7th Annual Modern Literatures & Linguistics Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
Short Title: LINC
Theme: Beyond Fracture: Reimagining Futures through Divergence and Convergence: Constructing New Paths Across Division, Resistance, and Solidarity

Date: 05-Mar-2026 - 06-Mar-2026
Location: Tallahassee, FL, USA
Contact: Joachim Adams & Emil Asanov
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://tinyurl.com/LINC2026

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discipline of Linguistics; General Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics

Submission Deadline: 17-Oct-2025

In a world marked by rupture, polarization, and resistance, Beyond Fracture invites us to explore how moments of divergence—social, linguistic, aesthetic, political—can give rise not only to conflict but also to reinvention. At the same time, it calls us to consider the forces of convergence that bind and reconfigure, often in surprising or uneasy ways. Between fracture and fusion lies the space of possibility: for solidarity, for creativity, and for futures that move beyond protest and toward transformation.

Rather than remain tethered to opposition alone, this theme urges us to look beyond the “anti-”: beyond anti-colonialism, anti-capitalism, anti-patriarchy, anti-heteronormativity, anti-ethnonationalism, anti-spiritualism—not to erase resistance, but to ask what comes after. How do we imagine post-revolutionary societies? What new epistemologies, forms, and structures emerge when we embrace both divergence and convergence not as endpoints, but as generative processes? LINC 2026 invites undergraduate and graduate students, artists, researchers, and educators to consider how the fractures and entanglements of our time open critical paths for reimagining identities, relationships, systems, and knowledge. The conference seeks contributions that interrogate division and dissent, while also embracing construction, coalition, and creativity across disciplines through collaborative panels that explore how our societies move beyond resistance to forge new paths.

We welcome individual presentations, performances, creative works, and collaborative interdisciplinary panels that critically engage with the interplay of divergence and convergence as it relates to:
- Division and solidarity
- Resistance and reconstruction
- Marginality and coalition
- Epistemological rupture and renewal
- Identity, language, embodiment, and future-making

LINC 2026 continues to foster daring, interdisciplinary, and socially engaged graduate work. We especially encourage proposals that collaborate across fields including, but not limited to, Literature and Environmental Studies, Linguistics and Music, Religion and Politics, Neuroscience and Art, or Gender Studies and Philosophy.