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  1. 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
  2. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 30.09.2024
    Poste d'assistant·e diplômé·e en Littérature comparée (Université de Lausanne)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Introduction Institution d’enseignement et de recherche de premier plan au niveau international, l’UNIL compte près de 5’000 collaboratrices et collaborateurs et 17’000 étudiant·e·s, réparti·e·s entre le campus de Dorigny et les sites du CHUV...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and sociology and 1 more
    Created on: 05.08.2024
  3. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 30.08.2024
    MCF contractuel(le) de dix mois : de novembre 2024 à août 2025 à l’Institut de littérature comparée à Strasbourg
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Un poste de MCF CONTRACTUEL en littérature comparée pour une durée de 10 mois (du 1er novembre 2024 au 31 Août 2025) est ouvert en urgence à l’université de Strasbourg. Les candidatures sont à envoyer avant le 30 août 2024. Voir, pour tous...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poetics
    Created on: 02.08.2024
  4. 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
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Archival Activisms: Resistance In/Through Print
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel is sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Caucus, NeMLA Drawing from several decades’ worth of critical re-evaluations of the structures and limitations of the literary archive, in which “retroactivist”, recovery-oriented ethics...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Reader-response criticism,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 02.08.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Women's Progress in African Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From an early stage, the modern African novel has recognized the unjust challenges faced by African women. Even novels of the 1950's, such as Cyprian Ekwensi's People of the City (1954), bear witness to the difficulties that women face in...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 02.08.2024
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 04.11.2024
    Graduiertenkolleg "Politik der Aufklärung": Stelle einer/eines Wiss. Mitarbeiterin*Mitarbeiters (m-w-d), 100 % TV-L 13, 60 Monate, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Martin Luther University , IZEA RTG 2999 "Politics of Enlightenment" Scientific Employee (m-f-d), Full time, TV-L 13, 60 months Institution Type: Other Location: Germany Position: ...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 18th century and 1 more
    Created on: 29.07.2024
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. Category: Research Training Groups
    Institutions: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
    DFG-GRK 2792: Autonomie heteronomer Texte in Antike und Mittelalter
    Submitted by: Johanna Schubert

    Das DFG-geförderte interdisziplinäre Graduiertenkolleg erforscht Texte aus Antike und Mittelalter, die in bewusste Abhängigkeit von Vorlagen treten und in diesem Sinne "heteronom" sind. Zu dieser bislang nicht systematisch im Zusammenhang...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 23.07.2024
  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