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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    NeMLA 2023: 'The Social Hieroglyphic': Modernist Reading Practices and their Afterlives
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Anticipating notions of modern cryptography, Marx famously observed in Capital Vol. I, that value “does not have its description branded on its forehead; it rather transforms every product of labour into a social hieroglyphic.” Therefore, to...

    Fields of research Reader-response criticism,  Literature and sociology,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 26.09.2022
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    NeMLA 2023: North African Women Writers (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From Nawal el Saadawi’s writings against FGM to Tunisian protests advocating for changes to inheritance law, this panel considers North Africa’s women writers in conversation with the conference theme, resilience. How have these women writers...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Feminist studies,  Postcolonial studies
    Created on: 16.09.2022
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Music in Literature (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The proposed interdisciplinary panel examines the rich relationship of music and literary works within various world literatures focusing primarily on the twentieth century, but presentations within a broader time frame will also be considered. We...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and music/sound studies and 2 more
    Created on: 12.08.2022
  4. 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
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    In the Eye of the Beholder: Psychoanalysis and the Aesthetic Object (54th NeMLA Annual Convention)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Chairs: Matthew Lovett (University of Pittsburgh) Julia Bruehne (University of Bremen) Kant’s account of aesthetic judgments is well-known. For him, beauty is characterized by a universal, necessary, and subjective feeling of ...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 05.08.2022
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.10.2021
    NeMLA 2022: Forgotten Genocides- Panel (NeMLA 53rd Annual Convention, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The tern Genocide was coined by Raphael Lemkin in 1944, in a context heavily influenced by the events of the Jewish Holocaust. The parameters of Genocide, and its legal consequences were gathered in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 2 more
    Created on: 04.10.2021
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Premodern Desires: The Erotic from the Symposium to the Inferno, NeMLA 2022, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ever since the publication of Foucault’s multi-volume work The History of Sexuality, scholarship, whether theoretically, historically, or literarily minded, has reckoned with the call to develop less anachronistic methodologies to analyze premodern...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology and 4 more
    Created on: 23.08.2021
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Panel on Migration, Belonging, and Afro-Europeanness, at NeMLA 2022, Baltimore
    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 Postcolonial studies,  Literature and other forms of art
    Created on: 23.08.2021
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Decolonizing Speculative Fiction in and from the Americas, Roundtable at NeMLA 2022, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Decolonial thought aims to reflect and think on new ways to communicate between cultures and think of other forms of life, other economies, other political theories in order to resist oppressive orderings of power relations. Speculative fiction sits...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 1 more
    Created on: 23.08.2021
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Literary Form, Spirituality, and Empire in the Global 20th Century (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    I am inviting abstracts for a NeMLA 2022 panel I am putting together titled "Literary Form, Spirituality, and Empire in the Global 20th Century." This panel explores the interrelations between literary form and genre, spirituality, and...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Aesthetics and 1 more
    Created on: 16.08.2021
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Masculine Wars, Feminine Exterminations: Experiences, Traumas and Revolts (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In general, war implies the use of force that could be declined in automatic, arbitrary and excessive violence. War is being used as a strategy to conquer territories and subjugate people in order to safeguard interests, be it strategic or not (Pius...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Feminist studies and 5 more
    Created on: 09.08.2021
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Between Entrapment and Release: Navigating Trauma in Contemporary World Literature, NeMLA 2022 (Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Please consider submitting an abstract for the following panel at the 2022 Northeast Modern Language Association Conference to be held from March 10-13, 2022 , in Baltimore, MD. Abstracts are accepted from June 15 to September 30, 2021 ...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Feminist studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 02.08.2021
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022: Embodiment and Agency in Postcolonial Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel holds space for depictions of embodied practices/practices of agency in bodies of women of color, queer, nonbinary, trans, and other subjectivities in postcolonial literature and literatures of the Global South. What is the relation...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Feminist studies and 3 more
    Created on: 16.07.2021
  14. 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
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022, Guerres au masculin, exterminations au féminin: entre expériences, trauma et révoltes
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CFP – Panel: 53rd annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA 2022) Guerres au masculin, exterminations au féminin: entre expériences, trauma et révoltes March 10-13, Baltimore, MD En...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Literary theory and 4 more
    Created on: 28.06.2021