27^e année, 9 novembre 2026

Borderless World: Text, Image, and Sound

April 1-2, 2027, Tallahassee

Inaugural inter-Humanities Symposium at FSU
The Globe
Florida State University, Tallahassee

How do we imagine life beyond borders? How do disparate texts, images, sounds, bodies, languages, and histories become interconnected? What does it mean to inhabit a world where boundaries are unstable, permeable, or altogether absent? Conversely, how are borders constantly produced, negotiated, and challenged through acts of creation, interpretation, and community-building?

The inaugural Inter-Humanities Symposium (IHS) at Florida State University, invites scholars at various stages, artists, educators, and practitioners to explore the ways in which borderless worlds are imagined, constructed, traversed, and transformed through the intersections of language, visual culture, and sonic experience.

“Borderless World: Text, Image, and Sound” challenges conventional notions of borders, margins, and disciplinary divisions by foregrounding concepts such as fluidity, liminality, hybridity, translation, migration, relationality, and worldmaking. Reflecting the symposium’s interdisciplinary mission, we particularly seek contributions that bring multiple disciplines, methods, media, or areas of inquiry into conversation. Proposals should demonstrate how their subject, approach, or form crosses, challenges, or reimagines disciplinary boundaries and reveals meaningful connections across fields.

We welcome interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary contributions involving any area of the humanities and adjacent disciplines, as well as work connecting the humanities with the arts, social sciences, and other fields. Contributions may engage with historical, contemporary, theoretical, creative, pedagogical, or practice-based perspectives and may address, but are not limited to, the following themes:

Texts Across Borders: translation, multilingualism, comparative literature, migration, archives, and storytelling.

Images and Visual Cultures: photography, film, visual art, comics, mapping, and digital visual media.

Sound and Listening: music, oral traditions, performance, soundscapes, podcasts, and acoustic cultures.

Worldmaking, Borders, and Belonging: liminality, migration, diaspora, cosmopolitanism, transnationalism, and community formation.

Memory, Archives, and Decolonial Perspectives: postcolonial, decolonial, Indigenous, and historical approaches to borders and identity.

Digital Humanities and Virtual Worlds: digital texts, AI, online communities, networked cultures, and emerging media.

Intermediality and Multimedia Practices: intersections of text, image, sound, performance, and digital expression.

Public Humanities and Community Engagement: collaborative scholarship, creative practice, and community partnerships.

Ecologies, Space, and Environment: environmental humanities, landscapes, place, mobility, and more-than-human worlds.

Interdisciplinary, Transdisciplinary, and Experimental Approaches: innovative methods that challenge disciplinary boundaries and generate new forms of knowledge.

We invite proposals for

Individual papers (15 minutes)

Organized panels (3–4 presenters)

Poster presentations

Poster presentations are especially encouraged for work in progress, digital humanities projects, collaborative research, public humanities initiatives, and creative or interdisciplinary scholarships.

Please submit an abstract of 250 words for individual or poster presentations. For organized panels, please include a panel abstract of 300 words, and an individual abstract of 150 words for each presentation.

Abstract submissions are open from September 1 to November 1, 2026. Applicants should expect a decision by late December.

To submit an abstract, please submit a form at our website

The Inter-Humanities Symposium seeks to foster conversations that move across established boundaries—whether geographic, linguistic, cultural, temporal, media, or academic—and to consider how texts, images, and sounds create new possibilities for connection and understanding. For questions or additional information, please contact IHS.

You may also visit us at IHS at FSU WordPress and find us on Instagram at interhumanities.fsu.

Details to the symposium are subject to change, please check our WordPress or Instagram for updates and keynote speakers.

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Lundi 9 Novembre, 2026