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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Caribbean and The American South: Interrogating Contemporary Literary, Artistic, and Cultural Relations (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Connected by the shared experience of the “plantation system” (in the words of Martinican author Édouard Glissant), the relationship between the Caribbean and the American South has been studied from a historical perspective [1], and the literary...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Postcolonial studies and 2 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    "Transnational Literature and Transnational Aesthetics: Developments and Negotiations" (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his 2021 book Transnational Literature: The Basics, Paul Jay describes transnational literature as “a particular type of literature, emergent at an identifiable historical moment and dealing, collectively, with a set of issues and themes...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  3. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 19.11.2023
    Assistant Professor in Decolonial Pedagogy (Emory Univ.)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Department of French and Italian at Emory University invites applications for a tenure-track position in Decolonial Pedagogy with expertise in African Studies (including Literature, Linguistics, and/or Media) at the level of Assistant Professor,...

    Fields of research French literature,  North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and 1 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  4. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 31.10.2023
    Assistant Professor of German Studies (Tenure-Track), Dartmouth College
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Department of German Studies at Dartmouth College invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor , to begin on July 1, 2024. Preferred areas of expertise are Environmental Humanities, Black German Studies, or both....

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 2 more
    Created on: 22.09.2023
  5. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 15.12.2023
    Fellowships im Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation (CURE)
    Submitted by: Kaja Hauser

    Am 1. April 2024 startet das Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation an der Universität des Saarlandes. Für das erste Kollegjahr (Oktober 2024 bis September 2025) bitten wir um Bewerbungen für Junior- (Postdoc) und...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 21 more
    Created on: 18.09.2023
  6. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 26.10.2023
    Literary Self-Translation and its Metadiscourse Power Relations in Postcolonial Contexts
    Submitted by: Myriam-Naomi Walburg

    Initially relegated to the margins of translation studies, literary self-translation has now become a research topic in its own right, both in the fields of translation studies and comparative literature. While translation studies typically...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies
    Created on: 15.09.2023
  7. Nicolas Longinotti
    University or institution: Freie Universität Berlin
    Fields of research: Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Italian literature; Literary theory; Postcolonial studies; Lyric poetry; Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century)

  8. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 13.09.2023
    DGEJ-Jahrestagung: Rassismus und Weltwissen. Praktiken, Diskurse und Episteme der deutschen Aufklärung, Wolfenbüttel
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    13.-15. September 2023, Bundesakademie für kulturelle Bildung, Wolfenbüttel Leitung: Sigrid G. Köhler (Tübingen), Claudia Nitschke (Durham), Frank Grunert (Halle /Saale) Gefördert von der Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography,  Postcolonial studies and 8 more
    Created on: 08.09.2023
  9. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 27.09.2023
    What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    The first annual conference of the project The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe (CAPONEU) discusses a variety of understandings of the political novel as a genre. It probes genre-theoretically and genre-historically informed...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 14 more
    Created on: 07.09.2023
  10. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 31.10.2023
    Drei Stellen als wissenschaftliche Programmleitungen für die drei Programmbereiche "Geschichte", "Erfahrung" und "Natur" - Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken, Saarbrücken
    Submitted by: Kaja Hauser

    Die Universität des Saarlandes ist eine Campus-Universität, die international bekannt ist durch ihre ausgeprägte Forschungsorientierung. Die Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses und die Schaffung idealer Bedingungen für Forschung und Lehre...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 21 more
    Created on: 05.09.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.10.2023
    Science-fiction et politique en littérature et dans les arts (Séminaire, Toulouse)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Science-fiction et politique en littérature et dans les arts L’objectif de ce séminaire filé du laboratoire LLA-Créatis de l’Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès est de développer une réflexion ouverte sur les questionnements « politiques », au...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology and 6 more
    Created on: 04.09.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.09.2023
    Humanités excédentaires et animalisations (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ce séminaire explorera la discursivité des processus de déshumanisation, et en particulier d’animalisation, à l’encontre des personnes en marge du système dominant, et réciproquement les stratégies de retournement du stigmate déployées par...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Rhetoric
    Created on: 01.09.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.10.2023
    Reliving Orature: Orality in the Age of Post-Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    SPECIAL ISSUE – Reliving Orature: Orality in the Age of Post-Literature Guest Editor:? ?Mukulika Dattagupta (Adamas University, Kolkata) & Gourab Chatterjee (KIIT-DU, Bhubaneshwar) The interactive platform of Web 2.0 and the evergrowing...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 01.09.2023
  14. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 28.09.2023
    Coding Utopias
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    There is no shortage of critiques of utopian imaginaries for being coded in colonial, Western, masculine, Christian, and extractive ideologies. Utopia has been, and continues to be, an often violent gesture that chooses the future of select groups...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Interdisciplinarity and 4 more
    Created on: 28.08.2023
  15. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 30.09.2023
    Assistant Professor of Francophone Literatures of the Global South (Brock Univ., Canada)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Brock University is inviting applications for a tenure-stream position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the following area: Francophone Literatures of the Global South The successful candidate will work closely with current...

    Fields of research French literature,  North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and 1 more
    Created on: 28.08.2023