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  1. Category: Fellowships, stipends, scholarships etc.
    Application deadline: 15.01.2022
    5-Year Fellowships for Graduate Students, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The German program at the Johns Hopkins University invites applications for PhD students to begin in Fall 2022, with 5 years of generous funding to be offered to all admitted graduate students. The program at Johns Hopkins is among the most...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 5 more
    Created on: 29.11.2021
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.10.2021
    NeMLA 2022: Forgotten Genocides- Panel (NeMLA 53rd Annual Convention, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The tern Genocide was coined by Raphael Lemkin in 1944, in a context heavily influenced by the events of the Jewish Holocaust. The parameters of Genocide, and its legal consequences were gathered in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 2 more
    Created on: 04.10.2021
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    The Aesthetics of Humanity. The Influence of Literature on the Concept of Human Rights (Panel 19345, NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    NeMLA 2022 (Baltimore, Maryland), 10th-13th March 2022 The Aesthetics of Humanity. The Influence of Literature on the Concept of Human Rights Isabella Dr. Ferron (Università “La Sapienza”, Rome) This panel aims to analyze...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and law and 3 more
    Created on: 03.09.2021
  4. 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
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Panel on Migration, Belonging, and Afro-Europeanness, at NeMLA 2022, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel aims to explore how writers and filmmakers have articulated questions of Blackness and Europeanness, migration and cultural belonging, colonial histories and decolonial futures. In recent decades, artists, scholars, and activists from...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and other forms of art
    Created on: 23.08.2021
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Reading Literature Today, Roundtable at NeMLA 2022, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Description We welcome proposals for short presentations that address the entangled notions of literature and reading. Topics may include changing scholarly/pedagogical approaches to reading, reading in the context of multiple media, and the...

    Fields of research Didactics of Literature,  Literary theory,  Media studies and 1 more
    Created on: 23.08.2021
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    État des lieux: Women in French and Francophone Noir Fiction, NeMLA 2022, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Panel: “État des lieux”: Women in French and Francophone Noir Fiction NeMLA 2022 Baltimore, MD March 10-13 Deadline for Abstract Submissions: Sept. 30th Session Description: Apart from some chapters and articles...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature,  North African literature and 4 more
    Created on: 23.08.2021
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Decolonizing Speculative Fiction in and from the Americas, Roundtable at NeMLA 2022, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Decolonial thought aims to reflect and think on new ways to communicate between cultures and think of other forms of life, other economies, other political theories in order to resist oppressive orderings of power relations. Speculative fiction sits...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 1 more
    Created on: 23.08.2021
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Women and Spanish Kiosk Literature (1907-1939): Modernization and Mass Culture (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Description Among the thousands of novelas cortas published in Spain between 1907 and 1939, more than 300 were written by women. The present panel seeks to explore the ways in which women used early-20th-century Spanish kiosk literature as a...

    Fields of research Spanish literature,  Literary historiography,  Feminist studies and 5 more
    Created on: 20.08.2021
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Literary Form, Spirituality, and Empire in the Global 20th Century (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    I am inviting abstracts for a NeMLA 2022 panel I am putting together titled "Literary Form, Spirituality, and Empire in the Global 20th Century." This panel explores the interrelations between literary form and genre, spirituality, and...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Aesthetics and 1 more
    Created on: 16.08.2021
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Care, Knowledge, and Subjectivity: Foucault’s Epimeleia (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel seeks to explore the contemporary uses of the Greek “care” or epimeleia particularly in ways enabled by Michel Foucault’s analysis of the notion connecting to (self)knowledge, subjectivity, and mode of life. Towards the last...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 3 more
    Created on: 13.08.2021
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Masculine Wars, Feminine Exterminations: Experiences, Traumas and Revolts (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In general, war implies the use of force that could be declined in automatic, arbitrary and excessive violence. War is being used as a strategy to conquer territories and subjugate people in order to safeguard interests, be it strategic or not (Pius...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Feminist studies and 5 more
    Created on: 09.08.2021
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Hidden Truths and Uncovered Secrets in French and Francophone Fiction (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Nobody keeps a secret better than authors writing in French! From hidden crypts, family or government secrets, buried bodies, and memories to a lack of transparency and truths resurfacing unexpectedly, French and Francophone fiction abounds in acts...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literary theory,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 2 more
    Created on: 09.08.2021
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Between Entrapment and Release: Navigating Trauma in Contemporary World Literature, NeMLA 2022 (Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Please consider submitting an abstract for the following panel at the 2022 Northeast Modern Language Association Conference to be held from March 10-13, 2022 , in Baltimore, MD. Abstracts are accepted from June 15 to September 30, 2021 ...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Feminist studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 02.08.2021
  15. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 30.03.2022
    ASECS 2022: 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    ASECS 2022 52nd Annual Meeting Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor March 31–April 2, 2022 The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, established in 1969, is the foremost learned society in the United States for the...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature of the 18th century
    Created on: 26.07.2021