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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    NEMLA-Panel: Colonies and Critique: Reassessing German-Language Representations of Empire (Niagara Falls)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    To be held at the 2023 Northeastern Modern Language Association (NeMLA) convention in Niagara Falls, March 26-28 2023 German-language writings on imperialism are of key interest not only in order to fundamentally understand historical...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 27.06.2022
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022: The German Novella: Dis/ability, Othering, and Embodiment
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CFP: The German Novella: Dis/ability, Othering, and Embodiment To be held at the NeMLA Annual Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, 10-13 March 2022; Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2021 Andreas Gailus has characterized the German...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology and 5 more
    Created on: 02.07.2021
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022: Migration, Belonging, and Afro-Europeanness: Current Articulations and Future Perspectives
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel aims to explore how writers and filmmakers have articulated questions of Blackness and Europeanness, migration and cultural belonging, colonial histories and decolonial futures. In recent decades, artists, scholars, and activists from...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature and 11 more
    Created on: 21.06.2021
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022: Walking in the Empire
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    NeMLA 2022 (March 10-13, 2022, Baltimore) Session Title: Walking in the Empire Session Organizer: Vivian Kao, Lawrence Technological University Walkers and walking figure prominently in the literature and literary theory of...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 8 more
    Created on: 21.06.2021
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Sebald. Again. NeMLA 2022
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Sebald. Again. “Certain things, as I am increasingly becoming aware, have a way of returning unexpectedly [unverhofft und unvermutet], often after a lengthy absence,” Sebald writes at the end of the first narration of The...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Novel,  Narrative and 1 more
    Created on: 18.06.2021
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Women's Voices, Women's Lives: Female Identities in Contemporary German Context (NeMLA Cfp)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Although there appears to be a notable amount of literature discussing the topic of gender and media, the relation between gender, identity and their transposition in fiction remains a relevant aspect to be analyzed. “Frauenliteratur” is the...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 6 more
    Created on: 14.06.2021
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022 roundtable on German language teaching
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CFP event to be held at the Northeastern Modern Language Association (NeMLA) convention in Baltimore, Maryland, from March 10-13, 2022. Reading is a fundamental component of all levels of second language instruction and the goal of...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Didactics of Literature,  Media studies and 3 more
    Created on: 07.06.2021
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    Innovative Modern Bodies (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CFP for NeMLA Convention, March 11-14, 2021 in Philadelphia Abstracts Due: 30 September 2020 Format: Seminar 5 to 10 participants complete and circulate papers prior to the convention, then give brief presentations followed...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies
    Created on: 12.06.2020
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    Decolonizing German Studies: Literature of Migration as Catalyst? (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Decolonizing German Studies: Literature of Migration as Catalyst? Decolonization is a growing niche in German Studies [e.g. works of Kien Nghi Ha, Dirk Göttsche, Jürgen Zimmerer] – but a niche, nonetheless. Yet Germany has been and is changing....

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Postcolonial studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 08.05.2020