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  1. Category: Fellowships, stipends, scholarships etc.
    Application deadline: 15.01.2022
    5-Year Fellowships for Graduate Students, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The German program at the Johns Hopkins University invites applications for PhD students to begin in Fall 2022, with 5 years of generous funding to be offered to all admitted graduate students. The program at Johns Hopkins is among the most...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 5 more
    Created on: 29.11.2021
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.10.2021
    NeMLA 2022: Forgotten Genocides- Panel (NeMLA 53rd Annual Convention, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The tern Genocide was coined by Raphael Lemkin in 1944, in a context heavily influenced by the events of the Jewish Holocaust. The parameters of Genocide, and its legal consequences were gathered in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 2 more
    Created on: 04.10.2021
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Premodern Desires: The Erotic from the Symposium to the Inferno, NeMLA 2022, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ever since the publication of Foucault’s multi-volume work The History of Sexuality, scholarship, whether theoretically, historically, or literarily minded, has reckoned with the call to develop less anachronistic methodologies to analyze premodern...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology and 4 more
    Created on: 23.08.2021
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Reading Literature Today, Roundtable at NeMLA 2022, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Description We welcome proposals for short presentations that address the entangled notions of literature and reading. Topics may include changing scholarly/pedagogical approaches to reading, reading in the context of multiple media, and the...

    Fields of research Didactics of Literature,  Literary theory,  Media studies and 1 more
    Created on: 23.08.2021
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Care, Knowledge, and Subjectivity: Foucault’s Epimeleia (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel seeks to explore the contemporary uses of the Greek “care” or epimeleia particularly in ways enabled by Michel Foucault’s analysis of the notion connecting to (self)knowledge, subjectivity, and mode of life. Towards the last...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 3 more
    Created on: 13.08.2021
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Masculine Wars, Feminine Exterminations: Experiences, Traumas and Revolts (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In general, war implies the use of force that could be declined in automatic, arbitrary and excessive violence. War is being used as a strategy to conquer territories and subjugate people in order to safeguard interests, be it strategic or not (Pius...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Feminist studies and 5 more
    Created on: 09.08.2021
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Hidden Truths and Uncovered Secrets in French and Francophone Fiction (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Nobody keeps a secret better than authors writing in French! From hidden crypts, family or government secrets, buried bodies, and memories to a lack of transparency and truths resurfacing unexpectedly, French and Francophone fiction abounds in acts...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literary theory,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 2 more
    Created on: 09.08.2021
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Between Entrapment and Release: Navigating Trauma in Contemporary World Literature, NeMLA 2022 (Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Please consider submitting an abstract for the following panel at the 2022 Northeast Modern Language Association Conference to be held from March 10-13, 2022 , in Baltimore, MD. Abstracts are accepted from June 15 to September 30, 2021 ...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Feminist studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 02.08.2021
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 17.09.2021
    The Enlightenment and the Shadows of the Occult (ASECS 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS 2022) Baltimore, Maryland; March 31-April 2, 2022 The age of reason and Voltairean skepticism was also a time of wonder-seeking and marvels, during which a broad range of...

    Fields of research French literature,  Italian literature,  Literature and other forms of art and 4 more
    Created on: 26.07.2021
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022: Embodiment and Agency in Postcolonial Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel holds space for depictions of embodied practices/practices of agency in bodies of women of color, queer, nonbinary, trans, and other subjectivities in postcolonial literature and literatures of the Global South. What is the relation...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Feminist studies and 3 more
    Created on: 16.07.2021
  11. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 10.03.2022
    NeMLA 2022 conference: NeMLA's 53rd Annual Convention
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The 2022 NeMLA conference theme is CARE. We understand CARE as the practice of interdependency, admitting our vulnerabilities as humans, animals, and other living organisms of the Anthropocene. The NeMLA theme of CARE will embrace but not be limited...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 4 more
    Created on: 05.07.2021
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022, Guerres au masculin, exterminations au féminin: entre expériences, trauma et révoltes
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CFP – Panel: 53rd annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA 2022) Guerres au masculin, exterminations au féminin: entre expériences, trauma et révoltes March 10-13, Baltimore, MD En...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Literary theory and 4 more
    Created on: 28.06.2021
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022: When Poets Write About Poets: Representation(s) of the Poet and Poetry in Poetic Works
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From the very first traces of written poetry, poets have been inspired by their peers: whether with elegies, odes or allusions to the poets they admired, they have always incorporated figures of poets and other poetic texts in their own poems....

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Poetics and 1 more
    Created on: 21.06.2021
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022: Migration, Belonging, and Afro-Europeanness: Current Articulations and Future Perspectives
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel aims to explore how writers and filmmakers have articulated questions of Blackness and Europeanness, migration and cultural belonging, colonial histories and decolonial futures. In recent decades, artists, scholars, and activists from...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature and 11 more
    Created on: 21.06.2021
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022: Walking in the Empire
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    NeMLA 2022 (March 10-13, 2022, Baltimore) Session Title: Walking in the Empire Session Organizer: Vivian Kao, Lawrence Technological University Walkers and walking figure prominently in the literature and literary theory of...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 8 more
    Created on: 21.06.2021