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  1. 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
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    “Reader, I Met Him”: First Encounters in Fiction (NeMLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Near the end of Jane Eyre, the title character famously says, “Reader, I married him.” It is a wedding her readers have expected and waited for, yet it comes after a rather inauspicious first meeting. Fiction is full of first meetings. While a...

    Fields of research Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 17.06.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Post-Colonialism and the Struggle for Identity (NeMLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel will focus on the struggles for identity that have arisen in the post-colonial era. It will examine how the legacy of colonialism has impacted identity formation and the construction of national and cultural identities in Africa, Europe,...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology and 1 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Balkanising Classics: Theorising a New Perspective on Greco-Roman Antiquity (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Two conceptual territories bracket Europe’s imaginary geography: Greco-Roman Antiquity and the modern Balkans. According to Artemis Leontis, an “abstract principle of territorial identification” ties the political and cultural life of both modern...

    Fields of research South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey),  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.)
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Intersectional Crime Fiction: Investigating the Genre (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel examines the continuum of intersectional crime fiction writing in a U.S. context, illuminating the methods, exemplary texts, and narrative strategies that embrace inclusive tenets and movements, from Black Lives Matter to LGBTQ+ rights to...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 1 more
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    From Biopolitics to Ecoaesthetics: Legacies of Encroachment(s) (French and Francophone Studies (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    “Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man’s nose begins,” is a popular ( Zechariah Chafee, 1919) is a popular aphorism in legal imaginaries that theoretically synthesizes the scope of concepts such as freedom, power, and...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 14.08.2023