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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 25.11.2024
    Symposium | Literature, Prizeworthiness, and Kinship Across Borders
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Program Monday, 25. November 2024EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities" (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 15 14195 Berlin; Room: 00.07) 10:00 – 15:00 | Meeting of the Research Group From 15:00 I Tour of Berlin Book Stores (Kinship focus, e.g. “She...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 05.08.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 11.09.2024
    Pressentir l’incomparabilité : vers les limites de la comparaison (Montréal)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel à contributions Tribune des étudiant-e-s en littérature comparée Pressentir l’incomparabilité : vers les limites de la comparaison 22-23 novembre, 2024, Université de Montréal Les approches comparatives souhaitent...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and sociology,  Poetics and 2 more
    Created on: 05.08.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 02.09.2024
    Immigré·es, clivé·es, parvenu·es ? Réflexions éthiques, esthétiques et politiques autour des écritures de la mobilité sociale (Montréal)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Immigré·es, clivé·es, parvenu·es ? Réflexions éthiques, esthétiques et politiques autour des écritures de la mobilité sociale 29 et 30 mai 2025 Depuis quelques années, on observe dans la francophonie une recrudescence...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 05.08.2024
  4. 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
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 26.08.0224
    Faut-il imaginer Sisyphe heureux ? (Strasbourg)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Journée d’études : Faut-il imaginer Sisyphe heureux ? ITI Lethica, Université de Strasbourg, le 16 octobre 2024 Appel à communications English version below À l’occasion de la tenue de l’exposition multi-médiale « Faut-il...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 05.08.2024
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Yiddish Technologies in Text and Context (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    PANEL ABSTRACT This interdisciplinary session invites scholars to submit papers which explore the intersections of Yiddish culture and the history of technology. Diasporic Yiddish culture is formed by the constant tension between forces of...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies
    Created on: 29.07.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Stigmatization: Exploring Infertility in Latin American Literature and Cinema (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel explores the intricate portrayals of infertility in Latin American Literature and Cinema, focusing on stigmatization and its interplay with trauma and intersectionality. Infertility, often laden with societal and cultural implications, is...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology and 3 more
    Created on: 29.07.2024
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Family Abolition and Social Revolution: Theories of Social Reproduction Now (NeMLA 25)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The last twenty years have marked a wave of renewed interest in social reproduction theory, from the republication of work associated with the 1970s Wages for Housework campaign from theorists like Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Selma James, and Silvia...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 26.07.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Silent Revolution: Silence as a form of female resistance (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In her seminal work, Oscillation Between Power and Denial (1981), Julia Kristeva presents a compelling argument: “Estranged from language, women are visionaries, dancers who suffer as they speak” (167). This statement encapsulates the prevalent...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Poetics and 1 more
    Created on: 26.07.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Bodies in (R)Evolution: Labor, Embodiment, and Resistance (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The covid-19 pandemic not only sparked conversations on the gendered division of household chores and care but also brought to light the paradox of the “essential-worker.” Despite being deemed “essential” to society, these workers-often women,...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and sociology
    Created on: 22.07.2024