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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Cultures of Monoculture (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Amber Bal Co-Organizer: Ben Beitler Monocultural farming practices are indissociable from the transformations that characterize life in the 21st century: climate change, urbanization and the dematerialization of labor are but a...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and geography/cartography
    Created on: 14.10.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Brittany Frodge Co-Organizer: Kelly Ferguson Due to varied complex historical processes such as industrialization, urbanization, and colonization, the rural has often been articulated in literature and other cultural...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 14.10.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Relationality in Queer, Trans, and Crip Asian/American and Asian Diasporic Literatures and Cultural Critiques (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: stef torralba Co-Oranizer: Phuong Vuong Since its inception, the interdisciplinary field of queer of color critique has recalibrated commonplace understandings of ethnic and racial difference by foregrounding the imbricated...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 11.10.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The Ends of the Road: Rethinking the Borders of the Picaresque (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Emily Mulvihill The picaresque has largely fallen out of vogue in literary studies. Nevertheless, the genre has long shaped the study of many of the world’s major literary traditions. So, what happens if we rethink both our use of...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and geography/cartography and 3 more
    Created on: 11.10.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Unreliable Narration in Nineteenth- To Twenty-First-Century Fiction (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Carlo Arrigoni Co-Organizer: Irene Bulla What makes a narrator unreliable, and through which textual strategies is unreliability established? What is the role of unreliable narration in the development of the novel...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 6 more
    Created on: 11.10.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Comparative Literature beyond Epistemic colonization (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Metin Boşnak Undoubtedly, the concepts of decolonization and postcolonialism emerge from a profound discontent with the dominant paradigms of Western, male, and white literatures that have dictated the generation of knowledge for...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 11.10.2024
  7. 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
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The An-Arché of Language: Embracing Chaos, Complexity, and Non-Productivity in Translation (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Paula Cucurella Co-Organizer: Gonzalo Díaz-Letelier In contemporary translation theory, two predominant perspectives shape the discourse: one posits that universals are translatable across languages through various...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy,  Translation,  Theory of translation
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Ciné-Poetics of Time in the Global South (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Marie Huber Co-Organizer: Maziyar Faridi If poetry, as Maurice Blanchot writes, is that which always eludes philosophical questioning, what philosophy of history could emerge from thinking with the poetic cinemas of the Global...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and philosophy,  Literature and visual studies and 2 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  10. 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
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Literature and International Development (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Susanna Sacks Co-Organizer: Lauren Horst “Literature, whether handed down by word of mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality…What better preparation can a people desire as they begin their journey into the strange,...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology and 2 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Documentary Fever (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Rosana Hernández In the short story “Documentary Novelist,” by Argentinian author Sergio Chejfec, the narrator tries to explain to a hotel worker his determination to have his picture taken with the hotel’s macaws: “I explain to her...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and visual studies and 2 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    A Planetary Text Notes On Spoken and Word Poetry, Radical Improvisation and Universality (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: F..M. Ceci Co-Organizer: Ginevra Ludovici This panel seeks to explore the intersections of spoken word poetry and radical improvisation in music, considering how both practices function as tools of liberation,...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Oral poetry / Orality,  Literature and sociology and 1 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    “Beyond Social Death?”: Afro-Pessimism in Literature, Film and Television (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Badreddine Ben Othman This seminar aims to explore literary texts, films and television productions which adopt or challenge Afro-Pessimistic visions of Black life in a systemically anti-Black world. It asks whether Black subjects...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Near Eastern literature and 3 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Powers of the Inhuman: Representations of the Working Class in the New International Division of Humanity (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Marcela Romero Rivera Vijay Prashad, from the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, recently proposed that the genocidal wars and policies that define our political moment as hyper-imperialist affect not only the populations...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology
    Created on: 04.10.2024