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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.02.2025
    Conference on Domestic Cats in Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Submissions are invited for a scholarly conference on domestic cats in literature to be hosted online 13-15 March 2025 by the Troy University Department of English. Papers may address any aspect of the subject, including—but not limited to—the...

    Fields of research Comic,  Children's and young adult literature,  Aesthetics and 2 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  2. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 17.09.2024
    Tagung Konzepte und Wahrnehmungsmodi der Natur in der neueren Lyrik – komparatistische Zugänge
    Submitted by: Adela Sophia Sabban

    17.9. – 19.9.2024 Universität Trier, Konferenzsaal: N2 Organisiert von: Prof. Dr. Henrieke Stahl (Slavische Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Trier), Prof. Dr. Ralph Müller (Neuere deutschsprachige...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 8 more
    Created on: 06.09.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.11.2024
    The Social Impact of Climate Fiction. A Cross-Disciplinary Conference
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Overview: This conference seeks to consolidate emergent scholarship and artworks that explore the power of narrative to motivate climate-conscious action. The emphasis in this conference is on climate narratives in practice; in other words, it is...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism
    Created on: 06.09.2024
  4. Julia Lückl
    University or institution: Universität Wien
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and sociology; Literature and cultural studies; Poetics; Children's and young adult literature; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.09.2024
    Les visages de l'eau. Dialogue France-Chine (Clermont-Ferrand & en ligne)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Séminaire « Les visages de l’eau : Dialogue France-Chine » 2024-2025 Organisatrices : Oriane Chevalier (Université Clermont Auvergne), Leanne Rae Darnbrough (KU Leuven) Avec le soutien du Pôle de recherches sur l’eau, de l’Ecole...

    Fields of research French literature,  East Asian literature,  Ecocriticism and 3 more
    Created on: 09.08.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.09.2024
    Les "nouveaux mutants" de la culture pop (XXe-XXIe s.) : sémiologie du désastre ou utopie posthumaniste ? (revue Études littéraires)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Quel est le point commun entre « l’Homme qui devint gorille » de Magog, les X-Men, Tony Stark et les autres « hommes de fer » nés vingt ans plus tard au cinéma dont Robocop chez Verhoeven, Terminator chez Cameron, Tetsuo chez Tsukamoto, les «...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 09.08.2024
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 01.09.2024
    Akademische Mitarbeiterin/ Akademischer Mitarbeiter im Bereich Literaturwissenschaft und Literaturdidaktik (w/m/d) Kennziffer 39/2024 | Karlsruhe
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Pädagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe ist eine bildungswissenschaftliche Hochschule mit rund 3.600 Studierenden und einem breiten Angebot an lehramts- und nicht-lehramtsbezogenen Bachelor- und Masterstudiengängen. An der Fakultät für...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Didactics of Literature,  Children's and young adult literature
    Created on: 22.07.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.09.2024
    Teaching (With) Picturebooks: Context, Competences, Criticism
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Symposium at the University of Rostock 25-26 November 2024 organized by Dr. Katja Schmidt & Dr. Hanne Bolze Key note speakers: Prof. Dr. Tobias Kurwinkel (Universität Hamburg) Dr. Grit Bergner (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) As...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Didactics of Literature and 3 more
    Created on: 22.07.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2024
    Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung
    Submitted by: Anna Stemmann

    English version below Thema: Unheimlich! „Sie bringen den Schrecken in die heile Familienwelt: Unschuldig lächelnd treten sie mit ihren kleinen Füßen ein Loch in den dünnen Boden der Zivilisation.“ So fasst die Süddeutsche Zeitung ...

    Fields of research Children's and young adult literature
    Created on: 15.07.2024
  12. Anna Stemmann
    University or institution: Universität Leipzig
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Ecocriticism; Literature and cultural studies; Children's and young adult literature

  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 16.08.2024
    All US Come Cross the Water: Diasporic Ecological Practices & Intergenerational Relations (ASWAD 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel seeks papers for the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora’s (ASWAD) 12th Biennial and 25th Anniversary Conference that will be held in Saint Louis, Missouri at the Marriott St. Louis Grand Hotel from October 29th...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and 2 more
    Created on: 08.07.2024
  14. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 25.09.2024
    Internationale DFG-Tagung: Writing a British Childhood in a Global Context? Critical Perspectives on Enid Blyton, Potsdam
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Enid Blyton is one of the world’s most well-known and prolific authors of children’s literature. Her book series have entertained children across the globe and across generations for almost a century. The conference Writing a British Childhood in a...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  World Literature,  Children's and young adult literature
    Created on: 08.07.2024
  15. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 10.07.2024
    Medien, Landschaft und globale Reiseliteratur. Workshop anlässlich des DAAD-Fellowship von Prof. Dr. Caroline Schaumann, Universität Vechta
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Medien, Landschaft und globale Reiseliteratur Workshop anlässlich des DAAD-Fellowship von Prof. Dr. Caroline Schaumann Universität Vechta, 10.07.2024 - 17.30 Uhr, N 118 13.30 - 14.10 Walter Erhart (Universität Bielefeld) ...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and geography/cartography,  travel literature
    Created on: 24.06.2024