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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    This Magick Moment: Revolutionary Witchcraft and Cultural Change (NeMLA 2025) (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Papers: Panel Something momentous is brewing within contemporary witchcraft scholarship. Borne from calls for revolution, justice, and cultural emendation, new voices in witchcraft studies are amending antiquity within the pages of...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 29.07.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Yiddish Technologies in Text and Context (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    PANEL ABSTRACT This interdisciplinary session invites scholars to submit papers which explore the intersections of Yiddish culture and the history of technology. Diasporic Yiddish culture is formed by the constant tension between forces of...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies
    Created on: 29.07.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Stigmatization: Exploring Infertility in Latin American Literature and Cinema (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel explores the intricate portrayals of infertility in Latin American Literature and Cinema, focusing on stigmatization and its interplay with trauma and intersectionality. Infertility, often laden with societal and cultural implications, is...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology and 3 more
    Created on: 29.07.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2024
    Drawing the Line: Race, Gender, Ethics, and the Arts
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Drawing the Line: Race, Gender, Ethics, and the Arts The New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College Where do we draw the line? If we take the aphorism that morals have aesthetic criteria, then how should we think about...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and other forms of art and 4 more
    Created on: 29.07.2024
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Reading Reading: Contemporary Literary Practices (Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA))
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We are constantly engaged in processes of reading. We read literary texts, historical sources, films and other media, political moods and affects, and shifting social formations. Amongst the plethora of reading strategies available to us, close...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 26.07.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Family Abolition and Social Revolution: Theories of Social Reproduction Now (NeMLA 25)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The last twenty years have marked a wave of renewed interest in social reproduction theory, from the republication of work associated with the 1970s Wages for Housework campaign from theorists like Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Selma James, and Silvia...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 26.07.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Silent Revolution: Silence as a form of female resistance (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In her seminal work, Oscillation Between Power and Denial (1981), Julia Kristeva presents a compelling argument: “Estranged from language, women are visionaries, dancers who suffer as they speak” (167). This statement encapsulates the prevalent...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Poetics and 1 more
    Created on: 26.07.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.09.2024
    Panel im Rahmen des 28. Deutschen Germanistentages 2025: Auf kurzem Weg klären. Zur Verknappung von Dialogen, Braunschweig
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Auf kurzem Weg klären. Zur Verknappung von Dialogen Wenn Angestellte etwas auf kurzem Dienstweg klären, heißt das, dass sie sich schnell und unkompliziert über bestimmte Sachverhalte verständigen, ohne dass sie eine:n Vorgesetzte:n...

    Fields of research Literature and media studies,  Literary genre,  Rhetoric
    Created on: 26.07.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Birth Trauma (2025 NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Birth trauma is recurrent around the globe where it is estimated that one third of the birthing people experience some forms of trauma and PTDS. This panel aims to examine contemporary narratives of birth trauma appeared in the last 20 years in an...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and natural science
    Created on: 22.07.2024
  12. 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
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2024
    Panel: Der (para-)dialogische Modus und die Literaturen der Gegenwart (28. Deutscher Germanistentag, Braunschweig)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Panel | 28. Deutscher Germanistentag | 14.–17. September 2025 | TU Braunschweig | Thema: „Dialog“ | Sektion: Themenbereich 2: Formen und Prozess von Dialog Spätestens mit dem Aufkommen von Influencer:innen lässt sich eine beträchtliche...

    Fields of research Literature and media studies,  Aesthetics,  Rhetoric
    Created on: 22.07.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 06.09.2024
    Rahel Levin Varnhagens ›Denkblätter‹. Schreibformen und Kontexte
    Submitted by: Elisabeth Flucher

    Tagung 02.-04.06.2025, Schloss Rauischholzhausen Organisation: Dr. Elisabeth Flucher (Universität Siegen) Dr. Daniela Henke (Universität Gießen) Die Rahel Levin Varnhagen-Forschung stützte sich bis dato in all ihren sich...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature,  Literature and philosophy and 2 more
    Created on: 18.07.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2024
    THE BEATS, RADICALISM, AND THE BIPOLAR WORLD - 13th Annual Conference of the European Beat Studies Network (EBSN)
    Submitted by: Florian Zappe

    Call for Papers The Beats, Radicalism, and the Bipolar World European Beat Studies Network 13th Annual Conference University of Hildesheim September 15-17, 2025 Organizers: Heike...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary) and 9 more
    Created on: 12.07.2024