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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Radical Bodies
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Human bodies and, by extension, human subjectivity have long been contested spaces. Against traditional Eurocentric and anthropocentric definitions of the human as a stable identity abstracted from its surrounding environment, movements like...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 2 more
    Created on: 02.08.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Archival Activisms: Resistance In/Through Print
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel is sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Caucus, NeMLA Drawing from several decades’ worth of critical re-evaluations of the structures and limitations of the literary archive, in which “retroactivist”, recovery-oriented ethics...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Reader-response criticism,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 02.08.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Women's Progress in African Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From an early stage, the modern African novel has recognized the unjust challenges faced by African women. Even novels of the 1950's, such as Cyprian Ekwensi's People of the City (1954), bear witness to the difficulties that women face in...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 02.08.2024
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Post-Colonialism and the Struggle for Identity (NeMLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel will focus on the struggles for identity that have arisen in the post-colonial era. It will examine how the legacy of colonialism has impacted identity formation and the construction of national and cultural identities in Africa, Europe,...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology and 1 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Corporeal Technologies: Modifying and Augmenting the Body (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The intersection of technology and the human body has given rise to a myriad of possibilities that transform our perception of self, relationships, and the world around us. In this panel, we will delve into representations of corporeal technologies...

    Fields of research French literature,  North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and 6 more
    Created on: 23.08.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    (Re)reading feminist speculative fiction post-Roe v. Wade (2024 Northeast Modern Language Association )
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the introduction to the collection Technologies of Speculative Fiction (2022), Sherryl Vint writes, “The same technologies that now give women more options regarding reproductive choices are simultaneously utilized by the Christian Right to...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  The fictional and 1 more
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Spectacle and Empathy: The Role of Excessive (Em)Body(ment) in Narrative (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Narratives need bodies. Stories are populated by characters whose bodies serve as focalizers for our experience of the narrated world. Certain genres, like body horror, pornography or fanfiction, are predicated on bodily excess, “spill[ing] out over...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Aesthetics,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Intersectional Crime Fiction: Investigating the Genre (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel examines the continuum of intersectional crime fiction writing in a U.S. context, illuminating the methods, exemplary texts, and narrative strategies that embrace inclusive tenets and movements, from Black Lives Matter to LGBTQ+ rights to...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 1 more
    Created on: 21.08.2023