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  1. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.11.2023
    Queering the Family : Exploring Non-Normative Family Figures in Literature, Arts, and the Media (Whatever, 7, 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    "Queering the Family: Exploring Non-Normative Family Figures in Literature, Arts, and the Media" Call for papers Whatever. A Transdisciplinary Journal of Queer Theories and Studies, 7 (Summer 2024), themed section Serena...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and other forms of art,  Intermediality and 4 more
    Created on: 13.11.2023
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.02.2024
    Post/Modern Subversion and Textual Rebellion
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What happens when literature–and even language–is used for subversion? When authors write in response to political action, literature functions as a tool. When authors represent their times and their worlds, literature functions symbolically. When...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and law and 6 more
    Created on: 13.11.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 21.12.2023
    Borders/Freedom/Civility (Gettysburg, PA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In Exit West, Mohsin Hamid writes, “We are all migrants through time.” Hamid’s words speak to the growing crisis of statelessness, precipitated and accelerated by the extractive expansion of colonial and imperial powers, endless war, and intensifying...

    Fields of research Deconstruction,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 06.11.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.11.2023
    Chapters for The Myriad Faces of Heroes and Heroines: Folkloric Tradition and Modern Contemporaries
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We are inviting chapter proposals for the edited book The Myriad Faces of Heroes and Heroines: Folkloric Tradition and Modern Contemporaries. It is a collection of academic essays that scrutinizes the representation, dynamics, transformation and/or...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 3 more
    Created on: 13.10.2023
  5. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 30.11.2023
    PhD Research Position (male/female/diverse), »Madness, Media, Milieus. Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe«, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, befristet auf 3 Jahre (TV-L E13 65 %)
    Submitted by: Christian Scheerhorn

    The project »Madness, Media, Milieus. Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe« at the Media Faculty of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is hiring a Research Assistant (male/female/diverse) The PhD research position is funded through a...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Poststructuralism,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 4 more
    Created on: 09.10.2023
  6. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 15.12.2023
    Fellowships im Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation (CURE)
    Submitted by: Kaja Hauser

    Am 1. April 2024 startet das Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation an der Universität des Saarlandes. Für das erste Kollegjahr (Oktober 2024 bis September 2025) bitten wir um Bewerbungen für Junior- (Postdoc) und...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 21 more
    Created on: 18.09.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    ACLA-panel 2024: Queer trauma in world literature, Montreal
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Dear colleagues, For anyone working on literary trauma studies or queer trauma in literature (any language / period), I would like to draw your attention to this seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association's (ACLA’s) 2024...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 4 more
    Created on: 11.09.2023
  8. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 31.10.2023
    Drei Stellen als wissenschaftliche Programmleitungen für die drei Programmbereiche "Geschichte", "Erfahrung" und "Natur" - Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken, Saarbrücken
    Submitted by: Kaja Hauser

    Die Universität des Saarlandes ist eine Campus-Universität, die international bekannt ist durch ihre ausgeprägte Forschungsorientierung. Die Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses und die Schaffung idealer Bedingungen für Forschung und Lehre...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 21 more
    Created on: 05.09.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 29.09.2023
    1974-2024 : Annie Ernaux’s Years. A Global Perspective
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    ‘1974-2024: Annie Ernaux’s Years – a Global Perspective’ International Conference University of Edinburgh & University of St Andrews 3-5 October 2024 With Annie Ernaux’s participation (pending confirmation) Confirmed keynote speaker:...

    Fields of research French literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  World Literature and 3 more
    Created on: 01.09.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 05.09.2023
    Ecrire la Terreur (Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Écrire la Terreur XXe-XXIe Appel à communication Colloque des 22 et 23 janvier 2024 CRP19 et THALIM - Sorbonne Nouvelle C’est que nous sommes des hommes, Monsieur ; et que les hommes de haut en bas, les lettrés et les...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 3 more
    Created on: 28.08.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 04.09.2023
    Catastrophes imminentes à travers les siècles : la littérature et les arts face au désastre (Vancouver, Canada)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    10e édition de la Conférence des Étudiants Diplômés Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Catastrophes imminentes à travers les siècles : la Littérature et les Arts face au...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature,  Spanish literature and 8 more
    Created on: 28.08.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Politics and narratives of the body (Padova, Italy)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The International Colloquium Politics and Narratives of the Body aims to open an interdisciplinary dialogue, considering the multiple ways of thinking, representing, embodying and writing corporeality, particularly in contemporary contexts. The...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and other forms of art and 6 more
    Created on: 25.08.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    (Re)reading feminist speculative fiction post-Roe v. Wade (2024 Northeast Modern Language Association )
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the introduction to the collection Technologies of Speculative Fiction (2022), Sherryl Vint writes, “The same technologies that now give women more options regarding reproductive choices are simultaneously utilized by the Christian Right to...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  The fictional and 1 more
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Pregnancy Loss in Contemporary Literature and Film (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Please consider submitting an abstract for the 2024 NeMLA Convention: This panel aims to examine how elective, therapeutic, spontaneous abortions, and stillbirths are represented in work of literature and cinema from an interdisciplinary and...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and natural science,  Intermediality and 3 more
    Created on: 14.08.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Invisible Orientation: The Effacement of Asexuality (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Please submit your abstracts using the portal: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20352 . Critic Angela Sondra Decker defines asexuality ‘the invisible orientation’ to describe how this sexual orientation is often under discussed and...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 14.08.2023