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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 03.09.2023
    Psyche and Symbol: a Transdisciplinary Conference
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Papers: Psyche and Symbol Conference Date: October 14-15, 2023 Location: October 14: The Association of Jungian Analysts’ Centre in London and Online October 15: Online “You see, man is in need of a symbolic life –...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    “Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make”: The Prison(er) in Literature and Film (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Imprisoned in 1642, Richard Lovelace penned the words that became his best-known: “Stone walls do not a prison make,/Nor iron walls a cage:/Minds innocent and quiet take/That for a hermitage” (“To Althea, From Prison”). Lovelace’s poem points to...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and media studies,  Intermediality and 1 more
    Created on: 14.08.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Saying the Unsayable: Narrative Experimentations in the Representation of Trauma (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Trauma is typically considered ‘responsive to and constitutive of “modernity”’ (Micale and Lerner 2001). Certainly, as argued by Mark Seltzer, ‘modernity has come to be understood under the sign of the wound’: ‘the modern subject has become...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Poetics,  The fictional and 1 more
    Created on: 14.08.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    'Carried Down to Wondrous Depths': Meaning and Metaphor in Moby Dick (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Melville's Moby Dick is a book that defiantly (and perhaps frustratingly) defies a solitary meaning. Indeed, rather than providing readers with a single message in a simple narrative, the text is instead "overflowing" with meaning and the endless...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Hermeneutics,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor) and 1 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  5. 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
  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: 15.08.2023
    II Congreso internacional CROS: Cruce de fronteras: Español y otras lenguas y literaturas en contacto / II International Congres CROS: Crossing the borders: Spanish and other languages and literatures in contact (Bruxelles)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Este II congreso internacional es una iniciativa del Grupo de Investigación CROS del Departamento de Lingüística y Estudios Literarios (lengua española) de la Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB, Bélgica) y del Departamento de Español de la Universidad...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from UK and Ireland and 5 more
    Created on: 21.07.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 05.09.2023
    Kafka und die Psychoanalyse, Universität zu Köln
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CFP: Kafka und die Psychoanalyse Tagung an der Universität zu Köln, 16. und 17. Mai 2024 Organisation: Prof. Dr. Claudia Liebrand und Prof. Dr. Dr. Rainer Kaus Traditionell zeichnet sich die Kafka-Forschung durch ihre Affinität...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology
    Created on: 14.07.2023
  10. 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
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.10.2023
    "Je est un autre". Der Doppelgänger in Literatur und Film
    Submitted by: Noelle Miller

    Der ausgeschriebene Workshop findet vom 14-16.12.2023 am Institut für Romanistik der Universität Wien statt. Mit dem Aufkommen des Individualismus im 17. Jahrhundert lässt sich ein wachsendes Interesse am Selbst und der eigenen Erfahrung (wie...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature,  Spanish literature and 3 more
    Created on: 27.06.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.07.2023
    Pastorale Akademien. Ein globales Phänomen?
    Submitted by: Luca Penge

    Pastorale Akademien. Ein globales Phänomen? - Internationale Tagung Nach Hippolyte Taine (1866) gab es eine „Zeit der Arkadier und der pastoralen Akademien“ („ temps des arcadiens et des académies pastorales“ ). Taine nennt für die...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 10 more
    Created on: 02.06.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.05.2023
    Territoires en mouvement dans les mondes hispaniques du Moyen Âge à l’époque contemporaine (Paris-Nanterre)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel à communications Colloque international Territoires en mouvement dans les mondes hispaniques du Moyen Âge à l’époque contemporaine Colloque de clôture du Projet quinquennal du CRIIA – Études romanes – Université Paris Nanterre 11...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Spanish literature and 3 more
    Created on: 26.05.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 07.07.2023
    The poetical and the political in Galician and Portuguese speaking literatures and cultures: social conflict and dialogisms (Galicia, Portugal, Brazil and Africa)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CHAMADA DE PROPOSTAS DE ARTIGOS | CALL FOR PAPERS | NÚMERO ESPECIAL DE | SPECIAL ISSUE OF Abriu: estudos de textualidade do Brasil, Galicia e Portugal (13, 2024) "O poético e o político nas literaturas e culturas de língua galega e...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Spanish literature,  Portugese literature and 3 more
    Created on: 19.05.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.05.2023
    PAMLA conference 2023, special session "Literature and Emotion", Portland/OR
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Now accepting paper proposals for the special session "Literature and Emotion" at the 120th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Portland/OR, Oct. 26-29 2023 Abstract: Literature affects us...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Aesthetics,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 08.05.2023