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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 28.09.2020
    Mythologies in the 21st Century (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Mythologies (1957), Roland Barthes’s seminal work of social criticism, is a collection of 53 essays written between 1954 and 1956, which were originally published in the French literary magazine, Les lettres nouvelles. Whether he is deriding the...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  French literature,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 21.08.2020
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    On Dreams and Oneiric Writing in Modern and Contemporary Literature/Media (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Short Description The session asks whether a discussion of dreams in literature, media, and philosophy is still current and relevant, and how contemporary notions of the dream are related to its psychoanalytic history. What (political) desire...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies
    Created on: 21.08.2020
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    Terra Incognita: Travelers, Artists, and Scientists in Medieval and Early Modern Italy (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This session will explore the intersections between science, literature, and the arts as they developed in Medieval and Early Modern Italy. We encourage submissions that analyze the works of canonical and less-known literary authors, travel...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 17.08.2020
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    Blurring the Line: Femininity and Masculinity in Italian Culture (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Traditional gender theories suggest that there are certain intrinsic characteristics that are masculine and feminine. However, there are many forms of either. Because these are gender identities, they are not biologically pre-determined. Instead,...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 17.08.2020
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    Textes francophones du Sud et du Nord : imaginaires géographiques (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Textes francophones du Sud et du Nord : imaginaires géographiques Appel à contributions - NeMLA 2021 - Philadelphie, États-Unis, 11-14 mars 202 Date de tombée : 30 septembre L’étude de textes francophones dans la francophonie...

    Fields of research Literature and geography/cartography
    Created on: 17.08.2020
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    Écrire (sur) la ville / Writing (on) the City (NEMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ce panel bilingue français/anglais qui aura lieu à Philadelphie (USA) en mars 2021 cherche à analyser des textes récents comprenant des représentations des grandes villes françaises. De nombreux textes littéraires ont mis en scène des villes en...

    Fields of research Literature of the 20th century,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 14.08.2020
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    Genocides and Language (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the aftermath of the man-made catastrophes, such as genocides, the artistic production does not only seek to grasp the reality behind the atrocities, but also to convey that reality as it is experienced. Language functions as medium for...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 07.08.2020
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    'Between Information and Entertainment': Newspapers, Modernism, and Transnational Print Networks (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    'Between Information and Entertainment': Newspapers, Modernism, and Transnational Print Networks Even as it claimed to shun mass culture and the popular press, modernism’s tryst with newspapers can hardly be exaggerated. As Patrick ...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 24.07.2020
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    Framing Narratives (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Abstracts (300 words+ short bio) must be received by September 30 at https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/User/SubmitAbstract/18915 Framing Narratives: NEMLA, 52ND ANNUAL CONVENTION March 11-14, 2021 - Philadelphia, PA (Comparative Literature...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies
    Created on: 13.07.2020
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    Imagination and the Body in 20th-century Literature (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the Arcades Project, Benjamin wrote that it is from the gates of the imagination that lovers and friends draw their energies. Over the past few decades, scholarship has been ever more inclined to treat the imagination not as false or unreal, but...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 10.07.2020
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    Human Rights Violations in a Lawless Space: Incarceration in 21st-century Literatures (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    While much of the reflections on human rights comes when there are human rights violations from the state, human rights documents, at least in legal dialogue, place the state to be responsible to uphold the law: distributing justice also means...

    Fields of research Literature and law,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 10.07.2020
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    Egan, After Postmodernism (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel will consider Jennifer Egan’s work in light of the post-90s literary and cultural movements emerging after postmodernism. While these contemporary trends have different names and aims (post-postmodernism, metamodernism, new sincerity,...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature of the 20th century,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 06.07.2020
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    Ways of Reading: The Politics of Method (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The problem of method in literary scholarship continues, with the contemporary wave of “ways of reading” reanimating it through proposals of postcritique, surface reading, reparative reading, descriptive reading, distant reading, denotative reading,...

    Fields of research Literary theory
    Created on: 06.07.2020
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    Still Greek to Us: Greek Myth and 21st-century Literature (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Stories from ancient Greek myths dot the literary landscape of the early 21st century. To some extent, this has been the result of deliberate planning, as when Canongate began publishing a series of mythological retellings by well-known authors in...

    Fields of research Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 26.06.2020
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    Francophone African Women Writers Embracing Eco-Feminism (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    52nd Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention Philadelphia, PA 11-14 March 2021 Francophone African Women Writers Embracing Eco-Feminism This panel welcome papers exploring francophone African women...

    Fields of research Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Feminist studies,  Ecocriticism
    Created on: 22.06.2020