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Borders, Athens 2026

[From Vassia (Vassiliki) Markidou; President of HASE, Board Member of ESSE]

Dear friends and colleagues,

I am delighted to be sharing with you the news of the forthcoming
international interdisciplinary conference “Borders: Literary, Cultural
and Political Dialogues”, which is co-organized by the Department of English Language & Literature (NKUA) and the Hellenic Association for the Study of English (HASE). The conference takes place in Athens on 18-21 May 2026.

Please follow the link for more information and to sign up.

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ESSE support schemes 2026

Here are the announcements for other regular support schemes available for ESSE members in 2026:

All the announcements for various ESSE research support schemes for 2026 are now posted at the ESSE website https://essenglish.org/research-and-support/ while the general information about ESSE, including the ESSE conference in Santiago de Compostela is here: https://essenglish.org.

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ESSE Book Awards

ESSE BOOK AWARDS 2026

for books first published in 2024 and 2025

The European Society for the Study of English is proud to announce its biennial ESSE Book Awards for books published in 2024 and 2025 in English Language & Linguistics, Literatures in the English Language, and Cultural & Area Studies in English.

ESSE Book Award (Category A):  A book prize of € 1,500 will be awarded by ESSE in 2026, coinciding with the 18th ESSE Conference to be held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, for books first published in 2024 or 2025 (date of imprint in the published book) in each of the following fields:

  1. English Language and Linguistics;
  2. Literatures in the English Language;
  3. Cultural and Area Studies in English.

ESSE Book Award for Junior Scholars (Category B): A further book prize of € 1,500 will be awarded by ESSE in 2026 to a junior scholar for a first research book published in English in each of the three fields mentioned above, provided that publication was in 2024 or 2025 (date of imprint in the published book).

The deadline for submission of books is 1 February 2026. The winners will be announced at the Opening Ceremony of ESSE-18 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

The requirements are as follows:

  1. Books eligible for prizes will be those published in English; they must have an ISBN. PhD dissertations published in book format, with an ISBN, are accepted. Editions of collected essays will NOT qualify for these prizes. The books must be works of scholarly research in the field of English studies. Undergraduate textbooks will not be considered.
  2. Any number of books may be submitted by the same author (provided that they are published within the admitted period of time), except for category B, since junior scholars are expected to submit their first research book published in English.
  3. All books will be evaluated strictly on the basis of their academic value, without regard to publisher, country of publication or nationality of the author.
  4. Authors must be members of national associations affiliated to ESSE (according to the official membership lists submitted in November 2025).
  5. Books can be submitted in electronic format (PDF only) or in printed format. If submitted in printed format, three copies must be provided of each book submitted for consideration. The copies will not be returned.
  6. The candidates are required to fill in the form, available here (https://forms.gle/pYt1v6hzrYEPKViG6) by 1 February 2026.

In case the applicant opts to submit an e-book (PDF only!), electronic submission should be made to esse.president@outlook.com by 1 FEBRUARY 2026.

In case the applicant opts to submit a printed book, the three review copies must be sent to the address below by 1 FEBRUARY 2026.

The deadline must be observed.

Books must be sent to the following address:

                Prof. Dr. Lieven Buysse
                President of ESSE

KU Leuven Campus Brussels
                Warmoesberg 26
                1000 Brussels

                Belgium

Two months before the opening of the ESSE-18 conference a shortlist of a maximum of five books in each field and category will be announced on the ESSE Website. Board members are asked to report to the President any misgivings that they may have about the propriety of awarding a prize to any book on the shortlist, with the President passing on such comments to the committees if he deems it appropriate. The committees will recommend the awards to the Board, or they may recommend that no award be made in a particular field. The President will report to the Board whether the work of the committees has been satisfactorily conducted. The Board may then approve the recommendations of the committees or they may reject a recommendation, in which case no award will be given in that field or category. Winners will be informed immediately in confidence, and the awards will be publicly announced during the opening ceremony of the ESSE-18 conference, in Santiago de Compostela (Spain).

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ESSE 2026

The Department of English and German Philology at the
University of Santiago de Compostela has the pleasure of
welcoming you to the 18th ESSE Conference, which will take place from
31st August to 4th September 2026.

As is tradition, the conference will consist of a combination of plenary
lectures, parallel lectures, roundtables, seminars, posters, and the
Doctoral Symposium. Details of each format and how to participate can
be found on the ESSE website.

The conference will encompass plenary lectures, parallel lectures, seminars, roundtables, posters and a doctoral symposium. The deadline for submitting topic suggestions for parallel lectures, seminars and roundtables is May 1, 2025. The deadline for individual papers and posters is January 31, 2026.

For more, go to: https://www.esse2026.com/

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ESSE: Call for Applications

ESSE Positions: Call for applications and nominations for the positions of Treasurer of ESSE and Secretary of ESSE

The Nominations Committee of the ESSE Board seeks applications for the positions of Treasurer and Secretary, which fall vacant in January 2026. The usual term of office is three years. Candidates, who should preferably have been involved in ESSE affairs or have had similar positions in their national associations, should submit, as e–mail attachments:

  • a letter of application
  • a short (2–3 page) CV
  • letters of support from two national associations.

Each national association can also nominate candidates for any of these two positions (only one candidate for each position). In this case, national associations will submit, as e–mail attachments:

  • a letter, signed by the association’s President, describing the candidate’s competence for the specific office
  • a short (2–3 page) CV of candidate(s) proposed
  • a letter, signed by another association’s President, seconding this proposal
  • a letter in which the candidate will express his/her agreement with the candidacy.

Applications and nominations must be submitted by e-mail, by 30th April 2025 at the latest, to all three members of the Nominations Committee: 

Please use the following appropriate wording in the subject line:

  • ESSE: Application/Nomination for Treasurer  or
  • ESSE: Application/Nomination for Secretary   

From the applications and nominations received, the Committee will prepare a shortlist for the ESSE Board. Finalists will be interviewed (in person or online) and elected by a vote at the ESSE Board meeting in Malta, 5-6th September 2025.

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Lausanne ESSE summary

Our mother organisation, the ESSE, convened in Lausanne in August, for a board meeting and a conference. From NORSES, Knut Øystein Høvik and Stephanie Hazel Vold both gave papers in the seminar Critical Issues in English Language Teacher Education (which was the session with most participants). Høvik also chaired Charley Armstrong’s parallell lecture (the level below keynote) entitled The Wanderings of the Modern Myths: Exemplarity, Adaptation, and Spatiality.

As leader of NORSES, Høvik also serves on the ESSE board, which supplied the following list of their most important decicions this year:

1.
The Board of ESSE elected a new President, Professor Lieven Buysee from Belgium for a three-year period. His term of office will begin on 1st January 2025 when he will replace the current president, Professor Andreas H. Jucker. The Board expressed their gratitude to the current president for his services to ESSE during two terms of office from 2019 to 2024.
2.
The Board of ESSE appointed a nominations committee for the election of the ESSE Treasurer and the ESSE Secretary. The call for applications will be published on the ESSE website in October 2024. The deadline for the submission of applications is 30th April 2025. The term of office for both posts will begin on 1st January 2026.
3.
The Board of ESSE agreed to discontinue the reduction of annual fees from €9.00 to €7.00. In 2025, the fees return to €9.00.
4.
The Board of ESSE strongly reaffirmed its commitment to promote research and to support activities aimed to help both young and established researchers. The Board decided to:
• continue with the Bursaries and appointed a Bursary committee for 2025. The Board also decided to continue with bursaries for Gender Studies within English studies for 2025.
• continue with the Book and Resources grants.
• continue with the Doctoral Symposium in both conference and non-conference years and, for the non-conference year 2025, to offer funding to help eligible doctoral students in need of support to participate in the Doctoral Symposium that will be held together with the Board Meeting in Malta.
• continue with a special research support scheme for national associations with tight resources to invite plenary speakers from other national associations to their own national conferences and to cover their travel expenses.
• discontinue the Collaborative Project Workshop Scheme.
5.
The Board of ESSE delegated four members to represent ESSE in the Academic Programme Committee for the ESSE-18 conference in 2026 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, together with the APC members from the host association.
6.
The Board of ESSE accepted the bid of Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom, as the venue of the ESSE–19 conference in 2028.
7.
The Board of ESSE unanimously nominated a new co-editor of the European Journal of English Studies. This is Dr. Frederik Van Dam from Radboud University, Nijmegen, who is going to replace the current co-editor, Professor Greta Olson, as of 1 January 2025. The Board of ESSE expressed their gratitude to Prof. Greta Olson for her long
and dedicated service to EJES.
8.
The Board of ESSE agreed to adhere to the rule established back at the Board meeting in 2019 to have only one date for membership updates per calendar year. Fees will be collected according to the membership lists sent to the ESSE Treasurer by 15th November of the current year. Members whose names are included in these lists will be able to apply for ESSE privileges the following year, such as ESSE Bursaries, ESSE Book grants, ESSE Book awards, conference fee waivers and the Collaborative Project Workshop Schemes. The only exception continues to be the ESSE Doctoral Symposium, for which different rules apply as specified in the Symposium announcement.

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ESSE Conference 2024

Our mother organisation, ESSE, has annonced its big international conference for 2024, which will take place in Switzerland.

From the invitation email:

Dear Colleagues,

It is a great pleasure to send out the invitation for the ESSE 2024 conference in Lausanne, Switzerland. 

On behalf of the conference organizers, I would like to ask you to circulate the invitation to your respective associations and to encourage participation. 

You can find all the information and the different deadlines in the document [see link below]. 

We are looking forward to seeing you in Lausanne in 2024!

All best wishes,

Anita Auer

SAUTE president

https://essenglish.org/blog/esse-conference-2024/
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CFP ESSE Messenger

Call for Papers for the Summer 2023 issue of The ESSE Messenger

Open theme
Deadline: 31.05.2023

The Editorial Board of The ESSE Messenger is pleased to announce its Call for Papers for Issue 32/1 (Summer 2023). The ESSE Messenger, a double-blind peer-reviewed journal published twice a year by the
European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), cordially invites the submission of original manuscripts in the form of articles, book reviews and interviews in the area of English Studies. The journal welcomes qualitative and original contributions on linguistic, literary and cultural topics.

Interested authors are kindly asked to send their manuscripts to The ESSE Messenger email address (esse.messenger@uma.es) by 31 May 2023. Submissions throughout the year will also be welcome.
All contributions submitted to The ESSE Messenger should observe the Editorial code (https://essenglish.org/messenger/code/) as well as the Submission guidelines and Stylesheet (https://essenglish.org/messenger/stylesheet/).

We look forward to your contributions.
With best wishes,
Laura Esteban-Segura
The ESSE Messenger Editor

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ESSE support schemes 2023

Here is the list of various support schemes that ESSE offers, all posted  at https://essenglish.org/research-and-support/:

There are also two support schemes for the national associations:

The details of the various calls for participation for the ESSE-17 conference in Lausanne (26-30 August 2024) will be available in 2023 at https://wp.unil.ch/esse2024/.