[Commlist] CFP: Media Archaeology & Literary Studies Conference

We warmly invite proposals for the international academic conference 
*/Media Archaeology & Literary Studies/*, hosted by the Department of 
Comparative Literature, Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian 
University. The conference will be held in Kraków on *8–10 September 
2026*. The event aims to foster exchange between scholars working in 
media archaeology and literary studies, in both theoretical and 
practice-oriented contexts. We welcome contributions from a wide range 
of fields, including literary studies, media studies, comparative 
literature, theatre and performance studies, cultural studies, and history.


*Suggested areas of inquiry include:***

  * Media archaeology and literary studies: research aims and areas;
    theoretical inspirations; tools, methods, perspectives, and research
    trajectories
  * Media archaeology as literary study, literary study as media
    archaeology: literary sources in media archaeology; media in
    literature; literature as a medium; the medium as a metaphor; topos
    studies (E. Huhtamo)
  * Literary / media practices and materialities: material dimensions of
    literature; tools and techniques of inscribing and recording;
    literary and reading practices; remediation; intermediality;
    transmediality; circuits of literature and media; the culture of
    attractions
  * Literary and technological imagination: alternative and speculative
    media histories; dead and imaginary media; literary expressions of
    technological hopes and anxieties; historical media ecologies
  * Senses and prostheses: the senses in literature and media; histories
    and theories of mediating vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch;
    sensory experience in reading and media use; sensuous theory; media
    archaeology and literary studies in relation to disability studies
  * Media old and new: media-archaeological thinking (J. Parikka) in
    reflections on new media and contemporary literature
  * Media and literature in artistic practice and cultural animation:
    media art; curatorial and educational practices


We also welcome proposals that fall within the conference’s thematic 
scope but are not explicitly listed among the suggested topics.


The languages of the conference will be Polish and English. The duration 
of a presentation should not exceed twenty minutes.


Submissions: Please send abstracts (up to 300 words) along with short 
bios to: *(media.lit.conference /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(media.lit.conference /at/ gmail.com)>***

Submission deadline: *March 31, 2026***

Conference fee: 250 PLN / 65 EUR / 70 USD


Organizing Committee:

Agnieszka Pałucka, MA – (agnieszka.palucka /at/ doctoral.uj.edu.pl) 
<mailto:(agnieszka.palucka /at/ doctoral.uj.edu.pl)>

Bartosz Nowak, MA – (bj.nowak2 /at/ uw.edu.pl) <mailto:(bj.nowak2 /at/ uw.edu.pl)>


Academic Committee:

Professor Magdalena Siwiec

Professor Roma Sendyka

Professor Małgorzata Radkiewicz

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