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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Modernism in the Twenty-First Century (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Chris Gortmaker Co-Organizer: Joseph Staten Can the modernism genie truly be sequestered in its twentieth-century bottle? This seminar invites papers that explore the possible persistence of aesthetic modernism in...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 6 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Aesthetics and Ethics of the Fragment in Remembering and Forgetting Historical Violence (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Jeanne Devautour Choi From civil wars to military dictatorships, from global conflicts to racial, religious, or ethnic genocides, historical violence, in its many forms, fractures societies, deepens divisions, and leaves lasting...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and philosophy and 2 more
    Created on: 04.10.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Beyond the Capitals of Decadence (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Florian Zappe

    Beyond the Capitals of Decadence Since antiquity, the elusive concept of ‘decadence’—regardless whether defined as a socio-cultural phenomenon, an artistic movement, or as an aesthetic programme—has been associated with the city. Especially...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries and 13 more
    Created on: 02.10.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Varieties of the Impersonal (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Impersonality has long been invoked as a marker of modernity and of its literary-aesthetic correlate in modernism: anonymity and ennui appear as symptoms of urbanization and bureaucracy; modern science announces the reign of objectivity; social...

    Fields of research Literature and media studies,  Poetics,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 27.09.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Web3 and the Question Concerning Technology (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Digital technologies have transformed our personal lives as well as our political, economic, and social contexts. The Internet-ization (if not the internationalization) of the world by technology has enabled unprecedented forms of cooperation and...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literature and philosophy,  Literature and visual studies and 1 more
    Created on: 27.09.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 18.11.2024
    2025 DDGC Conference "Interdependence and Solidarity Formations in German Studies and the Arts"
    Submitted by: Jeannette Oholi

    April 10-12, 2025 (Online) The fifth biennial DDGC Conference will draw on our collective’s long tradition of coming together in community to take stock of the field and anticipate better structures for it in the future. We will gather under...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 2 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  7. Michael Gamper
    University or institution: FU Berlin
    Fields of research: Literary theory; Literature and natural science; Prose; Aesthetics

  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 07.10.2024
    Zukunftsdenken und Zukunftsästhetik in literarischen, kulturellen und medialen Diskursen der Moderne (1880–1950), Bonn
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Workshop "Zukunftsdenken und Zukunftsästhetik in literarischen, kulturellen und medialen Diskursen der Moderne (1880–1950)" 13.–15. Februar 2025 an der Universität Bonn Organisation: Fabian Lampart (Potsdam),...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies,  Intermediality and 4 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  9. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 26.09.2024
    Rückkehr des Ressentiments? Stereotype in Medien, Kulturphilosophie und Literatur, Schloss Wiepersdorf
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Rückkehr des Ressentiments? Stereotype in Medien, Kulturphilosophie und Literatur 26.–29.09.2024 Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf Bettina-von-Arnim-Str. 13 14913 Niederer Fläming Ausgerichtet von Prof. Dr. Claudia Öhlschläger...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Aesthetics and 2 more
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Alternative Poetics of Environment in South Asia (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Sumera Saleem Co-Organizer: Bharatwaj Iyer In his 2009 text entitled Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, José Esteban Muñoz describes the political power of art in imagining and reimagining “other ways of...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Ecocriticism and 3 more
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality The invocation and use of stone in poetry – as image, metaphor, medium – has a long and varied history. Quarried, shaped, displaced and put to use in both material and...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Poetics and 3 more
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    ‘Prompting’ World Literature: Gerenative AI, Comparative Aesthetics, New Hegemonies, New Peripheries? (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The surge of generative AI poses new challenges for conceptualising world literature and comparative aesthetics. While AI is trained using large datasets containing ‘human’-created works, critical discourse seems to (tacitly) posit a new ‘humanist’...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.02.2025
    Conference on Domestic Cats in Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Submissions are invited for a scholarly conference on domestic cats in literature to be hosted online 13-15 March 2025 by the Troy University Department of English. Papers may address any aspect of the subject, including—but not limited to—the...

    Fields of research Comic,  Children's and young adult literature,  Aesthetics and 2 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Le pèlerinage musical en Europe durant le long XIXe siècle
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel à communications « Le pèlerinage musical en Europe durant le long XIXe siècle » Colloque international Université libre de Bruxelles – 22-23 mai 2025 Août 1876. La petite bourgade franconienne de Bayreuth...

    Fields of research Literature and theology/study of religions,  Literature and music/sound studies,  Literature and geography/cartography and 6 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  15. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 10.10.2024
    Final Issues. Endings in Modern Intellectual History
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Histories of political, intellectual, literary and aesthetic movements are often told through documents of their beginnings: Manifestos, declarations, and programs testify to what groups, avant-gardes or collectives stand for, what they want to...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and publishing/booktrade and 4 more
    Created on: 04.09.2024