50th PARIS International Conference on “Literature, Languages, Social Sciences & Humanities” (LLSSH-26) April 15-17, 2026 Paris (France)

LLSSH-26


Audiology, Speech & Language Pathology Foreign Language Learning Humanities, Literature & Arts (General) American Literature & Studies Language & Linguistics Literature & Writing English Language & Literature



Topics of interest for submission include any topics related to:



1. Literature and Cultural Studies



This area focuses on textual analysis, narrative, and the cultural context of artistic expression.




  • Contemporary & Comparative Literature:


    • Literature and Social Justice / Literature of the Oppressed.

    • Postcolonial and Decolonial Narratives (e.g., identity, displacement, diaspora).

    • World Literature and theories of transnationalism.

    • Reception Studies, Translation, and Adaptation of Texts (e.g., Poe in contemporary mass media).



  • Theory, Media, and Aesthetics:

  • Digital Humanities (DH): Computational Literary Analysis (Distant Reading), Text Mining, and corpus studies.

  • Media and Intermediality: Literature across platforms (e.g., gaming, film, graphic novels).

  • Trans-scriptions: Cultural codings and the poetics of the body (queer, trans, racialized, posthuman bodies).

  • Aesthetics of Contamination and bodily abjection in literature.

  • Historical Fictions and the deployment of emotions in political contexts.

  • Genre Studies and genealogy (e.g., weird fiction, horror, fantasy).

  • The Object(s) of Literature and Material Culture.

  • Renaissance Studies and Shakespearean scholarship.

  • Historical and Genre Studies:



 



2.  Languages and Linguistics



This theme explores the structure, evolution, social context, and application of human language.




  • Applied Linguistics and Communication:


    • Discourse Analysis and Figurative Language.

    • Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology (e.g., linguistic change, language revitalization).

    • Language and Advertising / Mass Media Communication.

    • Pragmatics and Philosophy of Language.



  • Digital and Computational Linguistics:

  • Natural Language Processing (NLP), Semantic Analysis, and Machine Translation.

  • The role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in language creation, learning, and analysis.

  • Terminology, Ontology, and their applications.

  • Language evolution, historical linguistics, and philology.

  • The study of constructed, artificial, and secret languages.

  • Historical and Evolutionary Linguistics:



 



3.  Social Sciences & Humanities (Interdisciplinary Focus)



These topics address broad societal challenges through combined disciplinary lenses, often with a focus on contemporary issues and ethical dimensions.



A. Global Challenges and Ethics




  • AI, Ethics, and Technology:


    • The intersection of AI, Art, and Ethics (e.g., copyright, creation, authenticity).

    • Digital Vigilantism and its legal and ethical implications.

    • Technology integration and ethical challenges in educational systems.



  • Civic, Political, and Global Studies:

  • Globalization Impacts and Border Studies.

  • Social Movements and their role in creating alternative futures.

  • Peace and Conflict Management / Conflict Zone Studies.

  • Political Sociology and the construction of narratives of belonging or otherness.

  • Ecology, Science, and Gender in literary/historical contexts.

  • Environmental Art Studies and the built environment.

  • Environmental Humanities:



 



B. Identity, Culture, and Society




  • Gender and Sexuality Studies:


    • Women and Gender Studies (e.g., feminism, equal pay, family research).

    • Sexuality Studies and gender issues across media and history.



  • Cultural Studies and History:

  • Popular Culture: Analyzing phenomena like fandoms, collecting, the 1980s, and Las Vegas representations.

  • Memory Studies: Historical fictions, memory, and forgetting.

  • Migration and Identity: Refugee studies, immigration, and issues of race, nation, and ethnicity.

  • Spatial Humanities: Using geospatial technologies (GIS) in historical, literary, and sociological research.

  • Digital Archives, digital curation, and the preservation of cultural heritage.

  • Spatial and Digital Humanities: