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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.12.2021
    Emotional Communities in the Early Period (ACLA 2022, Taipeh - extended deadline)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Emotion is a perennial feature of the human experience, and its representation has been explored in literature and art across millennia. Nonetheless, emotions do not exist only within the individual experience. For all our fascination with emotions,...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 08.11.2021
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.12.2021
    Magister Mundi? Hermann Hesse’s Global Impact (ACLA 2022, Taipeh - extended deadline)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    There is a ‘universal’ element to be found in Hermann Hesse’s works. Hesse is ‘global’ as a writer in the sense that his texts reach and affect individual readers transculturally in a way that they perceive to be of personal relevance. However, this...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  World Literature,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 08.11.2021
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.10.2021
    Cultural Decolonization, Digitization and Globalization in Africa (ACLA 2022, Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Ojinga Omiunu Digitalization and globalization have colonised African cultural and so many of its heritage are going out of extinction. This may not bring sustainable development in the longrun. The African culture is sinking in the...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Postcolonial studies and 2 more
    Created on: 22.10.2021
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.10.2021
    Short Fiction in Comparative and World Literature (ACLA 2022, Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Amândio Reis In Death of a Discipline , Gayatri Spivak addresses the problematic identification between “literature” and the novel form in conventional approaches within comparative literature (2005: 123), voicing a concern with...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  World Literature and 5 more
    Created on: 22.10.2021
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Je est un author: (Re-)Appearances of the Authorial Subject in Literature and Theory (ACLA 2022, Taipei)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In Mithu Sanyal’s novel Identitti, shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2021, a fictional professor of Postcolonial Studies who identifies as a PoC causes a scandal when it turns out she is actually white. A recent American case eerily resembles the...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 15.10.2021
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Possibilities in World Literary Criticism(s) (ACLA 2022 Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Despite the opening up of literary studies to the burgeoning and thriving world of literatures from around the world, particularly those in languages outside of the major traditions in European and US American contexts, the project of criticism and...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  East Asian literature and 11 more
    Created on: 11.10.2021
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Unjust Philologies in the "Modern" University, ACLA 2022, Taipei
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    *Unjust Philologies in the "Modern" University* American Comparative Literature Association Seminar (June 15-18 2022; Deadline for abstracts: October 31, 2021 ) In this seminar, we wish to examine how people of different positionalities ...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Hermeneutics,  Poststructuralism and 4 more
    Created on: 20.09.2021
  8. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 15.06.2022
    ACLA 2022: The American Comparative Literature Association's Annual Meeting, National Taiwan Normal University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Join us for the 2022 Annual Meeting at National Taiwan Normal University, June 15-18, 2022. This will be a fully in person conference. Conference Timeline 08.15.2021 - 09.30.2021 Call for seminar proposals 10.01.2021 -...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 2 more
    Created on: 27.08.2021
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 21.08.2021
    Obscenity! Blasphemy! Treason! An Interdisciplinary Conference on Censorship, National Taiwan University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Obscenity! Blasphemy! Treason! Justifications for censorship imply that censored objects hold the power to subvert moral, religious, and civic good. The censor assumes that power, turning the censored object into a hidden hypothetical danger, whose...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and law and 2 more
    Created on: 13.08.2021