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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Écritures du terrorisme. Perspectives historiques et transdisciplinaires (Bordeaux)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Journées d’études Écritures du terrorisme. Perspectives historiques et transdisciplinaires 19 et 20 mars 2025, Université Bordeaux Montaigne La question du terrorisme — ses processus, ses acteurs, ses menaces — semble...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and law and 3 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  2. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 17.09.2024
    Tagung Konzepte und Wahrnehmungsmodi der Natur in der neueren Lyrik – komparatistische Zugänge
    Submitted by: Adela Sophia Sabban

    17.9. – 19.9.2024 Universität Trier, Konferenzsaal: N2 Organisiert von: Prof. Dr. Henrieke Stahl (Slavische Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Trier), Prof. Dr. Ralph Müller (Neuere deutschsprachige...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 8 more
    Created on: 06.09.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.11.2024
    The Social Impact of Climate Fiction. A Cross-Disciplinary Conference
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Overview: This conference seeks to consolidate emergent scholarship and artworks that explore the power of narrative to motivate climate-conscious action. The emphasis in this conference is on climate narratives in practice; in other words, it is...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism
    Created on: 06.09.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 13.09.2024
    Justice (20th/21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Justice Ce colloque s’engage dans un dialogue transatlantique à propos des enjeux complexes de la justice et de l’inclusion dans le contexte français et francophone. 2025 est une année clef qui marque des anniversaires importants dont : les...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literature and law,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 02.09.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.09.2024
    Les visages de l'eau. Dialogue France-Chine (Clermont-Ferrand & en ligne)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Séminaire « Les visages de l’eau : Dialogue France-Chine » 2024-2025 Organisatrices : Oriane Chevalier (Université Clermont Auvergne), Leanne Rae Darnbrough (KU Leuven) Avec le soutien du Pôle de recherches sur l’eau, de l’Ecole...

    Fields of research French literature,  East Asian literature,  Ecocriticism and 3 more
    Created on: 09.08.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.09.2024
    Les "nouveaux mutants" de la culture pop (XXe-XXIe s.) : sémiologie du désastre ou utopie posthumaniste ? (revue Études littéraires)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Quel est le point commun entre « l’Homme qui devint gorille » de Magog, les X-Men, Tony Stark et les autres « hommes de fer » nés vingt ans plus tard au cinéma dont Robocop chez Verhoeven, Terminator chez Cameron, Tetsuo chez Tsukamoto, les «...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 09.08.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Radical Bodies
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Human bodies and, by extension, human subjectivity have long been contested spaces. Against traditional Eurocentric and anthropocentric definitions of the human as a stable identity abstracted from its surrounding environment, movements like...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 2 more
    Created on: 02.08.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2025
    "Indigenous Ecocriticism: Paradigm Shifts in Environmental Literature" (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Environmental Humanities is experiencing an unprecedented influx of creative and critical works from writers of indigenous literature. The immense literary revolution associated with climate change and environmental discourse is a contributing...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 1 more
    Created on: 26.07.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Silent Revolution: Silence as a form of female resistance (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In her seminal work, Oscillation Between Power and Denial (1981), Julia Kristeva presents a compelling argument: “Estranged from language, women are visionaries, dancers who suffer as they speak” (167). This statement encapsulates the prevalent...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Poetics and 1 more
    Created on: 26.07.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.09.2024
    Panel im Rahmen des 28. Deutschen Germanistentages 2025: Auf kurzem Weg klären. Zur Verknappung von Dialogen, Braunschweig
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Auf kurzem Weg klären. Zur Verknappung von Dialogen Wenn Angestellte etwas auf kurzem Dienstweg klären, heißt das, dass sie sich schnell und unkompliziert über bestimmte Sachverhalte verständigen, ohne dass sie eine:n Vorgesetzte:n...

    Fields of research Literature and media studies,  Literary genre,  Rhetoric
    Created on: 26.07.2024
  11. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 05.09.2024
    (Re)Create. Towards a Theory of Heteronomous Texts
    Submitted by: Johanna Schubert

    You are kindly invited to an interdisciplinary and international conference hosted by the DFG Research Training Group 2792. The conference will focus on the strategies and intentions in heteronomous texts in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Heteronomy...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 9 more
    Created on: 23.07.2024
  12. Category: Research Training Groups
    Institutions: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
    DFG-GRK 2792: Autonomie heteronomer Texte in Antike und Mittelalter
    Submitted by: Johanna Schubert

    Das DFG-geförderte interdisziplinäre Graduiertenkolleg erforscht Texte aus Antike und Mittelalter, die in bewusste Abhängigkeit von Vorlagen treten und in diesem Sinne "heteronom" sind. Zu dieser bislang nicht systematisch im Zusammenhang...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 23.07.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2024
    Panel: Der (para-)dialogische Modus und die Literaturen der Gegenwart (28. Deutscher Germanistentag, Braunschweig)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Panel | 28. Deutscher Germanistentag | 14.–17. September 2025 | TU Braunschweig | Thema: „Dialog“ | Sektion: Themenbereich 2: Formen und Prozess von Dialog Spätestens mit dem Aufkommen von Influencer:innen lässt sich eine beträchtliche...

    Fields of research Literature and media studies,  Aesthetics,  Rhetoric
    Created on: 22.07.2024
  14. Alexandra Irimia
    University or institution: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
    Fields of research: Narratology; World Literature; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and sociology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and visual studies; Intermediality; Aesthetics; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  15. Anna Stemmann
    University or institution: Universität Leipzig
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Ecocriticism; Literature and cultural studies; Children's and young adult literature