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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 16.02.2025
    Deutscher Germanistentag 2025: Briefe als Gespräche unter Abwesenden?, Braunschweig
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Briefe werden oft als Gespräche unter Abwesenden umschrieben, aber ihre Überlieferung ist häufig einseitig. Dies stellt eine Herausforderung für Editorik, Kommentar, Analyse und Interpretation dar: Wie lässt sich eine kommunikative Situation...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Poetics,  Letter
    Created on: 21.06.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 24.05.2024
    Grenzgängerin. Die Reportage-/literatur als entgrenztes Medium der Öffentlichkeitsgestaltung, Dortmund
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Reportage und die Reportageliteratur sind Medien des Dazwischenstehens, des Dazwischentretens – des Intervenierens und der Intervention. Nicht nur stehen sie durch ihre journalistische Faktenbasiertheit und ihre literarischen Qualitäten zwischen...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and media studies,  Poetics and 3 more
    Created on: 26.04.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.04.2024
    Call for Abstracts: Studientag: „‚Tipping Points‘. Balanceakte in der Literatur und Kultur“, Bergische Universität Wuppertal (28. Juni 2024)
    Submitted by: Ben Sulzbacher

    Frist für Einreichungen: 23. April 2024 In Zeiten großer Unsicherheit ob der (In-)Stabilität von Strukturen aller Arten sehen sich die Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften mehr denn je mit Fragen nach Verantwortung, Abhängigkeiten und...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 14.03.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2024
    The Question of Representation in Contemporary Indian Literature
    Submitted by: Srishti Chaudhary

    In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath refers to the Aesopian fable of the painting of the lion. The lion complains about the painting, which demonstrates a man defeating a lion, and asserts that the painting would look very...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 9 more
    Created on: 23.02.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.12.2023
    CfP: Aggressive Ästhetik – ästhetische Aggression: Probleme des Satirischen (22.12.2023)
    Submitted by: Daniel Wendt

    Aggressive Ästhetik – ästhetische Aggression: Probleme des Satirischen Literaturwissenschaftliches Symposium, Schloss Rauischholzhausen, 26.-28.9.2024 Der Satire ist nicht leicht beizukommen. Nicht erst die jüngeren Diskussionen um...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Reader-response criticism and 9 more
    Created on: 05.12.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    (Re)reading feminist speculative fiction post-Roe v. Wade (2024 Northeast Modern Language Association )
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the introduction to the collection Technologies of Speculative Fiction (2022), Sherryl Vint writes, “The same technologies that now give women more options regarding reproductive choices are simultaneously utilized by the Christian Right to...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  The fictional and 1 more
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Saying the Unsayable: Narrative Experimentations in the Representation of Trauma (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Trauma is typically considered ‘responsive to and constitutive of “modernity”’ (Micale and Lerner 2001). Certainly, as argued by Mark Seltzer, ‘modernity has come to be understood under the sign of the wound’: ‘the modern subject has become...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Poetics,  The fictional and 1 more
    Created on: 14.08.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.08.2023
    Anonymität in Briefen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, Halle/Saale
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Subject Fields: Cultural History / Studies, , Digital Humanities, , German History / Studies, , Literature Call for Papers: Anonymität in Briefen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts Workshop, 4. bis 5. April 2024,...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Digital Humanities and 5 more
    Created on: 21.07.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2023
    CfP Eternal Peace in Speculative Fiction
    Submitted by: Johannes Kaminski

    Dear colleagues, I am currently putting together a special issue of World Literature Studies (WLS) dedicated to speculative fiction. Looking forward to see your abstracts by September 15! See CfP below. Best wishes Johannes Kaminski ...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  World Literature,  Literature and sociology and 6 more
    Created on: 30.06.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.03.2023
    Correspondances et archives de la création (Revue Manuscrítica)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Manuscrítica – Revista de Crítica Genética, numéro 50 Appel à contributions Dossier : Correspondances et archives de la création Organisation : Ligia Fonseca Ferreira (Unifesp); Marcos Antonio de Moraes (USP) Délai...

    Fields of research Letter
    Created on: 26.05.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2023
    Material Girls & Boys: Narrated Fashion in Children’s Media
    Submitted by: Iris Schäfer

    (March 7th - 9th, 2024 Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany) Clothing is a daily feature of every child’s life and this significance carries through into the media created for children and young people. From picture books for toddlers...

    Fields of research Empirical Aesthetics,  Reader-response criticism,  Feminist studies and 13 more
    Created on: 02.05.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 17.10.2022
    Into the Other Worlds: The Multiverse as Theoretical Method in Postmodern Speculative Fictional Narratives
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Into the Other Worlds: The Multiverse as Theoretical Method in Postmodern Speculative Fictional Narratives Call for chapter contributions (Edited book to be submitted for consideration with Routledge) Seen as a form of expressing and...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy and 3 more
    Created on: 16.09.2022
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2022
    Louise d’Épinay, femme de « lettres ». Épistolarité, récit et roman
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Louise d’Épinay, femme de « lettres » Épistolarité, récit et roman Colloque international Université Paris Nanterre et Musée Montmorency Mercredi 8 et jeudi 9 novembre 2023 Louise-Florence-Tardieu d’Esclavelle...

    Fields of research French literature,  Novel,  Narrative and 3 more
    Created on: 12.09.2022
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2022
    CFP-Kremenets Comparative Studies-Vol. 12-2022-2023
    Submitted by: Denys Chyk

    Dear Colleague, Taras Shevchenko Regional Humanitarian Pedagogical Academy of Kremenets and NGO “Volyn Cultural Initiatives” (Ukraine) invites you to submit a paper to the 12th annual scientific journal “Kremenets Comparative Studies” ...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) and 75 more
    Created on: 18.08.2022
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2022
    Les méchant·es contre-attaquent. Les personnages de méchant·es dans les littératures francophones et postcoloniales (Sorbonne Université)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Quoi de commun entre un meurtrier en cavale, Karaba la sorcière, un dictateur sans scrupule, une mère infanticide, un terroriste et des ogres ? Incarnations de pulsions négatives, d’une violence hyperbolique, d’une marginalité sociale et morale,...

    Fields of research Reader-response criticism,  Literature and philosophy,  Poetics and 2 more
    Created on: 01.08.2022