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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Alexandra Irimia
    University or institution: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
    Fields of research: Narratology; World Literature; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and sociology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and visual studies; Intermediality; Aesthetics; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  10. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 26.09.2024
    Literaturwissenschaftliches Symposium: Aggressive Ästhetik – ästhetische Aggression: Probleme des Satirischen, Rauischholzhausen
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Aggressive Ästhetik – ästhetische Aggression: Probleme des Satirischen Literaturwissenschaftliches Symposium, Schloss Rauischholzhausen, 26.-28.9.2024 Donnerstag, 26.09.2024 ca. 18:00 Ankunft und gemeinsames...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literary genre,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 12.07.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.07.2024
    Nouvelles formes et pratiques de l’écriture de soi : l’autothéorie et la transbiographie (revue Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philologia)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel à contributions : « Nouvelles formes et pratiques de l’écriture de soi : l’autothéorie et la transbiographie » Numéro 1 /2025, Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philologia Coordonnateurs : Andrei Lazar...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and sociology and 3 more
    Created on: 05.07.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 17.07.2024
    La littérature aux politiques et la politique en littérature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Mouvances Francophones, Vol. 10 N°. 1 (2025) La littérature aux politiques et la politique en littérature Dans son autobiographie Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela se présente comme un lecteur avide de littérature politique,...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Poetics
    Created on: 01.07.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2024
    Germanistentag 2025, Panel „Weltanschauungen im Dialog?“, Braunschweig
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CfP: „Weltanschauungen im Dialog?“, Panel im Rahmen des 28. Deutschen Germanistentags, Braunschweig 14.–17.09.2025. Themenbereich 3: Agierende und Rahmenbedingungen von Dialog (Frist: 15.09.2024). Konzept und Organisation: Prof. Dr....

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 2 more
    Created on: 01.07.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2024
    Der Klang (in) der Kleinepik
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Bamberg, 01.10.–03.10.2025 Call for Papers Die Analyse klanglicher Phänomene in der Literatur des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit nimmt in der jüngeren Forschung nicht zuletzt durch Einflüsse aus dem Bereich der Sound Studies breiten...

    Fields of research Literature and music/sound studies,  Literary genre,  Epic poetry and 3 more
    Created on: 28.06.2024
  15. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 11.07.2024
    Literatur & Kritik. literatur saloon am Institut für Deutsche Philologie der LMU München
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Verhältnis von Literatur und Kritik, wie wir es im VI. literatur | saloon thematisieren wollen, gewinnt gerade in einer Gesellschaft an Relevanz, die gleich an mehreren – politischen, ökonomischen, ökologischen und sozialen – Fronten mit...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and sociology,  Poetics
    Created on: 28.06.2024