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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Reassessing Resource Narratives: Ecocritical Perspectives on the Illusion of Surplus (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Please consider submitting an abstract for the NeMLA session "Reassessing Resource Narratives: Ecocritical Perspectives on the Illusion of Surplus" (55th Annual NeMLA Convention March 7th in Boston, MA). The deadline for submissions is September 30,...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Ecocriticism,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  2. 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
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    It Takes a Village: Kinship Systems in the Gothic (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From bands of thieves who live and die by honor codes to townspeople neglecting one of their own, the Gothic genre is full of non-normative kin. This panel seeks to collectively reimagine the role of kinship systems in Gothic literature and broaden...

    Fields of research Literary genre,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2023
    The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies (Amsterdam)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Keynote Speaker: Macarena Gómez-Barris (Brown University, author of The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives, Duke University Press, 2017) For this two-day, single-stream, and in-person conference,...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 04.08.2023
  5. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 12.10.2023
    Identität in Sprache und Literatur: Räume und Konstellationen zwischen Schlesien und Kurpfalz
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Identität in Sprache und Literatur: Räume und Konstellationen zwischen Schlesien und Kurpfalz, Wrocław, 12. und 13. Oktober 2023 (Abschlusstagung der Germanistischen Institutspartnerschaft (GIP) zwischen Heidelberg und Breslau) Nach drei...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 04.08.2023
  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: 30.09.2023
    Narrative Fiction and its Alternatives Forms (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the academic world, there is a constant exploration of new forms, genres, philosophies, and directions—reworking established concepts and creating new ones. While storytelling initially existed in verbal speech and gestures, modern mediums such as...

    Fields of research Literary genre,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 04.08.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Extending Jouissance: The Excessive and The Transgressive in Contemporary Texts (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Jouissance, the iconic Lacanian concept, means “surplus enjoyment,” where excessive pleasure converts into unpleasure and even pain after going beyond the subject’s affective or sensory capacity. Inherited from Freudian psychoanalysis, combined with...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Intermediality,  Aesthetics and 1 more
    Created on: 04.08.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.09.2023
    Loneliness - 5th International Interdisciplinary Conference
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Conference online (via Zoom) CFP: What makes us happy and content in our life? Some people may point to fabulous fame, fortune, or money. Some may say that the key to happiness are interpersonal relationships. But what if someone is...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 04.08.2023
  10. 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
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Senses and War (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    How do authors describe the sensory reality of war? What are the sounds of war, the smells of war (the textures, visuals, taste of war)? How are these described and how do they differ? These are questions that remain of interest to historians and...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology and 3 more
    Created on: 24.07.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.08.2023
    Literature and Popular Culture – Northeast Popular & American Culture Association (Fully Virtual Conference, NEPCA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Literature and Popular Culture area for the 2023 Northeast Popular & American Culture Association conference is accepting paper and panel proposals from faculty and graduate students. NEPCA’s 2023 fully virtual (note: conference had been...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies,  Formula literature and 1 more
    Created on: 24.07.2023
  13. 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
  14. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 02.08.2023
    Limbus 2024: Verschwörung/Conspiracy
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Location Victoria, Australia Subject Fields Art, Art History & Visual Studies, , Film and Film History, , German History / Studies, , Journalism and Media Studies, , Literature Limbus 2024:...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and sociology,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 21.07.2023
  15. 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