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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 15.11.2024
    Online Workshop - The Nuclear Age, Redux: Forms and Modes of Environmental Change
    Submitted by: Annika Schadewaldt

    The last few years have seen a resurgence of interest in the nuclear – as both material reality and cultural phenomenon. From resurfaced fears of nuclear warfare and disasters to debates about the use of nuclear technology as a sustainable...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literary theory,  Ecocriticism and 4 more
    Created on: 31.10.2024
  2. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 29.10.2024
    Ringvorlesung: Gegenwartsliteratur und Gesellschaftsdiagnostik, Heidelberg
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Neuphilologische Fakultät der Universität Heidelberg lädt ein zur interdisziplinären Ringvorlesung "Gegenwartsliteratur und Gesellschaftsdiagnostik". Die Vortragsreihe findet ab dem 29.10.2024 wöchentlich dienstags um 18:15 Uhr in Hörsaal 14 der...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature and 5 more
    Created on: 28.10.2024
  3. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 07.11.2024
    Schwarze Stimmen (im) Übersetzen - Workshop, Podiumsdiskussion & Autorinnengespräch
    Submitted by: Larissa Krampert

    Die Veranstaltungsreihe beleuchtet in drei aufeinander aufbauenden Formaten Fragen der (Un-)Übersetzbarkeit Schwarzer, v.a. afroamerikanischer, Literatur ins Deutsche und die spezifischen Schwierigkeiten der sie durchziehenden historischen, aber auch...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and 2 more
    Created on: 23.10.2024
  4. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 30.10.2024
    Digitale Vortragsreihe des "Forums für mediävistische Komparatistik" im Wintersemester 24/25
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Forum für mediävistische Komparatistik ( https://ma-komparatistik.de ) lädt herzlich zu seiner vierten digitalen Vortragsreihe im Wintersemester 2024/25 ein. Unser Forum zielt darauf, einen Gesprächsraum über Theorien und Praktiken...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature and visual studies and 2 more
    Created on: 14.10.2024
  5. 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
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    James Baldwin and the Eruption of the Ethical (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In interview footage from 1963 curated by Karen Thorsen for The Price of the Ticket (1989) there is a scene wherein James Baldwin makes a claim about value: “From my point of view, no label, no slogan, no party, no skin color, and indeed no...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 27.09.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.02.2025
    CfP: Alma Mater – Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies (March Issue 2025) / Alma Mater – Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Kulturforschungen (Ausgabe März 2025)
    Submitted by: Habib Tekin

    Alma Mater – Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies is pleased to announce the call for papers for its upcoming issue, to be published in March 2025. We welcome high-quality, original research articles from a wide range of cultural studies...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) and 18 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Dismantling the matrix of oppression in Atwood's "the Testaments" and Parsipur's "Women without Men" (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Marjan Heidari Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments and Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women without Men may seem to be different works due to different settings and the writers’ backgrounds. The Testaments, written in 2019, narrates the lives of...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Near Eastern literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 04.11.2024
    Pratiques intermédiales et créations hybrides dans les mondes hispaniques (XXe et XXIe siècles
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Journée d’étude « Pratiques intermédiales et créations hybrides dans les mondes hispaniques (XX e et XXI e siècles) » Vendredi 13 juin 2025, à Tours Employée pour la première fois en 1965 par Dick...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Spanish literature and 2 more
    Created on: 06.09.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2024
    Insects, “bichos” and other “bugs” in the literature of the Americas (19th to 21st centuries)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In conjunction with the seminar “Bugs in children's literature” of the research and study group on written culture and societies (GRECES) of the CELLAM team (Rennes2 University), this call aims to bring together works that question the representation...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 23.08.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2024
    International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games 9-11 April 2025 Colégio Almada Negreiros, NOVA University Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA-FCSH), Portugal Ever since Steven...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Game Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 05.08.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    The Aging Detective in 21st Century Fiction (NeMLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Although some of the most iconic British fictional detectives—Marple, Poirot, and Holmes—are old-age pensioners, the 21st century is witnessing a proliferation of aging detectives in fiction, television, and film. Among recent novels are Jesse Q....

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 29.07.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.09.2024
    Teaching (With) Picturebooks: Context, Competences, Criticism
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Symposium at the University of Rostock 25-26 November 2024 organized by Dr. Katja Schmidt & Dr. Hanne Bolze Key note speakers: Prof. Dr. Tobias Kurwinkel (Universität Hamburg) Dr. Grit Bergner (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) As...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Didactics of Literature and 3 more
    Created on: 22.07.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2024
    THE BEATS, RADICALISM, AND THE BIPOLAR WORLD - 13th Annual Conference of the European Beat Studies Network (EBSN)
    Submitted by: Florian Zappe

    Call for Papers The Beats, Radicalism, and the Bipolar World European Beat Studies Network 13th Annual Conference University of Hildesheim September 15-17, 2025 Organizers: Heike...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary) and 9 more
    Created on: 12.07.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 16.08.2024
    All US Come Cross the Water: Diasporic Ecological Practices & Intergenerational Relations (ASWAD 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel seeks papers for the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora’s (ASWAD) 12th Biennial and 25th Anniversary Conference that will be held in Saint Louis, Missouri at the Marriott St. Louis Grand Hotel from October 29th...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and 2 more
    Created on: 08.07.2024