2026 EALA Annual Conference: From Technē to Technology
Conference Organizers: ROC English and American Literature Association (EALA, Taiwan) and Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Sun Yat-sen University
Date: October 17, 2026
Venue: National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Conference Website: https://sites.google.com/view/2026eala/
This conference seeks to trace the connection and contestation between technē and technology in English and American literature across different genres and literary periods. We invite proposals that examine how artistic techniques and technological innovation inform one another, how literature reflects on the tools and media of its own production, and how writers, past and present, have responded to the pressures and possibilities of their technological environments. We especially welcome interdisciplinary approaches that bridge literary studies with philosophy, media studies, and the digital humanities. Topics may include but are not limited to:
- Techniques of form and style in literary expression
- Material and media histories of literary production
- Technē and technology in the Anthropocene
- Ecologies of technē and technology
- Techno-poetics in cross-cultural encounters
- Archival research and digitalisation
- Surveillance, control, and modes of artistic resistance
- Literary representations of craft, machinery, and mechanization
- AI, authorship, and the redefinition of creativity
- Poetics of digital literature and multimedia storytelling
- Pedagogies of literature and technology in the age of digitalisation and AI
- Future and challenges of digital humanities
Proposals for papers in English or Mandarin Chinese are accepted. Proposals for preformed (3-person) panels are also welcome. Please submit abstracts of 300-500 words (with a title and five keywords, for individual papers and pre-formed panels) and brief bios (which include name, title, affiliations, selected publications, contacts of each presenter) to 2026eala@gmail.com by 31 January 2026.
For group submissions, please also include a group abstract.
Notification of acceptance: 10 March 2026
Full paper submission deadline: 5 October 2026
※Submissions are limited to one proposal per person. For pre-formed panel submissions, please submit as a group; individual submissions will not be accepted.
※The full text of the paper is for the reference of the panel moderator only and will not
be made publicly available.
※Before participating in the conference and publishing your paper, you must have or obtain an EALA membership.
※EALA encourages contributors to submit a revised version of their paper to Review of English and American Literature, which is a THCI Core tier-one journal, after the conference.