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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    “Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make”: The Prison(er) in Literature and Film (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Imprisoned in 1642, Richard Lovelace penned the words that became his best-known: “Stone walls do not a prison make,/Nor iron walls a cage:/Minds innocent and quiet take/That for a hermitage” (“To Althea, From Prison”). Lovelace’s poem points to...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and media studies,  Intermediality and 1 more
    Created on: 14.08.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Saying the Unsayable: Narrative Experimentations in the Representation of Trauma (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Trauma is typically considered ‘responsive to and constitutive of “modernity”’ (Micale and Lerner 2001). Certainly, as argued by Mark Seltzer, ‘modernity has come to be understood under the sign of the wound’: ‘the modern subject has become...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Poetics,  The fictional and 1 more
    Created on: 14.08.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Invisible Orientation: The Effacement of Asexuality (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Please submit your abstracts using the portal: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20352 . Critic Angela Sondra Decker defines asexuality ‘the invisible orientation’ to describe how this sexual orientation is often under discussed and...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 14.08.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Speculative Fiction Novella (conference panel) (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the past decade, the novella has re-emerged as one of the dominant forms of contemporary speculative fiction, with both stand-alone debuts and long-running series taking part in the form. This session invites papers that examine the novella form...

    Fields of research Novella
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Spectrums of Embodiment in Nineteenth-century Literature and Culture (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    One interpretation of the NeMLA 2024 theme of Surplus centers on embodiment, and the transatlantic long nineteenth century was arguably a key historical moment for envisioning material embodiment in terms of surplus, or lack thereof. Representation...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Interdisciplinarity and 9 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Cultural Representations of Social Reproduction (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel will focus on cultural representations of social reproduction. Social reproduction theory developed from a Marxist-feminist concern for typically-unwaged labor performed outside the traditional workplace, demonstrating how this “invisible”...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Novel and 1 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023