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  1. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 23.10.2024
    Poetry Debates IV: Lyrik nach der Natur (Hamburg, 2024)
    Submitted by: Juliane Engel

    Im Zentrum der vierten Reihe der Poetry Debates des Forschungsprojekts "Poetry in the Digital Age" stehen drängende poetische und politische Fragen rund um das menschliche Verhältnis zur Umwelt in Zeiten der Klimakatastrophe. Im Rahmen von vier...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 1 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Modernism in the Twenty-First Century (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Chris Gortmaker Co-Organizer: Joseph Staten Can the modernism genie truly be sequestered in its twentieth-century bottle? This seminar invites papers that explore the possible persistence of aesthetic modernism in...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 6 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Extractivism and Nation Building in the Long Nineteenth Century
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Cristina Carnemolla Co-Organizer: Nicolás Sánchez-Rodríguez The term extractivism describes an economic model based on the circulation of non-renewable "natural" resources to world market metropolises from territories...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Ecocriticism,  Literature and sociology and 4 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  4. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 01.11.2024
    Assistant Professor of German Studies, Rice University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Description Rice University’s Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures seeks to hire a tenure track assistant professor of German Studies with open field specialization to begin July 1, 2025. The successful candidate will...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Ecocriticism and 4 more
    Created on: 27.09.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Infrastructure(s) & Storytelling: Rethinking Contexts, Connections, & Erasures (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Rini Tarafder Co-Organizer: Amrapali Chatterjee Infrastructures, both visible and invisible, are all around us and they permeate our lives in various ways. Larkin defines infrastructures as “built networks that facilitate...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 2 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Comparative Literature's Cold War (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Cate Reilly What is the place of Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies in the comparative literary inquiry? Of comparative literary inquiry, with its emphasis on theory and the critical praxis of the left, in a Slavic,...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey) and 4 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Oceans in World Literature: from the Middle Ages to Modern Times (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Yuanfei Wang Contact the Seminar Organizers In The Novel and the Sea , Margaret Cohen argues that the dominant narrative about the rise of the western novel occurring on land could be revised with a consideration of sea...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  World Literature,  Literature and geography/cartography
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The Blue of the Plums is the Memory of the Sea: Poetic Ecologies of Displacement (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Ada Smailbegovic This seminar takes up the concept of displacement from two different vantage points. One is a consideration of how anthropogenically generated processes of environmental change can lead to a transformation of...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and geography/cartography
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Beyond Assimilation/Revolution? Collectivity, Solidarity, and the Future (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Michele Chinitz Co-Organizer: Shoumik Bhattacharya This seminar hopes to engage with forms of social and political organizing that do not conform to binary understandings of the imperative towards assimilation or...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 2 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Imagining Extinction: Afterness, Fossils and Fiction (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Writing about extinction is an aporetic coming together of our current geological reality and imagination that borders on speculation. It is an act that opens up the ecological, the ontological, and simultaneously interrogates the disappearance of...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and philosophy and 2 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The Roaring of the Twenties: Modernity and the Energetic Turn (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Daniel Brandlechner

    The 1920s are a period of profound social, cultural, and technological transformation across the globe. Known as the Roaring Twenties in the US, Goldene Zwanziger in Germany, años locos in Argentina, Les Années Folles in France, or Anni Ruggenti in...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 17.09.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Alternative Poetics of Environment in South Asia (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Sumera Saleem Co-Organizer: Bharatwaj Iyer In his 2009 text entitled Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, José Esteban Muñoz describes the political power of art in imagining and reimagining “other ways of...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Ecocriticism and 3 more
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality The invocation and use of stone in poetry – as image, metaphor, medium – has a long and varied history. Quarried, shaped, displaced and put to use in both material and...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Poetics and 3 more
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  14. 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
  15. 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