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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The Ends of the Road: Rethinking the Borders of the Picaresque (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Emily Mulvihill The picaresque has largely fallen out of vogue in literary studies. Nevertheless, the genre has long shaped the study of many of the world’s major literary traditions. So, what happens if we rethink both our use of...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and geography/cartography and 3 more
    Created on: 11.10.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Unreliable Narration in Nineteenth- To Twenty-First-Century Fiction (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Carlo Arrigoni Co-Organizer: Irene Bulla What makes a narrator unreliable, and through which textual strategies is unreliability established? What is the role of unreliable narration in the development of the novel...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 6 more
    Created on: 11.10.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Literature and International Development (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Susanna Sacks Co-Organizer: Lauren Horst “Literature, whether handed down by word of mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality…What better preparation can a people desire as they begin their journey into the strange,...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology and 2 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Documentary Fever (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Rosana Hernández In the short story “Documentary Novelist,” by Argentinian author Sergio Chejfec, the narrator tries to explain to a hotel worker his determination to have his picture taken with the hotel’s macaws: “I explain to her...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and visual studies and 2 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The World Republic of Rejection (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Amanda Malone Gwendolyn Brooks began work on what would become her first novel, Maud Martha, in 1944, first submitting the manuscript to her editors in 1947. And yet, her novel would not be published until almost a decade later....

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology and 2 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    What Are the Key Concepts of Literary Study? (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Delineating the Concept-Field of Literature: What Are the Basic Units of Analysis of Literary Study? In contrast to many other academic fields where the subject matter is clearly defined across its given scalar range—such as the cell and the...

    Fields of research Didactics of Literature,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy and 3 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  7. 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
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The Uses of Prose (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Musab Abdul Salam Co-Organizer: Feba Rasheed During the colonial period, South Asia witnessed the rise of new literary forms, particularly in prose, that attempted to grapple with the complexities ushered in by...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 3 more
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2025
    Écritures du travail : pour une approche comparatiste (1875 - 1975)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Publié le mardi 27 août 2024 Résumé Depuis la rationalisation du travail, accentuée au XIXe siècle par l’industrialisation, de nombreuses sociétés humaines sont majoritairement composées d’une classe laborieuse, paysanne, ouvrière et...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Literature and sociology and 4 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  10. 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
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Genre(s) et frontière(s)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Argumentaire La frontière est l’une des questions cruciales de la littérature comparée. L’étude des œuvres littéraires issues de contextes culturels et linguistiques différents mène à définir et à interroger les points de contact, les limites,...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literary genre
    Created on: 26.08.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.09.2024
    Les littératures des mondes de l’Islam à l’épreuve des contestations. Représenter, d’Europe en Orient, le refus de la norme (Lille)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Université de Lille, jeudi 27 et vendredi 28 février 2025 Les propositions de communication, d’environ 300 mots, assorties d’un titre et de quelques lignes de présentation bio-bibliographique, seront à envoyer par courriel au plus tard le...

    Fields of research South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey),  North African literature,  Near Eastern literature and 7 more
    Created on: 05.08.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Sketching the Spectral: Ghosts in French-language Graphic Novels
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel examines the wide-ranging use of ghosts in graphic novels. The idea is based on an application of Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntologie within the context of the bande dessinée, a medium that lends itself to the spectral in that it can...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literary genre,  Comic
    Created on: 02.08.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.09.2024
    Panel im Rahmen des 28. Deutschen Germanistentages 2025: Auf kurzem Weg klären. Zur Verknappung von Dialogen, Braunschweig
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Auf kurzem Weg klären. Zur Verknappung von Dialogen Wenn Angestellte etwas auf kurzem Dienstweg klären, heißt das, dass sie sich schnell und unkompliziert über bestimmte Sachverhalte verständigen, ohne dass sie eine:n Vorgesetzte:n...

    Fields of research Literature and media studies,  Literary genre,  Rhetoric
    Created on: 26.07.2024
  15. 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