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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2025
    "Indigenous Ecocriticism: Paradigm Shifts in Environmental Literature" (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Environmental Humanities is experiencing an unprecedented influx of creative and critical works from writers of indigenous literature. The immense literary revolution associated with climate change and environmental discourse is a contributing...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 1 more
    Created on: 26.07.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    The Implications of Generative AI for Human Creativity, Originality—and Deception (NeMLA )
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Recent developments in generative artificial intelligence (AI) are currently transforming literary and visual studies—raising issues that range from copyright infringement; to human-computer interaction and collaboration; to the inspirations for...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and visual studies and 4 more
    Created on: 26.07.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Bodies in (R)Evolution: Labor, Embodiment, and Resistance (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The covid-19 pandemic not only sparked conversations on the gendered division of household chores and care but also brought to light the paradox of the “essential-worker.” Despite being deemed “essential” to society, these workers-often women,...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and sociology
    Created on: 22.07.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Reimagining Premodern Disability: Excess, Surplus, Gain (NEMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel puts forward premodern disability as enhancement, surplus, or even reward, drawing from the concept of “disability gain,” coined by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Fox, Krings, Vierke, 2019), to reformulate disability as gain, instead of loss,...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 6 more
    Created on: 23.08.2023
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Troublesome Matters: Materiality through Literature, Film, and Comics (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This roundtable is being organized as part of NeMLA 2024 , centered around the theme of SURPLUS . Description: We live in a world brimming with tangible entities. The material reality we are enmeshed in fascinates us yet also...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Ecocriticism,  Literature and sociology and 4 more
    Created on: 23.08.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Half Knowledge: Identity, Philosophical Difficulty and the Remains of Value (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Panel: Half Knowledge: Identity, Philosophical Difficulty and the Remains of Value Chair(s): Leo Kadokura (University of Oxford) This panel will look at what is left over in discussions of identity by placing literature in dialogue with...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 14.08.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Once Upon a Time, You Lied: Narrative and the Moral Crisis (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    “There’s something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator,” Maria Semple. The fiction Narrative is domineering; its effect depends on the impact of the emotions intended by the writer or...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy and 2 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Lingering Modernisms (NeMLA 55th Annual Conference)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    “Make it new.” The rallying cry of modernism supposes something which came earlier which is to be reimagined across the literature and arts of the early twentieth century. Ezra Pound’s maxim represents the bridge between the old and the new, as...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and other forms of art and 2 more
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    From a Surplus of Time (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Climate change and impending ecological crises make clear, we are running short of time. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) argues that we have until 2030 to limit global warming to 1.5C. Assuming that the status quo endures, at...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  10. 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
  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: 30.09.2022
    Posthumanism, Biocentrism, and Ecocriticism in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature (NeMLA 2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Posthumanism, biocentrism, and ecocriticism have profoundly impacted the fields of literary studies and critical theory in the last two decades: more and more scholars have investigated how literature engages with the relationship between humans...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Ecocriticism,  Narratology and 2 more
    Created on: 16.09.2022
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    The Intertext in Literature and Film - NeMLA Panel (NeMLA's 54th Annual Convention)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The panel, “The Intertext in Literature and Film”, aims at gathering papers that discuss the plurality of texts in literary genres and the film genre. Intertextuality is conceived of, in this discussion, from Kristeva’s coinage of the term. In her...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literature and other forms of art,  Poetics
    Created on: 22.08.2022
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    The Russian Realist Novel and the World (NeMLA 2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The panel seeks to examine Russian realist novels and their impact on other world literatures of the nineteenth and twentieth century, as well as contemporary authors, and study the possible connections between the Russian realist tradition and...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Literature and sociology,  Literature and philosophy and 4 more
    Created on: 12.08.2022
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    The Aesthetics of Humanity. The Influence of Literature on the Concept of Human Rights (Panel 19345, NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    NeMLA 2022 (Baltimore, Maryland), 10th-13th March 2022 The Aesthetics of Humanity. The Influence of Literature on the Concept of Human Rights Isabella Dr. Ferron (Università “La Sapienza”, Rome) This panel aims to analyze...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and law and 3 more
    Created on: 03.09.2021