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  1. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 29.11.2024
    Assistant de recherche en littératures romanes et/ou comparées, diaspora studies, media studies, ethnologie et/ou science politiques et/ou sociales (Univ. de Bremen, Allemagne)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Dans l'école doctorale 2686 « Études de contradictions – Constellations, heuristiques et concepts de contradictions » financée par la Fondation allemande pour la recherche, 13 postes sont disponibles à l'Université de Brême – sous réserve de...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature,  Italian literature and 7 more
    Created on: 04.11.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2024
    Reading Cultures (Special issue of the journal Culture as Text to be published in 2026)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Reading Cultures A special issue of the journal Culture as Text (degruyter.com). It is common practice among literary scholars to divide their field into a variety of authorial strategies and attachments, e.g. by form, genre, style or...

    Fields of research Didactics of Literature,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 2 more
    Created on: 04.11.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 28.02.2025
    Call for Papers African Theater Association 2025 Conference: African and Afrodiasporic Theatre in the Digital Age
    Submitted by: Sven Thorsten Kilian

    “The evolution of new technologies and media in the knowledge era has had a huge impact on the field of the arts and culture” (Tajtáková, Theatre in the Digital Age, 2014) In the new millennium internet access has increased considerably in...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Digital Humanities and 5 more
    Created on: 04.11.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.03.2025
    (De)Bordering Aesthetics: 19th-Century German Philosophy and the Migratory Turn
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND AESTHETICS Special Issue | Call For Papers (De)Bordering Aesthetics: 19th-Century German Philosophy and the Migratory Turn Guest Editor: Gabriele Schimmenti (Roma Tre University, Italy) ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology and 3 more
    Created on: 04.11.2024
  5. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 13.11.2024
    Dualla Misipo: »Der Junge aus Duala«. Literaturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf ein frühes Werk der Schwarzen deutschen Literatur
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Dualla Misipos Der Junge aus Duala. Ein Regierungsschüler erzählt ... wird als der »erste Roman eines Schwarzen Deutschen« und als einer der frühesten postkolonialen literarischen Texte in deutscher Sprache bezeichnet. Obwohl der zwischen den...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Literary historiography and 6 more
    Created on: 31.10.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 06.12.2024
    CfP Polyphony and Silence. Interdisciplinary Symposium (KU Leuven, 15-16 May 2025)
    Submitted by: Núria Codina

    Polyphony and silence are concepts that refer to sonority and voice, as multitude or as absence. While they may seem to be in opposition to each other, both can be counter-hegemonic tools for writing against monolingual and ethno-nationalist...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  Translation
    Created on: 22.10.2024
  7. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 15.11.2024
    Assistant Professor of Global French (Ohio, USA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Department of French and Italian in the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies with a specialization in Global French. The start date...

    Fields of research French literature,  North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and 2 more
    Created on: 11.10.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Relationality in Queer, Trans, and Crip Asian/American and Asian Diasporic Literatures and Cultural Critiques (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: stef torralba Co-Oranizer: Phuong Vuong Since its inception, the interdisciplinary field of queer of color critique has recalibrated commonplace understandings of ethnic and racial difference by foregrounding the imbricated...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 11.10.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The Ends of the Road: Rethinking the Borders of the Picaresque (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Emily Mulvihill The picaresque has largely fallen out of vogue in literary studies. Nevertheless, the genre has long shaped the study of many of the world’s major literary traditions. So, what happens if we rethink both our use of...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and geography/cartography and 3 more
    Created on: 11.10.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Comparative Literature beyond Epistemic colonization (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Metin Boşnak Undoubtedly, the concepts of decolonization and postcolonialism emerge from a profound discontent with the dominant paradigms of Western, male, and white literatures that have dictated the generation of knowledge for...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 11.10.2024
  11. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 23.10.2024
    Poetry Debates IV: Lyrik nach der Natur (Hamburg, 2024)
    Submitted by: Juliane Engel

    Im Zentrum der vierten Reihe der Poetry Debates des Forschungsprojekts "Poetry in the Digital Age" stehen drängende poetische und politische Fragen rund um das menschliche Verhältnis zur Umwelt in Zeiten der Klimakatastrophe. Im Rahmen von vier...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 1 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  12. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 01.11.2024
    Assistant Professor Position in the Field of Postcolonial Literature (UCLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Position overview Position title: Assistant Professor Salary range: $78,200 - $101,400. Application Window Open date: September 26, 2024 Next review date: Friday, Nov 1, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Apply by this date...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  13. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 16.12.2024
    Mapping Corporeal Migrations: Latin American Electronic Literature between Global North and Global South (Meeting with Verónica Paula Gómez)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organised by Research Area 5, "Building Digital Communities". As a postdoctoral fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Verónica Paula Gómez is leading a project to map the migrations of Latin American electronic literature between the...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Digital Humanities,  Postcolonial studies and 2 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Modernism in the Twenty-First Century (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Chris Gortmaker Co-Organizer: Joseph Staten Can the modernism genie truly be sequestered in its twentieth-century bottle? This seminar invites papers that explore the possible persistence of aesthetic modernism in...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 6 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Ciné-Poetics of Time in the Global South (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Marie Huber Co-Organizer: Maziyar Faridi If poetry, as Maurice Blanchot writes, is that which always eludes philosophical questioning, what philosophy of history could emerge from thinking with the poetic cinemas of the Global...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and philosophy,  Literature and visual studies and 2 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024