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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 24.05.2024
    Grenzgängerin. Die Reportage-/literatur als entgrenztes Medium der Öffentlichkeitsgestaltung, Dortmund
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Reportage und die Reportageliteratur sind Medien des Dazwischenstehens, des Dazwischentretens – des Intervenierens und der Intervention. Nicht nur stehen sie durch ihre journalistische Faktenbasiertheit und ihre literarischen Qualitäten zwischen...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and media studies,  Poetics and 3 more
    Created on: 26.04.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.04.2024
    Call for Abstracts: Studientag: „‚Tipping Points‘. Balanceakte in der Literatur und Kultur“, Bergische Universität Wuppertal (28. Juni 2024)
    Submitted by: Ben Sulzbacher

    Frist für Einreichungen: 23. April 2024 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...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 14.03.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2024
    The Question of Representation in Contemporary Indian Literature
    Submitted by: Srishti Chaudhary

    In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath refers to the Aesopian fable of the painting of the lion. The lion complains about the painting, which demonstrates a man defeating a lion, and asserts that the painting would look very...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 9 more
    Created on: 23.02.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.03.2024
    KörperLandschaften in Stummfilm / Body Landscapes in Silent Cinema
    Submitted by: Daniel Winkler

    Body Landscapes in Silent Cinema International Conference at the University of Heidelberg November 7 through November 9, 2024 In the historical interplay between nature and culture, the modern age occupies a special position...

    Fields of research Media studies,  Literature and media studies,  Intermediality and 1 more
    Created on: 12.01.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.12.2023
    CfP: Aggressive Ästhetik – ästhetische Aggression: Probleme des Satirischen (22.12.2023)
    Submitted by: Daniel Wendt

    Aggressive Ästhetik – ästhetische Aggression: Probleme des Satirischen Literaturwissenschaftliches Symposium, Schloss Rauischholzhausen, 26.-28.9.2024 Der Satire ist nicht leicht beizukommen. Nicht erst die jüngeren Diskussionen um...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Reader-response criticism and 9 more
    Created on: 05.12.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.11.2023
    Chapters for The Myriad Faces of Heroes and Heroines: Folkloric Tradition and Modern Contemporaries
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We are inviting chapter proposals for the edited book The Myriad Faces of Heroes and Heroines: Folkloric Tradition and Modern Contemporaries. It is a collection of academic essays that scrutinizes the representation, dynamics, transformation and/or...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 3 more
    Created on: 13.10.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    (Re)reading feminist speculative fiction post-Roe v. Wade (2024 Northeast Modern Language Association )
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the introduction to the collection Technologies of Speculative Fiction (2022), Sherryl Vint writes, “The same technologies that now give women more options regarding reproductive choices are simultaneously utilized by the Christian Right to...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  The fictional and 1 more
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Saying the Unsayable: Narrative Experimentations in the Representation of Trauma (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Trauma is typically considered ‘responsive to and constitutive of “modernity”’ (Micale and Lerner 2001). Certainly, as argued by Mark Seltzer, ‘modernity has come to be understood under the sign of the wound’: ‘the modern subject has become...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Poetics,  The fictional and 1 more
    Created on: 14.08.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.08.2023
    Literature and Popular Culture – Northeast Popular & American Culture Association (Fully Virtual Conference, NEPCA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Literature and Popular Culture area for the 2023 Northeast Popular & American Culture Association conference is accepting paper and panel proposals from faculty and graduate students. NEPCA’s 2023 fully virtual (note: conference had been...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies,  Formula literature and 1 more
    Created on: 24.07.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Appel à articles : « Nature et paysages dans la bande dessinée polar » (revue Belphégor)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel à articles : « Nature et paysages dans la bande dessinée polar » (revue Belphégor) Date limite (dépôt des articles) : 30 septembre 2023 Appel à articles : En complément de la journée d’étude en distanciel qui...

    Fields of research French literature,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and geography/cartography and 4 more
    Created on: 17.07.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2023
    CfP Eternal Peace in Speculative Fiction
    Submitted by: Johannes Kaminski

    Dear colleagues, I am currently putting together a special issue of World Literature Studies (WLS) dedicated to speculative fiction. Looking forward to see your abstracts by September 15! See CfP below. Best wishes Johannes Kaminski ...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  World Literature,  Literature and sociology and 6 more
    Created on: 30.06.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 07.07.2023
    Littératures Populaires et Culture Médiatique. Atelier LPCM 2023-2024, saison 3
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    L’Association internationale des chercheur·se·s en Littératures Populaires et Culture Médiatique (LPCM ) a pour but d’étudier, dans une perspective résolument pluridisciplinaire et intermédiale, les formes des cultures médiatiques, les pratiques...

    Fields of research Literature and media studies,  Intermediality,  Formula literature
    Created on: 26.06.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.06.2023
    Memes in der Popkultur: Plattformen, Prozesse, Praktiken | Frankfurt a.M.
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Papers Memes in der Popkultur: Plattformen, Prozesse, Praktiken 15. Jahrestagung der AG Populärkultur und Medien in Zusammenarbeit mit der AG Signale der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft Ort/Datum: ...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and visual studies and 4 more
    Created on: 19.05.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2023
    Material Girls & Boys: Narrated Fashion in Children’s Media
    Submitted by: Iris Schäfer

    (March 7th - 9th, 2024 Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany) Clothing is a daily feature of every child’s life and this significance carries through into the media created for children and young people. From picture books for toddlers...

    Fields of research Empirical Aesthetics,  Reader-response criticism,  Feminist studies and 13 more
    Created on: 02.05.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 17.10.2022
    Into the Other Worlds: The Multiverse as Theoretical Method in Postmodern Speculative Fictional Narratives
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Into the Other Worlds: The Multiverse as Theoretical Method in Postmodern Speculative Fictional Narratives Call for chapter contributions (Edited book to be submitted for consideration with Routledge) Seen as a form of expressing and...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy and 3 more
    Created on: 16.09.2022