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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: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 10.09.2024
    ilb 2024 | Whispers from the Past: Collective Remembering
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Forms of remembering bring together the very different literary worlds of the fjords of Scandinavia, the Chilean metropolis of Santiago, and the Congo Delta for this event. Whether through the traces of political violence or personal experiences, the...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and 1 more
    Created on: 29.07.2024
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2024
    Drawing the Line: Race, Gender, Ethics, and the Arts
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Drawing the Line: Race, Gender, Ethics, and the Arts The New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College Where do we draw the line? If we take the aphorism that morals have aesthetic criteria, then how should we think about...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and other forms of art and 4 more
    Created on: 29.07.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    The Aging Detective in 21st Century Fiction (NeMLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Although some of the most iconic British fictional detectives—Marple, Poirot, and Holmes—are old-age pensioners, the 21st century is witnessing a proliferation of aging detectives in fiction, television, and film. Among recent novels are Jesse Q....

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 29.07.2024
  7. 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
  8. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 05.09.2024
    (Re)Create. Towards a Theory of Heteronomous Texts
    Submitted by: Johanna Schubert

    You are kindly invited to an interdisciplinary and international conference hosted by the DFG Research Training Group 2792. The conference will focus on the strategies and intentions in heteronomous texts in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Heteronomy...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 9 more
    Created on: 23.07.2024
  9. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 11.09.2024
    ilb 2024 | QUEERE UND TRANS* ZEITLICHKEITEN: KOLLEKTIVITÄTEN IN POESIE
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Getilgte Vergangenheiten, prekäre Gegenwart und unvorstellbare Zukünfte – solche Erfahrungen teilen viele queere und trans* Menschen noch heute. Dies wird spürbar in Zsuka Nagys pointierter Lyrik, Łęko Zygmuntównes poetischem Laboratorium und Sergei...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 2 more
    Created on: 22.07.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2024
    Panel: Der (para-)dialogische Modus und die Literaturen der Gegenwart (28. Deutscher Germanistentag, Braunschweig)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Panel | 28. Deutscher Germanistentag | 14.–17. September 2025 | TU Braunschweig | Thema: „Dialog“ | Sektion: Themenbereich 2: Formen und Prozess von Dialog Spätestens mit dem Aufkommen von Influencer:innen lässt sich eine beträchtliche...

    Fields of research Literature and media studies,  Aesthetics,  Rhetoric
    Created on: 22.07.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2024
    WORKSHOP Fliehende Sprachen. Grammatik – Literatur – Politik
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CfP: WORKSHOP Fliehende Sprachen. Grammatik – Literatur – Politik (Dresden, 6./7. März 2025) In der jüngeren deutschsprachigen Literatur begegnet vermehrt die Tendenz, die Grenzen dessen zu sprengen, was als sprachlicher „Standard“...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 22.07.2024
  12. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 29.07.2024
    Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in (Predoc) (m/w/d) für das Projekt “The Seven Sages of Rome Revisited: Striving for an Alternative Literary History”, Freie Universität Berlin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    [Please see below for English version] Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in (Predoc) (m/w/d) für das Projekt “The Seven Sages of Rome Revisited: Striving for an Alternative Literary History” mit 75% Teilzeitbeschäftigung befristet auf 3 Jahre Entgeltgruppe 13...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey),  Near Eastern literature and 3 more
    Created on: 22.07.2024
  13. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 24.10.2024
    International Workshop | Towards a Theory of the Modern Religious Bookshelf
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organised by Christian Meyer (Freie Universität Berlin/EXC 2020), project The Invention of the Modern Religious Bookshelf: Canons, Concepts and Communities (2022-) , Research Area 3: "Future Perfect". Guiding questions: How, under...

    Fields of research Literature and theology/study of religions,  Literature and publishing/booktrade,  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century) and 6 more
    Created on: 19.07.2024
  14. Alexandra Irimia
    University or institution: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
    Fields of research: Narratology; World Literature; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and sociology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and visual studies; Intermediality; Aesthetics; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2024
    THE BEATS, RADICALISM, AND THE BIPOLAR WORLD - 13th Annual Conference of the European Beat Studies Network (EBSN)
    Submitted by: Florian Zappe

    Call for Papers The Beats, Radicalism, and the Bipolar World European Beat Studies Network 13th Annual Conference University of Hildesheim September 15-17, 2025 Organizers: Heike...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary) and 9 more
    Created on: 12.07.2024