BNC 2026, short for Beyond Nature and Culture: Planetary Precarity in Literary-Cultural-Linguistic Representations, is an international hybrid conference organized by the Department of English, Daffodil International University, Bangladesh, on 4–5 December 2026. It brings together work in literary studies, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, ecocriticism, posthumanism, linguistics, and ELT to examine colonial modernity, environmental precarity, more-than-human agency, waterscapes, and sustainability literacy.

Submission Guidelines: All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Abstracts should be 150–200 words and include the paper title, author name(s), affiliation(s), country, corresponding author’s email, track selection, 4–6 keywords, and mode of participation. File format should be DOCX or PDF. The current public CFP also recommends the subject line EDDIU2026_Abstract_TrackX_LeadSurname.

Full papers describing: original research, theoretical interventions, close readings, cultural or film analysis, linguistic and ecolinguistic inquiry, pedagogy-focused studies, or interdisciplinary work aligned with the conference themes of planetary precarity, colonial modernity, more-than-human agency, environmental justice, and sustainability literacy.

Posters describing: emerging research projects, early-stage findings, classroom or curriculum innovations, digital/public humanities initiatives, or visually presented work related to the conference tracks and themes.

List of Topics

Topic 1: Colonial Modernity, Biopolitics, and Precarity

Topic 2: More-than-Human Agency, Posthuman Ecologies, and Environmental Justice

Topic 3: Ecolinguistics, ELT Pedagogy, and Sustainability Literacy

Committees

Program Committee: Md. Ariful Islam Laskar, Daffodil International University, Shamsi Ara Huda, Daffodil International University, Rabeya Binte Habib, Daffodil International University

Organizing Committee: Tahsina Yasmin, Daffodil International UniversityFatema Begum Laboni, Daffodil International UniversityMohammad Elius Hossain, Daffodil International University

Invited Speakers: Amitav Ghosh, Dipesh Chakrabarty

Publication: BNC 2026 proceedings / selected papers will be published in two edited volumes with Springer Nature and one volume with Star Scholars Network. The volumes are planned for inclusion in a Scopus-indexed series, subject to the publisher’s final indexing status.

Venue: The conference will be held in hybrid mode at Daffodil International University (DIU), Bangladesh, with onsite and online participation.

Contact: All questions about submissions should be emailed to events.eng@diu.edu.bd. Authors may also use the conference website submission page.

Sponsors: Department of English, Daffodil International University (Host)