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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Pregnancy Loss in Contemporary Literature and Film (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Please consider submitting an abstract for the 2024 NeMLA Convention: This panel aims to examine how elective, therapeutic, spontaneous abortions, and stillbirths are represented in work of literature and cinema from an interdisciplinary and...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and natural science,  Intermediality and 3 more
    Created on: 14.08.2023
  4. 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
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 29.09.2023
    Revisiting Closet Poets (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Poetry is a perfect medium to explore all of the key issues planned for the 55th Annual NeMLA Convention. The focus of this year’s convention is Surplus, topics indirectly identified on the NeMLA website as “associated with profit and value, but...

    Fields of research Lyric poetry
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Lyric Resilience: The Subject and its Questions (Seminar) (NeMLA 2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Abstract In his famous essay 'On Lyric Poetry and Society', Adorno argues that the lyric subject is conditioned by a “collective undercurrent” that makes it “more than a mere subject” and prevents poetic language from being fully...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poetics,  Lyric poetry
    Created on: 09.09.2022
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Encounters and Dis-encounters in Latin American Erotic Poetry and Narrative (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organization: Northeast Modern Language Association Event: 53rd NeMLA Annual Convention This panel explores concepts and stereotypes lying behind the vision of love and eroticism expressed by Latin American authors. This panel...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 2 more
    Created on: 30.08.2021
  12. 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
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022: When Poets Write About Poets: Representation(s) of the Poet and Poetry in Poetic Works
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From the very first traces of written poetry, poets have been inspired by their peers: whether with elegies, odes or allusions to the poets they admired, they have always incorporated figures of poets and other poetic texts in their own poems....

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Poetics and 1 more
    Created on: 21.06.2021