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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
    Comparative Literature and the Politics of Detranslation (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his return to and rereading of Freud’s early writings on the interpretation of dreams, French psychoanalyst and translator of Freud, Jean Laplanche, makes the provocative claim that psychoanalytic theory went awry shortly after its inception, as a...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Orientation to Texts and Knowledge: From Antiquity to AI (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    How do we orient ourselves to texts and knowledge across time and technological advancements? How do texts and knowledge in turn orientate and transform us, and how do they influence the world we navigate, particularly in an increasingly...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literature and philosophy,  Poetics
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Emergence of New World Imagination in the 19th and 20th Century: Understanding of the Global Colonial Countries through the Lens of Auto-Biographical Narratives, Memoirs And Travelogues (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    It is intriguing to examine how the documents from and about the global colonial countries written during the 19th and 20th century describe the extremely unstable social and political environments. With this an emergence of a new world order as well...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  autobiography,  travel literature and 2 more
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Inter-Asian Literary Relations (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What are the textual modes of inter-Asian literary interactions? What are the forms of intertextuality across the literatures and languages of Asia? This seminar aims to examine the inter-Asian network of literary relations that have developed...

    Fields of research Near Eastern literature,  East Asian literature,  South Asian literature and 4 more
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  6. 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
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 28.09.2023
    Language memoirs & linguistic autobiographies: the multilingual subject's self-narrative in comparative literature today (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Presentations may be held in either English, German or French. Please submit your paper proposal before the 30th of September (no exception) directly through the ACLA portal ( ...

    Fields of research Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literary genre and 1 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Genre Turn in Multiethnic Literature (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his landmark essay, "The Second Elevation: Race, Form, and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary Narrative," Ramón Saldívar proclaimed the arrival of a "cohort of contemporary authors . . . [who] all raise as formal and thematic concerns the very...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literary genre and 3 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Caribbean and The American South: Interrogating Contemporary Literary, Artistic, and Cultural Relations (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Connected by the shared experience of the “plantation system” (in the words of Martinican author Édouard Glissant), the relationship between the Caribbean and the American South has been studied from a historical perspective [1], and the literary...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Postcolonial studies and 2 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    "Transnational Literature and Transnational Aesthetics: Developments and Negotiations" (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his 2021 book Transnational Literature: The Basics, Paul Jay describes transnational literature as “a particular type of literature, emergent at an identifiable historical moment and dealing, collectively, with a set of issues and themes...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Thinking Modern Epic (ACLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What can be said about epic today? Although M.M. Bakhtin famously declared the impossibility of epic in a modern, polyphonic world in 1941, the category has remained a dynamic source of artistic and critical interest. The works considered in studies...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literary genre,  Epic poetry and 2 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    ACLA Panel 2024—Theory without Object: Histories and Historical Accounts, Montreal
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Theory without Object: Histories and Historical Accounts Co-Organizers: Daniel Carranza and William Stewart, Harvard University March 14–17, Montreal, Canada For a term bandied about ubiquitously and often with little conceptual...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poetics,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 22.09.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    ACLA-Panel 2024: Temporalities of Memory, Montreal
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Temporalities of Memory Organizer: Michael McGillen (Dartmouth College) A key challenge facing memory studies, despite its central role in interdisciplinary humanities work over the past 30 years, is how the field can survive in the face...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and philosophy,  Literary genre and 1 more
    Created on: 15.09.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    ACLA-panel 2024: Queer trauma in world literature, Montreal
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Dear colleagues, For anyone working on literary trauma studies or queer trauma in literature (any language / period), I would like to draw your attention to this seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association's (ACLA’s) 2024...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 4 more
    Created on: 11.09.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.11.2023
    CFP: Report on the State of the Discipline of Comparative Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Dear ACLA member, The Bylaws of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) mandate that a State of the Discipline Report be prepared by the association every decade. The five previous reports (1965, 1975, 1993, 2006, and 2014) have...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality and 1 more
    Created on: 05.08.2022