Calls for papers and contributions



  • Are you looking for a call for contributions to a book or to a journal? Find it here.

  • Are you looking for a call for papers for a conference whose date you know? Choose from the dates in the box below.

  • Are you looking for a call for papers for a conference whose date you do not know?
  • Use the internal search engine (provided by Freefind)



  • Are you checking if any recently announced calls for papers or calls for contributions may be of interest to you ? Look at the list below, "The 15 most recent cfps posted on the ESSE website."

  • Are you interested in having a call for papers or a call for contributions advertised on the ESSE website (about 1,000-1,200 visitors daily) and in The Messenger (circulation about 8.000)? Click here for instructions.

  • Are you interested in having the list of recently announced calls for papers and calls for contributions posted directly on your personal website, your academic website, or on the website of your department, of your university, or of your national association through an RSS feed? Read how to do it easily.

  • You can now get the list of recent cfps on your Smartphone (iPhone etc.): all you need is a (free) RSS reader; then enter the flux address: http://www.essenglish.org/calls.xml - and that's it!


  • Webmasters who wish to include the feed above, please consult our technical page.
    The ESSE feed is edited with  and validated with FEED Validator 
    On this site the feed is displayed with   which, like RSS Express, is provided by UKOLN (UK Office for Library Networking).


    More information about other ways of seeing the ESSE feed can be found on the FAQ page: you can display the ESSE feed on the desktop of your own computer; and if you use Firefox as a browser, you can make "live bookmarks" of the ESSE feed.

    Some conferences are also announced on the websites of the national associations and on the website of the British Council. The website of the English Subject Centre has lists of sites where conferences may be announced.


    Conference organisers, editors of journals and of collections of essays
    , please send your calls for papers for conferences, and calls for contributions to journals and books, to the webmaster Jacques Ramel for posting on the ESSE webpage and in the ESSE feed.


    Please note
    :

    • we only publish calls for papers, not the programmes of conferences or the tables of contents of journals (except when they are provided in the form of a document to be downloaded in .doc or .pdf format, and only for conferences, journals or collections of essays for which cfps have been posted on the website)
    • only events taking place in Europe, or closely connected with European universities, are published
    • a clear deadline for proposals is essential
    • please conform as much as possible to the format of cfps already published on this website
    • preferably keep your cfps under 300 words
    • logos are welcome for inclusion in the cfp
    • you are welcome to publish information that does not fit into those categories (such as reminders, updates, or any other miscellaneous information) on the ESSE FaceBook page