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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Moving Past Lovecraft: New Visions of the Weird (NeMLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Academic discussions of weird fiction today are dominated by HP Lovecraft. This makes some sense, considering he promoted the term and is perhaps the name most associated with it. Yet, the weird existed long before Lovecraft and has been prolifically...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 02.09.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Fusions of Culture, Time, and Space (19th-C. Studies Assoc. Conference)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    If America were a melting pot, New Orleans would be its capital. Even before the United States gained control of the city with the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, New Orleans had been usurped from indigenous peoples and changed hands several times between...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 02.09.2024
  3. 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
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Zombies, Plagues, and Other Pandemics in Literature and Visual Media (NeMLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Please consider submitting an abstract for the panel "Zombies, Plagues, and Other Pandemics in Literature and Visual Media" at the [NeMLA Convention](https://www.nemla.org/convention.html) that will take place in Philadelphia, PA on March 6-9, 2025. ...

    Fields of research Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 26.08.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 29.04.2024
    Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (Spring 2025 issue) -- Call for articles and book reviews
    Submitted by: Nicoletta Pireddu

    Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism is a new peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective. It provides a unique, international forum...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 5 more
    Created on: 27.10.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2023
    Fluid Encounters - Rencontres Fluides
    Submitted by: Chanelle Dupuis

    CALL FOR PAPERS FLUID ENCOUNTERS | RENCONTRES FLUIDES April 19-20, 2024 Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island In Sylvie Germain's 1985 novel, Le Livre des Nuits , bodily fluids serve as potent metaphors for...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 01.10.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 13.10.2023
    Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (Spring 2024 issue) -- Call for articles and book reviews
    Submitted by: Nicoletta Pireddu

    _Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism_ is a new peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective. It provides a unique, international forum...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality and 7 more
    Created on: 16.06.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.11.2022
    Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association annual conference (February 22-25, Albuquerque, New Mexico) (SWPACA 2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    DEADLINE EXTENDED! Call for Papers ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, AND MAGIC Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) 44th Annual Conference, February 22-25, 2023 Marriott Albuquerque Albuquerque, New Mexico ...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  World Literature,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 07.11.2022
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2023
    Corporeal Conversations / Conversations corporelles
    Submitted by: Chanelle Dupuis

    CALL FOR PAPERS Corporeal Conversations / Conversations corporelles March 10-11, 2023 | Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island Keynote: Dr. Nora Martin Peterson Associate Professor of...

    Fields of research French literature
    Created on: 28.10.2022
  10. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2022
    Literature Special Issue: "American Sci-Fi"
    Submitted by: Joelle Renstrom

    You are invited to submit a paper for possible inclusion in a Special Issue of Literature ( ISSN: 2410-9789 ) entitled “ American Sci-Fi ”. Literatur e is an international, peer-reviewed , open access journal on literature and...

    Created on: 19.10.2022
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 03.10.2023
    Écrivaines et fictions scientifiques à l'époque des Lumières / Women Writers and Scientific Fiction(s) in Enlightenment France (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2023, St. Louis, Missouri)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 53rd Annual Meeting Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch, St. Louis, Missouri, Etats-Unis 9 - 11 mars 2023 Session #107. Women Writers and Scientific Fiction(s) in...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 26.09.2022
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    NeMLA 2023: 'The Social Hieroglyphic': Modernist Reading Practices and their Afterlives
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Anticipating notions of modern cryptography, Marx famously observed in Capital Vol. I, that value “does not have its description branded on its forehead; it rather transforms every product of labour into a social hieroglyphic.” Therefore, to...

    Fields of research Reader-response criticism,  Literature and sociology,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 26.09.2022
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.10.2022
    Writing Democracy: Literature and Democratic History (New Haven)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Workshop to be held at Yale University, March 31–April 1, 2023, organized by Dr. Tilman Venzl, Prof. Dr. Jennifer Allen, and Prof. Dr. Kirk Wetters. Writing Democracy: Literature and Democratic History In recent months, the idea of...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature of the 20th century,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 26.09.2022
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    NeMLA 2023: North African Women Writers (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From Nawal el Saadawi’s writings against FGM to Tunisian protests advocating for changes to inheritance law, this panel considers North Africa’s women writers in conversation with the conference theme, resilience. How have these women writers...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Feminist studies,  Postcolonial studies
    Created on: 16.09.2022
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Posthumanism, Biocentrism, and Ecocriticism in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature (NeMLA 2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Posthumanism, biocentrism, and ecocriticism have profoundly impacted the fields of literary studies and critical theory in the last two decades: more and more scholars have investigated how literature engages with the relationship between humans...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Ecocriticism,  Narratology and 2 more
    Created on: 16.09.2022