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  1. 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
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Call for Participants: "The Return of Myths in the 21st Century: How Cultural Narratives Shape Reality" (Paris, May 13-16, 2025)
    Submitted by: Christian Baier

    The contemporary world is marred by division. Everywhere, antagonistic factions are locked in apparently irreconcilable opposition, incapable of finding common ground. Beneath all ideological differences lies an epistemic fragmentation of society ...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Écritures du terrorisme. Perspectives historiques et transdisciplinaires (Bordeaux)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Journées d’études Écritures du terrorisme. Perspectives historiques et transdisciplinaires 19 et 20 mars 2025, Université Bordeaux Montaigne La question du terrorisme — ses processus, ses acteurs, ses menaces — semble...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and law and 3 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.09.2024
    PAIDIA: Now is the time to shape your Stories – Perspektiven auf Final Fantasy
    Submitted by: Phillip Brandes

    1987 erschien das erste Final Fantasy . Nur wenige Jahre später fand die Reihe ihren Weg über die USA nach Europa. Populär ist die Erzählung, Final Fantasy habe seinen Namen vom damaligen Director Sakaguchi deshalb erhalten, weil es als ...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Narratology,  Game Studies
    Created on: 12.08.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.09.2024
    Les visages de l'eau. Dialogue France-Chine (Clermont-Ferrand & en ligne)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Séminaire « Les visages de l’eau : Dialogue France-Chine » 2024-2025 Organisatrices : Oriane Chevalier (Université Clermont Auvergne), Leanne Rae Darnbrough (KU Leuven) Avec le soutien du Pôle de recherches sur l’eau, de l’Ecole...

    Fields of research French literature,  East Asian literature,  Ecocriticism and 3 more
    Created on: 09.08.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.09.2024
    Les "nouveaux mutants" de la culture pop (XXe-XXIe s.) : sémiologie du désastre ou utopie posthumaniste ? (revue Études littéraires)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Quel est le point commun entre « l’Homme qui devint gorille » de Magog, les X-Men, Tony Stark et les autres « hommes de fer » nés vingt ans plus tard au cinéma dont Robocop chez Verhoeven, Terminator chez Cameron, Tetsuo chez Tsukamoto, les «...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 09.08.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Radical Bodies
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Human bodies and, by extension, human subjectivity have long been contested spaces. Against traditional Eurocentric and anthropocentric definitions of the human as a stable identity abstracted from its surrounding environment, movements like...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 2 more
    Created on: 02.08.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2025
    "Indigenous Ecocriticism: Paradigm Shifts in Environmental Literature" (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Environmental Humanities is experiencing an unprecedented influx of creative and critical works from writers of indigenous literature. The immense literary revolution associated with climate change and environmental discourse is a contributing...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 1 more
    Created on: 26.07.2024
  12. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 05.09.2024
    (Re)Create. Towards a Theory of Heteronomous Texts
    Submitted by: Johanna Schubert

    You are kindly invited to an interdisciplinary and international conference hosted by the DFG Research Training Group 2792. The conference will focus on the strategies and intentions in heteronomous texts in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Heteronomy...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 9 more
    Created on: 23.07.2024
  13. Category: Research Training Groups
    Institutions: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
    DFG-GRK 2792: Autonomie heteronomer Texte in Antike und Mittelalter
    Submitted by: Johanna Schubert

    Das DFG-geförderte interdisziplinäre Graduiertenkolleg erforscht Texte aus Antike und Mittelalter, die in bewusste Abhängigkeit von Vorlagen treten und in diesem Sinne "heteronom" sind. Zu dieser bislang nicht systematisch im Zusammenhang...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 23.07.2024
  14. Alexandra Irimia
    University or institution: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
    Fields of research: Narratology; World Literature; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and sociology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and visual studies; Intermediality; Aesthetics; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  15. Anna Stemmann
    University or institution: Universität Leipzig
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Ecocriticism; Literature and cultural studies; Children's and young adult literature