Home, Homecoming, Homesickness: Online International Young Scholars’ Conference

05 03 2026

The Academic Association for Doctoral Students & Students of English Philology, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for our upcoming students’ conference Home, Homecoming, Homesickness: Online International Young Scholars’ Conference. This year, we invite researchers at all stages of their academic careers to share their thoughts on the themes of home in English literature, culture, and linguistics. The conference will be held on 20-21 April 2026 in an online format (via MS Teams) and is free of charge for all participants.

Moreover, conference participants will have the opportunity to publish articles related to their presentation in Currents. A Journal of Young English Philology Thought and Review.

To participate in the conference, please send abstracts of your presentations (250 words) and a short biographical note (150 words) to ncu.currents2026@gmail.com. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 31 March.

The details regarding publication in the journal will be sent by the end of April 2026.

Please find the links to our websites below. The detailed Call for Papers can be found in the attachment.

Conference website: https://www.currents.umk.pl/homecoming.html

Journal website: https://www.currents.umk.pl