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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Narrative Fiction and its Alternatives Forms (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the academic world, there is a constant exploration of new forms, genres, philosophies, and directions—reworking established concepts and creating new ones. While storytelling initially existed in verbal speech and gestures, modern mediums such as...

    Fields of research Literary genre,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 04.08.2023
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Extending Jouissance: The Excessive and The Transgressive in Contemporary Texts (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Jouissance, the iconic Lacanian concept, means “surplus enjoyment,” where excessive pleasure converts into unpleasure and even pain after going beyond the subject’s affective or sensory capacity. Inherited from Freudian psychoanalysis, combined with...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Intermediality,  Aesthetics and 1 more
    Created on: 04.08.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.09.2023
    Loneliness - 5th International Interdisciplinary Conference
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Conference online (via Zoom) CFP: What makes us happy and content in our life? Some people may point to fabulous fame, fortune, or money. Some may say that the key to happiness are interpersonal relationships. But what if someone is...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 04.08.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2023
    Komik - Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 2024
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    [English version below] Thema: Komik Was ist komisch daran, dass Wednesday Addams in Tim Burtons TV-Serie Wednesday (USA 2022) zwei Plastiktüten voller Piranhas in den Pool entlässt, in dem die aufstrebenden Sportler der...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Intermediality,  Poetics and 3 more
    Created on: 28.07.2023
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Senses and War (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    How do authors describe the sensory reality of war? What are the sounds of war, the smells of war (the textures, visuals, taste of war)? How are these described and how do they differ? These are questions that remain of interest to historians and...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology and 3 more
    Created on: 24.07.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.08.2023
    Literature and Popular Culture – Northeast Popular & American Culture Association (Fully Virtual Conference, NEPCA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Literature and Popular Culture area for the 2023 Northeast Popular & American Culture Association conference is accepting paper and panel proposals from faculty and graduate students. NEPCA’s 2023 fully virtual (note: conference had been...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies,  Formula literature and 1 more
    Created on: 24.07.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Re-engaging with the Old Myths: Contemporary Literature, Women, and Classics (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Re-engaging with the Old Myths: Contemporary Literature, Women, and Classics Novels and literary works that adapt Classical figures and text continue to be very popular, such as Natalie Haynes’s A Thousand Ships, Pat Barker’s The Silence of the...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 3 more
    Created on: 24.07.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 02.08.2023
    Limbus 2024: Verschwörung/Conspiracy
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Location Victoria, Australia Subject Fields Art, Art History & Visual Studies, , Film and Film History, , German History / Studies, , Journalism and Media Studies, , Literature Limbus 2024:...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and sociology,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 21.07.2023
  9. 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 Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Interdisciplinarity and 5 more
    Created on: 19.07.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Insignificant Notations: Thinking Surplus with the New York School (NeMLA) (Boston, MA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel invites papers that theorize the surplus of a literary object as something accidentally produced by that object. What is the substance and effect of this surplus? How is surplus figured in poetry, especially in poetics in or working in...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poetics,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 19.07.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.07.2023
    The Silence of (the) God(s) (University of Lisbon)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Silence of (the) God(s) International Conference Centre for Classical Studies School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (Portugal) November 23-24, 2023 In 1951, John Cage entered the anechoic chamber of Harvard...

    Fields of research Literature and theology/study of religions,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.)
    Created on: 19.07.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.07.2023
    Le sentiment de soi en postcolonie : entre représentation des sexualités et nouvelles perceptions du corps dans les cultures littéraires et les arts visuels (Mayotte)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel à contributions Nakan Journal. Revue d’études culturelles Le sentiment de soi en postcolonie : entre représentation des sexualités et nouvelles perceptions du corps dans les cultures littéraires et les arts visuels ...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature,  North African literature and 4 more
    Created on: 17.07.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.07.2023
    Représentations littéraires du perdant dans la littérature occidentale du Moyen Âge au XXIe siècle
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Colloque international organisé par le Centre de Recherches sur les Littératures et la Sociopoétique (CELIS, UR 4280) de l'Université Clermont Auvergne, les 23, 24 et 25 novembre 2023, à la MSH de Clermont-Ferrand. Les gens qui réussissent leur...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and sociology and 9 more
    Created on: 17.07.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2023
    Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik (LiLi). Themenheft: Lesende und erlesene Körper
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Announcement Type Call for Papers Subject Fields Humanities, , Linguistics, , Literature Diese Heftausgabe der Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik (LiLi) widmet sich den Aspekten der...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 14.07.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.07.2023
    „Herr Fischer, wie tief ist das Wasser?“ – Inter- und Transmediale Perspektiven auf Kinder- und Jugendmedien des Exils
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    „Herr Fischer, wie tief ist das Wasser?“ – Inter- und Transmediale Perspektiven auf Kinder- und Jugendmedien des Exils Göttingen 26./27.09.2024 Nach 1933 hat sich die Lebenswelt auch für Kinder und Jugendliche in Deutschland radikal...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and publishing/booktrade,  Intermediality and 3 more
    Created on: 14.07.2023