[Commlist] Call for Proposals: FILLM 30th Congress

this is to announce the 1st Call for Proposals for the 30th Congress of 
the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures 
(FILLM). The Congress will take place 8-11 December 2026 at Victoria 
University in Melbourne, Australia, following an extremely successful 
29th Congress at the University of Ghana in 2023.
The conference theme is 'Talking Country,' a theme that speaks against 
taking country for granted. Countries are vessels for languages and 
literatures, as well as fields of conflict in which cultures may 
confront, avoid, or obliterate each other. For many Indigenous 
epistemologies, country is a term of immense importance. It names a 
locus of profound responsibility that present cultures owe to their 
futures and pasts. Meanwhile, multicultural praxis often chafes at the 
norms of country and nation that would confine languages, literatures, 
and cultures to fixed points in space and time. This theme is a call to 
reflect on the importance of country, and to debate its entailments for 
our fields of study

We are looking for proposals for individual presentations, for curated 
panel sessions, for practice-focused workshops, and for organisational 
business meetings. If you would be interested to submit a proposal, 
please follow the links on the Congress webpage:
https://www.vu.edu.au/30th-FILLM-Congress.
The deadline for this 1st CfP is 30 September 2025.

Registration, travel, and accommodation information will be available on 
that same webpage in the coming months.

This 1st CfP has been scheduled early, particularly to enable 
participation from international colleagues and presenters who will be 
seeking funding support and/or visa approval to attend. Any proposal 
received by the 1st deadline, and which is approved by the scholarly 
peer review, is guaranteed to receive formal notice of approval no later 
than November 2025-allowing more than 12 months to make arrangements.


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