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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Moving Past Lovecraft: New Visions of the Weird (NeMLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Academic discussions of weird fiction today are dominated by HP Lovecraft. This makes some sense, considering he promoted the term and is perhaps the name most associated with it. Yet, the weird existed long before Lovecraft and has been prolifically...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 02.09.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Fusions of Culture, Time, and Space (19th-C. Studies Assoc. Conference)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    If America were a melting pot, New Orleans would be its capital. Even before the United States gained control of the city with the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, New Orleans had been usurped from indigenous peoples and changed hands several times between...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 02.09.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.11.2024
    Journal of Austrian Studies – Special Issue for Graduate Students
    Submitted by: Julia Lückl

    CfP Journal of Austrian Studies – Special Issue for Graduate Students English version below Das Journal of Austrian Studies lädt Doktorand*innen aus allen geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen ein,...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and other forms of art and 4 more
    Created on: 30.08.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.09.2024
    Centre(s) et périphérie(s) : perceptions et représentations des imaginaires littéraires et culturels de la marge
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Colloque National Hybride organisé par la Faculté des Lettres et des Langues et le Département de français 14 - 15 Octobre 2024 Argumentaire Penser le texte dans son interaction avec la sémiosis sociale qui l’environne permet de lire...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 23.08.2024
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.09.2024
    Pratiques et formes hors-normes : marginalisation, réappropriation et extractivisme culturel (Bruxelles)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONS Pratiques et formes hors-normes : Marginalisation, réappropriation, et extractivisme culturel Université Libre de Bruxelles, les 9 et 16 octobre 2024. Comité organisateur : Emma Lozano...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 09.08.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 02.09.2024
    Immigré·es, clivé·es, parvenu·es ? Réflexions éthiques, esthétiques et politiques autour des écritures de la mobilité sociale (Montréal)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Immigré·es, clivé·es, parvenu·es ? Réflexions éthiques, esthétiques et politiques autour des écritures de la mobilité sociale 29 et 30 mai 2025 Depuis quelques années, on observe dans la francophonie une recrudescence...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 05.08.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.09.2024
    Les littératures des mondes de l’Islam à l’épreuve des contestations. Représenter, d’Europe en Orient, le refus de la norme (Lille)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Université de Lille, jeudi 27 et vendredi 28 février 2025 Les propositions de communication, d’environ 300 mots, assorties d’un titre et de quelques lignes de présentation bio-bibliographique, seront à envoyer par courriel au plus tard le...

    Fields of research South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey),  North African literature,  Near Eastern literature and 7 more
    Created on: 05.08.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 26.08.0224
    Faut-il imaginer Sisyphe heureux ? (Strasbourg)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Journée d’études : Faut-il imaginer Sisyphe heureux ? ITI Lethica, Université de Strasbourg, le 16 octobre 2024 Appel à communications English version below À l’occasion de la tenue de l’exposition multi-médiale « Faut-il...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 05.08.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    This Magick Moment: Revolutionary Witchcraft and Cultural Change (NeMLA 2025) (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Papers: Panel Something momentous is brewing within contemporary witchcraft scholarship. Borne from calls for revolution, justice, and cultural emendation, new voices in witchcraft studies are amending antiquity within the pages of...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 29.07.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Yiddish Technologies in Text and Context (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    PANEL ABSTRACT This interdisciplinary session invites scholars to submit papers which explore the intersections of Yiddish culture and the history of technology. Diasporic Yiddish culture is formed by the constant tension between forces of...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies
    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