CALL FOR PAPERS • 2026

Ecologies of Tomorrow

Environmental Humanities, Literature, Media & Culture

An interdisciplinary conference exploring ecological crisis, coloniality, multispecies worlds, materiality, oceans, energy and the cultural imagination.

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About the Conference

Ecologies of Tomorrow invites literary and cultural scholars to examine how stories, media and cultural practices respond to a rapidly changing biosphere. The conference encourages approaches that question inherited Anthropocene narratives and open space for decolonial, ecological and multispecies futures.

Environmental Humanities

Interdisciplinary perspectives on ecological disruption and the relationship between human and natural histories.

Decolonial Ecologies

Critical attention to colonial extraction, environmental injustice, slow violence and Global South perspectives.

More-than-Human Worlds

Posthumanist and animal studies approaches to non-human subjectivities and multispecies entanglement.

Blue & Energy Humanities

Oceanic studies, hydro-criticism, petrocultures and cultural imaginaries of a post-carbon future.

Key Areas & Sub-Themes

Rethinking the Anthropocene, Capitalocene and extraction
Postcolonial ecocriticism, slow violence and environmental justice
Race, coloniality and the geologic
Black and Indigenous critiques of Anthropocene discourse
Indigenous epistemologies, climate fiction and alternative temporalities
Critical Animal Studies and multispecies entanglement
New Materialism and Ecofeminism
Toxicity, transcorporeality and material environments
Blue Humanities, hydro-criticism and maritime literatures
Energy Humanities, petrocultures and post-carbon futures
Literary and media representations of climate change
Ecological imagination and cultural responses to crisis

Submission Guidelines

Abstract

Approximately 300 words, presenting the research problem, theoretical framework, methodology and key argument.

Keywords

Include up to 5 keywords relevant to the proposed paper.

Bio-note

Add a brief author biography of 100 words maximum along with institutional affiliation.

File Format

Submit the abstract as a Microsoft Word document: .doc or .docx.

Email: contact@creativitasjournal.in   |   CC: creativitasjournal@gmail.com

Subject line: “Abstract Submission for Creativitas Conference: [Your full name]”

Important Dates

15 Sep 2026Abstract submission deadline
18 Sep 2026Notification of acceptance
22 Sep 2026Last date of registration
To be announcedFull paper submission for journal publication

Registration Fees

Participant CategoryFee
Faculty Members₹700
PhD Scholars & Independent Researchers₹500
PG/UG Students₹400
International Participants€7 or $7

Payment details and the registration link will be shared with selected participants.

Post-Conference Publication

Selected authors will be invited after the online conference to submit full manuscripts for double-blind peer review. The source brochure states that invited papers must follow MLA 9th Edition and will undergo plagiarism screening through Turnitin or Drillbit.

Convenors

Arpan Mitra

Founder & Managing Editor, Creativitas: Critical Explorations in Literary Studies; PhD Research Scholar, St. Xavier’s, Kolkata

Phone: +91 6291089525
Email: arpan.mitra2020@gmail.com

Agnibha Maity

Co-founder & Assistant Editor, Creativitas: Critical Explorations in Literary Studies; Faculty, Department of English, Surya Sen Mahavidyalaya

Phone: +91 8777596438
Email: agnibha.maity2016@gmail.com