Digital technologies, globalization, ecological crisis, and renewed attention to marginalized voices are reshaping the humanities. Artificial intelligence is testing old ideas about authorship and reading. Migration and translation have produced writings that belong to more than one place and more than one language. Streaming platforms and social media have changed how culture is produced and consumed. Climate change has pushed literary critics to rethink the relationship between people and the natural world. And writers from communities long left out of the syllabus, including Dalit, Adivasi, women and queer writers, are now widely read. These shifts are constantly unsettling some of the basic assumptions about what literature is, who it speaks for and how it should be read.

While such unsettlement is often seen as a sign of crisis in the humanities, the same tension has pushed the boundaries of the field in new directions. Interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary work has become the norm, and digital humanities, medical humanities, environmental humanities, posthuman studies, memory studies, translation studies and ELT in the digital age are among the most active areas of research. This ensures that the boundaries of the humanities are not shrinking so much as are being redrawn.

The International Conference on New Horizons in Humanities: Contemporary Perspectives in Literature, Language and Culture is an attempt to take stock of these developments. It aims to create a platform for scholars, teachers, researchers and students to discuss how literature, language and culture are being studied and taught today, what has changed and where the field might go next.