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  1. 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
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Literary Technique and Relations of Production (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    “Rather than…‘What is the attitude of a work to the relations of production of its time?’ I would like to ask, ‘What is its position in them?’” Ninety years on, Walter Benjamin's question in “The Author as Producer” (1934) still poses a central...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and publishing/booktrade and 1 more
    Created on: 04.08.2023
  3. 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
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.08.2023
    Erscheinungsformen geistlicher Intermedialität in der protestantischen Dramatik um 1700. Schauspiel – Oper – Oratorium
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die intermediale Konfiguration der Künste ist für die dramatischen Genres der Frühen Neuzeit von grundlegender Bedeutung. Das gilt nicht nur für die Oper als das vielleicht naheliegendste Beispiel aus dem weltlichen Bereich, sondern ebenso für...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Literature and visual studies and 5 more
    Created on: 28.07.2023
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.08.2023
    Anonymität in Briefen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, Halle/Saale
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Subject Fields: Cultural History / Studies, , Digital Humanities, , German History / Studies, , Literature Call for Papers: Anonymität in Briefen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts Workshop, 4. bis 5. April 2024,...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Digital Humanities and 5 more
    Created on: 21.07.2023
  9. 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
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Writing in the “alterity industry”: Marginalized authors and the politics of publishing (NeMLA) (Boston, MA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his 2001 book The Postcolonial Exotic, Graham Huggan describes book publishing as an “alterity industry” profiting from “the commodification of cultural difference” (12), in which authors of underrepresented backgrounds must balance their...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 19.07.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.07.2023
    „Herr Fischer, wie tief ist das Wasser?“ – Inter- und Transmediale Perspektiven auf Kinder- und Jugendmedien des Exils
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    „Herr Fischer, wie tief ist das Wasser?“ – Inter- und Transmediale Perspektiven auf Kinder- und Jugendmedien des Exils Göttingen 26./27.09.2024 Nach 1933 hat sich die Lebenswelt auch für Kinder und Jugendliche in Deutschland radikal...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and publishing/booktrade,  Intermediality and 3 more
    Created on: 14.07.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.08.2023
    Literaturgeschichten in der digitalen Lehre, Düsseldorf
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Tagung veranstaltet vom Konsortialprojekt "LiGeDi" der Universitäten Bielefeld, Paderborn und der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal, 22. bis 24. November 2023 im Heinrich-Heine-Institut in Düsseldorf. Die theoretische Unmöglichkeitserklärung...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Didactics of Literature,  Literary historiography and 1 more
    Created on: 07.07.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.08.2023
    Traveling Texts: Translating Nineteenth Century European Classics in Vernacular languages of South Asia
    Submitted by: Subramanyam K

    The proposed work is under consideration to be published in the Routledge series on ‘South Asian Literature in Focus’. Sherry Simon and Paul St-Pierre in the Introduction to their edited volume entitled ‘Changing the Terms: Translating in the...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature and 9 more
    Created on: 06.07.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 16.07.2023
    19. Tagung des Jungen Forums Slavistische Literaturwissenschaft
    Submitted by: Alena Heinritz

    Call for Papers VERLÄNGERTE BEWERBUNGSFRIST! 19. Tagung des Jungen Forums Slavistische Literaturwissenschaft 21.-23. Februar 2024 Institut für Slawistik & Institut für Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, ...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey)
    Created on: 04.07.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2023
    Hégémonie et périphéricité dans les écritures autobiographiques : textes, contextes, visibilité (Rome)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Hégémonie et périphéricité dans les écritures autobiographiques: textes, contextes, visibilité XXII Symposium international de l’Observatoire Scientifique de la mémoire autobiographique écrite, orale, iconographiqueAcademia Belgica, Via Omero...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Digital Humanities,  Literature and sociology and 2 more
    Created on: 03.07.2023