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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Call for Participants: "The Return of Myths in the 21st Century: How Cultural Narratives Shape Reality" (Paris, May 13-16, 2025)
    Submitted by: Christian Baier

    The contemporary world is marred by division. Everywhere, antagonistic factions are locked in apparently irreconcilable opposition, incapable of finding common ground. Beneath all ideological differences lies an epistemic fragmentation of society ...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 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 publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.09.2024
    PAIDIA: Now is the time to shape your Stories – Perspektiven auf Final Fantasy
    Submitted by: Phillip Brandes

    1987 erschien das erste Final Fantasy . Nur wenige Jahre später fand die Reihe ihren Weg über die USA nach Europa. Populär ist die Erzählung, Final Fantasy habe seinen Namen vom damaligen Director Sakaguchi deshalb erhalten, weil es als ...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Narratology,  Game Studies
    Created on: 12.08.2024
  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. 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

  10. 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

  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 16.08.2024
    All US Come Cross the Water: Diasporic Ecological Practices & Intergenerational Relations (ASWAD 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel seeks papers for the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora’s (ASWAD) 12th Biennial and 25th Anniversary Conference that will be held in Saint Louis, Missouri at the Marriott St. Louis Grand Hotel from October 29th...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and 2 more
    Created on: 08.07.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.08.2024
    „Interferenzen in gegenwartsliterarischen Verfahren der Zeitdarstellung. Postmigration, Posthumanismus und Weird Fiction im Dialog“ (Germanistentag 2025)
    Submitted by: Philipp Ohnesorge

    Philipp Ohnesorge, Eckhard Schumacher, Hannah Willcox (Universität Greifswald) CfP: „Interferenzen in gegenwartsliterarischen Verfahren der Zeitdarstellung. Postmigration, Posthumanismus und Weird Fiction im Dialog“ Panel auf dem 28....

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 7 more
    Created on: 04.07.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.09.2024
    Panel Deutscher Germanistentag 2025: Dialog als Form in der interkulturellen Erzählliteratur in der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft, Braunschweig
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Dialog als Form in der interkulturellen Erzählliteratur in der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft „Die Idee, Geschichte aus der Perspektive und Erfahrung von Migration zu erzählen und dabei marginalisierte Wissensarten sichtbar zu machen, ist für...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Narratology,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 24.06.2024
  14. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 10.07.2024
    Medien, Landschaft und globale Reiseliteratur. Workshop anlässlich des DAAD-Fellowship von Prof. Dr. Caroline Schaumann, Universität Vechta
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Medien, Landschaft und globale Reiseliteratur Workshop anlässlich des DAAD-Fellowship von Prof. Dr. Caroline Schaumann Universität Vechta, 10.07.2024 - 17.30 Uhr, N 118 13.30 - 14.10 Walter Erhart (Universität Bielefeld) ...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and geography/cartography,  travel literature
    Created on: 24.06.2024
  15. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 28.06.2024
    „‚Tipping Points‘. Balanceakte in der Literatur und Kultur“, Bergische Universität Wuppertal (28. Juni 2024)
    Submitted by: Ben Sulzbacher

    In Zeiten großer Unsicherheit ob der (In-)Stabilität von Strukturen aller Arten sehen sich die Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften mehr denn je mit Fragen nach Verantwortung, Abhängigkeiten und Verletzlichkeit konfrontiert: Die Verstrickung von...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 24.06.2024