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  1. 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
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Cultural Representations of Social Reproduction (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel will focus on cultural representations of social reproduction. Social reproduction theory developed from a Marxist-feminist concern for typically-unwaged labor performed outside the traditional workplace, demonstrating how this “invisible”...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Novel and 1 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Spare, (Almost) Never Heir: Girls, Second Sons and Other Fantastic Creatures (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    As much as surplus indicates plenty, it also hints at excess. If the word is applied to people rather than goods, it suggests a denigration of status and even a certain dehumanization. What happens when the word ‘surplus’ is made adjacent to power?...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and social and cultural anthropology and 1 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  4. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 22.09.2023
    Tenure-Track Position, Pre-1800 French and Francophone Studies (Harvard)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Position Description The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures seeks to hire a tenure-track professor of French and Francophone literatures and cultures specializing in any of the periods prior to the nineteenth century, from the...

    Fields of research French literature,  Didactics of Literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 7 more
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 04.09.2023
    Social and Environmental (In)Justice in Discourse & in the Literary/Artistic Imagination (annual conference)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Event website: www.ens-conference-tunis.com Use the above website to register for the event. The conference aims at inviting scholarly examinations of the discursive patterns—historiographic, documentary, theoretical, and artistic—within...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 6 more
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Romantic Motherhood (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In a time when reproductive rights are under attack and mother’s bodies are increasingly surveilled and regulated by the state, mothers are rendered as “surplus” to the value of the (future) child. How might literary representations in the Romantic...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 04.08.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 29.09.2023
    She Said, He Said, They Said: (Un)Reliable Narrators in Literature (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From monologues offering invectives about various characters in Shakespearean plays and poetry; suspicious narrations involving characters in Hawthorne’s short stories and novels; distrustful narrators in Marge Percy’s sci-fi stories, novels and...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Narratology,  Literature of the 19th century and 2 more
    Created on: 28.07.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2023
    Komik - Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 2024
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    [English version below] Thema: Komik Was ist komisch daran, dass Wednesday Addams in Tim Burtons TV-Serie Wednesday (USA 2022) zwei Plastiktüten voller Piranhas in den Pool entlässt, in dem die aufstrebenden Sportler der...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Intermediality,  Poetics and 3 more
    Created on: 28.07.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Re-engaging with the Old Myths: Contemporary Literature, Women, and Classics (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Re-engaging with the Old Myths: Contemporary Literature, Women, and Classics Novels and literary works that adapt Classical figures and text continue to be very popular, such as Natalie Haynes’s A Thousand Ships, Pat Barker’s The Silence of the...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 3 more
    Created on: 24.07.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Where is the Cognitive Turn Today? (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Subject Fields German History / Studies Where is the Cognitive Turn Today? (NeMLA '24, Boston MA, March 7-10, 2024) This panel addresses the current state of the ‘cognitive turn’ in German Studies. Abstracts are invited that...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Interdisciplinarity and 4 more
    Created on: 24.07.2023
  11. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 28.09.2023
    Coding Utopias
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    There is no shortage of critiques of utopian imaginaries for being coded in colonial, Western, masculine, Christian, and extractive ideologies. Utopia has been, and continues to be, an often violent gesture that chooses the future of select groups...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Interdisciplinarity and 5 more
    Created on: 19.07.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Dostoevsky's Women and the Image of the Femme Fatale in the European Novel (NeMLA 2024) (Boston, MA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The creative legacy of Dostoevsky left a memorable gallery of extraordinary female characters, from Sonia in Crime and Punishment to Grushen'ka in Brothers Karamazov and Nastasia Philippovna in The Idiot. The proposed session will analyze the complex...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Novel and 1 more
    Created on: 19.07.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Émigré Berlin: The Russian Diaspora in Exile (NeMLA 2024) (Northeast MLA (NeMLA) Convention 2024) (Boston, MA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Russian émigré community in Berlin arose in response to one political crisis and was destroyed by another soon after. Before its destruction, however, the exuberance of émigré Berlin combined the energy of a lively Western city undergoing a...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 2 more
    Created on: 19.07.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.08.2023
    Women in Aesthetics. Féminiser la philosophie de l'art (Paris)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Women in Aesthetics. Féminiser la philosophie de l’art Journée d'études Paris, 17 novembre 2023 Keynote speaker: Esther Leslie (Birkbeck, University of London) Cette journée se propose étudier le rôle des femmes et de la...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and philosophy and 3 more
    Created on: 17.07.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.07.2023
    Le sentiment de soi en postcolonie : entre représentation des sexualités et nouvelles perceptions du corps dans les cultures littéraires et les arts visuels (Mayotte)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel à contributions Nakan Journal. Revue d’études culturelles Le sentiment de soi en postcolonie : entre représentation des sexualités et nouvelles perceptions du corps dans les cultures littéraires et les arts visuels ...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature,  North African literature and 4 more
    Created on: 17.07.2023