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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Reading the Archive of the Unexpected: Aspiration, Violence, and the Labor of Development in the Narratives on Reading in Latin America.(ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In Latin America, the convergence of financial crises, developmental and neoliberal policies, informal economies, and armed conflicts has created a backdrop of profound socio-political change spamming over fifty years. This seminar will examine how...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    ‘Prompting’ World Literature: Gerenative AI, Comparative Aesthetics, New Hegemonies, New Peripheries? (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The surge of generative AI poses new challenges for conceptualising world literature and comparative aesthetics. While AI is trained using large datasets containing ‘human’-created works, critical discourse seems to (tacitly) posit a new ‘humanist’...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  3. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 23.09.2024
    Panel Discussion “Central European Culture Salon: Perspectives and challenges of literary and cultural cooperation in Central Europe”
    Submitted by: Anna Seidel

    How do Central Europe's cultural and literary scenes work together? What obstacles do they face? And what prospects are there for transnational cultural cooperation in Central Europe? These questions will be discussed on September 23, 2024 by...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 12.09.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2025
    Écritures du travail : pour une approche comparatiste (1875 - 1975)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Publié le mardi 27 août 2024 Résumé Depuis la rationalisation du travail, accentuée au XIXe siècle par l’industrialisation, de nombreuses sociétés humaines sont majoritairement composées d’une classe laborieuse, paysanne, ouvrière et...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Literature and sociology and 4 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Les Mille et Une Nuits des romantiques
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel à communications Les Mille et Une Nuits des romantiques Besançon – 13-14 février 2025 Colloque international des Cahiers d’études nodiéristes coorganisé par l’Association des Amis de Charles Nodier, la Société...

    Fields of research Near Eastern literature,  Literary historiography,  World Literature and 3 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  6. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 20.09.2024
    Subjekt im Aufbruch. Transnationale Wiederaufnahmen von Goethes Werther
    Submitted by: Raphael Stübe

    Upheavals of the Self. On the Transnational Reception of Goethe's Werther Internationale Tagung am Freien Deutschen Hochstift Frankfurt am Main, 20. und 21. September 2024 Gefördert von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) ...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Reader-response criticism,  World Literature and 1 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  7. Raphael Stübe
    University or institution: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Fields of research: New Historicism; World Literature; Game Studies; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    La productivité multiple des romantismes hispano-américains : transferts, médiations, négociations dans la littérature et le théâtre / Múltiples productividades de los romanticismos hispanoamericanos: transferencias, mediaciones, negociaciones en la liter
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    La productivité multiple des romantismes hispano-américains : transferts, médiations, négociations dans la littérature et le théâtre Múltiples productividades de los romanticismos hispanoamericanos: transferencias,...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literary historiography,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 04.11.2024
    Pratiques intermédiales et créations hybrides dans les mondes hispaniques (XXe et XXIe siècles
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Journée d’étude « Pratiques intermédiales et créations hybrides dans les mondes hispaniques (XX e et XXI e siècles) » Vendredi 13 juin 2025, à Tours Employée pour la première fois en 1965 par Dick...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Spanish literature and 2 more
    Created on: 06.09.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2025
    Zombis, dorlis, soukounyan : figures mythiques, créatures fantastiques, bestiaire merveilleux de la Caraïbe
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel à contributions pour un projet d'ouvrage collectif Dans la perspective d’une publication sous la forme d’un ouvrage collectif des articles issus des travaux présentés lors du colloque « Zombis, dorlis, soukounyan : figures mythiques,...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 06.09.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2024
    Insects, “bichos” and other “bugs” in the literature of the Americas (19th to 21st centuries)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In conjunction with the seminar “Bugs in children's literature” of the research and study group on written culture and societies (GRECES) of the CELLAM team (Rennes2 University), this call aims to bring together works that question the representation...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 23.08.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2024
    The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Workshop, 16–17 January 2025, Leibniz-Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin In her epistolary novel La Toile (2017), Sandra Lucbert contrasts literary language with digital language as two clashing constraints: the...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Media studies and 8 more
    Created on: 14.08.2024
  13. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 10.09.2024
    Intermediaries, Translators, and Mediators. The Making of World Authorship
    Submitted by: Miriam Wienhold

    Who creates the world author? While Foucault’s question „What’s an author?“ opened the path to the study of censorship and copyright, Bourdieu’s interrogation, „Who creates the creator?“, turned the attention to the network of cultural intermediaries...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Literature and publishing/booktrade
    Created on: 31.07.2024
  14. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 10.09.2024
    ilb 2024 | Whispers from the Past: Collective Remembering
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Forms of remembering bring together the very different literary worlds of the fjords of Scandinavia, the Chilean metropolis of Santiago, and the Congo Delta for this event. Whether through the traces of political violence or personal experiences, the...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and 1 more
    Created on: 29.07.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Stigmatization: Exploring Infertility in Latin American Literature and Cinema (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel explores the intricate portrayals of infertility in Latin American Literature and Cinema, focusing on stigmatization and its interplay with trauma and intersectionality. Infertility, often laden with societal and cultural implications, is...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology and 3 more
    Created on: 29.07.2024