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  1. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 23.10.2024
    Poetry Debates IV: Lyrik nach der Natur (Hamburg, 2024)
    Submitted by: Juliane Engel

    Im Zentrum der vierten Reihe der Poetry Debates des Forschungsprojekts "Poetry in the Digital Age" stehen drängende poetische und politische Fragen rund um das menschliche Verhältnis zur Umwelt in Zeiten der Klimakatastrophe. Im Rahmen von vier...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 1 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  2. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 01.11.2024
    Assistant Professor Position in the Field of Postcolonial Literature (UCLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Position overview Position title: Assistant Professor Salary range: $78,200 - $101,400. Application Window Open date: September 26, 2024 Next review date: Friday, Nov 1, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Apply by this date...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  3. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 16.12.2024
    Mapping Corporeal Migrations: Latin American Electronic Literature between Global North and Global South (Meeting with Verónica Paula Gómez)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organised by Research Area 5, "Building Digital Communities". As a postdoctoral fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Verónica Paula Gómez is leading a project to map the migrations of Latin American electronic literature between the...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Digital Humanities,  Postcolonial studies and 2 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Towards a Global Discourse: The “Ethical Turn” in Western and Arab-Islamic Thought (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Bouchra Benlemlih Co-Organizer: Mustapha Kharoua Since its inception in the 1990s, the “ethical turn” has laid the groundwork for the exploration of the ethics and politics of representation. Literature stands out as one of the...

    Fields of research Near Eastern literature,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 3 more
    Created on: 04.10.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Infrastructure(s) & Storytelling: Rethinking Contexts, Connections, & Erasures (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Rini Tarafder Co-Organizer: Amrapali Chatterjee Infrastructures, both visible and invisible, are all around us and they permeate our lives in various ways. Larkin defines infrastructures as “built networks that facilitate...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 2 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Comparative Literature's Cold War (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Cate Reilly What is the place of Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies in the comparative literary inquiry? Of comparative literary inquiry, with its emphasis on theory and the critical praxis of the left, in a Slavic,...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey) and 4 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Symphonic Discourses and Connections for Interracial Alliances in Asian Diaspora and AAPI Communities (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Liyang Dong Contact the Seminar Organizers Commending Goethe’s and Erich Auerbach’s philological approach to world literature, particularly Goethe’s s holistic understanding of Islamic literature and culture, Edward Said...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The World Republic of Rejection (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Amanda Malone Gwendolyn Brooks began work on what would become her first novel, Maud Martha, in 1944, first submitting the manuscript to her editors in 1947. And yet, her novel would not be published until almost a decade later....

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology and 2 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The Blue of the Plums is the Memory of the Sea: Poetic Ecologies of Displacement (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Ada Smailbegovic This seminar takes up the concept of displacement from two different vantage points. One is a consideration of how anthropogenically generated processes of environmental change can lead to a transformation of...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and geography/cartography
    Created on: 23.09.2024