.nl), specifically the ASCA Word & Image research group.