Call for Papers
The 12th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture
We are pleased to announce the call for the 12th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture (LLC), jointly organized by Çankaya University, Bournemouth University, and Süleymen Demirel University in Isparta. This year’s conference will be hosted by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Süleyman Demirel University on 21–24 October 2026.
We kindly invite you to submit your abstract proposals (for 20-minute presentations; maximum 300 words) and five keywords as an email attachment to sduitbfsempozyum@gmail.com by 20 July 2026. In the body of the email, contributors are required to provide their full name, institutional affiliation, email address, ORCID number, phone number, title of the paper, abstract, five keywords, and a brief biographical note.
The topics listed below reflect the thematic framework of the conference; interdisciplinary, comparative, and innovative contributions in related areas are also warmly welcomed.
Suggested Topics include, but are not limited to:
Ecocriticism (literature, film, visual arts, translation, and cultural representations)
Environmental History and Archaeology (human–environment interactions in past societies; historical analyses of environmental change)
Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (the Anthropocene, environmental justice, animal rights, ecological ethics)
Environmental Sociology and Anthropology (social impacts of climate change; local and global environmental movements; Indigenous ecological knowledge)
Environmental Psychology (eco-anxiety, environmental awareness, human–nature connectedness, and the psychological foundations of pro-environmental behavior)
Sustainability and Development (social, cultural, and economic dimensions of sustainable living models)
Space, Urban Studies, and Ecology (ecological urbanization; environmental impacts of urban transformation; green spaces)
Disasters, Climate Crisis, and Society (social and cultural consequences of climate-related disasters)
Environmental Communication and Media (media representations of the climate crisis and public perception)
Environmental Policy and Law (national and international environmental policies; climate negotiations; legal regulations)
Submissions that do not comply with these guidelines may not be considered for evaluation. All submissions to the conference will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers for technical merit and content.
Publication Options
Abstracts of the papers accepted for presentation will be published in the Book of Abstracts. In addition, full papers presented at the conference and subsequently submitted will, upon the authors’ request and subject to a favorable peer-review process, be considered for publication in the “Human, Environment and Ecology” Special Issue of the Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences of Süleyman Demirel University-TR Indexed Jurnal (https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/suitder).
Furthermore, a selection of the full papers that are presented at the conference and submitted afterwards will also be considered for publication, depending on the authors’ preference and the successful completion of the peer-review process, as a proceedings volume to be published by a national or international publishing house.
We would be delighted to welcome you to the conference and hope you will consider submitting a paper.