[Commlist] CFP - 47th Annual conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies

Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos - APEAA
University of Aveiro
47th Annual Conference
28th - 30th April, 2027
47APEAA2027Aveiro.web.ua.pt

Call for Papers

The Humanities Write Back: Reclaiming the Value of Critical Thought and 
Creative Texts

The Portuguese Association for English and American Studies invites 
scholars,
researchers, and postgraduate students to contribute to its forthcoming 
conference,
The Humanities Write Back: Reclaiming the Value of Critical Thought and 
Creative
Texts. The conference will focus on English-speaking or English mediated 
contexts
and will be conducted in English and Portuguese.

At a time when the value, purpose, and public role of the Humanities are 
increasingly
questioned, this conference asks how the Humanities can respond, 
intervene, and
make themselves heard. What can literary and cultural studies, the 
visual arts,
translation studies, language studies, history, philosophy, and related 
fields contribute
to contemporary debates about knowledge, society, technology, identity, 
and the
future?

The title The Humanities Write Back evokes both a response and an act of 
resistance:
a refusal to remain silent in the face of reductive accounts of what 
constitutes “useful”
knowledge. At a moment when universities increasingly speak the languages of
productivity, metrics, employability, innovation, and technological 
optimisation, the
Humanities find themselves, yet again, called upon to justify their 
existence. But what
if justification is itself the wrong question? What if the Humanities 
are not merely
required to demonstrate their usefulness, but are uniquely positioned to 
interrogate
the systems through which usefulness is defined?

The Humanities Write Back proposes the Humanities as a critical practice of
interruption: a space in which dominant narratives can be questioned, 
inherited
categories unsettled, silences exposed, and alternative futures 
imagined. To write back
is not simply to respond. It is to challenge who has the authority to 
speak, whose
epistemology counts, whose histories are remembered, and whose futures are
considered possible.

We invite contributions that explore, contest, rethink, or reinvent the 
Humanities and
their objects, methods, institutions, and publics in the context of 
English Studies.
Possible areas of inquiry include, but are not limited to:

Literature, culture, and political or social change
Challenges to the literary and cultural canon
The future of Humanities research and scholarship
The Humanities in the age of AI and digital technologies
Posthumanism, technology, and the de/construction of the human
Decolonising knowledge, postcolonial studies, Indigenous perspectives
Gender, sexuality, queerness, race, and the production of identity
Ecocriticism, the Environmental Humanities, and Critical Animal Studies
The Medical Humanities and Critical Disability Studies
Translation studies, terminology, multilingualism, and cultural exchange
Language technologies, AI-mediated communication, and linguistic agency
Language, discourse, communities
Mobility, migration and zones of cultural and linguistic contact
Teaching English and the Humanities in changing educational contexts
Public Humanities and engagement beyond the academy

We welcome individual papers, panels, roundtables, and innovative 
formats that write
back to the questions confronting the Humanities today. Postgraduate 
students are
especially encouraged to present their research projects in poster format.
Send your proposal to (cllc-Humanitieswriteback /at/ ua.pt) by the 15th 
January, 2027. Notice of acceptance will be sent by the 5th February.

This is an in-person event.

Conference Organisers
Anabela Simões
(anabela.simoes /at/ ua.pt)
Andreia Sarabando
(sarabando /at/ ua.pt)
Elsa Vilela Filipe
(Elsa.vilelafilipe /at/ ua.pt)
Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia
(msbiscaia /at/ ua.pt)
Sara Carvalho
(sara.carvalho /at/ ua.pt)
Conference Assistants
Carolina Marinho
(carolinamarinho /at/ ua.pt)
Hélia Saraiva
(hfsaraiva /at/ ua.pt)
Nina Davis
(ndavis /at/ ua.pt)
Patricia Muñoz Andrés
(patryma /at/ usal.es)
(patriciamunoz /at/ ua.pt)
Sofia Ribeiro
(sofia.ribeiro99 /at/ ua.pt)

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