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  1. 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
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Modernism in the Twenty-First Century (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Chris Gortmaker Co-Organizer: Joseph Staten Can the modernism genie truly be sequestered in its twentieth-century bottle? This seminar invites papers that explore the possible persistence of aesthetic modernism in...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 6 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Extractivism and Nation Building in the Long Nineteenth Century
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Cristina Carnemolla Co-Organizer: Nicolás Sánchez-Rodríguez The term extractivism describes an economic model based on the circulation of non-renewable "natural" resources to world market metropolises from territories...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Ecocriticism,  Literature and sociology and 4 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    A Planetary Text Notes On Spoken and Word Poetry, Radical Improvisation and Universality (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: F..M. Ceci Co-Organizer: Ginevra Ludovici This panel seeks to explore the intersections of spoken word poetry and radical improvisation in music, considering how both practices function as tools of liberation,...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Oral poetry / Orality,  Literature and sociology and 1 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    “Beyond Social Death?”: Afro-Pessimism in Literature, Film and Television (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Badreddine Ben Othman This seminar aims to explore literary texts, films and television productions which adopt or challenge Afro-Pessimistic visions of Black life in a systemically anti-Black world. It asks whether Black subjects...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Near Eastern literature and 3 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Powers of the Inhuman: Representations of the Working Class in the New International Division of Humanity (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Marcela Romero Rivera Vijay Prashad, from the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, recently proposed that the genocidal wars and policies that define our political moment as hyper-imperialist affect not only the populations...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology
    Created on: 04.10.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Aesthetics and Ethics of the Fragment in Remembering and Forgetting Historical Violence (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Jeanne Devautour Choi From civil wars to military dictatorships, from global conflicts to racial, religious, or ethnic genocides, historical violence, in its many forms, fractures societies, deepens divisions, and leaves lasting...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and philosophy and 2 more
    Created on: 04.10.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Towards a Global Discourse: The “Ethical Turn” in Western and Arab-Islamic Thought (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Bouchra Benlemlih Co-Organizer: Mustapha Kharoua Since its inception in the 1990s, the “ethical turn” has laid the groundwork for the exploration of the ethics and politics of representation. Literature stands out as one of the...

    Fields of research Near Eastern literature,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 3 more
    Created on: 04.10.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Wither the Great Books? Or Whither Great Books? (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Kenneth Sammond This seminar askes us the explore the relevance, merits, and demerits of the great books approach to literature, its use of shared inquiry, its rootedness in a forming and reforming canons, and its consideration that...

    Fields of research Didactics of Literature,  Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Infrastructure(s) & Storytelling: Rethinking Contexts, Connections, & Erasures (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Rini Tarafder Co-Organizer: Amrapali Chatterjee Infrastructures, both visible and invisible, are all around us and they permeate our lives in various ways. Larkin defines infrastructures as “built networks that facilitate...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 2 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  13. 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
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Beyond Assimilation/Revolution? Collectivity, Solidarity, and the Future (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Michele Chinitz Co-Organizer: Shoumik Bhattacharya This seminar hopes to engage with forms of social and political organizing that do not conform to binary understandings of the imperative towards assimilation or...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 2 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.11.2024
    Republic of Letters: The Scholar and Scholarly Communities from Petrarch to the Present, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Republic of Letters: The Scholar and Scholarly Communities from Petrarch to the Present Graduate Student Conference at Johns Hopkins University April 4–5, 2025 Submission Deadline for Abstracts: November 15 to...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024