UPCOMING CONFERENCE

2026 NAVSA: TRAFFIC

11-15 November 2026

Hilton Pasadena

Pasadena, California

NAVSA-NASSR 2026 will take place November 11-15 at the Hilton Pasadena, playing off the Los Angeles location with the theme “Traffic.” Keynoters include Eleanor Jones Harvey, senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Arun Sood, Lecturer in Global Literatures at the University of Exeter. Online panels will be showcased in a pre-conference on November 10. For those interested in the blue-green humanities, an overnight excursion to Catalina Island is planned for November 10-11, and will feature a tour of the Wrigley Marine Science Center, workshop, hike, and other programming. Cross-registration with the North American Conference on British Studies, taking place simultaneously at the nearby Westin Pasadena, is also in the works. Located in northeast Los Angeles county, Pasadena is near the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Gabriel Mountain hiking trails, and a rich array of regional Chinese, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese restaurants.

Keep an eye out for the CFP from University of California-Riverside co-organizers Padma Rangarajan, Fuson Wang, and Susan Zieger in early 2026!