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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.08.2023
    Kala pani Crossings #3: Across the Oceans: Post-Indentureship Trans-Oceanic Transformations (Pondichéry)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Kala pani Crossings #3: Across the Oceans: Post-Indentureship Trans-Oceanic Transformations Dates: February 22-24, 2024 Venue: Institut Français de Pondichéry / French Institute of Pondicherry Languages: English and French ...

    Fields of research Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  South Asian literature,  Australian/Oceanian literature and 3 more
    Created on: 25.08.2023
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Politics and narratives of the body (Padova, Italy)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The International Colloquium Politics and Narratives of the Body aims to open an interdisciplinary dialogue, considering the multiple ways of thinking, representing, embodying and writing corporeality, particularly in contemporary contexts. The...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and other forms of art and 6 more
    Created on: 25.08.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.04.2024
    Swiss Literary Multilingualism: A Challenge to the Monolingual Paradigm
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Journal of Literary Multilingualism Call for Papers - Special Issue - 2/2025: Swiss Literary Multilingualism: A Challenge to the Monolingual Paradigm Switzerland represents a unique linguistic situation. On the one hand, the Swiss...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Postcolonial studies,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality
    Created on: 23.08.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2023
    Rejoinder Call for Submissions -- The Archival is Political -- Deadline December 15 (Call for Submissions -- online interdisciplinary journal)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Archival is Political This issue of Rejoinder addresses the power and politics of the archive as an object of fascination for feminist/queer scholars and activists. Carolyn Steedman states that “you find nothing in the Archive but stories...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology and 2 more
    Created on: 23.08.2023
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    From Biopolitics to Ecoaesthetics: Legacies of Encroachment(s) (French and Francophone Studies (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    “Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man’s nose begins,” is a popular ( Zechariah Chafee, 1919) is a popular aphorism in legal imaginaries that theoretically synthesizes the scope of concepts such as freedom, power, and...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 14.08.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Invisible Orientation: The Effacement of Asexuality (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Please submit your abstracts using the portal: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20352 . Critic Angela Sondra Decker defines asexuality ‘the invisible orientation’ to describe how this sexual orientation is often under discussed and...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 14.08.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Cultural Representations of Social Reproduction (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel will focus on cultural representations of social reproduction. Social reproduction theory developed from a Marxist-feminist concern for typically-unwaged labor performed outside the traditional workplace, demonstrating how this “invisible”...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Novel and 1 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Spare, (Almost) Never Heir: Girls, Second Sons and Other Fantastic Creatures (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    As much as surplus indicates plenty, it also hints at excess. If the word is applied to people rather than goods, it suggests a denigration of status and even a certain dehumanization. What happens when the word ‘surplus’ is made adjacent to power?...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and social and cultural anthropology and 1 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 04.09.2023
    Social and Environmental (In)Justice in Discourse & in the Literary/Artistic Imagination (annual conference)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Event website: www.ens-conference-tunis.com Use the above website to register for the event. The conference aims at inviting scholarly examinations of the discursive patterns—historiographic, documentary, theoretical, and artistic—within...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 6 more
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Romantic Motherhood (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In a time when reproductive rights are under attack and mother’s bodies are increasingly surveilled and regulated by the state, mothers are rendered as “surplus” to the value of the (future) child. How might literary representations in the Romantic...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 04.08.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 29.09.2023
    She Said, He Said, They Said: (Un)Reliable Narrators in Literature (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From monologues offering invectives about various characters in Shakespearean plays and poetry; suspicious narrations involving characters in Hawthorne’s short stories and novels; distrustful narrators in Marge Percy’s sci-fi stories, novels and...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Narratology,  Literature of the 19th century and 2 more
    Created on: 28.07.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2023
    Komik - Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 2024
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    [English version below] Thema: Komik Was ist komisch daran, dass Wednesday Addams in Tim Burtons TV-Serie Wednesday (USA 2022) zwei Plastiktüten voller Piranhas in den Pool entlässt, in dem die aufstrebenden Sportler der...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Intermediality,  Poetics and 3 more
    Created on: 28.07.2023