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  1. 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
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2023
    La forêt dans les mondes ibériques et ibéro-américains (Limoges)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    La Société Française des Hispanistes et Ibéro-Américanistes (SoFHIA) tiendra son XLI congrès du 5 au 8 juin 2024 à l'Université de Limoges. Il portera sur "La forêt dans les mondes ibériques et ibéro-américains" et se vut ouvert à toutes les...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Spanish literature,  Portugese literature and 3 more
    Created on: 28.08.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 05.09.2023
    Ecrire la Terreur (Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Écrire la Terreur XXe-XXIe Appel à communication Colloque des 22 et 23 janvier 2024 CRP19 et THALIM - Sorbonne Nouvelle C’est que nous sommes des hommes, Monsieur ; et que les hommes de haut en bas, les lettrés et les...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 3 more
    Created on: 28.08.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 04.09.2023
    Catastrophes imminentes à travers les siècles : la littérature et les arts face au désastre (Vancouver, Canada)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    10e édition de la Conférence des Étudiants Diplômés Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Catastrophes imminentes à travers les siècles : la Littérature et les Arts face au...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature,  Spanish literature and 8 more
    Created on: 28.08.2023
  5. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 26.10.2023
    Workshop | Naming, Blaming, Shaming. Historische Tiefenbohrungen und aktuelle Beobachtungen zu Schmähpraktiken vom Zeitalter der Kritik bis zu den Sozialen Medien
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organisiert von Cornelia Ortlieb und Anita Traninger, Projekt Digital Constructions of Authorship , Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies". Programm Donnerstag, 26. Oktober 14:00-14:15 | Begrüßung und Einführung 14:15-15:15 |...

    Fields of research Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 25.08.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 27.08.2023
    Les rites, la mort, la littérature : enjeux et figures plurielles (revue Fémur)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Bien que la mort soit encore un sujet tabou dans une grande partie des cultures modernes (Ariès, 1975), il apparait qu’elle constitue un motif littéraire récurrent. Sa figuration soulève divers enjeux éthiques et symboliques, ses modalités de...

    Fields of research Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 25.08.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Politics and narratives of the body (Padova, Italy)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The International Colloquium Politics and Narratives of the Body aims to open an interdisciplinary dialogue, considering the multiple ways of thinking, representing, embodying and writing corporeality, particularly in contemporary contexts. The...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and other forms of art and 6 more
    Created on: 25.08.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Reimagining Premodern Disability: Excess, Surplus, Gain (NEMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel puts forward premodern disability as enhancement, surplus, or even reward, drawing from the concept of “disability gain,” coined by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Fox, Krings, Vierke, 2019), to reformulate disability as gain, instead of loss,...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 6 more
    Created on: 23.08.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Troublesome Matters: Materiality through Literature, Film, and Comics (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This roundtable is being organized as part of NeMLA 2024 , centered around the theme of SURPLUS . Description: We live in a world brimming with tangible entities. The material reality we are enmeshed in fascinates us yet also...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Ecocriticism,  Literature and sociology and 4 more
    Created on: 23.08.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Corporeal Technologies: Modifying and Augmenting the Body (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The intersection of technology and the human body has given rise to a myriad of possibilities that transform our perception of self, relationships, and the world around us. In this panel, we will delve into representations of corporeal technologies...

    Fields of research French literature,  North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and 6 more
    Created on: 23.08.2023
  11. 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
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Spectacle and Empathy: The Role of Excessive (Em)Body(ment) in Narrative (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Narratives need bodies. Stories are populated by characters whose bodies serve as focalizers for our experience of the narrated world. Certain genres, like body horror, pornography or fanfiction, are predicated on bodily excess, “spill[ing] out over...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Aesthetics,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 17.09.2023
    Alchemy: Exploring Metaphorical Transformations and Arts-Based Research
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Date: November 4-5, 2023 Location: University of Oxford, UK Online option available Cost: 170 GBP 90 GBP (Online) Abstract: Deadline September 17, 2023 “Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and natural science and 3 more
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  14. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 20.09.2023
    Figurationen des Erbe(n)s in der Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organisiert von Patrick Hohlweck, Luisa Drews und Stefan Willer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies". Der literaturwissenschaftliche Workshop untersucht Figurationen des Erbes und Erbens in der Literatur der...

    Fields of research Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century),  Literature of the 16th century and 3 more
    Created on: 14.08.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Pregnancy Loss in Contemporary Literature and Film (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Please consider submitting an abstract for the 2024 NeMLA Convention: This panel aims to examine how elective, therapeutic, spontaneous abortions, and stillbirths are represented in work of literature and cinema from an interdisciplinary and...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and natural science,  Intermediality and 3 more
    Created on: 14.08.2023