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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 10.10.2024
    International Conference "Romanticism’s Colonial Legacies in and Beyond Europe: Critical Perspectives on Art and Visual Culture" (10-12 October 2024, Goethe University Frankfurt)
    Submitted by: Frederike Middelhoff

    Romaticism's Colonial Legacies in and beyond Europe: Critical Perspecives on Art and Visual Culture International Conference 10-12 October 2024, Goethe University Frankfurt, GER Organised by Prof. Dr. Mechthild Fend (Frankfurt),...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Media studies,  Literature and other forms of art and 2 more
    Created on: 10.09.2024
  2. 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
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Call for Participants: "The Return of Myths in the 21st Century: How Cultural Narratives Shape Reality" (Paris, May 13-16, 2025)
    Submitted by: Christian Baier

    The contemporary world is marred by division. Everywhere, antagonistic factions are locked in apparently irreconcilable opposition, incapable of finding common ground. Beneath all ideological differences lies an epistemic fragmentation of society ...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.09.2024
    PAIDIA: Now is the time to shape your Stories – Perspektiven auf Final Fantasy
    Submitted by: Phillip Brandes

    1987 erschien das erste Final Fantasy . Nur wenige Jahre später fand die Reihe ihren Weg über die USA nach Europa. Populär ist die Erzählung, Final Fantasy habe seinen Namen vom damaligen Director Sakaguchi deshalb erhalten, weil es als ...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Narratology,  Game Studies
    Created on: 12.08.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.09.2024
    Pratiques et formes hors-normes : marginalisation, réappropriation et extractivisme culturel (Bruxelles)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONS Pratiques et formes hors-normes : Marginalisation, réappropriation, et extractivisme culturel Université Libre de Bruxelles, les 9 et 16 octobre 2024. Comité organisateur : Emma Lozano...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 09.08.2024
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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