AASTMT College of Language and Communication 4th International Conference
Main themes

Conference themes & track topics.

Explore the full list of topics under each of the Seven LANACOM 2026 tracks.

Track 01

Literature

Themes include but are not limited to:
  • Humanities & developing archives
  • Historical shifts in archival development
  • Archives, memory, identity, affect, and emotions
  • Memory, identity, and trauma
  • Hauntology
  • Memory and identity and the rewriting of myths
  • Memory and identity tropes in travel literature
  • Memory and identity in children's literature
  • Memory, identity, and dis/location
  • Memory, identity, and archives in the Global South
  • Archives and empowerment
  • Memory and empowerment
  • Memory Studies and Life Writing
  • Coming-of-age narratives & Bildungsroman
  • Trauma, hauntology, and postmemory
  • Oral histories and storytelling traditions as archives
  • Gendered and feminist approaches to memory
  • Eco-archives and environmental memory (e.g., petrofiction, climate narratives).
  • Migration, diaspora, and transnational memory
  • Indigenous and decolonial archival practices
  • Religious, sacred, and cultural archives
  • Women, Power, & Identity
  • Archives and minorities
  • Memory, identity, class, and ethnicity
  • Memory, identity, and psychoanalysis
  • Memory, identity, and postcolonial theory
  • Memory, identity, and eco-criticism
  • Memory, identity, and archive in ancient & medieval cultures
  • Society, Individual, and Identity
  • Archival silences, absences, and erasures
  • Counter-archives and subaltern memory
Track 02

Linguistics

Themes include but are not limited to:
  • Forensic Linguistic Archaeology: Excavating the "Real"
  • Digital Heritage & Meta-Linguistic Anchoring
  • Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA): Power, Erasure, and the Dialectics of Absence
  • Diachronic Corpus Linguistics: Mapping Societal Morphogenesis
  • Eco-Linguistics: The Biotic Archive and Environmental Memory
  • Posthumanism and AI: The Algorithmic Archive
  • Pragmatics: The Affective Archive of Trauma and Memory
  • Semiotics & Multimodal Communication: Anchoring Memory across Signs
  • Gendered Memory: Feminist Linguistics and the Counter-Archive
  • Intercultural Communication: Negotiating Memory across Borders
  • Language Disorders and Cognitive Archives
  • Clinical Narratives and Self-Archiving
  • The Neuro-Linguistic Archive
Track 03

Media

Themes include but are not limited to:
  • Film and media as archives
  • Visual culture, film, and memory-making
  • Digital archives, AI, and the future of memory
  • Digital Humanities and Heritage
  • Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities
  • Libraries and/as archives
  • Archives and museums
  • Human Identity, Memory, and AI
  • AI
  • Posthumanism and AI
  • The role of social media in shaping collective memory and digital identity
  • News broadcasting and digital journalism as a real-time historical archive
  • Pharaonic aesthetics and historical iconography in modern digital media and film
  • Media representation of marginalized identities and counter-archiving strategies
  • The intersection of interactive media, video games, and cultural memory
Track 04

Translation

Themes include but are not limited to:
  • Translator's archive as a rhizome
  • Translating Memory as a cultural reconstruction
  • Translation as a site of identity negotiation
  • Rewriting collective memory through translation
  • Translation and the afterlives of texts
  • Gendered memory and feminist translation practice
  • The translator as cultural mediator of memory
  • Translation and the ethics of remembering
  • Recovering marginalized narratives through translation
  • Archival materiality and translational visibility
  • Intersections of orality, testimony, and translation
  • Memory and Cognitive approaches to translation/interpretation
  • Human identity in translation
  • Socio-cognitive Imaging of Translators
  • Audiovisual translation as a vital mechanism for preserving cultural heritage
Track 05

Cultural Studies

Themes include but are not limited to:
  • National and diasporic cultural memory
  • Audiovisual translation and cultural heritage
  • Sonic archives and performative arts
  • Ancient iconography in contemporary identity
  • Popular culture as living archives
  • Subcultures and counter-archiving
  • Museums and the spatialization of memory
  • Culinary traditions and fashion as archives
  • Decolonizing post-colonial heritage spaces
  • Embodied archives: rituals and indigenous practices
Track 06

Education

Themes include but are not limited to:
  • The Classroom as a Living Archive
  • Curriculum-as-Archive
  • Student-Led Oral History Projects
  • Archival Pedagogy and the "Primary Source" Rule
  • Archival Ethics in ESL/ESP Instruction
  • The "Sustainable" Archive
  • Multimodality, education, and identity
Track 07

Art and design

Themes include but are not limited to:
  • Archiving Memory: Art, Design, and the Construction of Collective Identity
  • Visual Archives and Cultural Memory
  • Designing Memory: The Role of Design in Preserving the Past
  • Archival Pedagogy and the "Primary Source" Rule
  • Materiality and the Archive
  • Digital Archives and the Future of Memory
  • Artistic Reinterpretations of Historical Memory
  • Architecture, Space, and the Memory of Place
  • Archives of the Marginalized: Recovering Forgotten Voices
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